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’Groping for Words’ by Sue Townsend
Tuesday 20th – Saturday 24th February 2018 in Grange Hall
Groping for Words is a warm compassionate comedy by Sue Townsend, directed by Katherine Buttfield, about an adult literacy evening class run by the middle-aged and well-meaning Joyce. She knows that teaching adult literacy requires tact and respect – unfortunately the only room that was free for her evening class is unsuitable.
Sue Townsend depicts well and entertainingly the prickly interaction between these characters, and the agonising effect the written word has on them, notably the letters that George receives from his daughter but can’t read.
Set in a class for illiterate adults, this play might seem irrelevant in the 21st century but not so; the latest statistics show that 16% of Britons are ‘functionally illiterate’.
All tickets are £9 each (including tea or coffee and programme) and are available via the website or from Pen2Paper Stationers in R-o-T or by phoning 0115 332906.
Please get your tickets early to avoid disappointment.
NB. Customers ordering tickets on-line via the website will still pay just £9 and you can use a credit card or debit card with no added charges www.radcliffe-on-trentdramagroup.co.uk
We now have a Facebook page @RoTDramaGroup and a Twitter account @rotdram so you can keep up to date by following us on either of these.
Why not book a pre-theatre meal – available from 5.30pm at
Café Piano
0115 9332233
10% discount if you show your theatre tickets.
BEESTON PLAYERS PRESENT “MURDER WEAPON”
14 to 17 NOVEMBER 2018
Round Hill School, Foster Avenue, Beeston, NG9 1AE
Tickets £8, Concessions £7
Book online to secure a good seat
www.BeestonPlayers.org
Tickets also available on the door
or by telephone on 07722 551 387
BMTC 60TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT – PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
PRESENTED BY BINGHAM MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY
Saturday 7th October 2017
Tickets can be order via website on www.binghammusicaltheatrecompany.co.uk
CHRISTMAS ALLSORTS
All Hallows Dramatic Society
Presents
An Evening Of Music and Sketches
at
All Hallows Halls,
Pierrepont Road, Lady Bay
On Friday 24th and Saturday 25th November
at 7.30pm
Tickets: Adults £5.00, Children £3.00
Available From: Tony & Kathy Wykes 9140689
DAN WALSH in CONCERT
SATURDAY 21ST OCTOBER 2017 AT 7.30PM (Doors open 7pm)
Nominated for best musician at the 2016 BBC Folk Awards, and touted as one of the finest banjo players in the UK – as well as being a superb singer, songwriter and guitarist – Dan Walsh has been described as the ‘the real deal’ (Uncut Magazine).
He now has three critically acclaimed solo albums to his name with most recent album Incidents and Accidents lauded as ‘absolutely terrific’ by Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio 2.
Describing what Dan does is no easy task but at the heart of it is British, Irish and American folk music delivered with a healthy dose of funky grooves – all performed with his unique and dazzling take on clawhammer style banjo. Add to all that poignant songs, astonishing musical departures and lively humour and the result is a truly memorable live show which has wowed audiences across the world from intimate seated rooms to huge dancing crowds in festival fields.
Tickets can be reserved at 01159 821710 or email: richard.farr1@ntlworld.com
Tickets are £10 Adults – £5 Under 18’s.
Venue: All Hallows Halls
Pierrepont Road,
Lady Bay, West Bridgford,
Nottingham. NG2 5BP.
Harp &a Monkey The Importance of Digging Holes: The Great War and More
FRIDAY 15TH MARCH 2019
7.30pm (Doors Open 7pm)
Fronted by an easy-going raconteur and BBC ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ historian, this acclaimed Lancashire folk-storytelling trio matches an excellent first world war folk set with humorous and melodic northern life short stories. Lively, inventive folk delivered in a down-to-earth manner.
Songs about cuckolded mole catchers, a lone English oak tree that grows at Gallipoli, care in the community and medieval pilgrims… we can only be talking about the folk experimentalists Harp and a Monkey.
The harp ‘n’ banjo driven electro-folk-storytelling of Martin Purdy (vocals, glockenspiel, accordion, harmonica and keyboards), Simon Jones (harp, guitar, viola) and Andy Smith (banjo, melodica, guitar and programming) is imbued with a deep Lancashire sensibility that shines through in their beautifully crafted and sometimes spooky vignettes of northern life, love and remembrance.
The outfit, who have been friends for more than 20 years, channel the ghosts of summers spent in municipal parks and winters walking on the moors. Ask them about their influences and they are as likely to cite Ordnance Survey maps and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as they are Bert Jansch, Bjork or Bellowhead.
Formed in 2008, Harp and a Monkey have been building up a loyal following via the old-fashioned practice of relentless gigging and modern practice of social network sites.
Tickets can be reserved at 01159 821710 or email: richard.farr1@ntlworld.com
Tickets are £10 Adults £5 Under 18’s.
Venue: All Hallows Halls
Pierrepont Road,
Lady Bay, West Bridgford,
Nottingham. NG2 5BP.
Suitable For:
Adults/Family (8+)
The Importance Of Being Earnest a classic comedy by Oscar Wilde
PRESENTED BY RADCLIFFE-ON-TRENT DRAMA GROUP
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Tuesday 7th – Saturday 11th November 2017 in Grange Hall
Oscar Wilde’s brilliant and much-loved comedy of love, manners and mistaken identity has been delighting audiences for over 100 years.
It’s Victorian England and two young bachelors have taken to bending the truth to add a dash of excitement to their lives.
Jack invents a brother ‘Earnest’ as an excuse to leave his dull country life behind him so he can pursue Gwendolen, the delectable daughter of the formidable Lady Bracknell. Across town Algernon decides to take the name Earnest, when visiting Jack’s young ward Cecily. When each gentleman is forced to unwind his web of lies and reveal himself – being earnest takes on a new meaning!
All tickets are £9 each (including tea or coffee and programme) and are available via the website or from Pen2Paper Stationers in R-o-T or by phoning 0115 9332906. Please get your tickets early to avoid disappointment.
NB. Customers ordering tickets on-line via the website will still pay just £9 and you can use a credit card or debit card with no added charges www.radcliffe-on-trentdramagroup.co.uk
We now have a Facebook page @RoTDramaGroup and a Twitter account @rotdram so you can keep up to date by following us on either of these.
Why not book a pre-theatre meal – available from 5.30pm at Café Piano 0115 9332233
10% discount if you show your theatre tickets.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Presented by East Bridgford Drama Group
WIND IN THE WILLOWS The Musical
PRESENTED BY BURTON JOYCE PLAYERS
Thursday 26 – Saturday 28 October 2017
At Burton Joyce and Bulcote Village Hall
Evening Performances: 7.30pm
Saturday Matinee: 2.30pm
Tickets are available to purchase from Delights Deli & Gift Shop (Main Street, Burton Joyce).
The Book Case (Main Street, Lowdham) or online from www.ticketsource.co.uk/bjp