So Comedy & Broken Robot Productions present

 RADIO ACTIVE

with

 ANGUS DEAYTON, PHILIP POPE, MICHAEL FENTON STEVENS HELEN ATKINSON WOOD

Angus Deayton (Have I Got News For You, One Foot In The Grave, Nighty Night), Helen Atkinson Wood (Blackadder, The Young Ones, QI),  Michael Fenton Stevens (Benidorm, My Family) and Philip Pope (Who Dares Wins, Chelmsford 123, Only Fools & Horses) reunite to take classic scripts from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 show on the road following a sell-out and critically acclaimed run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.  Among other classic characters expect to catch up with long suffering radio host Mike Channel, original foodie Anna Daptor, and the accident-prone Martin Brown, as well as the cast’s original musical creations, responsible for such parody bands as The Hee Bee Gee Bees and Status Quid.

★★★★ – The Telegraph

★★★★★ – British Theatre Guide

★★★★★ – The Edinburgh Guide

Doors open from 7.30pm

Performance starts at 8pm

Tickets: £20

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 and the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall regret that the performance of The Hound Within The Heart scheduled to take place on 31 May 2019 has been cancelled for reasons of ill-health.

Those who have booked tickets using a credit or debit card will be reimbursed from the TicketSource system by a credit to the card used to make the original purchase.  Those who purchased tickets at the Cinema with cash will be contacted individually.

We are pleased to confirm that Common Ground will be returning to the Jubilee Hall on 24 October 2019 with a performance of A Sidecar named Despair, tickets for which are already on sale from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall website (www.aldeburghjubileehall.co.uk) and at the Aldeburgh Cinema.

Part of Aldeburgh Festival 2019

Tickets: £16 and £10, under 30 half price

Available from Snape Maltings Box Office HERE

snapemaltings.co.uk  01728 687110

Part of Aldeburgh Festival 2019

Tickets: £16 and £10, under 30 half price

Available from Snape Maltings Box Office HERE

snapemaltings.co.uk  01728 687110

Rob Shorland-Ball, former Deputy Head of the National Railway Museum in York, is the author of Minor Railways of East Anglia, an engaging speaker and a born story-teller. His illustrated talk visits Aldeburgh, Southwold, Halesworth, the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, Ramsey – a small village with two stations – Cambridge, Fakenham, Leiston.

Enjoy looking back to an era when steam trains
were a lively part of everyday lives.

Doors open from 3pm – Come early for tea and homemade cakes

Talk starts at 4pm

Talk finishes at approximately 5.30pm

Tickets: £8

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

WORDS, MUSIC AND DRAMA

For ages 9-14

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH JUBILEE OPERA

AND JUBILEE CHILDREN’S CHOIR

Sun 7 July at 1.30pm

5.30pm explore and create

6.30pm public performance

Led by opera singer, actor and director, Susan Moore

Supported by lively musicians, Alastair Chilvers and Mish Kelly

Participants will be inspired to devise their own music, acting and movement

Tickets: £10 on the door

JUBILEE HALL ENSEMBLE

PART OF THE 2019 JUBILEE HALL ENSEMBLE SERIES

Following on from the sextet concert in September last year, this performance features three sextets by Richard Strauss, Bohuslav Martinů and Antonín Dvořák.

Scored for two violins, two violas and two cellos, the sextets perfectly complement one another, bringing together music from Germany and Czechoslovakia from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

A recital not to be missed.

Programme

Strauss               Sextet for Strings from Capriccio

Martinů             Sextet for Strings H.224

Interval

Dvořák               String Sextet in A major, Op. 48

Violin: Kenneth Sillito, Rosemary Furniss

Viola: Robert Smissen, Michael Dolan

Cello: Stephen Orton, Michael Hurwitz

Further concerts in this series will take place on 26 September and 28 November 2019

Doors open at 6.30pm

Performance starts at 7pm

Tickets: £15 for each concert

or £40 for bookings including not less than 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

Broken Robot Productions & So Comedy by arrangement with Troika present

 GRIFF RHYS JONES: ALL OVER THE PLACE – TOUR PREVIEW SHOW

Griff is back and once again all over the place previewing new material for his forthcoming stand-up tour. Following sell out performances of his previous one man entertainments ‘Jones and Smith’ and ‘Where Was I?’ and a hugely acclaimed tour of Australia and New Zealand, it is time to join one half of Smith & Jones, one quarter of Not the Nine O’Clock News and one third of Three Men In a Boat as he presents an evening of hilarious true stories, riffs, observations and details of his recent medical procedures. It’s all guaranteed to be packed with wicked insights into the pains of celebrity, the vicissitudes of parenthood and encounters with the great, the good and even the royal. Yes, Griff is all over the place this year so make sure not to miss him.

‘Great comedy’ **** The Telegraph

‘Very funny’  The Scotsman

‘The jokes come faster than the rapids on the River Tay’  The Guardian

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.

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

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

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.

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 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

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, Under 21 and unwaged £7 (please bring confirmation)

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

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