AUTUMN 2018 SEPT - DECEMBER 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 AUTUMN PROGRAMME! LIVE SHOWS & SCREENINGS It is LADS’ 80th Birthday this year and they open the season with the comedy Ladykillers in September, and close it with their brilliant panto Alice in Wonderland in January, but will also be performing in October with Noel Coward’s Blithe Spririt and then in November with a re-run of the hugely successful Between the Lines at The Master’s House. The feast of drama this season also includes the Pantaloons’ hilarious version of As You Like It, Worcester Rep’s Mrs Christie, The Archer’s favourite Sunny Ormonde performing in Dorothy, and for our younger audience A Frog Called Woânda. Our musical programme is wide and varied with the Season bracketed by Ledbury’s Community Brass Band (Last Night of the Proms in September and their Christmas Concert in December). And in between we have two exciting newcomers to The Market Theatre with folk stars Gigspanner, and Allan Yn Y Fan; plus favourite Michael Lunts, from South Wales The Pontnewydd Male Choir, and Ledbury’s own Community Choir’s Christmas Concert. Add to this award winning movies and a sparking programme of screenings from The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, The National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company plus The King and I from the West End, and we think you will agree that it is a pretty good season! Event Key Live Screening Film INFORMATION Market_Theatre MarketTheatre Buy Tickets See front cover for details of how to book. Tickets may also be bought on the door, subject to availability. Please note that we are unable to take returns – even if you are picking up your tickets on the door. However, if there is a full house we are happy to try to resell them for you. In the interests of ensuring a prompt start for the benefit of all our patrons and the cast, we reserve the right to re-sell any booked seat that has not been occupied by the scheduled start time. LADS presents The Market Theatre is situated in Market Street (off Bye Street, for satnavs the postcode is HR8 2AQ). The Market Theatre is a trading name of Ledbury Amateur Dramatic Society Ltd (LADS) (Charity No: 1174743) which owns and runs the Theatre for the THE LADYKILLERS benefit of the community. It provides a dedicated venue for amateur and professional performing arts. It has 128 seats, foyer, bar, wheelchair access, disabled toilet and hearing Thurs 13 - Sat 15 Sept I 7.30pm I £10* loop. The Theatre or Foyer may be hired by emailing [email protected] The foyer and bar are open 45 minutes before each show or film. By Graham Linehan (from the motion picture screenplay by William Rose). Parking Two public car parks (HR8 1EA) are off the top of Bye Street (with the clock tower at A classic black comedy: a sweet old lady, alone in her house, is pitted against a gang of the top). criminal misfits who will stop at nothing…. Market Theatre Film Club For just £25 you are able to get in for half price to all the Posing as amateur musicians, Professor Marcus and his gang rent rooms in the lopsided films that we will be showing up to the end ofnext year – 2019. Just drop a cheque plus house of a sweet but strict Mrs Wilberforce. your name, postal and email addresses, and marked for the attention of The Film Club Secretary, into the theatre post box and we will send you a membership card. Of course if The villains plot to involve her, unwittingly, in Marcus’ brilliantly conceived heist job. you do not want to join the Film Club, you can book in the normal way (see front cover) or buy tickets on the door (subject to availability). The police are left stumped but Mrs Wilberforce becomes wise to their ruse and Marcus concludes that there is only one way to keep the old lady quiet. With only her parrot, LADS Youth Theatre Company We are afraid that membership is currently full. General Gordon, to help her, Mrs Wilberforce is alone with five desperate men. But who will be forced to face the music? *Students £6 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 3 WHERE IS MRS CHRISTIE? King Lear By William Shakespeare JULIE starring Liz Grand National Theatre Live National Theatre Live encore Presented by Worcester Repertory Company AS YOU LIKE IT Thurs 27 Sept I 7pm I £15* Thurs 20 Sept I 7pm I £14* Presented by The Pantaloons Sat 22 Sept I 8pm I £14* Broadcast live from London’s West End, Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, NT Live: A Chichester Festival Theatre’s production Streetcar Named Desire) and Eric Kofi Agatha Christie was one of the greatest Wed 26 Sept I 8pm I £13* which received five-star reviews for its Abrefa (The Amen Corner) feature in thriller writers of all time and certainly sell-out run. Jonathan Munby directs and Yes, The Pantaloons are back in Ledbury the cast of this brand new production, the most prolific. In 1926, she was at the Ian McKellan plays Lear in this ‘nuanced again! After past Ledbury successes with directed by Carrie Cracknell (NT Live: centre of a mystery as perplexing as any and powerful’ (The Times) contemporary Pride and Prejudice, The Importance The Deep Blue Sea). of her fiction, a series of events which retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, of Being Earnest and The War of the sparked one of the biggest and most moving and shocking play. Wild and newly single, Julie throws a extensive police hunts in history. Her Worlds they are now having a crack at Shakespeare. late night party. In the kitchen, Jean crashed car was discovered in Surrey Considered by many to be the greatest and Kristina clean up as the celebration and the famous author was missing, tragedy ever written, King Lear sees All the world’s a stage, and all the men heaves above them. Crossing the presumed dead by many, for eleven days. two ageing fathers – one a King, and women merely players... Welcome threshold, Julie initiates a power game However, she was eventually found at a one his courtier – reject the children to the Forest of Arden, a world of with Jean – which rapidly descends into luxury hotel in Harrogate. She claimed who truly love them. Their blindness clowns, lovers, runaways and rebels, as a savage fight for survival. then, and for the rest of the life, that unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition The Pantaloons present their innovative she was suffering from amnesia and and treachery, as family and state are and hilarious version of Shakespeare’s This new version of August Strindberg’s remembered nothing. Neither the press plunged into a violent power struggle timeless comedy, with folky, foot- play Miss Julie, written by Polly Stenham, nor the police believed her. with bitter ends. remains shocking and fiercely relevant in stomping live music and their own inimitable brand of buffoonery. its new setting of contemporary London. Did Agatha Christie lie, and if so why? Includes strobe lighting. Did she suffer from amnesia? Was it a Includes strobe lighting. publicity stunt? Or was there a darker *Students £10 secret involved in this disappearance Ian McKellen reigns supreme in which was to affect her for the rest *Students and over 60s £12 this triumphant production. of her life? The answer to all these Daily Telegraph questions will, as in all good thrillers, be revealed! *Students and over 60s £12.50 *Students £8 4 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 5 LAST NIGHT OF DOROTHY (The Airings of an Archers Actor’s Aunt) THE PROMS Sunny Ormonde (Lilian Bellamy Presented by Ledbury in The Archers) stars Community Brass Band THE MERRY WIVES A FROG OF WINDSOR CallED WOÂnda Sat 6 Oct I 8pm I £14* Sat 29 Sept I 7.30pm I £8* By William Shakespeare Presented by Théâtre sans Frontières (UK) RSC encore screening and Théâtre à l’Envers (Canada) The indomitable Dorothy is the mainstay Join Ledbury Community Brass Band of Neighbourhood Watch and scourge for their Last Night of the Proms Sat 6 Oct I 2.30pm of litter louts. After losing her slot on concert. This tribute to the last night of Tues 2 Oct I 7pm I £14* hospital radio, due to an unfortunate the world’s greatest music festival will Adults and Children £6 incident with a golf ball and a pair of Down on his luck in the suburbs, John feature all the traditional flag-waving (£25 family of 5 people) tights, she has seized control of a new Falstaff plans to hustle his way to a tunes, as well as favourites from the microphone. So she is now broadcasting comfortable retirement by seducing the brass band repertoire. An evening of Laura’s mother is ill and she is being to the residents of her retirement home: wives of two wealthy men. Unknown music, singing and fun with opportunities looked after by her grandfather. Whilst Barmy Frank, Mad Alice, One-Armed to him, it’s the women of Windsor who for audience participation under the washing her paintbrushes in the Annie and the rest.