SUMMER 2018 MAY - SEPTEMBER HOW TO BUY YOUR TICKETS ONLINE www.themarkettheatre.com BY PHONE 07967 517125 IN TOWN (not films) The Master’s House, St Katherine’s Opening Hours Whichever way Mon, Thurs, Fri 9.30am-4.30pm you book your tickets... Tuesday 9.30am-6pm we don’t charge a booking fee! Saturday 9.30am-12.30pm WELCOME TO THE MARKET THEAtre’s SUMMER PROGRAMME! LIVE SHOWS & SCREENINGS We have some great shows on stage for you, including the returns of Hotbuckle with their interpretation of Wuthering Heights and Our Star with Tapley House; and, new to our stage, Something for the Weekend Theatre Company with their hit from the Edinburgh Fringe The Man on the Moor. LADS will be reviving the 1950s musical Salad Days and later in the summer will be staging The Ladykillers by Graham Lineham. In July, and in conjunction with Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts and The Arts Council, we are one of the few venues in the country to be hosting a special free performance of The Storm Officer by Matt Black. And then later in the season, we bring you the return of the hugely popular Pantaloons with As You Like It, the talented annual summer youth production of The Wind in the Willows and Worcester Rep’s Where is Mrs Christie? Musical offerings include theFilm Orchestra Concert Band, Budapest Café Orchestra, Remi Harris Trio and later in the season the Ledbury Community Brass Band’s popular Last Night of the Proms. Add to this our usual array of live screenings including An American in Paris, Swan Lake THE FILM and Romeo and Juliet, some exciting stuff fromLedbury Poetry Festival and a brilliant selection of films, and we think that you will agree that we have a pretty full programme ORCHESTRA for you select from. MANON Live Screening from The Royal Ballet CONCERT BAND Conductor Edward Roberts-Malpass Event Key Live Satellite Film Thurs 3 May I 7.15pm I £15* Sat 5 May I 7.30pm I £12 Kenneth MacMillan’s source for Manon Market_Theatre MarketTheatre INFORMATION was the 18th-century French novel The Film Orchestra, founded by Jane already adapted for opera by Massenet Whittle and Edward Roberts-Malpass in Buy Tickets See front cover for details of how to book. Tickets may also be bought on and Puccini. The premiere was given on 2013, is the UK’s first amateur orchestra the door, subject to availability. Please note that we are unable to take returns – even if 7 March 1974, with the lead roles danced performing only original music from film, you are picking up your tickets on the door. However, if there is a full house we are happy by Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell. television and video games. The success to try to resell them for you. The ballet quickly became a staple of The of the project has seen numerous TfO Royal Ballet’s repertory, and a touchstone ensembles formed, including wind The Market Theatre is situated in Market Street (off Bye Street, for satnavs the postcode of adult, dramatic dance. bands, brass bands, choir and jazz is HR8 2AQ). The Market Theatre is a trading name of Ledbury Amateur Dramatic bands, all performing in the same genre. Society Ltd (LADS) (Charity No: 1174743) which owns and runs the Theatre for the MacMillan found new sympathy with The TfO Concert Band is the leading benefit of the community. It provides a dedicated venue for amateur and professional the capricious Manon and her struggle TfO wind band and is very much looking performing arts. It has 128 seats, foyer, bar, wheelchair access, disabled toilet and hearing to escape poverty. Designs by his forward to performing at The Market loop. The Theatre or Foyer may be hired by emailing [email protected] regular collaborator Nicholas Georgiadis Theatre with a programme to include music from War Horse, Captain America, The foyer and bar are open 45 minutes before each show or film. reflect this, depicting a world of lavish splendour polluted by miserable The Good The Bad and The Ugly and The Parking Two public car parks (HR8 1EA) are off the top of Bye Street (with the clock tower at destitution. MacMillan’s spectacular Witches of Eastwick. the top). ensemble scenes for the whole Company create vivid, complex portraits of the *Students £8 Market Theatre Film Club For just £10 you are able to get in for half price to the 20 or distinct societies of Paris and New so films that we will be showing between June and December. See Page 22 for details Orleans. But it is Manon and Des Grieux’s of how to join. Of course if you do not want to join the Film Club, you can book in the impassioned pas de deux – recalling the normal way (see front cover) or buy tickets on the door (subject to availability). intensity of MacMillan’s earlier Romeo and Juliet – that drive this tragic story, LADS Youth Theatre Company We are afraid that membership is currently full. and make Manon one of MacMillan’s most powerful dramas. *Students and over 60s £12.50 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 3 THE BUDAPEST TAPLEY HOUSE Presented by Our Star Theatre Company CAFÉ ORCHESTRA REMI HARRIS TRIO Sat 12 May I 7.30pm I £12* Fri 11 May I 8pm I £15* Sat 19 May I 8pm I £12* Donnie and Sid are a couple of lazy Back by popular demand, the fiery twenty-somethings, thrown together The Remi Harris Trio take Gypsy Swing vivacity and awe-inspiring musicianship by fate under the roof of Tapley AN AMERICAN characteristics and infuse them with of the finest purveyors of Eastern House. Landlady Mrs Tapley keeps an influences from Jazz, Blues, Rock’n’Roll, European gypsy music this side of a IN PARIS unnervingly close eye on them as they Funk, World Music and more. They play Lada scrap heap will leave you with Encore Screening from stumble through life, dreaming of an an eclectic mix of original compositions, a grin on your face and rhythm in The Dominion Theatre extraordinary business plan that will get jazz standards and new arrangements your feet. them rich quick without ever having to Thurs 17 May I 7pm I £14* of music from Django Reinhardt, Jimi get off the sofa. When a new tenant Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, Charlie The BCO plays traditional folk and arrives, a dark secret is revealed and Parker, Peter Green and more. The show gypsy-flavoured music from across the The Tony Award winning Broadway things will never be the same again features Remi on a variety of acoustic world. Raucous, toe-tapping Balkan musical about love, hope and loving for the unsuspecting lodgers of Tapley and electric guitars accompanied by a and Russian numbers are combined your dreams, has taken the West End by House. Jealousy, love, and a mysterious hot club rhythm section of acoustic guitar with jazz and swing inflections, Klezmer, storm, with standing ovations from the old lady all entwine and entangle until it and double bass, and it includes solo, Romanian Doinas and Hungarian Czardas public and a record-setting 28 five-star becomes clear that Donnie and Sid are duet and trio playing interspersed with are awarded fresh treatments before reviews from UK critics. the only two idiots that can save the day. Remi’s commentary about the history of they give way to a disarmingly beautiful the music and the guitars he plays. Remi arsenal of ballads such as the Schindler’s With gorgeous Gershwin tunes *Students £8 and his trio have toured worldwide as List theme or Andy Statman’s (including the classic hits ‘S Wonderful well as performing at Buckingham Palace, bitter-sweet The Flatbush Waltz. and I Got Rhythm), stunning designs Montreal Jazz Festival, BBC Proms at the and show stopping choreography, this Royal Albert Hall with Jamie Cullum, on breathtakingly beautiful new musical is BBC 4 Television and live on BBC Radio 2 inspired by the Oscar winning MGM film Last night we went, with friends, and BBC Radio 3. to see The Budapest Cafe and tells the impassioned story of an Orchestra. It was the most exciting, American GI discovering art, friendship inspiring and uplifting evening. The and love in the “City of Light” in 1945. An extraordinary musician whole event was a delight and everybody Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2 in the audience were stamping and *Students and over 60s £12 Astonishing stuff shouting for more. Thank you for Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 6 Music bringing such class entertainment to our area - audience member Proceeds from this showing will go to *Students £8 *Students £12 4 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 5 THE MAN ON THE MOOR Something for the Weekend Theatre Company Sat 26 May I 8pm I £12* WUTHERING A huge hit from The Edinburgh Fringe! HEIGHTS Presented by Hotbuckle On 12th December 2015, an elderly looking Theatre Company gentleman was found dead on Saddleworth Moor. He was carrying no ID. In his pockets Sat 2 June I 8pm I £12* were just £130 in cash and return train tickets from London from the previous day. Hotbuckle are back in Ledbury to portray another classic, with Emily Jane Brontë’s Despite a national campaign, he remained only novel, widely considered one of the unidentified. He appeared to have no family, greatest works of fiction ever written. no friends, and no home. He didn’t even have a name.