'The Night Before Christmas'

The Fingest Great Barn Opera 2015

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FINGEST GREAT BARN, Friday 11th December 2015 at 7.30pm Manor Farm, Fingest, Henley-on-Thames, Buckinghamshire RG9 6QE Telephone: Sylvia Crowther 01491 638 474 | Email [email protected]

Tickets £37.50 in aid of The SMA Trust and Child Bereavment UK Fully staged and in stunning period costume ‘The Night Before Christmas’ is Diva Opera’s sparkling new Christmas show with an all star cast led by Richard Suart, who has played Ko-Ko in The Mikado at English National Opera for the past 25 years. The Divas will delight you with an enchanting assortment of popular arias, Christmas songs, carols, readings and dances to lead you into the festive season. Accompanied by Bryan Evans and directed by Wayne Morris, this show, with its Christmas theme and joyful music, should not be missed.

DIRECTIONS TO FINGEST GREAT BARN MANOR FARM, FINGEST, HENLEY-ON-THAMES, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, RG9 6QE (CONTACT SYLVIA CROWTHER 01491 638474)

From the M4

Take the A404(M) going North towards High Wycombe, the M40 and Oxford. After 2 exits (the A4 for Maindenhead, Reading and then Henley) you will come downhill to a roundabout. Take the first exit to Marlow (passing Bisham). Over Marlow Bridge, up High Street, turn left at the top, then right after 50 yards at Platts Garage onto the Oxford Road. This winds its way up hill out of Marlow in a North Westerly direction after the crest of the hill (5 minutes out of Marlow) you go down to a crossroads and go straight over. Road gets rather bendy and narrow and ends in a T. junction. Turn left for Fingest. At the Chequers Pub turn right by the Church and up Chequers Lane. Manor Farm is quarter of a mile up on the right. Enter by second gate and park in the field behind the barn.

From the M40

This exit (5) Stokenchurch simply comes up onto a road going over the motorway. Turn South for Ibstone (ie do not go into Stockenchurch). If coming from London, this means turn left, from Oxford turn right. Follow the road through the woods, through Ibstone, down a steep hill to a T junction at the bottom. (5 - 10 minutes). Turn left into Fingest, then left again by the Church and opposite the Chequers Pub, up Chequers Lane. Manor Farm is a quarter of a mile up the lane on the right. Enter by the second gate and park in the field behind the barn. BOOKING FORM

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