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www.courttheatre.co.uk
The Court @thecourttheatre
Theatre at Tring
Now is the winter of our
programme full
So as I pen this note to you all, the full programme
is 2 months in and playing to packed and
appreciative houses. Having taken a big slice
of my offspring to the Panto and enjoying each
performance, one of my grandkids turned to me
and asked, “Grandad why did they name you after
a theatre” bless him, he just added to the laughter
and fun of this splendid ritual event at the Court.
If variety is the spice of life patrons of the Court
could not wish for more. Plays, comics and serious
bands, singers famous and local, all part of an
ever-increasing programme of treats for a wider and
wider audience. In my one to one personal surveys,
which usually start with, “do you come here often?”
the number of encounters with folk who have come
from great distances is increasing.
The broad band of “courtiers” the noble and
enthusiastic backbone of the facility continue
to give one a great sense of pride. This band of
brothers and sisters are many not few. Volunteers
and enthusiasts all doing their roles or minding the
shop it seems to matter not. I once tried to convince
a Prime Minster to drive off the A41 to come and
see the “big society” in the small town of Tring, I
think a referendum got in the way, so I failed in the
endeavour.
This next season at the Court is jam packed with
delights to please all tastes, all artistic parties.
Musicals to please everyone including a special
favourite of mine but you will have to guess which
that may be. Comedy by the ton, enough to give
everyone something they can remember over a
drink or at dinner. Some great plays challenging the
casts and those directing and last but by no means
least we host “Any Questions” on BBC Radio 4.
We have been doing a steady stream of
improvements, freshening up the look but most
importantly making better space for all the
hundreds of Courtiers so they will have better
facilities to do their work. It is an ongoing and
often expensive process which God willing I can
continue to fund. The fund of goodwill is up to
you the audience, your support of all the various
performances is the food of more events at
the Court.
David Evans
MBE
Photos: Adam Hollier
Saturday 9th March 20th - 23rd March
2019 2019
Get Stuffed presents Berkhamsted
Andrew
Theatre Company
presents
Maxwell
By special arrangement
with Samuel French Ltd.
SHOWTIME! There is a dangerous
difference between
A memorable cocktail
following orders
of personal stories
and following
and astute political
your conscience… When two young marines are
observations foray into
accused of killing another member of their unit,
character cameos, it won a barrage of five-star
brash young Navy lawyer Daniel Kaffee is charged
reviews for one of the festival’s most universally
with defending them. When he joins forces with
acclaimed acts. Now, it’s ‘showtime’ for the rest of
Joanne Galloway, a Special Counsel for Internal
the country. Andrew is known for his eagle-eyed,
Affairs with high ambitions, they are confronted
passionate current-affairs comedy, showcased in
with complex issues of duty, justice, loyalty and
his many appearances on BBC Radio 4.
conspiracies in an explosively tense murder trial.
£15.00 Starts: 7.30pm. Aaron Sorkin’s Tony award nominated Naval
Court-martial drama was adapted into an Oscar
nominated film of the same name starring Tom
14th - 16th March 2019 Cruise and Jack Nicholson.
The Court Theatre presents £15.00 Starts: 7.30pm.
Murder
by the Wednesday 27th
March 2019
Home Get Stuffed
Fires presents
by Karen Banfield Seann
It is Spring 1944 and there are plenty of posters
giving dire warning that Careless Talk Costs Lives. Walsh
The Morris family have taken this to heart and ‘AFTER THIS
hold on tightly to their secrets. But when they start ONE I’M GOING
being revealed, for one of them, their number’s up HOME’.
and everyone is a suspect. At the end of act one,
Edinburgh
guests will be able to work as a team at their table
Comedy Award
to submit their first guess as to who the murderer
nominee and
is. After act two, they get their final chance to say
the selfdubbed “Lie-In King”, Seann Walsh is
‘whodunnit’ and why. The format of the event
“unquestionably the best observational comic of
is for the audience to sit back and enjoy a full
his generation” (The Guardian). Returning from his
length play, with breaks for lunch/supper and then
‘Strictly Experience’ and his run in America, where
pudding. No questions are directed at any cast
he made his USA television debut appearance
members and they do not mix with the audience
on Conan, Seann Walsh is back at The Court
The team with the most points wins a prize.
on his UK tour. This disheveled, fiery, animated,
All tickets must be booked in advance. fiercely idle, millennial man child is one of best live
£18.00 (See website for table discounts) comedians to have come out of the UK.
Starts: Evening - 7.30pm. £16.00 Starts: 8.00pm.
Lunchtime - 12 noon.
Thursday 28th March 2019 Saturday 30th March 2019
Court Theatre and Muzicmeet present Court Theatre and Muzicmeet present
Kathryn Roberts Andy Fairweather Low
and The Low Riders
& Sean Lakeman featuring The Hi Riders Soul Revue
Duos come and duos Back by
go... but bonded by popular
an unseen alchemy, demand!
Kathryn Roberts Following
and Sean Lakeman on from his
have entwined their sell out show
professional and in 2017 we
personal relationship welcome
into an enviable class act of imaginative Andy back with his full 7 piece band, With songs
songwriting and musicianship. The Dartmoor such as ‘Bend Me Shape Me’, ‘Hello Suzy’ and ‘(If
based husband and wife have twice won the Paradise Is) Half As Nice’, his work is internationally
coveted Best Duo title at the BBC Radio 2 Folk acclaimed. He was the lead singer in ‘60s band
Awards (2016 and 2013), consistently delivering Amen Corner and since then has worked with
assured, distinctive performances. Over two numerous people including Eric Clapton, Bob
decades of performance they have never been Dylan, The Who, The Bee Gees, Elton John, Roger
trapped in a groove always bold and innovative, Waters and Van Morrison to name just a few. A
mixing traditional song arrangements with their remarkable man and a remarkable band, we’re
self penned material which reels from the bitter thrilled to be welcoming them back to The Court.
to the sweet, the wry to the sad, the political to £27.50. Starts: 7.30pm.
the passive. across folk, rock, country and blues
genres.
£15.00. Starts: 7.30pm. 3rd - 6th April 2019
Frayed Knot Theatre
Company presents
Friday 29th March 2019 By arrangement with:
Knight Hall Agency Ltd.
Court Theatre and Muzicmeet present
By George Orwell.
By arrangement with Selective Agency and Hug Live. Adapted by
Space
Matthew Dunster.
Space have 1984
sold over 5 WAR IS PEACE
million records FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
worldwide with IGNORANCE IS
titles including “Spiders, “Tin Planet” “Suburban STRENGTH 1984. A cold, bright day in April. The
Rock and Roll” and “Attack of the Mutant 50ft clocks strike 13, and Comrade 6079, Winston
Kebab” along with ten top 40 singles and a host Smith starts a diary. In a world where free-thought
of other single releases to-date with titles including is criminal and Big Brother isalways watching, it
“Neighbourhood” “Female of the Species”, “Me is not a matter of if, but when the Thought Police
and You Vs. The World” “Avenging Angels” “Dark come calling… and processing begins for your visit
Clouds”, “The Ballad of Tom Jones” and “Begin to Room 101. This modern classic is reinvented for
Again” So come along and hear all your favourites! the stage in an acclaimed new version by Matthew
The band continue to write gritty edgy pop songs Dunster, as George Orwell’s dystopian vision
that capture the imagination of the listener. This is creeps insidiously into our own reality.
a standing event. £12.00 - £14.00. Concessions available.
£17.50. Starts: 7.30pm. Starts: 7.30pm.10th - 13th April 2019 26th & 27th April 2019
MASH Productions presents Get Stuffed presents
Mark Watson
By Howard Ashman and Alan Menken
A deviously
delicious sci-fi Cluster-bombed
musical,that with yoghurt on
has delighted ‘Taskmaster’,
audiences half-killed on ‘Bear
worldwide. Grylls’ Celebrity
The meek Island’, Watson
floral assistant returns to what
Seymour he’s best at: being
Krelborn indoors. Inspired by
stumbles across the mostly alarming
a new breed of state of the world
plant he names his children are
Audrey II. This R&B-singing carnivore promises growing up in, and
unending fame and fortune to the down and out a genuine, urgent
Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it. Over desire to do something about it, this show is about
time, though, Seymour discovers Audrey II’s out empathy. 99 percent of the world’s population
of this world origins and intent towards global is made up of other people: why can’t we
domination! From the writer’s of Disney’s The Little understand them? As scrawny and impassioned as
Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin this ever, one of the UK’s most beloved and thinnest
charmingly tongue in cheek comedy has long acts offers some suggestions, with his usual
been one of the most popular shows around the notoriously high joke- andrant- per-minute rate.
world.
£19.00. Starts: 8.00pm.
£12.00 - £15.00.
(Wednesday - £5.00 Students).
Starts: 7.30pm. Saturday Matinee 2.30pm.
2nd - 4th May 2019
Berkhamsted Youth Theatre presents
Music by
Friday 29th March 2019 George Stiles.
Book and Lyrics by
Get Stuffed Live Events Anthony Drewe.
and Housemouse presents This amateur
Love Resurrection
production is
presented by arrangement
with Music Theatre
Get Stuffed Live Events, International (Europe).
the team responsible for
the Tringe Festival have Ugly looks quite a bit different from his darling
teamed up with the well known and locally loved duckling brothers and sisters. The other animals
electronic music collective Housemouse. Together, on the farm are quick to notice and point this out,
they are bringing their unique blend of upbeat despite his mother’s protective flapping. Along the
Balearic style funky house and techno to the Court way, Ugly meets a whole flock of unique characters
Theatre for the first time. Resurrect your love of and finds out being different is not a bad thing
awesome classics fused with cutting edge beats to be. BYT are thrilled to be performing this fast
and prepare to hit the dance floor! paced and comical show with its fabulous songs
This event is for over 25’s and music. Suitable for all age groups it really is a
“Cracking” production.
Only available online (see website for
details) Starts: 7pm - Midnight £5.00 - £10.00
(doors 6.30pm). Starts: 7.30pm. Saturday Matinee 2.30pm.8th - 11th May 2019 21st - 25th May 2019
Vale Musical Society Berkhamsted Theatre Company presents
presents
Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter.
Book by Arthur Kopit
By arrangement with
MusicScope and Stage
Musicals Ltd of New York.
Tracy Lord, a beautiful high Book by Maureen Chadwick. Music & Lyrics Kath Gotts.
society girl with very high It’s 1963: Dame Dorothea Dosserdale School for
standards, is marrying dull but reliable George. girls has a proud tradition of fostering free spirits.
The day before the wedding, she needs to deal The death of the school’s founder has left the
with her philandering father, Seth, her strong-willed school in the hands of a tyrannical headmistress:
little sister, Dinah, her Uncle Willie’s fondness Top of her aims is to find the culprits of indecent
for chambermaids and her exhusband, Dexter, and unnatural behaviour in the art room; enlisting
who is determined to win her back. Matters are the assistance of Brenda Smears; the school sneak.
complicated even further when magazine reporter, Include the deputy headmistress, a kind, caring
Mike, covering Tracy’s wedding, also ends up spinster who adores the school and girls. Add
falling for her. So will she marry George? The an undercover games mistress, the unconvincing
fabulous score includes “Who Wants To Be A odd-job man and we have a tale of first loves,
Millionaire?”, “Well Did You Evah?”, “True Love” overbearing parents, runaway students and secret
and many more. Chelsea night clubs.
£16.00. Concessions £12.00. £15.00. Starts: 7.30pm.
Starts: 7.30pm. Saturday Matinee 2.30pm.
Saturday Matinee 2.00pm (not 2.30pm).
14th - 18th May 2019 Wednesday 22nd May 2019
Tring Theatre Company presents Get Stuffed presents
The
Broadway Shappi Khorsandi
Musical Comedian, author,
Book by Mark O’Donnel, Thomas Meehan. cultural icon and -
Music by Marc Shaiman. Lyrics by Scott Whittman and most recently - idiot
Marc Shaiman. By arrangement with who agreed to be
Music Theatre International (Europe) tortured on ‘I’m A
1960s Baltimore, Maryland. Quirky, plus-sized, Celebrity Get Me Out
Tracy Turnblad dreams of dancing on The Corny Of Here!’, Shappi
Collins Show. When she gets put in detention with Khorsandi is a woman
the African- American students in school, they of many parts. But
teach her some dance moves, which help her win live comedy is where
a spot on Corny’s show. Overnight, Tracy becomes she’s in her element,
a star. She advocates racial integration despite and now - after her
bullying from the network producer, Velma, and her spell in the jungle -
popular, but vicious, daughter, Amber. Helped by she sets out for the
teenage heartthrob Link, host Corny Collins, and more welcoming
Motormouth Maybelle (the host of ‘Negro Day’), destination of Tring. A brand new hour of sharp-
Tracy succeeds in her mission. This bright, energetic tongued gags, cultural observation and whatever
story teaches us all to look past the colour of one’s else is in her easily distracted mind this time
skin and fight for everyone’s equal rights. around. As heard on Radio 4, read in two warmly-
received books, and seen sleeping in a hammock.
£10.00 - £18.00. Concessions available.
Starts: 7.30pm. Saturday Matinee 2.30pm. £16.00. Starts: 8.00pm.Friday 31st May 2019 30th June - 20th July 2019
Court Theatre and BBC Radio 4 presents Get Stuffed presents
Any Questions?
Any Questions? is the flagship political panel
programme that goes out live on Friday evenings
at 8pm on BBC Radio 4 (repeated on Saturday
afternoons at 1.10pm). And we are delighted
to be able to welcome the BBC Radio 4 team
here to The David Evans Court Theatre. Any
The Tringe Comedy Festival takes over The Court
Questions? was first broadcast in October 1948
Theatre every July for three weeks of fun and
and its current chair is Jonathan Dimbleby. Each
mayhem, as many of the stand up stars of today
week Any Questions? visits a different part of
and the future test the water and preview their
the country with a diverse panel of four speakers
shows for The Edinburgh Fringe a few weeks
who answer questions from the audience. The
later. A great opporutnuity to see some top
programme provides the opportunity for people
class comedy acts in the intimate setting of this
to challenge leading politicians, policy makers,
wonderful theatre.
writers and thinkers. This is a first for the Court and
we hope that this will prove to be the start of a For more details and up to date
good working relationship with the BBC and hope information visit www.tringefestival.co.uk
that other radio shows will be able to be broadcast or www.get-stuffed.biz. More details to
from here for the future. Allocation of tickets will follow soon on the theatre website also.
be advised via the Court Theatre website around
10 weeks prior to broadcast.
26th July 2019
Details to be announced via website
Iconic Promotions Ltd presents
Doors Open: 6.30pm
Special Kinda
Madness
Special Kinda Madness perform a truly authentic
set from each band, combining the phenomenally
energetic stage presence of The Specials with
the wonderful iconic tunes of the Madness ‘Nutty
Boys’. Playing a set from each band and producing
a show that will have the audience up and dancing
from the off, Special Kinda Madness will have
everyone hankering after that exciting era of
2-Tone and ska. 2 Bands … 2-Tone … 1 Fantastic
Night! This is a standing event.
£16.00 in advance, £20.00 on the door.
Starts: 8.00pm.30th July - 3rd August 2019 3rd - 7th September 2019
Tring Youth Theatre Project presents Tring Youth Theatre Project presents
By Tim Firth
Music and lyrics by
On the back of the huge success of last Madness
year’s show, the spectacular Disney double
header with The Aristocats and The Jungle This year the Tring Youth Senior’s team
The Court Theatre, Station Road, Tring,
Book featuring over 60 young performers Hertfordshire HP23 present
5QY OUR HOUSE THE MADNESS
aged 8 - 15 years, the Tring Youth Juniors are MUSICAL and lightens the mood of the last
Email: info@courttheatre.co.uk
delighted and excited to present this fabulous two years having produced two hard hitting
Welcome!
family musical, featuring all the songs and musicals SPRING AWAKENING and RENT.
characters you would expect from the original Based on the songs of Madness and written
show that kicked off the careers of two by Calendar Girls playwright Tim Firth, OUR
masters of musical theatre.
The Grass Roots Court HOUSE
Theatre is a story
presents of good versus evil with all
events
most weeks of the year and provides a wide range
the hilarity and
and variety of entertainment. There’s something
lyrical witticism of Madness’s
£10.00 - £15.00 suitable for all ages -iconic
from fullsongs.
scale musicals to one
Starts: 7.30pm. person shows, plays to panto and music that covers Illustration by
Saturday Matinee 2.30pm. £10.00
all tastes from jazz to rock and much, much - £15.00
more.
We have a mainline station via Euston (35 m
Now in its 34th year, the theatreStarts: 7.30pm.
at Pendley, Tring few minutes away and are only 25 minutes f
was established in 1978 and is set Saturday Matinee both
in a fine Victorian 2.30pm.
the M25 (Junction 22) and the M1 (Jun
building dating back exactly 100 years from the 9 and 12).
ok forward to
date it was opened as a theatre. Originally a riding
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school, The Court Theatre is set in the attractive
com wel
woodland estate of Pendley Manor (once the family
home of Dorian Williams, the television sports
commentator) on the rural outskirts of Tring.
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