warwick arts centre main season diary

oct - dec 10

www.warwickartscentre.co.uk box office: 024 7652 4524

One of the many ways to extend and enrich your evening out is a visit to the Mead Gallery. The Mead Gallery is free to enter and showcases extraordinary international contemporary art. A lively programme of talks and debates connects you to some of the great thinkers at the University and beyond.

This season’s exhibitions at the Mead Gallery can be found on pages 24-25.

In addition you can browse books and music in our shops or enjoy refreshments at our bar, café or restaurant - make a night of it!

Whilst visiting Warwick Arts Centre take time to experience all we have to offer.

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The restaurant at Warwick Arts Centre is currently under development. It will open with a new look, menu and service, creating a great new addition to the Arts Centre in the Autumn.

Once again we are offering FREE tickets to under 26s on selected theatre productions. A Night Less Ordinary tickets are available where you see this logo. Please see page 44 for terms and conditions.

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With an eclectic mix of CDs and DVDs at competitive prices RISE is the place to buy good music and develop your music and film collections. Ideal for browsing before and after an event.

Term time: Mon – Fri 10am – 9pm, Sat 12pm – 9pm, Sun 2pm – 9pmVacations: Mon – Sat 10am – 7pm, Sun – closed

Tel: 024 7647 4385warwick arts centre

Warwick Arts Centre has recently appointed China Plate (Ed Collier and Paul Warwick) as associate producers programming our studio and developing new and astonishing theatre.

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Kneehigh

Hansel & GretelFri 26 Nov – Fri 10 Dec

Theatre £17.50, £20, Under 16s £8.50, Under 26s £10

Fri 26 Nov £15, Under 26s £7.50

Ages 7+

Back by popular demand in time for a Christmas adventure for children and brave adults everywhere. Let the irrepressible Kneehigh take you by the hand and lead you into the deepest part of the forest – a world of darkness, wit and wonder, of earthy delights and crooked shadows. A world that is sweet but never sugary!

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The GruffaloMon 13 Dec – Sun 2 Jan

Theatre £11.50, Under 16s £9.50

Ages: 3+

A Christmas treat full of songs, laughs and scary fun for children aged 3 to 300!

“A fine piece of children’s theatre.” The Sunday Times

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They’d eat like kings if they only could

But hunger gnaws – famine stalks the land

Something quite wicked has the upper hand!

Poor mother and father must do “what is best”...

And Hansel and Gretel will be put to the test!

Armed with their very last slice of bread...

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Little Gemby Elaine Murphy

Tue 5 – Sat 9 Oct 7.30pm

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Wed – Sat: £17.50 (£15), £20 (£17), Under 26s £10

1hr 40mins

This multi award-winning hit of the 2008 Dublin Fringe Festival takes the audience on a journey with three generations of Dublin women through one extraordinary year of love, sex, birth, marriage and salsa classes. A year of courage, comedy and romance.

This is a triple monologue of the kind Irish theatre excels in; it tells the tale of three generations of a Dublin family as they stand on the brink of widowhood for Kay, new love for Lorraine and teenage motherhood for Amber.

Little Gem is Elaine Murphy’s debut play. Premiering at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2008, it picked up the Fishamble New Writing Award and the Stewart Parker/BBC Drama Award.

In 2009, the play transferred to the Traverse Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award.

“A tiny treasure... any woman out there facing down the barrel of marriage, childbirth or old age would be well advised to ditch the sambuca and come to Little Gem instead.” Time Out

“Elaine Murphy’s Little Gem is indeed a little gem of a play, vivid, funny and touching... The writing is so honest, the language so vivid that the happy ending seems genuinely earned, and the performances are outstanding... this is lovely, life-affirming work.” The Telegraph

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Stan’s Cafe

Tuning Out With Radio ZThu 14 – Sat 16 Oct 7pm

Studio £10.50 (£8.50), Under 26s £8.50

4hrs (audiences may come and go)

Ages: 14+

Three genre-bending nights at the theatre challenging theatrical form and you, the audience!

Forced Entertainment

The Thrill Of It AllTue 19 & Wed 20 Oct 7.30pm

Theatre £14.50 (£12.50), £16.50 (£14.50), Under 26s £10

1hr 40mins

Ages: 16+

It’s bright under the lights, and hot, and frightening. Nine performers in grubby tuxedos and tarnished sequins play out a comical and disconcerting vaudeville to the strains of Japanese lounge music.

After the minimalism of Spectacular, internationally renowned innovators Forced Entertainment return with a large cast on a big stage, filled with ragged dances and distorted voices.

Deranged dancing girls swirl, giggle, bicker and stray ever further from the point. Shabby comperes compete for the microphone and the audience’s laughter as the show itself slowly starts to unravel.

Dances end in fights, jokes end in confusion and sentimental stories end in arguments in this unsettling and extraordinary performance.

“The jokes are very funny, and there is profundity in the humour and the bleaker moments.” The British Theatre Guide

“The reckless Forced Entertainment beat theatre to smithereens.” Cutting Edge

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Co-producers: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Theatre Garonne (Toulouse), Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou in collaboration with Festival d’Automne (Paris).This production is supported by Sheffield City Council.

Tuning Out With Radio Z is an event, an extraordinary theatrical experience that is improvised afresh each night both for you and by you. It will never be repeated.

It is late in the studios of Radio Z and two presenters are attempting to navigate the perils of the night, intent on bringing their listeners safely to dawn. Where the fictional presenters are relying on their listeners for help, the real actors are relying on you, their audience, to guide them through the show.

Bring a phone or a laptop, write text, send ideas, submit images and make requests. Devise the show live with the Stan’s Cafe team and experience the kick of finding your material seamlessly woven into the emerging drama.

Audiences find the show powerful, hypnotic and addictive. You are immersed in a rich, visually beautiful, fictional world, whilst watching actors negotiating the challenges of improvisation and all the time being aware of how you could and others are, helping to shape events.

Tuning Out With Radio Z is an audacious and generous undertaking, a one-off that needs your presence and input. Come for the start and stay as long as you wish. You may just surprise yourself, you may fall in love with it and stay right through to the end, whatever that may be.

“At the heart of most of Stan’s Cafe’s works there is a simple idea, which is then pursued with an extreme boldness bordering on recklessness.” Festwoch Wein

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News From Nowhere presents the Royal Court Theatre Production

The Authorby Tim Crouch

Tue 19 – Sat 23 Oct 7.45pm

Studio

Tue: £10, Under 26s £9.50, Wed – Sat: £13.50, Under 26s £9.50

1hr 20mins

Contains material that may be disturbing. Recommended for 18+

“I have the choice to continue. I have the choice to stop.”

Settle back into the warmth of the theatre. Relax as the story unfolds. For you. With you. Of you. A story of hope, violence, togetherness and exploitation. Laugh with the actors, tap your feet to the music, take a chocolate, turn to your neighbour. You’re here.

Tim Crouch’s new play is about the harm carried out in the name of art. Performed within its audience, it tells the story of another play: a shocking and abusive play written by a playwright called Tim Crouch who oversteps the line.

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Bonnieand ClydeTue 26 & Wed 27 Oct 7.45pm

Studio £9.50 (£7.50), Under 26s £7.50

1hr 15mins

Crossing the state border in a stolen Ford V-8, with a trunk full of sawn-off shotguns and bootleg whiskey, Bonnie and Clyde have found one last place to hide. Time is ticking... they’re on the run from the law and from reality, but which one will catch them first?

Following their “wonderfully warped adult fairytale” ( Metro, on The Red Man), and last year’s hugely successful Out of Touch ( Venue) Fairground presents Bonnie and Clyde, a story about two twenty-somethings who’ll stop at nothing to realise their American dreams in the era of the Great Depression.

Fairground makes “juicy, seductive, high-octane work” that exists between physical theatre and new writing. Combining live music, daring physicality and original scripts.

“Fairground could be Bristol’s answer to Frantic Assembly” Venue, May 2008

The Author is a highly original and terrifyingly seductive journey into the horror of our mediated world.

“It’s about us, what we see, and what we choose to see… this is a dazzling theatrical experience that lets nobody off the hook, opening our eyes to what should be blindingly obvious: we all have a choice.” The Guardian

Tim Crouch is “one of the smartest artists making theatre in Britain now” (Kulturflash). The Author is his first commission for the Royal Court Theatre, following the award-winning plays ENGLAND, An Oak Tree and My Arm.

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Dancing Brick

6.0: How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and WonTue 2 & Wed 3 Nov 7.45pm

Studio £10.50 (£8.50), Under 26s £8.50

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Five years ago the world ran out of ice. A year after that the sport of ice-dancing went with it. Tonight, reigning champions Heap Krusiak and Pebble Adverati, will attempt, against all odds, to bring back what the world took away. They face the biggest challenge of their careers and the world is watching.

A prescient ecological tale for our times, Dancing Brick’s award-winning hit play is a delicate, funny and touching exploration of how we cope with loss, both on a human and a global environmental scale.

WINNER Arches Brick Award 2009

SHORTLISTED for Total Theatre Award 2009

“Brilliant...Heap and Pebble will melt your heart.” The Guardian

Cupola Bobber

Way Out West, the Sea Whispered MeMon 8 Nov 7.45pm

Studio £10.50 (£8.50), Under 26s £8.50

1hr 5mins

Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me studies the action of the sea, both as mythology and as awesome presence, and asks: why is it that people are drawn to the sea?

From British Edwardian seaside resorts and surrounding ‘work towns’, to the disappeared sea-side town of Hallsands, to 1930s dustbowl Kansas, Cupola Bobber use their home-spun aesthetic and poker-faced charm to investigate how the seaside functions as a muse of contemplation, a place of leisure, and a heartless destroyer.

“This pair of Chicago-based 30-year-olds can lay claim to a special talent for alternative performance-making of disarmingly odd, cosmic charm.” The Times

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Fuel presents Uninvited Guests’

Love Letters Straight From Your HeartFri 12 & Sat 13 Nov 7.45pm

Studio £10

1hr 20mins

Let’s raise our glasses to long lost loves and current lovers, to mums, to dads and to absent friends.

Uninvited Guests stage an event that is somewhere between a wedding reception, a wake and a radio dedication show. We speak of our own and other’s loves – deep, passionate, ambivalent and unrequited – and dedicate songs to them.

If you want to join in with this happy occasion, send a dedication to someone you love to [email protected] – explain what they mean to you and why you’ve chosen that particular piece of music.

Your letters of love may become part of the show, romantic gestures or signs of friendship, shared publicly.

“You can’t help but fall in love with it.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

A BAC Scratch and an Arnolfini We Live Here commission. Also commissioned by Leeds Met Studio Theatre. Uninvited Guests are Arnolfini Associate Artists and are supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

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Kneehigh

The Red Shoesbased on the classic story by Hans Christian Andersenadapted and directed by Emma Rice

Tue 26 - Sat 30 Oct 7.30pm

Theatre

Tue: £15, Under 26s £10

Wed – Sat: £17.50 (£15.50), £20 (£18), Under 26s £10

1hr 30mins

Dance you shall and Dance you must!

Red shoes. Don’t you just love them? They make you dance with delight and spin with possibilities. Your tapping toes teeter on the top of the world.

But what happens when you can’t stop dancing? What happens when you lose your footing? Would you dare to turn to the butcher to rid you of your heart-stoppingly beautiful red shoes? That’s just what our desperate heroine is compelled to do…

The acclaimed Kneehigh bring you a cracked cabaret where anything is possible and nothing is probable. Surreal and sensuous, bloody and bare – the menacing and profound world of the fairy story is revealed.

Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen, this freshly revived production of The Red Shoes is passionate, irreverent, funny and rude. Like a gust of salty sea air, this award-winning piece fuses live and recorded sound, visually and physically powerful images and a story to make your heart pound. Kneehigh remain a weather beaten force to be reckoned with.

“… their magic makes the theatre crackle with the heat of obsession… a thrilling and unnerving piece of theatre.” Evening Standard

“Exquisitely dark, sexy and mischievous.” The Times

“Delirious, witty, macabre… A show to die for.” The Guardian

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William Carlisle. The world at his feet. Its weight on his shoulders. Intelligent. Articulate. F***ed.

As the end of term approaches, a group of sixth-formers prepare themselves for the end of their school lives. But as the world begins to open up before them, they are faced with the very real danger it could swallow them whole.

Having received great critical and audience acclaim a raw young cast expose the violence simmering under the surface of achieving success. A blistering new play by Simon Stephens, writer of Pornography and the Olivier Award-winning On the Shore of the Wide World.

“One of the best plays of the year.” Sunday Express

“Riveting to watch and superbly acted.” The Guardian

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“Superb… Punk Rock combines emotional truth and raw intensity to thrilling theatrical effect.” The Daily Telegraph

A Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester and Lyric Hammersmith production

Punk Rocka new play by Simon Stephensdirected by Sarah Frankcom

Tue 16 – Sat 20 Nov 7.30pm

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Cheek by Jowl

The Tempestdirected by Declan Donnellandesigned by Nick Ormerod

Thu 3 – Sat 5 Mar 7.30pm

Theatre £17.50 (£15.50), £20 (£18), Under 26s £10

Ages: 16+

Following the success of Andromaque, Three Sisters and Twelth Night, Cheek by Jowl present The Tempest performed by their internationally renowned Russian ensemble. This is a new co-production with Moscow’s Chekhov International Festival.

“Whatever Cheek by Jowl does next constitutes a major happening.” The Guardian

“I can’t recommend it enough. It’s poised, it’s intense. It’s raw.” The Times (on Andromaque)

Fail Better Productions

Diary of a Madman (after Gogol)

Discords (after Shakespeare)

A tenth anniversary double-bill

Fri 21 & Sat 22 Jan 7.45pm

Studio £10.50 (£8.50)

In this acclaimed one-man show, a Russian civil servant moves from obsession to psychosis, while two little dogs write letters to each other. Fail Better’s adaptation of Gogol’s Diary of A Madman was first seen in London (Best Fringe Show of 2007, Time Out) and more recently at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009 with outstanding reviews.

Discords is Fail Better’s devised new work which freely adapts Shakespeare in a theatrical language inspired by the work of Samuel Beckett. A highly innovative staging sees disembodied heads emerging from a cabinet of curiosities to re-tell their ‘rooted sorrow’.

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Complicite’s

A Disappearing NumberThu 14 Oct 6.45pm

Theatre £10

For the first time, National Theatre Live is broadcast from Theatre Royal, Plymouth.

Complicite’s A Disappearing Number opened in Plymouth in 2007 before visiting Warwick Arts Centre and subsequently touring all over the world. Awards include the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2008), the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play (2007) and the Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play (2007).

“A Disappearing Number is a wonder and one I cannot recommend too highly.” The Daily Telegraph

Complicite is one of the UK’s most outstanding theatre companies and becomes the first company outside of the National Theatre to be a part of the National Theatre Live season.

Encore screening of

PhèdreThu 23 Sep 6.45pm

Cinema £10 Another chance to see the production that launched National Theatre Live – Phèdre, with Helen Mirren, Margaret Tyzack and Dominic Cooper.

Donmar Warehouse’s

King LearThu 3 Feb 6.45pm

Cinema £15

The Donmar Warehouse’s production of King Lear reunites Derek Jacobi and Tony Award-winning Michael Grandage in one of the greatest works in western literature.

Hamletby William Shakespeare

Thu 9 Dec 6.45pm

Cinema £15

Following celebrated performances at the National in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet. He is joined by Claire Higgins (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia).

FELA!Thu 13 Jan 6.45pm

Cinema £10

A provocative and wholly unique hybrid of dance, theatre and music, FELA! explores the extravagant, decadent and rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Winner of three 2010 Tony Awards including Best Choreography (Bill T. Jones).

“Top 10 Shows of 2009. It’s a work of total theatre and a party where the power of the people is unleashed with a contagious jiggle.” Los Angeles Times

Using his pioneering music (a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythm and harmonies), FELA! reveals Kuti’s controversial life as an artist and political activist.

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Five Kinds of SilenceWed 17 – Sat 20 Nov 7.45pm

Studio £7 (£6)

“I love my family...What’s different about me, see, is that I love them more than what you might call normal...”

Whilst a man is having a severe epileptic fit, his two daughters take his gun and shoot him. The police arrive and the women confess to his murder without coercion. The strange nature of this confession sparks a series of interrogations and examinations which reveal that these are no ordinary murderers... they are the victims.

A twisted history of degradation and control unfolds; of love and obsession at its darkest. This is about the untold stories, the ones you don’t hear on the news. In this story, the dead do tell tales.

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The Resistible Rise of Arturo UiWed 1 – Sat 4 Dec 7.45pm

Studio £7 (£6)

Recession has come home in leafy Greenwich. The half-human, half-cauliflower grocers are growing greedy and plead with the trusting Dogsborough for a bail out. Meanwhile in the shadows lounges the lazy Arturo Ui, grumpy and disconsolate with his lack of influence. In the hearts of the devious grocers he spies a chance for power. Abetted by the brutish Roma and the seedy Givola, Ui begins his bloody and resistible rise.

Brecht’s parody of Hitler’s rise, originally set in the cauliflower racket of Chicago, is brought up to date and into Greenwich. ‘After all, a man needs his green goods’ – Dogsborough.

Mobius Dance

Such Is LifeTue 5 & Wed 6 Oct 7.45pm

Studio £10.50 (£8.50), Under 26s £8.50

1hr 30mins (incl. interval)

Mobius Dance delivers athletic, high-octane theatrical works with a quirky edge.

Such Is Life brings together five brilliant performers from some of the finest dance theatre companies in the UK (Frantic Assembly, Punch Drunk, De la Guarda, Motionhouse Dance Theatre, Barebones and Wired Aerial Theatre). The programme weaves together three related pieces that explore life, love and art by five characters set against three different situations.

Honest, athletic and rhythmical, Such Is Life is all about normal stuff, the happenings of everyday flipped on its head! The Root of It examines the pleasure and pain of living with the influence of the past; Pressure Gauge explores the struggle to strike a balance between life and a relationship; and Performing Monkey considers the pressure to perform, succeed and be the best in everything we do.

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Hofesh Shechter presents his highly anticipated new work Political Mother, his first full length piece for his internationally acclaimed company since he exploded onto the world stage with Uprising/In your rooms.

Political Mother brims with Shechter’s emotional and gritty complexity, powerful percussive grooves and a raw and honest physicality. Political Mother is performed by ten dancers and accompanied by Shechter’s own cinematic score featuring a band of live drummers and electric guitarists.

Shechter’s choreography for the opening sequence of E4’s Skins and the overwhelming response to Uprising/In your rooms has singled him out as one of the most exciting artists to emerge in recent years. Political Mother tours the world in 2010 so catch it here while you can.

“… delivered like a roar of defiance in the face of an omnipotent, malevolent force. It’s visceral, painful and very, very exciting but even in the dark void at its centre there is humanity and tenderness, never quite extinguished.” The Times

“A mix of explosive choreography and sensory musical overload… in adding the vibe of a rock concert to contemporary dance, Shechter is bringing the form to life for a new generation of spectators.” The Stage

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Political Mother is commissioned by Brighton Dome and Festival, Sadler’s Wells and Movimentos – Festwochen der Autostadt in Wolfsburg. The work is co-commissioned by Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, Théâtre de la Ville, Romaeuropa and Mercat de les Flors. Produced in collaboration with Theatre Royal, Plymouth and with support from Dance Xchange, Birmingham. The score for Political Mother was created in collaboration with the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and barbicanbite09 with research supported by Jerwood Studio at Sadler’s Wells. Collaboration with FOS supported by Outset.

“Part dance show, part heavy-rock gig, Hofesh Shechter’s first ever full-length work is an audio-visual marvel.” The Telegraph

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Political MotherTue 12 & Wed 13 Oct 7.30pm

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“An abundance of captivating costumes, a brilliant band, a versatile troupe of dancers… the choreography zips along, and the dancers’ energy is infectious.” The Guardian

From the sexy, spontaneous rumba to the slick footwork of the cha-cha-cha, this is a show that’s guaranteed to get heads nodding and feet tapping.

Direct from a sell-out run in the West End’s Peacock Theatre, Havana Rakatan is now bringing all the heat of a Cuban summer to the UK. Jazz, mambo, bolero, son, cha-cha-cha, rumba and salsa all come alive in dazzling dance displays, full of Cuban passion.

Featuring Turquino, one of Cuba’s most popular Son bands live on stage, this is a captivating and colourful journey through the dance and music of a truly unique country.

“A stunning slice of Havana life.” The Independent

Sadler’s Wells and Congas Productions presents

Havana RakatanA dazzling dance spectacular direct from Cuba

Fri 15 & Sat 16 Oct 8pm, Sat matinee 2.30pm

Butterworth Hall £19, £22, £25

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Choreography is more than something to look at. DisGo is vibration, sensation, chaos.

Dance at DisGo and create a unique piece of live theatre. Bringing you together with the Darkin Ensemble dancers, DisGo is framed by a combination of music, light, digital design and cutting edge contemporary dance.

Based on the spontaneous choreographies that happen on nightclub dancefloors every Friday and Saturday night, the heart of DisGo is within the individual experiencing it. There are some rules and some mysteries. The cast dance raw and virtuosic choreography and the audience do as much, or as little, as they please, making DisGo an incredible interactive experience.

In the darkness and light, we play.

“… slivers of sweetness, humour and fantasy that emerge, along with liberating energy.” The Guardian

DisGo has no conventional seating. Please mention any specific access requirments when booking.

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DisGoThu 25 & Fri 26 Nov 7.45pm

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Danish Dance TheatreEnigma / Cadance / KridtTue 25 & Wed 26 Jan 7.30pm

Theatre £16 - £27

Paco PeñaFlamenco Sin Fronteras

Tue 2 Nov 8pm

Butterworth Hall £19.50 (£17.50), £22.50 (£20.50), £25 (£23) Flamenco maestro Paco Peña’s new show combines sensational flamenco dancers, singers and musicians – see page 19 for details.

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Beth Nielsen ChapmanFri 8 Oct 8pm

Butterworth Hall £19.50, £22.50

With a new album, Back To Love, the acclaimed Nashville-based singer/songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman comes full circle, back to the soul-deep song writing style that made her famous. Those songs that provided her with big hits and have been covered by an impressive and eclectic group of artists including Faith Hill, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Trisha Yearwood, Neil Diamond and Emmylou Harris, to name but a few.

And while soaring melodies, bell-clear vocals and heart-penetrating lyrics are reassuringly in place, there’s a new depth to the singer and to the songs, reflecting every turn in the tragic and triumphant road Nielsen Chapman has travelled.

Polar BearSun 10 Oct 7.30pm

Theatre £12.50 (£10)

Known for their genre-bending approach to music, Polar Bear draw on everything from hip hop to metal, but have their roots firmly in jazz. The band’s 2005 album, Held on the Tips of Fingers was shortlisted for the coveted Mercury Music Prize, and recent fourth record Peepers is possibly their strongest to date, with typically off kilter grooves and joyful twisting tunes.

Drummer and composer Seb Rochford is joined by Leafcutter John on guitar and electronics, tenor saxophonists Pete Wareham and Mark Lockheart and Tom Herbert on double bass.

“Polar Bear blast out of the past, full of straight, cool school skills, and detonate the past, bursting with edgy, forward-looking lust.” Paul Morley, Observer Music Monthly

Michael Nyman Band NYman with a Movie Camera & more

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Michael Nyman is one of Britain’s most innovative and celebrated composers. He’s also a performer, conductor, pianist, author, photographer and filmmaker. This evening we are lucky enough to see him as composer, pianist and filmmaker. During the first half Michael Nyman and his band will perform music from the unforgettable, award-winning soundtrack to The Piano alongside two of his most notable scores for Peter Greenaway’s films The Draughtman’s Contract and Prospero Books. This will be followed by NYman with a Movie Camera, a film by Nyman, screened with a live performance of his score by the Michael Nyman Band directed from the keyboard by Nyman himself.

The film presents a shot-by-shot reconstruction of Dziga Vertov’s iconic film, replacing the original sequences with footage from Michael Nyman’s own film archives shot over the last two decades.

Nyman‘s film attempts to capture the essence of our contemporary times through the lens of his own camera, creating a multi-sensory experience of time as it occurs and of life as it happens.

The footage is recorded by first hand observation and delivers an unscripted visual transcription of every-day life as recently documented by the composer in a collection of over 50 cinematographic works.

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Neil Cowley TrioMon 1 Nov 7.45pm

Studio £14 (£12)

In just a few short years, the Neil Cowley Trio have carved out a reputation as one of Britain’s most exciting live bands, and this autumn they return to the stage performing tracks from their new and most cohesive recording to date, Radio Silence.

Blurring the boundaries between classical, rock, funk and jazz, pianist and band leader Cowley creates music that is both poignant and powerful.

Delivered with a distinct streak of endearing English eccentricity, he and his bandmates, Evan Jenkins on drums and Richard Sadler on bass, take the audience on an enthralling sonic journey of ferocious exhilaration and heart-shattering tenderness in one dizzy sitting.

Antonio ForcioneGreatest (almost) HitsFri 22 Oct 7.30pm

Theatre £16 (£14)

Hailed as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar’, award-winning Forcione is considered one of the most charismatic and inventive performers to come out of Europe in recent years. He breaks the mould of most conventional, popular guitar sounds be it in the field of jazz, Spanish, African, Brazilian or improvised music.

His rise to recognition is a tale of talent, passion and a relentless determination to wring every possible sound and emotion from the guitar. The result? A cocktail of dazzling virtuosity, ferocious rhythms and burning spiritual aspiration with a touch of natural humour. A much loved performer who never fails to capture his audience’s imagination and hearts.

“Forcione took to the stage and mesmerised us from the word go” The Scotsman

Silent Movie with live accompaniment by The Southwell Collective

The Fall of the House of Usher PG

Sun 31 Oct 8pm

Cinema £10 (£8)

Jean Epstein’s mesmerising adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous story with live accompaniment by The Southwell Collective.

A man arrives at the eerie house of Roderick Usher, to find that Roderick is painting a portrait of his sick wife Madeleine – but the faster he tries to complete the picture, the more ill his wife becomes.

“One of the most imaginative and entrancing horror movies of the silent era.” Time Out

The Southwell Collective writes and performs new music to accompany classic and archive silent films whilst remaining sympathetic to the original content.

Imogen HeapSun 31 Oct 8pm

Butterworth Hall £17.50

A singer/songwriter of astonishing emotional eloquence, and one half of the art-rock band Frou Frou, Imogen Heap is the Grammy Award-winning artist whose latest album, Ellipse has had North American chart success and earned two further Grammy nominations.

Classically trained when she was younger, her own songs explore electronica, alternative pop and rock and Euro-pop. After the leaps she made on the release of her breakthrough album, Speak For Yourself, Imogen Heap remained true to her do-it-yourself ethos, building her own studio in the old family home in Essex.

“Although she employs bells and whistles from equipment I can’t comprehend and instruments I can’t pronounce, the songs are so well-written, they would stand on their own.” Performing Songwriter

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Paco Peña Flamenco Sin Fronteras

Tue 2 Nov 8pm

Butterworth Hall £19.50 (£17.50), £22.50 (£20.50), £25 (£23)

Virtuoso musicianship and dance combine with depth, intensity, heat and passion in flamenco maestro Paco Peña’s new show Flamenco Sin Fronteras. Paco Peña, recognised as one of the world’s leading exponents of flamenco, combines sensational flamenco dancers, singers and musicians with some special guests from Venezuela to revisit an often overlooked part of the flamenco repertoire.

Flamenco Sin Fronteras explores a musical fusion that occurred at the turn of the twentieth century – when Spanish musicians toured South America and discovered rich musical culture and folklore which resonated strongly with their own music.

A feast for the eyes and ears. Passionate and dramatic, gripping and joyful, Flamenco Sin Fronteras will leave you in awe of the amazing talent live on stage.

As the nights draw in and the damp, British winter takes hold, be transported to the sun, heat, sounds and sights of Andalucia.

“A genuine virtuoso capable of dazzling an audience with technical abilities beyond the frets of mortal man.” The New York Times

“Paco Peña’s new show is an unqualified success. A concussive orgy of music and dance that threatens to blow the roof off the auditorium.” The Daily Express

Alec Dankworth’s Spanish AccentsThu 11 Nov 7.45pm

Studio £12, students £10

Alec Dankworth - BassMark Lockheart - Tenor SaxAndy Panayi - FlutePhil Robson - GuitarDemi Garcia - DrumsEmily Dankworth - Voice

Alec Dankworth’s longstanding love of all things Spanish provided the inspiration for this band. Metheny, Corea, even Rodrigo are reinvented alongside traditional folksongs and originals in Flamenco rhythms creating a wonderful and genuinely Spanish world. A heady mixture of top British players with the genuinely Spanish drumming of Demi Garcia and guitar of Phil Robson make this an unusual line up. A new addition to the band is singer Emily Dankworth, continuing a family tradition of vocalists.

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A historic meeting bringing the warmth and optimism of South African music to the stage through two of the Rainbow Nation’s finest artists.

Hugh Masekela has been at the heart of the music of his country through the years of struggle to liberation; his soaring, joyful trumpet sound nourishes the soul and frees the spirit. This is the first opportunity for a number of years to catch South Africa’s most enduring musical ambassador with his full band following his World Cup opening concert performance.

The Mahotella Queens have exerted enormous influence on the musical life of South Africa. Recognised for three decades of energetic and emancipating music, their mesmerising sound inspired the people of their country to dance and dream through the dark years of apartheid.

Hugh Masekela supported by The Mahotella Queens

Sat 20 Nov 8pm

Butterworth Hall £20 (£18),

£22.50 (£20.50), £25 (£23)

The Divine ComedyAn Evening with Neil Hannon

Wed 17 Nov 8pm


Fresh off the back of a well-deserved Ivor Novello nomination for his work with his cricket-crazy side project, the Duckworth Lewis Method and the new album Bang Goes The Knighthood, The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon is hitting the road on a UK tour this Autumn.

The Divine Comedy is Neil Hannon. Over the years the name has encompassed other musicians, but the driving force of the band and its main (sometimes only!) member has always been Neil Hannon.

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Maddy Prior & The Carnival BandCarols and Capers 2010

Fri 3 Dec 8pm

Butterworth Hall £18.50 (£16.50)

A celebratory show of Christmas music on renaissance and modern instruments. Maddy and the Carnival Band put their inimitable stamp on familiar and not-so-familiar festive fare, from favourites like The Holly and the Ivy and I Saw Three Ships to secular carols such as The Boar’s Head and dance tunes like Old Joe Clark.

MilestonesKind of Blueplaying the music of Miles DavisMon 22 Nov 7.45pm

Studio £12.50

Alan Barnes – Baritone & Alto SaxGraeme Flowers – TrumpetIan Price – Tenor SaxSpike Wells – DrumsPaul Whitten – BassTerry Seabrook – Piano

Milestones is a new jazz group formed this year to celebrate the music of Miles Davis. Leader/pianist Terry Seabrook has assembled 6 musicians to perform the classic topselling jazz album by Miles, Kind of Blue, which was released in 1959. In addition to the set performing the 5 pieces from Kind of Blue, Terry has written new arrangements of other songs associated with Miles including Boplicity, Milestones, Nardis, 7 Steps to Heaven and Prince of Darkness.

Mediaeval BaebesFri 17 Dec 8pm

Butterworth Hall £18.50 (£16.50), Under 16s £12.50

The Mediaeval Baebes’ storybook opened its pages in 1996, when a group of friends broke into a North London cemetery and sang together, clad in flowing white gowns and crowns of ivy. Fourteen years later, these fair maidens have placed three albums in the top of the classical charts.

Pulling lyrics from mediaeval texts and setting them to original scores using mediaeval and classical instruments, whilst singing in an impressive array of long forgotten languages, the Baebes offer a distinctive musical beauty and outstanding talent.

Experience the Mediaeval Baebes’ fairytale whimsy, otherworldly enchantment and supernatural allure this Christmas as the group perform some traditional festive songs amongst a plethora of material from their extensive back catalogue.

The NationalThu 25 Nov 8pm

Butterworth Hall £18.50 TICKETS SELLING FAST

The unmistakeable indie rock sound of The National makes this a must-see gig. Formed in 1999, the Ohio-raised, Brooklyn-based band consists of vocalist Matt Beninger plus two pairs of brothers: Aaron Dessner (guitar, bass, piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitar), and Scott Devendorf (bass, guitar) and Bryan Devendorf (drums).

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The Richard Thompson BandThe Dream Attic Tour

Fri 28 & Sat 29 Jan 8pm


Richard Thompson is one of this country’s greatest songwriters and most distinctive guitar virtuosos, capable of breathtaking drama and sublime delicacy. Rolling Stone hailed him as “a perennial dark-horse contender for the title of greatest living rock guitarist.” His songs have been covered by many from David Gilmour to R.E.M via Elvis Costello.

He returns to the UK to tour with a powerful electric band featuring Pete Zorn (guitars, flute, sax, mandolin), Michael Jerome (drums), Taras Prodaniuk (bass) and Joel Zifkin (violin, mandolin). Expect a show that is “riveting, enlightening, witty, moving, provocative and entertaining – strongly recommended” Time Out.

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great BritainSat 22 Jan 8pm

Butterworth Hall £18.50 (£16.50), £16.50 (£14.50)

The Orchestra has seen over 9000 days of ukulele action. It has been playing for one 40th of a millennium. The oldest and the best, it unites fans across the globe in celebration of “one plucking thing after another” on “instruments bought for loose change”. They have sixteen-handedly turned the world on to the ukulele.

The Ukes appear on stage with one ukulele each, no gimmicks, no tricks, no vocal enhancers or overproduced wizardry, then proceed to tear the house down.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never think about music in the same way once you’ve seen and heard the Ukulele Orchestra.

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Michael Janisch’sPurpose Built QuintetSat 11 Dec 7.45pm

Studio £11

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American bassist Michael Janisch is building a reputation for putting together varied and exciting bands to play contemporary jazz mixing standards and originals. This new quintet brings a mouthwatering line up of young musicians who have come to prominence in the last 10 years.

“Janisch seizes the instrument with a blend of speed and energy as if he wants to be melody, harmony and rhythm all at once.” The Telegraph

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Loudon Wainwright IIIin Concert with Lucy Wainwright RocheWed 18 May 8pm


Loudon Wainwright III, or LW3 for short, is a cherished icon of American folk music, a darkly witty and touchingly personal songwriter and storyteller.

He started out in the folk clubs of New York and Boston before going on to a long career that has encompassed both music and acting.

He has given birth to over 20 albums (as well as fathering some very successful musical offspring including Lucy Wainwright Roche who supports him this evening). He has written folk classics including Dead Skunk and The Man Who Couldn’t Cry and created music for film and theatre. He has just released a brand new album, 10 Songs for the New Depression.

Three Bonzos And A PianoSun 13 Feb 7.30pm

Theatre £17.50, Under 26s £15

Roger Ruskin Spear – Sax, Clarinet,Trouser Press and RobotsRodney Slater – Saxophones and WashboardSam Spoons – Drums, Electric Spoons and Didgereedon’tDave Glasson – Piano, Bass Pullover and GlassesAndy Roberts – Re-union guest on Guitar, Banjo and Ukulele

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band fans will be delighted to learn that Roger Ruskin Spear, Rodney Slater and Sam Spoons have teamed up with super-pianist Dave Glasson to create more fun, music and subversive diversion in the spirit of the ageless band.

Diabolical mayhem from the largest number of Bonzos still playing together anywhere on the surface of the earth. Three Bonzos And A Piano unleash their Bonzo Dog classics with energetic zip and palaver. Jollity Farm, Hunting Tigers Out In India, I’m Bored, My Pink Half of the Drainpipe, Monster Mash, The Trouser Press and many more...

Folk/blues singer/songwriter Ben Clempson can silence a pub crowd with the quality of music he makes. His style is spellbinding. He combines intricate finger-picking with impressive percussive techniques on the body of the guitar. With his rich voice he expresses his musical storytelling from gentle folk through to raw, funky blues. If you like John Martyn, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake and Eric Bibb; you’ll love him!

Paul Van Ryan is a singer/songwriter with a bit of a twist, confessional, blunt and witty in his lyrics. True stories of the chaos that has followed him - love, death, hate, sex and bizarre twists all accompanied by catchy melodies. The Late Knights are his faithful backing band and can consist of up to 12 members including brass sections and pianists, but no matter what mix of musicians on the night, you’re guaranteed a fantastic gig.

Ben Clempson and Paul Van Ryan & the Late KnightsFri 8 Oct 7.45pm

Studio £6.50 (£5)

Emma McGann and Carly RyderSat 27 Nov 7.45pm

Studio £6.50 (£5)

Coventry ‘songbird’ and critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Emma McGann has made her music known to many in the Midlands and beyond.

Emma was awarded StudyvoxFM Musician of the Year 2010 by none other than Kylie Minogue and announced Band of the Month, June 2010 by BBC Coventry and Warwickshire Introducing.

Carly Ryder’s songs are evocative and funny with more than a little shot of teenage angst and adolescent melodrama thrown in for good measure. Her husky-sweet delivery is a perfect partner for her superb rhythmic guitar sound. She will tease you with a peek into her secret world (but only a peek mind), and that’s all you will need to fall in love with Carly, her songs and her talent.

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Lindsay Seers seeks to unravel the strange disappearance of a young woman, her stepsister Christine Parkes, following a moped accident in Rome. Old letters, her stepsister’s notes and a box of photographs act as the point of departure as Seers sets out to find the truth, a truth which leads her to tales of diamond smuggling in Western Africa.

The viewer witnesses the unfolding of this matrix of film, photography, personal and historical events within Seers’ sculptural installation which place the viewer within an immersive viewing chamber.

It has to be this way2 was co-commissioned by the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen and the Mead Gallery with Matt’s Gallery, London. Lindsay Seers is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London.

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)

‘The arch with a shell ornament’

Courtesy of The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s mid eighteenth century etchings create a series of 16 haunting images of imaginary prisons. Towering fantastical architecture, endless staircases and dreadful machinery create nightmarish scenes that have fuelled the imagination of Romantic writers and contemporary game designers.

On loan from the University of Manchester, Piranesi’s prints create a dialogue with Lindsay Seers’ work, sharing a preoccupation with light and dark, real and fantastic, loss and displacement.

Piranesi’s Prisons9 Oct – 11 Dec

Events All Mead events are free but places must be reserved at Box Office on 024 7652 4524 or visit www.warwickartscentre.co.uk

Opening PartyFri 8 Oct 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Join us at a free preview of our new exhibitions. Everyone welcome.

CCAF Artist’s Talk: Lindsay Seers in conversation with Jeremy MillarTue 2 Nov 6pm - 7.30 pm

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

Please book places through Warwick Arts Centre Box Office.

The Coventry Contemporary Art Forum brings together artists, curators and audiences interested in developing contemporary art in the city. In the first of a programme of Artist’s Talks, Lindsay Seers, winner of the 2009 Jarman Prize will discuss her work with artist, curator and writer Jeremy Millar. For more information visit www.warwickartscentre.co.uk

Lunchtime Conversations: Piranesi’s PrisonsWed 17 Nov 1pm

National Grid Room

Heather Birchall, Curator of Historic Art at the Whitworth Gallery, University of Manchester will discuss this influential sequence of prints by Piranesi.

Artist’s Walk and TalkTraverse Me by Jeremy WoodWed 13 Oct 1pm and 3pm

Mead Gallery. Free. Places limited

Jeremy Wood has made a 1:1 drawing of the University campus using GPS technology. After a walk around part of campus with the artist, drawing in the 21st century will be discussed in an open seminar.

Look ClubTue 19 Oct 5.30pm

Mead Gallery. Free

Places limited so please book early

Each term, curators and specialists will look at a group of works in the University Art Collection in depth. The Autumn Look Club will explore As Is When by Eduardo Paolozzi.

Curator’s TourTue 23 Nov 6pm

Meet at Mead Gallery

Come and discuss the current exhibitions with the curators Sarah Shalgosky and Ronnie Simpson.

Family Art Club Sat 1pm - 2.30pm Mead Gallery

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Das RheingoldRichard WagnerSat 9 Oct 6pm

Cinema £25 (£20)

3hrs approx

Conductor James Levine, Director Robert Lepage

With Bryn Terfel, Hans-Peter König, Wendy Bryn Harmer

The cycle launches with Das Rheingold, prologue to Wagner’s epic drama. “The Ring is not just a story or a series of operas, it’s a cosmos” says Lepage.

Don Carlo Giuseppe Verdi Sat 11 Dec 5.30pm

Cinema £25 (£20)

4hrs 30mins approx (inc 2 intervals)

Conductor Yannick Nézet-SéguinDirector Nicholas Hytner

With Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna

Director Nicholas Hytner makes his Met debut with this new production of Verdi’s profound, beautiful, and most ambitious opera.

Boris Godunov Petrovich MussorgskySat 23 Oct 5pm

Theatre £25 (£20)

5hrs approx (including 2 intervals)

Conductor Valery Gergiev, Director Peter Stein

With Oleg Balashov, René Pape

Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky’s soulful spectacle, which captures the suffering and ambition of a nation.

La Fanciulla Del West Giacomo Puccini Sat 8 Jan 6pm

Theatre £25 (£20)

3hrs 30mins approx

Conductor Nicola Luisotti

With Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Juha Uusitalo

Puccini’s wild-west opera had its world premiere in 1910 at the Met. Now, on the occasion of its centennial, all-American diva Deborah Voigt sings the title role of the “girl of the golden west”.

Don PasqualeGaetano DonizettiSat 13 Nov 6pm

Theatre £25 (£20)

3hrs 30mins approx

Conductor James Levine

With Matthew Polenzani, John Del Carlo

Anna Netrebko revives her sensational turn in this sophisticated bel canto comedy.

New York’s Metropolitan Opera Live in HD

Warwick Arts Centre, amongst illustrious cinemas

and theatres worldwide, continues to broadcast

HD transmissions of the best opera live from the

Metropolitan Opera House, New York.

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A Night At The MusicalsTue 12 Oct 7pm

Butterworth Hall FREE

Kick off the Autumn with the ever popular Free Concert, with classic numbers from an array of musicals performed by all these different groups! The concert will include excerpts from Guys & Dolls, My Fair Lady, An American in Paris, The Lion King and Oliver!

University of Warwick Wind Orchestra & Brass Band

Festivo! Mon 15 Nov 7pm

Butterworth Hall £6 (£4)

Conductors Simon Hogg, Paul McGrath & Alexander Parker

Edward Gregson – Festivo! Philip Sparke – Fiesta de la Vida

Philip Sparke’s Fiesta de la Vida is an exuberant affirmation of joy in music and in Latin American music in particular. At times lyrical, at times minimalist, Edward Gregson’s Festivo! builds up and up to end in a blaze of colour. Joyful and celebratory in mood, this concert promises to be a fun and entertaining evening not to be missed.

University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Sibelius & MozartSun 5 Dec 4pm

Butterworth Hall £7 (£5)

Conductors Lucy Griffiths and Paul McGrath

Sibelius – FinlandiaSibelius – Symphony No.2Mozart – Requiem

Soprano – Tinuke OlafimihanMezzo Soprano – Wendy Dawn Thompson Tenor – Andrew ReesBaritone – Wyn Pencarreg

This promises to be a moving and rousing Sunday afternoon of music in the Butterworth Hall.

For more than two hundred years, Mozart’s Requiem has remained one of the most beautiful and moving works of the choral/orchestral repertoire, with glorious vocal solos, magnificent choruses and wonderful orchestral writing. Preceded by two of Sibelius’ most famous works, both evoking the Finnish landscape and character, everyone is sure to be going home whistling a tune!

FREE Lunchtime ConcertsThursday 1.10pm

Ensemble Room, Music Centre in Warwick Arts Centre

As well as supporting the student ensembles of the university, the Music Centre also runs a programme of professional lunchtime concerts.

7 Oct Reed Rage Bassoon Quartet

14 Oct Karina Lucas, mezzo-soprano and Dimitris Dekavallas, guitar

21 Oct Ginaute Gataveckaite, piano

28 Oct Kudos Percussion Duo

4 Nov National Opera Studio

11 Nov Royal Northern College of Music

18 Nov Jessie Ann Richardson, cello and Lynn Carter, piano

25 Nov Murray McLachlan, piano

2 Dec Tim Sentance, saxophone and Tom Lindsay, piano

9 Dec Gaudeamus

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Butterworth Hall

£11 (Choir), £18 (£17), £24 (£23), £28 (£27),

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Bax – Tintagel Chopin – Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, Op.21 Dvorák – Symphony No.7 in D minor

Conductor Sir Mark Elder Piano Artur Pizarro

The centrepiece of this concert by the award-winning Hallé under the direction of their Music Director, Sir Mark Elder, is Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto. A fitting celebration of the composer’s bicentenary year, soloist Artur Pizarro has received high praise for his recordings of Chopin’s Piano Sonatas: “with the fine natural recorded sound we could very well have the Chopin release of the year” (Pianist Magazine).

Dvorák’s intense and beautiful Seventh Symphony with its elegiac slow movement, lilting scherzo and thrilling finale, has been compared to Brahms in its emotional turbulence. Bax’s dramatic tone poem, Tintagel, evocatively paints a musical picture inspired by the castle-crowned cliffs of Cornwall to open this magical concert. T. 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk Tickets £2

Sir Mark Elder in conversation with Paul McGrath, Director of Music, University of Warwick.

Philharmonia OrchestraThu 14 Oct 8pm

Butterworth Hall

£11 (Choir), £18 (£17), £24 (£23), £28 (£27),

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Sibelius – Karelia SuiteGrieg – Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16Rachmaninov – Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27

Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy Piano Nikolai Lugansky

The distinguished Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts a mixed programme of Scandinavian and Russian music.

The evening will begin with Sibelius’ compelling Karelia Suite, followed by Nikolai Lugansky’s performance of Grieg’s Piano Concerto, one of the most popular pieces of the form ever composed.

The second half of the concert features Rachmaninov’s towering masterpiece; his Second Symphony in E minor. In this great work, the master of orchestral colour offers us some of the most ravishing music composed in the twentieth century. Sweeping melodies and rich deep-hued harmonies wash over the listener, right up to the triumphant and joyous finale. T. 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk Tickets £2

Vladimir Ashkenazy in conversation with Paul McGrath, Director of Music, University of Warwick.

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Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow RadioTue 26 Oct 8pm

Butterworth Hall

£11 (Choir), £18 (£17), £24 (£23), £28 (£27),

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Grieg – Peer Gynt SuiteSibelius – Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47Tchaikovsky – Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op.36

Conductor Terje Mikkelsen Violin Alina Baeva Formerly known as Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra was renamed reflecting their great contribution to Russian music.

Grieg’s dramatic and enduringly popular Peer Gynt Suite opens, followed by Sibelius’ Violin Concerto. This is a piece demanding great virtuosity, which the multi-award winning Russian violinist, Alina Baeva, is certain to achieve.

The evening ends with Tchaikovsky’s elemental Symphony No.4 with its famous fate motif which is echoed throughout this symphonic masterpiece full of great drama and pathos. T. 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk Tickets £2

Brian Midgley, lecturer in Music at the University of Warwick, talks about the works in tonight’s programme.

Mozarteum OrchestraSalzburgFri 26 Nov 8pm

Butterworth Hall

£11 (Choir), £18 (£17), £24 (£23), £28 (£27),

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Schumann – Symphony No.2 in C major, Op.61Mozart – Piano Concerto No.23 in A major, K.488Mozart – Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 (Jupiter)

Conductor Ivor Bolton Piano Freddy Kempf The distinguished Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg visits Warwick Arts Centre for the first time.

The concert opens with a rare opportunity to hear Schumann’s passionate Second Symphony.

The orchestra will then be joined by one of this country’s most popular pianists, Freddy Kempf, who will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.23 in A major. The piece illustrates emphatically why Mozart’s piano works have been beloved since their first performances. The concert concludes with Mozart’s final symphonic masterpiece, Symphony No.41, known as the Jupiter.

T. 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk Tickets £2

Brian Midgley, lecturer in Music at the University of Warwick, talks about the works in tonight’s programme.

Coull QuartetTue 9 Nov 8pm

Butterworth Hall £15 (£12.50)

Mozart – Quartet in E flat K.428Venables – Quintet for Piano and Strings Op.27Elgar – Quintet for Piano and Strings Op.83

With Mark Bebbington, Piano

Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Warwick since 1977, the Coull has performed and broadcast extensively throughout the world as well as being actively involved in the University of Warwick’s flourishing musical life.

T. 7pm Pre-Concert TalkTickets £1

Handel - Messiah London Mozart PlayersUniversity of Warwick Chamber ChoirThu 9 Dec 8pm

Butterworth Hall

£8 (Choir), £12 (£11), £15 (£14), £18 (£16), £22 (£20), £25 (£23)

Conductor Paul McGrath Counter Tenor Jonathan Peter Kenny Soprano Helen WilliamsBass Jonathan May Tenor John Graham Hall

Ring in the Christmas season with the London Mozart Players as they perform Handel’s beloved oratorio, Messiah. Four superb soloists join the University of Warwick Chamber Choir under Paul McGrath for this awe-inspiring masterpiece. Messiah is divided into three parts. Part I - The prophecy and nativity of Christ as redeemer of the world. Part II - The Passion and its redemptive meaning, with the stirring ‘Hallelujah Chorus’. Part III - An affirmation of faith and the promise of redemption, resurrection and eternal life.

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Micky FlanaganSun 3 Oct 7.45pm SOLD OUT

EXTRA DATE Fri 28 Jan 7.30pm

Theatre £14

“Arguably the funniest comedian in the country… the future of comedy.” Frank Skinner

Rhod Gilbert& the Cat that Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst

Wed 6 Oct 8pm

Butterworth Hall £20

TICKETS SELLING FAST

The Welsh Wonder is back.

Rhod sets out on an emotional rollercoaster of a journey to discover the truth. Is he, as he believes, a visionary in a sea of closed minds, or has he, as everyone else believes, got anger-management problems?

Arthur SmithAn Evening with Daphne Fairfaxbased on his acclaimed memoir

Sun 17 Oct 7.30pm

Theatre £16 (£14)

A vigorous account of the peculiar business of being alive. Arthur reflects on the nature of comedy and his days as a scruffy kid on bombsites, a wild-haired undergraduate, a roadsweeper, an English teacher, a failed rock star, a boozed-up sexual adventurer and an intensive care patient.

From the star of BBC TV’s Grumpy Old Men, Q.I., Have I Got News For You and BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends.

“Enjoyably rambunctious.” The Guardian

“Witty, self-aware and poignant.” The Observer

Jason CookThe End (Part 1)

Sun 17 Oct 7.45pm

Studio £12 (£10)

This year it’s just the beginning…Award winning and critically acclaimed comic Jason Cook presents his brand new show The End (Part 1).

Known for his dark razor sharp wit mixed with a healthy amount of heartwarming silliness and buffoonery. Jason is close to the edge but always intriguing and blessed with the sort of charm that will have you laughing in spite of yourself. Are you happy in life? Truly happy? And if not what would you change? What happens at “the End”?

“An immaculate show from a hugely accomplished and wonderfully warm-hearted stand-up. This truly is a masterclass in how comedy should be done.” Time Out

“… has everything one would want in a stand-up – wit, originality, attitude, Geordie accent, excellent material and a fantastic audience rapport.” The Stage

Frankie BoyleI Would Happily Punch Every One Of You In The Face

Mon 18 Oct 8pm

Butterworth Hall £20 SOLD OUT

One of the hottest and most controversial comedians of the moment, Frankie Boyle is back.

Stewart LeeVegetable Stew

Fri 22 Oct 8pm

Butterworth Hall £17.50 (£15.50)

Following his hugely successful visit last year – so popular that we had to move the event from the Theatre to the Butterworth Hall – the acclaimed writer and comedian presents a vegetable stew of brand new work in preparation for his 2011 TV series. See it live so you can begin the backlash ahead of transmission.

“He’s the most exciting comedian in the country, bar none.” The Times

Ross NobleNonsensory Overload

Sat 23 Oct 8pm



Nonsensory Overload is Noble back fresh from his travels, not to mention his own TV show, doing what he does best; spinning forth hilarious nonsense for your amusement. Now is your chance to see one of the best live comics working internationally today.

Prepare your brain for a Nonsensory Overload!

“Noble turns over as many good ideas in one night as most comics do in a year… gleeful, free-wheeling silliness.” Chortle

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Stewart FrancisTour de Francis

Sun 24 Oct 7.30pm

Theatre £14 TICKETS SELLING FAST

Stewart Francis is back with his tour de force of a show, Tour de Francis.

Lonely, well-endowed, white Canadian male with dreamy hazel eyes, 6ft. 4 inches, 40+, now living in London. Seeks free thinking, slim audience, with nice legs, 18-75, must be willing to go to Warwick Arts Centre on 24 Oct to watch comedian Stewart Francis.

Could lead to sore cheeks.

“A brilliant comic brain… this stand-up cracks some of the best one liners I’ve ever heard.” The Guardian

Frisky and MannishThe College Years

Sun 24 Oct 7.45pm

Studio £10

Following their critically acclaimed, smash-hit debut School of Pop, F&M are back.

Every truly great high-school show needs a kick-ass college sequel. This year, the dynamite duo are throwing down the intellectual gauntlet and inviting you to The College Years.

A thesis in pop dialectics focusing on collision theory, and covering great pairings from Brandy and Monica, to Freddie Mercury and What’s-her-face Operabitch.

“A musical wake-up like a cold shower in a hot disco.” New Zealand Herald

“Pure exhilarating brilliance.” Chortle

John BishopFri 29 Oct 8pm


The multi award-winning comedian performs his brand new show.

Greg DaviesFiring Cheeseballs at a Dog

Sun 31 Oct 7.30pm

Theatre £12.50

The hotly anticipated solo show from Greg Davies. As the psychotic Head of Sixth Form, Mr Gilbert in The Inbetweeners and the most out-of-shape member of We Are Klang, Greg has been an increasingly familiar face on TV screens; regularly appearing on Mock the Week, 8 Out Of 10 Cats and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

His first solo stand-up show promises to address every single issue important to the human race. But it lies – it won’t address any. Come though, it will be funny.

“Compelling, memorable and hilarious.” Chortle

Rich HallThu 4 Nov 8pm


Star of the recent critically acclaimed BBC4 documentary, How the West Was Lost, Rich Hall is back on the road performing in his usual style as the grouchy, deadpan comic genius.

Looking like a Pearl Jam roadie, Rich is a master of absurdist irony – he particularly likes to lay into Americans and life across the pond at every opportunity.

“Intelligent, passionate and angry comedy.” Evening Standard

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Reginald D HunterSat 6 Nov 8pm



Due to the phenomenal demand for tickets for his UK Summer tour, Reginald D Hunter has extended the tour into Autumn.

He is a well-known face on primetime television shows such as 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Q.I. and is a frequent guest on Have I Got News For You. He has appeared most recently on The Bubble, Friday Night With Jonathan Ross and the hugely popular Live At The Apollo.

“Few acts nestle a crowd in the palms of their hands quite like this… comically astute, rewardingly provocative.” Time Out

“His presence and intelligence make him one of the most brilliantly unpredictable comics in the country.” The Sunday Times

Ardal O’HanlonSun 7 Nov 7.30pm


In his new stand-up show, Ardal O’Hanlon laughs in the face of mounting adversity – recession, inclement weather, an ageing body and impending doom. He fearlessly turns the spotlight on surviving relationships, raising children and… the Swiss.

“Displays a proficiency of delivery which puts him well ahead of the pack. He is a complete joy to watch, planting the sort of silly images that bump around in your head forever.” The Guardian

“The one thing that really matters about Ardal O’Hanlon is that in a world already overpopulated by comedians, he really makes a difference. See him – if you can find a ticket.” The Stage

The Armstrong & Miller Show LiveSat 13 Nov 8pm


With their usual mix of the beautifully observed and the utterly barmy, Ben and Xander will be performing a parade of characters from their extensive dressing-up box and wig store.

Kevin BridgesSun 14 Nov 7.30pm

Theatre £13.50 TICKETS SELLING FAST

Star of BBC1’s Live At The Apollo and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Best Newcomer Nominee, Kevin Bridges is on tour.

Kevin’s delightfully well observed debut show reveals his inner-most thoughts on a variety of topics from his homeland of Scotland to the world beyond. His unique brand of social commentary, astute observations and sharp one-liners arguably make him the hottest act to come out of Scotland in the last ten years.

Kevin had not set foot in a comedy club before his first open mic spot in 2004. Now his natural gift for comedy makes him a regular at major comedy clubs up and down the country.

“Observational comedy at its very best.” Edinburgh Evening News

Sarah MillicanChatterbox

Sun 14 & Sun 21 Nov 7.45pm

Studio £12 (£10) SOLD OUT

“Probably the finest female comedian working at the moment.” Time Out

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Jimmy CarrLaughter Therapy

Sun 14 Nov & Fri 10 Dec 8pm



Since the turn of the century Jimmy has been a ‘fun slinger’ of international repute. Laughter Therapy is his ninth solo show. It will be an evening of non-stop jokes, gags and banter.

If you’ve got a sick sense of humour then maybe laughter is the best medicine.

Not to be taken if you have a sensitive disposition or an overactive moral compass. Recommended dose: one brand new show to be taken annually (that’s annually).

Mark WatsonFri 19 Nov 8pm


The multi award-winning comedian and host of BBC’s We Need Answers, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and a Mock The Week regular, and star of cult Radio 4 series Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better, Mark Watson finally returns to the road in the UK with his most personal, most surprising and funniest show yet.

“A classic observational humorist, a stand-up superstar.” Time Out, New York

“By the end, the audience is in danger of collapsing with laughter.” Evening Standard

Kate Fox NewsTue 23 Nov 7.45pm

Studio £10.50 (£8.50)

She once made the news, then she wrote the news, now she writes poems about it. But what is news?Everybody’s life story is a news story,this is Kate’s.

Kate Fox is a Newcastle based writer, comedian and poet.

“… funny, quirky and a wonderful writer.” Sarah Millican

“Had the whole audience laughing.” The Daily Telegraph

Punt & DennisThey Should Get Out More

Sun 23 Jan 7.30pm


Punt & Dennis return to the stage after four years with their new show They Should Get Out More.

Hugh Dennis’s popularity has catapulted since their last tour, following his role in the award-winning Outnumbered (BBC1) and his quick-witted quips as regular panellist on Mock The Week (BBC2). He and Steve Punt also enjoy continued success in the award-winning and acclaimed BBC Radio 4 programme The Now Show.

Hal CruttendenSun 28 Nov 7.45pm

Studio £12 (£10) TICKETS SELLING FAST

Hal Cruttenden is one of the UK’s fastest rising stars and he is here to present his own unique comic vision. He’s angry… but not sure why!

“A delightful surprise… warm-hearted, quick-witted observations about being a camp, middle class heterosexual.” The Daily Telegraph

Alun CochraneJokes. Life. And Jokes About Life.

Sun 5 Dec 7.45pm

Studio £12 (£10) TICKETS SELLING FAST

A note from Alun: An envelope stuffed full of my own hand-chiselled, lovingly created jokes, versus a bag of ‘life’ (not insulin: anecdotes, observations). But which is funniest? Let’s decide together.

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Richard HerringChrist on a Bike: The Second Coming

Sun 15 May 7.30pm

Theatre £15

“Jesus was cool, it’s just all the people who follow him who are such idiots. He’s like the Fonz in that respect.”

Hitler Moustache star and avowed atheist, Richard Herring, resurrects and revamps his first and favourite solo show, exploring his strange obsession and affinity with the Messiah. “I’m not saying I am Jesus… that is for other people to say.”

Asking all the great theological questions like “Why did Jesus always call Simon ‘Peter’? Is it like the way Trigger is always calling Rodney ‘Dave’?”

“Hilarious. Makes the bible something of a comedy classic.” The Guardian

Lenny HenryCradle to Ravewritten by Lenny Henry and Jon Canter

Sat 19 Feb 8pm


Cradle to Rave is the brand new one man show from Lenny Henry, fresh from his award-winning stint in Northern Broadside’s Othello.

Lenny returns to his roots with a funky, funny and touching show about the thing he loves most: music. Cradle to Rave is a musical journey exploring the role music has played, and will play, at every stage of Lenny’s life from the womb to the tomb. Hit it!

Jason ManfordFri 24 & Sat 25 Jun 8pm



Jason Manford is the new co-presenter of BBC1’s The One Show. Unfortunately, this means that he had to postpone any weekday gigs on his Autumn tour – including his December dates at Warwick Arts Centre. These are the replacement dates and there are still a limited number of tickets available.

“Sharp observational comedy… inspired one-liners… Manford certainly knows how to get the laughs.” Metro

Andi OshoAfroblighty

Sun 27 Feb 7.45pm

Studio £12 (£10)

Award-winning stand-up comic Andi Osho (Mock The Week, Stand Up For the Week) grew up in an East End tower block with Nigerian parents.

Now she plots her complicated relationship with race, from her London childhood to the present day, encountering minstrel shows, Lenny Henry, the BNP, political correctness and America’s first black President along the way.

Andi brings her critically acclaimed stand-up show to Warwick Arts Centre with Afroblighty, her touching and hilarious story of an identity crisis in the cultural crossfire of Modern Britain.

Stephen K AmosThe Best Medicine

Thu 12 & Fri 13 May 8pm


Fresh from a busy year filming his own BBC2 comedy series The Stephen K Amos Show, Stephen is back on tour with more melt in the middle, heartfelt humour to warm the very cockles of your heart. Laughter really is the best medicine and the doctor will see you now!

“If laughter is the best medicine then Amos should be prescribed by the NHS for his formidable healing powers.” Evening Standard

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Ian McMillanTalking Myself HomeWed 20 Oct 7.15pm

Conference Room £10 (£8)

Ian McMillan hosts weekly words show The Verb on Radio 3. He’s Yorkshire Planetarium’s Poet in Space, Poet-in-Residence for The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC, Humberside Police’s Beat Poet, Yorkshire TV’s Investigative Poet and a regular on You & Yours, Pick of the Week, The Arts Show, The Today Programme, Just A Minute and Have I Got News For You? His rip-roaring poetry shows are legendary. Cats make him sneeze.

Ian is currently touring with his acclaimed verse autobiography Talking Myself Home and The Ian McMillan Orchestra, featured on The South Bank Show.

“…. an inspiring figure, an encouraging and democratic spirit, a strong and popular poet and one of the funniest people in Britain.” Poetry News

“I’ve laughed so much, my face hurts.”Coventry Young Writers’ Festival

Followed by book signing.

Fuel & Soho Theatre

Inua Ellams’

UntitledTue 9 & Wed 10 Nov 7.45pm

Studio £10.50 (£8.50)

To name something is to call it into life, to determine its future. If we let our children name themselves, will they author their own destinies? Will the nameless ones be free?

Untitled is a magical realist story set in Nigeria and England, of identical twin boys separated at infancy. In the quarrel after the marred naming ceremony, the mother grabs the titled child and flees leaving the unnamed brother to lead an impetuous, chaotic, blasphemous existence until the spirits of the land make their stand.

Inua Ellams is a poet and graphic artist. He was born in Nigeria and now lives and works in London. His debut play The 14th Tale won a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival 2009, toured and ran at the National Theatre in Spring 2010.

“Ellams’ poetry is smooth enough to melt in the ear, yet packed full of snap, crackle and pop.” Time Out (on The 14th Tale)

Co-commissioned by Soho Theatre, Fuel and Contact. Developed as part of Fuel at the Roundhouse and at Cove Park.

Roger McGoughThat Awkward AgeFri 5 Nov 7.30pm

Theatre £15, Under 26s £13

Miracle birth of a new collection and an evening of poems to amaze and delight! McGough wrestles with mortality, seeks love in the launderette, perspires in the Foreign Legion and jives in Macca’s trousers. He shares the pain of Lord Godiva and Mr Nightingale, considers his Final Poem and shakes a fist at Alzheimer’s. Addresses, elegies and ever perceptive playfulness make this a must-go.

The beat goes on, Lily the Pink, the Aintree Iron, Scaffold, GRIMMS, The Mersey Sound with Adrian Henri & Brian Patten, Words On The Run, Poetry Please and autobiography Said and Done. Roger McGough was honoured with a CBE for services to literature and the Freedom of the City of Liverpool for good behaviour. There’s poetry in the house and McGough fitted it.

“His poetry is like a supermodel who can complete a Sudoku puzzle moments before swishing down the catwalk – easy on the eye and smart as a whip.” Birmingham Daily Post

“He is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him.” The Times


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Mark Kermode:It’s Only A MovieScenes from a life lived through a lens

Fri 12 Nov 7.30pm

Theatre £12 (£10)

What happens when you spend most of your childhood in a cinema? Does it mean movies become more real than ‘real life’?

Film critic Mark Kermode talks about some real life scenes that he remembers with cinematic clarity: getting shot while interviewing Werner Herzog in Hollywood, being handbagged by Helen Mirren at the BAFTAs, being thrown out of the Cannes Film Festival for heckling in very bad French.

Outspoken, opinionated and never lost for words, Kermode gives a hilarious account of a life obsessed with film that will appeal to anyone who’s ever wondered: ‘Who would play me in a film of my life?’


Writers in Prisons 50th Anniversary Event:

English PEN and Index on Censorshipin conversation with Professor Maureen Freely

Wed 17 Nov 7.15pm

Conference Room £5 (£3)

Jo Glanville, editor of Index on Censorship, will join Carole Seymour-Jones, Chair of English PEN’s Writers in Prison Committee, and Lisa Appiganesi, President of English PEN in conversation with Professor Maureen Freely.

This event will preview special December issues of Index On Censorship and English PEN’s magazine which celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Writers in Prisons campaign.

With their combined legacies of campaigning for oppressed writers around the world, this panel discussion promises an eye-opening debate on human rights. Expect to be challenged by issues affecting writers in war-torn countries, as well as at home in the UK and other supposedly free Western nations.

Kate Fox NewsTue 23 Nov 7.45pm

Studio £10.50 (£8.50)

She once made the news, then she wrote the news, now she writes poems about it. But what is news? Everybody’s life story is a news story, this is Kate’s.

She wished Tony Blair was her Dad, found out the Yorkshire Ripper worked for her Auntie and watched the Satanic Verses being burned through the window of the 576 bus.

Kate’s journeys through news saw her looking for a voice, a father and a snappy headline.This is the story of what she found and what she lost.

Kate Fox is a Newcastle based writer, comedian and poet. Poet in residence on Radio 4’s Saturday Live, she has written and performed poems for BBC2’s Daily Politics Show and BBC2’s Chelsea Flower Show coverage, as well as for conferences, schools and festivals.

“… funny, quirky and a wonderful writer.” Sarah Millican

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Be careful what you wish for. That’s what the Queen discovers when, after having 12 sons, she wishes for a daughter. For, at the very moment her beautiful daughter is born, her sons are transformed into wild ducks.

When Princess Snow-Rose learns what happened to her brothers, she sets out to try to release them from their enchantment. She must weave and sew 12 shirts from nettles.

And, as if that isn’t hard enough, for three years she must stay silent and neither smile nor weep.

This traditional Norwegian tale is a fabulous fable of determination in the face of great hardship. Multistory bring their customary magic to bear with a blend of live music, magical word-weaving and the engaging physicality that has become their hallmark.

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Twelve Wild DucksSun 10 Oct 3pm

Story making workshop 4pm, 1 hour

Studio show only: £8.50 (£6), show & workshop: £10.50 (£8)

Ages: 5–11 55mins

Mimika Theatre

Small WorldsFri 22 Oct 9.45am, 11.15am & 1.15pm

Sat 23 Oct 10am, 11.30am, 1.30pm & 3pm

Creative Space £8.50 (£6)

limited availability so book early

Ages: 5–11 50mins

Step inside the small world of Mimika Theatre’s white canvas dome and into a beautiful landscape. Meet six characters - a small green wriggly thing, a bug, a young goose, a fox cub, a cat and a six year old girl - and watch their six interweaving stories unfold.

An unforgettable piece of visual theatre, fusing computer-generated animation and digital projection with miniature landscapes, puppets and a highly evocative soundtrack.

Mimika have been creating unforgettable theatre for young audiences since 1981. Their work combines stunning visual effects with puppetry, an original soundtrack and detailed choreography.

Slightly Fat Features

Variety on the CampusSat 16 Oct 7.30pm

Theatre £10, Under 26s £7.50

Ages: 4+ 2hrs (inc. interval)

A unique, ensemble vaudeville show packed full of heart stopping stunts and classic comedy. Variety on the Campus is an amazing spectacular for all ages, with circus tricksters, original live music, top turns, riotous routines and, most importantly, lots and lots of laughs.

As heard on Radio 4 and seen on ITV1, Slightly Fat Features appear at Warwick Arts Centre for the very first time, with their unrivalled, age-immune variety show for the whole family.

Don’t miss the feast of features and wonderful surprises that only their live shows can bring!

Chair in a Dayled by visual artist Nadia Wazera

Wed 27 Oct 10am–5pm

Creative Space £25 (chair included!)

Age: 8+ limited availability so book early

This is a day of transformation! You’ll start with a plain and simple piece of furniture and by the end of the day you will have created something spectacular and extraordinary. Your everyday chair will become something gorgeous or scary or funny or fit for a queen or a wizard or Dr Who or...? Throughout the day you will take over our Creative Space and turn it into your own gallery, where family and friends can come and experience your art. Afterwards, take home a memento of the day and take away your artwork - which may or may not still look like a chair...

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Family Art Club £3.50 per child

(accompanying adult free)

Tickets available in advance or on the day from Box Office on 024 7652 4524. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

For further details phone the Mead Gallery Assistants on 024 7652 2589 (12pm – 9pm, Mon – Sat).

Drawing with Light Sat 9 Oct

1pm – 2.30pm

Mead Gallery Ages: 6+

It’s Big Draw Day! Join in and explore drawing with light, experiment with torches, collage and colour to create your own live installations and performances.

Stories in PrintSat 16 Oct

1pm – 2.30pm


Illustrate your own weird and wonderful stories using a variety of printmaking methods and collage techniques.

Surreal Sculptures & StructuresSat 23 Oct

1pm – 2.30pm


Let your imagination run wild and create crazy sculptures and bizarre structures with everyday materials.

Little Angel Theatre

Handa’s Surpriseadapted from the book by Eileen Browne

Sat 6 Nov 11am, 12pm, 2pm & 3pm

Studio £8.50 (£6)

Ages: 2-5 30mins

Travel to Kenya and follow in Handa’s footsteps as she journeys to see her best friend Akeyo, in the next village. Handa is taking 7 delicious fruits as a surprise – but 7 different animals have 7 very different ideas... could you resist the sweet-smelling guava? How about a ripe red mango or a tangy purple passion fruit?

A blend of physical performance, puppetry, live music and song combine to create an intimate, magical production with audience participation. Come and share in the magical tangerine surprise!

We’re Going On A Bear HuntThu 10 – Sat 12 Mar

Thu 1.30pm, Fri 10.30am & 1.30pm, Sat 11am & 2pm

Theatre £10

Ages: 3+

Adapted from the picture book written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. Join our intrepid adventurers on their quest to find a bear; as they wade through the gigantic swishy swashy grass, the splishy splashy river and the thick oozy, squelchy mud! Expect catchy songs, interactive scenes and plenty of hands-on adventure – plus a few special surprises! “A fun-filled frolic.” The Guardian “A perfect mini-adventure…” The Daily Mail

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Our regular movie events for you to enjoy as a family.

The Illusionist PGSat 9 Oct 1.30pm

Cinema £4.50 (£2.50)

Dir: Sylvain Chomet UK / France 2010 90mins

Cast: voices: Jean-Claude Donda, Edith Rankin

As cheeky, boisterous and witty as it is delicately drawn and beauteous to behold, Sylvain Chomet’s second feature film is a winner on every level. Our weary hero is an over-the-hill magician complete with less-than-friendly white rabbit; always in search of a paying gig. The illusionist treks from Paris to the Western Isles to Edinburgh – acquiring along the way a young travelling companion who sincerely believes in his magical abilities.

Accompanied by: Henry’s Cat: The Circus

Hogfather PGSat 4 Dec 2pm

Cinema £4.50 (£2.50)

Dir: Vadim Jean

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It’s the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld. A night when over-excited children are kept awake by the thoughts of what presents they may find inside their stockings, once they are allowed to stop pretending to be asleep. But this year, all is not right with the holiday season!

This first live-action adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s fantastical novel with a stellar cast is a not to be missed on the big screen this Christmas.

Halloween Trick or Treat PGSat 30 Oct 2pm

Cinema £4.50 (£2.50)

Join us for a spooky selection of classic witches, monsters, ghosties and ghoulies including tales from Simon and the Witch, Grotbags, Count Duckula and Rentaghost.

Dress to impress – or wear to scare! This is a Halloween film feast not to be missed.

Nativity! USat 18 Dec 2pm

Cinema £4.50 (£2.50)

Dir: Debbie Isitt

UK 2009 105mins

Cast: Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Marc Wootton

The heart-warming Christmas tale sees the city of Coventry turned into Tinseltown when locals believe that Hollywood producers are coming to judge the best Nativity play from rival schools.

Unmotivated primary school teacher Paul Maddens is assigned the task of putting on St. Bernadette’s nativity play. With the help of his over-enthusiastic classroom assistant Mr Poppy, they set out to put on a Christmas cracker! This musical extravaganza is enough to make every parent proud – but will it win the attention of Hollywood and the coveted 5 star review?

Nativity! stars British comedy favourites Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen and Marc Wootton alongside a host of children from local Coventry schools.

Black Jack PGSat 20 Nov 2pm

Cinema £4.50 (£2.50)

Dir: Ken Loach

UK 1979 110mins

Cast: Jean Franval, Stephen Hirst

Based on the novel by celebrated children’s author Leon Garfield, this children’s adventure film set in 1750s York was Ken Loach’s fourth feature. The film’s witty dialogue and enchanting performances from its charismatic young cast led to the film being presented with the Critics Award at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.

Huge Frenchman Black Jack miraculously survives a hanging by the British authorities in Yorkshire and takes to the countryside in the company of Tolly, a teenage boy who is able to translate Black Jack’s odd speech into something comprehensible.

They join up with Belle, an aristocratic teenager who has escaped from the madhouse where her family had her imprisoned. Together, the three join a carnival.

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Back by popular demand in time for a Christmas adventure for children and brave adults everywhere.

Let the irrepressible Kneehigh take you by the hand and lead you into the deepest part of the forest! Prepare for a world of darkness, wit and wonder, of earthy delights and crooked shadows. A world that is sweet but never sugary.

This tender, tasty and terrifying re-telling of the classic story is told through lively music, rough poetry, the most amazing gadgets and gizmos... and with the help of some rather unlucky rabbits.

“Finger licking fun... spellbinding” The Daily Mail

“Full of merry grotesquerie” The Guardian

“The Arts Centre was packed on the first night of their quirky, irreverent and often hilarious adaption of the macabre Brothers Grimm fairy tale. It’s like Monty Python-meets-children’s theatre.” Coventry Telegraph

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Hansel& GretelFri 26 Nov – Fri 10 Dec

Theatre £17.50, £20, Under 16s £8.50, Under 26s £10

Fri 26 Nov £15, Under 26s £7.50

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Join Mouse on an adventurous journey through the deep dark wood... meet a wheeler-dealer Fox, an eccentric old Owl, a maraca-shaking, party-mad Snake! Mouse can scare these hungry animals away with tall stories of the terrifying Gruffalo, but what happens when he comes face to face with the very creature he imagined...?

“Irresistibly charming.” The Times

“Monstrous fun!” The Daily Mail

The award-winning book was recently voted the nation’s number one bedtime story by BBC Radio 2 listeners and even hit the small screens on Christmas Day in a star-studded TV adaptation on BBC1!

“A fine piece of children’s theatre.” The Sunday Times

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Theatre £11.50, Under 16s £9.50

Ages: 3+ 55mins

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Guide dogs are welcomed and can be cared for during performances, by arrangement.

Receivers for our Sennheiser infra-red facility are freely available from Box Office.

Toilet facilities accessible on all levels.

Spaces reserved in Car Park 7.

Wheelchair access at ground level to Hall, Studio Theatre, Café Bar, Box Office, Cinema, Conference Room, Music Centre, Bookshop and Rise.

Lift access to Theatre, Theatre Bar, National Grid Room and Mead Gallery.

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reservations: Pay within 4 days or 30 minutes before performance, whichever is sooner.

exchanging tickets:Tickets can be exchanged for another performance or for a credit voucher valid for 90 days. If you would like to take advantage of this service you must return your original tickets to the Box Office at least 24 hours before the performance (14 days for group bookings). Schools tickets may not be exchanged. There is an administration fee of £2 per ticket. Tickets purchased as part of a subscription or multi-buy package cannot be exchanged for credit vouchers.Any credit not used after three months have elapsed will go to the Butterworth Hall Development Fund.

booking by post: Include name, address, phone number, performance details and tickets required, plus cheque/postal order payable to The University of Warwick (add 75p for postage or can be collected free). There is a 40p per ticket booking fee added to all tickets sold at Warwick Arts Centre.

booking online: www.warwickartscentre.co.ukThere is a 40p per ticket booking fee added to all tickets sold at Warwick Arts Centre.

student deals: Visit the student pages of our website at www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/students for further information.

by car: On approaches to Coventry, simply follow the brown signs for Warwick Arts Centre. We are situated in the centre of the main campus of the University of Warwick.

Once on the University of Warwick campus, head for car parks 6, 7 or 8.

groups of 9 or more: Discount rate (price shown in brackets) plus every 10th ticket FREE. No booking fee. NB: Valid for selected events only - check with the Box Office.

discounts: Shown in brackets for: 60+ in full time retirement, registered unemployed people, full time students (NUS or Uni ID cards), Coventry Passport to Leisure Holders, Rugby Leisure Pass holders.

schools allocation: For selected events, tickets can be purchased at reduced rates for teacher-led school/college parties. No booking fee. Call the Box Office for details.

University of Warwick employees:Ask at the Box Office for staff ticket offers. ID required.

Terms and Conditions:All tickets, discounts and offers subject to availability. Unless otherwise stated, discounts and concessions cannot be combined or used in conjunction with other offers. All information correct at time of going to press. Warwick Arts Centre reserves the right to make occasional special ticket offers in addition to those listed. Warwick Arts Centre reserves the right to change programmes and artists without notice. Please contact the Box Office or check website for updated information, especially if travelling some distance.

Warwick Arts Centre is committed to upholding the Data Protection principles of good practice. When processing your booking, the Box Office staff will ask you for your name, address, email and telephone number. This is essential for all non-cash bookings. We will also ask you if you would like to be kept informed about forthcoming events and campaigns at Warwick Arts Centre or at other arts organisations. You can also manage your own account online at www.warwickartscentre.co.uk

Full terms and conditions available at Box Office or on www.warwickartscentre.co.uk

by bus: Regular bus services from Coventry, Leamington Spa and Kenilworth stop outside the Arts Centre. Centro Hotline: 024 7655 9559

by train: Services run regularly from Birmingham, Leicester and London to Coventry from where we are a short taxi or bus ride away.

for full access information visit www.warwickartscentre.co.uk or ask for a leaflet at Box Office. Though it is not essential, you are advised to book in advance so we can readily provide any assistance. Disabled patrons may also bring a companion free of charge. Contact Box Office for details.

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Sat 23 10am Small Worlds p39

11.30am Small Worlds p39

1pm Family Art Club p40

1.30pm Small Worlds p39

3pm Small Worlds p39

5pm Met Opera Live: Boris Godunov p26

7.45pm The Author p07

8pm Ross Noble: Nonsensory Overload p31

Sun 24 7.30pm Stewart Francis: Tour de Francis p32

7.45pm Frisky and Mannish p32

Tue 26 7.30pm The Red Shoes p09

7.45pm Bonnie and Clyde p07

8pm Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio p29

Wed 27 10am Chair In A Day p39

7.30pm The Red Shoes T. p09

7.45pm Bonnie and Clyde p07

Thu 28 1.10pm FREE Lunchtime Concert p27

7.30pm The Red Shoes p09

Fri 29 7.30pm The Red Shoes p09

8pm John Bishop p32

Sat 30 2pm Family Film: Halloween Trick or Treat p41

7.30pm The Red Shoes p09

Sun 31 7.30pm Greg Davies: Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog p32

8pm Imogen Heap p18

8pm The Fall of the House of Usher p18

November

Mon 1 7.45pm Neil Cowley Trio p18

Tue 2 6pm Artist’s Talk: Lindsay Seers in conversation with Jeremy Millar p25

7.45pm 6.0: How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won p08

8pm Paco Peña: Flamenco Sin Fronteras p19

Wed 3 7.45pm 6.0: How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won p08


8pm Rich Hall p32

Fri 5 7.30pm Roger McGough: That Awkward Age p36

Sat 6 11am Handa’s Surprise p40

12noon Handa’s Surprise p40

2pm Handa’s Surprise p40

3pm Handa’s Surprise p40

8pm Reginald D Hunter p33

Sun 7 7.30pm Ardal O’Hanlon p33

Mon 8 7.45pm Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me T. p08

Tue 9 7.45pm Inua Ellams’ Untitled p36

8pm Coull Quartet p29

Wed 10 7.45pm Inua Ellams’ Untitled p36


7.45pm Alec Dankworth’s Spanish Accents p19

Fri 12 7.30pm Mark Kermode: It’s Only A Movie p37

7.45pm Love Letters Straight From Your Heart p08

Sat 13 6pm Met Opera Live: Don Pasquale p26

7.45pm Love Letters Straight From Your Heart p08

8pm The Armstrong and Miller Show p33

September

Thu 23 6.45pm National Theatre Live: Phèdre p12

October

Sun 3 7.45pm Micky Flanagan p31

Tue 5 7.30pm Little Gem p05

7.45pm Such Is Life p13

8pm The Hallé p28

Wed 6 7.30pm Little Gem T. p05

7.45pm Such Is Life p13

8pm Rhod Gilbert & the Cat that Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst p31


7.30pm Little Gem p05

Fri 8 6.30pm Mead Gallery: Opening Party p25


7.45pm Ben Clempson and Paul Van Ryan p23

8pm Beth Nielsen Chapman p17

Sat 9 1pm Family Art Club p40

1.30pm Family Film: The Illusionist p41

6pm Met Opera Live: Das Rheingold p26


Sun 10 3pm Twelve Wild Ducks p39

7.30pm Polar Bear p17

Tue 12 7pm A Night At The Musicals p27

7.30pm Political Mother T. p14

Wed 13 1pm Artist’s Walk and Talk: Traverse Me by Jeremy Wood p25

3pm Artist’s Walk and Talk: Traverse Me by Jeremy Wood p25

7.30pm Political Mother p14


6.45pm A Disappearing Number p12

7pm Tuning Out With Radio Z p06

8pm Philharmonia Orchestra p28

Fri 15 7pm Tuning Out With Radio Z p06

8pm Havana Rakatan p15

Sat 16 1pm Family Art Club p40

2.30pm Havana Rakatan p15

7pm Tuning Out With Radio Z p06

7.30pm Variety on the Campus p39

8pm Havana Rakatan p15

Sun 17 7.30pm Arthur Smith p31

7.45pm Jason Cook - The End (Part 1) p31

Mon 18 8pm Frankie Boyle p31

Tue 19 5.30pm Mead Gallery: Look Club p25

7.30pm The Thrill Of It All T. p06


Wed 20 7.15pm Ian McMillan: Talking Myself Home p36

7.30pm The Thrill Of It All p06

7.45pm The Author T. p07

8pm Michael Nyman Band p17



Fri 22 9.45am Small Worlds p39

11.15am Small Worlds p39

1.15pm Small Worlds p39

7.30pm Antonio Forcione p18


8pm Stewart Lee: Vegetable Stew p31

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Sun 14 7.30pm Kevin Bridges p33

7.45pm Sarah Millican: Chatterbox p33

8pm Jimmy Carr: Laughter Therapy p34

Mon 15 7pm Festivo! p27

Tue 16 7.30pm Punk Rock p10

Wed 17 1pm Lunchtime Conversations: Piranesi’s Prisons p25

7.15pm English PEN and Index on Censorship p37

7.30pm Punk Rock T. p10

7.45pm Five Kinds of Silence p13

8pm The Divine Comedy p20


7.30pm Punk Rock p10


Fri 19 7.30pm Punk Rock p10


8pm Mark Watson p34

Sat 20 2pm Family Film: Black Jack p41

7.30pm Punk Rock p10


8pm Hugh Masekela and the Mahotella Queens p20

Sun 21 7.45pm Sarah Millican: Chatterbox p33

Mon 22 7.45pm Milestones p21

Tue 23 6pm Mead Gallery: Curator’s Tour p25

7.45pm Kate Fox News p34


7.45pm DisGo p16

8pm The National p21

Fri 26 7.30pm Hansel & Gretel p42

7.45pm DisGo p16

8pm Mozarteum Orchestra Saltzburg p29

Sat 27 2.30pm Hansel & Gretel p42

7.30pm Hansel & Gretel p42

7.45pm Under the Radar: Emma McGann and Carly Ryder p23

Sun 28 7.45pm Hal Cruttenden p34

Mon 29 1pm Hansel & Gretel p42

Tue 30 1pm Hansel & Gretel p42

December Wed 1 1pm Hansel & Gretel p42

7.45pm The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui p13


1pm Hansel & Gretel p42



Fri 3 7.30pm Hansel & Gretel p42


8pm Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band p21

Sat 4 2pm Family Film: Hogfather p41


3pm A Christmas Variety Spectacular ––


7.30pm A Christmas Variety Spectacular ––


Sun 5 4pm Sibelius & Mozart p27

7.45pm Alun Cochrane p34

Mon 6 1pm Hansel & Gretel p42

Tue 7 1pm Hansel & Gretel p42

Wed 8 1pm Hansel & Gretel p42


Thu 9 1pm Hansel & Gretel p42

1.10pm FREE Lunchtime Concert p27

6.45pm National Theatre Live: Hamlet p12


8pm Handel - Messiah p29

Fri 10 1pm Hansel & Gretel p42


8pm Jimmy Carr: Laughter Therapy p34

Sat 11 5.30pm Met Opera Live: Don Carlo p26

7.45pm Michael Janisch’s Purpose Built Quintet p22

8pm Runrig

Mon 13 10.30am The Gruffalo p43

1.30pm The Gruffalo p43

Tue 14 10.30am The Gruffalo p43


Wed 15 10.30am The Gruffalo p43


Thu 16 10.30am The Gruffalo p43


Fri 17 8pm Mediaeval Baebes p21

Sat 18 11am The Gruffalo p43

2pm The Gruffalo p43

2pm Family Film: Nativity! p41

Sun 19 11am The Gruffalo p43


Tue 21 11am The Gruffalo p43


Wed 22 11am The Gruffalo p43


Thu 23 11am The Gruffalo p43


Fri 24 11am The Gruffalo p43


Sat 25 HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Tue 28 11am The Gruffalo p43


Wed 29 11am The Gruffalo p43


Thu 30 11am The Gruffalo p43


Fri 31 11am The Gruffalo p43


January

Sun 2 11am The Gruffalo p43


Sat 8 6pm Met Opera Live: La Fanciulla Del West p26

Thu 13 6.45pm National Theatre Live: FELA! p12

Fri 21 7.45pm Diary of a Madman/Discords p11

Sat 22 7.45pm Diary of a Madman/Discords p11

8pm The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain p22

Sun 23 7.30pm Punt & Dennis: They Should Get Out More p34

Tue 25 7.30pm Danish Dance Theatre p16

Wed 26 7.30pm Danish Dance Theatre p16

Fri 28 7.30pm Micky Flanagan p31

8pm The Richard Thompson Band p22

Sat 29 8pm The Richard Thompson Band p22

February

Thu 3 6.45pm National Theatre Live: King Lear p12

Sun 13 7.30pm Three Bonzos and a Piano p23

Sat 19 8pm Lenny Henry: Cradle to Rave p35

Sun 27 7.45pm Andi Osho p35

March

Thu 3 7.30pm The Tempest p11

Fri 4 7.30pm The Tempest p11

Sat 5 7.30pm The Tempest p11

Thu 10 1.30pm We’re Going On A Bear Hunt p40

Fri 11 10.30am We’re Going On A Bear Hunt p40

1.30pm We’re Going On A Bear Hunt p40

Sat 12 11am We’re Going On A Bear Hunt p40

2pm We’re Going On A Bear Hunt p40

May

Thu 12 8pm Stephen K Amos: The Best Medicine p35

Fri 13 8pm Stephen K Amos: The Best Medicine p35

Sun 15 7.30pm Richard Herring: Christ on a Bike p35

Wed 18 8pm Loudon Wainwright III p23

June

Fri 24 8pm Jason Manford p35

Sat 25 8pm Jason Manford p35

CHRISTMAS SHOWS

Hansel & Gretel schools performances

call Box Office: 024 7652 4524

The Gruffalo schools performances

call Box Office: 024 7652 4524

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For ages 7+

“Finger licking fun… spellbinding” The Daily Mail


For ages 3+

“Irresistibly charming.” The Times

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