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AUTUMN 2016 RIVERHOUSE ARTS CENTRE walton on thames GALLERY • THEATRE • MUSIC • CAFÉ Manor Road Walton on Thames KT12 2PF Box Office: 01932 253354 www.riverhousebarn.co.uk . 9 e g a p e e S . r e b o t c O 8 y a d r u t a S , y a D n e p O n a c i r f A CONTENTS AUTUMN 16 BOOKING DETAILS Introduction 3 By post Emily Boulting Director Riverhouse Arts Centre, Manor Road Café 3 Walton on Thames, Surrey KT12 2PF – This autumn Riverhouse is proud to announce a new partnership Hires 3 cheques payable to Riverhouse. Please with the fabulous charity Music in Hospitals. Our first event will be a enclose a SAE. Tea and Memories concert, which we hope you will support by Theatre 4 - 6 bringing somebody who might otherwise find it difficult to attend By phone (see page 27). Comedy 7 - 8 Box Office: 01932 253354 (24 hrs) As ever you will find details inside this brochure of a rich mix of Special Events 9 - 10 By email music and drama, alongside new events. We invite you to join us Children’s Theatre 11 - 12 [email protected] for our 'Barn Book Fair', where you can hand in your pre-loved Online booking books, choose some different ones and meet some local authors. Children’s Events 13 We welcome back Franco̧ is-Fred́ eŕ ic Guy as part of the Please visit our website International Piano Series. European Arts return with a one man Words 14 - 16 www.riverhousebarn.co.uk or book through ‘Christmas Carol’ and Story Pocket will be entertaining the whole our Facebook page. Film 17 family with their wonderful Christmas show ‘The Nutcracker’. Concessions We are really excited to be working with two artists on this year’s Nutcracker Christmas Exhibition Classical Music 18 - 23 Unless otherwise stated, concessionary and we will be asking you, the local community, to get involved and contribute once again. This ticket prices apply to children 16 and Jazz and Beer 24 - 25 year the exhibition will feature a dancing display of zoetropes and cyclotropes (see page 33), under, full-time students, registered some of which will feature in the Walton Festival of Light. Jazz 25 - 26 unemployed, pensioners aged 65+. More Music 26 - 27 For visitors who require a carer or helper to assist them, we offer that carer or helper a Folk 28 - 29 free ticket. Call 01932 253354 for details. CAFÉ NEWS Exhibitions 30 - 33 Conditions of sale All details were correct at the time of Classes for Children 34 - 35 going to press. Riverhouse Arts Centre Open daily 9.30am to 5pm Workshops 35 reserves the right to make changes to the Thyme at Riverhouse is delighted to serve its programme when circumstances dictate. customers a wide range of tempting homemade Classes for Adults 36 - 38 cakes, breakfasts, light lunches and afternoon tea, plus excellent coffee and traditional Exchange or refund of tickets and herbal teas. Thyme also has gluten/dairy free options readily available, as well as a Sponsors 39 Tickets may not be exchanged or the children's menu. It provides a warm welcome for the local community, visitors, Friends of Friends and Volunteers 39 money refunded. Please check your Riverhouse, actors, artists, audience and their children! In addition to the indoor Café/Bar, tickets at the time of purchase. The box we also have a tranquil courtyard and a rear terrace, next to the Sensory Garden, office will accept tickets for resale (but overlooking the River Thames. We look forward to welcoming you. resale is not guaranteed). For more information: www.thymeatriverhouse.com Children’s shows We request that parents and carers consider the age recommendations for HIRES each of the children’s shows before booking (and enquire if in any doubt). Access Hires Riverhouse is fully equipped to welcome All of our facilities are available to disabled visitors. hire for performances, exhibitions, • Wheelchair spaces for performances concerts, conferences, (advance booking essential) celebrations, meetings, product • Dedicated parking spaces launches, banquets, training etc… • Level access to the barn and studio and a lift to the gallery Call 01932 254198 for more details. • Induction Loop • Accessible toilet 2 3 THEATRE Friday 14 October 8pm £14 (£12 concs, £5 U16) Pantaloons Theatre Company presents Sunday 2 October 7pm £14 (£12 concs, £5 student) The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Tayo Aluko & Friends present The critically-acclaimed Will Kaufman in Pantaloons Theatre Woody Guthrie: Company returns to Riverhouse to present The Long Road to Peekskill their horrifically New Yorker Will Kaufman – singer, multi- innovative take on instrumentalist and Professor of American Literature Robert Louis Stevenson’s and Culture at the University of Central Lancashire – murky tale of murder, is recognised as the world’s leading authority on mystery and Woody Guthrie. He is the author of the first political transmogrification! biography of the legendary American balladeer, When lawyer John ‘Woody Guthrie, American Radical’ (Illinois Univ. Utterson fears that his Press), and has two more books forthcoming. friend Dr Jekyll is being ‘Woody Guthrie: The Long Road to Peekskill’ blackmailed by the presents the story of Guthrie’s personal shadowy and violent Mr transformation from a youthful Oklahoma racist to Hyde he begins an the ardent anti-racist champion who, along with investigation that will many others, risked his life holding the line against inexorably lead him to American fascism during the notorious Peekskill riots of 1949. Conventionally known for his the shocking truth of championing of the poor white Dust Bowl migrants, Guthrie also left an extensive body of this strange case – songs condemning Jim Crow segregation, lynching and race hatred. ‘The Long Road to but will it be too Peekskill’ is both a harrowing and uplifting presentation, showing, through the example of late…? Woody Guthrie, that racists are not born, but made - and that they can be unmade. Friday 7 October 8pm £14 (£12 concs) Nimble Fish presents Lost in Blue Written and Performed by Debs Newbold Directed by John Wright When she was three years old, Annie's life was skewed off-course. On her 18th birthday, it threatens to happen again. What is it like to be in a coma? To love someone in a coma? What would Van Gogh say about it if you hung out with him in his room at Arles? And what does a pigeon called Muhammad Ali eat for breakfast? 'Lost in Blue' is a funny, uplifting, poignant and at times wonderfully bizarre one-woman show. This is Verbal Cinema; Debs Newbold's powerful storytelling fuelled by innovative sound technology. "I thought it was amazing. You’re an extraordinary storyteller...I was immersed in it straight away." Rachel Nelken, Senior Producer, Roundhouse London 4 5 THEATRE COMEDY Friday 18 November 7.30pm £8 Tuesday 30 August 8pm £12 The Penny Knaves Griff Rhys Jones (In Association with The R C Sherriff Trust) present Work In Progress Foolish Mortals Griff Rhys Jones is airing some An Evening of Theatre and Song thoughts – stories, anecdotes, Inspired by Shakespeare’s Love Bits! reminiscences and half- remembered events from a Love. It’s so much more than ‘boy meets long career with his much girl’. Whether the tale of woe of Juliet and missed comedy partner Mel her Romeo, the antics of the foolish Smith. It’s a ramble through a mortals pursued through a forest by a relationship. Join him on this mischievous fairy, or the humiliation of the work in progress, complete cross-gartered Malvolio, one thing is with previously unseen certain, its course never does run smooth. footage. Come and join The Penny Knaves as they commemorate 400 years of Shakespeare and Love and reveal how often it will lead its victims into strange capers. Friday 23 September 8pm £14 (£12 concs) Thursday 15 and Friday 16 December 8pm £14 (£12 concs) Simon Evans In the Money A Christmas Carol Host of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Goes to read by Mr Charles Market’ and star of BBC1’s ‘Live at the Apollo’, Simon Evans has Dickens been immersing himself in Directed by Peter Craze. economics for the last couple of Performed by John O’Connor. years, like a pig immersing itself in In support of the children’s charity organic cleansing elements. He Barnardo’s. has unpicked why the French don't want to own their own ‘A Christmas Carol’ was the first home (sex, obvs), why mass public performance Charles spectrometers reveal Americans Dickens gave of his own work. He to literally be made of corn, and enacted it over 150 times and the why Alco-Synth - the effects of effect on the public was alcohol but with an effective phenomenal. “The success was antidote - is not likely to be most wonderful and prodigious – appearing at a wine bar near perfectly overwhelming and you in the near future, despite astounding altogether!” he said having been invented years ago. after the first night. This Christmas, As usual the whole thing you can experience what it must deteriorates swiftly into a heartfelt have been like to be in the rant about his children but these audience. European Arts are at least the lofty aspirations Company is faithfully recreating he starts with this time Dickens’ famous performance of his best-loved and most heart-warming story. Come and enjoy a seasonal treat in the spirit of Christmas past, present and future. As Bill Clinton said - "It's the Economy, Stupid!" Though he also "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy.