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West Yorkshire Playhouse Beryl | Mazaika Music Cabaret Finger & Thumb Theatre The Ugly Duckling | The Fugitives In Concert Ian Keable The Secret World of Charles Dickens West Yorkshire Playhouse BERYL • • • Lund • Swanland woman who gives her absolute all, whether competing in East Germany or running the Hoover up the stairs; Charlie, her husband and soigneur, which is cyclist parlance for the bloke who trains, tinkers and hands out baby bottles of rice pudding along the route; and Denise, their daughter, who became a cycling champion in her own right. With just four talented performers & their bikes, Beryl evokes a sporting world before drugs and commercial sponsorship, a family pulling together against the odds, the admirable camaraderie and selflessness of the amateur cycling community and, at the centre of it all, one truly remarkable Maxine Peake’s charming and critically woman. acclaimed play celebrates the life of Beryl Target audience: Older audiences, Burton – the greatest woman on two women, mothers and daughters, cyclists wheels. Yorkshire woman Beryl Burton and anyone who enjoys a strong story was five times world pursuit champion, powerfully acted. thirteen times national champion, twice road-racing world champion and www.wyp.org.uk twelve times national champion. She Maxine Peake’s compassionate was awarded an MBE and an OBE. She homage…four stars. The Guardian was one of the most astonishing sports Burton’s story … brought to theatrically people ever to have lived. inventive and comically freewheeling life. Beryl – A Romance on Two Wheels tells The Daily Telegraph the story of Beryl’s life, from working on a The excellent four-strong cast employ rhubarb farm to becoming the best British some entertaining stagecraft to enliven a cycling all-rounder for 25 consecutive good-natured piece directed by Rebecca years and, in 1967, setting a 12 hour time- Gatward … brilliant moments …The trial which has not been broken to this character of Burton obviously resonates day. She caught up with Britain’s fastest strongly with [Maxine] Peake – strong, male cyclist while setting it and, legend female northern and working class – and has it, offered him a liquorice allsort as the piece … offers a high quality local she sailed past. drama which clearly resonated with an

live Rebecca Gatward’s freewheeling appreciative hometown audience. production features four actors playing The Independent multiple roles while improvising with the oily tools at hand. Beryl herself – a ArtERY Finger & Thumb Theatre THE UGLY DUCKLING • North Drew Colby, Finger and Thumb Theatre, is the only professional hand shadow puppeteer in Britain and an internationally recognised artist. He has paired up with The Fugitives cellist Penny Callow and has created a IN CONCERT spellbinding, poetic and funny interpretation Withernsea • North Newbald of the Hans Christian Andersen classic “The Ugly Duckling”. Everyday objects The Fugitives, Vancouver-based indie folk including plastic spoons and kitchen collective worked across six countries, in colanders become beautiful landscapes and which the band earned a spot at Glastonbury shimmering fish; combined with, live music Music Festival 2014, and a stint supporting and breath-taking hand shadows this is a Canadian music legend Buffy Sainte-Marie. magical hour long show for the whole family The band is eclectic, with a host of multi- with laughs and a few surprises The show instrumentalists whose styles range from features specially composed music and bluegrass to jazz. They’ve had sell out shows recorded soundscapes. at venues as diverse as the Vienna Literary Festival, the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre 4+ Family. Target audience: Festival, and the Vancouver Jazz Festival. www.fingerandthumbtheatre.com Target audience: All ages. Colby ‘shadowed’ cats and dogs, rabbits www.fugitives.ca/ and birds (perched and in flight) – and even biography/#sthash.3c9jX1SY.dpuf a bear, elephant and monkey. In one word, it was a delight. The Times of India A funny, uplifting group with brilliant musicianship, top-notch songwriting, & complex vocal harmonies. The 4-part vocals are sensational… This show is simply brilliant. With their all-acoustic lineup, the Fugitives bring enough energy to the stage to light up a small city… Ian Keable THE SECRET WORLD OF CHARLES DICKENS: MIRTH, MARVELS AND THE MYSTERIOUS Bridlington • North Newbald In this humorous and mystifying show, Ian Keable reveals Dickens’s journey to becoming a magician, and recreates his favourite tricks and the spooky practises of the Victorian psychics. The first half of the show follows how Dickens became a magician and why he Mazaika gave up magic. It ends, as Dickens ended MUSIC CABARET his own show, with the production of a fruit cake – which is consumed by the audience Etton • Bishop Burton • Withernsea in the interval. The Mazaika Duo is a perfect, yet Target audience: Aimed at 14+, though unconventional marriage of violin, younger children have enjoyed the show accordion and voice, full of fun, excitement with parents. and virtuosity. Their twinkling humour, rapport with the audience and each www.charlesdickensmysteryshow.co.uk other gives the audience an intoxicating Reviews from Wiltshire Rural Touring, 2014: experience. Russian folk and gypsy songs, Everyone had a really good evening and classical and opera, Argentine and Russian enjoyed your show immensely. tango, Balkan beats, Hot Club jazz, latin, People who came have been telling international pop and rock and original everyone else how good it was, so we music by Igor Outkine. may well book you again next year. What a A magical and exhilarating performance cracking good night! guaranteed to transport you from the Russian Steppes to the Gypsy Campfire, the Opera House to the Parisian café. Full of Russian soul, Tango Passion and Operatic Melodrama plus some Hotclub and Hillbilly mayhem. Sarah Harrison () – violin, vocal, domra (Russian mandolin). Igor Outkine (Russia) – vocals, midi accordion ( unique one-man orchestra) Target audience: family audience friendly. www.mazaika-music.com Hugely entertaining… the duo frequently brought the house down.’ **** Scotsman An evening of magic and passion. Independent ArtERY live listings Autumn 2015 Date Time Venue Contact

West Yorkshire Playhouse Beryl 01377 253631 ext 415 Tue 20 Oct* 1.00 Driffield School, North Hall YO25 5HR e: [email protected]. sch.uk Wed 21 Oct 7.00 Beverley, Longcroft School HU17 7EJ 01482 870751 • TIC 01482 391672 01262 601006 Thu 22 Oct 7.30 Bridlington, Spotlight Theatre YO15 3DZ www.spotlighttheatrebrid.co.uk Fri 23 Oct 7.30 Lund Village Hall YO25 9TF 01377 217776 or 01377 219598 01482 634863 Sat 24 Oct 7.30 Swanland Village Hall HU14 3QR e: [email protected] * School performance only – not open to the general public

Finger & Thumb Theatre The Ugly Duckling Sat 24 Oct 7.00 Withernsea, Meridian Centre HU19 2HH 01964 613218 • BO 01964 613355

01430 827493 Mon 26 Oct 6.30 North Newbald Village Hall YO43 4SJ e: [email protected]

The Fugitives In Concert Thu 29 Oct 8.00 Withernsea, Meridian Centre HU19 2HH 01964 613218 • BO 01964 613355

Ian Keable The Secret World of Charles Dickens 01262 601006 Thu 5 Nov 7.30 Bridlington, Spotlight Theatre YO15 3DZ www.spotlighttheatrebrid.co.uk 01430 827493 Sat 7 Nov 7.30 North Newbald Village Hall YO43 4SJ e: [email protected]

Mazaika Music Cabaret Fri 27 Nov 7.30 Etton Village Hall HU17 7PG 01430 810285

Sat 28 Nov 8.00 Bishop Burton Village Hall HU17 8QJ 01964 552303

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