Aldeburgh Summer Theatre

Noel Coward’s

BLITHE SPIRIT

Blithe Spirit sold more tickets in the West End than any other Coward play. It has the caustic wit of Private Lives, the featherlight touch of Hay Fever and its unique additional ingredient – at least one ghost.
This traditional production formed the cornerstone of the very first Jill Freud season, with daughter Emma playing the maid.
In a new, spring-heeled and razor-sharp production, directed by award-winning Director Phil Clark, classic will join hands with modern to tell this tale of: One Man – Two Wives.

Tuesday 23 July – Saturday 27 July 

Tuesday 30 July – Saturday 3 August

Tuesday 27 August – Saturday 31 August

Matinées Thursdays and Saturdays at 5pm

Evening shows Tuesday – Saturday at 8 or 8.15pm

Tickets available from the Aldeburgh Summer Theatre box office HERE

To find out more about the summer programme for 2019

please visit

www.southwoldandaldeburghtheatre.co.uk

or telephone 07771 593218

Aldeburgh Summer Theatre

THE JUNGLE BOOK

Adapted by Tracey Power from the novel by Rudyard Kipling

A lively, youthful version of the classic, with all your favourite characters.  Messages about the importance of family and friends and respecting difference emerge effortlessly in this lush introduction into the way of the Jungle.

Saturday 27 July  11am

Saturday 3 August  11am

Saturday 10 August  11am

Saturday 17 August 11am

Sunday 25 August 3pm*

Saturday 31 August 11am

*A very special signed and relaxed performance which will take into account the needs of those who may have some anxiety about coming into an unfamiliar place.  Everyone is welcome.

Tickets available from the Aldeburgh Summer Theatre box office HERE

To find out more about the summer programme for 2019

please visit

www.southwoldandaldeburghtheatre.co.uk

or telephone 07771 593218

Aldeburgh Summer Theatre

Simon Brett’s

MURDER IN PLAY

Simon Brett’s hilarious comedy-thriller, a worthy companion to his Charles Paris novels, ruthlessly satirises an inept theatre company – and the numerous red herrings will keep you guessing until the final moments of the play. Anyone who has enjoyed the Charles Paris series on BBC Radio 4, starring Bill Nighy, will love Murder in Play. As funny as Noises Off, with the plot of a classic Agatha-style Murder Mystery.

Tuesday 13 August – Wednesday 14 August   

Friday 16 August – Saturday 17 August

Tuesday 20 August – Saturday 24 August

Matinées Thursdays and Saturdays at 5pm

Evening shows Tuesday – Saturday at 8 or 8.15pm

Tickets available from the Aldeburgh Summer Theatre box office HERE

To find out more about the summer programme for 2019

please visit

www.southwoldandaldeburghtheatre.co.uk

or telephone 07771 593218

Songs of the greatest band ever

The band has played all over the world, as well as extensively throughout the United Kingdom.  A night of non-stop hit after hit awaits you.  The fabulous show has been played before royalty, members of parliament and stars of stage and screen, in theatres and at parties.

With exact replica instruments and costumes, IMAGINE … THE BEATLES will take you on a fab journey from the early ‘Cavern’ days, through ‘Beatlemania’ and onto ‘Abbey Road’, calling at ‘Penny Lane’ en route.

This is one ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ you won’t want to miss.

A fitting sequel to the tributes in the Jubilee Hall to Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen and Barbra Streisand last autumn and to Dudley Moore in March of this year.

Doors open from 7pm

Performance starts at 8pm

Tickets: £18, Under 14 £15

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall box office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884.

During the Festival, the Festival Hub and Box Office are at :

Fishers Gin Distillery, Beach Lodge, Crag Path, Aldeburgh IP15 5BT

Reg Meuross

presents

12 Silk Handkerchiefs

A song cycle of folk music from Reg Meuross’s 13th album

Reg Meuross’s moving work of social and political history, inspired by Brian W Lavery’s book ‘The Headscarf Revolutionaries’, opens a window on Hull’s Hessle Road fishing community and fighting fishwife Lilian Billoca’s successful campaign for improved trawler safety in the aftermath of the 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster.

Joined on stage by Hull musicians, Mick McGarry and Sam Martyn, Reg’s powerful songs are interwoven with narration from Brian W Lavery and rare archive footage from the time the ships went down.

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

‘Meuross has achieved something rare and important… and he has done so with great sincerity and emotional depths’  Folk Radio UK

‘Powerful and moving songwriting’  The Telegraph

Doors open at 7pm

Performance starts at 7.30pm

Performance ends at 9.30pm

Tickets: £12.00

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall Box Office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884.

JUBILEE HALL ENSEMBLE

PART OF THE 2019 JUBILEE HALL ENSEMBLE SERIES

This performance brings together chamber music from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

Mozart’s concerto-like Flute Quartet in D major opens the programme, followed by Britten’s Three Divertimenti for String Quartet – three character pieces intended as ‘pleasing entertainment’. To finish is Schubert’s final chamber work, his sublime String Quintet in C, scored for standard string quartet plus cello.

Programme

Mozart            Flute Quartet in D major K285

Britten            Three Divertimenti for String Quartet

Interval

Schubert          String Quintet in C D956

Flute: Duke Dobing

Violin: Kenneth Sillito, Rebecca Scott-Smissen

Viola: Robert Smissen

Cello: Stephen Orton, Michael Hurwitz

Further concerts in this series take place on 18 July and 28 November 2019

Doors open at 6.30pm

Performance starts at 7pm

Tickets: £15 for each concert

or £40 for bookings including one ticket for each of the three concerts in the series (equivalent to a discount of £1.67 per ticket which is also applied to bookings of more than three tickets covering each performance)

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall box office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884

GEORGE EGG: Movable Feast

Brand new comedy from the stand-up who cooks on stage. In this show he’s on the road. It’s time for Planes, Trains and Automob-meals (sorry).

George demonstrates how to cook with an engine, procure items from the train buffet trolley and turn unexpected road-works into a picnic. Three plates of gourmet food cooked live in the most unconventional ways and with the opportunity to taste the results at the end, provided you can stop laughing.

“Brilliantly funny” (Jay Rayner – Guardian)

“Trust us, you won’t believe how good the food tastes” (Scotsman)

Doors open from 7pm

Performance starts at 8pm

Tickets: £14

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall box office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884.

THE JIM MULLEN ORGAN TRIO

Glasgow born Jim Mullen has his own distinctive playing style, similar to Wes Montgomery before him. He played with the Average White Band for several years before joining up with Dick Morrissey in the 1980s, finding considerable critical acclaim as joint leader of the pioneering British jazz funk band Morrissey-Mullen. Jim has won the ‘best guitar’ section in the British Jazz Awards many times, and is without doubt one of the finest jazz guitarists in the world today.

Completing the band are organist Jim Watson, who has worked with Sting, Guy Barker, the BBC Big Band and Katie Melua amongst others and George Double on drums, former sideman to Dame Shirley Bassey and Grammy Award Winner Jack Jones. Performing a set of standards and originals, you can expect a hard swinging evening of melodic, blues influenced, classic jazz.

“Mullen’s mix of funkily hard-struck notes and soft-toned fluency is always hypnotic” – The Guardian

Friday 11 October 2019 at 7.30pm

Doors open 6.30pm

Tickets £16

Seating at tables on the flat

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall Booking Office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884.

COMMON GROUND THEATRE COMPANY

present

A SIDECAR NAMED DESPAIR

A farce by Pat Whymark and Julian Harries

Take a ride up the comedy freeway with a tale of mobsters, missing gems and a mashed-up motorbike.

Dick’s quiet suburban life is shattered when his brother Julian returns suddenly from The States, for “health” reasons. But his shady American “associates” have unfinished business with him, putting both their health at risk. Their Dad’s old bike and sidecar, which Dick has been “doing up”, might come in handy as their getaway vehicle.

A black comedy with original music by Pat Whymark and Julian Harries and starring Julian and Dick Mainwaring – reprising the characters they created for Common Ground’s 2013 comedy, Stuff In The Attic (“Pat Whymark’s latest play is very funny indeed” East Anglian Daily Times, “Good music and plenty of well-judged comic touches” In Suffolk, “Moments of pure farce alternate with real conflict” What’s on Stage). Expect “The Odd Couple” versus the Mob.

Common Ground have since 2008 been bringing their distinctive brand of music theatre – with strong narrative, strong emotion and just a touch of the surreal – to venues across East Anglia.

Doors open from 7pm

Performance starts at 7.30pm

Performance ends at 9.30pm

Tickets: £12 full price  21 and under, and unwaged £7 (evidence may be required)

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall box office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884

Keith James – The Music of Yusuf-Cat Stevens

The amassed body of music from this hugely popular and sincerely adored singer/songwriter made for a collection of ‘must have’ records across a whole generation. Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat were on everyone’s turntables and on every radio station. Live versions are played in concerts, bars and on the world’s beaches to this day. Songs such as Wild World, Father and Son, Moonshadow and Where Do the Children Play? have been covered by hundreds of artists worldwide.

Keith James, is a well-respected and inventive guitarist singer/songwriter who specialises in performing intimate, carefully researched biographic style concerts. He weaves the story of Cat Stevens’s life from his early pop career, life threatening illness and spiritual journey around a performance of his well- crafted and memorable songs.

This concert will give you far more than just the music itself…

There is a huge amount of insight into the history and the spirit of Cat Stevens; his early pop career, the illness that changed him existentially and spiritually into an incredibly thoughtful and loving singer/songwriter such that his songs are remembered instantly for their uplifting sense of truth, promise and human fragility. 

Much to talk about the background and embryo of each song…… some of which will be performed as all of us remember……

and some, carefully and intuitively re-voiced, respectfully re-interpreted with rich, balanced guitar arrangements and a more personal vocal approach.

Yusuf campaigns on many educational and humanitarian issues. He was awarded the ‘Man of Peace’ award by the Nobel Peace Laureates in 2015 and he received the Lifetime achievement award from BBC Radio 2 and the Ivor Novello Award for outstanding song collection. He has received two honorary doctorates and awards for promoting peace from two organisations founded by Mikhail Gorbachev. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.

‘Some of the most atmospheric and emotive music you will ever hear’ The Independent

‘Keith James has become a pillar of trust. A sublimely intimate and engaging voice’ Sunday Times

‘Certainly the UK’s most celebrated and evocative interpreter of golden music’ The Guardian

‘A sensitive and pleasingly understated delivery, that the songs might all the better speak for themselves’ Acoustic Magazine

Friday 1 November 2019 at 7.30pm

Doors open 7pm

Tickets £15

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall Booking Office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884

JUBILEE HALL ENSEMBLE

PART OF THE 2019 JUBILEE HALL ENSEMBLE SERIES

Mainly French

The final performance of the Series, this programme explores chamber music by Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Debussy and Roussel.

The last of Mozart’s three flute quartets, written in C major, is coupled with Saint-Saëns’ single-movement Fantaisie for violin and harp, a virtuoso piece for both players in the first half. After the interval, Debussy’s Sonata for flute, viola and harp, written as part of a set of chamber works for ‘diverse ensembles’ is followed by Roussel’s ‘mini symphony’, his Sérénade for flute, violin, viola, cello and harp.

Flute: Duke Dobing

Violin: Kenneth Sillito

Viola: Robert Smissen

Cello: Michael Hurwitz

Harp: Miriam Keogh

Further concerts in this series take place on 18 July and 26 September 2019

Doors open at 6.30pm

Performance starts at 7pm

Tickets: £15 for each concert

or £40 for bookings including one ticket for each of the three concerts in the series (equivalent to a discount of £1.67 per ticket which is also applied to bookings of more than three tickets covering each performance)

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall box office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884

COMMON GROUND THEATRE COMPANY

present

SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE WARLOCK OF WHITECHAPEL

by

Pat Whymark & Julian Harries

Wednesday 1st, Thursday 2nd January – 4pm and 7.30pm

Friday 3rd January – 4pm

 “A glorious piece of Christmas fun” (Andrew Clark, EADT review of Justin & The Argonauts)

“Who’d be interested in this old relic, Holmes?” murmured Watson, one morning at the breakfast table of 221b Baker Street. “Nonsense, Watson. A splash of cologne and a trim of your moustache, and I’m sure someone would have you”. “Be serious, Holmes. Look here – in the Morning Post!”

Thus began the case that Dr Watson dared not share with the public, till now. A case that, were its full facts to be known, would shake the nation to its very core, and beyond.

Ancient artefacts are disappearing from museums and private collections all over Europe, a pre-Christian effigy one day, a shamanic totem the next, a pagan fetish at the weekend. Either someone’s on their own personal antiques road trip, or they’re trying to summon dark forces and gain mystical powers. But to what end…and why?

The ensuing adventure takes Holmes and Watson from the wharfs and alleys of East London, to the icy wastes of the north and the hidden temples of the east (changing at Peterborough), as they pursue “The Warlock of Whitechapel”.

Julian Harries and Dick Mainwaring once again don the deerstalker, plus fours and travelling capes of Holmes and Watson, and are joined by Common Ground regulars Joe Leat & Emily Bennett in this classic Xmas comedy thriller.

Ticket Prices – full: £13   21 and under, and unwaged: £7 (evidence may be required)

Running time 2 hours (incl. interval)

Doors open half an hour before the performance

Suitable for ages 8+

Tickets available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall Box Office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884