SPRING 2018 FEBRUARY-MAY BOX OFFICE Book live shows, satellite screenings and films online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 anytime OPENING HOURS IN-TOWN BOX OFFICE (not films) The Master’s House, St Katherine’s Mon, Thurs, Fri 9.30am-4.30pm Tuesday 9.30am-6pm Whichever way you book your tickets... Saturday 9.30am-12.30pm we don’t charge a booking fee! WELCOME TO OUR SPRING SEasON PROgrammE! LIVE SHOWS & SCREENINGS Another sparkling season of professional drama is ahead with two big hits from the Edinburgh Fringe – The Drive from our old friends Angel Exit Theatre Company, and The Man on the Moor from Something for the Weekend Theatre Company. Also coming, and making their third visit to Ledbury, are the hilarious Pantaloons with H G Wells’ War of the Worlds, Sunny Ormonde (Linda Snell from The Archers) in Dorothy, and local company Our Star with Tapley House. And do not forget LADS’ own Spring production of Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced! You are spoiled too, with the music that we are bringing to you, with return visits from The Budapest Café Orchestra, Remi Harris Trio, The Moscow Drug Club, The Roving Crows, Red Hot Boogie, and Keith James with a celebration of the music of Nick Drake. And then there is the season of screenings from the Royal Opera House, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and The National Theatre, which is probably the best ever with familiar names like Tosca, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Winter’s Tale, Carmen, Julius Caesar, Bernstein, Manon, and An American in Paris. TOSCA If after all that you have some time left, why not come and see one of the sixteen films Live Screening from the we will be showing? You can even see them for half price – see page 15! Royal Opera House Event Key Live Satellite Film Wed 7 Feb I 7.15pm I £15* Tosca is one of the great evenings of INFOrmatION Market_Theatre MarketTheatre opera, and from its strident opening chords conjures up a world of political Buy Tickets See front cover for details of how to book. Tickets may also be bought on instability and menace. the door, subject to availability. Please note that we are unable to take returns – even if YOUNG MARX you are picking up your tickets on the door. However, if there is a full house we are happy National Theatre Live - Encore Jonathan Kent’s production for The to try to resell them for you. Royal Opera captures the dangerous Wed 31 Jan I 7pm I £14* political turbulence of Rome in 1800. The The Market Theatre is situated in Market Street (off Bye Street, for satnavs the postcode Chief of Police, Scarpia – one of the most is HR8 2AQ). The Market Theatre is a trading name of Ledbury Amateur Dramatic malevolent villains in opera – ruthlessly Rory Kinnear is Marx, in this new comedy Society Ltd (LADS) which owns and runs the Theatre for the benefit of the community. pursues and tortures enemies of the that reunites the creative team behind It provides a dedicated venue for amateur and professional performing arts. It has 128 state. His dark, demonic music contrasts Broadway and West End hit comedy One seats, foyer, bar, wheelchair access, disabled toilet and hearing loop. The Theatre or with the expansive melodies of the Man, Two Guvnors. Foyer may be hired by emailing [email protected] idealistic lovers, Tosca and Cavaradossi, who express their passion in sublime 1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist The foyer and bar are open 45 minutes before each show or film. arias, including Vissi d’arte and E lucevan is hiding in Soho. Broke, restless le stelle. Giacomo Puccini’s dramatic Two public car parks (HR8 2AB) are off the top of Bye Street (with the clock tower and horny, the thirty-two-year-old Parking work was a hit with audiences on its at the top). revolutionary is a frothing combination 1900 premiere and it remains one of the of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric most performed of all operas – with its Market Theatre Film Club For just £20 you are able to get in for half price to the 30 or so wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy. gripping plot and glorious music, it’s films that we show a year at the Theatre. This represents amazing value – see all our films His writing blocked, his marriage dying, easy to see why. and you save around £70! See page 15 for details of how to join. Of course if you do his only hope is a job on the railway. But not want to join the Film Club, you can book in the normal way (see front cover) or buy there’s still no one in the capital who can *Students and over 60s £12.50 tickets on the door (subject to availability). show you a better night on the booze than Karl Heinrich Marx. LADS Youth Theatre Company We are afraid that membership is currently full. *Students and over 60s £12 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 3 CELEBRATING THE RED HOT BOOGIE SONGS OF NICK DRAKE CAT ON A A haunting and immaculately crafted Sat 17 Feb I 8pm I £12 concert from Keith James HOT TIN ROOF Songs from the 1960s by artists such National Theatre Live – Encore Sat 10 Feb I 8pm I £14 as The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elvis, Credence Clearwater Revival, The Thur 22 Feb I 7pm I £14* After his tragic death in 1974, aged Animals, Chuck Berry and many more. only 26, Nick Drake’s music almost By Tennessee Williams disappeared into obscurity; but now, One of the most popular rock’n’roll Directed by Benedict Andrews thanks to a re-evaluation of his genius, TWELFTH NIGHT bands in the area, Red Hot Boogie have he has become a National Treasure. RSC Live Screening long been delighting audiences with Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century their up-tempo versions of fifties and masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Keith James is the first artist to have Wed 14 Feb I 7pm I £15* sixties hits. played a strictly limited season in brought Nick’s music to theatres across London’s West End in 2017. Following Over 100 years experience between the UK and Europe. Now, 1500 shows Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love his smash hit production of A Streetcar them means the boys guarantee you will later, Keith continues to bring us some of – hilarious and heartbreaking. Two twins Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ be on your feet and rocking in the aisles the finest songs to bless that catalogue are separated in a shipwreck, and forced ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars to the wonderful sounds of the golden of English song-writing that includes to fend for themselves in a strange land. Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell period of rock’n’roll. An evening not to Nick Drake’s three cherished albums Five The first twin, Viola, falls in love with and Colm Meaney. be missed! Leaves Left, Bryter Layter and Pink Moon. Orsino, who dotes on OIivia, who falls for Viola but is idolised by Malvolio. Enter On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Beginning with an introductory set of Sebastian, who is the spitting image of Southern family gather at their cotton timeless songs by brilliant songwriters his twin sister... plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s contemporary with Nick, including Roy birthday. The scorching heat is almost Harper, Sandy Denny and Bert Jansch, Christopher Luscombe, Director of as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and poems by William Blake which Keith the glorious Love’s Labour’s Lost and and Maggie dance round the secrets and has set to Nick’s guitar arrangements, Much Ado About Nothing (2014 and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy the concert moves to Nick’s own fragile 2016), returns to the Royal Shakespeare their marriage. With the future of the and intriguing music including River Man, Company to tackle Shakespeare’s family at stake, which version of the truth Fruit Tree, Day is Done, Northern Sky and greatest comedy, a brilliantly bittersweet is real – and which will win out? Pink Moon. account of “the whirligig of time”. “A bold reimagining…innovative Some of the most atmospheric and *Students and over 60s £12.50 and powerfully acted” Sunday Times emotive music you will ever hear The Independent *Students and over 60s £12 4 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 5 THE WINTER’S TALE DOROTHY (The Airings Live Screening from the Royal Ballet of an Archers Actor’s Aunt) Sunny Ormonde (Lilian Bellamy Wed 28 Feb I 7.15pm I £15* in The Archers) stars Christopher Wheeldon, Artistic Sat 3 March I 8pm I £14* Associate of The Royal Ballet, created his adaptation of Shakespeare’s late great The indomitable Dorothy is the mainstay romance The Winter’s Tale for The Royal of Neighbourhood Watch and scourge Ballet in 2014. Building on the success of of litter louts. After losing her slot on ROVING CROWS Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The hospital radio, due to an unfortunate Powerful Celtic undertones and intoxicating tribal rhythms Winter’s Tale received ecstatic praise incident with a golf ball and a pair of at its premiere, acclaimed by critics tights, she has seized control of a new and audiences alike for its intelligent, Sat 24 Feb I 8pm I £13* microphone.