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A Lyrical Dance Concert
A lyrical Dance Concert is a gig where the lead performers are dancers, not singers. Through investigating language and movement the show celebrates pop music and reclaims its power to really say something.
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“Gillie Kleiman's work involves a sublime combination of aesthetics, thorough technical expertise and up-to the-minute social and political nous. Her reflections make her audience laugh and gasp with self-revelations at the same time. She's a delight.”Francis Alexander, Director, Chelsea Theatre
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The Gramophones Theatre Company
End to End
Three women share the heartwarming and upliftng story of their unusual journey from Lands End to John O’Groats. Trusting only to their resourcefulness and the kindness of strangers, they travelled on as many varieties of transport as possible.
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“With wings wrought of wanderlust this show soars. A heartfelt love letter to the ineffable spirit of adventure”(Fringe Biscuit)
Forest Forge
Free Folk
This production about modern rural life will resonate with rural audiences throughout the UK. A beautifully written drama that is both poignant and witty, five characters are bought together for one night and made to face their live choices and future changes.
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With the aid of back projection, quite superb acting and a script that continually plays on your emotions, this is an unexpected gem. THE STAGE ON FREE FOLK 2010
Hard Graft Theatre Co. Ltd.
I Heart Northants
It's the night before the runner up from pop idol; Darren Dawes is about to officially open the charity shop, but the discovery of a gun, a ski mask and a stack of fifty pound notes throws a spanner in the works
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"Well-observed comedy piece with fantastic characterisation and equally remarkable delivery. The script is refreshingly simple and unassuming and is all the better for not trying to be something it's not. Basically, Hard Graft have found an interesting, down-to-earth niche and filled it perfectly". Richard Biggs
Keith James
Keith James in Concert
Keith sings and play various acoustic guitars, specialising in music of particular artistic interest and poetic significance the entire content of which, he has researched over a considerable period of his life. He has played over 1000 of these concerts across the UK. Each of these different shows also include a well thought out narrative.
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"Musicians brave enough to make the music they really believe in. Keith James is one of these" - Bob Harris BBC Radio 2
Francesca Millican-Slater
Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs
Part detective noir, part lecture, part personal biography, Francesca investigates the message on a postcard sent 100 years ago and finds herself obsessed by the life of the woman that received it. What happens when she starts tracing a history that isn’t her own?
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"On a stage that slowly becomes encircled with maps, photographs and marriage certificates, Millican-Slater traces a history of early deaths, orphanages and suffragette protests, creating a capsule of Edwardian London. She ends with a quiet surprise which would be unjust to reveal" - The Observer
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Grant and Pynn
Nick Pynn and Kate Daisy Grant
Nick Pynn and Kate Daisy Grant present their multi-award-winning, 5* star rated music shows featuring Nick's instrumental avant-folk masterpieces, and Kate's emotive, quirky pop songs played on an array of toy, folk and homemade instruments.
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‘Consistently the best thing I see in the Fringe’ Stewart Lee, Comedian
Rhubarb Theatre
Paper Wings
Full of colour, music, creativity and imagination, PAPER WINGS takes the audience on a rollercoaster of emotions. Prepare for joy and sadness, laughter and tears & surprises around every corner.
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"Inventive, fast-moving, lots of infectious giggles" - THE STAGE Review, Riverhead Theatre, Lincs - Mr Blue Sky
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Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre
Peter and the Wolf
One of their most successful touring shows ever - a wonderful, rich story from Scottish theatre company Clydebuilt. Follow the adventures of Peter’s visit to his grandfather’s cottage at the edge of The Great Forest.
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"Peter and The Wolf is clever and colourful and performed to a great musical soundtrack. A lovely, lovely show." - Esther Hingle, Highlights Rural Scheme.
Strange Face
Pinocchio
The madcap scrapes of the original puppet in a pickle! 5 performers, half masks, puppetry and new music played live.
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A cracking cracking show! Audience really lapped it up and even the little ones in the audience sat perfectly still throughout. Do not ever think twice about it, just pick up the phone and say yes to welcoming them into your theatre...” - Keir Waugh, Marketing Officer, The Customs House, South Shields
Jo Blake Cave and Jo Bell
Riverlands
Riverlands is a newly commissioned spoken-word performance from Northampton based Jo Blake Cave and Jo Bell. The performers speak, rhyme and move through extraordinary interweaving narratives, where foxes and kingfishers speak for the river Nene in a mesmerising mixture of story, poem, mythology and history.
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"A performance that captured the landscape I love perfectly." (Jo Blake Cave's The Smiling Fox)
Theatre of Widdershins
Rumpelstiltskin
Poor Polly Buckwheat, the Miller’s daughter, is in a bit of a pickle! If she doesn’t turn a roomful of straw into gold by morning, the greedy King will turn a bit nasty. But should she accept the kind help of an eccentric dwarf who mysteriously appears in her prison cell?
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"The show is pure magic; funny and entrancing from start to finish" ***** - Fringe Review (Arabian Nights)
The Opera Dudes
Russian Around the UK
You see them here, you see them there, those Opera Dudes are everywhere! With new songs, ridiculous sketches and a couple of imitation Cossack hats, the unpredictable and hilarious Opera Dudes take their brand new 2012 show to every corner of the land.
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"It was great to see old and young alike laughing out loud and really enjoying themselves. Great entertainment, great singing"
Kepow Theatre Company
Seven Ages
Seven Ages is an improvised comedy theatre show that explores the idea that we go through seven stages in life - from infancy, love and wisdom to growing old disgracefully!
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'Tomlinson reminds me of a young Robin Williams due to the electricity and enthusiasm he exudes. Definitely one of the most enjoyable, feel-good shows around!' - Paramount Comedy Channel *****
Opera Dudes
Swing Song Merrily On High
The Opera Dudes Christmas Special. Il Divo meets Morcambe & Wise in this festive fun-packed frolic! A show full of seasonal cheer with something for everyone - wonderful singing, audience participation and ridiculous sketches. Yule be laughing till your sides hurt, enchanted by the wonderful music and not a turkey in sight.
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"It was great to see old and young alike laughing out loud and really enjoying themselves. Great entertainment, great singing"
Pennyless
Tales From The Tulgey Wood
Sparkling fiddle, flute and guitar playing a jiggety mix of traditional tunes and original songs. Pennyless take you from Old England, through Ireland and over to America, and sing of life in the fens and woodlands of East England.
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"The unifying thread here is the blend of distinctive male and female voices, reminiscent of classic 70's acid folk...There is something nicely understated about Pennyless, with flute and fiddle threading like sunlight through long grass, and weaving a fine but substantial mesh to support the songs." R2 magazine issue 24 Nov Dec 2012
Opera Dudes
The Codfathers of Croon
They've been practising their scales, studying their "tuna day" books, put their heart and sole into preparations and now the Opera Dudes are ready to give you a whale of a time! Don't miss this unique entertainment!
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"It was great to see old and young alike laughing out loud and really enjoying themselves. Great entertainment, great singing"
The David Gordon Trio
The David Gordon Trio Speaks Latin!
The David Gordon Trio invites you to discover that there’s more to Latin American jazz than salsa and bossa nova. Entrancing melodies, jazz piano 'standards,' milonga, zamba, rhumba - a spicy feast of jazz and Latin music performed with style and humour.
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‘David Gordon has the wonderful ability to make piano notes glisten like jewelled drops of water’ - John Etheridge, Musician Magazine
Adverse Camber Productions
The Kingdom of the Heart
Join a restless king, a talking horse, the woman from the apple orchard and the youngest son of twelve on an unforgettable journey, towards The Kingdom of the Heart.
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"Audience members told me ‘it was wonderful’, ’the best event at the Festival this year’ and that I was ‘so right to have booked them’. An excellent result! Artistically the piece is extremely strong - beautiful performance and haunting music." - Rachel Feldberg, Ilkley Literature Festival on Hunting the Giant’s Daughter
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Nottingham Playhouse
The Second Minute
Based on research into the letter collection from the archive of the Sherwood Foresters regiment this simply staged, poignant and uplifting new show weaves together heroic, comic, and heartbreaking tales of soldiers and families through their own words.
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‘… amazing; an absolute gem, a fabulous show, beautifully conceived, brilliantly played, enchantingly and cleverly written and produced… The audience was completely touched and moved by this incredibly special experience.’ Sue Roberts, Artservice Director (rural touring promotion) on The Story Traders of Sichuan; a collaboration between East Midlands theatre makers and members of the Sichuan Opera Troupe of Chengdu; written by Andy Barrett.
Garlic Theatre
There's A Monster in My Piano
Garlic Theatre delight children and adults with this offbeat jazzy tale. A piano doctor hears a strange munching noise when he looks inside a piano and discovers a musical world within.Starring puppets, clowning, animation and a very highly strung monster indeed.
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Iklooshar, with her solid grounding and gift for bringing stories - and puppets - to life, does it with consummate ease, thus ensuring yet another generation will hopefully continue to enjoy the magic of theatre. Maidenhead Advertiser March 2012
KSP
Twelve Miles from Nowhere
Emily and Michael live with their father on an isolated farm. What they want is to go back, or go forward. Either will do but they’re stuck in this God-awful place….that is until Craig turns up with enough charm to bring the birds from the trees and the sheep from the fields.
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'a powerful, thought provoking drama that never patronises or preaches and finds a perfect balance between hard-hitting drama and comedy' The Public Reviews 5 stars
Fol Espoir
Winston on the Run
It’s 1899 and escaped prisoner-of-war Winston Churchill is a fiendish spot of bother: lost in the African savannah, wanted ‘Dead or Alive’ and hounded by the scathing words of his dead father. Experience the coming-of-age of Britain's greatest hero in this gripping true story of adventure, audacity and Imperial folly.
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"A gem of new writing" ***** - Three Weeks -
Yvonne Bloor - Guitar
Yvonne Bloor: Guitar Romance
An evening of relaxing and melodic music with well loved pieces from films, shows and the classical guitar repertoire. Including works by J.S. Bach, Isaac albeniz and Yocho as well as original pieces.
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"Stunning technical mastery, perfectly executed phrasing, every note was clear, every note sang. Yvonne’s technique coped just as effortlessly with songs from the musicals as it did with the most demanding contemporary classical pieces." Houghton News – July 2011
