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

HEIDI REGAN : Heidi Kills Time

Phil McIntyre Entertainments Ltd present a silly, surreal show about time travel, love and time travel. Tired of immature ‘I slept with your mum’ jokes? Come and see more thoughtful comedy like, ‘Heidi, why have you put on weight?’ ‘Whenever I travel back in time, have sex with your great grandparents and accidentally become your ancestor, they give me a cookie’.

2018 Edinburgh Fringe sell-out.

Winner of BBC New Comedy Award and So You Think You’re Funny.

Tour support for Joe Lycett.

Writer for Have I Got news For You, star of The Now Show, The Guilty Feminist Podcast and BBC Three.

Suitable for 16+

Doors open at 7.30pm

Performance starts at 8pm

Tickets: £12

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

PROMETHEUS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

BRITTEN : SINFONIETTA Op. 1

SCHUBERT : OCTET in F major

In the second concert of Prometheus Orchestra’s Chamber Series, members of the string and wind section will join together to delight you with performances of Britten’s Sinfonietta Op.1 and the Schubert Octet in F major.

Doors open at 3.30pm

Performance starts at 4pm

Tickets: Full price £18, under 18 £5

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

Pearls from the Grit

In the early 1900s Lowestoft’s fishing village – known as The Grit – was home to 2,300 people, schools, churches, shops and 13 pubs. Why did it completely disappear and what made the fishing community so special? Mixing stories and poems, film and song, Suffolk writer Dean Parkin and a professional cast bring everything back to life.

Board up all the windows, empty all the houses
dig up all the roads, scatter all the people
turn the place to rubble, but like the sun, we’ll rise…

Meet no-nonsense fisherman, Ned; Billy, a larger-than-life skipper during the fishing boom; and Ruby (Billy’s daughter), one of the tireless taskforce of women keeping everything afloat.

Following an acclaimed pilot tour last autumn, don’t miss this wonderfully evocative and newly-extended show.

Funny, sad and thought-provoking in equal measure.  East Anglian Daily Times

Powerful, thoughtful and elegantly assembled.  Libby Purves, writer and broadcaster

I laughed, I cried, I sang!  Audience member

A wonderful blend of talents, research, ingenuity, nostalgia and fun! Audience member

Presented by Poetry People

Writer/narrator: Dean ParkinComposer/pianist: Maurice Horhut
Cast: Sally-Ann Burnett, Tim FitzHigham, David Redgrave
Producer: Naomi Jaffa
Director: Alys Kihl

Doors open at 7pm

Performance starts at 7.30pm

Tickets:  Full price £12, concessions (U16, unwaged, disabled plus carer)

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 Opera presents:

THE CASKET GIRL

Newly Commissioned Opera for Children

Music by Russell Hepplewhite
Libretto by Helen Eastman

Inspired by the findings of an archaeological dig at Barber’s Point on the River Alde in 2013, the story transports us back to 650AD and the world of a mysterious young Anglo-Saxon woman.

The Children of Jubilee Opera
with
Sofia Troncoso The Casket Girl
Matthew Kellett The Archaeologist
Jubilee Opera Ensemble
Conductor Jack Ridley
Director Susan Moore

Preceded by THE HISTORY EXPRESS
New Song Cycle for Primary School Children

Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall

Friday 22 November 2019   
3pm Schools’ Matinée    6pm Public Performance

Saturday 23 November 2019  
3pm Public Performance    6pm Public Performance

Tickets: £14 (£7 under 16)
available from Snape Maltings box office HERE
Tel: 01728 687110

info@jubileeopera.co.uk

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

A further concert in this series takes place on 26 September 2019

Doors open at 6.30pm

Performance starts at 7pm

Tickets: £15 for each concert

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