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BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 www.eastgatearts.com highlights... We offer a range of discounts on discounts selected shows. Look out for the April & information icons on the event listings. get in Horse in Careful Horse McDonald tells spotlight touch... Friend of a Friend - if you are a Friend “candid, fearless” story …6 of the Eastgate, you can bring a friend Eastgate Theatre & Arts Centre One Man Shoe with you for free spring ... Eastgate Peebles EH45 8AD Magic and mayhem from 2017 the dazzling Jango Starr ...22 Box Office: 01721 725 777 Friends of the Eastgate - It’s great to see the Eastgate full of Drop us a line at [email protected] £2 off the first ticket young people – whether they’re May exploring the café, starting a new Visit our website www.eastgatearts.com class in the studio, or going into the for more information about the theatre Registered Disabled/Carer - £2 off full price Brewband theatre for the first time. Their and to sign up to receive regular emails A new music/dance supergroup ...28 combination of energy, excitement about things you're interested in. Student Discount - £2 off full price Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra and imagination means that Follow us on Twitter@EastgateTheatre Plays Ellington, Basie, Mingus and more ...23 anything can happen! And there are and Facebook/Eastgate Theatre Child - £6 unless specified otherwise certainly lots of happenings to enjoy Daphne Oram’s this spring ... Wonderful World of Sound Opening times Family - 1 adult + 3 children or Listen to Daphne shape the First up is Hop and Bop , a week- Box Office: Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm 2 adults + 2 children for a group discount sound of electronic music ...7 long course for young dancers Film Sundays 12.30 - 5pm until interval end on show nights during the Easter holidays. Then OAP - £2 off full price June there’s an open day on 8th April Café when children (and adults) can Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm MamaBabaMe sample some of our Engage classes, Audio Description service available. A theatre, music, dance event for very Film Sundays 12.30 - 5pm and go on to enjoy a funny and until interval end on show nights. small children and their grown ups ...29 Printed using vegetable inks on FSC approved paper. All the carbon emissions generated in the printing of this delightful show by Jango Starr called programme will be offset by planting broadleaved trees in a local community woodland resulting in the print Tweedlove Film Night becoming completely carbon balanced. One Man Shoe . The annual media overload Front Cover: of all things bike ...31 In May the focus shifts to teenagers, The Eastgate Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of Book III, Vault IV Hidden Door, 2014 with an evening performance by the Copyright © 2014 Felicity Bristow Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Photograph : Chris Park Photography Orchestra who can be relied on to Find out more about Felicity's work at deliver classic jazz repertoire with a www.felicitybristow.com brilliant combination of talent, skill, exuberance and verve. And young dancers will perform a new work about identity as a curtain-raiser for Friends of the Eastgate the extraordinary Brewband . The Friends of the Eastgate support and help to improve the theatre facilities in all sorts In June it’s back to entertainment of ways from helping to buy new theatre lights to the satellite dish that makes live relays for and by younger children. possible, from a new coffee machine to upgrading the computer system. Babies and toddlers have a treat This not only makes them feel very good (and more comfortable when they visit) they in store when Starcatchers bring also benefit from their captivating new show • A £2 discount on tickets for most live shows MamaBabaMe to the Eastgate. • Buy One, Get One Free tickets for a specially Meanwhile performers from as selected show each month young as three years old have • A 10% discount on café purchases over £5 BOX OFFICE IS OPEN their own chance to star in Dare • Regular newsletters (with a prize draw) MONDAY - SATURDAY 10 am - 5 pm to Dance , featuring the junior • Social events throughout the year UNTIL 8 pm ON PERFORMANCE NIGHTS students of Fiona Henderson School of Dance and Performing Arts. All this and the opportunity to see world BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 class performances on your doorstep. MORE INFO www.eastgatearts.com All for only £25 a year subscription Caroline Adam General Manager To become a Friend of the Eastgate just ask at Box Office for more information visit www.eastgatearts.com ... 3 2... eg... Drama on Screen ...Drama PERTH THEATRE IN PARTNERSHIP NATIONAL THEATRE (ENCORE) WITH THEATRE BY THE LAKE, presents KESWICK RAPTURE THEATRE COMPANY Rosencrantz and presents presents NATIONAL THEATRE (LIVE) presents Guildenstern Are And Then Come Who’s Afraid of Twelfth Night Dead the Nightjars Virginia Woolf?
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Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Half a century after its premiere on The Old Vic South Devon, 2001. Jeff is a vet with a problem. A marathon night of drink, debauchery and Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken stage, the play that made a young Tom Michael is a cattle farmer who is a problem. The duplicity ensues as George and his wife Martha identity. Stoppard’s name overnight, returns to The Old two men have a begrudging respect for each invite unsuspecting young couple, Nick and Vic in this celebratory production. other and a blossoming friendship based on Honey, for a nightcap at their home. The drinks A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Sebastian is lost sharing a fag, a nip of whisky and boisterous flow, spiked with laughs, acerbic wit and verbal but his twin sister Viola is washed ashore and Against the backdrop of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, banter. But when foot and mouth sweeps sparring. steps out to explore a new land. So begins a this mind-bending situation comedy sees two through the country, communities are thrown whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz (Daniel into chaos. Michael watches, in grief stricken However as night turns to morning, haunting love. The nearby households of Olivia and Radcliffe) and Guildenstern (Joshua McGuire), disbelief, the shooting of his beloved cows. He secrets are revealed! Orsino are so overrun with passion that even take centre stage. Increasingly out of their also watches his friend brandish the gun. Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Olivia's upright housekeeper Malvolia is swept depth, the young double act stumble their way is one the great masterpieces of American up in the madness. Where music is the food of in and out of the action of this iconic drama. In a By turns heart-breaking and hilarious, And Then theatre, scathingly funny and emotionally love, and nobody is quite what they seem, literary hall of mirrors, Stoppard’s brilliantly Come the Nightjars is a tender portrait of male charged, brimming with dazzling language and anything is possible. funny, existential labyrinth sees us witness the friendship and a requiem to rural life. unforgettable characters. ultimate identity crisis. Simon Godwin directs this joyous new Bea Robert’s play is a Theatre 503 and Bristol Old Vics production. “Albee is the most important American production with Tamsin Greig as a transformed The play is directed directed by David Leveaux. playwright of his generation!” Malvolia. an ensemble cast that includes Daniel Age: 12+ The New York Times Rigby, Tamara Lawrence, Doon Mackichan and Daniel Ezra. Thu 25 May Wed 12 April www.rapturetheatre.co.uk 7pm 7.30pm £14, £10 for schoolchildren £14 Thu 6 April Sat 13 May 7pm 7.30pm £14, £10 for schoolchildren £14 “A savagely funny and sad play directed with real delicacy” The Guardian n i a S
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Horse in Careful BLOOD OF THE YOUNG AND TRON THEATRE presents Auditorium Daphne Oram’s Wonderful There are times in life when you need to be careful: growing up gay in Lanark in the 70’s, when the World of Sound reward is half a pack of fruit pastilles, when the lady on the train tells you about the doctor you should Auditorium meet. These would be some of those times, but you’ll always be saved if you use your voice. Horse In 1942, seventeen-year-old Daphne Oram founded the world- McDonald takes us on a journey from wearing two- famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop and reshaped the entire tone velvet loons to being one of Scotland’s most development of electronic music. celebrated singers, and through those times when she had to be... Careful. Daphne Oram was a pioneer of sound who cut a trailblazing path through uncharted musical territory. Her story is told by award- Written by Lynn Ferguson, directed by Maggie winning ensemble Blood of the Young who have teamed up with Kinloch and produced by Gilded Balloon’s Karen SAY-nominated sound artist Anneke to explore the life and ideas Koren, Careful is Horse McDonald’s spellbinding of a true innovator who sacrificed everything for her art. debut play. This play is a visually arresting journey through Daphne’s ★★★★★ “Haunting, compelling, candid, fearless” life performed and live-scored by electronic sound artist Musical Theatre Review Anneke Kampman.
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ROYAL OPERA (ENCORE) ROYAL OPERA (LIVE) ROYAL BALLET (LIVE) ROYAL BALLET (LIVE) presents presents presents presents Madama Butterfly Otello The Dream Jewels
Auditorium Auditorium Symphonic Variations Auditorium Marguerite and Armand Puccini’s Madama Butterfly features ravishing World-famous tenor Jonas Kaufmann makes George Balanchine’s evocation of the sparkle of music and the heartbreaking story of a loving his role debut as Otello in Verdi's passionate Auditorium emeralds, rubies and diamonds is a brilliant ballet geisha deserted by callous American husband retelling of Shakespeare's great tragedy of classic. The French romantic music of Fauré B.F. Pinkerton (Marcelo Puente). Soprano jealousy, deception and murder. Soprano This gorgeous mixed programme demonstrates provides the impetus for the subtlety and lyricism Ermonela Jaho sings the title role for the first Maria Agresta is his Desdemona and baritone the great creative vision of Frederick Ashton, of Emeralds, while the fire of Rubies comes from time at Covent Garden, in Moshe Leiser and Ludovic Tézier his nemesis Iago in a new Founder Choreographer of The Royal Ballet. Stravinsky and the jazz-age energy of New York. Patrice Caurier's stunning production. production by Olivier Award winning director The Dream is Ashton's adaptation of Grandeur and elegance complete the ballet with Keith Warner. The exotic imagery of the Nagasaki setting is Shakespeare's riotous comedy in which a forest the splendour of Imperial Russia and the peerless drawn from romanticized 19th-century Verdi's Otello, with its exquisite duets, sprite plays havoc, armed with a love potion. music of Tchaikovsky in Diamonds. Western ideas of Japan and Antonio Pappano emotionally potent solo numbers and thrilling Symphonic Variations was Ashton's first work conducts choruses draws on the full forces of the after World War II, and one of the Company's Orchestra and the Royal Opera Chorus and first to be performed on the huge main stage of Tue 11 April Sun 2 April this stellar line-up of principal singers. Antonio the Royal Opera House, in 1946. 7.15pm 2pm Pappano conducts. series of quartets, £17, £10 for schoolchildren £17, £10 for schoolchildren With six dancers performing a duets, sextets and solos to Franck’s brooding Variations Symphoniques, this seminal Wed 28 June masterpiece celebrates the pure beauty of 7.15pm movement. Marguerite and Armand is Ashton's £17, £10 for schoolchildren beautiful and emotional retelling of a well-known story, familiar to us through Verdi's opera La Traviata. Ashton famously created this poignant ballet for Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in 1963.
Wed 7 June 7.15pm £17, £10 for schoolchildren
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Alasdair Fraser and Emily Smith and Imar Basco
Natalie Haas Jamie McClennan Auditorium Auditorium
Auditorium Auditorium This five piece is Glasgow’s hottest new folk Basco really just want to tell you some stories. property. In just one year their debut video has Their music ranges from hard hitting, high-speed This year Emily Smith and Jamie McClennan This musical partnership between Alasdair been viewed more than 200,000 times - whilst reels full of rosin dust and sweat, through sweet celebrate 15 years of making music together. Fraser, long regarded as Scotland’s premier their touring credits already include the opening and melancholy tunes that tell of loves won and Their anniversary tour showcases a big new fiddle ambassador, and the sizzlingly-talented set at 2016 Cambridge Folk Festival and lost, fitful fever-dreams of fascinating texture to sound for the duo, with Emily’s beautiful voice young California cellist Natalie Haas is the Belgium’s Dranouter Festival just a week later. songs that, when you come down to it, are really and the couple’s sumptuous harmonies layered fulfilment of a long-standing musical dream for This tour is a celebrtation of the release of their just about sex. over sizzling double guitars, fiddle and debut album - Afterlight - released at Celtic Fraser who was looking for a cellist who could Basco’s material is nearly all original, stealing accordion. The set features newly written songs Connections in January. help him return the cello to the rhythmic heart shamelessly from Scandinavian, English, Celtic paired with selected favourites. of Scottish dance music. Their line-up features prize winning members of and American idioms. If you give it a chance, it’ll Since 2002, when he moved from New Zealand Haas, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Mànran, RURA, Talisk and Barrule. Imar is Adam lure you into the forest, give you a magic sleeping to Scotland, fiddle player Jamie McClennan has Music, was only 15 when they played their first Brown (bodhrán), Adam Rhodes (bouzouki), draught and keep you prisoner in a gilded cage in become an integral part of Emily’s sound, taking gig together. Today the duo tours the world Mohsen Amini (concertina), Ryan Murphy a tower on a hill until a prince comes and saves on the role of lead guitar and backing vocals and displaying dazzling teamwork, driving, dancing (uilleann pipes) and Tomás Callister (fiddle). you. But in a nice way…obviously. producing several of her albums. The duo has rhythms, and their shared passion for “definitely an act to watch!” Songlines “Dazzling … Basco were definitely the played its particular brand of folk/roots music improvising on the melody and the groove of weekend’s most popular discovery, with throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, www.imarband.com Scottish tunes. tremendous ensemble verve and richly textured Japan, Russia and North America. “Haas is the percussive power to Fraser’s Thu 20 April arrangements” The Scotsman fiddle fireworks, providing syncopated, bowed 7.30pm Sat 10 June underpinnings to his melodies and solos” Fri 16 June £14 7.30pm The Patriot News 7.30pm £14 www.alasdairandnatalie.com £14
Thu 18 May 7.30pm £15
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INNERLEITHEN MUSIC FESTIVAL presents a Fundraiser Concert with Woody Pines John McCusker, Heidi Talbot & Guests Auditorium
Auditorium Nashville-based roots music hotshots Woody Pines have wowed the crowds on both sides of the Atlantic An evening of great music headlined by two celebrated musicians who now call the and last time they toured the UK, reviewers Tweed Valley home, together with guest spots from international stars and fine unanimously declared them to be one of the most entertaining acts on the Americana circuit. local musicians. John McCusker is an outstanding Scottish multi-instrumentalist, producer and These Muddy Roots Records stars have won fans composer long renowned for his skill at transcending musical boundaries, sharing around the world, Maverick magazine praising their last stages with Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle, Paolo Nutini, Eddi Reader and Jools Holland, release as “an intoxicating blend of rural and urban and featuring on recordings by Mark Knopfler, Paul Weller, Ocean Colour Scene stringband, country blues and jug band music.” and Teenage Fanclub. BBC Radio 2 presenter Bob Harris is a fan and regularly features tracks on his show. He invited the band to “One of the UK’s most gifted greatest musicians appear on the stage he hosted at the big C2C event at in any genre” The Guardian the 02 arena in London. Subtlety is Heidi Talbot’s magic ingredient. From her The trio was one of the headline acts flown over to gossamer voice to the delicate re-working of traditional Scotland to take part in Glasgow’s Celtic Connections and contemporary material that have earned her rave mid-winter bash two years ago, included for their reviews for her recordings and live performances. “fiery moonshine spirit that sparkles with The girl from Co. Kildare, who spent several years feelgood freshness”. in New York, slips effortlessly between musical worlds but retains a personal modesty rooted “Go and see them, you won’t regret it”! in traditional folk. American Roots UK
“Simply vocal heaven” The Sunday Times www.woodypines.com
Innerleithen Music Festival runs 18-20 August Wed 19 April www.innerleithenmusicfestival.com 7.30pm £14
Tues 16 May 7.30pm £16
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Roy Orbison & Buddy Holly Show Auditorium Happy Spring Holiday… Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly both grew up in the same part of Texas. They both recorded their earlier work in the Norman Petty Studios in Clovis, New Mexico, even Engage is an invitation to involve yourself in arts, whatever your at one point recording the same songs. Each artist brought a unique Texas influence age, wherever you are…. to their music and each created a totally original, individual sound. Think of Only the Lonely and Crying, That’ll be the Day and Peggy Sue. Engage is classes, workshops, courses, performances, outreach In this tribute to two great artists Darren Paige is Roy Orbison and Marc Robinson is events in the community in the community, and a free open day! Buddy Holly, together bringing you a two hour show, featuring all of the hits and a few earlier tracks too! Will Rock ‘n Roll ever die? That’ll be the day! Thu 11 May 7.30pm £17 …R ead o n to you c see w an do hat sp , dur ring h ing th olida e y and term in time.
BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 14 ... EASTGATE PEEBLES EH45 8AD BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 www.eastgatearts.com Hop & Bop Mad Hatter creative classes for with Fiona Henderson School Workshop of Dance and Performing Arts with Sara Best young people… A high energy, fun week of dance. Learn First shape funky foam into a top hat then choose different dance styles as well as team work, decorations from feathers and badges, elaborate performance and choreography skills. hat bands, tickets and patches and all sorts of Age: 5 – 11 (primary school children) other interesting things to turn it into a mad hatters Mon 3 – Fri 7 April top hat in this wacky workshop. 9.30am – 1pm Age: 7 – 12 Art Sparks Performance for family and friends Thursday 13 April with Anna Nicholson on Friday, 2pm 2 – 4pm Make amazing original artwork, £65 (includes a healthy snack each £10, bring a brother or sister for £8 have lots of fun and let your day and a commemorative t-shirt) Tickets 01721 725 777 imagination fly. Tickets 01721 725 777 Age: 7 - 11 Tuesdays 18 April – 13 June 4 -5pm £40.50 for 9 weeks or £5 each class Engage Open Day Tickets 01721 725 777 Bursting with free fun for everyone, the Engage Open Day is a chance to have a go at any or all of the theatre’s different arts activities. Ever find yourself absentmindedly drumming? Maybe try the percussion workshop. Looking forward to collecting your Let’s Pretend Oscar one day? There are beginner’s drama workshops and masterclasses on offer. with Jessica Johnson Budding Hockney or Hepworth? Art Sparks is probably for you. Reach for the stars this summer with these drama workshops Add outdoor activities, dressing up and face painting. You can also find out how you can for 3-5s that will culminate in be part of a major dance/music performance on the main stage when choreographer an original, new production, inspired by the classic novel Le Petit Prince. Marc Brew brings Brewband to the Eastgate on Wednesday 3 May (see page 28 for The Wee Prince, inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 book and written by more info).Why would you want to do anything else with your Saturday? Clare Prenton, is a poetic tale about a pilot stranded in the Sahara desert, who meets a young Prince fallen to Earth from tiny Asteroid 325 (which the people on Earth call Asteroid B-612!) Drop in on Saturday 8 April Age: 3 - 5 between 10am – 3pm, Mondays 24 April – 19 June (no class on 1 May) meet the Eastgate Engage team 10 – 10.45am and find out how you can… £40 for 8 weeks OR Thursdays 27 April – 15 June 1.30 – 2.15pm £40 for 8 weeks Each class will present a short performance for family and friends on the final day of the term.
…play…learn…create All tickets from Eastgate Box Office 01721 725777 Scottish Theatre & Music School with Derek Douglas This class teaches performance, role play, script work and improvisation. Build your confidence and have lots of fun. Thursdays 20 April – 15 June 5 – 6.15pm (classes on 20 April and 4 May will take place from 4 – 5.15pm) For details and to book, please contact Derek Douglas T: 07949 973388 E:[email protected]
Dance Classes Fiona Henderson School of Dance and Performing Arts Classes in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Modern, Contemporary, Highland and Scottish National. From tots to teens, beginner to professional level. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays 18 April – 28 June For details, prices and booking contact Fiona Henderson T: 07894 881747 E: [email protected]
Rhythm Kids Centrestage NEW with Frances Taylor with Douglas Roberts Shake, rattle, roll and sing in this lively Drama masterclass for young people interested class full of fun and musical games with in drama and stage performance. Learn theatre percussion instruments. and drama skills through improvisation, theatre Age: 3-5 sports, scene-making, voice training and script- Thursdays 20 April – 15 June writing. This is a masterclass so some drama 10.15 – 11am experience is required. £45 for 9 weeks Age: 12-18 Tickets 01721 725 777 Fridays 5 May – 16 June 2.30 – 3.50pm £65 for 7 weeks Tickets 01721 725 777 creative classes for Dance Music with Claire Garnett Starlight Egyptian Peebles Players Bellydance Lively music sessions for adults with disabilities. with Tigerlily Sing well-loved songs, choose from a selection of adults... A beginners class to help with confidence, colourful percussion and make music together toning, building flexibility in your hips and with friends. More information from Claire. Dance with Fiona Henderson strength in your core. All women, any size or T: 01721 740 256 age, are welcome. This particular E: [email protected] Modern Ballet (All levels) performance art, following basic Egyptian A modern take on this classical art form. moves, will strengthen you physically, Mondays 24 April – 12 June mentally and spiritually. Literature 7.15 – 8.15pm Mondays 24 April – 12 June Writing Group £36 for 8 weeks or £5 each class (no class on 15 May) A friendly and informal opportunity to bring, read 8.30 – 9.30pm and discuss new writing in poetry and prose. Tap (experienced) £31.50 for 7 weeks or £5 each class Fortnightly on Wednesdays. Get into the rhythm with this fast, fun Contact box office 01721 725777 (noisy) class. Tuesdays 18 April – 13 June Drama with Clare Prenton for the first date. 10 – 10.55am Acting Up 7pm Free £40.50 for 9 weeks or £5 each class If you are aged 55 + and interested in theatre, acting and plays then join theatre director (experienced) Classical Ballet and acting tutor Clare for a new adventure. Develop your balance, poise and posture. Tuesdays 18 April – 13 June Increase confidence, make some new 11 – 11.55am friends. A bit like a book group - except this £40.50 for 9 weeks or £5 each class group will get up and do it! This spring’s Dance with LIVEforDANCE theme is ‘reflection’. We will looking at works Classical Ballet (introductory) by Arthur Miller, Peter Brook and William Take your first ballet steps, whatever Just Jhoom! Shakespeare. No experience required - just your age! Bollywood dance fitness - energetic, glamorous bring yourself. Wednesdays 19 April – 14 June and very tongue-in-cheek. Mondays 8, 15 & 22 May 11 – 11.55am Thursdays 27 April – 15 June 11am – 12.30pm £40.50 for 9 weeks or £5 each class 7 - 8pm £21 for 3 weeks or £7.50 each class (no class 4 May) Jazz for Exercise £31.50 for 7 weeks or £5 each class Practise those jazz hands and so much more. Art & Textiles Fridays 21 April – 16 June Let’s Dance Cast On with Ursula Rautenbach 10.45 – 11.40am Burst out some moves in a range of different Crochet your very own little Yuki rabbit. It £40.50 for 9 weeks or £5 each class dance styles in this fun, energetic class. makes a perfect gift but you may be tempted Tap (introductory) Thursdays 27 April – 15 June to keep it for yourself. Suitable for all levels Lace up your tap shoes and make 8 - 9pm but would help if you have crocheted before. some noise. (no class 4 May) Sun 11 & Sun 25 June Fridays 21 April – 16 June £31.50 for 7 weeks or £5 each class 12.30 – 2.30pm 11.45am – 12.40pm (Classes on 4 May will take place in £40 for both workshops £40.50 for 9 weeks or £5 each class Peebles High School Studio) (all materials included)
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JANGO STARR presents One Man Shoe The Tommy Smith Auditorium Youth Jazz Orchestra
When the headline act fails to show up, Jango, a bumbling theatre caretaker, is Auditorium suddenly thrust into the limelight and embarks on a hilarious journey of highly crafted and heart-felt silent comedy, magically realising his dream of transforming The Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra into a star! This delightful show, bursting with slapstick comedy, puppetry, magic and returns with a fresh new line up bringing the juggling, is directed by Gerry Mulgrew, designed by Becky Minto and features talent, improvisational skills, exuberance and original music by Philip Pinsky. verve now eagerly anticipated when they take to the stage. The future of jazz in Scotland is ★★★★ “An ace creative team…has given Starr a subtly sophisticated assured as these gifted players, under the framework that allows the naïve simplicity of his character to triumph.” direction of Tommy Smith (Scotland’s most Mary Brennan, Sunday Herald distinguished jazz musician), play a repertoire www.onemanshoe.uk ranging from classics by Ellington, Basie, Mingus and Gillespie to present day big band Age: 5 – 11 and families tracks by Fred Sturm and Florian Ross.
Sat 8 April Enjoy an evening of wonderful jazz as these 2.30pm young musicians bring the music alive, playing £8, £5, £22 family of four with a collective maturity well beyond their years and featuring soloists of startling ambition and creativity. "TSYJO smashed it!!! I think that they had the best performance and piece of the night"
Fri 19 May 7.30pm £12, Free for schoolchildren
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MUSIC IN PEEBLES PEEBLES CONCERT BAND presents presents Aurea & Gildas Spring Concert Clouds Harp Quartet
String Quartets Auditorium Auditorium
Auditorium Spring into summer with the musicians of the Elfair Grug Dyer, Rebecca Mills, Esther Swift Peebles Concert Band. This local band is made and Angelina Warburton are four professional Strauss String Sextet from ‘Capriccio’, Op.85 12mins up of musicians ranging in age from 14 to 84, harpists who met when they studied at Royal Korngold String Sextet in D major, Op.10 35mins playing a variety of woodwind, brass, bass and Northern College of Music in Manchester. percussion instruments. They began playing as a harp quartet in 2007 Mendelssohn String Octet in E Flat, Op.20 32mins and since then have released three CDs, toured The concert will feature all sorts of music from extensively and even performed under the classical to movie themes, musicals to marches, dinosaur in the Natural History Museum in These two dynamic young string quartets have with a bit of 70s and 80s pop thrown in for good London. Clouds’ music is written by Esther Swift joined forces to become one of the most exciting measure. It promises to be a fun night packed and draws much from her background in folk new collaborations in UK chamber music, now full of fabulous music! able to perform larger scale repertoire. The concert music and improvisation though it is also culminates in a performance of Mendelssohn’s Conductor: Vaughan Fleischfresser influenced by jazz, blues, dance and many String Octet, probably the greatest work in new found extended techniques. the genre. Thu 1 June The musicians are: Philip Brett, Rosemary Attree, Fri 12 May 7.30pm Christopher Jones and Gemma Sharples (violins); 7.30pm £12 Christine Anderson and Kay Stephen (violas); £10 Abby Hayward and Anna Menzies (cellos). www.musicinpeebles.org.uk
Tue 4 April 7.30pm
Tickets for each Music in Peebles concert are: £14, £7, free for MiP members and schoolchildren.
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Blues and Jazz Review Budapest Café Orchestra
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Gary Martin presents a new show featuring some of Scotland’s top blues Led by jazz violin superstar Christian Garrick, the BCO evokes vivid images of Tzigane and jazz musicians. fiddle maestros, Budapest café life and gypsy campfires - plus a few surprises along the way: good enough to make you want to book that holiday down the Danube! Richard O’Donnell opens the evening playing blues standards on piano. Next up is Blues and Beyond with Neil Warden on Weissenborn lap steel Hard to describe, they are as fantastically exciting as they are musically impressive, guitar/electric guitar and Gary Martin on harmonica/vocals. This roots line- journeying far and wide across the Balkans and Russia, Klezmer, Romanian Doinas and up features special guest John Burgess on saxophone and clarinet. Hungarian Czardas. Expect surprises, diversions and adventures along the way.
Headline is the Jansen Interceptors. This five piece band plays in the classic Their infectious energy will sweep you off your feet and stay in your heart forever. blues style. Fronted by Gary Martin, the bank features John Bruce on electric guitar and special guest John Burgess on tenor saxophone as they tear through a mix of covers and original blues compositions. Tue 9 May 7.30 £14 Sat 22 April 7.30pm £12
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MARC BREW COMPANY presents FIONA HENDERSON SCHOOL OF DANCE AND PERFORMING ARTS STARCATCHERS AND CURIOUS SEED Brewband presents presents Auditorium ... Dare to Dance MamaBabaMe Scotland’s latest super band – blurs boundaries and challenges Auditorium Auditorium people’s perceptions of identity. Join the pupils of the FHSD Junior school aged Every new relationship is a journey – it can be Created by award winning disabled choreographer Marc Brew 5 to 11 years for this dance extravaganza. tender, competitive, challenging, joyful. But this inclusive music and danegce performance brings together Come and see the youngest pupils of the where does that begin? top Scottish rock artists Graeme Smillie, Jill O’Sullivan and school perform all the new steps they have Peter Kelly with talented dancer/musicians Martyn Garside, Join us at the ringside of our mini arena for learned in the last 12 months in a variety of Marta Masiero and Alice Sheppard. MamaBabaMe to witness this exciting new theatrical dances in ballet, tap, modern, jazz dance, theatre and live music experience made The evening will be promenade style, melding rock music with and highland dance. especially for little ones and their grown-ups. Marc Brew’s distinctive choreography, to create an exciting Through playful movement, dance and sound, evening as much a music gig as it is a dance performance. Sat 3 June 2017 and Sun 4 June MamaBabaMe explores these profound new 2.30pm “Bursting with exciting choreography.” relationships and how this eternal bond evolves The Scotsman £10, £5 for schoolchildren and grows. Local dancers have joined forces with musicians from Peebles Everyone will recognise something of their own Players to create their own short piece influenced by themes of relationships, as parent or child – this is a show inclusiveness and identity. They will perform it as a curtain for young children and anyone who’s ever been raiser for Brewband. one! www.starcatchers.org.uk Wed 3 May 7.30pm Fri 9 June £12 11.30am and 2.30pm £8, £5 for under 12s, FREE for under 2s
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TWEED THEATRE Auditorium presents The Tweedlove Film Night 2017 will be a media overload with inspirational Bite Sized Bad Dates and talks, slideshows, short films and the same fun vibe as always. Entertainments The Last Flapper The prizes for the Tweedlove Short Film Competition will be awarded and all the winning films will be shown. As well as films, prizes will be awarded to Studio Studio the amateur and professional photographers who captured the best still images of biking this year. The stills will be exhibited in the studio. Bite Sized is back. These popular A double bill of intriguing one-woman shows. Thu 8 lunchtime events offer opportunities for older audiences to enjoy high quality Bad Dates 7.30pm entertainment, a light, healthy lunch Tickets £10, £7 Join vivacious American Hayley preparing for a and good company. date. As she chooses shoes and outfits, she relates 5 April her life story and describes the horrendously bad Expect the unexpected. dates she has had so far. Hayley shares her love of 12 April work, shoes, her daughter Vera, and sex. Hilarious, Thanks to our sponsors: Shimano, Ian Linton, Three Fishes Gallery and Lemon Digital Mary Kenny tells stories of wonder, poignant and ultimately life affirming, this play will romance and history. Stories inhabited have you laughing, crying and hoping, along with by heroes, heroines and giants. Usually Hayley, that it’ll be OK in the end! warm, sometimes scary, always fun. Tweedlove Photo Exhibition 19 April The Last Flapper This is an exhibition of stunning stills taken by amateur and The Lorraine Mulholland Jazz Trio – Join Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of the famous author, professional photographers. The Tweedlove Photo Exhibition does exactly what it says in the title. F ‘Scotch’ Fitzgerald, and share her last day inside features bikers doing what they love in favourite places locally 26 April a lunatic asylum. This play is based on Zelda’s and across the world. Prizes will be awarded for the best Nick Jenkins - Intricate, fast, folk music letters and stories and is at times frightening and images captured by amateurs and professionals. played on the fiddle. Some tunes you scarily funny, at others heartbreakingly sad. The will probably know, others may be new Last Flapper is a reminder of this often ignored Thu 8 June – 3 July to you. But you won’t be able to listen aspect of health. Free and keep your feet still. Thu 4, Fri 5, Sat 6 May 7.30pm Wed 5, 12, 19 and 26 April £10 12.30 – 1.30pm £5 (includes lunch) Thanks to our sponsors: Ian Linton, Three Fishes Gallery and Lemon Digital The studio exhibition space is also used daily for classes and workshops – please telephone 01721 725777 to check when you can access the exhibition.
30 ... EASTGATE PEEBLES EH45 8AD BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 for more information visit www.eastgatearts.com ... 31 ... Film eg Viceroy’s House The Sense of an Ending 4.30pm 7.30pm This is the Film Sunday programme for the first two months of this season. The film programme can In 1947 Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of Tony Webster leads a reclusive and quiet occasionally be affected by distribution problems – so please look online www.eastgatearts.com last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to existence until long buried secrets from his past its people. He lives upstairs at the house which force him to face the flawed recollections of his or in the printed film brochure for updates. was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, younger self, the truth about his first love and the Ticket prices for Sunday Cinema are £9 for adults, £6 for schoolchildren Muslim and Sikh servants live downstairs. devastating consequences of decisions made a and £25 for a family of four. Please check the film certificate before booking. lifetime ago. Based on the novel by Julian Barnes. Trespass Against Us 7.30pm Sunday 28 May Sunday 2 April 20th Century Women The Cutler family live as outlaws in their own Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience anarchic corner of Britain's countryside. Chad 2.30pm Hidden Figures 7.30pm Cutler (Michael Fassbender) has been groomed Join Peppa for plenty of snorts, giggles and 7.30pm During the summer of 1979, a Santa Barbara by his bruising father Colby (Brendan Gleeson) to jumping up and down in muddy puddles! Nine The incredible story of three brilliant African- spend his life hunting, thieving and tormenting new episodes are linked with never-before-seen American women working at NASA, who served single mom and boarding house landlord decides the police. As Chad’s son Tyson grows, Chad interactive entertainment featuring live action as the brains behind the finds himself locked in a battle with his father for Peppa and George characters and their friend the best way she can parent her extraordinary operation the future of his young family. The film features Daisy, in her colourful new world. teenage son is to enlist her young tenants - a o launch astronaut John incredible performances - and an astonishing quirky punk photographer a mellow handyman Glenn into orbit. The score by The Chemical Brothers. Elle visionary trio crossed and her son's shrewd best friend - to serve as role 4.30pm gender and race lines to models in a changing world. Stars Annette Bening Michèle (Isabelle Huppert) seems indestructible. inspire generations to as mom Dorothea. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life dream big. Sunday 30 April as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. Sunday 16 April 2.30pm When she resolutely tracks the man down, they Smurfs: The Lost Village Beauty and the Beast are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game, A mysterious map sets Smurfette and her best 2.30pm a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of This new version of Walt Disney’s magical classic friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on a race against control. The film is in French with subtitles. captures the fantastic journey of Belle, taken by the evil wizard Gargamel through the Forbidden the Beast, who befriends the castle's enchanted Forest to find a mysterious lost village. Their Their Finest staff - a teapot, a candelabra and a mantel clock, course leads to the discovery of the biggest Sunday 14 May 7.30pm With London emptied of men now fighting at the among others - and ultimately sees beneath the secret in Smurf history! The Boss Baby Front, Catrin Cole lands herself a job writing copy Beast's hideous exterior to discover the heart and 2.30pm for propaganda films and is noticed by dashing soul of a prince. Meet a most unusual baby. movie producer Buckley. With the country's He wears a suit, speaks with morale at stake, Catrin, Buckley and the crew Moonlight the voice and wit of Alec work furiously to make a film that will warm the 4.30pm Baldwin, and stars in this hilariously universal story hearts of the nation. Catrin soon discovers there The tender, heart-breaking story about how a new baby's arrival impacts a family, is as much drama, comedy and passion behind of a young man's struggle to told by 7 year old Tim a wildly imaginative, the camera as there is onscreen. Stars Gemma find himself, told across three delightfully unreliable narrator. Arterton, Bill Nighy, Sam Claflin and Richard defining chapters in his life as The Lost City of Z E Grant. he experiences the ecstasy, 4.30pm pain, and beauty of falling in The incredible true story of British explorer Percy Sunday 25 June love, while grappling with his Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the 2.30pm, 4.30pm & 7.30pm own sexuality. dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence See Press for details. of a previously unknown, advanced civilization. Ridiculed by the scientific establishment, Fawcett returns time and again in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance 32 ... in 1925. ... 33 ... How to find us... eg By CAR From the north – follow the A703 south into Peebles, and turn right just after Holland & Sherry into the Edinburgh Road Car Park. From the south/west – from the A72 into Peebles, turn left at the Tweed Bridge roundabout and continue along the High Street for about half a mile. At the Esso Garage, turn left at the roundabout Friends Quiz Night onto the A703 and then turn left into the Edinburgh Road Car Park. The annual mind boggling quiz returns. Pick your team From the south/east – from the A72 into Peebles, turn right onto the A703 at the Esso garage, then turn left into the Edinburgh and then relax with a drink (pub quiz style) and try to Road Car Park. answer all sorts of questions on all sorts of subjects. By BUS – local services available to/from Edinburgh via Penicuik, and to/from Galashiels via Innerleithen and Walkerburn. The Individuals welcome, come early and assemble into nearest bus stop is opposite the front of the theatre. impromptu teams. There are great prizes and we promise Parking lots of fun while you help raise funds for the Eastgate. The nearest car park is the Edinburgh Road Car Park where it’s free to park every day except Saturday between 8.30am and Fri 21 April 5.30pm. From the car park, take the pedestrian footpath into town and we are immediately on your right. 7.30pm £5 each person useful information... (max 5 in a team) Tickets Refunds You can buy tickets in person at Box Office, over the phone on Refunds are only given if a show has to be cancelled. Tickets 01721 725777 or online at www.eastgatearts.com may be exchanged or transferred at the discretion of the Box Office Manager. For shows which sell out we will try to resell We accept cash, cheques, debit cards and credit cards your tickets, but this cannot be guaranteed. (except AmEx). Data protection Tickets can be kept at the box office for collection, or posted All customer details are confidential and we never share or sell out for a £1.50 charge. them with anyone else. Please help us to keep your details up Use the seating plan below to select the seats you’d like. to date. Please note row A is reserved for wheelchair users and Special effects cannot be booked online. 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April Sun 2 Opera: ROH (Encore) Madama Butterfly 2pm £17 8 Sun 2 Film: Hidden Figures 7.30pm £9 32 Tue 4 Music: MiP Aurea & Gildas String Quartets 7.30pm £14 24 Wed 5 Bite Sized Entertainment 12.30pm £5 30 Thu 6 Drama: NT (Live) Twelfth Night 7pm £14 4 Fri 7 Drama: Horse in Careful 7.30pm £14 6 Sat 8 Family: One Man Shoe 2.30pm £8 22 Tue 11 Dance: RB (Live) Jewels 7.15pm £17 9 Wed12 Bite Sized Entertainment 12.30pm £5 30 Wed 12 Drama: And Then Come the Nightjars 7.30pm £14 5 Sun 16 Film: Beauty and the Beast 2.30pm £9 32 Sun 16 Film: Moonlight 4.30pm £9 32 Sun 16 Film: 20th Century Women 7.30pm £9 32 Wed 19 Bite Sized Entertainment 12.30pm £5 30 Wed 19 Music: Woody Pines 7.30pm £14 13 Thu 20 Music: Imar 7.30pm £14 11 Fri 21 Quiz: Friends Quiz Night 7.30pm £5 34 Sat 22 Music: Blues & Jazz Review 7.30pm £12 26 Wed 26 Bite Sized Entertainment 12.30pm £5 30 Sun 30 Film: Smurfs: The Lost Village 2.30pm £9 32 Sun 30 Film: Viceroy’s House 4.30pm £9 33 Sun 30 Film: Trespass Against Us 7.30pm £9 33
May Wed 3 Dance/Music: Brewband 7.30pm £12 28 Thu 4, Fri 5 & Sat 6 Drama: TT Bad Dates & The Last Flapper 7.30pm £10 30 Tue 9 Music: Budapest Café Orchestra 7.30pm £14 27 Thu 11 Music: Roy Orbison & Buddy Holly 7.30pm £17 14 Fri 12 Music: PCB Spring Concert 7.30pm £10 25 Sat 13 Drama: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 7.30pm £14 5 Sun 14 Film:The Boss Baby 2.30pm £9 33 Sun 14 Film: The Lost City of Z 4.30pm £9 33 Sun 14 Film: The Sense of An Ending 7.30pm £9 33 Tue 16 Music: IMF John McCusker & Heidi Talbot 7.30pm £16 12 Thu 18 Music: Alastair Fraser & Natalie Haas 7.30pm £15 10 Fri 19 Music: Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra 7.30pm £12 23 Thu 25 Drama: NT (Encore) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead 7pm £14 4 Sun 28 Film: Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience 2.30pm £9 33 Sun 28 Film: Elle 4.30pm £9 33 Sun 28 Film: Their Finest 7.30pm £9 33 Wed 31 Drama: Daphne Oram’s Wonderful World of Sound 7.30pm £14 7
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