Dickens Exhibition at the Burnavon Centre, Cookstown, as part of the Dickens 2012 NI Festival Litvack, L. (Author). (2012). Dickens Exhibition at the Burnavon Centre, Cookstown, as part of the Dickens 2012 NI Festival. Exhibition Queen's University Belfast - Research Portal: Link to publication record in Queen's University Belfast Research Portal General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Queen's University Belfast Research Portal is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy The Research Portal is Queen's institutional repository that provides access to Queen's research output. Every effort has been made to ensure that content in the Research Portal does not infringe any person's rights, or applicable UK laws. If you discover content in the Research Portal that you believe breaches copyright or violates any law, please contact [email protected]. Download date:06. Aug. 2018 Spring 2012 1 - May 2012 January boxbox office office 028028 86768676 99499949 bookbook onlineonline www.burnavon.com Welcome 2 to the new SeaSon we are pleased to ‘Carthaginians’ by Frank ‘A Night with George’, the Ballet UK in association with the present our new McGuinness, one of the few hilarious, award winning, hit Tyrone Courier visit us for the season brochure, enduring plays born out of comedy from Brassneck Theatre first time when they present the ‘The Troubles’, is presented in Company, became an overnight magical tale of Sleeping Beauty. with the very best of March by Millennium Forum sensation at the West Belfast For those looking some light regional drama, music Productions. Directed by Adrian Festival in 2009 before going relief, there’s also plenty of and comedy provided Dunbar this promises to be one on to sell out across Northern comedy to choose from. We’ve for your entertainment, of the highlights of the season. Ireland and further afield. It listened to your feedback and the as well as workshops Prime Cut Productions, are back comes to the Burnavon in May. Burnavon Comedy Club is back! to participate in and with their hilarious and moving Igor Bolshoikirov, the alter-ego exhibitions to view. homage to the working man Musical highlights include of Moneymore man Cormac ‘Shoot the Crow’. The month Robert Mizzell & guest, Lisa O’Donnell, presents his own This season sees the Burnavon is rounded up by ‘Marianne McHugh; The Máirtín O’Connor unique take on life in Cookstown. playing host to the cream of Dreams’ performed by award Band; Justin McGurk; Mike Tim McGarry, Brendan Grace, the Northern Ireland’s professional winning children’s theatre Denver; The Illegals featuring Give My Head Peace gang, and and amateur theatre. In company, Replay. Niamh Kavanagh; Kenny Kevin McAleer keep the laughs February, we have the Northern Archer and James Huish, coming. So sit back enjoy the Ireland premier of Big Telly’s Drama also takes centre stage in among many others. There is craic and all that is in store this ‘Melmoth the Wanderer’ as April with Agape Dramatic Society a rare opportunity at the end of spring at the Burnavon. Hope to they celebrate their 25th year in making their welcome return to May to see three of the finest see you here, theatre. Greenshoot Productions the Burnavon, with a brand new songwriters and performers of present ‘Brothers in Arms’ musical by Eleanor Crymble. their generation, as Brendan directed by Martin Lynch, and Belvoir Players also return with Murphy (The Four of Us), Brian the Burnavon team Conor McPherson’s ‘The Weir’ is the much loved Sam Cree play Houston and Anthony Toner staged by Pomeroy Players. ‘Widow’s Paradise’. come together for a very special concert. 3 alice in Performance Wonderland PRESENTED BY Stewartstown Amateur event Dramatic Society Hire . Date Fri 6 Jan – Sat 28 Jan 2012 2012 Fridays at 8pm; Saturdays Saturdays matinee at 2.30pm, evening show at 8pm tickets £10 / £8 (Conc) Preview night: Fri 6 Jan £5 / £3 Family ticket: £28 (2 adults and 2 children / We’d love your I adult and 3 children) feedback . Follow Alice down through the Get in touch rabbit hole, through the pool of tears, the Queens’ Croquet-Ground, By phone: and into the Duchesses’ garden, Box Office 028 8676 9949 as her adventures in Wonderland come alive in this year’s panto fun By email: for the whole family. Join us for [email protected] a magical theatrical experience and traditional panto fun, songs, On Facebook: laughter and local faces in www.facebook.com/ Stewartstown’s annual family theburnavontheatre pantomime. Or via Twitter: @burnavontheatre box office 028 8676 9949 book online www.burnavon.com performance 4 Section scottisH an evening WitH ceilidH robert mizzell & PRESENTED BY lisa mcHugH Arts and Cultural Development PRESENTED BY Michael Magill Entertainments . to become the premier country Date Date music act in Ireland, regularly Wed 1 Feb at 8pm Thurs 2 Feb at 8pm Hire filling venues across the tickets tickets event £5 £20 country. The calibre of musicians in The The Ceilidh is back. Come A native of the southern state Country Kings and the range of and enjoy a great evening of of Louisiana in the USA, instruments they employ mean Scottish Country and Ceilidh country singer Robert Mizzell Robert’s live performances dancing. With the help of has made Ireland his home consistently replicate the high experienced dance leaders, for the past seventeen years. quality sound of his recordings. see how it is done and then With his five-piece band, The He is joined by one of the join in. You don’t need to Country Kings, he has risen scene’s newest successful have danced before, just female singers, Lisa McHugh. come armed with your best dancing shoes and a sense of fun. Music provided by Risin Stour. 5 an evening of igor – Performance entertainment from russia special guest: fiddler adam WitH love PRESENTED BY PRESENTED BY WINI Burnavon Comedy Club . Hire . event Igor is a Russian migrant worker Date Date living in Ireland, telling stories of Fri 3 Feb at 8pm8pm Sat 4 Feb at 8pm cultural differences, and bringing tickets tickets £10 £10 dancing, razor sharp wit, zany . stories and a lot more besides to the stage! Join the Women’s Institute After a hiatus of several years Northern Ireland for a wonderful the Burnavon Comedy Club MC for the eveing will be Belfast evening of entertainment. The returns with an international comedian Paddy O’Donnell and first half of the show is the WI flavour, featuring Igor features support from the stars of variety show which presents Bolshoikirov all the way from the YouTube video ‘Lambeggin’; sketches, music and poetry for Russia (via Cookstown) for a Darren Matthews, Ruairi Woods, your enjoyment. In the second comedy night with a difference. Johnny McCarthy and Christian half of the evening, you’ll be Talbot. joined by Fiddler Adam. So sit back…and craic up! Fiddler Adam is one of the top fiddle players in Ireland and the Patrons please note: UK. He plays varying styles of Contains strong language. The material used by comedians may not be to the fiddle music from Bluegrass, taste of all. Cajun and Country to Irish Traditional. “ An alter-ego matched only by Borat’ The Laughter Sessions box office 028 8676 9949 book online www.burnavon.com performance 6 Section melmotH tHe Wanderer PRESENTED BY Big Telly Theatre Company nortHern . ireland premier Comic surrealism Date meets shock horror Fri 10 & Sat 11 Feb at 8pm in a series of ridiculous tickets £12 / £10 (con) situations where innocent . eccentrics struggle to survive. A random playground of Celebrating Big Telly’s 25th the bizarre inspired by Saw, year and following the smash Psycho, Tim Burton and Fawlty hit Puckoon... Towers using projection, animation and squeaky toys. Melmoth the Wanderer: a This is the sort of delirious colourful, condensed and quirky chaos that sets Big Telly apart show based on the first ever from other companies. horror novel, adapted by the hugely popular Big Telly and scripted by Nicola McCartney. Five chancers present a terrifying tale of temptation, torture and a traveller desperate to find someone to take over his pact and release him from immortality. Who will take on his curse? His only surviving relative; or a stranger in the depths of despair; or an innocent child brought up on a desert island with no knowledge of the world? 7 tHe máirtín Justin mcgurk Performance o’connor band ‘tHe love tour’ . The catalyst for this was Máirtín . Date when he invited the others to play Date Thurs 16 Feb at 8pm Fri 17 Feb at 8pm tickets on his ground-breaking ‘Road West’ album and again later on tickets £15 £15 . the ‘Rain of Light’ album, much of . which went down live such was Featuring Máirtín O’Connor the musical and personal rapport An established song writer and (accordion), Cathal Hayden that had developed between recording artist, Justin now has (fiddle, banjo), Seamie O’Dowd them. seven successful solo albums (guitars, vocals) and Jim Higgins to his credit. Justin has shared (percussion). Individually they have built solid the stage in Nashville and reputations as musicians in terms toured the UK & Ireland with For the past 10 years, the current of ability and versatility, and the likes of Nancy Griffith, Hal line up of the Máirtín O’Connor together they produce some of Ketchum, Collin Raye, Bonnie band has been steadily evolving the most outstanding trad music Tyler & The Proclaimers.