Tuesday March 2nd – 7.30pm Tickets £12 (conc. £10)
Eastern Angles
The Long Way Home

A heart-warming story for the whole family. An old woman decides to walk home to the seaside village of her birth – a journey through dark woods, fertile plains and over snow-capped mountains. She meets a wild young boy in the forest whose only means of communication is to bark like a dog and the two become unlikely travelling companions. A traditional folk tale from the heart of old Europe brought to life through storytelling, music and magic.
www.easternangles.co.uk

Wednesday March 3rd – 7.30pm – All Seats £10
Ashley Hutchins & Ken Nicol

Two of the best known faces in folk music take the stage for an evening fans will not want to miss.
The founder of Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span, Ashley Hutchings continues at the forefront of English music. Ken Nicol is an exceptional musician currently lead guitarist with Steeleye Span.
www.kennicol.co.uk

Thursday March 4th – 7.30pm – All seats £12.50
A Viennese Whirl!

The acclaimed opera company Opera Box presents a captivating new production – A Viennese Whirl, evoking the magic and music of Vienna, transporting audiences to the banks of the dreamy Danube River. A Viennese Whirl offers the audience an enchanting evening of singing and soaring violin melodies of some of the most popular works from Viennese composers including Kreisler, Lehar, Kalman and Johann Strauss, as well as operettas such as ‘The Merry Widow’, ‘Die Fledermaus’ and ‘The Gypsy Baron’. A carefully selected musical cast and piano accompanist has been assembled for this amusing and entertaining evening hosted by the charismatic Artistic Director of Opera Box, Brendan Wheatley, who introduces the music of the Viennese greats in his own inimitable style. A Viennese Whirl is certain to delight and enthral its audiences.
www.operabox.co.uk

Friday March 5th – 7.30pm All seats £17.50
An Audience With Paul Daniels

Paul Daniels is without doubt one of the most accomplished magicians in the World and certainly one of the most exciting. Add to that a unique comedy style and you have a complete entertainer and one of the funniest men in show business.

In the world of TV no-one has enjoyed more success and from the moment he burst onto the ITV network, and later to the BBC, his magic shows topped the ratings. A recent book on TV facts calls him “the most successful TV magician of the 20th century”. His creative genius enabled him to produce consistently stunning shows, never rivalled in spectacle, covering the full range of the world of entertainment magic from small ‘close-up’ effects to enormous outside broadcast illusions.. Join Paul for an evening full of magic, comedy and entertainment. A great night out!
www.pauldaniels.co.uk

Saturday March 6th – 7.30pm – All Seats £20
Acker Bilk & His Paramount Jazz Band

Acker Bilk’s career is one of British music’s success stories – his first smash hit ‘Stranger On The Shore’ was the first ever record to reach number one in the US and the UK simultaneously, and his popularity since then remains as great as ever.
Don’t miss this opportunity to see a true British Jazz legend!
www.ackersmusicagency.co.uk/acker.html

Wednesday March 31st – 7.30pm All seats £12.50
The Demon Barbers

Over the last eight years The Demon Barbers have gained major recognition for their original and imaginative approach to traditional music and song. They take mainly traditional ballads, strange tales of myth and magic and coil them, twist them, make them stranger, darker, becoming tales of Gothic danger; they don’t so much make folk rock as make traditional tales quiver and pulse with electricity.
Damien Barber – vocals/guitar/concertina, Bryony Griffith – fiddle/vocals,
Will Hampson – melodeon/harmonica, Lee Sykes – electric bass, Ben Griffith – drums
“Energetic fiddle and passionate, distinctive vocals ‘with driven punchy tunes and songs, drum ‘n’ bass grooves, the odd touch of ska and an ever present feel that this lot know how to party’ result in ‘one of the most exciting acts around… check them out…”’ fRoots www.thedemonbarbers.com

Runs from Thursday, February 18 to Saturday, February 27, with performances nightly at 7.30pm, plus a matinee at 2.30pm on February 27. There is no performance on Sunday, February 21.
Tickets cost £12, £10 and £8, and can be bought in person from the box office at the Maddermarket Theatre, in St John’s Alley, Norwich, or by calling 01603 620917.

Professor Of Speech Meets Cockney Flower Girl!
The classic comedy which inspired the musical ‘My Fair Lady’ is being staged this month at the Maddermarket Theatre, in Norwich. ‘Pygmalion’, by George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1913, and created the now famous and much-loved characters of Professor Henry Higgins, and Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle. Higgins, an expert in the science of speech, makes a bet with a friend that he can pass off Eliza as a refined society lady by teaching her to speak with an upper-class accent. During the process the couple grow close – but Higgins’ eccentric and domineering ways leave much to be desired so far as Eliza is concerned.

“It’s one of Shaw’s wittiest and most popular plays, and it’s great fun,” says director David Hare. “Like all great comedies it has an underlying depth and seriousness to it because it deals with things that were important, such as status, aspiration, and position in society.

“In particular, the position of women in society was very different when the play was first performed to how it was just four or five years later when, as a result of the Great War, we began to see the beginnings of feminism.”

Contact us…
The Maddermarket Theatre
St. John’s Alley
NORWICH
NR2 1DR

Useful numbers and email addresses:
– Email: [email protected]
– Administration Number: 01603 626560
– Box Office: 01603 620917
– Education Dept: 01603 628600
– Education Dept Email: [email protected]
– Costume Hire: 01603 626292