suMMeR 2018 6 1 p m p 8 GALLERY • THEATRE • MUSIC • STUDIO • CAFÉ , l i r p A 6 Manor Road, Walton on Thames KT12 2PF 2 - e Box Office: 01932 253354 t n e www.riverhousebarn.co.uk d r A o u D COnTenTs suMMeR 2018 BOOKING DETAILS Introduction 3 Online booking Emily Boulting Director Hires 3 Please visit our website summer at Riverhouse is always a real treat and this year we are www.riverhousebarn.co.uk or book through particularly proud of some wonderful new additions to the line up. Café 4 our Facebook page. Walton Folk Festival - 6 May Theatre 5 – 7 By phone urban Folk Quartet headline in a packed schedule of established Magic 7 Box Office: 01932 253354 and new acts both inside the barn and on our outside stage. Other acts include the ever-popular suntrap, Outside Track and Kim By email Comedy 8 Lowings.You can book day or evening tickets or the full day for the [email protected] Family Theatre 9 bargain price of £30! By post May Fair Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre, Manor Road Children’s Events 10 Monday 7 May is our sustainable May Fair and May Day Parade - just decorate an umbrella Walton on Thames, surrey KT12 2PF – to look like flowers or bugs and join us for a walk down the river from Cowey sale to our Fair Family Events 10, 11 & 19 cheques payable to Riverhouse. Please at Riverhouse, complete with Maypole dancers, Morris Men, sustainable craft stalls and enclose sAe. Words 12 information about recycling and how you can do your bit to protect our precious Film 13 Concessions environment. unless otherwise stated, concessionary Polish Summer Classical Music 14 – 18 ticket prices apply to children 16 and highlights include a Polish open day featuring traditonal dancers and a under, full-time students, registered Jazz and Beer 20 collaboration between the Barbican Piano Trio, storyteller Kevin Graal, unemployed, pensioners aged 65+. composer Joseph Phibbs and the children of Walton Oak school. This new Jazz 21 For visitors who require a carer or helper to composition is based on a Polish folk tale and themes from Polish folk music. assist them, we offer that carer or helper a More Music 22 – 23 Duo Ardente bring their unique blend of Polish traditional and classical music. free ticket. Call 01932 253354 for details. Folk 24 – 25 Walton’s very own sonic Artist Janek schaeffer’s extraordinary exhibition inspired by music Conditions of sale played by the BBC to the Polish underground on the day of his mother’s birth in Warsaw Exhibitions 26 – 31 All details were correct at the time of 1942, makes ‘extended Play’ a must see exhibition. Workshops 10 & 32 going to press. Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre Music reserves the right to make changes to the From International violinists Alina Ibragimova and Jennifer Pike to ‘The nat King Cole story’ Classes for Children 33 – 34 programme when circumstances dictate. featuring Atila, we have something to suit all tastes, including two new faces: Melissa James Classes for Adults 35 – 37 Exchange or refund of tickets and Odette Adams in a summer of song. Sponsors and Partners 38 Tickets may not be exchanged or the Comedy/Theatre money refunded. Please check your We are very much looking forward to our edinburgh Comedy previews and The Friends and Volunteers 39 tickets at the time of purchase. The box handleBards’ inventive production of Twelfth night which we had to postpone last year. office will accept tickets for resale (but And we welcome back hotbuckle for their 5 star reviewed production of Wuthering heights. resale is not guaranteed). Bernard Cribbins Children’s shows We are thrilled to announce a major fundraising evening with our patron Bernard Cribbins We request that parents and carers OBe, who will delight you with an evening reminiscing over an extraordinary career. What consider the age recommendations for better way to help us raise funds! each of the children’s shows before booking (and enquire if in any doubt). Access hIRes Riverhouse is fully equipped to welcome disabled visitors. • Wheelchair spaces for performances Hires (advance booking essential) All of our facilities are available to hire for performances, • Dedicated parking spaces exhibitions, concerts, conferences, celebrations, meetings, • Level access to the barn and studio and training days etc. and a lift to the gallery Call 01932 254198 for more details • Induction Loop • Accessible toilet 2 3 BARn KITChen Open every day 10am – 5pm TheATRe * Friday 4 & Saturday 5 May 8pm TOURING PRODUCTION £15 (£13) Hotbuckle Productions present Wuthering Heights Emily Jane Brontë’s only novel is widely considered one of the greatest works of fiction ever written. Wuthering heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine earnshaw and heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr earnshaw's death, heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering heights, only to return years later to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. With live music, multiple characterisation, humour and inventiveness this story is as enjoyably engaging as should be in the reliable hands of hotbuckle! Reviews of hotbuckle’s previous shows: “exceptionally slick, beautifully acted and necessarily inventive evening. The company’s reputation This Spring and Summer is rightly rising" Far from the madding crowd at the Barn Kitchen “Everything an Austen adaptation ought to be" Persuasion “Superb… a master class in stage adaptation" David Copperfield The Cafe ́ is run by Vicky and a team of trained baristas; coffee “Pure Brilliance" Les Miserables *Pre-theatre menu, £12 a head (book online) supplied by Traders Coffee in surbiton; bread lovingly baked by the Ginger Bread Man Bakery in Walton on Thames, and a delicious range of teas and herb Saturday 26 May 6.30pm TOURING PRODUCTION £15 (£13) teas by Birchills. We are open seven days a week from 10am – 5pm, offering a range of delicious breakfasts The HandleBards present and brunches between 10am and 12 noon, and a selection of light lunches and Twelfth Night homemade meals from 12 noon – 3pm. We always have a range of homemade cakes and Outdoor production (weather permitting) pastries on offer to tempt everyone! The world’s first cycling theatre company, spring and summer are looking busy in the cafe with lots of events and we will be updating The handleBards, pedal from venue to venue our menu as well as offering our fabulous cheeseboards before Comedy nights. with all the set, props and costume necessary to perform environmentally sustainable Pre-Theatre Suppers - £12 shakespeare across the globe. We will continue to offer pre-theatre meals at some evening performances. Join their all-male troupe for a bicycle- Look out for the knife and fork symbol in the listings. powered production of shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth night’ like none other. Acoustic Music Evenings In usual handleBards’ style, expect riotous Our acoustic music evenings have been very successful and we will continue these through amounts of energy, a fair old whack of the summer and look forward to holding them in the courtyard on warm summer nights. chaos, and a great deal of laughter. Cooking Workshops And what’s the play about? Well - Duke Orsino is in love with Lady Olivia, but she Look out for our cooking workshops for under tens in the holidays. Pizza, cupcakes and won’t have anything to do with suitors. Viola smoothies! is shipwrecked and believes her twin brother Vicky Kunzli Barn Kitchen @ Riverhouse Ltd sebastian to be dead. Meanwhile, a bunch Company number: 10973710 the barn of Olivia’s servants plot to make a fool out of her pompous Butler, Malvolio. There’s 07391 628809 KITCHEN drunkenness, frivolity and cross-dressing a plenty. www.barnkitchenriverhouse. co.uk Visit www.handlebards.com to find out more! 4 5 TheATRe Wednesday 25 – Saturday 28 July 7.45pm LOCAL PRODUCTION £14 Runnymede Drama Group presents Friday 1 & Saturday 2 June 8pm LOCAL PRODUCTION £15 Handbagged Creative Minds in association with Lighted Fools Theatre by Moira Buffini Company present Ordinary Days When Maggie met the Queen Tea at Four by Adam Gwon Handbags at dawn When Deb loses her most precious possession - the notes This highly original satire looks behind the to her graduate thesis - she unwittingly starts a chain of closed doors of Buckingham Palace and events that turns the ordinary days of four new Yorkers into speculates what happened when the something extraordinary. Told through a series of intricately Queen met Margaret Thatcher for tea in connected songs and vignettes, ‘Ordinary Days’ is an the years between 1979 and 1990. original one-act musical about growing up and enjoying This fresh, exciting piece of theatre won an the view, by exciting new writer/composer Adam Gwon. Olivier award for Best new Comedy in 2015 It is a refreshingly honest and funny score of vibrant and and became a West end success. memorable songs. “...a heartfelt and clever look at life in modern-day New York” (Critic's Pick) Time Out, New York Directed by Polly King Featuring Timothy Brown, elliott Griffiths, stephanie napier and Danni MAGIC stembridge www.lighted-fools.co.uk "Lighted Fools deserves to be a company whose shows you go to see just Friday 18 May 8pm TOURING PRODUCTION £14 (£12 concs) because it's them" Sardines Magazine An amateur production by arrangement with R&h Theatricals europe Cedalion Media presents James Phelan Saturday 16 June 6pm TOURING PRODUCTION £17.50 (£12.50 concs) Trickster - Tour 2017/18 Inspiring Change: James Phelan presents his unique magical prank Festival of Mental Health show that is both jaw-dropping and laugh out loud funny.