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Sep19 Dec19 Fri 25 Oct s On / ’ Turn of the Turn Screw What Box Office 01254 706006 / darwenlibrarytheatre.com National Theatre Live: DRAMA Encore Screening Box Office: 01254 706006 darwenlibrarytheatre.com One Man, Two Guvnors Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Show, James Diary of Events Contents Corden, the hilarious West End and Broadway hit One Man, Two Guvnors returns to cinemas to mark National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday. September 2019 4 Afternoon Variety Show Drama 3 6 An Evening With Jimmy White Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall 7 Darwen Comedy Club Family 5 becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time 10 Margaret Atwood - Live In Cinemas East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 12 Steve Harley Acoustic Trio Comedy 6 from his fiancée’s dad. But Roscoe is really his 14 The Ultimate Evening of Clairvoyance sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s 18 Red Joan Music 8 been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. 19 Daliso Chaponda - Blah Blah Blacklist 21 Whole Lotta Led Dance 13 Thu 26 Sep / 7pm 26 NT Live - One Man, Two Guvnors Tickets from: £14 / £13 conc 12A 28 NT Live - Fleabag Spoken Word 13 October 2019 1 Cinema Live - Plácido Domingo 50th Anniversary Concert Variety 15 2 Afternoon Variety Show 4 Simply reRed Film 15 5 Darwen Comedy Club 9 Félix Rabin 10 Desiree Burch How To Book 16 16 The Keeper 16 Rick Buckler - My Life with Jam Seating Plan 17 17 NT Live - A Midsummer Night's Dream 18 Andy Fairweather Low 21 Hey Diddle Diddle! 23 Billy Connolly - The Sex Life of Bandages 24 Gordon Haskell 25 Turn of the Screw National Theatre Live: 26 The Music of John Denver Encore Screening National Theatre Live: 31 Northern Ballet Live - Dracula Encore Screening November 2019 1 Beatlemania - Shake It Up Baby Tour Fleabag 2 Darwen Comedy Club A Midsummer 3 John Power Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge 6 Afternoon Variety Show (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones, Night’s Dream [email protected] Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman 7 NT Live - Hansard ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ 8 Iron Bell living her sort of life. Fleabag may seem oversexed, 9 Mike Peters: The Alarm darwenlibrarytheatre emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross 15 Henry Paker - Man Alive that’s just the tip of the iceberg. With family and paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of 20 Wild Rose @DarwenLTheatre friendships under strain and a guinea pig café actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute 21 Cash and Carter Together struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds grows, the magical royal couple meddle with mortal 28 A Christmas Carol herself with nothing to lose. lives leading to love triangles, mistaken identities 29 The Blow Monkeys and transformations… with hilarious, but dark All artists, dates, times and prices are Playing to sold-out audiences in New York and 30 The Houghton Weavers consequences. correct at the time of going to press but London, don’t miss your chance to see this December 2019 4 Afternoon Variety Show we reserve the right to change them if ‘legitimately hilarious show’ (New Yorker). 4 NT Live - Present Laughter necessary. 7 Darwen Comedy Club The time given is the show start time / 7.30pm / 7pm 9-24 Pinocchio unless otherwise stated. Sat 28 Sep Thu 17 Oct 20 Yesterday Tickets from: £14 / conc £13 15 Tickets from: £14 / conc £13 12A 2 Box Office: 01254 706006 darwenlibrarytheatre @DarwenLTheatre darwenlibrarytheatre.com 3 DRAMA DRAMA National Theatre Live: Encore Screening Turn of the Screw Present Laughter Award-winning Box Tale Soup present a new Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, adaptation of Henry James’ disturbing story, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present featuring puppetry and a haunting original Laughter. As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star soundtrack. Edinburgh Fringe 2018 sell-out show. actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling At an isolated estate, a young governess arrives. out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his Before long she fears there is something darker many and various relationships compete for his attention, in the depths of Bly House, and battles to save the Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind children from the mysterious figures who seek to of love, sex, panic and soul-searching. corrupt them. Wed 4 Dec / 7pm Fri 25 Oct / 7.30pm Tickets from: £14 / conc £13 12A Tickets from: £10 / £8 Groups 10+ PG FAMILY National Theatre Live: Live Broadcast Pinocchio Hansard A Christmas Carol When you wish upon a star…… poor carpenter Hansard; noun – The official report of all Geppetto longs for a son. His dream looks like it Olivier Award winner, Guy Masterson, veteran parliamentary debates. may come true when the Blue Fairy grants his of many smash hit solo works such as Under Hey Diddle Diddle! wish and brings his puppet ‘Pinocchio’ to life. The See two-time Olivier Award winners, Lindsay Milk Wood, Animal Farm and Shylock, now Ever wondered how a cow jumped over the faithful, ever-watchful ‘Jiminy Cricket’ is appointed Duncan (Birdman, About Time) and Alex Jennings brings us Dickens’ classic festive fable. moon? Or why the dish ran away with the as Pinocchio’s conscience. But can he keep him from (The Lady in the Van, The Queen), in this brand- spoon? Famed for bringing multiple characters the clutches of the sly fox and the evil Stromboli? new play by Simon Wood, broadcast live from the to vivid life, Masterson recreates Scrooge, With original songs played live on stage, Can he teach Pinocchio the dangers of telling lies? National Theatre in London. Don’t miss this witty Marley, the Fezziwigs, Tiny Tim et al in an brilliant puppetry and lots of laughter, this Join us this Christmas as this much-loved classic and devastating portrait of the governing class, enchanting, performance that will dazzle and new show is a wild and musical celebration tale comes to Darwen Library Theatre in this directed by Simon Godwin. linger long in the memory. Guaranteed to get about the importance of imagination. ultimate Christmas Comedy Musical. It’s a summer’s morning in 1988 and Tory politician you into the Christmas Spirit - in many more Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic ways than one! Mon 21 Oct / 1.30pm Mon 9 Dec—Tue 24 Dec / Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Tickets from: £8 / £6 Children & Various times / Contact Box Office Diana. But all is not as blissful as it seems. Thu 28 Nov / 7.30pm Groups 10+ Tickets from: £14 Tickets from: £13 / £11 conc / Thu 7 Nov / 7pm Age Recommendation: 3+ Concession and group rates available £10 Groups 10+ PG Tickets from: £14 / conc £13 15 Age Recommendation: 3+ 4 Box Office: 01254 706006 darwenlibrarytheatre @DarwenLTheatre darwenlibrarytheatre.com 5 COMEDY Darwen Comedy COMEDY Club Daliso Chaponda Fans of live stand-up comedy in Darwen are Blah Blah Blacklist in for a treat when we deliver the cream of the Daliso shot to fame on Britain’s Got Talent and has UK and international comedy circuit to your gone on to amass over 100 million YouTube views, doorstep every single month! write and star in his critically acclaimed Radio 4 show Citizen of Nowhere, and appear on QI, The Apprentice: The comedians are hand-picked and curated to You’re Fired, News Quiz and The Now Show. showcase the best of industry. We promise you’ll In his hilarious, daring new show, Daliso looks at love them just as much as we do! disgraced, blacklisted celebrities and historical figures we’re ashamed we once admired. There’s also the small matter of family member arrests, exploding buildings in his home country and the enterprising Malawian who tried to blackmail him. Thu 19 Sep / 8pm Tickets from: £16 14+ Sat 7 Sep Sat 5 Oct MC Karen Bayley Kevin Gildea MC Raymond Mearns Micky Bartlett Kathryn Mather Gordon Southern TBC Adam Rowe 8pm / Tickets from: £12 adv / £14 door 18+ 8pm / Tickets from: £12 adv / £14 door 18+ Recorded Encore Screening Billy Connolly The Sex Life of Bandages Desiree Burch Screening as a special one-night-only event, You already know comedian Desiree Burch, Connolly will also muse upon his career, life and but isn’t it time to really find out? The legacy in a deeply personal interview filmed breakout star of Netflix’s Flinch, The Mash exclusively for cinema audiences. Report and Live At The Apollo (BBC) debuts Prior to retiring in 2016 following his diagnosis new stand-up about the self and everything with Parkinson’s Disease, Connolly toured else. Every comic has a relationship show worldwide continuously for 50 years, performing Sat 2 Nov Sat 7 Dec but what happens when that relationship is to an audience of over 10 million. The Sex Life of with the one person you were most trying Bandages is a big screen tribute to an iconic funny- MC Mike Wilkinson Matt Green MC Jonathan Mayor Peter Brush to avoid? One isn’t prime or perfect. But it is man whose sharp wit and anarchic storytelling is TBC Troy Hawke TBC Gavin Webster magic! still as hilarious as ever. / 8pm / 7.30pm 8pm / Tickets from: £12 adv / £14 door 18+ 8pm / Tickets from: £12 adv / £14 door 18+ Thu 10 Oct Wed 23 Oct Tickets from: £13 18+ Tickets from: £13 18+ Line-ups are subject to change 6 Box Office: 01254 706006 darwenlibrarytheatre @DarwenLTheatre darwenlibrarytheatre.com 7 COMEDY MUSIC Cinema Live: Star of Comedy Central at the Comedy Store, Josh (BBC3) and co-writer and star Plácido Domingo of Radio 4’s Small Scenes, Henry’s latest show is a unique mixture of stand-up 50th Anniversary Gala Evening comedy and illustration which took the With an illustrious career spanning five decades: over Edinburgh Fringe by storm.