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SPRING 2020 LANCASHIRE’S LARGEST THEATRE
ADVENTURES
Welcome to Spot On’s PENDLE RADICALS
Spring 2020 tour Ethel Carnie:
Local lass, Local
This season you could hop on the number 555 and head off on an
adventure with the Ladies That Bus, you could find out how we
voice
avoided a world without dogs. Watch a virtual band, meet a real
life, genuine ‘Fluffypunk’ or even prepare yourself with a quiz for Ethel Carnie Holdsworth,
the end of the world! This Spring we’re really excited to begin a working-class writer, feminist,
series of author talks alongside our regular and socialist activist from
programme as well as welcoming shows from Lancashire, was the first
working-class woman in
Big Imaginations children’s theatre network
Britain to publish a novel.
and National Theatre Live performances.
She published at least ten
So what’s stopping you? Take a look at novels during her lifetime. The
what’s in store and come join us for a great team at Mid Pennine Arts have This presentation celebrates
night out! been uncovering more of the some of Ethel’s remarkable voice
fascinating details of her life. in poems, readings and songs.
Spot On is working to guarantee that events It is an extract from a longer
are accessible to all. To ensure your night out Ethel was a typical local lass soundscape project. Ethel’s work
with the network is an enjoyable one, please and she was also remarkably almost disappeared, and this
feel free to discuss access needs with either passionate about the arts, politics show highlights the determination
the venue promoter, the Programme manager and social justice. She became of many people to not only find
or visit our website for more information in the voice of all tough lasses it but to make sure it never gets
our Access page for each event. everywhere, then and now. lost again.
Pendle Radicals is a project
CONTENTS Wed 5 Feb 6pm (Doors at 5.30pm) / of the Pendle Hill Landscape
Shows 3–13 Great Harwood Library Partnership, supported by the
National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Suitable for ages 10+
At a Glance 14–15
Map & Venues 16
LIVE SCREENING
Tickets:
At Spot On we are committed to
Contacting promoters:
Our promoter details are listed NT LIVE
making professional performing arts on pages 14 & 15 of our What’s James McAvoy returns to
as affordable as possible. Please On Guide. We strongly advise Cyrano de the stage in an inventive
check with each venue regarding
their policy for concessionary
contacting promoters in advance
or booking online as demand
Bergerac new adaptation of Cyrano de
Bergerac, broadcast live from
ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk
tickets, group booking discounts can be high for our events. In the West End in London.
and early booking incentives. the case of library venues we
Please book tickets with our recommend booking online, Fierce with a pen and notorious
promoters directly or check emailing or visiting the library in combat, Cyrano almost has it
www.spotonlancashire.co.uk directly to book or purchase all - if only he could win the heart
for online links. tickets. of his true love Roxane. There’s
just one big problem: he has a
nose as huge as his heart. Will a
For more information please contact: society engulfed by narcissism
Lyndsey Wilson — Programme Manager get the better of Cyrano - or
can his mastery of language set
Spot On, Lancashire’s Rural & Library Touring Network Roxane’s world alight?
The Barn, 61A Manor Rd, Blackburn, BB2 6LX
Telephone: 01254 660360
Email: hello@spotonlancashire.co.uk
Web: www.spotonlancashire.co.uk Thu 20 Feb 7pm / Parbold Village Hall
Facebook: www.facebook.com/spotonlancashire Suitable for ages 12+
The network is coordinated by
Culturapedia as part of the Cheshire
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THEATRE MUSIC
Ladies That Bus A heart-warming and hilarious Truckstop
truckstophoneymoon.com
tale of journeys taken and
not taken, of regrets and
Honeymoon
celebrations, and what it means
to be free… Based on real-life Hollering with all their
interviews and peppered hearts over a five string
with humour, songs and original banjo and a doghouse bass,
music, it shows a day-in-the life Truckstop Honeymoon live
of the Route 555 bus to Keswick, the life they sing about.
and the kaleidoscope of different Having toured across three
characters that travel on it – each continents with four kids and a
with their very own tales to tell… truckload of songs, Katie and
Mike West tell stories about
the strangeness of everyday
ladiesthatbus.co.uk
Mon 2 Mar 2.30pm / Ormskirk Library life. Their music combines
Tue 3 Mar 6.30pm (Doors at 6pm) / elements of bluegrass, music
Bolton-Le-Sands Library hall jazz and straight up
rock’n’roll. It’s music that tells
Wed 4 Mar 7pm / The Rainhall Centre, Fri 13 Mar 7pm (Doors at 6.30pm) /
stories of cheating spouses,
Barnoldswick Longton Library
bad attitudes, short-change
Suitable for ages 12+ romances, endless asphalt and Sat 14 Mar 7.30pm / Halton Mill
dodgy diners. Suitable for ages 10+
THEATRE LIVE LITERATURE
BOX OF TRICKS THEATRE JONNY FLUFFYPUNK
The Last Quiz Night on Earth How I Came To Be
“The End of the World Quiz Where I Never Was
boxoftrickstheatre.co.uk
waits for no man, literally.
Onwards ever onwards to our Jonny Fluffypunk grew
fiery decline. Round Three…” up in suburban nowhere.
This is a story about trying
It’s the end of the world. The
to find yourself when you
last night on earth. An asteroid
find yourself somewhere
is heading straight for us. Fancy
you don’t belong.
going out with a bang?
It’s about unrequited
It’s the final countdown. Landlady
love, John Peel and the
Kathy invites you to the last quiz
importance of a good
night on earth with Quizmaster
record shop. If that’s not
Rav. He’s the host with the most.
enough then there’s also
But with time ticking, some
stuff about trains and
unexpected guests turn up out
memory and letting go.
of the blue. Bobby wants to
This is a new show for
settle old scores and Fran wants
anyone who has ever
jonnyfluffypunk.co.uk
one last shot at love. Expect the
loved, owned a vinyl record
unexpected to the bitter end.
or just been alive.
Following two sold-out tours
Thu 5 Mar 7pm / The Isaac Dixon of Chip Shop Chips, Box of
Boathouse, Fairhaven Lake Tricks brings explosive new pre-
Fri 6 Mar 7.30pm / Calder Vale Village apocalyptic comedy The Last This show has been supported
Hall Quiz Night on Earth to your by INN CROWD
local. So tuck into a pie and a
Sat 7 Mar 7.30pm (Doors at 7pm) / pint while you watch. Let’s get
Longton VM Club quizzical! Sat 21 Mar 8pm / The Dog Inn, Belthorn
Suitable for ages 14+ Suitable for ages 14+
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DANCE MUSIC
SLANJAYVAH DANZA DARIA KULESH
6 Feet, 3 Shoes is a
6 Feet, 3 Shoes celebration of friendship Long Lost Home
across borders, told through
With her striking voice and strong
feisty percussive flamenco,
Russian and Ingush heritage,
energetic Scottish reels
“bold, exotic, impressive” Daria
and beautiful contemporary
Kulesh is a rising star and a unique
dance, with three dancers,
character on the UK folk scene.
exhilarating live music and a
ceilidh to get everyone up and Daria’s intrepid quest to explore her
dancing! family roots has led her from the folk
daria-kulesh.co.uk
clubs of Hertfordshire to the mountains
Dance, storytelling, humour,
of Caucasus; from Cadogan Hall in
traditional foot stomping rhythms,
London to Gradsky Hall in Moscow.
tender moments and a good old
slanjayvahdanza.com
giggle bring to life a story that Long Lost Home is inspired by Ingushetia
resonates across generations (Ghalghai Mokh) – the lost home of
and cultures. Daria’s Grandmother Fatima Akhrieva.
A mountainous republic in the south of
Russia, it’s a land of immense beauty and
Fri 3 Apr 7pm /
Fri 27 Mar 7.30pm / Bleasdale Parish Whalley Library
Hall harrowing tragedy, of fascinating culture
and age-old traditions. Expect powerful, Sat 4 Apr 7.30pm
Sat 28 Mar 7.30pm / Vicarage Park timeless human stories beautifully told in (Doors at 7pm) / Fraser Hall,
Community Centre, Poulton an eye-opening and profoundly uplifting Cowan Bridge
Suitable for ages 5+ musical experience. Suitable for ages 12+
LIBRARY TALK FAMILY
Neil White and Nick Oldham THEATRE FIDERI FIDERA
Ogg ‘N’ Ugg ‘N’ Dogg
Come to Longton Library to hear best A comic take on the
selling authors talk about their work amazing evolutionary
and perhaps share the secrets of their process that transformed
characters and methods. Warning! May the wolf into man’s best
contain books. friend.
Neil White is the bestselling author of Can you imagine life
twelve crime novels, nine of which are set without dogs? No? Well, no
in Lancashire, including the number one worries, because Ogg ‘n’
bestseller Cold Kill. As well as writing crime Ugg are here to save us
fiction, he is a criminal solicitor, with most of from a life of doglessness.
that time spent as a Senior Crown Prosecutor. Join our two intrepid
theatre-fideri-fidera.com
Yorkshire hunter-gatherer
Nick Oldham has written 31 crime novels
heroes as they pal up with
including 26 in the highly addictive Henry
their mortal enemies, the
Christie police procedural crime series.
wolves and - despite flying
The first Henry Christie novel appeared in
meat bones, time-travelling
1996 while Nick was still a serving officer
sticks and sabre-toothed
in the Lancashire Constabulary. Nick later
tigers - finally get to play
created Steve Flynn, former Royal Marine and
with the world’s first Dogg.
ex-policeman living in The Canary Islands,
earning his living as a sport fishing skipper.
He’s also written two novelisations based
on two big crime films Vendetta and We Still
Thu 2 Apr 7pm / Longton Kill the Old Way. Nick’s latest Henry Christie Sat 4 Apr 2.30pm / Lostock Hall Library
Library thriller, WILDFIRE was published in January Sun 5 Apr 2pm / Heysham Library This show is supported by Big
Suitable for ages 14+ 2020. Imaginations
Suitable for ages 3+
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OUTDOOR THEATRE
Spot On has commissioned two brand new outdoor shows to
premiere this Summer in Lytham St Annes, Burnley and across
NEARLY THERE YET Ever been in a room full of people
and felt like you don’t belong? This
Lancashire. Check out the website for dates and times. Home Sweet show is for you.
Home Part Iranian, part Welsh, part who cares,
part everybody cares: Home Sweet Home
SANDRA MCCRACKEN, ROWAN TAYLOR & MEL DANIELS uses circus, stand-up and plenty of true-
to-life anecdotes to explore what it is
Cabinet of Curiosity Wed 22 Apr 7pm (Doors at
to feel like you don’t belong. Performer
Kaveh Rahnama re-imagines the BNP in
An intriguing Cabinet of
6.30pm) / Longridge Library the 80s, broken eggs, water fights, class
struggles, biting, relationships, fatherhood
nearlythereyet.com
Curiosity travels along, Thu 23 Apr 7.30pm /
Whitworth Library and juggling in the rain. With a classic
pulled by two enigmatic
soundtrack of feel-good hits, this partly
wanderers stopping Fri 24 Apr 7pm / Clitheroe autobiographical show is an entertaining
at sites, inviting the Library look at what it means to be British when
audience to play.
Suitable for ages 14+ one, or both, of your parents isn’t.
Within the spectacle of
the cabinet are treasure
hunt clues, puzzles,
vignettes, characters and
surprises. These hold the
key to further adventure
and discovery.
The cabinet has a series of
doors, drawers, knobs, pulleys
and other interactive possibilities for
the audience to engage with. The Supported by North East
show will never produce the same Supported by Burnley Arts Development Project
performance twice. Leisure
CHILDREN
FROLICKED OUTDOOR THEATRE DAVID GIBB
Conference of the Birds Rolling Down The Road
davidgibb. com
A flock of four magnificent
All aboard! Family singer
birds embark on a visual and
songwriter David Gibb is proud to
musical journey across the
be the driver of the world’s first bus
globe.
to be powered by song. However,
Using puppetry and four-part his passengers’ choice of music can
harmony, the birds will roam the sometimes be a little unusual. From
landscape singing their story. talking sunflowers to digging for
Come and join them as they buried treasure, David needs your
work together to decide who will help to find the perfect song for
be their sovereign. each of his passengers and get his
magical, musical bus rolling down
Based on the 12th Century Sufi
the road!
poem of the same name, and
told with quirky humour, skilled Guaranteed to have both parents
puppetry and talented voices, and children singing along, this is a
Conference of the Birds is a show that the whole family can enjoy
celebration of individuality. A together.
meeting of Eastern and Western David Gibb is presented by Little Seeds Music,
culture not to be missed! Half Moon and The Story Museum Oxford.
Supported by Fylde Fri 24 Apr 1pm / Garstang Library
Borough Council and the Suitable for all ages, language This performance is
Friends of Fairhaven Lake no problem Sat 25 Apr 2pm / Rawtenstall Library supported by Big Imaginations
Suitable for ages 3-11
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LIBRARY TALK LIVE SCREENING
Sharon Bolton Come to Tarleton Library to hear a
NT LIVE
best selling author talk about their
work and perhaps share the secrets
The Welkin
of their characters and methods. One life in the hands of 12 women.
Warning! May contain books.
Rural Suffolk in England, 1759. As
Sharon (formerly S.J) Bolton grew up the country waits for Halley’s comet,
in Darwen in Lancashire and had an a young woman is sentenced to
eclectic early career in marketing and hang for a heinous murder. When
public relations. She gave it up in she claims to be pregnant, a jury
2000 to become a mother and a of 12 matrons are taken from their
writer. Her first novel, Sacrifice, was housework to decide whether she’s
voted Best New Read by Amazon. telling the truth, or simply trying to
uk. Her second, Awakening, won the escape the noose. With only midwife
2010 Mary Higgins Clark Award (part Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl,
ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk
of the prestigious Edgars) in the US. and a mob baying for blood outside,
She has been shortlisted for the CWA the matrons wrestle with their new
Gold Dagger, the Theakston’s Prize for authority and the devil in their midst.
Best Thriller, the International Thriller
James Macdonald (Who’s Afraid of
Writers’ Best First Novel award, the
Tue 28 Apr 7pm / Tarleton Library Virginia Woolf?) directs Maxine Peake
Prix Du Polar in France and the Martin
(The Theory of Everything, Funny
Suitable for ages 14+ Beck award in Sweden.
Cow) and Ria Zmitrowicz (Three Girls,
Mr. Selfridge) in this bold and gripping
thriller from Tony Award-nominated
MUSIC writer Lucy Kirkwood (Chimerica, Thu 21 May 7pm /
Skins). Broadcast live from the Parbold Village Hall
THE PEOPLE’S STRING FOUNDATION National Theatre in London. Suitable for ages 12+
Res Publica
POP-UP EVENTS
The People’s String Foundation
pack a virtual 32 piece Gypsy CARLOS ZAPATA
Orchestra into a suitcase and
The team at Spot On
take them on tour to perform
their brand new touring show,
Automata have been working with
Columbian automata artist,
Res Publica.
Carlos Zapata to create a
Featuring virtuoso violinist, Ben miniature mechanical show
Sutcliffe and composer Zaid for Lancashire. The finished
Al-Pikabi, the duo use music, piece will be touring to Spot
puppetry, art, cinematography On venues this season. Make
and animation. The key musical a donation and see a Spot
thepeoplesstringfoundation.com/music
parts are performed live, backed On adventure come to life
by recorded footage of the before your very eyes.
People’s String Foundation
carloszapataautomata.co.uk
Orchestra.
This show is a multimedia
theatrical concert sure to set
your heart racing, get your toes
tapping, and warm your soul with
the people’s spirit and grafter’s
hearts. The second half of the
Fri 1 May 7.30pm / Tosside Community show offers the chance to hear Follow our mechanical
Hall the PSF’s most popular songs adventures via
and compositions working as spotonlancashire.co.uk or
Sat 2 May 7.30pm / The Barlow, they do as musical directors for follow #SpotOnDonate
Edgworth Knee High, Rogue Theatre and
Suitable for ages 8+ The Minack.
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*sorry, supporter cards are
Performances at a Glance SPRING 2020 TOUR
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not valid at these events
Date Time What Where Postcode For ticket bookings
Wed 5th Feb 6pm (Doors 5.30pm) Ethel Carnie: Local Lass, Local Voice Great Harwood Library BB6 7AL 01254 360660
Thu 20th Feb 7pm Cyrano de Bergerac* Parbold Village Hall WN8 7DN 01257 463878
Mon 2nd Mar 2.30pm Ladies That Bus Ormskirk Library L39 2EN ormskirk.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Tue 3rd Mar 6.30pm (Doors 6pm) Ladies That Bus Bolton-Le-Sands Library LA5 8DN bolton-le-sands.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Wed 4th Mar 7pm Ladies That Bus The Rainhall Centre, Barnoldswick BB18 5DR 01282 345200
Thu 5th Mar 7pm The Last Quiz Night On Earth The Isaac Dixon Boathouse, Fairhaven Lake FY8 1BD 01253 658443
Fri 6th Mar 7.30pm The Last Quiz Night On Earth Calder Vale Village Hall PR3 1SJ 01995 603838 / 602615 / 606278
Sat 7th Mar 7.30pm (Doors 7pm) The Last Quiz Night On Earth Longton VM Club PR4 5DL 01772 616800
Fri 13th Mar 7pm (Doors 6.30pm) Truckstop Honeymoon Longton Library PR4 5HA longton.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Sat 14th Mar 7.30pm Truckstop Honeymoon Halton Mill LA2 6ND 07582 789406
Sat 21st Mar 8pm How I Came To Be Where I Never Was The Dog Inn, Belthorn BB1 2NN 01254 433188
Fri 27th Mar 7.30pm 6 Feet, 3 Shoes Bleasdale Parish Hall PR3 1UY 01995 606511 / 606434
Sat 28th Mar 7.30pm 6 Feet, 3 Shoes Vicarage Park Community Centre, Poulton FY6 7BE 07739 626100
Thu 2nd Apr 7pm Neil White and Nick Oldham Longton Library PR4 5HA longton.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Fri 3rd Apr 7pm Long Lost Home Whalley Library BB7 9RR whalley.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Sat 4th Apr 2.30pm Ogg n Ugg n Dogg Lostock Hall Library PR5 5TU lostockhall.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Sat 4th Apr 7.30pm (Doors 7pm) Long Lost Home Fraser Hall, Cowan Bridge LA6 2HS 07738 291734
Sun 5th Apr 2pm Ogg n Ugg n Dogg Heysham Library LA3 2BJ heysham.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Wed 22nd Apr 7pm (Doors 6.30pm) Home Sweet Home Longridge Library PR3 3JA longridge.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Thu 23rd Apr 7.30pm Home Sweet Home Whitworth Library OL12 8AA whitworth.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Fri 24th Apr 1pm Rolling Down The Road Garstang Library PR3 1ED garstang.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Fri 24th Apr 7pm Home Sweet Home Clitheroe Library BB7 2DG clitheroe.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Sat 25th Apr 2pm Rolling Down The Road Rawtenstall Library BB4 6QU rawtenstall.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Tue 28th Apr 7pm Sharon Bolton Tarleton Library PR4 6UJ tarleton.library@lancashire.gov.uk
Fri 1st May 7.30pm Res Publica & The Virtual Orchestra Tosside Community Hall BD23 4SQ 01729 840272
Sat 2nd May 7.30pm Res Publica & The Virtual Orchestra The Barlow, Edgworth BL7 0AP 01204 852216
Thu 21st May 7pm The Welkin* Parbold Village Hall WN8 7DN 01257 463878
ADVENTURES AUTHOR TALK DANCE FAMILY LIVE LITERATURE LIVE SCREENING MUSIC THEATRE
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2 Belthorn 10 Fairhaven 18 Parbold
3 Bleasdale 11 Garstang 19 Poulton
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5 Calder Vale 13 Heysham 21 Tarleton
6 Clitheroe 14 Longridge 22 Tosside
7 Cowan Bridge 15 Longton 23 Whalley
8 Edgworth 16 Lostock Hall 24 Whitworth
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