Home Festival 2012 Gallery Venues Films Supporters Contact Links Archives Festival 2012Woolpit Festival 2012 - 8th-17th June Tickets available at our Box Office from 31st March 2012Box Office Tel 01359 240655 email is boxoffice@woolpit-festival.comAll events discounted for Festival Members - just £12 to join & receive regular Newsletters, first choice for Tickets & discounts. Contact Jenny on 01359 241553 Lionel on 01359 241206 or use 'Contact Us' box on CONTACT link for membership application to join now. Friday 8 June 2012: At 7.30pm in the Village Hall - Baroque Theatre Company's "GREAT EXPECTATIONS" a Play adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens, Directed by Adam Morley, Consultant Gerald Dickens, the Great Great Grandson of Charles Dickens, and Producer Claire Bibby. We are delighted to bring this stunning production, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth, to Woolpit Festival 2012. Tickets £12/£10 for MembersSaturday, 9 June 2012: At 2.00pm in the Village Hall, wonderful Family entertainment from the unique and very talented Comedy Juggler DAN THE HAT, including a Workshop. A great Show for all the Family. Tickets £10 Family Ticket (4 inc 2 Children) Adults £4 each/ Children £2.50. And at 7.30pm in the Hall for a Cabaret Evening with OPERA TOTTIE, a duo Carolyn Allen and Paul Smith, (A man, a woman and a piano) who perform classy, clever, stylish entertainment that spans opera to jazz. An evening of warmth, wit and laughter with their own sparkling lyrics. Tickets £14 /£12 for MembersSunday, 10 June 2012: At 7.30pm in the Village Hall, the Award winning WHITE ROOM THEATRE present BITE-SIZE PLAYS. Since 2003, the Company has created and performed menus of stimulating, thought-provoking and entertaining theatrical shorts from all around the world. Regular features on Sky Arts TV and their Festival performances have been nominated for and achieved major awards - in 2009, a 5 star review from the Edinburgh Fringe Review ("Go see this show. It's amazing!") and Guardian/Observer's Pick of the Fringe - "A splendid showcase! Without fail funny, strange and moving." Tickets £12 /£10 for MembersTuesday 12 June 2012: In St Marys Church, Woolpit at 7.30pm a concert from the excellent WEST SUFFOLK YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA, featuring some of the most talented young musicians in the West Suffolk Area. Tickets £8 /£7 for Members /£4 Children Thursday 14 June 2012: In the Village Hall at 7.30pm, the hugely popular folk duo SPIERS & BODEN - John Spiers (melodeons, concertinas and most squeezeboxes) and Jon Boden (vocals, fiddle, guitar, concertina). Having celebrated a decade of touring by Spring 2011, Spiers & Boden are one of the most popular duos on the vibrant English folk scene. Described by The Guardian as 'the finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene' and twice winners of the BBC Radio 2 folk award for Best Duo, Spiers and Boden have made the genre of spontaneous, English folk very much their own stomping ground. Tickets £16 /£14 for MembersFriday 15 June 2012: At 7.30pm in the Hall "JULIUS CAESAR" adapted and performed by Oddsocks, one of the most respected touring theatre companies in the U.K. Oddsocks take epic classic texts and adapt them into heart-warming, humourous, vibrant and feel-good theatre performances for all the family. The works of Shakespeare, Dickens, The Brontes, Robert Louis Stephenson, Victor Hugo and many more have all been "Oddsocked" to great effect since 1989. "It's the summer the Olympics come to Britain and what better way to celebrate than with Shakespeare's most "Gamey" of plays: Julius Caesar. It's traditional, it's funny and more important, it's TOGA...RY!" The entertainment begins as soon as you take your seat. Come rain or shine, the Oddsocks players involve you in the action from the safety of your chair. The Company tours twice each year; to open-air castles, stately homes and parks in the summer and to theatres and arts centres in the Winter. Their style is irreverent but respectful to the text, slapstick but skillful, funny but full of truth, clever but accessible. Tickets £14 /£12 for Members /£7 for Under 16s Sunday 17 June 2011: In the Village Hall at 7.30pm, this years Festival finale has THE LOCRIAN ENSEMBLE with the Woolpit Festival's LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS. Bringing together some of the most prominent string soloists in London, The Locrian Ensemble was formed in 1995 and has established an enviable reputation for its recordings, broadcasts and live performances. For tonight's concert the acclaimed Covent Garden soprano CHRISTINE TEARE joins the Ensemble and the programme includes: Elgar - "Land of Hope and Glory", Rule Britannia, Nimrod and Salut d’Amour. Parry – Jerusalem, Tribute to Eric Coates including "The Dambusters" The famous "Hornpipe" and even more famous "Can-Can" Tickets £17 /£15 for Members http://www.woolpit-festival.com To see all content, you will need the current version of Adobe Flash Player to view it. |