April update

Theatre Group

Contact Chris Farleigh 8086 2882 to book your ticket

Group meeting at 16 Greenfields Ave 2.45pm 6^th May

Nuffield Theatre Tonight at 8.30pm 9 one-act plays by Noel Coward

Saturday 10^th 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 16^th 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 5^th 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 17^th 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 11^th December 3pm Tickets £17.50 plus travel

AWAYDAYS

Guided Tour of the Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey

Monday May 19^th 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 14^h 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 3^rd – 6^th Nov or 7^th – 10^th Nov

A grade rooms £216, B grade rooms £196pp before discounts.

All Year Sport, Craft, Leisure & Spa Breaks - Whatever the Weather!

The Manor House and Ashbury hotels are situated on the foothills of the Dartmoor National Park in West Devon. Set in over 600 acres of beautiful countryside, we believe the hotels have the highest level of facilities in the UK. With all our breaks exclusively FULL BOARD you are guaranteed great value.

Golf is included FREE on 99 holes, giving the option of 7 eighteen hole golf courses which vary in length from Kigbeare at 6528 yards Par 72 to the Willows Par3 course at 1939 yards.

Some of the other facilities available FREE of charge to all residents include 5 indoor and 5 outdoor tennis courts, 13 indoor bowls rinks, 8 badminton courts, 5 table tennis tables, curling, 3 swimming pools with spa facilities, 10 lanes of 10 pin bowling, 28 snooker tables, and 5 target ranges featuring archery, air pistols and air rifles. Guided walks across the moors, water slides include 2 mini-slides, 2 midi-slides and 4 flume slides - perfect for the whole family to enjoy!

Theatre Group

Contact Chris Farleigh 8086 2882 to book your ticket

6 members had the privilege of seeing Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks at Salisbury Playhouse

If you haven’t read the book you should. This performance had all the passion, anger, drama, intensity, shock and horror and the beauty of the book, we all came out feeling almost shell-shocked, There wasn’t a weak performance among the 12-strong cast who gave us a stunning and emotional piece of theatre - a very memorable evening.

Hanger Farm Arts Centre ShooShoo Baby presents Off The Scale

Thursday 20^th March 7.30pm Special Offer Tickets through U3A £8.00

The effortlessly funny duo have toured the UK extensively and have earned themselves a reputation for excellent singing and musicianship.  Off the Scale includes witty new arrangements of well-known songs by an eclectic cast of composers such as Irving Berlin, John Denver, Verdi & Elvis Costello, alongside original music. "What sets ShooShooBaby apart is their musical wit and superb harmony... Tight, clever & totally enjoyable.

Mayflower Theatre  Hot Flush – The Naughtiest Musical in Town – starring Lesley Joseph Sunday 23^rd March 7.30pm

Book before midnight on Wed 13 March and pay just £15.00 per ticket!* That's a saving of £7.00 on each ticket! Simply quote FLASH1239 when booking.

Meet Myra, Sylvia, Helen and Jessica in this hilarious show.  Share in the friendships, the secrets, the tears, the laughs and ups and downs of four ordinary women – and one man – living extraordinary lives.   A successful barrister, specialising in divorce, Myra had always considered herself a together sort of person. That is, until she began to develop the symptoms of you know what... and her rat of a husband left her for a big blonde bimbo from his office.   Jessica’s husband has worked hard and made lots of money and they both enjoy the finer things in life. Her life seemed perfect until her mid-life crisis began but she’s coping with the help of her friends and the vicar. She just wishes that the vicar could explain why when God made man he didn’t try a little harder?    Sylvia has been married to Joe since she was twenty... and has been bored with him since she was twenty-one. She’s now decided that life is for living and she’s making up for lost time.   Helen, a widow, whose only daughter has left for university, is feeling a bit lonely. Helen tries to take one day at a time; it’s just that sometimes, several days attack her at once.

More fun than joining a gym and cheaper than botox, Hot Flush! might even leave you feeling 34½ again! So wipe away the credit crunch blues and grab your girlfriends together for an unmissable night at the theatre and bring your man along as well, you'll all love it.

Hanger Farm Arts Centre Totton Festival of Drama

Wednesday 24^th – 29^th March 7.00pm Tickets £7.50

Programme:

Wednesday Sense and Sensibleness - Bench Theatre Co, Bang Out of Order – Junior Oasis Youth Theatre

Thursday The Challenge – Bench Theatre, The 13^th Floor – Maskers Theatre

Friday Odd – Bishopstoke Players, Grotto – Bench Theatre, Pride at Southanger Farm – Soton University Players

Saturday The Zoo Story – Maskers Theatre, Pub Quiz of the Sexes – Soton University Players,

The Michael Collins Moment - Nuffield Youth Theatre

Nuffield Theatre Tonight at 8.30pm 9 one-act plays by Noel Coward

Saturday 10^th 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 16^th 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 5^th 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 17^th 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 11^th December 3pm

Tickets £20 plus travel

Totton U3A Theatre

Two shows people have shown an interest in. Please let me know if you are interested and we can organise group bookings

Chris Farleigh 02380862882

Johann Strauss Gala: The Johann Strauss Orchestra,

The Johann Strauss Dancers

present

A Viennese Party

at The Bournemouth Pavilion

Thursday 28^th January 2014 7.30pm Tickets £26.60

Waltz back in time to the glittering ballrooms of 19th Century Vienna with an enchanting mix of music, song and dance from the Strauss Family and Friends. David Juritz will direct from the violin in the traditional Viennese manner and the Johann Strauss Orchestra will be joined by the Johann Strauss Dancers in glorious period costume.
Starring Johann Strauss Dancers and The Johann Strauss Orchestra and the irrepressible showman and conductor, RAINER HERSCH.

Tritsch Tratsch Polka
The Blue Danube Waltz
Radetzky March
Wiener Blut
Thunder and Lightning Polka
Pizzicato Polka
Perpetuum Mobile
The Laughing Song from Die Fledermaus
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Southampton Operatic Society present

Jesus Christ Superstar

7.30pm at Nuffield Theatre 31^st January 2014

Tickets £12.00 cons

Jesus Christ Superstar is an enthralling and impassioned Rock Opera based loosely on events leading up to the Crucifixion and features some of the most critically acclaimed music and lyrics ever set for the stage.

This innovative production has something for everyone. Prepare to be rocked, right through to your soul! 

November update

Theatre Group

Contact Chris Farleigh 8086 2882 to book your ticket

Salisbury Playhouse The Recruiting Officer

Tuesday 19^th November 7.30pm Tickets £17

The dashing Captain Plume has arrived in Shrewsbury to enlist the local men into the King’s army using every trick in the book. He’s also got his eye on the heiress Sylvia – but will he and the other men realise that the women are doing some recruiting of their own? Heavens!

From swashbuckling soldiers to sexual exploits, The Recruiting Officer is a raucous and wonderfully English comedy of bawdiness, bed-hopping and meddling servants.

The Plaza Romsey When We Are Married

Friday 22nd November 7.30pm Tickets £10

This famous 1938 farce begins when a group of old friends, all married on the same day in the same chapel, gather to celebrate their silver anniversary. When they discover they are not legally married, they react with true Victorian horror - but then all three couples start thinking.........

Royal Albert Hall John Rutters Christmas Concert

Thursday December 12^th 3pm Upper Choir Seats Coach & Tickets £29.60

Coach leaving Totton 9.15am returning to Totton approx 8.30pm

Payment now required. 2 seats left

The Salberg – Salisbury Playhouse London Calling

Thursday 9^th January 3pm Tickets £17.00

A musical journey through the streets of London

Piccadilly Circus, The East End, The West End, Carnaby Street, The Thames, a London bus… each one evokes something about our capital city.

London Calling is an affectionate celebration of the city in all its guises. From the stillness of dawn, to the excesses of its nightlife – the sights and sounds, style and romance – all told through words and music.

A catalogue of songs spans the decades, from Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner, and Noël Coward’s London Pride, to Flanders and Swann’s Transport of Delight and The Kinks’ Waterloo Sunset.

Hanger Farm Arts Centre Anne of Green Gables Forest Forge Theatre
Monday 20^th January 7.30pm Tickets £10.00

Join Anne and a host of memorable characters in a story about family, friendship and the fun of childhood

Away Days

Imperial War Museum- First World War Exhibition

Monday 7^th July

Approx cost including coach £15.00

Theatre Group

Contact Chris Farleigh 8086 2882 to book your ticket

Salisbury Playhouse On Golden Pond

Tuesday 17^th September 7.30pm Tickets £12

Norman and Ethel are spending the summer in their cabin on the shore of Golden Pond, something they have done for more than forty years. This year, their daughter is visiting them with her new fiancé and his teenage son. As Norman forms a grandfatherly bond with the boy, he also begins to re-evaluate his troubled relationship with his own daughter.
This is a witty and warm story about family and living life to the full.

Salisbury Studio Theatre Jamaica Inn

Thursday 10^th October 7.30pm Tickets £8.00

A dramatic reinterpretation of Daphne du Maurier's classic swashbuckling tale of Jamaica Inn. The play follows the fortunes of newly orphaned Mary Yellan, who arrives by carriage at Jamaica Inn, hoping to find solace with her Aunt Patience. She soon comes into contact with landlord Joss Merlyn and his thieving younger brother, Jem. From there, du Maurier's gothic tale of love and loss unfolds.

Sarah Siddons Street Theatre

There’s Something Rotten in the Town of Hampton

31^st Oct & 1^st November 7pm & 9pm Tickets £5.00

A promenade performance starting from Holyrood Church

Vernon Theatre Lyndhurst The Diary of Anne Frank

Thursday 31^st Oct – Saturday 9^th of October 7.45pm Tickets £8.00

Anne Frank's diary is considered one of the most enduring testaments of the Second World War. The story concerns the lives of a Jewish family hiding from the German occupying forces in war-torn Amsterdam. To escape the horrors of Nazi persecution, Otto Frank hides with his wife and two daughters in attic rooms above an Amsterdam warehouse for two years. Also hiding with the Franks are four other people - the Van Daans, their son Peter, and a dentist, Mr Du...ssel. In her diary Anne recorded an account of the trials and tribulations of the people around her, all trying to live a normal life in cramped attic accommodation, whilst under the constant threat of discovery by the Gestapo.

Salisbury Playhouse The Recruiting Officer

Tuesday 19^th November 7.30pm Tickets £14

The dashing Captain Plume has arrived in Shrewsbury to enlist the local men into the King’s army using every trick in the book. He’s also got his eye on the heiress Sylvia – but will he and the other men realise that the women are doing some recruiting of their own? Heavens!

From swashbuckling soldiers to sexual exploits, The Recruiting Officer is a raucous and wonderfully English comedy of bawdiness, bed-hopping and meddling servants.

Royal Albert Hall John Rutters Christmas Concert

Thursday December 12^th 3pm Upper Choir Seats Coach & Tickets £29.60

Coach leaving Totton 9.15am returning to Totton approx 8.30pm

Payment now required. All seats booked

Hanger Farm Arts Centre Anne of Green Gables Forest Forge Theatre
Monday 20^th January 7.30pm Tickets £10.00

Join Anne and a host of memorable characters in a story about family, friendship and the fun of childhood

Away Days

Mary Rose Museum & Portsmouth Historic Dockyards

10.45am Monday 7^th October Tickets £17.60 plus travel

Warrior, Victory and Harbour Tour included

Questers

A Guided Walk around Southampton’s Historical Vaults

10.30am Thursday 19^th September

Starting 10.30am at Holyrood Church, High Street Cost £5.00

A Heritage walk, covering the history of the vaults

ANYONE FANCY A FEW DAYS AT THE MANOR HOUSE HOTEL, OAKHAMPTON, DEVON In October 2014

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. .Check out their web site www.manorhousehotel.co.uk/

March update

Theatre Group

Julie Horsman 80862704 & Chris Farleigh 8086 2882

Forthcoming Theatre Visits

Totton Festival of Drama Hanger Farm Arts Centre

Wednesday – Saturday 20^th – 23^rd March 7pm Tickets £7.50/£6.50 students

Programme – correct on 13^th March

Thursday 21st March
C.A.T.S. Youth Theatre Tomorrow I'll Be Happy by Jonathan Harvey

Maskers Theatre ‘Forward To The Right’ by Lily Ann Green
REACT 32 Angels by the cast
Friday 22nd March
Southampton University Players In Room Five Hundred and Four by Jimmy Chinn
Oasis Youth Theatre ‘Too Much Punch For Judy’ by Mark Wheeller
Bench Theatre Company In the Shadow of the Glen by J. M Synge
Saturday 23rd March
Bench Theatre Company ‘Pub Quiz of the Sexes’ by Mark Wakeman
Performing Arts Company Teechers by John Godber
Adjudications each evening by professional adjudicator John Scowen

Box Office (023) 80 667 683 is open: Mon-Fri 10am-3pm, Sat 10am-1pm, Sun: CLOSED

Cider With Rosie Salisbury Playhouse

Tuesday 9^th April 7.30. Tickets £15.00

Gloucestershire’s Everyman Theatre presents the classic novel of Cotswold Life

Laurie Lee’s gentle and beautifully touching story recounts the defining moments of his adolescent life, growing up in rural Gloucestershire between the wars. It recalls glorious outings, frozen white winters, long, hot, hazy summers, tyrannical teachers, erratic family life and, of course, that first cider-fuelled encounter.

With the memories of an idyllic but eventful childhood, and a liberal dash of traditional music, you will be transported to Cotswold village life in a not so distant past.

Nuffield Theatre The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

Tuesday 16^th April 7pm Tickets £10

“A lake. A young girl who’s spent her life beside it, loves the lake, is happy and free — like a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her and destroys her.”

A play about unrequited love — a story about how we create stories — and one of the greatest plays of the modern era. In The Seagull, Chekhov explores emotion, creativity and romantic conflict with the clarity of a doctor and the heart of a poet.

Nuffield Theatre The Thirty Nine Steps

Tuesday 14^th May 7.30pm Tickets £18

Direct from the West End comes ‘a joyous version of the Alfred Hitchcock classic’ spy thriller, The 39 Steps, this brilliantly funny show follows the incredible adventures of handsome hero Richard Hannay, complete with stiff-upper-lip, British gung-ho and pencil moustache as he encounters dastardly murders, double crossing secret agents and devastatingly beautiful women.

four fearless actors, play 139 roles in 100 minutes of fast-paced fun and thrilling action.

Royal Albert Hall John Rutters Christmas Concert

Thursday December 12^th 3pm

£5.00 deposit required to reserve seat Tickets £20.00 plus travel

AWAYS DAYS

Blandford Fashion Museum 1pm

Thursday 25^th April £12.00 including a cream tea

Leaving Totton at 12 noon arriving back approx 5.30pm

New Forest Lavender Farm with Cream Tea 1.30pm £5.00

Thursday 20^th June

ANYONE FANCY A FEW DAYS AT

THE MANOR HOUSE HOTEL, OAKHAMPTON, DEVON

10^th – 13^th OCTOBER

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

For 2 people sharing the cost would be £205.00 per person with a discount if paid in full one calendar month before start date. Check out their web site www.manorhousehotel.co.uk/

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Also on offer by the local Churches

A day trip to Wintershaw (near Guildford)

to see a open air promenade performance of

‘The Life Of Christ’

on Saturday June 29^th

Cost including coach £25.

Contact Chris for more details

20th February update

Theatre Group

Julie Horsman 80862704 & Chris Farleigh 8086 2882

Forthcoming Theatre Visits

Joking Apart by Alan Ayckbourn Salisbury Playhouse

Friday 1^st March 7.30. Tickets £12.00

Richard and Anthea are the ideal couple. Charming, generous and successful, they can’t help but attract loyal and loving friends.

Is it possible that being friends with such a golden couple can have its downfalls? Could you actually come to loathe such lovable people, especially when they are so… well… ‘nice’?

Richard, Anthea and their friends repeatedly gather to relax and compete, both on and off the tennis court, as their private agonies emerge to devastating effect.

Played out in the same back garden over a twelve-year period, this painfully funny play explores the unrelenting themes of ageing, jealousy and unrequited love.

Of all his seventy-six plays (so far!), Sir Alan Ayckbourn has frequently said that Joking Apart is one of his favourites.

Totton Festival of Drama Hanger Farm Arts Centre

Wednesday – Saturday 20^th – 23^rd March 7pm Tickets £7.50/£6.50 students

Programme – correct on 16^th Feb

Wednesday 20th March
Bench Theatre Company Mountain Language by Harold Pinter
Nuffield Youth Theatre The Fuhrer Will Now Speak by Josh Whatsize
Maskers Theatre Company Contractions by Mike Bartlett
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Thursday 21st March
C.A.T.S. Youth Theatre Tomorrow I'll Be Happy by Jonathan Harvey
REACT 32 Angels by the cast
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Friday 22nd March
Southampton University Players In Room Five Hundred and Four by Jimmy Chinn
Oasis Youth Theatre Too Much Punch For Judy by Mark Wheeller
Bench Theatre Company In the Shadow of the Glen by J. M Synge
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Saturday 23rd March
Bench Theatre Company Pub Quiz of the Sexes by Mark Wakeman
Performing Arts Company Teechers by John Godber
Adjudications each evening by professional adjudicator John Scowen

Box Office (023) 80 667 683 is open: Mon-Fri 10am-3pm, Sat 10am-1pm, Sun: CLOSED

Cider With Rosie Salisbury Playhouse

Tuesday 9^th April 7.30. Tickets £20.00

Gloucestershire’s Everyman Theatre presents the classic novel of Cotswold Life

Laurie Lee’s gentle and beautifully touching story recounts the defining moments of his adolescent life, growing up in rural Gloucestershire between the wars. It recalls glorious outings, frozen white winters, long, hot, hazy summers, tyrannical teachers, erratic family life and, of course, that first cider-fuelled encounter.

With the memories of an idyllic but eventful childhood, and a liberal dash of traditional music, you will be transported to Cotswold village life in a not so distant past.

Nuffield Theatre

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

Tuesday 16^th April 7pm Tickets £10

“A lake. A young girl who’s spent her life beside it. She loves the lake, she’s happy, she’s free — like a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and destroys her.”

A play about unrequited love — a story about how we create stories — and one of the greatest plays of the modern era. In The Seagull, Chekhov explores emotion, creativity and romantic conflict with the clarity of a doctor and the heart of a poet.

This new version is a co-production between The Nuffield and Headlong, both renowned for their innovative, accessible re-imaginings of classic texts. The Seagull is directed by Blanche McIntyre, recently described by London’s Evening Standard as “a rising star.”

Nuffield Theatre

The Thirty Nine Steps

Tuesday 14^th May 7.30pm Tickets £18

Direct from the West End, Broadway and 25 countries around the globe comes ‘a joyous version of the Alfred Hitchcock classic’ (Sunday Times) spy thriller, The 39 Steps, brilliantly and hilariously recreated as the smash hit Olivier Award Winning Best New Comedy.

This blissfully funny show follows the incredible adventures of our handsome hero Richard Hannay, complete with stiff-upper-lip, British gung-ho and pencil moustache as he encounters dastardly murders, double crossing secret agents, and, of course, devastatingly beautiful women.

This wonderfully inventive and gripping comedy thriller features four fearless actors, playing 139 roles in 100 minutes of fast-paced fun and thrilling action.

Royal Albert Hall John Rutters Christmas Concert

Thursday December 12^th 3pm

£5.00 deposit required to reserve seat Tickets £20.00 plus travel

February 2013

Theatre Group

Julie Horsman 80862704 & Chris Farleigh 8086 2882

Forthcoming Theatre Visits

Joking Apart by Alan Ayckbourn Salisbury Playhouse

Friday 1^st March 7.30. Tickets £12.00

Richard and Anthea are the ideal couple. Charming, generous and successful, they can’t help but attract loyal and loving friends.

Is it possible that being friends with such a golden couple can have its downfalls? Could you actually come to loathe such lovable people, especially when they are so… well… ‘nice’?

Richard, Anthea and their friends repeatedly gather to relax and compete, both on and off the tennis court, as their private agonies emerge to devastating effect.

Played out in the same back garden over a twelve-year period, this painfully funny play explores the unrelenting themes of ageing, jealousy and unrequited love.

Of all his seventy-six plays (so far!), Sir Alan Ayckbourn has frequently said that Joking Apart is one of his favourites.

Totton Festival of Drama Hanger Farm Arts Centre

Wednesday – Saturday 20^th – 23^rd March 7pm Tickets £7.50/£6.50 students

Programme – correct on 16^th Feb

Wednesday 20th March
Bench Theatre Company Mountain Language by Harold Pinter
Nuffield Youth Theatre The Fuhrer Will Now Speak by Josh Whatsize
Maskers Theatre Company Contractions by Mike Bartlett
––––––––––––––
Thursday 21st March
C.A.T.S. Youth Theatre Tomorrow I'll Be Happy by Jonathan Harvey
Maskers Theatre Company Forward to the Right by Lily Ann Green
REACT 32 Angels by the cast
––––––––––––––
Friday 22nd March
Southampton University Players In Room Five Hundred and Four by Jimmy Chinn
Oasis Youth Theatre Too Much Punch For Judy by Mark Wheeller
Bench Theatre Company In the Shadow of the Glen by J. M Synge
––––––––––––––
Saturday 23rd March
Bench Theatre Company Pub Quiz of the Sexes by Mark Wakeman
Performing Arts Company Teechers by John Godber
Adjudications each evening by professional adjudicator John Scowen

Box Office (023) 80 667 683 is open: Mon-Fri 10am-3pm, Sat 10am-1pm, Sun: CLOSED

Nuffield Theatre

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

Tuesday 16^th April 7pm Tickets £10

“A lake. A young girl who’s spent her life beside it. She loves the lake, she’s happy, she’s free — like a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and destroys her.”

A play about unrequited love — a story about how we create stories — and one of the greatest plays of the modern era. In The Seagull, Chekhov explores emotion, creativity and romantic conflict with the clarity of a doctor and the heart of a poet.

This new version is a co-production between The Nuffield and Headlong, both renowned for their innovative, accessible re-imaginings of classic texts. The Seagull is directed by Blanche McIntyre, recently described by London’s Evening Standard as “a rising star.”

Nuffield Theatre

The Thirty Nine Steps

Tuesday 14^th May 7.30pm Tickets £18

Direct from the West End, Broadway and 25 countries around the globe comes ‘a joyous version of the Alfred Hitchcock classic’ (Sunday Times) spy thriller, The 39 Steps, brilliantly and hilariously recreated as the smash hit Olivier Award Winning Best New Comedy.

This blissfully funny show follows the incredible adventures of our handsome hero Richard Hannay, complete with stiff-upper-lip, British gung-ho and pencil moustache as he encounters dastardly murders, double crossing secret agents, and, of course, devastatingly beautiful women.

This wonderfully inventive and gripping comedy thriller features four fearless actors, playing 139 roles in 100 minutes of fast-paced fun and thrilling action.

Royal Albert Hall John Rutters Christmas Concert

Thursday December 12^th 3pm

£5.00 deposit required to reserve seat Tickets £20.00 plus travel

Theatre Group

Julie Horsman 80862704 & Chris Farleigh 8086 2882

Forthcoming Theatre Visits

One Night In Vienna at The Bournemouth Pavilion

Thursday February 7^th 2013 7.30pm Tickets £23.60 plus coach

Timeless music from the masters of the waltz Strauss Tchaikovsky, Lehar and many more.  

Starring Johann Strauss Dancers and The Johann Strauss Orchestra

The irrepressible showman and conductor, RAINER HERSCH takes a whistle stop through a sparkling assortment of music and dance from the most romantic of times. 

Choreographed and directed by Alexandra Worall and featuring sparkling soprano Charlotte Ellett 

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AWAYS DAYS

Tours of

RAF Museum Hendon

Opened in 1972 by Her Majesty the Queen and situated on the historic site of Hendon's London Aerodrome in Colindale, our North London Museum is London’s only attraction to house over 100 aircraft from around the world including some very early aircraft designs through to the latest modern day jets and military aircraft.

With free admission plus free interactive and fun activities, including our 3D Cinema (located in Milestones of Flight) and our emotive and uplifting sound and light show Our Finest Hour (located in our Battle of Britain Hall), our London museum offers an entertaining and educational day out for all the family - just 30 minutes from central London.

Plus BBC Television Studios,Wood Ln 4pm

18^th February £25.00

The coach will leave Totton at 8.30am arriving back approx 8.15pm

Tours of

Sandhurst Military College

Farnborough Air Sciences Trust Museum

Date now the 11^th March cost £27.50

The coach will leave Totton at 9.20am arriving home approx 6pm

Blandford Fashion Museum 2pm

Thursday 25^th April £12.00 including a cream tea

Leaving Totton at 12.45pm arriving back approx 6pm