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 , 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, 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 , February , Donald Trump, and Britain’s Got Talent, the award-winning 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 ’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. adventure packed full of hilarious slapstick, Described by David Walliams as ‘the living verbal wit, live music and a sensational embodiment of magic’, with the simplest of death-defying finale. props and using the objects and minds of Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are the audience, Ben Hart conjures a show that about to publish the final volume of what will shines a light on magic, life, the universe and become the greatest ever collection of fairy the darkest corners of your imaginations. tales. But on the eve of their greatest triumph, “Unbelievable! a shadowy figure from their past returns to collect an old debt. That was unbelievable… Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk really… I’m shocked” Now their sister, Lotte must go on a deadly Simon Cowell mission deep into the Fairy Tale Kingdom in order to save her beloved older brothers. Age restriction of 12 years + Three fearless and daring actors switch wildly Tickets: £17.00 between a myriad roles in this gripping and £15.00 (Members / benefit conc / student) fast paced comedy featuring Mexican elves, a biscuit eating badger and the world’s worst marriage guidance counsellor.

Tickets: £15.00 £13.00 (Members / benefit conc) 8 £10.00 (student) 9 Jive Aces Big Beat Revue 2020 Lempen Puppets Saturday 15 February 7.30pm The Golden Princess

Renowned worldwide for their high-energy spectacular showmanship, Britain’s Got Tuesday 18 February Workshop 11.00am | Show 2.00pm Talent semi-finalists, The Jive Aces have firmly established themselves as the UK’s No.1 Melo, the strange, one legged musician, sits alone by the sea, content in his world and playing Jive & Swing band. the most beautiful music. But who comes here? A golden carriage bearing a

Featuring special guests: the songstress from Down Under with the golden tonsils and Princess so beautiful that she wears a golden mask to hide her February furious tap dancing, Miss Kara Lane, the blonde bombshell with the low-down baritone blinding beauty. And she pushes him in the mud! sax, Lottie B, the hot licks of jazz trumpeter Antonio Socci and the smooth accordion of What kind of a world is this, where one who hides her beauty Grazia Bevilacqua, the show is an exciting mix of hot jive, swinging rhythm and blues behaves so badly to the one with beauty at his fingertips? and classic rock ’n’ roll. A theatrical performance using acting, puppets, shadows and music “The crazy energy of the Jive Aces can certainly whisk you for everyone from 5 years old to 105 years young. away to a different era and tempt you to Jump, Jive and Wail Running time: 55 minutes out of happiness and joy!” The Student Newspaper, Edinburgh

Tickets: £18.00 | £16.00 (Members / benefit conc / student) Mask Making Workshop Surprise your family and friends with a new you and create your own amazing mask. Could it be a witch or an elf? A princess, an alien or something else? The choice is yours and anything goes.

But what does it feel like to look out from another skin? How do people react when you don’t look like yourself anymore?

Running time: 1 hour Max 20 participants For ages 6 years + Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk (adults can stay and help)

Northumberland Young Farmers Drama Competition Show Tickets: £6.50 | £10.00 (including pre-show workshop) Sunday 16 February 3.00pm £1.00 (Babe in arms) Teams from across the county compete, with the winning team representing Workshop Tickets: the County in the National competition. £6.50 per child For tickets please contact the YFC County Office by emailing (Free for accompanying adults / Babe in arms) 10 [email protected] 11 Brit Rock Film Tour 2020 Friday 28 February 7.30pm

The Brit Rock Film Tour is back with its March strongest line up to date, comprising the best new climbing films from the UK’s top adventure filmmakers, featuring some of the country’s most popular climbers.

This stunning new line up of four compelling films from the vertical world includes Climbing Blind, a 60 minute film of the incredible story of the first blind lead of the Old Man of Hoy.

Tickets: £10.00 | £8.00 (student) Mad Alice Theatre Company Rose and Robin Wednesday 19 February 2.00pm

From childhood to old age, Rose and Robin have had a wonderful life Hexham & District together – and they want to share it Music Society with you! They’ve enjoyed so much Toby Hughes and together. But most of all, they loved Daniel King Smith to dance. Thursday 20 February 7.30pm Eleventh Hadrian’s Wall Opera North They’ve had their bumps in the road, Toby Hughes, still only in his 20s, is a Archaeology Forum Green Eggs and Ham of course, and now Robin can’t true virtuoso on the double bass, having remember where they keep the Saturday 29 February 9.45am - 4.00pm Monday 2 March 1.30pm & 4.30pm performed with major orchestras in the clothes pegs. UK and Europe, and has already given a The programme will include reports on the The perfect introduction to opera for 4-7 Commissioned by Queen’s Hall Arts, recital at ’s Wigmore Hall. group of excavations recently undertaken year olds and their families! in the environs of the fort at Benwell, the and directed by Geof Keys, Rose and Meet the hilariously persistent Sam-I-Am on Daniel King Smith has given concerts results of investigations at Vindolanda in Robin is a playful and serious, sad and a mission to persuade a grumpy grouch to all over the world as both soloist and 2019, analyses of material recovered from happy show that celebrates life in all try a delicious plate of green eggs and ham! accompanist. the Birdoswald cemetery excavation in

Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk its richness. Programme 2009, progress of the Wallcap project, and The classic Dr Seuss book is beautifully A perfect play for children aged Dutilleux Sarabande et Cortège research on coins from the northern frontier brought to life, teaching us all (even the 7 years and over to enjoy with their Lowell Liebermann Sonata for zone. grown-ups) the very important life lesson grandparents and parents. - you cannot know what you will like until Contrabass and Piano, op. 24 Tickets: £25.00 (includes tea/coffee and you have tried it! Running time: 50 mins approx. Fauré Romance in A major, op. 69 lunch at Hexham Abbey) Berio Psy Tickets: £8.50 Featuring 2 opera singers and a 9-piece Mišek Sonata no. 2 in E minor for £7.50 (group of 4 or more, per orchestra, this short 45 minute performance Double Bass and Piano, op. 6 person) will begin with an interactive workshop Tickets: £16.00 | £8.00 (student) introducing families to the music, £1.00 (schoolchildren) instruments and themes within the piece. 12 Tickets: £6.00 (adult) | £6.00 (child) 13 Matt Forde: Pursued by a Bear TRY State of Grace IT FOR A Friday 6 March 8.00pm TENNER DOVES Join Britain’s leading political comedian as he once “our foremost satirical March Wednesday 4 March 7.30pm again promises his last show as an EU citizen (maybe). stand-up... Whatever As seen on Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, your politics, you’ll Part road movie, part 80s noir, DOVES is The Royal Variety Performance and Unspun. find excellence here” a new dance-theatre work for ages 14

years+ that charts the rite of passage of Age guideline: 14 years + The Sunday Times two very different young women from the Tickets: £16.00 Deep South of the US. The Times Set against a filmic cyclorama and

wrapped in a unique, musical soundscape The Scotsman the two sisters (Cora-Jay Williams and Alice Henry) fight for survival and an understanding of who they really are.

Commissioned by Dance City, DOVES will be presented along with a new work in partnership with Youth Dance Tynedale.

Tickets: £10.00 | £7.50 (students)

Thank ABBA for the Music TRY Gazebo Theatre IT FOR A Saturday 7 March 7.30pm WANTED TENNER Grab your platforms and flares for a Thursday 5 March 7.30pm journey back in time to when ABBA dominated the charts and ruled the WANTED explores the stories of 5 airwaves in this two-hour theatre extraordinary ordinary women who spectacular that captures all of the share a passion for standing up for magic and excitement of one of what is right! pop history’s most successful and

Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk This powerful new play features an entertaining live bands. array of historical figures; Irena Sendler, Featuring all of ABBA’s greatest hits including Dancing Queen, Waterloo, Mamma Mia, Take who rescued more than 2,500 children A Chance On Me, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, Knowing Me Knowing You, Fernando, Super from the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation; Olive Morris, British Black Panther and Trouper and many more! avid activist for women and squatters’ rights; Phoolan Devi, the fearsome Bandit Queen, and a woman way ahead of her time, Dr James Barry. With stunning costumes, live band, interactive video projection, some tongue-in-cheek Swedish humour and, of course, ABBA’s spectacular trademark harmonies, this is the ultimate A drama littered with humour, honesty and heart, WANTED is written and performed by feel-good party show! Tonia Daley-Campbell, Therese Collins and Pamela Cole-Hudson. ABBA and 70s fancy dress optional … but encouraged! In Celebration & Recognition of Women’s History Month 2020. Tickets: £22.50 | £19.50 (Members / benefit conc / student) Tickets: £10.00 | £7.50 (students) 14 15 How to be amazingly happy! Thursday 12 March 7.30pm TRY IT FOR A Green Room Studio Theatre TENNER

Is your happiness not where you expected? TRY March Has your self gone AWOL with the life plan? IT FOR A TENNER Victoria Firth is on a quest. She wants happiness and she wants it now. No matter how tough, how busy, how ridiculous - she’s VERVE going all out and getting this done. Join her as she asks what do you do with the rest of your life when you don’t have kids? Hexham & District Tuesday 17 March 7.30pm It’s Tales of the Unexpected meets Miranda in this big hearted, big thinking show of Music Society Fourteen dancers. storytelling and physical comedy. Sacconi Quartet Four distinct, exhilarating works. Physically ambitious, Monday 16 March 7.30pm Tickets: £10.00 | £7.50 (student) strikingly original dance. The Sacconi Quartet have VERVE’s exceptional dancers tackle brand enjoyed a highly successful new works by Olivier award-winning international career, performing dance theatre maker Botis Seva, dancer & regularly throughout Europe, acclaimed choreographer Lali Ayguadé, at London’s major venues, Jon Boden rising star in Scandinavian contemporary in recordings and on radio Sunday 15 March 7.30pm dance Mari Carrasco, and maverick broadcasts, and are Quartet in choreographer Douglas Thorpe. Best known as the lead singer of the Association at the Royal College VERVE is the internationally touring postgraduate progressive folk juggernaut Bellowhead, Jon of Music. company of Northern School of Contemporary Boden was named Folk Singer of The Year at Their 2017 CD was named as Dance (NSCD). the 2009 BBC Folk Awards. He has become one of Gramophone magazine’s Tickets: £10.00 the ‘stand out performer of his generation’ recordings of the year. £7.50 (student) (The Guardian) of traditional folk artists, but one whose repertoire extends far beyond the Programme boundaries of the genre. Haydn String Quartet in D major, op. 64 no.5 (The Lark) Since Bellowhead split in 2016, Jon has continued his development as one of the Beethoven String Quartet no.11 foremost names in English . in F minor, op. 95 (Serioso)

Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk Mendelssohn String Quartet ‘Jon Boden solo is certainly something no.1 in E flat major, op.12 not to be missed, a variety of Tickets: £16.00 instrumentation and song, the £8.00 (student) dramatic gestures of a rock concert – £1.00 (schoolchildren) not something you often get from a solo folk performer’ Americana UK

Tickets: £20.00 £18.00 (benefit conc / members / students)

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Tyne Valley Film Festival Film: 2040 (PG) Zoë Gilby Quartet Tuesday 24 March 7.30pm Thursday 19 March 8.00pm An Australian documentary in which Fitting Stillhouse Junkies Zoë Gilby is a vocalist and songwriter, TRY LIVE director Damon Gameau embarks on IN THE making a stunning impression on the Wednesday 25 & IT FOR A Wednesday 25 March a personal journey to explore what the LIBRARY music scene today. Thursday 26 March TENNER 8.00pm future could look like by the year 2040 if 7.30pm Expect a powerful collection of we embraced the best solutions already Influenced by bluegrass, Western compelling, original songs with a available to us to improve our planet and Magic is everywhere. Wear a dress and Swing, blues and a touch of classical, strong narrative, written with double shifted them rapidly into the mainstream. people treat you one way. Try a pinstripe Colorado’s Stillhouse Junkies create bassist husband Andy Champion, and suit and, abracadabra, it’s like you are a an attractive groove-filled blend of Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year- an adventurous blend of contemporary different person. American roots music. old daughter, Damon blends documentary composers from Kate Bush to Pink with dramatic sequences and high-end Fitting is about Matt’s adventures in Rooted in the American West, their Floyd alongside the sensitive treatment visual effects to create a vision board for his dresses and suits with some magic tricks evocative songs accompanied on fiddle, of jazz standards. Completing the daughter. up its sleeves. Follow Matt as they navigate guitar, upright bass, mandolin and quartet are guitarist Mark Williams and and explode the ground between gender clawhammer banjo, run the gamut of Running time: 1 hour 32 minutes drummer Richard Brown. binaries. human experience from disenchantment with the pace of modern living, to story Tickets: £12.00 Tickets: £6.00 Matt has brought along some frocks and songs from the small-town bartender or ties, some sleight of hand, some fitting in a lonely cattle driver. and some standing proud. Matt is neither a Stitch in Time: A Knitting Cabaret TRY boy nor a girl but has been both. Matt will Tickets: £12.50 Tuesday 24 March 7.30pm IT FOR A do their best, for you. TENNER Hexham Library Tickets: £10.00 | £7.50 (students) Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk A scintillating evening of the lost knitting songs of WWI and WWII from Britain, Canada, America and France.

During the two World Wars, millions of women knit for the Free Flowing Words soldiers, with popular music often reflecting the trends of the Thursday 2 April 7.00pm time. Some of the songs were very close to disappearing forever, Hexham Library but in Stitch in Time, this music has been preserved, and given a chance to live again. Continuing our series of readings of poetry by North East poets; published poet Pauline Plummer writes short stories, teaches creative writing and has won prestigious prizes and Feel free to bring your knitting (or crochet), and stitch along to these funny, poignant, awards. Lesley Mountain has had three collections published, the latest “Vamoose” in toe-tapping, needle-clicking tunes. 2018. Josephine Scott has two collections, with a third to be launched in May. Tickets: £10.00 | £7.50 (student) 18 Tickets: £5.00 19 Feast of Fiddles Lyngo Theatre Thursday 2 April 7.30pm Jack and the Beanstalk April

Feast of Fiddles is a band of friends that puts on a show of huge dynamic range Saturday 4 April 11.00am & 2.00pm performed with passion, joy and a liberal dose of fun. Expect lots of surprises and beautiful Fiddlers Peter Knight (Gigspanner, Steeleye Span), Chris Leslie (Fairport images in this classic fairy tale as Patrick Convention), Brian McNeill (Battlefield Band), Ian Cutler (Bully Wee), Tom Leary Lynch from Cbeebies tells the gripping (Lindisfarne) and Garry Blakeley (Band of Two) add the large range of fiddle story of Jack who sells his cow for 5 playing styles to the rock back-line of guitars, keyboards, sax and accordion – all magic beans and finds himself in the held together by legendary drummer Dave Mattacks. land above the clouds. The Thinking Drinkers: “The best fiddle players of a generation” fRoots It’s a show for the over 3 years (and their giants) with something for Heroes of Hooch “Britain’s fiddling supergroup” Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2 everyone – enormous shoes, tiny Saturday 4 April 8.00pm Tickets: £20.00 | £18.00 (Members / benefit conc / student) houses, showers of silver and gold, The Thinking Drinkers’ brand and a big, leafy explosion! new show is a hilarious and Tickets: £8.50 intoxicating look at history’s £7.50 (group of 4 or more, per person) greatest drinkers. £1.00 (Babe in arms) Enjoy five free drinks as the award-winning experts reveal how alcohol has inspired Fee Fi Fo Fum! pioneering explorers, politicians and painters in equal measure, It’s a giant of a from Plato and Picasso, to show, we’d love Nelson, Napoleon and Norm from Cheers.

you to come! You’ll learn a lot, laugh a lot Hexham & District Music Society and, don’t forget, you get five Pelléas Ensemble free drinks. Friday 3 April 7.30pm ‘Pioneers of alcohol- Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk Formed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama based comedy’ in 2011, The Pelléas Ensemble has already won several Sunday Times awards, including the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Suitable for ages 18 years +. Henderson Chamber Ensemble award in 2017. Tickets: £16.00 In this evening’s fascinating programme, Debussy’s enchanting sonata for flute, viola and harp, and music by Rameau and Jolivet sit alongside Robert Peate’s Three Diversions and Gilad Cohen’s arrangement of music from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.

Tickets: £16.00 | £8.00 (student) 20 £1.00 (schoolchildren) 21 The National Trust Megson Fan Club Friday 17 April 8.00pm April Wednesday 8 April 7.30pm Four times nominated in the BBC Packed to the brim with Goretex, Dad’s Army Radio 2 Folk Awards and double cream teas, and a loyal canine Radio Show winners of the Spiral Earth Awards, assistant (when NT rules allow), Wednesday 15 April 7.30pm Megson draw heavily on their Teesside Helen Wood’s one-woman heritage to create a truly unique brand quest was to visit every National Two actors, two microphones, over twenty of folk music. Trust property and become the five characters – and lots of sound effects! Comprising Debs Hanna (vocals, National Trust’s biggest super-fan. Perry and Croft’s classic BBC sitcom is whistle, piano accordion) and Stu Don’t miss this chance to see brought gloriously to life with three Hanna (guitar, mandola, banjo), Helen’s new show direct from its episodes of the hugely popular radio series, Megson have gained fame on the world premiere at the Edinburgh hilariously and lovingly enacted by two British folk scene, not only for their Festival Fringe. master performers in this highly-acclaimed arresting & intelligent song-writing, production. but for their exquisite musicianship Tickets: £14.00 and northern humour. £12.00 (Members / benefit conc ‘Endearing, sincere, David Benson and Jack Lane will transport / student) wholesome and zany. you back to Walmington, working from As fRoots Magazine puts it ‘if you original radio scripts, complete with sound don’t like the music here then you Comic genius!’ effects, vintage music and all of Perry and have a problem’ Everything Theatre Croft’s beloved characters and catchphrases. Tickets: £14.00 Benson and Lane’s two-man Army are a comedy force to be Kitchen Zoo reckoned with. WOLF! Radio Times Tuesday 14 April 11.00am & 2.00pm Age guidance: 12 years+

Beneath the Moon, amongst a flock of Tickets: £16.50 woolly sheep, Jack is bored. £15.50 (Members / benefit conc / student) Bored of watching sheep Bored of counting sheep Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk but most importantly...bored of SHEEP!

And down in the village just a whisper of a wolf will cause a panic!

With original music, puppetry and a tale you thought you knew, join us for an adventure and find out what happens when Jack cries WOLF! Running time: 55 minutes, no interval. For under 5s and their families. Tickets: £8.50 £7.50 (group of 4 or more, per person) Inspired by Aesop’s Fable, The Boy who Cried Wolf, and presented by Kitchen Zoo, the makers of The £1.00 (Babe in arms) Three Bears at Christmas, Owl & the Pussycat, Tin Foil 22 Astronaut. 23 The Quo Experience OPEN: MONDAY TO FRIDAY 10.00AM - 5.00PM, SATURDAY 10.00AM - 4.00PM Saturday 18 April 7.30pm

Expect hits spanning five decades of Status Quo’s incredible music history from the Words for Birds UK’s Number One Status Quo Tribute An Exhibition of images and Show, hits like Rockin’ All Over The World, poetry celebrating birds. Whatever You Want, Down Down, Living Exhibitions On An Island, In The Army Now, What Sunday 2 February - Saturday 21 March You’re Proposing, Burning Bridges and Words for Birds is an exhibition that celebrates the more… launch of a collaboration between two local poets Robin Moss and Tom Moody, and local artists The Quo Experience is, however, not Victoria Holt and Fran Garcia. The artists have responded just another Quo tribute band - it is an to the many bird poems the poets have produced in ‘experience’, with a full stage show that recent years, with woodcuts and prints of their includes the legendary Status Quo wall of own images suggested by the poems. white Marshalls and replica guitars. “An excellent show, really capturing the essence of the Quo I played with for 13 odd years – the attention to detail was awesome!” Free Flowing Words: Words for Birds Matt Letley, Status Quo drummer 2000-2013 Tuesday 17 March 7.00pm Tickets: £20.00 Hexham Library Words for Birds, an exciting collaboration between local poets, Robin Moss and Tom Moody and local artists Victoria Holt and Fran Garcia. The two poets have combined their bird poetry into a new collection, which is illustrated with art SPIEGELTENT SPECTACULAR! work provided by the artists. Words for Birds will be launched at the Queen’s 24 - 30 April 2020 Hall tonight, with a reading from the poets, and an exhibition and sale of the artists’ work.

Tickets: £5.00 ENTRY TO ALL EXHIBITIONS IN GALLERY ONE & TWO IS FREE

Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk Bug Fest 2020 Where Have All the Insects Gone? Monday 30 March – Monday 20 April

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Thurs 9 - Sat 11 Jan 27 Up Pantomime: Alice in Wonderland 4 Thurs 12 Mar How to be amazingly happy! 16

Thurs 16 Jan Static Trapeze Workshop 4 Sun 15 Mar Jon Boden 16

Wed 22 Jan Season Preview Night 4 Mon 16 Mar Hexham & District Music Society: Sacconi Quartet 17

Thurs 23 Jan Physical Theatre Workshop 4 Tues 17 Mar Free Flowing Words: Words for Birds 25

Thurs 23 Jan David Harper: Unexpected Tales 5 Tues 17 Mar VERVE 17

Sat 25 Jan Mark Jon Bolderson Percussion Foundation Drum Festival 5 Thurs 19 Mar Zoe Gilby Quartet 18 Tues 24 Mar Tyne Valley Film Festival: Film: 2040 (PG) 18 Tues 28 Jan Hexham & District Music Society: Vadym Kholodenko 5 Tues 24 Mar Stitch in Time: A Knitting Cabaret 18 Thurs 30 Jan Story Telling Workshop 4 Wed 25 Mar Stillhouse Junkies 19 Season’s Diary February Wed 25 & Thurs 26 Mar Fitting 19

Sun 2 Feb - Sat 21 Mar Exhibition: Words for Birds 25 Mon 30 Mar - Mon 20 Apr Exhibition: Bug Fest 2020 - Where Have All the Insects Gone? 25 Mon 3 Feb GUY: A New Musical 6 April Thurs 6 Feb Contemporary Dance Workshop 4 Thurs 2 Apr Free Flowing Words 19 Thurs 6 Feb Full Circle Theatre Company: In the Middle of Our Street 7 Thurs 2 Apr Feast of Fiddles 20 Fri 7 Feb Andy May Trio 7 Fri 3 Apr Hexham & District Music Society: Pelléas Ensemble 20 Fri 7 Feb 100% Simon Brodkin 8 Sat 4 Apr Lyngo Theatre: Jack and the Beanstalk 21 Sun 9 Feb Ben Hart: Wonder 9 Sat 4 Apr The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch 21 Tues 11 Feb Gonzo Moose: Once Upon A Time… 9 Wed 8 Apr The National Trust Fan Club 22 Sat 15 Feb Jive Aces Big Beat Revue 10 Tues 14 Apr Kitchen Zoo: WOLF! 22 Sun 16 Feb Northumberland Young Farmers Drama Competition 10 Wed 15 Apr Dad’s Army Radio Show 23 Tues 18 Feb Lempen Puppets: Mask Making workshop 11 Fri 17 Apr Megson 23 Tues 18 Feb Lempen Puppets: The Golden Princess 11 Sat 18 Apr The Quo Experience 24 Wed 19 Feb Mad Alice Theatre Company: Rose and Robin 12

Thurs 20 Feb Hexham & District Music Society: Toby Hughes and Daniel King Smith 12

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Sat 29 Feb Eleventh Hadrian’s Wall Archaeology Forum 13

March Queen’s Hall Arts is a registered charity. Our Mission is to be the cultural Queen’s Hall Arts Centre Mon 2 Mar Opera North: Green Eggs and Ham 13 heart of our community, delivering great arts experiences and supporting Beaumont Street professional and aspiring artists. Hexham Wed 4 Mar State of Grace: DOVES 14 If you would like to comment on our service, please contact the Artistic Northumberland NE46 3LS Thurs 5 Mar Gazebo Theatre: WANTED 14 Director Katy Taylor or the Chair of the Trustees Andrew Harvey at the Queen’s Hall Arts Centre. Fri 6 Mar Matt Forde: Pursued by a Bear 15 Box Office Email [email protected] Sat 7 Mar Thank ABBA for the Music 15 Designed by: r//evolution 0191 499 8415 01434 652477 30 31 Enjoy dinner before the show... and we’ll take 20% off your bill! (on presentation of your ticket)

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