SUMMER SEASON 2017 The Friars, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2AS Box Office: 01227 787787 marlowetheatre.com The Marlowe: Changing lives through theatre Did you know? The Marlowe supports playwrights through its Roar programme, helping them to create new and exciting work for audiences to enjoy. by Sharon Byrne, a Marlowe supported artitst. Photo by Tim Stubbings. Tim by Photo artitst. supported a Marlowe Byrne, Sharon by Gutted Gutted " Breathless, trippy and riveting." êêêê THE STAGE ON RUN THE BEAST DOWN a Marlowe co-production. a Marlowe Run The Beast Down, Down, Beast Run The WHAT WE DO The Marlowe's interest and support for Run The Marlowe is commited to helping writers find their The Beast Down provided the catalyst for voice and to provide vital opportunities for them to pushing my first play into production. The Roar develop their work for performance. programme allowed us to investigate the play in a creative and well-supported environment. Our Creative Opportunities fund helps writers Through our Roar programme, we give playwrights and theatre-makers to develop and create the chance to develop their work through supportive I'm delighted to have been given the platform mentoring, professional advice and the chance to hear from which we could make that hardest of exciting new work in Canterbury. their work performed by professional actors. things happen; getting the play on.” To donate: Text HAPY05 £5 to 70070 Roar supported writers have successfully developed Titas Halder, writer of Run The Beast Down. Visit marlowetheatre.com/changinglives their work into professionally produced plays, including £1=£2 Your donation doubled Titas Halder’s Run The Beast Down, that recently Matching your support with Arts Council Mark Douet. by Photo production. a Marlowe England’s Catalyst: Evolve Fund completed a critically acclaimed run at The Marlowe Studio and London’s Finborough Theatre. All donations are made to The Marlowe Theatre Development Trust, a UK registered charity (no 1120751) supporting positive well-being, creativity and learning through The Marlowe. Woman, A Better TUE 2–SAT 6 MAY JORDAN PRODUCTIONS AND PHIL&BEN IN ASSOCIATION WITH EASTBOURNE MON 8 & TUE 9 MAY THEATRES PRESENT Funny Girl Evenings 7.30pm 7.30pm Wed, Thu & Sat matinees 2.30pm Don’t Dress For Dinner £32.75-£19.75 (bk The critically-acclaimed West End production. Fri & Sat performances £48.75-£32.75 Our Friends save £1.25 per ticket This “utterly irresistible” (Sunday Times) production Tue-Thu performances A side-splitting comedy of gastronomic (no booking fees) and get £5 o top of Funny Girl stars West End leading lady Natasha J £45.75-£29.75 proportions. three prices Barnes as Fanny Brice and Darius Campbell who Our Friends save £1.25 per ticket Written by Marc Camoletti this superb comedy of Discounts (on selected seats) reprises his West End role as Nick Arnstein. (no booking fees) and get £5 o top confusion stars the Olivier Award winning Sara Crowe Concessions Funny Girl boasts some of the most iconic songs in film three prices on Tue-Thu Discovery Tickets (EastEnders, Four Weddings And A Funeral), with the Groups and theatre history, including People and Don’t Rain On Discounts (on selected seats) brilliant farceurs Damian Williams (Birds Of A Feather, My Parade. This “exhilarating embrace of a production” Concessions (Tue–Thu) Being Tommy Cooper) and Ben Roddy (Absolutely (The Independent) comes to Canterbury after wowing Discovery Tickets (Tue) Groups Fabulous - The Movie, Boeing Boeing). in London’s West End. It tells the story of Fanny Brice, Make an evening of it Bernard has invited Suzy (his gorgeous Parisian whose vocal talents and comedic ability see her rise from Access performances (see p.56) Meal packages available in mistress) to his home for the weekend as his wife is The Green Room (see p.52) Brooklyn music hall singer to Broadway star. AD away; he’s invited his best friend Robert along as an “ Natasha J Barnes is a sensation in her own right.” alibi, and with a feast from chef Suzette what could THE TELEGRAPH possibly go wrong? “ Triumphantly reinvents Funny Girl for a new “ A fabulous farce. A very funny cast. Formidable!” êêêê EVENING STANDARD generation.” êêêê BRIGHTON ARGUS Music by Jule Styne. Lyrics by Bob Merrill. Book by Isobel Lennart. From an original story by Miss Lennart. “ Outright belly laughs from the audience, who Revised book by Harvey Fierstein. revelled in the side-splitting humour. A great Directed by Michael Mayer. night out.” THEATRE SOUTH EAST 4 5 FGTOUR17_Q1_024_CanterburyBrochurePg_AW.indd 1 26/01/2017 17:45 FRI 12 & SAT 13 MAY TUE 16–SAT 20 MAY English Touring Opera present Willy Russell’s Patience Evenings 7.30pm Fri 12 May 7.30pm Thu & Sat matinees 2.30pm Tosca Gilbert & Sullivan’s Shirley Valentine Fri & Sat performances Sat 13 May 7.30pm Starring Jodie Prenger £33.75-£22.75 £43.25-£23.25 Tue-Thu performances Patience and £30.75-£18.75 Puccini’s Tosca Our Friends save £1.25 per ticket “ Why do we get all this life if we don’t ever use it?” ETO presents its first Gilbert and Sullivan (no booking fees) and get £5 o top Our Friends save £1.25 per ticket three prices Shirley is a Liverpool housewife. Her kids have left home (no booking fees) and get £5 o top production, and a night of Italian passion. and she makes chips and egg for her husband while three prices (eves) Patience pokes fun at the eccentric aectations Discounts (on selected seats) talking to the wall. Where has her life disappeared to? Concessions Discounts (on selected seats) of barely-disguised Victorian celebrities, including Discovery Tickets Out of the blue, her best friend oers her a trip to Greece Concessions (Tue-Thu eves) Oscar Wilde. Willowy poets, sighing maidens, hearty Groups for two weeks and she secretly packs her bags. She Discovery Tickets (Tue & Wed) Groups milkmaids and burly o£cers – all become targets of Schools heads for the sun and starts to see the world and herself Gilbert and Sullivan’s razor-sharp wit. Expect plenty £10 tickets (Booking by phone or in very dierently. Access performances (see p.56) of tunes and humour as fresh today as it was at the person) Willy Russell’s heart-warming comedy premiered in 1986 AD CAP first performance. Multi-Buy Oer and took the world by storm, and was then adapted into 25% o Tosca when booking for Tosca is Puccini’s visceral depiction of love in the Patience an Oscar-nominated film. Now, on its 30th anniversary, midst of a war-torn Rome, and one of the world’s Jodie Prenger stars in the first major revival of this Friends of ETO best-loved operas, brimming with lust, corruption £5 o top three prices national treasure. and political intrigue. Show Talk Tosca “ The funniest and most heart-warming play.” Fri 12 & Sat 13 May, 6.30pm, free, DAILY MIRROR booking required Recommended 14yrs+ Photo from from Photo 6 7 ARIA ENTERTAINMENT AND MUSIC & LYRICS TUE 23–SAT 27 MAY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE FESTIVAL THEATRE EDINBURGH PRESENT Evenings (not Fri) 7.30pm Thu & Sat matinees 2.30pm The Addams Family Fri 5pm & 8.30pm Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice Fri 8.30pm & Sat performances Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa £42.25-£26.25 Tue-Thu & Fri 5pm performances Based on Characters Created by Charles Addams £39.25-£24.25 Our Friends save £1.25 per ticket Look who’s moved into the neighbourhood! (no booking fees) and get £5 o top Everyone’s favourite kooky family are now on stage three prices on Tue-Thu & Fri 5pm in the UK premiere of this spectacular musical comedy Discounts (on selected seats) from the writers of multi award-winning hit musical Concessions (Tue-Thu & Fri 5pm) Jersey Boys, with music and lyrics by Tony Award Discovery Tickets (Tue, Wed & Fri 5pm) nominated Andrew Lippa. Starring Samantha Womack Groups as Morticia, Carrie Hope Fletcher as Wednesday, Under 16yrs Cameron Blakely as Gomez and Les Dennis as 15% o Uncle Fester. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, is all grown up and has a shocking secret that only Make an evening of it Gomez knows. She’s fallen in love with a sweet young Meal packages available in man from a respectable family. With his cherished The Green Room (see p.52) Morticia in the dark will Gomez manage to keep his daughter’s secret until the two families meet for a fateful dinner with hilarious consequences? Join them, plus Uncle Fester, Lurch, Pugsley and more for a heart-warming story of love, family and friendship… with a twist! Featuring a live orchestra and extraordinary original score The Addams Family is sure to entertain whether you are 7 or 307! Presented through special arrangement with Theatrical Rights Worldwide. 8 9 THE MARLOWE PRESENTS Canterbury Children’s Festival MON 29 MAY-SAT 3 JUN A monster of a festival. Perfect for half term. Enjoy performances, workshops and THE CHILDREN’S TOURING PARTNERSHIP PRESENTS WED 31 MAY–SAT 3 JUN free events at The Marlowe. Here are some highlights: Evenings 7pm The Teddy Bear’s Picnic The Boy And Running Wild Wed, Thu & Sat matinees 2pm By Michael Morpurgo (War Horse) £24.25-£17.25 TUE 30 MAY 11.30am, 1pm & 3pm The Mermaid In an adaptation by Samuel Adamson Our Friends save £1.25 per ticket A dance show to enthrall ages Originally produced by Chichester Festival Theatre (no booking fees) and get £2 o FRI 2 JUN 12pm & 3pm 6 months to 5 years. and Regent’s Park Theatre Tickets £10.25 A magical new show for Discounts (on selected seats) families with a mix of puppetry, Discovery Tickets (Wed & Thu eve) “Animal magic rivals War Horse.” The Guardian exciting storytelling and live music.