Theatre
Group
Contact
Chris Farleigh 8086 2882 to book your ticket
Group
meeting at 16 Greenfields Ave 2.45pm 6th
May
Nuffield
Theatre Tonight
at 8.30pm 9 one-act plays by Noel Coward
Saturday 10th May 1pm, 4.30pm & 8.30pm Tickets £24. Performed as three trios in repertory.
Nuffield and English Touring Theatre present the first major revival in the UK of all nine one-act plays by Noël Coward.
Tonight
at 8.30 is a collection of nine one-act plays by the inimitable
Noël Coward, performed together for the first time in the UK, since
Coward starred in them in 1936. From vaudeville to satire, from
broad farce to intricate comedy of manners, from melodrama to
romance, these plays span the full, glorious range of Coward’s
writing.
You
can peep through your fingers at the Red Peppers chaotic music-hall
show, witness a bankrupt couple use all Ways and Means to
scheme their way out of debt, and break your heart along with Laura
in the famous Still Life, the original version of the film Brief
Encounter.
This
is a unique opportunity to see a stellar ensemble perform all nine of
these plays.
Make
a day of it
On the days featuring all three trios, Nuffield Kitchen invites
you to a 1930s dinner party in between each show. Lunch
will be served before the 1pm performance
Salberg
- Salisbury
Playhouse The
Ballard of Martha Brown
Friday
16th
May 7.30pm Tickets £13
“I
remember what a fine figure she showed against the sky as she hung in
the misty rain and how the tight black silk gown set off her shape as
she wheeled half round and back” –
Thomas Hardy recalling Martha Brown’s public hanging 70 years after
the event.
Expect
the unexpected in Angel Exit’s latest original drama based on the
life and times of Martha Brown; the last woman, in Dorset, to be
publicly hanged.
A
tale of jealousy and passion, an ordinary woman and her ordinary
husband, a hatchet grabbed in haste, a murder, a wrongly accused
horse, a black silk dress, the hangman from London and the mob at the
hang-fair who gawp in glee.
Presented
in the company’s rich visual style, blending storytelling and
striking physicality, the show is spliced through with wicked humour
and macabre songs.
Antony & Cleopatra The Globe Theatre London
Thursday
June 5th
2. pm Tickets £39.00, plus travel
Two lovers are blown apart by love and war
Cleopatra, the
alluring and fascinatingly ambiguous Queen of Egypt, has bewitched
the great Mark Antony, soldier, campaigner and now one of the three
rulers of the Roman Empire. When Antony quarrels with his fellow
leaders and throws in his lot with Cleopatra, his infatuation
threatens to split the Empire in two.
Roman virtue and
Eastern vice, transcendent love and realpolitik combine in Antony and
Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s greatest exploration of the conflicting
claims of sex and power, all expressed in a tragic poetry of
breathtaking beauty and magnificence.
Plaza
Theatre, Romsey The Accrington Pals by Peter
Whelan
Thursday
17th
July 7.30pm
The
play looks at both the terrifying experiences of the men at the front
in the first world war and the women who were left behind to face
social changes, deprivation and the lies of propaganda. While often
comic vignettes portray the everyday life of a town denuded of men,
the men face the terror that is the Battle of the Somme. This
compassionate play portrays the devastating effects of war on a
typical Lancashire mill town and the suffering of everyday people
Royal
Albert Hall John Rutter Christmas Concert
Thursday
11th
December 3pm Tickets £17.50 plus travel
AWAYDAYS
Guided
Tour of the Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey
Monday
May 19th
leaving Totton 9.15am. Cost £4 plus travel
Brookwood
Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Britain and one of the largest in
the world. It: was established in 1851, it covers 500 acres and
has lovely grounds and unique monuments many of which are Grade II
listed.
The
cemetery is considered a site of extreme importance, not only as a
cemetery, but as a cultural, architectural and historical record for
many nations. The finest works of many stonemasons are contained
within, as well as a wealth of history.
It
is a working cemetery for all denominations and nationalities from
all over the world.
As
well as having the, often elaborate, graves of residents it also has
military cemeteries. Amongst the graves is the final resting places
of Dame Rebecca West, writer, and Edith Thompson who was hanged for
adultery on the 9th January 1923. It has several graves connected
with Titanic disaster .
There
are many war graves including138 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18
war, 1 being an unidentified Indian soldier. There are a further 50
Commonwealth burials of the 1939-45 war. There are also 5 Foreign
National war burials in C.W.G.C. care here.
Imperial
War Museum- First World War Exhibition
Monday
14h
July
Approx
cost including coach £15.00
Leaving
Totton at 9.15am
The
Manor House Hotel
Fowley
Cross, Nr Okehampton, Devon, EX20 4NA
3
nights 3rd
– 6th
Nov or 7th
– 10th
Nov
A
grade rooms £216, B grade rooms £196pp before discounts.
All
Year Sport, Craft, Leisure & Spa Breaks - Whatever the Weather!
The
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Golf
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eighteen hole golf courses which
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Some
of the other facilities available FREE
of charge to all residents
include 5 indoor and 5 outdoor tennis
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13 indoor bowls
rinks, 8 badminton
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3 swimming
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with spa
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10 lanes of 10
pin bowling,
28 snooker
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Guided
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include 2 mini-slides, 2 midi-slides and 4 flume slides - perfect for
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