Wolverhampton & Black Country Cover October 2019.qxp_Wolverhampton & Black Country Cover 20/09/2019 13:59 Page 1 JODIE PRENGER BACK Your FREE essential entertainment guide for the Midlands AT THE GRAND WOLVERHAMPTON & BLACK COUNTRY WHAT’S ON OCTOBER 2019 2019 OCTOBER ON WHAT’S COUNTRY BLACK & WOLVERHAMPTON Wolverhampton & Black Country ISSUE 406 OCTOBER 2019 ’ WhatFILM I COMEDY I THEATRE I GIGS I VISUAL ARTS I EVENTSs I FOOD On wolverhamptonwhatson.co.uk inside: PART OF WHAT’S ON MEDIA GROUP GROUP MEDIA ON WHAT’S OF PART Yourthe 16-pagelist week by week listings guide DALISO CHAPONDA brings laughter to the Slade Rooms TWITTER: @WHATSONWOLVES @WHATSONWOLVES TWITTER: LIFE IS NO LAUGHING MATTER at Arena Theatre FACEBOOK: @WHATSONWOLVERHAMPTON FACEBOOK: @WHATSONWOLVERHAMPTON GHOULISH FUN... at Dudley’s Black Country WOLVERHAMPTONWHATSON.CO.UK Living Museum IFC Wolverhampton.qxp_Layout 1 20/09/2019 18:29 Page 1 Wednesday 9th October at 7.30pm Saturday 12th October at 11am and 2pm Thursday 24th October at 7.30pm Drama Drama Drama EVERYTHINGEVERYTHING I SEES EMILY RISING LIFELIFE ISIS NONO LAUGHINGLAUG I SWALLOW MATTER Tickets £14, £12 conc. Tickets £9 Tickets £14, £12 conc. Friday 25th October at 7.30pm Saturday 26th October at 7.30pm Tuesday 29th & Wednesday 30th October at 7.30pm - Wednesday Matinee at 2.30pm DRAMA COMEDY DRAMA FIERCE FESTIVAL STAND UP FOR NO MAN'S LAND MYSTERY HOUR BY HAROLD PINTER Tickets £14, £12 conc. Tickets £14, £12 conc Tickets £14, £12 conc. Contents October Wolves/Shrops/Staffs.qxp_Layout 1 20/09/2019 15:44 Page 2 October 2019 Contents Halloween Fun - at Dudley’s award-winning Black Country Living Museum - page 49 A Taste Of Honey Ed Byrne Life is a Cabaret... the list Jodie Prenger stars in Shelagh the master of observational join John Partridge at The Kit Your 16-page Delaney classic at the Grand comedy on tour in the Midlands Kat Klub at Theatre Severn week-by-week listings guide feature page 8 page 23 page 24 page 51 inside: 4. First Word 11. Food 17. Gigs 22. Comedy 24. Theatre 37. Visual Arts 39. Film 43. 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We endorse the recycling of our magazine and would encourage you to pass it on to others to read when you have finished with it. All works appearing in this publication are copyright. It is to be assumed that the copyright for material rests with the magazine unless otherwise stated. No part of this publication may be reproduced, or stored in an electronic system, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopied, recording or otherwise, without the prior knowledge and consent of the publishers. First Word Wolves_Shrops_Staffs October.qxp_Layout 1 20/09/2019 18:23 Page 1 Entertainment news from around the region Moroccan festive feast at the NEC Birmingham’s NEC is hosting ‘the ultimate Christmas party experience’ this festive season. Moroccan Fire Nights fuses ‘incredible entertainment with a delicious festive feast and a spectacularly themed environ- ment’. Late-night highlights include an ‘epic’ stage show, indoor fairground rides, casino tables and fairground stalls. The parties take place from 29 November to 22 December. For more information and to book tickets, visit birmingham- christmasparties.com Dudmaston Estate to host Trigger Happy creator hits understatement.” Remembering The Oscars new monthly 10k trail run the road with new show visits Birmingham’s Sym- A new monthly 10k trail run is being Trigger Happy TV creator phony Hall on Thursday 9 launched by the National Trust on the Dom Joly will perform in April and Shrewsbury’s Dudmaston Estate near Bridgnorth in Shrop- Stourbridge next year as Theatre Severn on Friday shire. part of his first UK tour for 17 April. The first Trust10 is a free event which will eight years. take place at 9am on Sunday 27 October and The comedian, broadcaster then on the fourth Sunday of each month. and author brings his new Gospel Graceland at the Commenting on the news, Alexandra Blake- show, Holiday Snaps - man, Marketing & Events Officer, said: "We’re Travel And Comedy In The Danger Zone, to Buttermarket nightclub so excited to take on the Trust10 in Comer the Town Hall on Wednesday 8 April. The The highly rated London African Gospel Woods. It’s a great opportunity to set new show sees him talking about his exploits Choir are heading to Shrewsbury at the start monthly goals and explore this beautiful part in some of the world’s most dangerous travel of next month to perform Paul Simon’s iconic of Dudmaston’s wider landscape. spots, including North Korea, the Congo, 1986 album, Graceland. "The route is made up of a 4km and a 6km Syria and Chernobyl. Created not only to promote the gospel but loop. So if you’re working up to 10k, or you also popularise African interpretations of fancy a shorter run, you’re very welcome to gospel music, the choir will perform at the come along and finish after the first 4km Janette and Aljaž bring the town’s Buttermarket venue on Friday 1 loop. Oscars to Shropshire November. "We want as many people as possible to For more information and to book tickets, Dance favourites Janette Manrara and Aljaž enjoy this new trail run, so as well as hosting visit thebuttermarket.co.uk Škorjanec are returning to the Midlands in the Trust10 each month, the route itself will the spring with a brand new show. be open to runners for free all year round." Remembering The Oscars follows on from the pair’s previous touring production, Remem- bering The Movies, for which they sold over 50,000 tickets. Commenting on the show, Janette said: "I can tell you right now that Remembering The Os- cars will be our biggest and most ambitious production to date. We’ve hand-picked an in- credible cast, we have some great material to work with and quite a few surprises. The Oscar-winning movies, songs and actors that have inspired us will take this tour to another level. To say Aljaž and I are excited is a huge 4 whatsonlive.co.uk First Word Wolves_Shrops_Staffs October.qxp_Layout 1 20/09/2019 18:23 Page 2 First Word Stacey Dooley returns to Strictly... Strictly Come Dancing Live waltzes back into the region in the new year, with 2018 winner Stacey Dooley hosting the touring version of the hit television show. The Strictly 2020 tour is kick- started with four nights at Birmingham Arena, from 16 to 19 January. Henry VIII’s SIX wives to visit the Wolverhampton Grand Smash-hit West Ender SIX is coming to the Black tion of 21st century girl power’. Country next spring. The yet-to-be-announced cast will be backed by Nominated for five 2019 OIivier Awards, the show the show’s all-female band, The Ladies In sees the six wives of Henry VIII take to the mic to Waiting. tell their personal stories, ‘remixing 500 years of SIX runs at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from historical heartbreak into a 75-minute celebra- Tuesday 10 to Saturday 14 March. Enchanted Weston returns Tibetan monks Steam and scream for Halloween! Weston Park’s Capability in Shrewsbury All aboard the Statfold Scream Train for plenty of Halloween fun! Brown-landscaped Temple Monks from a 600-year- Tamworth’s only steam railway is certainly getting into the ‘spirit’ of Wood will once again play old monastery in Tibet are things late this month (26 & 27 October) when it takes families on a host to an illuminated trail making a Halloween stop- train journey round Hangman’s Creek, past a spooky pirate ship and this Christmas. off in Shrewsbury as part onto its destination of Oaktree Junction. Once there, passengers can get Towering trees, historic land- of Shropshire Music involved in all manner of ghoulish and magical activities, from partici- marks and festive surprises Trust’s 2019/20 pro- pating in a Mummy wrapping competition to being taught how to use a will all be picked out in a gramme of concerts. magic wand by a wizard professor... For more information and to book ‘wash of light and hues of Hailing from Drepung tickets, visit statfoldbarnrailway.co.uk colour’ when the venue’s Kongpo Khangtsen Enchanted Weston attraction Monastery, Monks Of returns. Tibet’s 31 October perfor- As well as taking a stroll mance at Shrewsbury through the ancient illumi- School will feature sacred nated woodland, visitors can dances, a haunting also warm up by fire pits, melody by 11th-century toast marshmallows, sample female mystic Ma-chik street food, sip cocktails, Lab-don, a demonstration enjoy live entertainment and and explanation of the art browse a selection of stalls in of debate, and auspicious the festive pop-up market.