April 2020 ... the Creative Heart of the Community
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Theatre l Music l Dance l Film l Exhibitions l Workshops January - April 2020 ... the creative heart of the community Transform your Arts Centre What’s On Welcome to our Spring Season! We are opening the doors at Queen’s Hall Arts Centre to invite 04 January everyone inside for our exciting Spring Season. We have a wonderful array of performances and experiences to really lift 06 February your spirits after a long dark winter. 13 March Spring is definitely the time for something new whether it is 19 April Green Eggs and Ham, the Opera or GUY: A New Musical. Or 25 Exhibitions a beautiful new play – Robin and Rose – created through a 26 The Queen’s Club partnership between Queen’s Hall Arts, Tynedale Hospice at Home and Mad Alice Theatre Company. Bring along the family 26 Queen’s Hall Cafe to enjoy traditional tales, with a new twist, from Lempen 26 Queen’s Hall Digital Puppet Theatre and Kitchen Zoo or laugh your way through 27 Courses & Workshops Gonzo Moose’s crazy tale. And why should children have all 28 Seating Plan the fun? Book a place on our trapeze workshop! 29 Booking your Tickets We are absolutely thrilled to announce the development Thanks to funding from Arts Council England, we of a brand new Studio Theatre here at Queen’s Hall with are aiming to transform the Queen’s Hall Arts Centre 30 Season’s Diary the support of a capital grant from Arts Council England. through the creation of a brand new studio space. The Opening Doors Project will see the creation of a flexible A fully accessible and well equipped studio, space for performance, workshops and exhibitions as well as on the site of the existing Green Room will enable us ensuring that all our performance spaces and dressing rooms to offer you a broader range of shows and exhibitions, are accessible. We will really need your help to achieve our alongside many more opportunities for you and the ambitious plans, so keep your eyes open for how you can help family to get creative too. us raise money over the next two years. And you will all be LIKE US invited to the grand opening! We need to raise an additional £50,000 /queenshallarts The bold claim of our March show is How to be amazingly to make this happen! happy! - we hope that the Spring Season will really put a smile FOLLOW US on your face. @queenshallarts Will you play your part? Katy Taylor SEE US Artistic Director/Chief Executive | Queen’s Hall Arts www.queenshall.co.uk queenshallarts Box Office 01434 652477 ... the creative heart of the community www.queenshall.co.uk ... the creative heart of the community 3 Season Preview Night David Harper: Unexpected Tales Theatre l Music l Dance l Film l Exhibitions l Workshops Wednesday 22 January 6.00pm January - April 2020 Thursday 23 January 7:30pm Join us as we look at the season ahead, giving you an insight in to forthcoming shows, playing you some video snippets Join TV celebrity David Harper (as seen on TV in of shows, audio tracks of some of the music events and Bargain Hunt, Antiques Roadtrip and lots more), as he giving you loads more insight into the season. shares tales from the world of TV, art and antiques! January Join us after the event at 7.00pm to meet the staff and the The show will feature funny behind the scenes trustees at our Season Launch Drinks Reception. anecdotes from TV, live auctions, exciting antique ... the creative heart of the community finds, huge profits, even bigger losses, as well as FREE ENTRY WITH A TICKET! stories from celebrity TV appearances and historical journeys through time. 27 Up Pantomime Tickets: £14.00 Alice in Wonderland Thursday 9 – Saturday 11 January 7.00pm Saturday 11 January 2.00pm Cheer and boo as past members of Northumberland Young Farmers perform the traditional pantomime, Alice in Wonderland. Tickets: Thursday £10.00 | Friday: £12.50 Saturday matinee: £10.00 (adults) | £8.00 (under 14) Saturday evening: £12.50 Mark Jon Bolderson Dance, Circus and Theatre workshops Percussion Foundation Thursdays from 16 January at 6.00pm – 7.30pm. Drum Festival Hexham & District Music Society Vadym Kholodenko (piano) Are you aged 16 years+ and looking to try something new and Saturday 25 January exciting this New Year? Lizzie J Klotz and her team of dance, Tuesday 28 January 7.30pm A celebration of all things drumming circus and theatre performers will be leading 4 workshops. with free performances and workshops Vadym Kholodenko is fast building a Thursday 16 January Thursday 30 January throughout the day including a jazz reputation as one of the most musically Static Trapeze with Tilly Lee-Kronick Story Telling with Charlie Dearnley drumming Masterclass from jazz drummer dynamic and technically gifted young pianists Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk Learn beginners’ movements on the static Explore exercises in writing for performance, Martyn Kaine, and a demonstration from performing today. His 2015 recording of trapeze, aiming to build a sequence of your in a playful and game-led environment. the Corp of Army Musicians. the Grieg piano concerto was hailed by own. Only 8 places available. Thursday 6 February ALL EVENTS FREE. Gramophone magazine as ‘truly outstanding’. Thursday 23 January Contemporary Dance with Alex Rowland Evening concert: O Duo 8.00pm Programme Physical Theatre with Alys North and João Maio Renowned for their vibrant drumming from Mozart Piano Sonata no.14 in C minor, K457 Developing characters through movement, An introduction to the foundations of across the globe, O Duo have performed Schubert Piano Sonata no.13 in A major, D664 including individual and group tasks in contemporary dance, learning sequences, twice at the BBC Proms, as well as on BBC Saariaho Ballade improvisation and Physical Theatre. floor work and partner work. Radio 2 and 3, Classic FM, Channel 4 and Scriabin Preludes (selection) These workshops are part of the Research and Development of a new dance show BBC television. Rachmaninov Piano Sonata no.2 in B flat minor ‘This is a show about Lying’, supported by Arts Council England. EVENING CONCERT IS FREE WITH A TICKET Tickets: £16.00 | £8.00 (student) 4 Tickets: £3.00 per workshop | £10.00 for all 4 workshops £1.00 (schoolchildren) 5 leo&hyde’s LIVE IN THE GUY: A New Musical LIBRARY Monday 3 February 7.30pm Finding love isn’t easy being fat, gay and nerdy. Luckily for Guy, you can be Andy May Trio anybody online… including your best friend. But little does Guy know, he’s Friday 7 February 7.30pm not the only one with a big reveal. February Three award winning musicians Queer as Folk meets Bridget Jones with a cat-fishing musical twist, this from Newcastle - Northumbrian award-winning show gives you 12 heart-pounding electronic pop anthems piper & pianist Andy May (Jez and a witty, heartfelt story about modern dating through a diverse Lowe and the Bad Pennies, cross-section of gay men. Baltic Crossing), guitarist Ian A rom-com about body image, prejudice, and mental health, GUY is a Stephenson (422, Baltic Crossing) reminder that the only person you should be is yourself: #nofilter. and fiddler Sophy Ball (422, Bottle Bank Band) - with music inspired GUY was winner of Best Show, Birminghamfest 2018 by the North East. and winner of Best New Writing, Buxton Fringe 2018. TRY Expect high energy traditional Tickets: £15.00 | £12.00 | £5.00 (student) IT FOR A Full Circle TENNER tunes from Northumberland Theatre Company alongside newly composed material “A monumental piece with an by members of the band, all In the Middle of Our Street imperative message... this musical delivered with a unique warmth could go all the way” Thursday 6 February 7.30pm and humour. Blackstar Hannah wants more than the repetition of Tickets: £12.50 daily life has to offer, and finds herself in an inventors’ workshop, opening her eyes to endless exciting possibilities. Hannah can see freedom, and sets off on a great mission. This is a visually spectacular show packed with Full Circle’s usual mix of power, poignancy and humour and explores, with a bit of magic, what adulthood and independence means. Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk “If ever there is a show that so positively, and in such a visual and beautiful way, challenges negative perceptions about learning disabled people, then this is it. It is a fantastic story, told with passion, skill, humour.” Annabel Turpin, Artistic Director ARC Stockton Tickets: £10.00 | £7.50 (student) Devised and performed by Full Circle Theatre Company, and directed by Vici Wreford-Sinnott, this is A Little Cog production in partnership with ARC Stockton. 6 7 100% Simon Brodkin Friday 7 February 8.00pm After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, February Sepp Blatter, Donald Trump, Kanye West and Britain’s Got Talent, the award-winning comedian unleashes his funniest creation yet… himself! Fresh from a critically-acclaimed, sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Simon takes his debut stand-up show 100% Simon Brodkin on a nationwide tour. One of The Guardian’s ‘Top Shows at The Fringe One of The Evening Standard’s ‘Best Comedy Shows at The Fringe’ Ben Hart: Wonder Gonzo Moose Tickets: £22.00 Sunday 9 February 7.30pm Once Upon A Time… Britain’s Got Talent 2019 finalist, West End Tuesday 11 February 7.30pm star and multi award-winning magician Ben Gonzo Moose are back with a comedy Hart is embarking on his debut solo tour.