The Harrogate Theatre and Royal hall has a packed line-up for May 2012.
To book call the Box Office: 01423 502116 or go online: www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk
Thunder Road Theatre Company presents HYDE
Following a sell- out run at Harrogate Theatre Thunder Road return with Hyde.
Combining the Victorian atmosphere of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic thriller with a modern energy, Hyde tells the story of two men united by their past but separated by change.
“Astonishing, I urge you to see it” Manchester Evening News.
Date: Wed 2- Sat 5 May, Time: 7.45pm, Matinee: 2.45pm
Location: Harrogate Studio Theatre, Tickets: £12 (conc. available)
Upbeat Management presents THE LONDON COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR
The London Community Gospel Choir make their Royal Hall debut with an unforgettable evening of gospel greats celebrating their 30th anniversary. This dynamic group have performed at Live8, Glastonbury and on the soundtrack for the Disney smash The Lion King.
Date: Thursday 3 May, Time: 7.30pm
Location: Royal Hall, Harrogate, Tickets: £19 (conc. available)
SCIENCE MUSEUM: LIVE ON TOUR!
Fast, furious and frenetically fun, Science Museum: Live on Tour! will propel you on an exploratory theatrical adventure into the wonderful world of science. Get set for a breathtaking ride that will entertain, inform and inspire!
Date: Fri 4- Sat 5 May, Time: Fri 4: 1.30pm/ Sat 5: 2.00pm & 7.00pm
Location: Harrogate Theatre Main House, Tickets: £14.50 (conc. available)
EDWARD FOX AND FAMILY IN SAINTS AND SINNERS
Spend an evening in the company of Edward Fox and family as they present their brand new show in a venue close to their hearts. Edward Fox is a direct descendant of Samson Fox- the famous civil engineer behind the construction of the Royal Hall. Saints and Sinners is a fascinating collection of the really good, the truly wicked, and those torn both ways. From Genisis to Jane Austen the show features popular ballads and anonymous limericks with music by Donizetti, Bach and many more.
Date: Sunday 6 May, Time: 7.30pm
Location: Royal Hall, Harrogate, Tickets: £22 (conc. available)
Ballet Theatre UK presents THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
Tchaikovsky’s glorious music and beautiful classical choreography reawaken the magic of the world’s favourite fairy tale in an enchanted world of castles and curses, forests and fairies.
“A mesmerising show” The Leicester Mercury
Date: Wednesday 9 May, Time: 7.30pm
Location: Harrogate Theatre Main House, Tickets: £18 – £16 (conc. available)
DARA O’BRIAIN
Following 2010’s 150 date sell out tour of the UK & Ireland and best selling DVD This Is The Show, Irish funny man Dara O’Briain hits the road again for 2012.
“One of the most dependably entertaining stand up comics in the land” The Leicester Mercury
THIS SHOW IS NOW SOLD OUT
Date: Wednesday 9 May, Time: 7.30pm
Location: Royal Hall, Harrogate, Tickets: £21
Unfolding Theatre in association with Northern Stage presents BEST IN THE WORLD
What is it like to be best in the world?
Join unfolding Theatre in a mission to find out what being the best really means, featuring world champion’s insights, emergency bananas, celebrations of personal triumphs and live darts.
“Thrillingly talented people” The Guardian
Date: Thurs 10 – Sat 12 May, Time: 7.45pm
Location: Harrogate Studio Theatre, Tickets: £12 (conc. available)
Reform Theatre Company presents LIKE A VIRGIN
Angela and Maxine, two sixteen year olds, attack life with laughter, vibrancy and excitement. Angela’s mother, Viv, is distraught after her husband suddenly leaves her to set up home with another woman. She struggles to come to terms with herself and her daughter’s explosive lifestyle. The play erupts into a rollercoaster of emotions as it tackles hope, sex, driving ambition, despair and most of all love.
Date: Thurs 10 – Sat 12 May, Time: 7.30pm, Matinee: 2.30pm Saturday
Location: Harrogate Theatre Main House, Tickets: £16- £14 (conc. available)
Please note: Matinee all tickets £11
RUMOURS OF FLEETWOOD MAC
Replicating perfectly the power and subtlety of Fleetwood Mac at their brilliant best, let timeless classics such as ‘Black Magic Woman’, ‘Go Your Own Way’, ‘Dreams’, ‘Say You Love Me’, ‘Everywhere’ and many more, take you on a nostalgic evening of breathtakingly outstanding musicianship; and all performed in the context where the songs work best – a live stage.
Date: Friday 11 May, Time: 8pm
Location: Royal Hall, Harrogate, Tickets: £22.50
Presented by Mick Perrin for Just for Laughs Live SIMON AMSTELL
The award winning comedian, actor/ screenwriter (Grandma’s House) and presenter (Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Popworld) returns with his brand new stand-up show.
With special guest Daniel Simonsen.
“Painfully Funny” Evening Standard
Date: Monday 14 May, Time: 8.00pm
Location: Harrogate Theatre Main House, Tickets: £21
THE HALLÉ Sir Mark Elder: Conductor, Sofya Gulyak: Piano
Sir Mark Elder and The Halle return to the Royal Hall to present a White Night of great Russian music. Featuring music from Borodin and Tchaikovsky. In 2009 Sofya Gulyak became the first female winner of the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition.
“Has anyone ever conjured a more original sound from an orchestra?” The Telegraph
Date: Tuesday 15 May, Time: 7.30pm
Location: Royal Hall, Harrogate, Tickets: £36- £34
Swansea City Opera presents COSI FAN TUTTE
Swansea City Opera present a production of Mozart’s popular and uproarious comic opera. Cosi Fan Tutte contains some of Mozat’s most ravishing music and makes for an enchanting and hilarious evening’s entertainment- a feast for the eyes and ears.
“A gem of an evening’s entertainment” Birmingham Post
Date: Thursday 17 May, Time: 7.30pm
Location: Harrogate Theatre Main House, Tickets: £18- £14 (conc. available)
ANDY ABRAHAM’S HISTORY OF THE BIG BANDS
For one night only the incredible Andy Abraham (The X Factor) takes you on a musical journey through the very best of the swing era with The History of Big Bands. Featuring a magnificent 13- piece big band alongside a series of first class soloists, you will be transported from one bandleader to another by the talented and charismatic Andy Abraham.
Date: Thursday 17 May, Time: 7.30pm
Location: Royal Hall, Harrogate, Tickets: £24-£22 (conc. Available)
Whitebone Productions present BANE
Bane enjoyed a sell out success at the Edinburgh Fringe, where it picked up a Fringe Review Outstanding Theatre Award. A dark comic tale of revenge, this one man film noir parody created entire worlds from the simplest of staging and features live music from Ben Roe.
“Joe Bone’s performance is phenomenal…. Extremely funny” Time Out
Date: Thurs 17 – Fri 18 May, Time: 7.45pm
Location: Harrogate Studio Theatre, Tickets: £12 (conc. available)
ALFIE MOORE: I PREDICT A RIOT
After eighteen years serving with the Humberside Force Alfie certainly has a lot of stories to tell, and after five years working the clubs Alfie certainly knows how to tell them. In this show he talks about the history of protest and riots through history, (including ones that he has been personally involved with) with lots of digressions regarding his experiences on the beat.
Date: Saturday 19 May, Time: 8.00pm
Location: Harrogate Studio Theatre, Tickets: £12 (conc. available)
JON RICHARDSON: FUNNY MAGNET
Due to overwhelming public demand, the brilliant Jon Richardson is back on tour in 2012. The new host of Channel 4’s Stand up for The Week and team captain on 8 out of 10 cats, Funny Magnet sees Jon working his pessimism with some hilarious consequences, and as always his loveable vivacious delivery.
“Sublimely brilliant, stunning…. He is a comic right on the verge of greatness. If you haven’t seen him yet get your finger out and sort it out” Time Out
THIS SHOW IS NOW SOLD OUT
Date: Saturday 19 May, Time: 8.00pm
Location: Harrogate Theatre Main House, Tickets: £14
RICH HALL
Rich Hall, who has regularly appeared on Comedy Gala Live At The O2 (Channel 4), as well as QI, Live at The Apollo and Have I got News for you stops off at Harrogate Theatre as part of his national tour. Rich Hall’s renowned grouchy, deadpan style has established him as a master of absurdist irony and king of rapid-fire wit.
“Creeps up on you and ambushes your funny bone like no one else” The Scotsman
THIS SHOW IS NOW SOLD OUT
Date: Monday 21 May, Time: 8.00pm
Location: Harrogate Theatre Main House, Tickets: £15
Townsend Productions presents THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS
Written by Stephen Lowe based upon the book by Robert Tressell
A hilarious fast- paced show, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists follows a group of painters and decorators struggling for survival in a stagnating Edwardian England.
“A model of adaption, dramatic emphasis and sheer theatrical magic” Financial Times
Date: Thursday 24- Saturday 26 May, Time: 7.45pm
Location: Harrogate Studio Theatre
BOB GELDOF
Following the release of his new studio album ‘How to Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell’ in February 2011, featuring 14 new compositions produced by his long- time collaborator Pete Briquete, this unmissable evening will see Bob perform tracks from the new album ,alongside hits from his days with The Boomtown Rats.
“His legacy is beyond music, but Geldof is making fine records and is on stupendous live form” ThisisLondon.co.uk
Date: Friday 25 May, Time: 7.30pm
Location: Royal Hall, Harrogate, Tickets: £25
MUGENKYO TAIKO DRUMMERS
Thundering rhythms on huge taiko drums interweave with layers of percussive soundscapes and delicate bamboo flute in a spellbinding display of precise choreography & sheer athleticism. Early booking is highly recommended.
“This show is not one to be missed” Edinburgh Evening News
Date: Saturday 26 May, Time: 7.30pm
Location: Royal Hall, Harrogate, Tickets: £19 (conc. available)
THE BATTLE OF GOOSE GREEN: A TALK BY PETER KENNEDY
29 May 2012 is the 30th anniversary of the Battle of Goose Green; the first decisive land battle of the Falklands War of 1982.
Follow the battle from the perspective of a Yorkshire-born paratrooper who fought in it. Peter Kennedy led the final attack at Goose Green to capture the last hill and the enemy flag on its summit. He was second in command of C Company 2 PARA, and took over the company in the closing stage of the battle when his company commander was wounded.
Understand how this close-run battle was fought, and experience the buzz and occasional terror of combat.
Please note: This lecture will contain bangs & smoke
All money raised will go to:
Help for Heroes, The Royal British Legion, The Parachute Regiment Charity
Date: Tuesday 29 May, Time: 7.30pm
Location: Harrogate Theatre Main House, Tickets: £15 (Boxes seat 4 £100)
MILES JUPP: FIBBER IN THE HEAT
An unprepared and unqualified award winning stand up comedian and actor, Miles Jupp, heads to India with the English press to embark on a month long, sun-soaked disaster (and some minor triumphs). A sorry tale of how he attempted to become a cricket journalist by the unlikely, ill –thought out and dishonest method of pretending to be one.
“A wonderful storyteller….bloody marvellous” Fest
Date: Wednesday 30 May, Time: 7.30pm
Location: Harrogate Theatre Main House, Tickets: £15 (conc. available)
TWO’S COMPANY
A mini festival of intimate performance
Sleepwalk Collective (UK/Spain) presents AS THE FLAMES ROSE WE DANCED TO THE SIRENS, THE SIRENS
In an hour of troubling intimacy, Sleepwalk Collective chop up and replay the inconography of B-movies and early cinema in a joyous and desperate attempt to re-work cinematic and cultural clichés into something heartfelt and profound.
Wed 30 May 7.45pm: Watch the Full show in Harrogate Theatre Studio
Sat 2 Jun 2-5pm/ 7-9pm: Experience more of the show in a one on one setting at the Crown Hotel. Show starts every 15 mins on the hour.
“An unsettling languid but hauntingly touching display of live- art tragic- comic stand-up” The Herald
Date: Wednesday 30 May, Time: 7.45pm, Location: Harrogate Studio Theatre, Tickets: £8 (conc. available)
Date: Saturday 2 June, Time: 2-5pm/7-9pm (show starts every 15 mins on the hour)
Location: The Crown Hotel, Tickets: £5
