The international arts festival for the East of England

7–22 May 2010

Funded and supported by Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia 02 Director’s welcome Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Welcome Festivals are all about stories. Come to that, life is all about The newest chapter in the NNF story involves the visual stories. This year’s Festival has an almost infinite number, arts, where we’re collaborating with this city’s brilliant and I’d like to share just a few of those I explored while gallery scene. Blockbuster exhibitions, visually stunning programming this, my sixth Norfolk & Norwich Festival. and intellectually grounded work like RedBall: Norwich and a Tim Etchells’ triple bill will attract a massive new I started with ideas about change. We’ve just gone through Festival audience. huge economic change, political change is imminent and environmental change looms in the future. The arts, which The audience features, too. Our participatory, genre-busting create pictures of potential new worlds, are ideally placed to shows – from Haircuts by Children to Music for Seven Ice guide us through periods of change. Jordi Savall’s Jerusalem, Cream Vans – all have irresistible individual tales to tell as for example, makes the possibility of Middle East accord they capture the independent, confident, refusing-to-be- believable, while Ian McEwan and Metis Arts explore a world categorised essence of our part of the world. after the environmental tipping point. And if, like me, you tell But what of the overarching narrative? Simple: the Festival people from elsewhere stories of why our part of the world celebrates the meeting of extraordinary artistic talent from is such a vibrant and appealing place, rare performances around the world with the beauty, the places and the people by John Cale (co-founder with Lou Reed of the Velvet of the East of England. Our recent success story is thanks to Underground), Michael Nyman, David McAlmont, Paco Peña support from our core funders, our sponsors, our audiences, our will help us tell that story. artists and a dedicated Festival team who love what they do. The first 200 or so years of the Festival centred on great Ultimately, though, the final story is yours. The choices classical music, and this year’s classical narrative is as you make as you read this brochure and decide what you’ll compelling as ever: three great orchestras, three inspiring see, experience or participate in will defineyour Festival choirs and world-class chamber music from Alina Ibragimova, story. No two Festival adventures will be the same, but I hope Louis Lortie, Leif Ove Andsnes. Stories need excitement, too, that whatever you encounter in your journey is surprising, which we provide with three of the world’s greatest circuses enriching and satisfying. (les 7 doigts de la main from Canada, NoFit State from Wales and Circus Ronaldo from Belgium), 16 nights of decadence in Jonathan Holloway our Spiegeltent and with the biggest firework event ever seen Artistic Director in the East of England. Norfolk & Norwich Festival

“The arts are ideally placed to guide us through periods of change” Photography: Raphael Helle (Jonathan Holloway)

Year-round Festival Staff Jonathan Holloway Director / Chief Executive Jade Trendall Learning Assistant Norfolk & Norwich Festival Ltd Pel Plowden PA to Artistic Director Lloyd Mitchell Head of Finance Augustine Steward House Alison McFarlane Executive Director Imogen Frith Finance Officer 14 Tombland Matt Burman Executive Producer Helen Read Honorary Treasurer Norwich NR3 1HF Jenny Vila Producer T: 01603 877750 Tom Brocklehurst Production Assistant Board of Directors F: 01603 877766 Paula Sanchez Development Director Caroline Jarrold (Chair), Jane Hawksley, W: www.nnf10.org.uk Charlotte Stannard Development Manager Nichola Johnson, Ben Keane, Richard Packham, Company registration Matthew Sanders Head of Communications Carol Pearson, Mark Proctor, Paul Timewell number 2100377 Daisy Turville-Petre Communications Officer Festival Trust Phaedra Shanbaum Communications Officer John Alston (Chair), Sir Nicholas Bacon, Clare Lovell General Manager Christopher Dicker, Anthony Jarrold, Dates, times, prices, artists and programme Katherine Stapley General Assistant Caroline Jarrold, Christopher Lawrence, Christina Birt Head of Creative Learning are correct at time of going to press, but may Professor Edward Acton, be subject to change Louise Dennison Learning Project Officer Richard Packham, Roger Rowe, Hannah Walker Learning Project Officer The Very Reverend Graham Smith © Norfolk & Norwich Festival Ltd 2010 Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Contents 03 NNF10 7–22 May 2010 Welcome to the 2010 Norfolk & Norwich Festival, the international arts festival for the East of England. Sixteen heady days of the very best in music, theatre, dance, circus and visual arts lie in store, so read on and start planning your Festival adventure.

Festival Director’s welcome 2 Circus, theatre and dance 30 Jonathan Holloway introduces this year’s programme Literature 41 NNF10 overview 4 NNF10 for families 42 NNF10 launch events 6 Two spectacular outdoor performances launch Visual arts 48 this year’s Festival – and they’re both free New for 2010 – a major addition to the Festival programme Classical music 8 Booking information 57 Contemporary music 16 It’s your Festival 58 NNF10 at the Spiegeltent 26 One of the hits of NNF09 is back – and this time Sponsors and supporters 61 for the whole 16 days of the Festival Festival Diary 62 Make the most of NNF10 Under-25s £5 tickets For most Festival events, a number of tickets will be available to under-25s for just £5, giving access to some of the best seats in the house. Tickets must be booked in advance and proof of age will be requested at the performance. Sponsored by 17 20

Become a Friend 27 45 of the Festival Sign up as a Festival Friend and enjoy ticket discounts on most Festival events. Go4Less The Festival is delighted to support Norwich City Council’s Go4Less scheme – cardholders can enjoy a 10 per cent discount on tickets for most 07

Photo: Yannick Derennes Photo: Yannick Festival events. Book by phone on 01603 766400 04 Highlights Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia The NNF10 adventure starts here Over the following pages, you’ll find details of more than 100 world-class performances featuring internationally acclaimed companies and ensembles. But that doesn’t tell the full Festival story. This year, in addition to everything you’d expect, NNF spreads its wings to take in a number of exciting new initiatives which make our offer to you, the audience, bigger, better and more exciting than ever.

Among the highlights are: From Gallery to Street New for NNF10! From blockbuster exhibitions in the city’s leading galleries to a series of unmissable installations throughout the city, there’s a major programme of visual arts events running throughout the Festival. Look out for Kurt Perschke’s irresistible, inflatable red ball as it’s squished and squashed into 14 different locations across Norwich.

Festival Gardens With our biggest programme ever, this year Chapelfield Gardens will be transformed into a buzzing Festival Gardens for the whole 16 days of the Festival. The Spiegeltent will be home to a sensational line-up of circus, music, cabaret and burlesque late into the night while a daytime programme of family performances, tea dances and other activities will keep Festival-goers of all ages more than happy.

Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Highlights 05 A Celebration of Talent Through the Escalator Outdoor Arts and Without Walls initiatives, the Festival will be co-commissioning and providing a showcase for some of the brightest creative talent in the Eastern region and the UK. There’ll be chances aplenty to enjoy world premières and works in progress.

It’s Your Festival 60 giant flags will be created by local community groups and schools to bring a spectacular blaze of colour to Eaton Park and the Festival Gardens. It’s just one example of a growing year-round programme which sees NNF making creative connections and partnerships with new audiences across the city and county.

Make Your Own Festival A great festival shouldn’t just let you sit back in your seat and be a passive observer or listener. From dance workshops to having your hair cut by children or creating your own cardboard town, there are more opportunities than ever for you to come and take part in the Festival yourself.

Book by phone on 01603 766400 06 MG FREE Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia MG Free at the Festival This year’s free outdoor performances will be the Festival’s biggest, loudest and most spectacular to date, so don’t miss out on the biggest parties in town. Be sure to bring your friends and family along too!

Festival Launch Les Vernisseurs (The Varnishers), with Friday 7 May 4.45pm their utterly riotous show, Happy Urban Millennium Plain Chaos. Join the celebrations as they (outside the Forum) lead a parade around the streets of Norwich and the city centre is turned Free and unticketed for all the family into a gigantic, ribbon-filled, confetti- covered playground. The Dhol Foundation at 4.45pm and Les Vernisseurs at 5.30pm Performance lasts approximately 90 minutes. MG FREE Performance sponsored by This year’s Festival is launched in style with a brilliant double-bill of free outdoor performances. The thunderous percussion groove machine that is the Dhol Foundation will lead the way, The Dhol Foundation will also perform in followed by the dazzling French troupe Norwich city centre at 1.00pm on the same day.

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Ephémère Bird and Fire Saturday 8 May 10.15pm Earlham Park fireworks World première Free and unticketed for all the family MG Free In 2009, we rocked Norwich with our biggest, loudest, most spectacular fireworks show to date. This year, the Festival brings to life a classic tale of love and enchantment in a pyrotechnic and musical tour de force. Ephémère, the hugely acclaimed French pyrotechnic company, has choreographed Stravinsky and Fokine’s ballet, The Firebird, to create a thrilling, spell-binding new show that will send sorcery and sparks across the Norwich sky. This is its world première. And if you thought last year was spectacular, this year we have twice as many fireworks. Performance lasts 30 minutes.

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Please note there is very limited public parking at Earlham Park. If you can, please use public transport. Check www.nnf10.org.uk for travel updates. Book by phone on 01603 766400 08 Classical music Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Classical music programme at a glance

May page Sat 8 7.30pm Festival Chorus with the English St Andrew’s Hall 9 Chamber Orchestra Sun 9 7.30pm Stephen Oliver at 60 Norwich Playhouse 9 Mon 10 1.00pm Julian Forbes Assembly House 15 Mon 10 7.30pm Andsnes, Tetzlaff and Tetzlaff St Peter Mancroft Church 10 Wed 12 1.00pm Charlotte Bonneton and Daniel Pioro Assembly House 15 Thurs 13 7.30pm Jordi Savall – solo recital St Peter Mancroft Church 10 Fri 14 1.00pm Trilogy Ensemble Assembly House 15 Fri 14 7.30pm Moscow State Symphony Orchestra St Andrew’s Hall 11 with Chloë Hanslip Sat 15 7.30pm Jordi Savall – Jerusalem Norwich Theatre Royal 12 Sun 16 5.00pm Elias String Quartet Norwich Playhouse 11 Mon 17 1.00pm Jessica Hayes and Rafal Luc Assembly House 15 Mon 17 7.30pm Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien John Innes Centre 13 Mon 17 7.30pm Jessica Hayes and Rafal Luc Martham Parish Church 15 Tues 18 7.30pm Academy of Ancient Music St Andrew’s Hall 13 Wed 19 1.00pm Reinis Zarins Assembly House 15 Wed 19 7.00pm Louis Lortie St Peter Mancroft Church 14 Wed 19 7.30pm Reinis Zarins Sheringham Little Theatre 15 Wed 19 10.30pm Louis Lortie – late night by candlelight St Peter Mancroft Church 14 Thurs 20 7.30pm & 9.30pm I Fagiolini Cathedral of St John the Baptist 14 Fri 21 1.00pm Milos Karadaglic Assembly House 15 Fri 21 7.30pm Milos Karadaglic St Lawrence’s South Walsham 15

All venues are in Norwich except where stated – see map on p56 Under-25s £5 tickets For most Festival events, a number of tickets will be available to under-25s for just £5, giving access to some of the best seats in the house. Tickets must be booked in advance and proof of age will be requested at the performance.

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Don’t miss… Here are some other events that could easily have been in this section, but which we’ve chosen to put elsewhere.

Michael Nyman and Ephémère Dan Jones Matthew Sharp David McAlmont Stravinsky’s Firebird Suburban Counterpoint Sharpwire Fri 7 See p17 Sat 8 See p7 Fri 21 – Sat 22 See p25 Sat 8 See p32 Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Classical music 09 Festival Chorus with the David Parry conductor English Chamber Orchestra Terry Edwards chorus master Saturday 8 May 7.30pm Camilla Roberts soprano St Andrew’s Hall Yvonne Howard mezzo-soprano Gwyn Hughes-Jones tenor Tickets £40, £35, £27, £20, £10, £7, Sion Goronwy bass U25s £5 Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C Beethoven Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor Symphony ‘Choral’ 6.15pm David Parry in conversation with Jonathan Holloway No. Free to ticket-holders Ludwig van Beethoven’s life-affirming Ninth Symphony continues to enthral concert-goers worldwide. Dramatic and 9 ardently felt, the first three movements form a magnificent introduction to the famed choral finale drawn from Friedrich Schiller’s Ode to Joy. Providing a rousing curtain-opener to the Festival’s music programme, this remarkable work is paired with another Beethoven masterpiece, his sprightly First Symphony.

Stephen Oliver at 60 Sunday 9 May 7.30pm Norwich Playhouse

Tickets £25, U25s £5 Stephen Oliver, who died in 1992, was one of the UK’s brightest and most prolific composers, best known for his musical score for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Nicholas Nickleby. His enormously varied output will be represented in this special Festival evening performed by friends and admirers, including Simon Callow in Nicholas Nickleby, a performance of The Garden with players from the Royal Academy of Music, and Cantabile singing selections from Blondel. Stephen Oliverat 60 Book by phone on 01603 766400 10 Classical music Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Christian Tetzlaff Leif OveTanja Andsnes Tetzlaff Leif Ove Andsnes, Acclaimed Norwegian Christian Tetzlaff, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has Tanja Tetzlaff enjoyed a highly successful Monday 10 May 7.30pm musical partnership with St Peter Mancroft Church violinist Christian Tetzlaff. Both pursue high-flying Tickets £17, £15, £12, £9, careers as internationally U25s £5 renowned soloists and recitalists, yet find special Leif Ove Andsnes piano pleasure in performing Christian Tetzlaff violin chamber music together. Tanja Tetzlaff cello Tonight they are joined by Schumann Fantasiestücke Christian’s sister, Tanja, for Op. 88 for piano, violin a fabulous programme that and cello features works by three Janác˘ek ‘Fairytale’ (Pohadka) masters of the chamber for cello and piano music genre. Dvorák Sonatina in G major Schumann Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor

Jordi Savall Jordi Savall is a viola da gamba Les Voix Humaines player of rare sensitivity, and (Human Voices) this programme of solo works Thursday 13 May 7.30pm is a treasure chest of baroque St Peter Mancroft Church compositions and a perfect platform for the incredible Tickets £17, £15, £12, £9, U25s £5 soundscape he produces from his instrument. The programme Programme to include works by is split into two harmonious JS Bach, Marin Marais, Tobias halves: predominantly French Hume and John Playford for the first half and English for the second, contrasting soul- searching introspection and virtuoso playfulness. JordiSavall

Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Classical music 11 Moscow State Hailed as one of the finest Symphony Orchestra musical talents to have Friday 14 May 7.30pm appeared on the international Moscow St Andrew’s Hall music stage in recent years, Chloë Hanslip has won State Tickets £40, £35, £27, £20, plaudits the world over for £10, £7, U25s £5 her sublime musicianship Symphony and technical mastery. Pavel Kogan conductor Making a welcome return to Chloë Hanslip violin Orchestra the Festival, she has chosen Borodin Polovtsian Dances a work by Philip Glass, one of from Prince Igor the most prolific, influential Philip Glass Violin Concerto and instantly identifiable No. 1 composers of our age. Shostakovich Symphony To open and close the No. 10 in E minor concert, the renowned Moscow State Symphony Orchestra performs works by two of its motherland’s most “Hanslip’s passion and celebrated composers. technical bravura are palpable and exciting… the fireworks never stop” The Times

Elias String Quartet Sunday 16 May 5.00pm Norwich Playhouse Tickets £6 Concert Sara Bitlloch violin Donald Grant violin Family Martin Saving viola Marie Bitlloch cello Formed in 1998, the Elias String Quartet have performed extensively in the UK, Europe and the United States, in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Fairfield Halls, Stockholm Concert Hall and the Auditorium du Louvre. Last season saw a three-concert Schubert series at the Wigmore Hall, London, and a five-week tour of Australia. Today’s lively and engaging family concert features movements from quartets by Debussy, Haydn, Britten and Schubert, as well as some traditional Scottish music. “The Elias are a quite exceptional quartet” Gramophone Book by phone on 01603 766400 12 Classical music Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Jordi Savall Al Darwish – a total of 38 musicians – to present Jerusalem an astonishing programme charting the history of Saturday 15 May 7.30pm Jerusalem from 1200BC to the present day through Norwich Theatre Royal its rich music heritage. The music ranges from the sound of the shofars in the Jericho fanfare, to a Tickets £36, £26, £21, £11, £6, U25s £5 series of songs, laments and instrumental works from the variety of traditions that have become UK première embedded in the cultural fabric of one of the There are few musicians as mesmerising as Jordi world’s most iconic cities. Savall, the legendary viola da gambist, whose Presented in collaboration with vibrant performances have captivated audiences for decades. Following a triumphant appearance in 2008 he returns to the Festival with his ensembles Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya and

“Quite simply an affirmation of humanity” BBC Music Magazine

JordiSavall Jerusalem

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Alina Ibragimova and The Times recently “Ibragimova wields her Cédric Tiberghien wrote that the rise of the intoxicating violin with Monday 17 May 7.30pm impassioned, intelligent and John Innes Centre inquisitive young Russian Cédric Tiberghien’s dappled violinist, Alina Ibragimova, piano… dazzling us with Tickets £15, £12, U25s £5 “is a joyous breath of fresh air blowing through our Beethoven Violin Sonata No. concert halls”. In the past the duo’s wonderful ability 6 in A major, Op. 30/1 two years this former BBC Beethoven Violin Sonata No. to move as one” New Generation artist 3 in E flat major, Op. 12/3 has gone from dazzling The Times Beethoven Violin Sonata prodigy to consummate No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 virtuoso. Making her ‘Kreutzer’ Festival debut, she teams up with her regular recital partner, the French pianist Cédric Tiberghien, for an all-Beethoven programme, Alina featuring three of his glorious Ibragimova sonatas for violin and piano. The Norfolk & Norwich Festival Cédric is extremely grateful to an anonymous benefactor and Lewis Jarrett for sponsoring Tiberghien& this performance.

Academy of Ancient Music While Vivaldi’s depictions of the four The Four Seasons: nature’s seasons are among the best-known “The ultimate voice and verse works of the baroque period, less raspberry to anyone Tuesday 18 May 7.30pm familiar are the Italian sonnets he who says baroque St Andrew’s Hall penned to introduce the concertos. Originally read before each concerto music is predictable” Tickets £30, £27, £22, £17, £12, £7, was performed, the sonnets were U25s £5 intended to “explain the music more The Independent easily”. Renowned worldwide for its Pavlo Beznosiuk director and violin energised, passionate performances Elin Manahan Thomas soprano of baroque music, the Academy of Programme to include Vivaldi’s Four Ancient Music is joined by radiant Academy Seasons with arias by Purcell and soprano Elin Manahan Thomas to Handel. recreate this harmonious celebration of of nature. Principal Sponsor – National ExpressAncient East Anglia Music

Book by phone on 01603 766400 14 Classical music Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia An Evening with Louis Lortie Every great pianist learns the Chopin Wednesday 19 May Études and Nocturnes and many St Peter Mancroft Church pianists venture to play selections of them in public. But it is the rare 7.00pm keyboard athlete who dares to perform Chopin Études (complete) them in one sitting – and before a live Tickets £21, £17, £14, £10, U25s £5 audience. Acclaimed for his mastery of this intensely beautiful yet technically 10.30pm by candlelight challenging repertoire, French-Canadian Programme to include a selection pianist Louis Lortie provides a rare of Chopin Nocturnes opportunity to hear the complete Études Tickets £12, £10, £8, £5, U25s £5 and a selection of Nocturnes over the course of one evening. A programme Save up to 25 per cent by booking of musical bliss not to be missed. a joint ticket for both performances £27, £22, £18, £11 These performances are supported by the Corporate Friends of the Evening buffet – Loch Fyne restaurant Norfolk & Norwich Festival. is offering a light buffet between performances. Tickets £12.50, includes a glass of wine. Please book through Festival box office. “A remarkable pianist, with Louiscast-iron technique allied to a refined sense of style” LortieDaily Telegraph

I Fagiolini “A marvellous show, Tallis in Wonderland with wonderful – an aural fantasy singing at its heart” Thursday 20 May 7.30pm and 9.30pm Cathedral of St John the Baptist Daily Telegraph All seats £15 (unreserved seating), U25s £5 Robert Hollingworth director The Renaissance goes walkabout as leading vocal ensemble I Fagiolini sets out to open your ears to every wonder-filled strand of 15th- and 16th- century polyphonic music by means of a highly Fagiolini physical ‘aural fantasy’. Created by six singers and using sound design created specially for the show, Tallis in Wonderland is an innovative and fresh reworking of works of genius by Josquin, Gombert, I Tallis, Byrd, Gesualdo, Monteverdi and other masters of the age.

Please note: elements of this performance will be amplified.

These performances are supported by the Principal Partners of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival Photography: Ricky-Joe Burrage, Norwich Heritage Economic and Regeneration Trust (HEART) Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Classical music 15

Students of the Royal Monday 10 May Friday 14 May Wednesday 19 May Academy of Music, 1.00pm 1.00pm 1.00pm London Assembly House Julian Forbes tenor Trilogy Ensemble Reinis Zarins piano clarinet ensemble Programme to include: Prokofiev Piano Sonata Tickets £7 all seats, Gabriel Fauré Nell Mozart arr. Franz Lotz in C No. 4 Op. 29 U25s £5 (Op. 18, No. 1) Overture to The Magic Flute Schoenberg Three Piano Season ticket offer: Gabriel Fauré Lydia Shostakovich arr. Hashimoto Pieces Op. 11 book all six concerts (Op. 4, No. 2) Prelude and Fugue No. 4 Liszt Piano Sonata in for just £30 Gabriel Fauré Sylvie, in E minor B minor (Op. 6, No. 3) Lygate The Forest Not only do the Festival’s Lennox Berkeley Debussy arr. Bill Holcombe lunchtime concerts make Friday 21 May Five Housman Songs Clair de Lune for a delicious serving of 1.00pm (Op. 14 part 3) Piazzolla Histoire du Tango fantastic music, they also Milos Karadaglic guitar provide a rare opportunity Wednesday 12 May Monday 17 May to hear some of the UK’s Fernando Sor Variations finest young musicians 1.00pm 1.00pm on a theme by Mozart Op. 9 performing live. All are JS Bach Fugue BWV 1000 Charlotte Bonneton violin (Please note this concert currently students at the Villa-Lobos 5 Preludes Daniel Pioro viola takes place in the Noverre renowned Royal Academy for Guitar Suite) of Music in London and JS Bach ‘Prelude’ from Partita Carlo Domeniconi you’ll undoubtedly be No. 3 in E Jessica Hayes cello Koyunbaba Suite, Op. 19 among the first to hear Ysaÿe Prelude, ‘Obsession: Rafal Luc accordion a rising star of the next Poco vivace’ from Violin JS Bach Viola de Gamba musical generation. Sonata No. 2 in A minor Sonata in G major, BWV1027 Mozart Duo for Violin and Saint-Saëns Prière Op.158 Viola in G Mendelssohn Sonata in J Williams Theme from D minor, Op. 65, Chorale Schindler’s List arr. 2 violins and Variations V Monti Czardas arr. 2 violins D Gorton Tähtelä, Handel / Halvorsen Place of the Stars Passacaglia for violin and Piazzolla Le Grand Tango viola in G minor

Concerts in the county Monday 17 May 7.30pm Tickets £8, concessions £6 Martham Parish Church All concerts will feature Jessica Hayes cello the performers’ respective Rafal Luc accordion lunchtime programmes plus other items. Wednesday 19 May 7.30pm (Ticket prices tbc) Sheringham Little Theatre

Reinis Zarins piano Friday 21 May 7.30pm St Lawrence’s, South Walsham

Milos Karadaglic guitar

Book by phone on 01603 766400 16 Contemporary music Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Contemporary music programme at a glance

May page Fri 7 7.00pm Antonio Forcione Quartet Norwich Playhouse 18 Fri 7 8.00pm Michael Nyman and David McAlmont Norwich Theatre Royal 17 Sat 8 1.00pm & 3.00pm DixieMix Jazz Band Southern Comfort, Horning 18 Sun 9 1.00pm & 3.00pm Michael Messer Southern Comfort, Horning 18 Sun 9 8.00pm Camille O’Sullivan Norwich Theatre Royal 19 Sun 9 8.00pm Escalator Music Showcase: Sargasso Trio Norwich Arts Centre 20 Wed 12 8.00pm John McLaughlin Norwich Theatre Royal 21 Thurs 13 10.30pm CocoRosie Spiegeltent 20 Fri 14 8.00pm John Cale Norwich Theatre Royal 22 Fri 14 – Sat 15 5.00pm & 8.00pm Zic Zazou Norwich Playhouse 23 Sat 15 1.00pm DixieMix Jazz Band Southern Comfort, Horning 18 Sat 15 5.00pm Mark Flanagan Southern Comfort, Horning 18 Sun 16 5.00pm Mark Flanagan Southern Comfort, Horning 18 Mon 17 8.00pm Jason Yarde’s Trio WAH! Norwich Playhouse 23 Wed 19 8.00pm Gwyneth Herbert Norwich Playhouse 24 Fri 21 8.00pm Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang & Norwich Cathedral 24 The Voice Project Choir Fri 21 – Sat 22 7.30pm Music for Seven Ice Cream Vans The streets of Norwich 25 Fri 21 10.30pm James Hunter Spiegeltent 25 Sat 22 1.00pm DixieMix Jazz Band Southern Comfort, Horning 18

All venues are in Norwich except where stated – see map on p56

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And by the way… It’s all about the choices, and the following events ended up elsewhere but we’d hate you to miss them.

Jordi Savall I Fagiolini Beatles to Bowie Paco Peña Jerusalem Tallis In Wonderland Castle Museum Flamenco sin Fronteras Sat 15 See p12 Thurs 20 See p14 Sat 8 – Sat 22 See p52 Thurs 13 See p38 Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Contemporary music 17

“Once heard, you’ll never want to live without it” The Independent, reviewing The Glare Michael Nyman David

Michael Nyman One of British pop’s most precious and David McAlmont hiddenMcAlmont treasures, McAlmont has Friday 7 May 8.00pm selected 11 classic Nyman compositions &and transformed them into songs. Norwich Theatre Royal Written in the first person, these new Tickets £36, £26, £21, £11, £6, U25s £5 songs draw on a variety of world news topics, from 21st-century piracy and A musical marriage made in heaven lothario world leaders to drug mules opens a week of outstanding Festival and banking errors. The result is an performances at Norwich Theatre extraordinary and intensely beautiful Royal. In the first half Michael Nyman musical collaboration. and his band play some of his best- known music. After the interval, Nyman Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia is joined by David McAlmont to perform works from The Glare, their beautifully crafted and critically acclaimed album released at the end of 2009. Book by phone on 01603 766400 18 Contemporary music Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Antonio Forcione Quartet “This show is both Friday 7 May 7.00pm Norwich Playhouse a music masterclass All tickets £17, U25s £5 and a breathtaking Antonio Forcione guitar live experience” Adriano Adewale percussion The Guardian Jenny Adejayan cello Nathan Thomson double bass Hailed as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar’, award-winning Antonio Forcione breaks the mould of most conventional popular guitar sounds, be it in the fields of jazz, Spanish, African, Brazilian or improvised music. His world-renowned quartet is an imaginative, joyful synthesis of musical influences, with a powerful, exotic sound. Judge for yourself as they perform a glorious mixture of tunes by Astor Piazzolla, Egberto Gismonti and others, as well as original compositions by Forcione himself.

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Southern Comfort Jazz The Southern Comfort is once again in and Blues Boats ship-shape fashion and set to embark on Saturday 8 May 1.00pm & 3.00pm a series of musical meanderings across (DixieMix – jazz) the Norfolk Broads. This year, an all-star Sunday 9 May 1.00pm & 3.00pm line-up includes Mark Flanagan, Jools (Michael Messer – blues) Holland’s guitarist of choice for over 20 years, virtuoso blues guitarist Michael Saturday 15 May 1.00pm Messer and the ever-entertaining (DixieMix – jazz) DixieMix Jazz Band. Saturday 15 May 5.00pm (Mark Flanagan – blues) Sunday 16 May 5.00pm (Mark Flanagan – blues) Saturday 22 May 1.00pm Jazz (DixieMix – jazz) The Southern Comfort riverboat from Horning Tickets £12, U25s £5 blues&

Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Contemporary music 19 Camille O’Sullivan Sunday 9 May 8.00pm Norwich Theatre Royal

Tickets £23, £19, £15, £9, £6, U25s £5 Camille O’Sullivan enjoys a formidable international reputation for her intensely dramatic interpretations of the songs of Jacques Brel, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, David Bowie and more. Chameleon-like on stage, and backed by her talented five-piece band, she makes each song a different character with its own story to tell. The half-Irish, half-French performer has stunned audiences around the world, with five-star reviews and sell-out performances at Sydney Opera House and New York, as well as a recent six-week run at the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End. Expect fire and ice, tears and laughter, pure passion and drop-dead cool. This is not burlesque. This is not cabaret. This is a chance to be truly transported to places of fear, wonder and love.

“When she sings it’s as though her breath is soaked in paraffin – one spark, and the whole room would ignite” Daily Telegraph Camille O’Sullivan

Book by phone on 01603 766400 20 Contemporary music Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Escalator Music Showcase Sargasso Trio + support Sunday 9 May 8.00pm Sargasso Norwich Arts Centre Tickets £7 Expect an eclectic night of amazing music as the Trio Sargasso Trio mix world, Latin, folk, alt country and 80s electro. Labelmates to Groove Armada and Tom Vek, the band share duties on guitar, keyboards, a large collection of percussion instruments, harmonies and lead vocals. The band has recorded two sessions for BBC 6 Music, played gigs all over the UK, released an acclaimed first album and are now completing the eagerly awaited follow-up, which will be showcased at this event.

CocoRosie Thursday 13 May 10.30pm (doors 10.00pm) Spiegeltent

Tickets £17.50, U25s £5 Beautiful, beguiling and baffling, CocoRosie arrive in the Spiegeltent to whisk you into their own special world. Formed in Paris by New Yorkers Bianca and Sierra Casady, the band’s underground debut album saw it gather a cult worldwide Coco following, and indie record labels were soon in hot pursuit. Known for their invention and musical irreverence, CocoRosie sing ethereal love songs accompanied by toy instruments or impromptu beatboxing. Come along to have your mind blown Rosie by these two gorgeous freak-folk chanteuses… Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Contemporary music 21

McLaughlinJohn

“One of the few Europeans to divert the course of jazz history” The Guardian

John McLaughlin Wednesday 12 May 8.00pm Norwich Theatre Royal

Tickets £31, £26, £21, £16, £6, U25s £5 From the legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra and the pioneering band Shakti through to the present, John McLaughlin is one of the world’s great guitar innovators. A prime mover and shaker when the world of jazz turned electric in the late 60s, he made a seminal contribution to the groundbreaking fusion of Miles Davis. Ever since, he has been renowned for his quest for excellence and musical surprise. Here, McLaughlin returns to a powerhouse electric jazz setting with his band The 4th Dimension, featuring Level 42 sideman and formidable keyboardist Gary Husband, the whirlwind drummer Mark Mondesir and Cameroonian bassist Etienne M’Bappe. Book by phone on 01603 766400 22 Contemporary music Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia John Cale When Past and Future Collide Friday 14 May, 8.00pm Norwich Theatre Royal Tickets £40, £35, £30, £20, £6, U25s £5 John Cale, his band and an extended array of orchestral musicians perform the songs of Paris 1919 and a selection of his other work over the years. Cale’s footprints are stamped all over the past four decades of musical history: through The Velvet Underground and the music he has made as a solo artist and in collaborations, he has aquired a reputation as a pioneering, influential presence. Paris 1919 is considered by many to be Cale’s best and most accessible album. In it he blends rock, soul and classical music with quietly anthemic songwriting – he describes the songs as “an example of the nicest ways of saying something ugly”. This performance is sure to sell out fast so book early to avoid disappointment.

“A pioneer who refuses to stop innovating” NME John Cale Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Contemporary music 23 Zic Zazou Brocante Sonore: The Mechanicians “A veritable Friday 14 – Saturday 15 May 5.00pm and 8.00pm workers’ opera!” Norwich Playhouse Le Figaro Tickets £10 adults, under-16s £6 Zic Nine master musicians emerge as mechanics on a magnificent stage full of tangled pipework and intriguing toolboxes. Disguised as eccentric engineers, the members of Zic Zazou are some of France’s most seasoned Zazou composers and virtuoso soloists who bring their laboratory to life in the most imaginative ways. Bottles of red wine, chair legs and all manner of objects are transformed into musical instruments before your eyes, creating joyous, fresh and totally unique musical theatre. A welcome return for the band who launched the Festival in 2007.

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Jason Yarde’s Trio WAH! Monday 17 May 8.00pm Norwich Playhouse

Tickets £17, U25s £5 Jason Jason Yarde saxophones Larry Bartley bass Yarde’s Mike Pickering drums Jason Yarde’s multiple talents make him a key figure in today’s UK jazz scene. He writes award- Trio winning orchestral music and plays in the big bands of the likes of Andrew Hill, McCoy Tyner and Sam Rivers, not to mention his own Acoutastic Bombastic. An evening with Trio WAH! provides a superb opportunity to experience Yarde’s WA H! playing and compositions in an intimate, stripped-down setting.

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Book by phone on 01603 766400 24 Contemporary music Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Gwyneth Herbert Wednesday 19 May 8.00pm Norwich Playhouse

Tickets £17, U25s £5 Gwyneth Herbert is a priceless talent, a singer-songwriter inspired as much by Janis Ian and Joni Mitchell as by Billie Holliday and Nina Simone. “A voice that’s Her latest collection, All The Ghosts, features 10 terrific songs, which a knowing mix speak to you directly, without of honey, steel worrying about the need to slot into any genre or category. Expect witty, and gravel” captivating vignettes populated by a living, breathing cast of beaten-down The Observer dreamers, jaded city-dwellers and women in a quandary.

Performance sponsored by Gwyneth Herbert Arve Henriksen and Jan Bang with the Voice Project Choir Arve Recording Angel Henriksen Friday 21 May 8.00pm Norwich Cathedral Tickets £19, £14, £10, £7, U25s £5 Jan World première/Norfolk & Norwich Bang Festival co-commission with Sage Gateshead Arve Henriksen trumpet, voice the Jan Bang sampling Sianed Jones soprano Jonathan Baker bass Voice The Voice Project Choir, directed by Jonathan Baker and Sian Croose Project 6.45pm The artists in conversation & choir with Jonathan Holloway Free to ticket-holders The creative partnership of NNF and the Voice Project Choir, Norwich’s renowned open-access choral group, has produced some of the most memorable Festival performances in recent years. Recording Angel is a three-way collaboration between trumpeter Arve Henriksen, sampler-DJ Jan Bang and Voice Project co-director Jonathan Baker. It draws on influences from Gregorian chant to contemporary found-sounds and ambient polyphony. Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Contemporary music 25 James

James Hunter Friday 21 HunterMay 10.30pm (doors 10.00pm) Spiegeltent Tickets £15, U25s £5 James Hunter performs with a style that harks back to the days of classic 50s and early-60s R&B, and possesses a voice that has a timeless quality reminiscent of early innovators such as Sam Cooke, Bobby Bland and Ray Charles. Through his infectious vocal and guitar performances, clever song “A genuine purveyor writing and tight arrangements, of vintage soul” Hunter proves that he has learned from his influences rather than simply Boston Globe imitating them. At every show, he whips up a frenzy among hardened gig-goers and young hipsters alike.

Dan Jones Suburban Counterpoint: Music for Seven Ice Cream Vans Friday 21 – Saturday 22 May 7.30pm–9.30pm Dan The streets of Norwich Free World première/Norfolk & Norwich Festival co-commission with LIFT and Blackpool Council & Are you dreaming, or can the echoing melodies Jonesbe real? In this amazing event, seven ice-cream vans will weave spellbinding harmonies across an entire suburb at a time, calling out to one another and the people of Norwich through dusk and into the night. This new work by composer, sound designer and theatre director Dan Jones will reach thousands at once, creating a new acoustic landscape and memories across communities. This world première starts in Norwich’s Mile Cross, the oldest council estate in England.

Book by phone on 01603 766400 26 Spiegeltent Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Spiegeltent programme at a glance Dust off your feather boas and shine up your dancing shoes: the Spiegeltent is back. For many it was the star of last year’s Festival, and this year it’s in residence for the whole of NNF10, a resplendent home for 16 days of spectacular, world-class shows. If you missed it in 2009, the Spiegeltent – literally ‘mirror tent’ – is a unique venue: plush, sultry and intimate. The beautiful wooden structure seats 400 around a central performing area, so the action is up close and personal. It’s going to be a blast, so come and see what all the fuss is about – you won’t be disappointed.

May Daytime Early evening Late evening Fri 7 les 7 doigts de la main 7.30pm Burlesque: Julie Atlas Muz 10.30pm Sat 8 Swing Dance 1.00pm – 4.00pm les 7 doigts de la main 7.30pm Burlesque: Julie Atlas Muz 10.30pm Sun 9 Swing Dance 1.00pm – 4.00pm les 7 doigts de la main 7.30pm Spiegel Late 10.30pm Mon 10 les 7 doigts de la main 7.30pm Spiegel Late 10.30pm Tues 11 Tea Dance 1.00pm – 4.00pm les 7 doigts de la main 7.30pm Spiegel Late 10.30pm Wed 12 Bo Nanafana Social Club: Spiegel Swing Hop 7.30pm – 1.00am Thurs 13 les 7 doigts de la main 7.30pm CocoRosie 10.30pm Fri 14 les 7 doigts de la main 7.30pm Variety in the Garden 10.30pm Sat 15 Spiegel Family Variety 3.00pm les 7 doigts de la main 7.30pm Variety in the Garden 10.30pm Sun 16 les 7 doigts de la main 7.30pm Spiegel Late 10.30pm Mon 17 les 7 doigts de la main 7.30pm Spiegel Late 10.30pm Tues 18 Tea Dance 1.00pm – 4.00pm Wed 19 Bo Nanafana Social Club: Spiegel Shake-Up 7.30pm – 1.00am Thurs 20 Die Roten Punkte 8.00pm Spiegel Late 10.30pm Fri 21 Die Roten Punkte 8.00pm James Hunter 10.30pm Sat 22 Milonga! 1.00pm – 5.00pm Die Roten Punkte 8.00pm Spiegel Late 10.30pm

All shows take place in the Spiegeltent in the Festival Gardens – see map on p58

Afternoons at the Spiegeltent It’s a beautiful venue day and night, so this year we’re going to make the most of it...

Swing Dance Classes Tea Dances Spiegel Family Variety Milonga! Saturday 8 and Tuesday 11 and Saturday 15 May Saturday 22 May Sunday 9 May 1.00pm Tuesday 18 May 1.00pm 3.00pm 1.00pm

Tickets £3.50 Tickets £3.50 Tickets £6 Tickets £3.50 Going to Bo Nanafana Social Show the youngsters how Circus antics, comic capers As tangoistas and Latin Club and fear being more it’s done, with a polished and virtuoso street theatre: aficionados from across the wallflower than belle of the foxtrot and a fling at a Gay following their sell-out show region converge to fill the ball? Learn to lindy hop at Gordon. And, of course, for grown-ups at NNF09, floor with smooth moves, this fun hour-long class it wouldn’t be a tea dance the Variety in the Gardens join us as we bring a flavour then jitterbug the afternoon without proper tea, fresh team is back with a show of Buenos Aires to Norwich, away to jumping tunes. cucumber sandwiches and for all ages. with music from one of the Over-18s only. scrumptious cakes. finest tango DJs around. Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Spiegeltent 27

“If this is the circus of the 21st century, things are looking up” San Francisco Chronicle

les 7 doigts de la main Recently seen on TV by millions in Flying high above the audience, La Vie the 2009 Royal Variety Performance, a devilish MC cajoles the company’s Friday 7 – Tuesday 11, Montreal-based circus company players to act out unfulfilled fantasies Thursday 13 – Monday 17 May les 7 doigts de la main (the seven and reveal hidden taboos. fingers of the hand) has captivated 7.30pm If you appreciate the acrobatic, love audiences around the globe with its Spiegeltent the intertwining of anguish and life-threatening aerial acrobatics, wild humour, or simply want to see a girl All tickets £15, U25s £5 characters and wicked music. in a straightjacket contort herself on UK première La Vie promises to ignite the a gurney, La Vie is one of the must-see Spiegeltent’s intimate stage. This shows of this year’s Festival. Recommended for adults age 18 years adult-themed mix of music, theatre, and over. Performances sponsored by dance and acrobatics brilliantly captures the excitement of a circus, the intrigue and bawdy humour of a cabaret-style show, and the immediacy of the theatre. Book by phone on 01603 766400 28 Spiegeltent Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia

Die Roten Punkte With their fusion of brilliant Thursday 20 – Saturday 22 original music and skilful May 8.00pm comedy, Die Roten Punkte have been described as a All tickets £10, U25s £5 lipstick-smeared, tantrum- loving, sonic collision Fresh from a massively between punk rock and successful international tour Eurovision, and as Spinal with sell-out performances Tap meets an Eddie Izzard in Edinburgh, Australia, stand-up routine. You have Canada and New York, the been warned! utterly dysfunctional German siblings Otto and Astrid Rot, Produced by Button Eye aka Die Roten Punkte, check Productions, Richard Jordan in to the Festival for a three- Productions and Paul Lucas night residency, signing Productions. off this year’s Spiegeltent Performances sponsored by programme in hilarious and unforgettable style. eastpublishing

Bo Nanafana Social Club The boys and girls from the (almost) world-famous Bo Nanafana Social Club are back, with two Festival nights of extraordinarily fine music, dancing, dressing up and divine decoration!

Wednesday 12 May 7.30pm–1.00am Wednesday 19 May 7.30pm–1.00am The Spiegel Swing-Hop The Spiegel Shake-Up

Tickets £15, U25s £5 Tickets £15, U25s £5 On the bill tonight: The Correspondents, Starring Fat 45, a blistering 11-piece big swing-beat extraordinaires, playing hip band, this gig brings back the dance hop from the 1930s, with some nifty music of the ’40s and ’50s. The band turntablism and eccentric vaudevillian plays rock ’n’ roll, rhythm ’n’ blues and dancing. Dublin-based genius DJ jump jive, guaranteed to make every Kormac plays a scratch dub set mixed party shake, rattle and roll – a firm with haunting retro samples to stunning Bo Nanafana favourite. Also tonight swing ’n’ bass effect. And Ida Barr, Paul Zenon, Britain’s oldest juvenile purveyor of ‘artificial hip hop’ and delinquent, performs street-style magic spangly frocked veteran music-hall icon, played for laughs, and stand-up comedy drops some rhymes about the topics with tricks! that really matter.

Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Spiegeltent 29

Spiegel Lates Be sure to beg, borrow or steal (well, perhaps not steal) a ticket for some of the best late night entertainment of the year. Our Spiegel Lates will round off each Festival day in style. All Spiegel Lates start at 10.30pm (doors 10.00pm) and run until 1.00am Monday to Thursday, 2.00am Friday and Saturday, and midnight on Sundays. Over-18s only. Julie Atlas Muz Slightly Fat Features Spiegel Lates The Great Distraction Variety in the Garden Sunday 9, Monday 10, of 2010: all the nudes Friday 14 – Tuesday 11, Sunday 16, CocoRosie that’s fit to print Saturday 15 May Monday 17, Thursday 20, Thursday 13 May 10.30pm Friday 7 – Saturday 8 May 10.30pm Saturday 22 May 10.30pm 10.30pm Tickets £12, U25s £5 Tickets £5 from the Tickets £17.50, U25s £5 Tickets £12, U25s £5 Spiegeltent from 6.00pm Following a sell-out evening Freak-folk sisters bring their on the night; Sundays free If last year’s Garden of Evil at last year’s Festival, the unique brand of music to the whetted your appetite for boys from Slightly Fat A small but perfectly formed Festival (see p20) burlesque, this will more than Features are back with late-night offering from our sate it. The finest performers another unique ensemble Bo Nanafana friends. Expect from both sides of the pond, vaudeville show. With live live bands, DJs, dancing and brought together by Julie music, circus tricksters, top a few surprises – from classic Atlas Muz (a seriously turns, riotous routines and, cabaret to jaw-dropping James Hunter delightful New Yorker, most importantly, lots and circus. Acts confirmed Friday 21 May 10.30pm former Miss Exotic World lots of laughs, Variety in the include Ed Sheeran, Norfolk’s and the reigning Doyenne Garden rescues the spirit of own ska-tastic Sweetbeats Tickets £15, U25s £5 of Doyennes). Sweet ladies, the end-of-the-pier show and and the Shellac Collective. incorrigible gentlemen, and bottles it for the generations Check our website nearer Classic R&B – enough said! those betwixt and between of tomorrow. the time for full details. (See p25) perform for your delight and delectation. This is one night you’ll tell your grandchildren about. Well, maybe when they’re old enough!

Book by phone on 01603 766400 30 Circus, Theatre & Dance Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Circus, Theatre & Dance programme at a glance

May page Fri 7 – Tues 11 7.30pm les 7 doigts de la main Spiegeltent 27 Thurs 13 – Mon17 Fri 7 – Sat 8 11.00am – 5.00pm Mammalian Diving Reflex Flint Hairdressers 40 Fri 7 – Sun 9 10.00pm Electric Hotel Millennium Plain 36 Sat 8 2.00pm & 5.00pm SharpWire Norwich Playhouse 32 Sat 8 7.45pm les ballets C de la B Norwich Theatre Royal 36 Mon 10 – Tues 11 7.45pm Michael Clark Company Norwich Theatre Royal 37 Mon 10 – Tues 11 8.00pm Daniel Kitson Norwich Playhouse 33 Wed 12 – Thurs 13 7.45pm Dance 3 The Garage 39 Wed 12 – Fri 14 8.00pm Circus Ronaldo Festival Gardens 31 Thurs 13 8.00pm Paco Peña Norwich Theatre Royal 38 Thurs 13 9.00pm NoFit State Circus Eaton Park 32 Thurs 13 – Sun 16 11.00am, 1.30pm, 4.30pm, 7.00pm Metis Arts Millennium Plain 33 Sat 15 – Mon 17 11.00am – 7.00pm Home Sweet Home Blackfriars Hall 40 Sat 15 6.00pm – 12 midnight Forced Entertainment The Garage 34 Sat 15 – Sun 16 5.00pm & 8.00pm Eva Meyer-Keller The Garage 34 Thurs 20 – Sat 22 2.00pm to 4.30pm and Internal The Garage 35 7.00pm to 9.30pm daily Thurs 20 7.45pm Erre que Erre Norwich Playhouse 39

All venues are in Norwich except where stated – see map on p56

Under-25s £5 tickets For most Festival events, a number of tickets will be available to under-25s for just £5, giving access to some of the best seats in the house. Tickets must be booked in advance and proof of age will be requested at the performance.

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Stephen Oliver Zic Zazou Dan Jones Tim Etchells at 60 The Mechanicians Suburban Counterpoint SMS and Neons Sun 9 See p9 Fri 14 – Sat 15 See p23 Fri 21 – Sat 22 See p25 Fri 7 – Sat 22 See p50 Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Circus, Theatre & Dance 31 Circus Ronaldo great circus tradition – in the intimate Circenses setting of Circus Ronaldo’s own big Wednesday 12 – Friday 14 May top. Experience the company’s 8.00pm unique blend of razor-sharp wit, Festival Gardens visual poetry and breath-taking physical skill in a show of two halves (literally) All tickets £15, U25s £5 where things may not be quite what they appear... Circus Ronaldo is one of the most exciting contemporary circus companies Recommended for everyone over 10 in Europe, if not the world, enjoying Note: there is on-stage smoking sell-out shows wherever they go. and gun shots are fired during Circenses brings together three the performance. generations of the Ronaldo family in a show that plays on curiosity and Performances sponsored by illusion – the key ingredients of the

“A great, riotous piece of theatre” The Independent

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Book by phone on 01603 766400 32 Circus, Theatre & Dance Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia NoFit State Circus to develop new acts and circus routines. Parklife This performance weaves the new Thursday 13 May 9.00pm collaborative elements together. Eaton Park Come early: from 8.00pm, see work in progress by two Escalator Outdoor Free and unticketed event artists, Dan Peppiatt and Gomito MG FREE Productions. Gomito also perform on Friday 14 May at 8.00pm, free Commissioned by Without Walls, and unticketed. Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Brighton Festival Parklife is a show that’s part

playground, part bandstand. NoFit State Circus, whose Tabù Performance sponsored by show thrilled Festival audiences in 2008, leaves its tent behind and invites you to join in a joyful exploration (and celebration!) Special thanks to Tin House of the secret life of public parks. Public parking at Eaton Park is limited. During the week running up to tonight’s Please use public transport if you can: performance NoFit State’s performers see www.nnf10.org.uk for travel and and creative team will work with parking updates. local artists and community groups, alongside their ownNo public rehearsals,Fit State

SharpWire “Extraordinary cellist, virile Johnny’s Midnight Goggles: a one-man operatic thriller bass-baritone, compelling actor… Saturday 8 May 2.00pm and 5.00pm astonishingly comprehensive Norwich Playhouse versatility” All tickets £6 Daily Telegraph Not everything is as it seems in the sleepy coastal town of Le Lavandou. Away from the sparkling waters, sniffy waiters and slothful policemen, a drama is unfolding, the magnitude of which threatens not only Johnny, Le Lavandou and planet Earth, but the entire universe… This captivating one-man show – musical theatre story-telling with goggles on – is performed by Matthew Sharp, cellist, singer and actor extraordinaire. Johnny’s Midnight Goggles is a mind- and genre-melting explosion of story-telling, ravishing singing, virtuoso cello-playing and sonic wizardry. SharpWire Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Circus, Theatre & Dance 33 Daniel Kitson 66a Church Road – A Lament Made of Memories “A gorgeously written and Kept in Suitcases Kitson and consummately Monday 10 – Tuesday 11 May 8.00pm Norwich Playhouse Daniel performed piece Tickets £12, U25s £5 of storytelling” As in many relationships, the award- Scotland on Sunday winning Daniel Kitson loved his not- quite-so-award-winning Crystal Palace flat despite its flaws, and was broken- hearted to have to move on. Through a carefully crafted monologue Kitson shares his tale with us, juxtaposing anger and heartache, beauty and lunacy, creating an engaging and honest exploration of the struggle to stay human in an increasingly commercialised world. This is a story, by turns touching and hilarious, that’s about much more than simply learning to love the eccentricities of your home – it’s an intimate, revealing meditation on what ‘home’ means to us all, but especially to a man who is constantly touring the world.

Metis Arts 3rd Ring Out: Rehearsing the Future Thursday 13 – Sunday 16 May 11.00am, 1.30pm, 4.30pm and 7.00pm Millennium Plain Tickets £5 The temperature is rising, the Earth is changing and your city is threatened. How will you respond? This is a story in which YOU decide what happens next. Imagining a world in which nature takes revenge on industrial humanity, 3rd Ring Out takes you forward in time to an emergency planning rehearsal set in Norwich. Metis uses live performance, video simulation and interactive computer systems to produce work that responds to contemporary concerns. The result has the immediacy of theatre combined with the thrill of a disaster movie: a fiction rooted in fact. 3rd Ring Out is already causing waves. Co-commissioned by Norfolk & Norwich Festival and The Junction, Cambridge. Awarded a Tipping Point Commission in association with the Department of Energy and Climate Change. SharpWire MetisArts Book by phone on 01603 766400 34 Circus, Theatre & Dance Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Forced Entertainment each other with 2,000 Quizoola! questions. The audience Saturday 15 May is free to arrive, leave and 6.00pm–12 midnight return at any point in this Forced The Garage extraordinary, marathon game of questions and Tickets £5 answers. Co-created by Tim Etchells, Quizoola! explores In this pioneering British our need for knowledge and avant-garde theatre Entertainmentcertainty. Dark, hilarious, company’s first ever absurd and intimate, it’s show in Norwich, three a game that survives from performers in shabby moment to moment, a clown make-up sit inside comical, sometimes brutal, a circle of bare light bulbs, interrogation that soon gets and begin to interrogate out of hand.

“A performance that changes the rule book” Independent on Sunday

Meyer- Eva Meyer-KellerKeller Eva Death Is Certain Saturday 15 – Sunday 16 May 5.00pm and 8.00pm The Garage Tickets £5 Over the course of 35 minutes, German performer and artist Eva Meyer-Keller cuts up, fragments and burns 40 cherries in this brilliant and moving performance piece. Using a range of household objects, Death Is Certain catalogues a list of violent acts including hanging, burial in concrete, and electrocution. The work has all the humour and inventiveness of the Book of Bunny Suicides, while powerfully communicating the full horror – and economy – of death.

“Extraordinarily vivid” Tim Etchells

Book for Death is Certain and Quizoola! for a joint ticket price of £7.50

Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Circus, Theatre & Dance 35

Ontroerend Goed From the company that you an intimate and highly and Richard Jordan brought you one of the personal treatment. Please, Productions undoubted hits of NNF09 inform us in time if you Internal – The Smile Off Your are unable to control your Thursday 20 – Face – comes their latest feelings. We will provide an Saturday 22 May sensory exploration. We’ll elegant and discrete solution. let them introduce the show Yours sincerely, Performances daily at themselves: 2.00pm, 2.30pm, 3.00pm, The Actors Dear Spectator, 3.30pm, 4.00pm, 7.00pm, Presented with the support of 7.30pm, 8.00pm, 8.30pm, We are five performers in the Flemish Community, the 9.00pm search of a partner. We’d province of East Flanders and The Garage like to invite you to the next the City of Ghent. performance of Internal, our individual playground, Tickets £10, U25s £5 where you can get to know Suitable for over-18s only us in a cosy and spontaneous atmosphere. We guarantee

“An experienceInternal not to be missed” The Independent

Warning: Sorrel Muggridge: Art under Construction A Curious Meander Pulls Ferry, Fri 7 – Sun 9, Escalator Outdoor Arts presents five Fri 14 – Sun 16 May, works in progress from up-and-coming 10.00am–6.00pm artists. All are free and unticketed. Email [email protected] for The unique story of each drop of water updates on dates, times and venues. in the River Wensum. Dan Peppiatt: Tilted: SEASAW El Grando Cromer Pier, Fri 14 and Sat 15 May, Eaton Park, Thu 13 May 8.00pm times tbc

A six metre, fully animated robotic Award-winning, visually striking, fire-breathing dragon. thought-provoking dance theatre. Gomito: Fish Tom Dale: Refugees Eaton Park, Thu 13 May of the Septic Heart and Fri 14 May 8.00pm Secret location, Sun 9 May, 9.00pm

A visual theatre company, Dark dance collaboration with a boating pool and Shackleton, Vengeance Tenfold, water puppets. Kunihikho Matsuo.

Book by phone on 01603 766400 36 Circus, Theatre & Dance Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Fuel presents: Electric Hotel Friday 7 – Sunday 9 May 10.00pm Millennium Plain Free but ticketed – please arrive early as the number of headphones is limited Electric Hotel is lonely, bizarre and beautiful. The fly-by-night hotel is brought vividly to life through dance and sound by David Rosenberg (director of Shunt), choreographer Frauke Requardt and designer Börkur Jónsson. The audience, meanwhile, eavesdrops (through headphones) and sees the residents inside: natural habits, unnatural fantasies and wildly varied housekeeping. The bigger picture is – for the voyeur – a privilege and a thrill. Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells and Without Walls. Funded by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award.

Alain Platel and les ballets C de la B Out of Context – for Pina Saturday 8 May 7.45pm les Norwich Theatre Royal de Tickets £19, £14, £10, £8, £6, U25s £5 UK première ballets lables ballets C de la B has become world-renowned for its eclectic mix of modern dance, theatre c and music. Following the company’s acclaimed performance of Ashes at last year’s Festival, Ghent-based C de la B return to the Theatre Royal to present the UK première of their latest work. Out of Context is an intimate performance in which choreographer Alain Platel and his company of eight dancers explore the power of dance to express intense feelings and emotions in ways that words can never convey.

Commissioned by Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Le Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, TorinoDanza, Sadler’s Wells, Stadsschouwburg Groningen, Tanzkongress 2009/ Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Kaaitheater (Brussels) and Wiener Festwochen. With support from the Flemish authorities, City of Ghent, Province of East Flanders.

Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Circus, Theatre & Dance 37 Michael Clark Company come, been and gone Monday 10 – Tuesday 11 May 7.45pm Norwich Theatre Royal Tickets £19, £14, £10, £8, £6, U25s £5 Michael Clark Company’s latest production evolves from Clark’s admiration for the music of rock’s holy trinity, David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, who worked in close proximity during the 1970s. The production includes ‘Heroes’, Bowie’s iconic song. Hailed by the Independent on Sunday as “British dance’s true iconoclast”, Michael Clark creates work that combines his classical fluency with a twisted contemporary sensibility that embraces embarrassment, doubt, and fear, as well as grace, virtue and control. He is renowned for his collaborations with bands, fashion designers and visual artists, including Wire, BodyMap, Leigh Bowery, Trojan and Sarah Lucas.

Commissioned by barbicanbite09 and Dance Umbrella (London), La Biennale di Venezia (Venice) and Dansens Hus (Stockholm) as part of European Network of Performing Arts (ENPARTS).

Co-produced by barbicanbite09, Dance Umbrella, Michael Clark Company, Edinburgh International Festival, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg and Maison des Arts de Créteil.

“An outrageously gorgeous piece of modern dance” The Observer Michael ClarkBook by phone on 01603 766400 38 Circus, Theatre & Dance Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Paco Peña Flamenco sin Fronteras (Flamenco without borders) Thursday 13 May 8.00pm Norwich Theatre Royal Tickets £21, £18, £14, £9, £6, U25s £5 Paco Some of the world’s best flamenco dancers combine with sensational musicians and virtuoso singers in this brand new show from legendary flamenco guitarist Paco Peña. Peña explores the many dance styles that emerged through the migration of Peña Spanish performers to Latin America in the early 1900s, and their impact on flamenco today. Packed with all the intensity and raw energy that have become this maestro’s trademark, Flamenco sin Fronteras will delight die-hard flamenco fans and newcomers alike.

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“One of the most sensational nights of dance I have ever seen” Sunday Express

Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk Circus, Theatre & Dance 39 National Dance Network Dance3: a triple bill from the next wave of dancemakers Wednesday 12 – Thursday 13 May 7.45pm The Garage Tickets £10, U25s £5 (re)traces, Tanja Råman+Dbini Industries Passing Strange and Wonderful, Ben Wright/bgroup Silence Speaks Volumes, Freddie Opoku-Addaie Experience dance in a new dimension – three fresh, bite-sized performances showcasing the best up-and-coming professional choreographers and their collaborators in one evening. Three super- talented artists have let their imaginations run riot, creating compelling and varied performances that mix physical brilliance, music and film. Dance 3 is a new initiative from the National Dance Network, touring three sets of triple bills throughout the UK in 2010.

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“Joyful, effervescent” Erre que Erre Avatar* El Pais Thursday 20 May 7.45pm Norwich Playhouse Tickets £5 Avatar* is an interactive dance solo from Erre que Erre, an award-winning Barcelona dance collective. Exploring ways in which a virtual space and a living body interact, the piece uses the human form as a writing tool that etches a narrative of movements and gestures across the stage. This energetic piece allows the audience exclusive access to the dancer’s own very private experience as she negotiates her way through a computer- generated visual narrative that reacts to every movement she makes. Erre Presented in collaboration with queErre Book by phone on 01603 766400 40 Circus, Theatre & Dance Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Mammalian Diving Reflex Test your courage and faith in the Haircuts by Children next generation by surrendering your Friday 7 – Saturday 8 May sense of control, preconceptions and 11.00am – 5.00pm scalp to the aesthetic instincts of a Flint Hairdressers, Bridewell Alley mini-barber. Children from Catton Grove Primary School train with professional Free – to make an appointment, come stylists from City College Norwich along on the day and book a time. before using their new-found skills on Availability is limited. the public. You are invited to book a FREE haircut with the newest recruits at Flint Hairdressers in Norwich. Each stylish new coiffure proves that children are competent, creative members of society who deserve our respect. So sit for a cut or just come and watch the drama unfold as our whimsical stylists share their talents and their refreshingly youthful thoughts on life. Mammalian DivingReflex

Subject to Change “There is something rather thrilling about Home Sweet Home watching an entire city mushroom in a room Saturday 15 – Monday 17 May almost overnight – particularly when you 11.00am – 7.00pm Blackfriars Hall are building it yourself” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian Free and unticketed Home Sweet Home Estates invites you to become a resident of Norwich’s smallest suburb, a cardboard community of neat streets and magnolia houses just waiting to be turned into homes. On arrival, you select a plot of land and a flat-packed house to turn into your cardboard home – to help settle you in there’s a notice board, a postal service, even a local radio station run by Subject Future Radio. to Residents can come and go as they Changeplease, and on the final night there’s a street party where neighbours can raise a glass to their unique community. Come and play, and make your property-owning dreams a glorious cardboard reality!

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Presented in association with Ian An Evening with Ian McEwan of climate change through McEwanan increasingly rotund and accident- Tuesday 11 May 7.00pm Lecture Theatre 1, prone character, Michael Beard. University of East Anglia Extracts from the draft had the Norwich audience in gales of laughter last year, Tickets £8, U25s £5 so you’re bound to be entertained. Then you can find out more Ian McEwan returns to Norwich to join in McEwan’s interview with Writers’ Centre Norwich and NNF10 in Professor Jon Cook, put celebration of the city’s bid to become forward your own questions, a UNESCO City of Literature. Hear and get your book signed McEwan reading from Solar, his new afterwards. Not to be missed. novel, which tackles the weighty theme

An Evening with intimate and conversational.” Les Murray and Andrew Motion, a former Les Andrew Motion professor of creative writing Murray Tuesday 18 May 7.30pm at UEA, transformed the Norwich Playhouse role of Poet Laureate before handing over to Carol Andrew Tickets £10, U25s £5 Ann Duffy last year. With readings, discussion and Norfolk-based poetry questions from the floor, this magazine The Rialto, Writers’ evening will be a rare chance Centre Norwich and NNF10 Motion to hear poets whose work is present a rare opportunity accessible and passionate, to hear two internationally & and speaks to the heart. acclaimed poets read in Murray and Motion will celebration of The Rialto’s be introduced by Michael 25th year. Mackmin, The Rialto’s Australian poet Les Murray founding editor. is one of the world’s greatest Followed by a book signing living writers. According supported by Jarrold to Derek Walcott, “There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures, and yet so

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42 for families Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia NNF10 for families programme at a glance

May age page Fri 7 – Sat 22 3.00pm – 8.00pm Theater Froe Froe Festival Gardens 3+ 43 (Mon – Fri), 11.00am – 8.00pm (Sat – Sun) Fri 7 – Sat 22 3.00pm – 8.00pm El Laberint Festival Gardens all ages 43 (Mon – Fri), 11.00am – 8.00pm (Sat – Sun) Sat 8 – Sun 9 11.00am, 2.00pm, 4.00pm Ska Baby Rave EPIC Studios 0–4 43 Sat 8 2.00pm & 5.00pm Johnny’s Midnight Goggles Norwich Playhouse 7+ 32 Wed 12 – Fri 14 8.00pm Circus Ronaldo Festival Gardens 10+ 31 Fri 14 – Sat 15 5.00pm & 8.00pm Zic Zazou Norwich Playhouse 10+ 23 Sat 15 – Sun 16 11.00am – 5.00pm Festival Garden Party Festival Gardens all ages 44 Sat 15 3.00pm Variety in the Garden Spiegeltent 7+ 46 Sun 16 5.00pm Elias String Quartet Norwich Playhouse 7+ 11 Fri 21 4.00pm Charlie & Lola’s Best Bestest Play Norwich Playhouse 3+ 46 Sat 22 11.00am, 1.30pm, 4.00pm Charlie & Lola’s Best Bestest Play Norwich Playhouse 3+ 46 Sun 23 11.00am, 1.30pm Charlie & Lola’s Best Bestest Play Norwich Playhouse 3+ 46

All venues are in Norwich except where stated – see map on p56

Go4Less The Festival is delighted to support Norwich City Council’s Go4Less scheme – cardholders can enjoy a 10 per cent discount on tickets for most Festival events.

And that’s not all, folks... Take a quick look through other sections of the Festival programme and you’ll find lots of great events for families

Matthew Sharp Zic Zazou Circus Ronaldo Elias String Quartet SharpWire The Mechanicians Circenses Family Concert Sat 8 See p32 Fri 14 – Sat 15 See p23 Wed 12 – Fri 14 See p31 Sun 16 See p11 Book online at www.nnf10.org.uk www.nnf10.org.uk for families 43 Come and enjoy two wonderful experiences for children and their families! El Laberint and Froe Froe Carousel will be in residence in the Festival Gardens throughout NNF10.

Theater Froe Froe Each of the figures on Friday 7 – Saturday 22 May Theater Froe Froe’s Carousel 3.00pm – 8.00pm Mon – Fri is playful, wildly expressive 11.00am – 8.00pm Sat – Sun and invitingly tactile, and Festival Gardens seems to tell a story that you, and you alone, can uncover. Tickets £1 per person Children will be entranced. Suitable for ages 3+ Theater Froe Froe is an award-winning theatre Take a ride on this unique company from Belgium merry-go-round to the whose puppetry and tune of an enchanting fairy performance have bewitched soundscape and play a game audiences for nearly of discovery where the only three decades. limit is your imagination.

Compania Itinerània collaborative experience for El Laberint all ages that will test your Friday 7 – Saturday 22 May mettle as you make your way 3.00pm – 8.00pm Mon – Fri through this enticing maze. 11.00am – 8.00pm Sat – Sun Sponsored by Festival Gardens Tickets £1 per person Suitable for all ages Presented in collaboration with Can you solve the Labyrinth? Join us in a playful open- air quest through a crazy network of transparent doors and windows where what you know and what you do creates your own unique journey. El Laberint is a

Ska Baby Rave complete with DJ, lights, Saturday 8 – projections, sensory flooring Sunday 9 May and gorgeous silken 11.00am, 2.00pm parachutes. Fabulous frolics and 4.00pm for youngsters and, ahem, EPIC Studios oldsters alike! Babies, older children and their grown-ups Tickets £6 – each adult can experiment with music and child needs a ticket and dance in a dazzling ambient environment. Suitable for ages 0–4 A unique, interactive Oh baby, it’s back! The dance and music event big hit from NNF08: a for pre-schoolers. ska rave for the under-4s Each rave lasts 60 minutes.

Book by phone on 01603 766400 44 for families Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Live at the Party! Festival Garden Party Among the performers confirmed for the Saturday 15 – Sunday 16 May Festival Garden Party are: 11.00am – 5.00pm, Festival Gardens Futter’s Child Free and unticketed event Enter the unique and strange world of a loveable misfit doing his best MG Free to look after a rather Suitable for all ages challenging baby. The Norfolk & Norwich Festival Garden Party is a FREE two- day event for all ages. Last year, more than 16,000 people came to the party. This year, you’re invited to join us for an all-you-can-eat buffet of free music, theatre, acrobatics and stuff so out-of-this-world you just can’t describe it! On the menu will be a smattering of world première theatre, lightly sautéed mobile DJ magic, make-and-create activities for the kids, Festival favourites from previous years and blow- your-head-off acrobatics, all served with a healthy dollop of comedy genius to suit all ages and all tastes. Don’t forget to bring your pennies to spend at the market stalls selling food and drink, and other Festival Gardens attractions. Sponsored by Festival GardenParty

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Kamchàtka Eight strangers have come to town. No one Saturday knows why, but one thing is clear: they want to interact with the local residents they meet. Watch this space... 15 –Sunday16 May Stephen Bain UK première All the way from New Zealand, Stephen Bain has come to live in Chapelfield Gardens – in a house Wired Aerial Theatre that’s only 150cm2! World première A sensational new show outside Norwich Cathedral, where you’ll see some of the UK’s most exciting Garden aerial dancers.

The Surreal World Miniscule of Sound of Edmond Tahl No bigger than a shed, this Pursued by invisible wasps, is a fantastic mini-night spot, helicopters and monsters, with mirror-ball, dance-floor, Edmond is having a bad day. disco lights and DJ booth. And why is everyone he If DJ Pete Tong loved it, meets so strange? so will you!

Plus Radio Barkas, the smallest Rock-a-hula, a vintage, Lost Funeral, mobile radio station of the Hawaiian themed jump back two misdirected Netherlands. to the ’50s! but charming undertakers, Ernest Potts and The Tragic and Disturbing Gracie Spoon, a storyteller Reginald Fowler. Tale of Little Lupin, a girl who blows in on the who lives in the wild. north wind. The Vagaband, local legends who play country Pete Dobbing, possibly the rock ’n’ roll at its finest. most charismatic variety entertainer in town. And don’t forget... El Laberint and Theater Froe Froe (p43) will be running during both Garden Party days Book by phone on 01603 766400 46 for families Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Spiegel Family Variety Saturday 15 May 3.00pm Spiegeltent All tickets £6

Suitable for ages 7+ Buckle your shoes, dig out your pork pie hat and get ready for a show of dastardly circus antics, cheeky comic capers and a galloping programme of virtuoso street theatre that will leave you laughing until your belly aches. Following their sell-out show for grown-ups at NNF09, the Variety in the Gardens team is back with a show for all the family.

Watershed Productions presents I have this little sister Lola. the BBC Worldwide and Polka Theatre She is small and very funny... “An ideal early theatre production of Don’t miss everyone’s favourite brother experience” Charlie and Lola’s and sister, Charlie and Lola, in their The Guardian Best Bestest Play extremely ever so wonderful stage Friday 21 May 4.00pm show! The stars of the hit BBC TV Saturday 22 May series and books by Lauren Child are 11.00am, 1.30pm and 4.00pm brought to life by a magical mix of Sunday 23 May puppets and music. 11.00am and 1.30pm So will Lola ever tidy her messy room? Norwich Playhouse And will Charlie get Lola to sleep, even though she is not sleepy and will not All tickets £10 go to bed? Suitable for ages 3+ www.charlieandlola.com Based on the characters created by Lauren Child Adapted by Jonathan Lloyd

Charlie and Lola™ and © Lauren Child 2005. Charlie and Lola is produced by Tiger Aspect Productions and distributed by BBC Worldwide Ltd.™ & © BBC 1996.

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22 May – 6 June 2010

Norfolk Open Studios, one of the largest and most successful schemes of its kind in the UK, is led by Norfolk artists for the benefit of Norfolk artists. The programme offers them help and support in opening their studios, meeting the public and selling works of art. • Free entry to all studios • Learn new skills and see the artist at work • Explore the work of more than 300 local artists • Buy or commission works of art in their studios, which range from boats and • Free brochure available from the middle of April 2010 outhouses to spare rooms and galleries For your free brochure and more information, • Have a day out and visit one of the many art trails contact us: around the county W: www.nnfestival.org.uk/openstudios • Chat with local artists about their work, techniques E: [email protected] and inspiration T: 01603 877750 48 Visual Arts Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Visual Arts programme at a glance

May page Fri 7 – Sat 22 RedBall: Norwich Locations across Norwich 49 Fri 7 – Sat 22 Neon Signs City-centre locations 50 Fri 7 – Sat 22 A Short Message Spectacle 50 Fri 7 – Sat 22 The Artist’s Studio Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 51 Sat 8 – Sat 22 Beatles to Bowie: the Sixties Exposed Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery 52 Fri 7 – Sat 22 Mick Jones: The Rock ’n’ Roll Public Library Gallery at Norwich University College of the Arts 53 Fri 7 – Sat 22 The Point of Perception Fusion at the Forum 53 Wed 19 Museums at Night Special Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 54

All venues are in Norwich except where stated – see map on p56 Where tickets are required for admission for an exhibition, they are available from the venue only and not through the Festival Box Office

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John Cale Forced Entertainment Fuel Presents: Michael Clark Paris 1919... Quizoola! Electric Hotel come, been and gone Fri 14 See p22 Sat 15 See p34 Fri 7 – Sun 9 See p36 Mon 10 – Tues 11 See p37 www.nnf10.org.uk Visual Arts 49 Kurt Perschke RedBall: Norwich Friday 7 – Saturday 22 May

Free UK première Kurt Perschke’s 15-foot inflatable red ball has generated massive public interest and acclaim in cities around the world, including Barcelona, Sydney and Toronto; it makes its UK debut with a 16-day residency at NNF10. Giving you the opportunity to discover the city’s architectural landscape afresh, the RedBall will be squished and squashed into 14 different nooks and crannies across Norwich city centre. Perschke describes this extraordinary project in the following terms: “Through the magnetic, playful and charismatic nature of the RedBall, the work is able to access the imagination embedded in all of us. On the surface, the experience seems to be about the ball itself as an object, but the true power of the project is what it can create for those who experience it. It opens a doorway to imagine ‘what if?’ That invitation to engage, to collectively imagine, is the true essence of the RedBall Project.” Visit www.nnf10.org.uk for a full list of RedBall sites.

“One of the best things about RedBall Project is that it’s really very funny. The absurdity of this balloon-at-large makes you smile. It also brings, like all good sculpture, a compulsion to reach out and touch” The Sydney Magazine 50 Visual Arts Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Best known for his leading role in Sheffield’s Forced Entertainment, described as “Britain’s most brilliant experimental theatre company” by the Guardian, artist, writer and performance-maker Tim Etchells brings two typically distinctive and provocative projects to NNF10.

Tim Etchells Tim Etchells Neon Signs A Short Message Spectacle (An SMS) Friday 7 – Saturday 22 May Friday 7 – Saturday 22 May Norwich City centre venues Free Free World première Tim Etchells infiltrates street corners, shop windows, rooftops A Short Message Spectacle is an imaginary performance and other unexpected places across Norwich city centre lasting 16 days, with its scenes – each described by text with a series of neon signs that spell out simple phrases, message – relayed as virtual events taking place, day and messages and instructions. These signs, which seem to night, in diverse locations across an equally imaginary city. address the viewer directly, create awkward moments of intimacy in a public setting. In some instances, they seem to The audience for this extraordinary work are subscribers want something from us, or ask something of us, often quite to a special phone number and are summoned to the each forthrightly. At other times, they draw us into a story we can’t scene by text message alone: the performance unfolds each refuse and, at the same time, we can’t quite understand, day via a series of missives. Here, Tim Etchells pulls out all pulling us into a contradictory and perplexing no-man’s land the stops to create an event in which the audience is a kind of between fiction and reality. imaginative co-author and the landscape they live in becomes a setting for and a part of the performance itself. For a full list of sites, visit www.nnf10.org.uk To sign up as an audience member for An SMS, text NNF, postcode, age to 60777.

Artists’ talk: Studio to Street Saturday 15 May 2.00pm – 3.30pm Pierce Room, Assembly House Artists Tim Etchells and Kurt Perschke talk about their work. Free, but booking essential. Contact Katherine Stapley: [email protected] or 01603 877757. www.nnf10.org.uk Visual Arts 51

The Artist’s Studio Elisa Bracher Friday 7 – Saturday 22 May Artist in residence 10.00am – 5.00pm daily (closed on Mondays) Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Elisa Bracher will be in residence at the Sainsbury Centre during the Norfolk & Norwich Festival as part of The Tickets £4 (concessions £2), Artist’s Studio season. Elisa runs the Ateliê Acaia, a free family admission £8 (concessions £6) school for street children, from her studio in Sãu Paulo. During her residency at the Sainsbury Centre, Elisa will Discover the world of the artist’s studio with this fascinating be offering opportunities to learn about her experiences. look at the workplaces of artists in Britain from the 1640s to the present day. Through painting by artists such as Paul Cézanne, Paula Rego and JMW Turner, as well as drawings, books, manuscripts and photographs of artists’ studios, including those of Francis Bacon, the exhibition explores the changing ways in which artists have represented their studios: as sociable or theatrical spaces, as private rooms for reflection, or as sites for bohemian or alternative lifestyles. From the garrets of struggling artists to rooms packed with wealthy patrons, the studios are shown not only as creative spaces but as rich sources of information about the nature and work of the artists. The exhibition runs, in full, from Tuesday 9 February to Sunday 23 May. For more information about exhibitions and events at the Sainsbury Centre visit www.scva.ac.uk or call 01603 593199.

The exhibition is organised by Compton Verney and is curated by Giles Waterfield, independent curator and writer, and Antonia Harrison, curator, Compton Verney.

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Above right: John Ballantyne, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (detail), c. 1865, National Portrait Gallery, London. Right: Bruce Bernard, Lucian Freud imitating the poses of the artist and his model in Courbet’s ‘The Painter’s Studio’ 1855, 1992, © The Estate of Bruce Bernard 52 Visual Arts Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Beatles to Bowie: the Sixties Exposed Saturday 8 May – Saturday 22 May Monday to Saturday 10.00am – 4.30pm, Sunday 1.00pm – 4.30pm Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery Special exhibition tickets £3.30 (adult), £2.80 (concessions), £2.40 (young people, 4–16) This major exhibition, organised by the National Portrait Gallery, looks at leading pop music personalities who became icons of their time. More than 150 photographs are on display, including rare portraits of the Beatles, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones. The exhibition begins in 1960 with hit groups such as The Shadows, the John Barry Seven, and Gerry and the Pacemakers. Early portraits of Cliff Richard, Adam Faith, Marianne Faithfull and Billy Fury are followed by shots of The Kinks, The Who and others. From pure pop and psychedelia to the birth of progressive music, Beatles to Bowie reveals the lasting impact of this memorable decade. The exhibition runs until Sunday 5 September.

For more information visit ww.museums.norfolk.gov.uk or call 01603 493625.

Exhibition organised by the National Portrait Gallery. Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service gratefully acknowledges the generous support of East Anglia Art Fund in association with Aquaterra Energy Ltd.

Opposite Top right: Robert Whitaker, The Beatles, Perthshire, 1964, © Robert Whitaker. Right: David Bebbington, David Bowie, 1969, © David Bebbington/ Retna Pictures

Family workshops Saturday 15 May 10.00am–12 noon and 12.30pm–2.30pm Use 1960s patterns as inspiration and create funky bowls and badges. Ages 8+. For details call Becky Brown on 01603 493636. School workshops Teachers: take a trip back to the swinging ’60s with your school group. The workshops are suitable for all key stages – schools can choose from workshops on 1960s object handling, looking at portraiture, or 1960s culture, as well as creative workshops on Bridget Riley’s methods and techniques. For details call Becky Brown on 01603 493636. www.nnf10.org.uk Visual Arts 53

Mick Jones The Rock & Roll Public Library Friday 7 – Saturday 22 May 10.00am – 5.00pm (closed Sundays) Gallery at Norwich University College of the Arts

Free Mick Jones, iconic guitarist and songwriter with The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite and Carbon Silicon, has amassed an impressive collection of performance and marketing materials from the bands he has worked with. This archive sits alongside a parallel collection – not specific to the bands – of books, magazines, videos, ephemera, toys and games that mark out his life, times and influences. The installation of this material will turn the Gallery at NUCA into a remarkable archive, raising questions about the act of collecting as well as offering some small insight into the influences and interests of a musician and cultural icon. The exhibition runs, in full, from Tuesday 13 April to Saturday 22 May. 54 Visual Arts Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia Photos: Andi Sapey and Andy Crouch

Madi Boyd Museums at Night Special The Point of Perception Wednesday 19 May, 5pm – 11pm Friday 7 – Saturday 22 May 10.00am – 5.00pm Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Fusion at The Forum Free, drop in at any time Free As darkness falls artists start to be inspired and strange The Point of Perception is a collaborative project between sounds begin to be heard. As you explore all corners of artist Madi Boyd and two neuroscientists, Dr Mark Lythgoe the museum, you never know who or what you may find and Dr Beau Lotto. Their multimedia sculpture is an in the shadows… immersive experience that aims to create a puzzle in the mind Join us for a nocturnal adventure and experience museums as of the viewer. Deliberately designed to confuse the human you have never done before! The evening will be packed with brain, it makes us question why we perceive what we do and live music, storytelling, tours and creative fun for adults and how our brains process the visual. Beautiful and mysterious, children, all in a magical late night atmosphere created by the this unique art installation will mesmerise people of all ages. Norfolk & Norwich Festival. This project has been coordinated by Norwich Arts Centre. A regular annual event for the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Museums at Night is now in association with the Norfolk & Norwich Festival. This year’s event also forms part of A History of the World, the BBC’s flagship partnership with the British Museum and museums around the country. www.nnf10.org.uk Making the most of the Festival 55 Norwich, the perfect Festival playground It’s true, Norwich is the perfect place By coach For more information on where to stay to immerse yourself in the full Festival National Express coaches travel to and what to do: experience. Not only is it a beautiful Norwich from London and other major Norwich Tourist Information Centre city, but it’s compact enough to mean cities several times daily. The Forum that most Festival venues are easy to London-to-Norwich journey time: Millennium Plain get to on foot – great for evenings when around 3 hours. Norwich NR2 1TF you want to see two or three shows. National Express Airport links London’s T: 01603 213999 Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted Then there’s the relaxed, friendly (from outside the UK +44 1603 213999) airports to Norwich with a direct service atmosphere. Norwich has plenty of F: 01603 213990 up to 10 times a day. bustle and confidence, but without the E: [email protected] hassle of some of our bigger brothers. Come and stay www.visitnorwich.co.uk When you’re not watching a show, the If you’re looking for somewhere to stay www.visitnorfolk.co.uk shopping’s great and the surrounding during the Festival, visit our website countryside, including the Broads, is for some fantastic special rates from just stunning. We’ve got something the hotels below. Why not make a short pretty special going on here and we’d break of your NNF10 experience and love you to join the party! stay a few days to discover what this very special part of the UK has to offer?

Travel Dunston Hall Hotel By road Holiday Inn Major trunk roads to the Norwich area Maids Head Hotel are the M11, A11, A12, A140 (from The Oakland Hotel London, the south, the ferry ports and Premier Inn the channel tunnel) and the A14, A47, The Grove A1/M1 (from the north and west). Check www.nnf10.org.uk By train for more information and Norwich railway station is in central booking details. Norwich, a 5-minute walk from the city centre. National Express trains run to Norwich from London’s Liverpool Street Station every 30 minutes during the day. Journey time: 1 hour 50 minutes. A direct service also links Cambridge to Norwich. Journey time: 1 hour 10 minutes.

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Venues (in Norwich unless otherwise stated) 01 Assembly House 08 Fusion at The Forum 15 Norwich Playhouse Theatre Street Millennium Plain 42–58 St George’s Street 3 02 Blackfriars Hall 09 The Garage 16 Norwich Theatre Royal St Andrew’s Plain Chapelfield North Theatre Street

03 Cathedral of St John 10 Gallery at Norwich 17 Sainsbury Centre the Baptist University College for Visual Arts Earlham Road of the Arts University of East Anglia St George’s Street

04 Earlham Park 11 John Innes Centre Southern Comfort (boat) Earlham Road Norwich Research Park, Swan Hotel, Horning Colney

Please contact the Mississippi River 05 Eaton Park Boat (Horning) Ltd on 01692 630262 South Park Avenue 12 Norwich Arts Centre for disabled access information St Benedict’s Street Spiegeltent 06 EPIC Studios 18 112–114 Magdalen Street Chapelfield Gardens 13 Norwich Castle Museum St Andrew’s Hall & Art Gallery 19 Castle Meadow St Andrew’s Plain 07 Festival Gardens Chapelfield Gardens, Chapelfield North 14 Norwich Cathedral 20 St Peter Mancroft Church The Close, Tombland Millennium Plain

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Book by phone on 01603 766400 58 Community Principal Sponsor – National Express East Anglia It’s your festival Across the NNF10 programme, we’re providing exciting opportunities for local groups, schools and individuals to experience the thrill of working alongside world-class companies and performers. It’s all part of our ongoing commitment to bring the Festival to as wide an audience as possible and to highlight the possibilities for change and transformation that the arts can make possible.

Here are some highlights: No Fit State Circus (p32) Change Place, Here We Are! Festival Chorus and Parklife Friday 7 – Saturday 22 May The Voice Project Thursday 13 May 9.00pm Chapelfield Gardens and Eaton Park These two choirs have performed in the Eaton Park Festival for many years and draw their Change Place, Here We Are! is the membership from across Norfolk, giving MG FREE result of four design projects created local singers opportunities to perform by local groups including pupils from NoFit State Circus is working with local alongside world-class musicians, Harford Manor and Chapel Break sports and community groups, including ensembles and orchestras. schools, members of the Vauxhall pupils from Douglas Bader Northern Centre and residents at Philadelphia Pupil Referral Unit, to create a one-off The Festival Chorus performs House. Working with visual artists performance that will give participants with the English Chamber Wendy Meadley and Ali McKenzie, a spectacular platform to showcase their Orchestra (p9) they have produced 60 extraordinary talents. With thanks to Tin House. Saturday 8 May 7.30pm flags inspired by community St Andrew’s Hall and heritage. The Voice Project performs Mammalian Diving Reflex (p40) with Arve Henriksen and Haircuts by Children Jan Bang (p24) Flint Hairdressers, Bridewell Alley Friday 21 May 8.00pm Friday 7 – Saturday 8 May Norwich Cathedral 11.00am – 5.00pm Metis Arts (p33) Free 3rd Ring Out: Pupils from Catton Grove Primary School Rehearsing the Future invite you to be part of an event that Pupils from Flegg High School take part will test your courage and your faith in in a week-long residency as part of the the next generation. Let them cut your research and development phase of fears away as they prove themselves this piece, which addresses the issue of leaders of the future, capable citizens climate change. and dedicated coiffeurs!

With thanks to City College Norwich.

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Get involved There are also plenty of opportunities Milonga! (p26) NNF Live: your chance for you to take part. Saturday 22 May to capture the Festival 1.00pm – 5.00pm NNF Live is a multimedia project NoFit State Circus that encourages audiences to record Open-house sessions Tickets £3.50 the Festival by creating reviews, Saturday 8 – Sunday 9 May photographs, film and blogs with 2.30pm–5.00pm and 6.30pm–7.30pm Michael Clark Company a range of new media tools on the Monday 10 – Tuesday 11 May workshop NNF and EDP websites. 6.30pm–7.30pm Wednesday 12 May 10.00am –12.00 noon In partnership with Future Projects and MG FREE The Garage City College Norwich, we’re working with young people in Norwich to As part of the Parklife project (see left), Tickets £10, concessions £5 create reviewers, broadcasters and NoFit State Circus will run a series of photographers. Part of the process is open-house sessions at Eaton Park. An exciting opportunity for graduate- to enable them to capture their own Activities are likely to include swap-a- level dance students and professional responses to Festival performances, and knot, talent spot, park stories, capoeira dance practitioners to work with the to record interviews with artists and and wire walking. Details will be Michael Clark Company. The workshop audience members. available on the day at Eaton Park and will involve a class/warm-up followed at www.nofitstate.org/parklife. by the chance to learn some repertory. We’re also running a competition For more information and to book, with the Eastern Daily Press for Dancing at the Spiegeltent contact Norfolk Dance on 01603 283399. adults and children to find the best (p26) www.norfolkdance.co.uk photographic, film and written reviews Swing Dance of performances, events and festival Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 May happenings. 1.00pm – 4.00pm Visit www.nnf10.org.uk for more information. Tickets £3.50 Spiegeltent Tea Dances (p26) Tuesdays 11 & 18 May 1.00pm – 4.00pm

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Festival suppliers Show your support… Design East Publishing Print Ancient House Press plc Catering and get more from the Amaretto Delicatessen Audio Paul Sparrow, Norfolk & Norwich Festival C3 Productions Lighting Luminaire There’s never been a better time to Festival Friends Extraordinaire, get involved with one of the country’s (membership £15 single/£25 dual) Blackwing Ltd fastest growing international arts • benefits include ticket discounts, Power Midas (Biodiesel) festivals. While many know that the priority booking and advance Festival Security Norwich Premier festival brings world class national and information Security Services international artists and performances Bar supply Adnams to Norfolk, few realise that we are part Benefactors Spiegeltent Van Rosmalen of a registered charity. The Norfolk & (annual fee £90 single/£120 dual) Pianos Giller Pianos Norwich Festival Trust was established • all Friends benefits, plus invitations Vehicles Holden in 1772 to present high-class arts for the to special events and recognition of Bikes The Bike Shed, cultural development of the city, county your support in Festival publicity John Overland Cycle Hire and country. Principal Partners Artists’ accommodation By becoming a festival Friend or (annual fee £125 single/£175 dual) Premier Inn Benefactor, or perhaps making an • all of the above, plus priority The Langtry annual donation, you’ll provide on cancellation lists for sold-out The George Hotel invaluable support that enables us to performances and invitations to The Maids Head Hotel continue to present and develop our pre-performance drinks reception 38 St Giles year-round programme of activities. and supper with the Festival board Cathedral Apartments You’ll enjoy some fantastic benefits, too. and artistic director and Festival hosts Simply choose a level…Friend, Commissioning Circles Production staff Benefactor, Principal Partner, • help to create a programme of new Production consultant Commissioning Circle or Annual Fund commissions for the Festival and enjoy Jon Linstrum Donor, and sign up today to begin invitations to briefings, rehearsals and Crew manager David Lloyd enjoying the benefits of membership for first performances Site drawings/architect this year’s Festival. Contact Charlotte Leif Ahuland Stannard, Development Manager, Designer Theo Lecrinier on 01603 877750. Full details of all Rigger Tom Ratcliffe memberships can be found Spiegel front of house www.nnf10.org.uk/supportus. Tristan Roche, Helen Stoneley, Pete Dobbing, Lorne Rawlings Spiegel stage manager The Norfolk & Norwich Principal Partners Hazel Flavell Britta Young Festival would like to thank Simon De-Lacy Adams Sally and Michael Fowler Carpenter Richard Matthews all its Commissioning Circle and Robin Norman Mrs S Furnivall Lead crew Dhugal Harrison, members, Principal Partners Nicholas and Caroline Dixey Sienna and Camille Vila John Eadon, Kate Harrop, and Benefactors for their kind Richard and Sally Collier Holloway Pip Coterill, Tim Tracey and generous support. Frank and Di Eliel Ms Susan Jack Runners Joan Vila, Pedro Mas Mr R and Mrs W Jarrold Lewis and Hilary Jarrett Event managers Patron Richard Packham and Mr Antony and Annita Grimwood, Sir Timothy Colman KG Estelle Bawden Mrs Ann Jarrold Jenny Eason, Jenny English, Vice Presidents Frank and Sue Paice Christopher Lawrence Katie Keats, Keith Hobday, Miriam Cannell Dr Sarah Scott-Barrett Mrs J Leslie Mark Denbigh, Pau Bachero, Bryan Read Mr and Mrs R Martin Sandrine Penda Benefactors Gordon Tilsley Mr and Mrs Peter Pank Bar manager Rob Howe Kevin and Glenn Aikens Mrs SV Pollok Duty bar managers Commissioning Mr SH Back Mr and Mrs WB Pooley Becky Hill, David Potter, Circle members Sir Nicholas and Roger Rowe Roz Coleman Simon De-Lacy Adams Lady Susan Bacon Mr CP Smallpiece and Robin Norman Jonathan and Clare Barclay Tim Townshend Nicholas and Caroline Dixey Mr Victor Brenner Ms M Whitworth Roger Rowe Mrs Caroline Chivers David Parry Mr J Colin And others who would like Christopher Dicker to remain anonymous

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62 Book online atwww.nnf10.org.uk Free Outdoor Events Classical Music Contemporary Music Spiegeltent Circus, Dance, Theatre Literature For families Visual Arts Fusion attheForum of theArts UniversityCollege Norwich Gallery & Art CastleMuseum Norwich Gardens) (aka Chapelfield Festival Gardens Spiegeltent Sheringham LittleTheatre St Lawrence’s, S.Walsham ParishChurch Martham Horning Centre Arts Norwich Flint Hairdressers St John’s Cathedral Assembly House Streets ofNorwich Eaton Park UEA John InnesCentre EPIC Earlham Park The Garage Millennium Plain Playhouse Norwich St PeterMancroft Blackfriars Hall St. Andrew’s Hall Venue Visual Arts Centrefor Sainsbury [via textmessages] City-centre locations Locations acrossNorwich Norwich Cathedral Norwich TheatreRoyal Norwich Festival Diary p27 7.30pm La Vie p36 10pm Millennium Pln Electric Hotel p18 7pm Forcione Antonio p17 8pm McAlmont Nyman & The PointofPerception p53 p53 Public Library Mick Jones:TheRock’n’Roll The Artist’s Studio p51 MessageSpectaclep50 A Short Neon Signsp50 p49 RedBall: Norwich Theater Froep43 El Laberintp43 p40 11am–5pm Flint Hair Haircuts p6 4.45pm Millennium Pln Festival Launch p29 10.30pm Julie AtlasMuz r a a a u a o 0MyTe 1MyWd1 a Thurs13May Wed 12May Tues 11May Mon10May Sun9May Sat8May Fri 7May p9 7.30pm St Andrew’s Festival Chorus Beatles toBowie:theSixtiesExposed p52 p27 7.30pm La Vie p26 1pm–4pm Swing Dance p18 1pm &3pm Jazz Boat p43 & 4pm 11am, 2pm EPIC Baby Rave p36 10pm Millennium Pln Electric Hotel p32 2pm &5pm SharpWire p36 7.45pm C delaB les ballets p40 10am–5pm Flint Hair Haircuts p7 10.15pm Earlham Park Ephémère p29 10.30pm Julie AtlasMuz p27 7.30pm La Vie p26 1pm–4pm Swing Dance p18 1pm &3pm Blues Cruise p43 & 4pm 11am, 2pm EPIC Baby Rave p36 10pm Millennium Pln Electric Hotel p9 7.30pm at 60 Stephen Oliver p19 8pm O’Sullivan Camille p20 8pm Centre Nch Arts Trio Sargasso p29 10.30pm Spiegel Late Principal Sponsor–NationalExpressEastAnglia Mick Jones: The Rock ’n’ Roll Public Library p53 Mick Jones:TheRock’n’RollPublic Library 7.30pm p10 St PMancroft Tetzlaffs Andsnes & p27 7.30pm La Vie p33 8.00pm Daniel Kitson p37 7.45pm Michael Clark p15 1pm Assembly Hse RAM p29 10.30pm Spiegel Late p26 1pm–4pm Tea Dance p41 7pm UEA Ian McEwan p27 7.30pm La Vie p33 8.00pm Daniel Kitson p37 7.45pm Michael Clark p29 10.30pm Spiegel Late p31 8pm Circus Ronaldo p39 7.45pm The Garage Dance 3 p15 1pm Assembly Hse RAM p28 7.30pm–1am Social Club Bo Nanafana p21 8pm McLaughlin John 7.30pm p10 Mancroft St Peter Jordi Savall p32 9pm Eaton Park No FitState p31 8pm Circus Ronaldo p39 7.45pm The Garage Dance 3 p33 Various Millennium Pln Metis Arts p27 7.30pm La Vie p38 8.00pm Paco Peña p20 10.30pm CocoRosie www.nnf10.org.uk Festival Diary 63

Fri 14 May Sat 15 May Sun 16 May Mon 17 May Tues 18 May Wed 19 May Thurs 20 May Fri 21 May Sat 22 May John Cale Jordi Savall: Festival Voice Project 8.00pm Jerusalem Service Norwich p22 7.30pm Nch Cathedral Cathedral p12 10.30am 8pm p24

Moscow State Home Sweet Home Sweet Home Sweet Academy of Louis Lortie Symphony Home Home Home Ancient Music St P Mancroft St Andrew’s Blackfriars Hall Blackfriars Hall Blackfriars Hall St Andrew’s 7pm & 10.30pm 7.30pm p11 11am–7pm p40 11am–7pm p40 11am–7pm p40 7.30pm p13 p14

Zic Zazou Zic Zazou Elias String Jason Yarde Murray Gwyneth Erre que Erre Charlie & Charlie 5pm & 8pm 5pm & 8pm Quartet 8.00pm & Motion Herbert 7.45pm Lola & Lola p23 p23 5pm p23 7.30pm 8pm p39 4pm 11am, 1.30pm p11 p41 p24 p46 & 4pm p46

Eva Meyer-Keller Eva Meyer- Internal Internal Internal The Garage Keller The Garage The Garage The Garage 5pm & 8pm p34 The Garage 2–4pm & 7–9pm 2–4pm & 7–9pm 2–4pm & 7–9pm 5pm & 8pm p34 p35 p35 p35 Quizoola! The Garage Metis Arts 6pm–12am p34 Metis Arts Millennium Pln Millennium Pln Various Metis Arts Various p33 Millennium Pln p33 Various p33 Ibragimova Dan Jones Dan Jones John Innes Streets of Nch Streets of Nch 7.30pm 7.30–9.30pm 7.30–9.30pm p13 p25 p25

RAM Talk: Perschke RAM RAM I Fagiolini RAM Assembly Hse and Etchells Assembly Hse Assembly Hse St John’s Assembly Hse 1pm Assembly Hse 1pm 1pm Cath 1pm p15 2pm p15 p15 7.30pm & p15 p48 9.30pm p14

Jazz Boat Blues Cruise RAM RAM RAM Jazz Boat 1pm, Blues 5pm Martham Sheringham South Walsham 5pm Cruise 5pm p18 7.30pm Lt Theatre 7.30pm p18 p18 p15 7.30pm p15 p15

Family Variety Tea Dance Milonga 3pm 1pm–4pm 1pm–5pm p46 p26 p26

La Vie La Vie La Vie La Vie Bo Nanafana Die Roten Die Roten Die Roten 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Social Club Punkte Punkte Punkte p27 p27 p27 p27 7.30pm–1am 8pm 8pm 8pm p28 p28 p28 p28

Variety in Variety in Spiegel Late Spiegel Late Spiegel Late James Hunter Spiegel Late the Garden the Garden 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm p29 10.30pm p29 p29 p29 p29 p25 p29

Circus Ronaldo Garden Party Garden Party 8pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm p31 p45 p45 El Laberint p43 Theater Froe Froe p43 RedBall: Norwich p49

Neon Signs p50

A Short Message Spectacle p50

The Artist’s Studio p51 Night at Museum The Artist’s Studio p51 5pm–11pm p54 Beatles to Bowie: the Sixties Exposed p52

Mick Jones: The Rock ’n’ Roll Mick Jones: The Rock ’n’ Roll Public Library p53 Public Library p53 The Point of Perception p53

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