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July update

Theatre Group Contact Chris Farleigh 8086 2882 to book your ticket

Cheshire Cats By Gail Young RAODS The Plaza

Saturday 18th Jul 2015  |  19:30  |  £12.00

AN OPEN-AIR PRODUCTION AT LINDEN HOUSE, 98 THE HUNDRED, ROMSEY

PLEASE BRING ALONG A RUG OR PICNIC CHAIR TO SIT ON. GATES WILL OPEN AT 6.30

(IF THE WEATHER IS BAD - THE SHOW WILL BE PERFORMED ON THE PLAZA MAIN STAGE INSTEAD. A DECISION TO BE MADE BY 6PM ON EACH PERFORMANCE NIGHT)

Grown women, aching feet and heaving bosoms! Follow the Cheshire Cats team as they speedwalk their way to fundraising success in the London Moonwalk. Hilary, Siobhan, Yvonne, Vicky and Maggie are attempting to walk 13 miles across the capital in record time in their decorated bras and posh new trainers, but the 6th member of the team doesn't seem to meet the physical criteria! Cheshire Cats is a cross between a girls night out and a real mission to support a cause close to many hearts, with plenty of laughs and a few tears along the way

When We Are Married by J B Priestley Lyndhurst Players

22-25^th July 7.45pm Tickets £8 Wed £9 T F S

In the heart of Yorkshire in 1903, three respectable couples, married on the same day, at the same church, and by the same vicar, join to celebrate 25 years of blissful matrimony or so they think. The happy celebrations are brought to a sudden halt by a shocking revelation that these pillars of the community aren't quite as respectably married as they thought they were. As the home truths fly like confetti and conjugal rites turn to farcical fights, sparkling comic mayhem erupts. With a photographer from the local paper due to arrive any second, a missing housekeeper and a doorbell that won't stop ringing, can the three couples keep a lid on their embarrassing secret? 

A Funny thing happened on the Way to Agincourt – Sarah Siddons Fan Club

2^nd, 3^rd & 4^th of August 7.30pm Tickets £5.00

A promenade performance starting at the Medieval Merchants House, 58 French St, Southampton

Jack The Ripper By Ron Pember and Denis de Marne RAODS The Plaza

Tuesday 15^th September 7.30pm £12.00

Set partly in a music hall and partly in the surrounding East End streets and buildings, the play is a musical reconstruction of incidents relating to the murders that took place in 1888. A solution to Jack the Ripper’s identity is hinted at, but this is an atmospheric commentary rather than historical re-enactment. Shifting between reality and artificiality, with characters from the Victorian music hall and ‘real’ people.

Simon Weston – My Life My Story Hanger Farm Arts Centre

Saturday 19^th September 7.30pm Tickets £12.50

Falkland's War Veteran, author and public speaker, Simon Weston OBE is taking to the stage for the firsttime ever to tell his no holds barred story with his UK tour of My Life; My Story.  From his own unique perspective, Simon will share shocking truths about the conflict, about the day the RFA Sir Galahad was attacked and about the impact the event and its consequences have had since

The Safari Party by Tim Firth RAODS The Plaza

Tuesday 13^th October 7.30pm £12.00

From the writer of Calendar Girls, Flint Street Nativity and Neville's Island comes this biting, witty comedy. Three households in Cheshire have agreed to hold a "safari party": a dinner party, each course of which is served in a different house. The three households are linked not just socially, however: there's the whole question of the mysterious table... As the evening progresses, lies are told, truths are revealed, and matters turn satisfyingly messy and violent.  "A cracking comedy - cunningly constructed, thematically rich, and above all blissfully funny", Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph.

The Magna Carter Plays Salisbury Playhouse 22^nd Oct – 7thNov

Looking at Tuesday the 27^th 7.30pm or Thursday 29^th at 2.15pm

The world premiere of four short plays in one evening by internationally renowned playwrights. Inspired by the celebrated document and performed together, this will be an unforgettable theatrical event.

RANSOMED by Howard Brenton

In the sleepy Cathedral City of Melchester, a crime has been committed. The Cathedral’s prize possession, a copy of the original Magna Carta, has been stolen in a daring heist. Who is responsible and what price will the British Government be prepared to pay for the document’s safe return? As the plot thickens, Detective Inspector Ellie Baxter seeks to find the truth in this brilliant new Magna Carta comedy.

KINGMAKERS by Anders Lustgarten

Ten years after the signing of Magna Carta, the barons' takeover isn’t quite going to plan. With the peasants grumbling about enormous castles and broken promises, the threat of rebellion hangs in the air. Perhaps the solution is to distract and deflect by bringing the confused and humbled king back into the fold? What about a royal wedding?  A royal baby?  All at the common man’s expense, of course…  A fictional story from the 13th century that may just be about now.

"WE SELL RIGHT" by Timberlake Wertenbaker

In 1215, when the King of England abuses his extraordinary power, the barons’ take action.

In 2015, when the kings of global business and finance abuse their extraordinary power, who will take action and what will confrontation look like? In the decades that follow, what will remain of the values we hold most dear? A gripping drama about the consequences of confronting power on a global scale.

PINK GIN by Sally Woodcock

In 21st century Africa, a visionary President stands on the cusp of greatness. With international investors poised to develop large tracks of land, the financial future looks bright. But why has it been raining for 97 days, and who is leading the angry mob in the streets outside? A compelling contemporary allegory throwing light on the oft overlooked companion to Magna Carta, The Charter of the Forest

The Berry Theatre

Hamlet live from the National Theatre Thursday 15^th October 7pm £10

Don’t Get Your Vicars in a Twist by Lesley Bown & Ann Gawthorpe Studio Theatre
Directed by Sally Marshall; assisted by George Goulding
Oct 16 – 24

Salisbury City Hall - The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

18th Sep 2015 7:30 pm Tickets £23 Conc for Groups

IVANOV Friday 2^nd October`£10 - £29 Chichester Festival Theatre

Nikolai Ivanov, a regional councillor and landowner, has tried to live his life in a bold new way, taking risks in everything from business to romance. Now his estate is failing, his wife is dangerously ill and he’s up to his neck in debt. To cap it all, he’s surrounded by malicious gossip.
Against his better judgment he sees an irresistible opportunity, in the adoring form of Sasha Lebedev, daughter of the Chairman of the local council. She offers her devotion, youth and beauty, but also the considerable riches of her name. But can Ivanov survive the guilt and shame scandal would bring?

Set in a remote backwater, this angry and outspoken play, streaked with satire, drink and anti-Semitism, is full of an outright passion Chekhov would soon forego in his later plays.

Royal Albert Hall John Rutters Christmas Concert

Monday December 7^th 3pm Mid Choir Seats Coach & Tickets £35.00

Coach leaving Totton 9.15am returning to Totton approx 8.30pm. £5.00 deposit required

Theatre Group

Contact Chris Farleigh 8086 2882 to book your ticket

Happy Families Southampton University Players Nuffield Theatre

Tuesday 9^th of June 7.30pm Tickets £10

Boeing Boeing The Mill at Sonning

Tickets £42.50 includes lunch- 11^th June – 1^st August – Thursday Matinee

Chichester Festival Theatre A Damsel In Distress

Thursday 11^th June 7.30pm £40

'Those guys told me angels were coming and sure enough, even in foggy old London town, miracles can happen.’

George is an American composer working at the Savoy Theatre in London. Maud is the thoroughly English Lady Marshmoreton, a beautiful socialite who lives in a castle with a ha-ha and a drawbridge.

They really shouldn’t have met because George needs to complete his musical and Maud needs to marry most urgently, and already has someone totally unsuitable in mind. Luckily Maud’s fierce aunt, Lady Caroline, has a solution – she’s going to lock her lusty charge in the tower.

Uplifting and wildly funny, this musical comedy is a tribute to English love with all its eccentricities. Based on a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, with songs by George and Ira Gershwin, 
A Damsel in Distress is well-known from the popular 1937 comedy film.

This new stage musical is directed by the celebrated American director and choreographer, Rob Ashford

Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Maskers Theatre Company at Hamptworth Lodge Sunday the 19^th July Open Air production

Someone Who Will Watch Over ME Minerva Theatre 29^th August – 2015 £34 & £25

‘We are in a decidedly perilous position, to put it mildly.’

Adam, an American doctor, Edward, an Irish journalist, and Michael, an English academic, have little to unite them beyond being human in the same small space. Yet somehow, together, they determine to ward off madness and forestall despair.

Somewhere lurk their unseen captors yet, in the cell, there are stories of adventure and love, there is song and laughter, and even a surge of writing, cocktail-drinking and movie-making.

Based on the experiences of those taken hostage in Lebanon in the 1980s, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me is playwright Frank McGuinness’s hymn to the defiant power of the human spirit and the creative imagination. Director Michael Attenborough makes his Chichester debut. 

IVANOV Friday 2^nd October`£10 - £29 Festival Theatre

Nikolai Ivanov, a regional councillor and landowner, has tried to live his life in a bold new way, taking risks in everything from business to romance. Now his estate is failing, his wife is dangerously ill and he’s up to his neck in debt. To cap it all, he’s surrounded by malicious gossip.
Against his better judgment he sees an irresistible opportunity, in the adoring form of Sasha Lebedev, daughter of the Chairman of the local council. She offers her devotion, youth and beauty, but also the considerable riches of her name. But can Ivanov survive the guilt and shame scandal would bring?

Set in a remote backwater, this angry and outspoken play, streaked with satire, drink and anti-Semitism, is full of an outright passion Chekhov would soon forego in his later plays.

Royal Albert Hall John Rutters Christmas Concert

Monday December 7^th 3pm Mid Choir Seats Coach & Tickets £35.00

Coach leaving Totton 9.15am returning to Totton approx 8.30pm. £5.00 deposit required

ANYONE FANCY A FEW DAYS AT

THE ASHBURY HOTEL, OAKHAMPTON, DEVON

Possible Dates

15^th – 18^th Oct £181 , 15^th – 19^th Oct £208

5th – 8th^th Nov £164, 5^th – 9^th Nov £189

These prices are before group discounts etc

It is a craft and sports hotel set on the edge of Dartmoor

Prices include breakfast, lunch, and dinner and use of all sports & craft facilities

You can do pottery, glass painting & engraving, woodwork, design tee-shirts, frame pictures, silk painting, try your hand at archery, air pistol shooting, rifle shooting, bowls, tennis, curling, golf, swimming, table tennis, ten pin bowling the list is endless. Look up their website for further information

The prices above are per person and for 2 people sharing a room per person

February

Theatre Group

Contact Chris Farleigh 8086 2882 to book your ticket

A Bed Full of Foreigners The Plaza Romsey

Friday 27^th February 7.30pm Tickets £11

Two British couples find themselves staying in a small hotel on the borders of France and Germany. They wind up in morally compromising positions due to the fact they have accidentally been assigned to the same hotel room. They subsequently go to painful lengths to cover their tracks, fearing discovery and the wrath of their spouses. A wonderful play - full of flagrant innuendoes and witty puns typical of British humour.

The Boy In Striped Pyjamas Chichester Festival Theatre

Thursday 19^th February 7.pm Tickets £27.00

Set during World War II, the story is seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and devastating consequences.

Bruno’s friendship with Shmuel takes him from innocence to revelation, revealing the poetic irony that through a child’s eye everyone can appear the same.

Hanger Farm Arts Centre Totton Festival of Drama

Wednesday 25^th – 28^th March 7.00pm Tickets £7.50 8066 7683

Wednesday Hope’s Dream – Gantry Youth Theatre, Jitters -Bench Theatre Co, The Legend of King Arthur – Hanger Farm Theatre Co,

Thursday Tryptych Bench Theatre Co, The Last Laugh Soton University Players, The Challenge -Solent Drama & Performance Society

Friday Motherhood Our Loud – Soton University Players, Twisted Tales -Intermediate Oasis Youth Theatre, Choices – Bench Theatre,

Saturday A Long Time Coming – Bishopstoke Players, Your Life is a Feature – Soton University Players,

Boeing Boeing The Mill at Sonning

Tickets £42.50 includes lunch- 11^th June – 1^st August – Thursday Matinee

Royal Albert Hall John Rutters Christmas Concert

Monday December 7^th 3pm Mid Choir Seats Coach & Tickets £35.00

Coach leaving Totton 9.15am returning to Totton approx 8.30pm

£5.00 deposit required

AWAY DAYS

Royal Air Force Museum London

Wednesday 17^th June Price £10 Travel Extra

Early Flight and The First World War in The Air

Explore the Grahame-White Watch Office and learn about the early Flying Forces in the ‘First World War in the Air’ exhibition.

A series of tours in our historic buildings, learn more about pioneer aviator Claude Grahame-White, and the London Aerodrome. Discover how early aero engines worked especially for U3A groups.

Schedule 1.30pm Welcome refreshments

1.50pm – 2.30pm Claude Grahame-White talk and tour of office

2.35pm – 3.15pm Early Aero Engines in the Grahame-White buildings

3.15pm onwards Self- ed visit of The First World War in the Air Exhibition

This includes Welcome refreshments, the two talks and a voucher for a cup of tea or coffee