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The diary SPRING 2019
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curtain up until 20 minutes after). However,
during the Creative Arts Festival the box
office will be open for two hours each day.
Please visit quarrytheatre.org.uk for details.
Finding Us
The Quarry Theatre at St. Luke’s
26 St. Peter’s Street, Bedford MK40 2NN School group bookings
The entrance to The Quarry Theatre is on St. Peter’s To enquire about our special discounts for
Street. If you are travelling by car, please use MK40 school groups and to book tickets, please call
2NN for Sat Nav systems. 01234 362337 or email
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shows featuring this symbol.
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and is free after 6pm. St Peter’s Street Car Park is also
open 24 hours and is free after 6pm. Parking on De
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Contact us
on Sunday. We are always happy to hear from you with
comments, suggestions and enquiries.
Note that the programme is subject to change. You can call us on 01234 362269 or email
Visit our website for the latest shows and news. quarrytheatre@bedfordschool.org.uk
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SPRING Highlights Welcome
Happy New Year and welcome to our 2019 spring
Something funny . . . programme! This season we bring to you quite possibly
LOL (Ladies of Laughter) with one of the most dynamic programmes since we opened
Noreen Khan back in 2015.
Noreen Khan hosts a laugh out loud We start the season with a NT Live broadcast of The
night of comedy with some of the UK’s Tragedy of King Richard The Second on Tuesday 15
favourite female acts. January starring Simon Russell Beale. Speaking of
which, he will be in person at The Quarry Theatre on
10 February as part of the Sharnbrook Mill’s Reverie:
Something for the kids . . . The Life & Loves of Debussy!
The Giant Jam Sandwich The winner of Britain’s Got Talent, Lost Voice Guy,
Join the villagers in their giant returns with his brand new touring show ‘I’m only in it
sandwich-making plan to defeat the for the Parking’ on Monday 25 March. Be aware that this
wasps and help save the day, in a is close to selling out! Other highlights for us are ‘The
fun-packed feast for 3-8 year-olds and Giant Jam Sandwich’ (Sunday 3 March), which will have
their families. (for the first time at The Quarry) BSL interpretation at the
2.00pm performance. We hope to have more
performances with interpretation so do look out for these
Something different . . . in the coming months. We also have the utterly hilarious
Tom Neenan (writer of Mash Report, Mock The Week and
Luke Jermay: Intuition
The Last Leg) with his Edinburgh 2018 hit ‘It’s Always
Luke Jermay is back and better than Infinity’ on Friday 26 April… highly recommended by the
ever with a brand new interactive stage Quarry Director!
show jam-packed with phenomenal
jaw-dropping demonstrations of Many thanks once again for your continued support of
our theatre and I hope you enjoy the season ahead.
intuition, telepathy and prediction.
Remember to check the website occasionally as this
printed programme can be subject to change.
Something special . . .
The Jive Aces: Big Beat Revue James Pharaoh & Miles Leven
Britain’s Got Talent’s The Jive Aces are The Quarry Theatre at St Luke’s
set to take Bedford by storm as they
bring jive and swing to The Quarry
Theatre. Don’t miss out on a fantastic
evening with this award-winning band.
We have signed up to the Family Arts
Standards. We welcome families and to help
you enjoy your experience we are committed
to ensuring we meet these Standards. As we
continue to improve our service for families
your views are very important to us – so please
let us know if you have a good experience with The Quarry Theatre is part of Bedford School,
us or tell us what you’d like us to improve. which is part of the Harpur Trust
The Quarry Theatre presents
NT Live: The Tragedy of
King Richard II
Tuesday 15 January, 7.00pm
Simon Russell Beale plays Shakespeare’s
Where Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of
Main Auditorium London’s Almeida Theatre in this visceral new
Ticket price production about the limits of power.
£14.50 (£12.50
Richard II, King of England, is irresponsible,
concessions)
foolish and vain. His weak leadership sends
Running time
150 minutes his kingdom into disarray and his court into
(+15min interval) uproar. Seeing no other option but to seize
power, the ambitious Bolingbroke challenges
Age suitability
12yrs+ the throne and the King’s divine right to rule.
Directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins (Little Revolution,
Almeida and Absolute Hell, National Theatre).
The Quarry Theatre presents
2019 Open Evening
& Season Launch
Friday 18 January, 7.00pm
Celebrate the start of our wonderful spring season with us!
Where
We’re opening our doors for invited guests and loyal theatregoers. Join us,
The Quarry Theatre
‘The Quarry Theatre Team’, as we offer tours around our space, backstage
Ticket price and behind the scenes, giving you a glimpse of life in a working theatre.
Free (ticketed
event) You can sign up to our mailing list and the box office will be open all night
offering discounts to shows in our spring season.
Running time
90 minutes We’ll be taking suggestions for future programming and events, as well as
Age suitability discussing how we can help local businesses and the community as a
All ages whole.
So come along, grab a drink and let us know your thoughts.
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Bedford Poetry Company present
Blue Monday
Monday 21 January, 7.30pm
A combination of post-Christmas
blues, cold, dark nights and the arrival Where
of unpaid credit card bills... Yes, it’s Studio Theatre
the third Monday of the year! Ticket price
Bedford Poetry Company present £7.00
their own original poems to share the Running time
gloom and lift the spirits! 90 minutes
(+15min interval)
Age suitability
12yrs+
Bedford International Writing Competition presents
2019 Presentations evening
Friday 25 January, 7.30pm
Join us for this year’s Presentations
Evening. Judges Sue Moorcroft, novelist, Where
and Rory Waterman, poet and senior Main Auditorium
lecturer in Creative Writing at Nottingham Ticket price
Trent University, will be announcing and Free (non-ticketed
reading the winning entries of the 2018 event)
Bedford International Writing Competition. Running time
Sharon Priestly will be presenting the 90 minutes
Bedford Prize to a local writer. (+15min interval)
Charitable donations collected on the night Age suitability
will be made to ‘Just be a Child’ and a 15yrs+
Bedford women’s refuge.
5
The Quarry Theatre presents
The Ephebe Chorus of
Ancient Greek Theatres
Monday 28 January, 6.30pm
The role of the chorus in ancient Greek tragedy
Where was performed by ephebes: young Athenian men,
Main Auditorium idealised for being in the prime of their physical lives,
Ticket price who would soon embark on two years of compulsory
Free (non-ticketed military service.
event)
Drawing on Dr Shüler’s recent publication ‘The Greek
Running time Tragic Chorus and Its Training for War’, from War and
60 minutes
Theatrical Innovation, this lecture begins by arguing
Age suitability that tragic choral training and performance functioned
12yrs+ as a surrogate military training for these young men.
Furthermore, the lecture introduces Dr Shüler’s
current research into how same-sex desire from the
predominantly adult male citizen audience might
inform their reading of the ephebe’s dancing body.
The Quarry Theatre presents
NT Live: I’m Not Running
Thursday 31 January, 7.00pm
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David
Where Hare, premièring at the National Theatre and
Main Auditorium broadcast live.
Ticket price Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the
£14.50 (£12.50 inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When
concessions) she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a
Running time stalwart Labour loyalist, she’s faced with an
180 minutes agonising decision.
(+15min interval)
Hare was recently described by The Washington
Age suitability Post as “the premiere political dramatist writing in
12A English”. Other works include Pravda and Skylight,
broadcast by National Theatre Live in 2014.
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The Quarry Theatre presents
LOL (Ladies of Laughter)
With Noreen Khan
Friday 1 February, 7.30pm
Where
Main Auditorium
Ticket price
£15.00
Running time
90 minutes
(+15min interval)
Age suitability
14yrs+
Join Noreen Khan (BBC Asian Network) as she hosts a night of comedy with
some of the UK’s favourite female acts.
Note: All acts are confirmed at time of booking. Occasionally acts may be replaced for reasons
beyond our control. If this happens, the act will be replaced with another act from the tour, or a
suitable alternative.
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tiata fahodzi and Tara Finney Productions in association with Watford
Palace Theatre present
Good Dog
Tuesday 5 February, 7.30pm
Where
Main Auditorium
Ticket price
£14.00 (£12.00
concessions)
Running time
130 minutes
(+15min interval)
Age suitability
14yrs+
“good dog is
theatre at its most
simple and its
most striking”
THE REVIEWS
HUB
“compellingly vital”
THE STAGE Mum’s promised him that bike so even when school or home life bites, he
knows to keep his chin up, his head down and his shirt clean. No harsh word,
no sudden push to the ground will distract him from growing up to be a good
“a finely observed
man. Because in the end, everyone who’s good gets what they deserve. Don’t
new play” they?
WHATSONSTAGE Set during the early noughties, good dog tells the story of growing up in a multi-
cultural community, and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back
control.
Delicately observed and fearlessly told by writer Arinze Kene (actor in Netflix’s
Crazyhead, BBC’s Eastenders, Channel 4’s Youngers, West End smash Girl
from the North Country, and Misty at Bush Theatre), good dog embarks on its
second national tour following its acclaimed première in spring 2017.
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“Jaw Dropping…”
THE TIMES
“Jermay puts the
Makin Projects Present rest of us mind
Luke Jermay: Intuition readers to shame”
DERREN BROWN
“Jermay is one
of my favourite
Thursday 7 February, 7.30pm performers! See
his show!”
Intuition is a strange thing and Luke Jermay is
DAVID BLAINE
even stranger. Building on his acclaimed debut
show Sixth Sense, entertainer Luke Jermay
is back and better than ever with a brand- Where
new interactive stage show jam-packed with Main Auditorium
phenomenal jaw-dropping demonstrations of
Ticket price
intuition, telepathy and prediction; your mind
£14.00 (£12.00
will be read, your choices will be predicted and
concessions)
your future will be revealed.
Running time
This will be a unique experience that is funny, 90 minutes
entertaining, emotional, controversial, uplifting (+15min interval)
and insightful - one that you will never forget! Age suitability
14yrs+
Sharnbrook Mill Theatre Trust presents
Reverie: The Life & Loves “Winningly compiled
and performed,
Parham’s drama
of Claude Debussy places the French
Composer’s music
in fascinating
context”
Sunday 10 February, 7.00pm (champagne reception at 6.15pm) BBC MUSIC
AZINEMAGAZINE
Internationally renowned pianist Lucy Parham
presents Reverie in aid of the Sharnbrook Mill
Theatre’s ‘Warm-up’ Appeal, accompanied by
celebrated actor Simon Russell Beale.
Where
Debussy lived an entangled love life, including Main Auditorium
illicit trysts, a brush with a revolver and even a Ticket price
suicide attempt. The narrative takes the form of a £25.00
personal journal spanning from early successes to Running time
his untimely death in 1918, punctuated with piano 135 minutes
solos ranging from Clair de Lune and The Girl with
Age suitability
the Flaxen Hair to such virtuosic showpieces as
All ages
Jardins sous la Pluie and L’Isle Joyeuse.
9
Oddsocks Productions present
Robin Hood and the
Revolting Peasants
Friday 15 & Saturday 16 February, 7.30pm (+2.30pm on 16 February)
Where
Main Auditorium
Ticket price
£17.00 (£15.50
concessions,
Under 12s £11.00)
Running time
120 minutes
(+15mins interval)
Age suitability
7yrs+
Audiences are in for a treat as Oddsocks bring their trademark humour,
fast-paced action and live music to the legend that is Robin Hood!
Join Robin, Little John, Maid Marion and of course Friar Tuck as they take on
some of their hardest challenges to date: a conniving king, a sinister sheriff and
a downtrodden village of peasants whose ‘get up and go’ has got up and gone.
Can the merry band teach the baddies a lesson?
…the villagers to revolt?
…the world to sing?
Find out when Oddsocks rumble in with their rumbustious new
adventures of this legendary folk hero in a show for all the family.
10The Rotary Clubs of Bedford present
Rotary Young Musician
of The Year 2019
Wednesday 20 February, 6.00pm
Join us for an evening of great
music from young musicians as Where
we host the Bedford Castle Rotary Main Auditorium
Club local final. Ticket price
Free (ticketed
event)
Running time
240 minutes
Age suitability
All ages
HIS FUTURE’S
BRIGHTER AT
BEDFORD
BOARDING & DAY
FOR BOYS AGED 7-18
A-LEVEL & IB AT
SIXTH FORM
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OUR ADMISSIONS TEAM ON 01234 362216 OR VISIT bedfordschool.org.uk OF THE HARPUR TRUST
11The Quarry Theatre presents
The Jive Aces:
Big Beat Revue
Friday 22 February, 8.00pm
Where
Main Auditorium
Ticket price
£18.00
Running time
90 minutes
(+15min interval)
Age suitability
All ages
“Absolutely Brilliant!
That really put me
in a good mood”
SIMON COWELL
Renowned worldwide for their high-energy spectacular showmanship, their
viral video Bring Me Sunshine and for being the first live band to reach the final
“True Showmanship!” rounds of Britain’s Got Talent, The Jive Aces have firmly established themselves
DAILY TELEGRAPH as the UK’s No.1 jive & swing band.
The live show includes classics like When You’re Smiling, Mack The Knife and
Sing, Sing, Sing, plus originals such as La Dolce Vita taken from their various
“The Jive Aces
albums.
have to be one
of the most Their most popular music video, Bring Me Sunshine, is a viral hit with nearly
entertaining and three million views on YouTube and has won seven film festival awards. It is so
multi-talented acts uplifting it has actually been prescribed by a doctor!
around. Brilliant This promises to be a fantastic night out at The Quarry Theatre!
musicianship
combined with
a madcap “Hugely charismatic performers and consummate showmen”
sense of fun on
stage. Simply
EDINBURGH SPOTLIGHT
Sensational!”
THE STAGE
“These guys know how to entertain and make their music
relevant and contemporary. This music is timeless”
JAZZ JOURNAL
12“Imagine Greek drama
performed by The
Three Stooges on
speed and you’ll have
Splendid Productions present some idea of what
The Oresteia this production was
like... a matchless way
of introducing ancient
theatre to the young.”
Tuesday 26 February, 4.30pm & 7.00pm
SOUTH WALES
Splendid Productions present this ancient, epic, ARGUS ON
murderous tale of family, history, vengeance and ANTIGONE
honour.
Condensing Aeschylus’s classic trilogy into an
Where
hour, the cast of three retell the story of King
Main Auditorium
Agamemnon, his queen Clytemnestra, and
Ticket price
their children, Iphigenia, Electra and Orestes. A
£14.00 (£12.00
legendary family born to power, but destined to rip
concessions)
itself apart in a bloody cycle of tragedy.
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13New Perspectives Theatre Company present
The Giant Jam Sandwich
Sunday 3 March, 2.00pm* & 5.00pm
Where
Main Auditorium
Ticket price
£10.00 (£8.00
concessions),
Family ticket
£32.00 (max two
adults)
Running time
60 minutes
Age suitability
3–8yrs
“Musical theatre
for children at One hot summer’s day, four million wasps invade the quiet village of Itching
its finest...if you Down. The picnickers panic and the farmer stops haymaking. The wasps are
have children, noisy, nasty and, worst of all, they don’t mind who they sting! That is until the
see this show!” baker has an ingenious idea...
Following successful tours of Farm Boy and The Butterfly Lion (Michael
ONE4REVIEW
Morpurgo), Not Now, Bernard (David McKee) and The Tiger’s Bones and Other
Stories (Ted Hughes), the New Perspectives Theatre Company bring one of the
“Perfect theatrical most loved picture books to life on stage to enthral a new generation.
adaptation...
bursting with Join the villagers in their giant sandwich-making plan to defeat the wasps and
songs, humour and help save the day, in a fun-packed feast for 3-8 year-olds and their families.
clever references * with British sign language interpretor
for the grown-ups.”
“Imaginative and fun...really hits the mark”
THE LIST
THE SCOTSMAN
“Kazoos, helicopters, wasps and of course lots and lots of jam - this show packs
it all in and is one sandwich that’s well worth tasting!!!” ”
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FOR KIDS
14Nebula Productions present
SK Shlomo: ‘Surrender’
Album Tour
Friday 8 March, 7.30pm
Where
Main Auditorium
Ticket price
£12.00 (£10.00
concessions)
Running time
60 minutes
Age suitability
14yrs+
“The beatboxer
turns electronic
singer-songwriter
on the gloriously
melancholic first
single from his
forthcoming album”
THE TIMES
The record-breaking beatboxer and collaborator with Ed Sheeran, Björk and
Damon Albarn turns electronic singer-songwriter on his album tour, blending his
innovative live-looping and breathtaking beatboxing with epic synths, crushingly
honest lyrics and lush electronic layers. Massive Attack meets James Blake.
Simon Shlomo Kahn knows how it feels to be on top of the world. For
over a decade, the genre-defying, award-winning, recording-breaking
beatboxer, producer and live-looper has set new standards for his craft.
As Shlomo, he burst in to the mainstream collaborating with Björk and
performed with famous fans from Damon Albarn, Lily Allen and Jarvis Cocker
to Imogen Heap, Martha Wainwright and Rudimental. As the first ever World
Looping Champion, he taught his friend Ed Sheeran some tricks. He was Artist
in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre for years, has played the main
stages at Glastonbury more times than he remembers, won rave reviews for his
autobiographical one-man shows, and even had a feature film made about him.
15The Wrong Crowd in association with Soho Theatre present
KITE
Monday 11 & Tuesday 12 March, 7.30pm (+ 4.30pm on 12 March)
Where
Main Auditorium
Ticket price
£12.00 (£10.00
concessions)
Running time
60 minutes
Age suitability
7yrs+
“Enchanting”
THE STAGE
“Who needs words,
when theatre is
this expressive?”
THE TIMES
“Will delight Stuck in her Grandma’s obsessively tidy flat, a recently orphaned girl discovers
audiences of a kite, which comes to life and takes her on a wild adventure. Little does she
all ages” know that Grandma has her own brand of magic and the wind will bring them
together in ways they never would have imagined.
EVERYTHING Inspired by the world of indoor kite flying and stories such as The Snowman
THEATRE and The Red Balloon, Kite is a play without words, with originally composed
music, dance, puppetry and, of course, kites.
From acclaimed theatre company The Wrong Crowd, creators of inventive,
playful and compelling new theatre (Snow White and the Happy Ever After
Beauty Salon, Swanhunter, Hag, The Girl with the Iron Claws). Kite is for
audiences of all ages. A poignant love-song to the wind, freedom and the joy of
play.
* with British sign language interpretor for the meet the puppets session
12
08
14
16Bedford Prep School Drama present
Charles Dickens’
Oliver Twist
Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 March, 7.00pm (plus 3.00pm* on 23 March)
Where
Main Auditorium
Ticket price
£7.00 (£5.00
concessions)
Running time
75 minutes
Age suitability
8yrs+
Adapted for the stage in 24 scenes and several songs and tableaux, Neil
Bartlett’s production of the Charles Dickens classic, Oliver Twist, vividly brings
to life the dark underbelly of ninteenth-century London. Oliver, Fagin, Bill Sikes
and the Artful Dodger inhabit a world filled with danger and fear, innocence
and hope; a world seen through the eyes of an astonished child.
Performed by pupils of Bedford Prep School.
* with British sign language interpretor
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17Gag Reflex in association with Andrew Roach Talent presents
Lost Voice Guy: I’m Only
In It For The Parking
Monday 25 March, 7.30pm
Where
Main Auditorium
Ticket price
£16.00 (£14.00
concessions)
Running time
90 minutes
(+15min interval)
Age suitability
14yrs+
“Savagely funny…
he’s a bloody
good comedian.”
THE WEE REVIEW
“Entertaining and
thought-provoking”
THREE WEEKS
Following the unprecedented success of his appearance on the final of Britain’s
Got Talent 2018, BBC New Comedy Award winner and star and writer of BBC
“Incredibly talented”
Radio 4’s comedy series, Ability, Lee Ridley (aka Lost Voice Guy) is setting out
SIMON COWELL
on a tour of the UK. He may not be able to talk but he definitely has something
to say and his comedy will leave you speechless.
“Such a naughty
sense of humour… Lee is the first stand-up comedian to use a communication aid and made his
genius” first stand-up appearance in February 2012. He has performed in some of
ALESHA DIXON the UK’s most popular comedy venues as well as in solo shows at festivals
including the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Fringe, Glasgow International
“Bloody brilliant” Comedy Festival, Leicester Comedy Festival, Nottingham Comedy Festival and
AMANDA Liverpool Comedy Festival.
HOLDEN TV and Radio credits include The One Show (BBC One), Voice Of The People
(BBC Three) and Ability, the Radio 4 series that Lee stars in and co-wrote with
Katherine Jakeways, has just been recommissioned for a second series.
18Bedford School Speech and Drama present
An Evening of Speech &
Drama
Wednesday 27 March, 7.00pm
Join us for an evening
celebrating Speech Where
and Drama at Bedford Main Auditorium
School. Ticket price
With highlights from Free (ticketed
the Prep and Upper event)
pupils, prize winners Running time
from the Bedfordshire 90 minutes
Festival and the best Age suitability
of our LAMDA entries. 12yrs+
i-Show Theatre School presents
More Than Musicals
Saturday 30 March,1.00pm & 5.30pm
i-show theatre school presents its annual medley
of musicals, with all the usual show-stopping Where
numbers from the likes of Matilda, Blood Main Auditorium
Brothers, Mamma Mia and The Greatest Ticket price
Showman. £14.00 (£12.00
concessions)
This year students have been exploring some of
Running time
the hard-hitting messages behind the musicals,
1.00pm show 90
threading fun with a deeper meaning of various
minutes, 5.30pm
issues affecting young people.
show 120 minutes
Look out for anti-bullying modern dance pieces, Age suitability
and the themes of equality and freedom in All ages
excerpts from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
19TFH and Pleasance in association with Something for the Weekend and
PBJ Management present
Flanders & Swann
Friday 5 April, 7.30pm
Where
Main Auditorium
Ticket price
£16.50 (£14.50
concessions)
Running time
125 minutes
(+15min interval)
Age suitability
All ages
“A delectable
hour for fans
old and new”
BROADWAY
BABY
“You’ll love Tim, Duncan and the Hippo are celebrating the much-loved words and music of
this show” Flanders and Swann, those internationally acclaimed musical comedy legends
of the 1950s and 60s. With their own unique style and humour, the boys present
Flanders and Swann’s classic songs and traditions interspersed with a few of
THREE WEEKS their hidden and yet ever-sparkling gems. Fans and the uninitiated alike will
‘wallow’ in this unique take on the work of two of Britain’s most iconic comedy
“Such energy songsmiths. Songs include: The Hippopotamus Song (Mud, Mud, Glorious
and relish… Mud), The Gas Man Cometh, The Gnu Song, Omnibus (or A Transport of
caught the period Delights), and Madeira M’Dear.
remarkably well…
Tim FitzHigham is a Perrier Award-Nominated, multi award-winning comedian
well worth seeing”
who has performed on BBC Radio 1, 2, 4 and 5, toured lots and appeared
frequently on TV and in films in the UK and Europe. He starred in his own CBBC
THE show Superhuman Challenge and was recently the star of two seasons of BBC
INDEPENDENT Radio 4’s The Gambler.
Duncan Walsh Atkins is a stalwart of BBC Radio 4, runs a busy London
music studio and has also toured lots. As well as providing the music for BBC
TV’s Fast and Loose he opened his first musical, The Tailor Made Man, at
London’s Arts Theatre and is the musical director for the Olivier Award-Winning
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (Best Entertainment and Family Show
20
2016).The Quarry Theatre presents
NT LIVE: Hold The Date
Thursday 11 April, 7.00pm
Make a date in your diary for the latest
NT Live theatre screening. Where
Main Auditorium
Full details will be announced on The
Ticket price
Quarry Theatre website as soon as they
£14.50 (£12.50
are available. concessions)
quarrytheatre.org.uk Running time
TBC
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21The Quarry Theatre presents
RSC Live: As You Like It
Wednesday 17 April, 7.00pm
Come into the forest; dare to change your state of
Where mind.
Main Auditorium
Director Kimberley Sykes (Dido, Queen of Carthage)
Ticket price presents a riotous, exhilarating version of
£14.50 (£12.50 Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, broadcast live
concessions) from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-
Running time upon-Avon.
TBC
Rosalind is banished, wrestling with her heart and
Age suitability
her head. With her cousin by her side, she journeys
12A
to a world of exile where barriers are broken down
and all can discover their deeper selves.
22Night Owl Shows present
The Carole King &
James Taylor Story
Saturday 20 April, 7.45pm
Where
Main Auditorium
Ticket price
£17.00 (£15.00
concessions)
Running time
90 minutes
(+15min interval)
Age suitability
13yrs+
“both guitar and
voice took these
fans back to
The Troubadour
in 1970”
BROADWAY
BABY
“Wow, what an
experience”
BBC KENT
“performance was
Following critically acclaimed sell-out runs at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
The Carole King & James Taylor Story comes to The Quarry Theatre to immaculate”
take you on an incredible journey through the career of six-time Grammy
Award winner and 20-time platinum hit-maker Carole King and five-time THREE WEEKS
Grammy Award winner and American folk legend, James Taylor.
This new show-umentary format gives a fascinating insight into the lives behind
the music. Featuring passionate renditions of Fire and Rain, Sweet Baby
James, I Feel the Earth Move, Natural Woman, You’ve Got a Friend and many
more, this astonishing back catalogue is realised with authenticity by Phoebe
Katis and Dan Clews, both well-established artists in their own right.
23Berk’s Nest in association with Ebdon Management present
Tom Neenan: It’s Always
Infinity
Friday 26 April, 7.30pm
Where
Main Auditorium
Ticket price
£12.00 (£10.00
concessions)
Running time
60 minutes
Age suitability
14yrs+
“Clever, elegantly
constructed, and
builds to a twist
that you really
won’t see coming”
TELEGRAPH
“A sharply-scripted
character study…
an elegant show Quarry Theatre Director’s Edinburgh Fringe 2018 pick! Highly recommended.
that builds to Tom’s girlfriend has vanished… So he has done what any right-minded man
a wonderful (and “theatre-maker”) would do in this situation, and turned his search for her
comic twist” into an “important” piece of “art”. Come “witness” it. (Nobody went missing in
the creation of this show.)
CHORTLE It’s Always Infinity is a narrative-driven character comedy show about toxic
masculinity and the questionable role of the male creator, presented by a
“A razor-sharp version of Tom who sees himself as ‘one of the good guys’ but is anything but.
hour of character It combines projection, storytelling and character comedy to tell a story where
comedy” ‘Tom’ reveals what an awful person he is.
Tom Neenan is the writer of The Mash Report, A Girl’s Guide to TV, Mock The
THE LIST Week (BBC2), The Last Leg (Channel 4), Spotlight Tonight, The News Quiz,
The Now Show (BBC Radio 4). He’s also the writer & star of Tom Neenan’s The
Hauntening (BBC Radio 4)
24Bedford School Modern Languages Department Presents
Yerma
Friday 26th & Saturday 27 April, 7.30pm
Spanish language with live translation
Where
Performed by students of Bedford School & Studio Theatre
Bedford Girls’ School
Ticket price
Young couples have everything to look forward to. £5.00
Running time
A few years enjoying each other’s company before
60 minutes
finally bringing a new life into the world. This is all that
Age suitability
Yerma desires. But she has not been blessed with
13yrs+
a child and, as years of childless marriage turn into
decades, her obsession with motherhood grows.
Federico García Lorca’s most famous work Yerma
explores the plight of a young wife desperate to
conceive, and the bitterness that mounts when
desires are thwarted and dreams are slowly crushed
by the passing of time.
25Summer SEASON 2019
On sale now on the website
RADIO ACTIVE
Saturday 25 May, 7.30pm
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 and 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.
ASHLEY BLAKER AND IMRAN
YUSUF: PROPHET SHARING
Wednesday 29 May, 7.30pm
Two great religions. Two great comedians. The descendants of
Abraham may have gone their separate ways but now stand-up
comedian friends Ashley Blaker and Imran Yusuf – both stars of their
own BBC shows – are joining forces in the most unlikely double act
since Kermit and Miss Piggy (who neither Ashley and Imran can eat!)
Originally brought together by a passion for the same football team,
the pair are travelling the UK uniting people of every faith and none
for an evening of laughter.
26Housekeeping
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We advise you call ahead of your visit to book a space. Please call to book
27SPRING 2019
WHAT’S ON
January
Tue 15 NT Live: The Tragedy of King Richard II £14.50 (£12.50 concessions) 04
Fri 18 2019 Open Evening and Season Launch Free (ticketed) 04
Mon 21 Blue Monday £7.00 05
Fri 25 Bedford Writing Competition Presentation Evening Free (non-ticketed) 05
Mon 28 The Ephebe Chorus of Ancient Greek Theatres Free (non-ticketed) 06
Thu 31 NT Live: I'm Not Running £14.50 (£12.50 concessions) 06
February
Fri 1 LOL (Ladies of Laughter) with Noreen Khan £15.00 07
Tue 5 Good Dog £14.00 (£12.00 concessions) 08
Thu 7 Luke Jermay: Intuition £14.00 (£12.00 concessions) 09
Sun 10 Reverie: The Life & Loves of Claude Debussy £25.00 09
Fri 15 - Sat 16 Robin Hood and the Revolting Peasants £17.00 (£15.50 concessions, Under 12s £11.00) 10
Wed 20 Rotary Young Musician of The Year 2019 Free (ticketed) 11
Fri 22 The Jive Aces: Big Beat Revue £18.00 12
Tue 26 The Oresteia £14.00 (£12.00 concessions) 13
March
£10.00 (£8.00 concessions),
Sun 3 The Giant Jam Sandwich 14
Family ticket £32.00 (max two adults)
Fri 8 SK Shlomo: ‘Surrender’ Album Tour £12.00 (£10.00 concessions) 15
Mon 11 - Tue 12 Kite £12.00 (£10.00 concessions) 16
Thu 21 - Sat 23 Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist £7.00 (£5.00 concessions) 17
Mon 25 Lost Voice Guy: I’m Only In It For The Parking £16.00 (£14.00 concessions) 18
Wed 27 An Evening of Speech & Drama Free (ticketed) 19
Sat 30 More Than Musicals £14.00 (£12.00 concessions) 19
April
Fri 5 Flanders & Swann £16.50 (£14.50 concessions) 20
Thu 11 NT Live: Hold the Date £14.50 (£12.50 concessions) 21
Wed 17 RSC Live: As You Like It £14.50 (£12.50 concessions) 22
Sat 20 The Carole King & James Taylor Story £17.00 (£15.00 concessions) 23
Fri 26 Tom Neenan: It’s Always Infinity £12.00 (£10.00 concessions) 24
Fri 26 - Sat 27 Yerma £5.00 25
Box office: 01234 362337
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