What’s on in February 2017 at Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds

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Thursday 2 – Saturday 11 February

Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds

NORTHANGER ABBEY

at Theatre Royal

Adapted by Tim Luscombe

Directed by Karen Simpson

Catherine Morland loves a good novel and the more ‘horrid’ it is the better. At 17, she is taken by her aunt to Bath where she encounters the social whirl denied her at home.

When Catherine accepts an invitation to the Tilney’s country seat at Northanger Abbey, lurid images from her favourite gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho threaten to overwhelm her. However, all misunderstandings are eventually resolved and, as in all the best Jane Austen novels, the young heroine finally gets her man.

Sponsored by St Edmundsbury Fiancial Services Ltd & Bury St Edmunds Audi

Kindly supported by The Williams Charitable Trust

Thurs 2 & Wed 8 7.30pm

Fri 3, Sat 4, 11, Tues 7, Thurs 9 7.30pm

Wed 8 2pm

Sat 4, 11 3pm

Tickets: £26 – £8.50

Sunday 5 February

Special Event

AN EVENING WITH THE IPSWICH TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB LEGENDS

at Theatre Royal

The ITFC Legends return to the Theatre, after sell-out events here in 2014 and 2015, for another lively and unmissable evening of stories and anecdotes about the Club and their careers, to entertain fans of ITFC, both young and old!

This time around we are joined again by Bryan Hamilton with special guests David Johnson and Eric Gates. Join us for another superb evening with some of ITFC’s best-loved players for a night of all things football!

Meet The Players

Limited places are available to meet the players after the show for a drink.

Tickets for this are £10

You will have the option to buy tickets for this once tickets for the show are in your basket. Please book early to avoid disappointment.

This is a fundraising event for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds (charity number: 242977)

Our Friends, Patrons and supporters are much loved and play an integral role in the Theatre’s well-being and so in return for membership we offer a range of benefits.

7.30pm

Tickets: £25

Sunday 12 & Monday 13 February

Immersion Theatre

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

at Theatre Royal

Imagination runs wild and logic is abandoned in this fantastical, larger-than-life musical brimming with nonsensical fun and excitement for the entire family.

Follow Alice and the White Rabbit as they set off on a colourful, topsy-turvy adventure like no other and meet a host of outlandish characters including the troublesome twins, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, the notorious Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat and of course, the Mad-as-a-bat-Hatter!

Immersion Theatre proudly bring their trademark energy to their most spectacularly bonkers show to date, as children and adults alike are invited to join in the hilarity of seeing this classic story brought vividly to life. You’d be mad to miss it!

3pm & 6.45pm

Tickets: £12.50 – £8.50

Tuesday 14 February

Music/Full House Productions

VOICE OF THE HEART – KAREN CARPENTER

at Theatre Royal

It is now just over 30 years since the legendary Karen Carpenter passed away, she left behind an amazing catalogue of hit songs and golden memories and is still played daily on radio stations throughout the UK. This stunning show celebrates the music of The Carpenters, and the evening is guaranteed to lead everyone through a magical memory.

Yesterday Once More, Goodbye To Love, Close To You, Only Yesterday all the hits that every Carpenters fan adores. Plus great medleys put together from their many album tracks, songs that link together from The Beatles –Mr Postman, Ticket To Ride & Help, a superb Bacharach and David medley featuring renditions of Do You Know The Way To San Jose, Always Something There To Remind Me, to name but two of these timeless classics. A Carpenters country medley with Top Of The World, Sweet Sweet Smile, & Jambalaya is in great contrast to the sad and perhaps most popular songs on her last and most poignant album Voice Of The Heart.

With superb vocals from Carole Gorrdon and outstanding talent from the brilliant Blue Jeans Band & Singers it will be a “sparkling” night to remember.

After a hugely successful tour in 2015, Voice of the Heart has a brand new show for 2016 featuring even more timeless classics from The Carpenters.

7.30pm

Tickets: £21.50 – £8.50

Wednesday 15 February

Comedy/Richard Bucknall Management

MILES JUPP : SONGS OF FREEDOM

at Theatre Royal

Astronauts. Regrets. The sexes. Social Media. Hipsters. Poo. Rage. Medicine. Manners. Identity. Lost stuff. Other stuff.

Miles Jupp, (Stand-up, actor, writer, thinker, father, husband, worrier, fool, star of BBC2’s Rev and host of BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz) hits the road in a freshly-ironed shirt and some robust trousers and tries to make some bloody sense of it all.

7.30pm

Tickets: £18 – £10

Thursday 16 February

Reduced Shakespeare Company & Seabright Productions

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S LONG LOST FIRST PLAY (ABRIDGED)

at Theatre Royal

By Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor

Acclaimed stars of the West End stage, the Reduced Shakespeare Company, are back with another barnstormingly irreverent and breathtakingly hilarious celebration of our cultural heritage – as seen through the eyes of three Americans wearing trainers. In a better-late-than-never nod to the Bard’s 400th anniversary, the bad boys of abridgement present this ‘new’ play by the man himself, as discovered in a Leicester car park!

The show, mercifully abridged by the RSC from its full hundred hour running time to a more palatable ninety minutes, embarks on its debut UK tour following world premiere seasons at the renowned Folger Shakespeare Library and the Edinburgh Fringe.

‘A hoot! Consistently funny’

★★★★ British Theatre Guide

7.30pm

Tickets: £18 – £8.50

Friday 17 February

Operaupclose

OPERA COCKTAIL

at Theatre Royal

Classics shaken with wit, stirred with drama and served with a contemporary twist.

Olivier Award winning OperaUpClose presents some of opera’s best loved arias, duets and ensembles in a fun, modern setting. Performed in witty new English translations and beautifully acted in the company’s engaging, intimate style, this evening includes Musetta’s aria from La Bohème, Carmen’s sexy Habanera and the drinking song from La Traviata.

These popular tunes are performed by a trio of some of the best opera singers in the UK and accompanied by a virtuosic pianist.

‘Striking music theatre of considerable integrity and force’ The Guardian

‘Madly brilliant’ The Times

7.30pm

Tickets: £21.50 – £8.50

Saturday 18 February

The Nick Ross Orchestra

SOUNDS OF THE GLENN MILLER ERA

at Theatre Royal

The lights soften, the mood settles. An audience waits for that first moment of sound. The Big Band is poised, relaxed, but with eyes anxious for the lead. Then, as if giving body to an echo, the murmured notes of Moonlight Serenade…and the night, it seems, is suddenly full and timeless.

There are those who watch and listen who tap a shy finger to the melodies, others who follow with a silent foot-beat, still others who murmur softly through the lyrics, and those who simply permit a fleeting smile. But common to all are memories.

Recapture the sounds of a bygone era with the classic big band sound of the 1940s.

7.30pm

Tickets: £26 – £10

Sunday 19 February

ComedyAvalon Entertainment Limited

RICHARD HERRING : THE BEST

at Theatre Royal

Richard Herring, King of the Edinburgh Fringe, Metro columnist and the UK’s Podfather (RHLSTP, AIOTM) picks his favourite routines from his 12 one-man shows and crams them into 90 minutes for your delectation. From his deconstruction of the genealogy of Christ to him proving that racists are less racist than liberals, via some of the best knob jokes in the business. Will your favourite routine make the cut? A great introduction to this influential cult comedian for the newcomer and a welcome greatest hits for long term fans.

‘A gloriously infantile delight in mischief, provocation and inspired rudeness’

The Guardian

8pm

Tickets: £18 – £10

Monday 20 February

Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds

THE WISDOM CLUB

at Theatre Royal

written by Danusia Iwaszko

Megan has been behaving oldly. She’s a mother and a grandmother and her family want her to continue being that. But Megan wants something more but she doesn’t know what.

We are all living longer, retirement for the first time in history can be thirty years. What do we do with this time?

There’s a quote “It’s not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

People keep asking her what she wants, she’s never been asked what she wants so she doesn’t know how to answer this. A play that looks at their experiences and the attitudes to the elderly now.

This is a rehearsed reading.

7.30pm

Tickets: £10 – £8.50

Tuesday 21 — Saturday 25 February

Comedy/London Classic Theatre

HYSTERIA

at Theatre Royal

1938. Hampstead, London. Sigmund Freud has fled Nazi-occupied Austria and settled in leafy Swiss Cottage. The ageing Freud intends to spend his last days in peaceful contemplation, but when Salvador Dali pays a visit, and discovers a naked woman in the closet, intoxicating mayhem ensues.

An acknowledged modern classic, Terry Johnson’s hilarious farce explores the fallout when two of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and original minds collide.

Terry Johnson is one of the UK’s most celebrated contemporary playwrights. His notable successes include Mrs Henderson Presents, Dead Funny, Insignificance, The Graduate and Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick.

Hysteria won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 1994.

‘A custard pie of comic brilliance’

Time Out

Tues – Sat 7.30pm

Wed 2pm

Sat 3pm

Tickets: £21.50 – £8.50