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Coventry & Warwickshire Cover Coventry & Warwickshire Cover October 2018 .qxp_Coventry & Warwickshire Cover 24/09/2018 15:40 Page 1 NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL - CHRISTMAS Your FREE essential entertainment guide for the Midlands COMES EARLY TO THE BELGRADE COVENTRY & WARWICKSHIRE WHAT’S ON OCTOBER 2018 2018 OCTOBER ON WHAT’S WARWICKSHIRE & COVENTRY Coventry & Warwickshire ISSUE 394 OCTOBER 2018 ’ WhatFILM I COMEDY I THEATRE I GIGS I VISUAL ARTS I EVENTSs I FOOD On warwickshirewhatson.co.uk PART OF WHAT’S ON MEDIA GROUP GROUP MEDIA ON WHAT’S OF PART TWITTER: @WHATSONWARWICKS TWITTER: @WHATSONWARWICKS FACEBOOK: @WHATSONWARWICKSHIRE WARWICKSHIREWHATSON.CO.UK (IFC) Warwickshire.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2018 15:12 Page 1 Contents October Warwicks/Worcs.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2018 10:16 Page 2 October 2018 Contents Nativity! The Musical - Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre gets into the Christmas spirit good and early! - page 28 Sara Pascoe Troilus And Cressida Grand Designs the list no off-limit subjects at new version of Shakespeare’s Kevin McCloud takes to the Your 16-page Coventry’s Warwick Arts Centre rarely performed play at the RSC stage at the NEC week-by-week listings guide page 23 page 26 page 47 page 51 inside: 4. First Word 11. Food 15. Music 22. Comedy 24. Theatre 37. Film 40. Visual Arts 45. Events fb.com/whatsonwarwickshire fb.com/whatsonworcestershire @whatsonwarwicks @whatsonworcs Warwickshire What’s On Magazine Worcestershire What’s On Magazine Warwickshire What’s On Magazine Worcestershire What’s On Magazine Managing Director: Davina Evans [email protected] 01743 281708 Sales & Marketing: Lei Woodhouse [email protected] 01743 281703 Chris Horton [email protected] 01743 281704 What’sOn Editorial: Lauren Foster [email protected] 01743 281707 Brian O’Faolain [email protected] 01743 281701 Sue Jones [email protected] 01743 281705 Abi Whitehouse [email protected] 01743 281716 MEDIA GROUP Lauren Cole [email protected] 01743 281706 Adrian Parker [email protected] 01743 281714 Contributors: Graham Bostock, James Cameron-Wilson, Katherine Ewing, Jenny Ell, Steve Adams, Jack Rolfe, Elly Yates-Roberts, Daisy Sparkle, Steve Taylor, Chris Eldon Lee Publisher and CEO: Martin Monahan Accounts Administrator: Julia Perry [email protected] 01743 281717 This publication is printed on paper from a sustainable source and is produced without the use of elemental chlorine. We endorse the recycling of our magazine and would encourage you to pass it on to others to read when you have finished with it. All works appearing in this publication are copyright. It is to be assumed that the copyright for material rests with the magazine unless otherwise stated. No part of this publication may be reproduced, or stored in an electronic system, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopied, recording or otherwise, without the prior knowledge and consent of the publishers. First Word Warwickshire October.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2018 12:54 Page 1 Entertainment news from around the region RSC announces new line-up of shows for summer season 2019 New productions of As You Like It, The Taming Of The Shrew and Measure For Measure all feature in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) recently announced pro- gramme for its 2019 summer season. Commenting on the line-up, RSC Artistic Director Gre- gory Doran said: “The season reflects the power of sto- rytelling in its most essential form, with the actor at the centre of the work. We’re creating a company which re- flects the nation in terms of gender, ethnicity, regional- ity and disability - 27 actors who will all appear in two out of the three plays. “We’re also making some exciting changes to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre auditorium specifically for this season, creating new perspectives on the action, truly exploiting the unique qualities of our thrust stage and showing our work in a completely new way.” For full details of the RSC’s summer programme and to book tickets for any of the shows, visit rsc.org.uk New summer music event The final date for entries is 31 January, and Lots to laugh about at the winner will be announced in late Febru- planned for Coventry ary. For more details and to enter, go to stratl- Leamington Spa festival Organisers of a new outdoor music festival itfest.co.uk/bookcompetition Leamington Spa Comedy Festival makes a taking place in Coventry next summer are welcome return this month. aiming to make the event one of the biggest Taking place at the town’s Royal Spa Centre the city has ever seen. Burlesque that will make from Sunday 7 to Saturday 13 October, the Entitled Soundscape, the festival is being 2018 edition of the event features Reginald D held in Ricoh Arena’s stadium bowl on Satur- you scream in Stratford! Hunter, Henning Wein, Juliette Burton and day 15 and Sunday 16 June. It will feature per- local lad Gary Delaney. Check out the full fes- formances by chart-topping artists and tival line-up at leamingtoncomedy.com leading acts from the indie, rock and alterna- tive scene. Commenting on the new festival, Dan Waltzing in a New Year’s Nelmes, director of the event’s producers, Showtime Live, said: “We’re aiming to make Day winter wonderland this the most memorable music event that’s Birmingham’s Symphony Hall is hosting a ever taken place in Coventry. There will be celebration of the music of Johann Strauss on something for all musical generations over New Year’s Day. the weekend, to make it the perfect summer Recreating ‘the glittering romance of a 19th gathering for the whole family” century Viennese ballroom’, Waltzing In A Winter Wonderland is a brand new show fea- turing Strauss favourites including Blue Children’s book prize now Danube Waltz, Radetzky March, Thunder A celebration of the dark and decadent side And Lightning Polka and Voices Of Spring. taking submissions... of burlesque and cabaret is coming to Strat- The Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival ford-upon-Avon this month. and the Salariya Book Company are now tak- A Midsummer Night's Scream: The Revenge ing submissions for their 2019 Children’s Pic- features burlesque, dance, magic, pole, ture Book Prize. sideshow, singing ‘and even a quick-change The competition is open to unpublished writ- act on a unicycle!’ Hosted by Steve Griffin ers and illustrators and has a prize value of and Nathan Jones, who describe themselves £1,000. The winner will receive career advice as ‘a pair of grifters, tricksters, conmen and from a leading literary agent and publicity award-winning magicians’, the show takes through the Stratford Literary Festival. They place at Stratford Playhouse on Thursday 18 may also be published by Salariya imprint October. For more information, visit midsum- Scribblers. mernightsscream.co.uk 4 whatsonlive.co.uk First Word Warwickshire October.qxp_Layout 1 24/09/2018 12:54 Page 2 First Word Celebrity chef Whoops it up with kids’ book debut Michelin-starred Birmingham chef Glynn Purnell has pub- lished a children’s book about his late Jack Russell. The Magical Adventures Of Whoops The Wonder Dog is aimed at primary school-aged children and tells the story of a little dog who uses her super- hero powers to stop evil neigh- bour Doctor Dactyl from pulling off the crime of the century. Commenting on his new book, Glynn said: “I still remember the vivid images from the magi- cal worlds of my favourite au- thors when I was younger - and I’m excited that I might be able to do the same here. “I got very involved in all Whoops’ adventures, even though I was writing them!” UK’s first Afrobeats musical heads to Coventry theatre A midnight cycle The UK’s first ever Afrobeats musical visits Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre this month (Thursday 4 to ride to save lives Saturday 6 October). First staged in London in 2013 and featuring a line-up of new black British talent, Oliva Tweest tells A midnight cycle ride in support the story of a young man with big ambitions who attempts to shake off his shady reputation in order of charities involved in suicide prevention takes place in the to carve out a serious career for himself in the entertainment business... To book tickets, call 024 7655 Midlands next month. 3055 or visit belgrade.co.uk Awesome Rides, Out Of The Dark starts at midnight on 10 November. Its route will cover Cathedral to Anselm Kiefer on display at the Herbert 60 miles of well-lit roads. For more information, visit awe- host massed An exhibition of work by one of Germany’s most significant post-war somerides.net choir event artists opens at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry this month. Coventry Cathedral is Spanning 40 years of Anselm Kiefer’s career, the new show explores this month hosting a A new direction for themes of national identity and collective memory, often addressing the historical broadcast legacy of Germany after the Second World War. Stratford orchestra performance commem- The exhibition, which shows from 19 October to 27 January, marks the Orchestra of the Swan’s new orating the centenary Herbert’s first collaboration with Artist Rooms, a touring collection of Artistic Director, David Le Page, of World War One. over 1,600 works of modern and contemporary art. The collection is dis- is looking forward to his first Blending music, narra- played in museums and galleries across the UK through a programme of season in his new post. tion and theatre, We “I’m thrilled to be taking on the solo exhibitions that showcase the work of 40 major international artists.
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