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SPRING 2019 LANCASHIRE’S LARGEST THEATRE
Welcome to Spot On’s
Spring 2019 tour
This season we are delighted to bring a whole host
of exciting adventures to your doorstep. We’ve
extended the season a little to bring you some brand
new children’s work for half term. We’re welcoming
back some old Spot On venues and bringing on
some brand new spaces all over Lancashire. We’ve
got three companies from Canada, tales from India,
dance from Africa, Greek myths and songs from
suffragettes.
We ask you to be curious, find a venue you’ve not been to before
and join us for a great night out!
Spot On is working to guarantee that events are accessible to all.
To ensure your night out with the network is an enjoyable one,
please feel free to discuss access needs with either the venue
promoter, the scheme manager or visit our website.
CONTENTS
Shows 3–8
At a Glance 10–11
Map & Venues 12
Tickets: Contacting promoters:
All Spot On shows are priced Our promoter details are listed on
from £8–£12 for adults and from pages 10 & 11 of our What’s On
£6 for children. Please check Guide. We strongly advise contacting
with each venue regarding their promoters in advance or booking
policy for concessionary tickets, online as demand can be high for our
group booking discounts and events. In the case of library venues
early booking incentives. we recommend booking online,
Please book tickets with our emailing or visiting the library directly
promoters directly or check to book or purchase tickets.
www.spotonlancashire.co.uk
for online links.
For more information please contact:
Lyndsey Wilson — Programme Manager
Spot On, Lancashire’s Rural & Library Touring Network
c/o The Barn, 61A Manor Rd, Blackburn, BB2 6LX
Telephone: 01254 660360
Email: hello@spotonlancashire.co.uk
Web: www.spotonlancashire.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/spotonlancashire
The network is coordinated by
Culturapedia as part of the Cheshire
2 SPOT ON LANCASHIRE SPRING 2019 TOUR Lancashire Touring Partnership.
CHILDREN FAMILY
MASHI THEATRE 154 COLLECTIVE & CREATIVE
Stripey Honey… SCENE
is very yummy! Rabbit Girl &
The Search for
Stripey Honey … is very yummy! Wonder
is a touching and funny story
of how tigers, bees and honey
collectors learn to live and play
together.
Something impossible has 154collective.co.uk
happened, something no one
saw coming. So Rabbit Girl and
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her Dad have done what they
do best - pulled on their boots,
packed their tent and headed off
Featuring music, dance and
into the wilderness.
puppetry, this playful and
Join them around the
colourful show takes you on an
campfire to hear about some
adventure to the Indian jungle,
pretty awesome adventures from
where tigers and honey bees
all over the world.
struggle for survival.
Playful, poignant and with a
little sprinkling of magic, the show
is inspired by the imagination
of 8 year olds, full of the joy of
storytelling, live music, puppetry
and projected animation, helping
us to find wonder in the world
This show is supported by again.
Big Imaginations, Horse &
Bamboo and Burnley Youth This show is supported by
Theatre Big Imaginations
Mon 18 Feb 2pm / Accrington Library Thu 21 Feb 2pm / Ormskirk Library
Wed 6 Mar 4.30pm (3.30pm) / Burnley Sat 2 Mar 2pm / Calder Vale Village Hall
Library Sun 3 Mar 1pm & 3pm / The Isaac Dixon
Thu 7 Mar 4pm / Haslingden Library Boat House, Fairhaven Lake
Check the website for pre show activities Check the website for pre show activities
in each venue in each venue
For adventurers aged 5+ and Perfect for under 8’s and their
their grown-ups grown-ups too
More info on all performances at spotonlancashire.co.uk 3
FAMILY THEATRE
A FILAMENT PROJECT BLAIZE THEATRE
IN ASSOCIATION WITH Joan & Jimmy
NORTHERN BROADSIDES
AND STUTE THEATRE
A Muddle in
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Messina
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‘Joan & Jimmy’ tells the story
of Joan Littlewood and Jimmy
‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Miller (aka Ewan MacColl),
reimagined for young and family standing among the rubble of
audiences. 1945 post war Britain. Both are
Beatrice and Benedick have embarking on a career in radical
never got along. When their political theatre, performing one-
friends in Messina become tired of night stands across the north of
their warring words they devise a England. Come meet the founder
clever plan to bring them together. members of rural touring!
Will the ruckus finally be over, or is The pair founded Theatre
everyone making a great big fuss Workshop in Kendal with a
about nothing? travelling troupe of storytellers
‘A Muddle in Messina’ is a and outlaws committed to the
brand new storytelling show, overthrow of the established order
created with world-renowned where the rich got richer and the
theatre company Northern poor got austerity – even then!
Broadsides. Suitable for children In 1952 they parted company.
aged 4-11, this entertaining Joan and Theatre Workshop
introduction to Shakespeare will heading to London and Ewan to
bring ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ the folk music world. In the Theatre
to life for young and family Workshop tradition, ‘Joan & Jimmy’
audiences. asks the audience to reach their
Explore Shakespeare’s own conclusions and take the
language live in the library with ending of these stories and songs
wonderful storytelling, live music, beyond the village hall and into
clever characters and our fun their own lives.
digital map!
This show accompanies Much
Ado About Nothing hosted at
Fri 8 Mar 7.30pm / Halton Mill
The Dukes, Lancaster from Sat 9 Mar 8pm (7.30pm) / Mellor Brook
5th-9th March Community Centre
Sun 10 Mar 8pm (7.30pm) / Longton
Fri 8 Mar 1.15pm / Heysham Library VM Club
For children aged 4-11 Suitable for ages 12+
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DANCE
STEPHANIE UCHENNA DANCE
MORIN-ROBERT Hansel & Gretel
Blindside
In a feat of riveting comedy,
one-eyed storytelling champion
and cancer survivor Stephanie
Morin-Robert recounts her
life as a feisty 7 year-old who
wields her glass-eye as a
superpower.
When Stephanie was young,
her father, a diamond prospector
in Canada, made a fortuitous
discovery and relocated the
whole family to a more luxurious
lifestyle. What he failed to notice
was that his daughter, a young
and sheltered cancer patient,
was really struggling to find ways
of facing the bullies in her new
school.
The classic fairy tale gets a 21st
Part physical-theatre, part
century dance makeover.
storytelling with some up close
Our two heroes find
and personal live projection -
themselves lost in a big city,
this show is a fantastically funny
overwhelmed by the sights,
revelation of how Stephanie
sounds and smells. Together the
discovered the strength to fight
brave duo must outwit the adults
back and come to terms with her
to find their way back to their
disability.
family in a show where kids are
“A warm, poignant and very number one!
funny story” London Free Press Uchenna Dance bring a
“We laughed until we cried, modern dance twist to the much-
and cried until we laughed” loved classical story.
Montreal Times
stephaniemorinrobert.com/blindside
uchennadance.com
This show is brought to you
in partnership with the Rural
Touring Dance Initiative
Wed 13 Mar 7.30pm (7pm) / The Harris Sat 16 Mar 5pm / St Joseph’s Parish
Museum, Preston Hall, Hoghton
Suitable for ages 12+ Suitable for ages 5+
More info on all performances at spotonlancashire.co.uk 5
STORYTELLING THEATRE
ANDREW JAMES BROWN OUT OF CHAOS
The Moon Unmythable
Under Water
Andrew James Brown loves
pubs and this is a show about
these very fine establishments.
Join Andrew for tales of horse
brasses, Morris dancers and
boozy behaviour all mixed into
a heady cocktail of George
Orwell’s musings on history,
philosophy and the odd poem.
Andrew’s obsession began
with Orwell’s 1946 essay ‘The
Moon Under Water’, in which he
provided a detailed description
of his ideal public house. Now,
we invite you to enjoy a drink or
two as Andrew takes you on a
journey through pubs great and
small, through country inns and
city gin-palaces, across parquet
and sticky carpet tiles in his quest
to find the perfect pub.
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One show.
Three actors.
All the Greek myths.
Legendary heroes, psychotic
dragons and randy gods go head-
to-head in a hilarious and
unforgettable journey.
An anarchic blend of comedy,
cross-dressing, stories and songs,
Unmythable returns to the UK after
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a sell-out European tour and an
award-winning run at the Edinburgh
Fringe.
Prepare to be a legend.
This show is brought to you in
Wed 20 Mar 7pm / Longridge Library
partnership with Inn Crowd Fri 22 Mar 7pm / Clitheroe Library
Sat 23 Mar 8pm / Tosside Community
Sat 16 Mar 8pm / The Dog Inn, Belthorn Hall
Suitable for ages 10+ Suitable for ages 12+
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MUSIC
UP THE ROAD THEATRE RYAN COOK
Peril At Sea Having A
Great Time
‘We’ve been going to sea for Mixing classic country music
generations. It’s in our blood.’ with modern satire, Ryan Cook
The greatest storm in living has forged a sound between
memory blasts the English coast. contemporary folk and dyed-in-
Striving against the howling the wool country. With nuances
winds and pounding waves, a of pop and western swing, Ryan’s
lonely boat struggles on. Those songbook reminds us of the early
left behind wait impatiently, hillbilly and folk pioneers but with
huddled together, isolated and a modern twist.
unfamiliar. On stage Ryan has toured
As the storm rages, stories, as a solo performer opening
memories, songs and myths for Country purists like Dwight
tumble out of the night, capturing Yoakam, Rosanne Cash and
a life lived on and around the Travis Tritt. His acoustic live show
sea. combines thumb-picking guitar
Join Up The Road Theatre for styles, original folk & country
stories of sailors, submariners, ballads and vintage music from
sea rescues, shipwrecks and the 1940’s and 1950’s.
survival.
ryancook.ca
uptheroadtheatre.co.uk
This show is supported by
Folkus
Sat 23 Mar 8pm / Borwick & Priest
Thu 21 Mar 7.30pm (7pm) / The Bureau, Hutton Memorial Hall
Blackburn Mon 25 Mar 7pm (6.30pm) / Ingol Library
Fri 22 Mar 7pm / The Isaac Dixon Boat Tue 26 Mar 7pm (6.30pm) / Longton
House, Fairhaven Lake Library
Suitable for ages 10+ Suitable for ages 10+
More info on all performances at spotonlancashire.co.uk 7
STORYTELLING
SONYA MOORHEAD & SITA BRAND
THE GREYHOUNDS Memories of an
Feral Indian Childhood
sonyamoorhead.com
settlestories.org.uk
Ever wondered if you missed Be transported to Bombay...
your chance to be wild? dusty, crowded and vibrant…
Sonya has been spinning a Welcome to Sita’s world of large
lot of plates recently; she’s really families, stubborn hairdos and
good at it but she’s definitely not romantic train journeys. Amongst
the untamed woman she thought the light-hearted stories about
she’d be by now. Sometimes she friendships and games there are
feels like a feral beast backed darker memories all intertwined
into a corner. There’s no escaping with the folk tales that influenced
social expectation and she fears her childhood, told from a cross-
she’s missed her chance. cultural perspective.
In September 2017, Sonya Sita is an accomplished
headed off on a hitchhiking storyteller who blends the myths
mission to Oban to find 60’s folk and folktales that have shaped
legend and notorious wild child human lives over thousands of
Anne Briggs. Sonya was drowning years with the current stories that
in domesticity and she thought matter.
Anne could swoop in and save
her.
This is storytelling with a live
folk music soundtrack played by
The Greyhounds. It’s an intimate
story with universal appeal.
Wed 27 Mar 7.30pm / ABC Memorial
Hall, Hurst Green
Sat 30 Mar 7pm / Tockholes Village Hall Thu 11 Apr 7pm / Brierfield Library
Sun 31 Mar 7.30pm (7pm) / Garstang Fri 12 Apr 6.30pm (6pm) / Bolton-Le-
Library Sands Library
Suitable for ages 14+ Suitable for ages 10+
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MUSIC
LOUISE JORDAN
The Hard Way Diyet &
The Love Soldiers
Born in a tent, raised in a cabin
on the shores of a glacial lake in
the Kluane region of Canada’s
Yukon Territory, Diyet embodies
her Southern Tutchone,
Japanese, Tlingit and Scottish
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roots with a musical presence
that is equally diverse and
unique.
Diyet’s music covers
Alternative Folk, Roots, Country
and Traditional Aboriginal with
melodies and stories deeply
rooted in her indigenous world
view and northern life. Her songs
are an interpretation of a northern
reality: hard, raw and emotive
but at the same time, always
beautiful, gentle, strange and
From a remote hilltop farm in
intensely alive. She performs as
the Derbyshire moorlands to
a trio, Diyet & The Love Soldiers,
Manchester city magistrate -
with husband and collaborator,
The story of Hannah Mitchell.
Robert van Lieshout on guitar
The Hard Way is a one-woman
and foot percussion and multi-
show of storytelling with song by
instrumentalist, Bob Hamilton.
acclaimed musician and composer
Louise Jordan.
With two weeks of formal
schooling behind her and through
her sheer force of character,
diyetmusic.com
Hannah escapes domestic
drudgery to become a campaigner,
speaker, writer, suffragette,
councillor and finally a magistrate.
A self-taught, self-made
woman, Hannah left home aged
14, exchanging one exploitative
situation for another. In 1906
she found herself face to face
with Winston Churchill at a
public meeting and spent time in This show is supported by
Strangeways prison. Folkus
This show celebrates
one woman’s determination
to take power in the face of
insurmountable barriers, motivated
by a desire to improve life for Thu 25 Apr 7.30pm (7pm) / Croston Old
those around her. School
Fri 26 Apr 8pm (7pm) / Vicarage Park
Thu 25 Apr 7.30pm / Bleasdale Parish Hall Community Centre, Poulton
Fri 26 Apr 8pm / The Barlow, Edgworth Wed 1 May 7pm (6.30pm) /Heysham
Sat 27 Apr 7.30pm / Whitworth Library Library
Suitable for ages 14+ Suitable for ages 10+
More info on all performances at spotonlancashire.co.uk 9
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Performances at a Glance SPRING 2019 TOUR
Date Time What Where Postcode For ticket bookings
Mon 18th Feb 2pm Stripey Honey… is very yummy! Accrington Library BB5 1NQ accrington.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Thu 21st Feb 2pm Rabbit Girl & The Search for Wonder Ormskirk Library L39 2EN ormskirk.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Sat 2nd Mar 2pm Rabbit Girl & The Search for Wonder Calder Vale Village Hall PR3 1SJ 01995 603838 / 01995 602615
Sun 3rd Mar 1pm & 3pm Rabbit Girl & The Search for Wonder The Isaac Dixon Boathouse, Lytham FY8 1BD 01253 658443
Wed 6th Mar 4.30pm (3.30pm) Stripey Honey… is very yummy! Burnley Library BB11 2BD burnley.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Thu 7th Mar 4pm Stripey Honey… is very yummy! Haslingden Library BB4 5QJ haslingden.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Fri 8th Mar 1.15pm A Muddle In Messina Heysham Library LA3 2BJ heysham.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Fri 8th Mar 7.30pm Joan & Jimmy Halton Mill LA2 6ND 07582 789406
Sat 9th Mar 8pm (7.30pm) Joan & Jimmy Mellor Brook Community Centre BB2 7PR 07377 788716
Sun 10th Mar 8pm (7.30pm) Joan & Jimmy Longton Victory Memorial Club PR4 5DL 01772 616800
Wed 13th Mar 7.30pm (7pm) Blindside The Harris Museum, Preston PR1 2PP harris.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Sat 16th Mar 5pm Hansel & Gretel St Joseph's Parish Hall, Hoghton PR5 0DE 07795 322761
Sat 16th Mar 8pm The Moon Under Water The Dog Inn, Belthorn BB1 2NN 01254 433188
Wed 20th Mar 7pm Unmythable Longridge Library PR3 3JA longridge.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Thu 21st Mar 7.30pm (7pm) Peril At Sea The Bureau Arts Centre, Blackburn BB1 6DW 07845 964802
Fri 22nd Mar 7pm Peril At Sea The Isaac Dixon Boathouse, Lytham FY8 1BD 01253 658443
Fri 22nd Mar 7pm Unmythable Clitheroe Library BB7 2DG clitheroe.library@lancashire.gov.ukSat 23rd Mar 8pm Unmythable Tosside Community Hall BD23 4SQ 01729 840272
Sat 23rd Mar 8pm Having A Great Time Borwick & Priest Hutton Memorial Hall LA6 1JP 01524 782053
Mon 25th Mar 7pm (6.30pm) Having A Great Time Ingol Library PR2 3YX ingol.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Tue 26th Mar 7pm (6.30pm) Having A Great Time Longton Library PR4 5HA longton.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Wed 27th Mar 7.30pm Feral ABC Memorial Hall, Hurst Green BB7 9QA 01254 826898
Sat 30th Mar 7pm Feral Tockholes Village Hall BB3 0NQ 07889 105969
Sun 31st Mar 7.30pm (7pm) Feral Garstang Library PR3 1ED garstang.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Thu 11th Apr 7pm Memories of an Indian Childhood Brierfield Library BB9 5HW brierfield.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Fri 12th Apr 6.30pm (6pm) Memories of an Indian Childhood Bolton-Le-Sands Library LA5 8DN bolton-le-sands.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Thu 25th Apr 7.30pm The Hard Way Bleasdale Parish Hall PR3 1UY 01995 606511
Thu 25th Apr 7.30pm (7pm) Diyet & The Love Soldiers Croston Old School PR26 9HA 01772 603600
Fri 26th Apr 8pm The Hard Way The Barlow, Edgworth BL7 0AP 01204 852216
Fri 26th Apr 8pm (7pm) Diyet & The Love Soldiers Vicarage Park Community Centre, Poulton FY6 7BE 07739 626100
Sat 27th Apr 7.30pm The Hard Way Whitworth Library OL12 8AA whitworth.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Wed 1st May 7pm (6.30pm) Diyet & The Love Soldiers Heysham Library LA3 2BJ heysham.library@lancashire.gov.uk
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VENUES 5
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16 LANCASTER
28
M6
13 9 4 10
CLITHEROE
25 18
BLACKPOOL 22 7
M55
19 20 M65 8
23 26 BLACKBURN
1
BURNLEY
17 3 2
PRESTON
21
27 DARWEN 15
11 12 29
SOUTHPORT
M61 M66
24 M6
1 Accrington 11 Croston 21 Longton
2 Belthorn 12 Edgworth 22 Longridge
3 Blackburn 13 Garstang 23 Lytham
4 Bleasdale 14 Halton 24 Ormskirk
5 Bolton-Le-Sands 15 Haslingden 25 Poulton
6 Borwick 16 Heysham 26 Preston
7 Brierfield 17 Hoghton 27 Tockholes
8 Burnley 18 Hurst Green 28 Tosside
9 Calder Vale 19 Ingol 29 Whitworth
10 Clitheroe 20 Mellor Brook
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