Autumn-Winter 2007- 08 Autumn-Winter 2007- 08 Drama Dance Music Comedy Theatre Children’s Theatre Cultural Diversity Puppetry Opera International Touring VILLAGE VENTURES VILLAGE The Rural and Community Scheme for Touring Nottinghamshire live performances in your area NEW PERSPECTIVES THEATRE COMPANY NEW PERSPECTIVES THEATRE Welcome to the Village Ventures Autumn-Winter 2007-08 new guide to what's on at a venue near you! As always, there are lots of goodies to choose from, so put dates in your diary and book tickets now - you are sure of a warm welcome. Village Ventures is the Nottinghamshire programme of professional arts and entertainment for community venues. All the shows listed are professional performances subsidised by your local council, Nottinghamshire County Council and Arts Council East Midlands. Tickets are sold locally for each event. Check with venues for the ticket prices. The series is co-ordinated by Artservice on behalf of Ashfield District, Bassetlaw District, Broxtowe Borough, Gedling Borough, Newark and Sherwood District, Mansfield District, TRADING FACES and Rushcliffe Borough Councils, and Nottinghamshire County Council. For information about any aspect of the scheme, please contact either the arts section at your local council or Artservice on: 01544 327877 Call contact numbers to book tickets and gain information on ticket prices, check start times, details and directions to venues. Please see back pages for access details. Co-ordinated by: Most of the shows are suitable for general family audiences; however, to make it easier for you to plan a great night out with your family, look for the family friendly symbol and FAMILY particularly the age recommendation provided by performers. FRIENDLY Village Ventures is supported by: TARA ARTS MAZAIKA In Concert Russian, Folk and Gypsy Music Cabaret Mazaika duo, Igor Outkine and Sarah Harrison, is a perfect, yet totally unconventional, marriage of violin, accordion and voice, with a performance full of fun, excitement and virtuosity, emotional depth and musical subtlety. 8+ Igor and Sarah present the show with great humour, gaining a rapport with Fri 21 Sept 7:30pm the audience and with each other, which gives everyone an intoxicating Upper Broughton Village Hall experience. 01664 822241 The programme consists of brilliant highlights from a Classical, Russian, and Sat 22 Sept 7:30pm Gypsy music interspersed with some of the duo’s favourites from around the Beeston, Chilwell Road Methodist Church world, including Argentine Tango, Neapolitan song, songs from the twenties 0115 943 1164 and thirties, Bluegrass, Hot Club Swing, Klezmer and popular tunes, a real cabaret extravaganza. Thu 10 Jan 7:30pm Caunton Dean Hole Community Centre 01636 636523 A very special evening of music, song and fun! AJTC THEATRE COMPANY two realities. Their remarkable lives span almost the On The Black Hill whole of the last century and throw an extraordinary by Charlie Way adapted from Bruce Chatwin’s light on the values of our changing time through war novel and directed by Geoff Bullen. and peace. Bound together and yet driven apart by nature they struggle to find meaning and purpose in “For forty-two years, Lewis and Benjamin Jones slept side their existence which is dominated by one question. by side, in their parents’ bed, at their farm which was Who will inherit their farm, their ‘Vision’? known as ‘The Vision’.” AJTC brings its distinctive style to a new adaptation of So begins Bruce Chatwin’s award winning tale of Bruce Chatwin’s award winning and much loved twinship, love and belonging, set on the border of novel, featuring a specially commissioned score with England and Wales. Award winning playwright live cello music. Charles Way’s beautiful new adaptation captures the harsh realities and humour of farming life and the On The Black Hill will appeal to all those who like a unique struggle of the twins, who have one identity but good story told well. Thu 27 Sept 7:30pm Fri 16 Nov 7:30pm Sutton cum Lound Village Hall Whatton in the Vale Jubilee Hall 16+ 01777 707736 01949 850117 OPERA DUDES Sat 29 Sept 7:30pm A Life of Organized Crime Croon Caunton Dean Hole Community Centre Meet two modern day Mario Lanzas performing some of the world’s most 01636 636523 romantic music, in the pair’s own unique vocal arrangements. Sat 13 Oct 7:30pm Gunthorpe Village Hall Opera Dudes comprise a posh former Cambridge scholar and an ex-builder 0115 966 3317 turned international operatic tenor telling their life stories and performing music ranging from Puccini to Elvis Presley and Dean Martin, via Rachmaninov, arias from Fri 8 Feb 7:30pm Rigoletto and a melody of Neapolitan songs in a full 90 minute show. East Markham Village Hall 01777 871593 Tim Lole and Neil Allen combine their musical and vocal pedigrees with an injection of humour and charm. Don’t be surprised to find your feet tapping, your Sat 16 Feb 7:30pm sides splitting and your heart breaking. Aslockton Church 01949 850600 An evening, which is sure to charm all. 8+ PHIL ALEXANDER and GREG LAWSON Together these two are a compelling mix of rhythm, Box and Fiddle But Not As You Know It! dialogue and energy. Be there! Phil and Greg’s music spans the world – Scotland, Ireland, Finland, Eastern Europe, Brazil. Traditional tunes are given a new twist, and original music is built from all the influences that they have encountered on their musical adventures. You will hear seductive waltzes, driving Balkan and Klezmer dances, heart-stopping tangos, foot-stomping reels and more – all played with wit, style and passion. Phil and Greg are two of the UK’s most versatile and innovative World musicians. Phil is a lynchpin of festival favourites Salsa Celtica (recently nominated for three Radio 2 Wed 3 Oct 7:30pm folk awards) and is also the driving force behind the hugely East Markham Village Hall successful Moishe’s Bagel. Phil’s dynamic and inventive 01777 871593 sound fuses his expertise across jazz, World and classical music. Greg is that rare thing: a classical musician able to Thu 28 Feb 7:30pm channel his fearsome ability into the many sides of World and Headon cum Upton Village Hall 10+ folk music, and still emerge with a sound all his own. 01777 248053 CHALKFOOT THEATRE ARTS Tressell’s powerful novel, including that of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist Owen, a skilled artist who is shamelessly by R. Tressell, adapted by Philip Dart exploited by his bosses: Ruth Easton and her decorator husband who are forced to take in a Robert Tressell wrote only one novel during the lodger to make ends meet and Bert, the 15 course of his troubled life – however his book did year old apprentice, who is bullied and abused much to change attitudes towards the plight of by his employers. workers at the beginning of the 20th century. However, humour is never very far away as Tressell (real name Robert Noonan) was a skilled artist Tressell satirises the scams and tricks of the trade who created spectacular friezes and murals in the used by bosses as they skimp on time and local church as well as working on more mundane materials to save money – a scenario not tasks such as decorating rooms for the wealthy in his unfamiliar to householders of the 21st century! hometown of Hastings. His real life experiences of harsh working conditions drove him to write the book, Thu 11 Oct 7:30pm which was not published until after his death. Rolleston Village Hall 01636 816757 Philip Dart’s intelligent adaptation focuses on some of the individual human stories within 12+ TRADING FACES is constantly faced with new Alice challenges and has to learn to adapt and ultimately find the confidence to One of the UK’s great mask companies assert what she knows is right: a story of moving house; making new Trading Faces’ new show for autumn 2007 is Alice, inspired friends; learning when to speak and by ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the when not to speak; learning never to Looking Glass’ by Lewis Carroll. make assumptions; learning to cope with the unexpected and rarely to Mask Making Workshop. Family Alice is a family show packed with fun for adults and children expect the expected. Alice aged 5 years upwards. The show celebrates the fun and nonsense of Lewis Carroll’s stories using masks, puppetry, film This show has Trading Faces trademark style of highly visual, and poetry, drawing on the rich visual world of Carroll’s fast and physical action and a contemporary treatment of a dynamic characters. familiar story with relevance for an audience today full of visual surprises. Carroll’s stories offer an action packed narrative – the tale of a young girl who is thrown into a strange new world where she struggles to fit in and make sense of her surroundings. She Thu 18 Oct 6:30pm Sat 20 Oct 6:30pm Tue 6 Nov 7:00pm Nuthall Methodist Church Acorn Community Theatre, Worksop Pierrepont Gamston Primary School 5+ 0115 927 4958 01909 501817 0115 981 9292 and their adult families NTC TOURING THEATRE COMPANY Oceans Five and a Half by Stewart Howson The lads of “The Flat Pack” love being Frank… and Deano and Sammie. The summit of their aspirations is a sharp suit, a cool song, a classy dame, a Jack Daniels and a fistful of aces… Unfortunately that’s not the hand they’ve been dealt. They’re just three working-class lads from the North of England with suits from Oxfam and a big dream. Vegas! And if that dream is snatched away they’ll go to any daft lengths to get it back.