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Sent: 07 March 2011 11:58

Subject: Gulbenkian Newsletter - 7 Mar

Gulbenkian Newsletter
Theatre this week...
	Mon 7 Mar 7.45pm Moon Fool in association with Trestle Unmasked present ill met by moonlight An inventive re-imagining of Shakespeare’s well-loved play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which, Titania, Oberon and Puck play out events from their past, hosting nightly revels in their attempt to woo audiences off the path and back into the woods.  Experience some of Shakespeare’s best loved characters with a unique and amplified twist. Tickets £13 Encore!Gulbenkian £11 GEN £7 Evening Menu available-Click here to see the Menu
	Wed 9-Fri 11 Mar 7.45pm T:24* A Midsummer Night’s Dream Seemingly simple love story, brings dazed lovers, bumbling players and angry fairies alike to the woods where the enchantment begins. Funny, beautiful and dreamlike; numerous talented T24 actors reinvent Shakespeare’s greatest comedy play for the Gulbenkian Stage. Tickets £8 GEN & Students £5.50 *Amateur
	Sat 12 Mar 7.45pm Kathryn Tickell Band The most widely acknowledged icon of Northumbrian music joins forces with some of the UK’s most talented young musicians to present a band full of excitement and vitality.  Kathryn is the foremost exponent of the Northumbrian pipes, playing with Sting, The Chieftains, The Penguin Café Orchestra, Evelyn Glennie, Andy Sheppard and many others. Tickets £16 Encore!Gulbenkian £14 Evening Menu available-Click here to see the Menu
Theatre next week...
	Mon 14 Mar 7.45pm New Shoes Theatre Hurried Steps By Dacia Maraini, Translated by Sharon Wood, Directed by Nicolette Kay The powerful, stark text was written in association with Amnesty International by Italy’s foremost playwright and advocate of women’s rights.    The performance is followed by a Q&A with the audience and panel of local fieldworkers.  Tickets Free and can be booked in advance. There will also be a collection for the local women’s refuge.
	Tue 15 Mar 1.30pm & 4.30pm -SOLD OUT Wed 16 Mar 11am & 4.30pm-SOLD OUT THE GRUFFALO'S CHILD Following hot on the heels of the Gruffalo’s sell out tour and his monstrous West End success comes the GRUFFALO'S CHILD - with attitude! Just how brave is she? All adults must be accompanied by a responsible child. Tickets £10 Groups of 10+ and GEN £8.50 (3+)
	Tue 15 Mar 8pm Chortle Student Comedy Award 2011 Who is Britain’s next top comedy star?  The search starts here with Chortle’s Student Comedy Award 2011.  Run by Britain’s leading website, the competition has previously featured the likes of The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird, Lloyd Langford from BBC1’s Ask Rhod Gilbert and Radio One’s Tom Deacon, among many other fast-rising stars of stand-up. What talent will we unearth this year?  Tickets £5 Students £4 This performance will be in the Cafe Bar.
	Wed 16 Mar 7.45pm Craig Campbell Live! How much could 'Ludo' the dog on my poster have in common with his namesake 'Ludwig van B'!? Compared to King Billy C's but in choosing between talking down the compliment’s obvious hyperbole with humility as a gentleman would, or flogging it relentlessly as a desperate egotist with a black hole for a soul would, I've chosen the latter. Come to my show, or I'll hurt the dog! Tickets £12 Encore!Gulbenkian £10 (16+) Evening Menu available-Click here to see the Menu
	Fri 18 Mar 7.45pm Kent Dance presents Thank you for the Music A night of musical legends and legendary musicals Kent Dance's annual show presents a variety of different styles of dance from ballet to bollywood, hip-hop to contemporary and tap to Irish all in a range of abilities. Tickets £8 Encore!Gulbenkian & Concs £6.50
	Sat 19 Mar 7.45pm Tom Wrigglesworth Nightmare Dream Wedding Following last year’s sell-out performances, he’s back with a brand new show.  Getting to the Church on-time should be straightforward.  Unless you’re embroiled in an ordeal you knew nothing about until you awoke.  How can a megalomaniac talk-show host, a common or garden drugs baron, and very special birthday girl possibly turn a nightmare into a dream? Tickets £12 Encore!Gulbenkian £10 Evening Menu available-Click here to see the Menu
Coming soon...
	Tue 22-Fri 25 Mar 7.30pm, Sat 26 Mar 2pm & 7.30pm Canterbury Operatic Society* Into The Woods Into the Woods is a blend of the most beloved fairy tales set to the music of Stephen Sondheim.  Like all fairy tales, it contains light and dark, becoming a metaphor for our own journeys in life. Don’t miss this rarely performed, beautiful, enriching and thought provoking musical. Tickets £15 Encore!Gulbenkian & COS Friends £14 *Amateur Evening Menu available-Click here to see the Menu
	Mon 28 Mar 7.45pm China Plate Theatre with Warwick Arts Centre & mac You’re not like the other girls Chrissy Paris 1945. Christiane waits for a ticket to England that will reunite her with her fiancé. While she waits, this irrepressible mademoiselle recounts the love story between her - an eccentric, acutely-myopic Parisian - and a tongue-tied English teacher from Staffordshire. A tender, comic portrayal of one woman's experience of love and war. Tickets £13 Encore!Gulbenkian £11 Students £7 Evening Menu available-Click here to see the Menu
	Tue 29 Mar 7.45pm The Movement presents The Tempest By William Shakespeare Drawing on the narrative styles of the Commedia Dell’ Arte and combining stunning masks, live music, dance and puppetry, this promises to be a beautiful rendition of William Shakespeare’s final tale and a fantastic evening’s entertainment suitable for all.   Tickets £12 Encore! Gulbenkian £10 GEN £7 (11+) Evening Menu available-Click here to see the Menu
	Fri 1 Apr 7.45pm Terry Alderton Star of BBC 1’s Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Road Show, an Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee and the record holder for the most encores at the Comedy Store.  An outstanding physical comic, with stunningly accurate impressions, amazing sound effects and brilliant routines all delivered with an irresistible energy that is given a unique twist by the ‘voices’ in his head. Tickets £12 Encore!Gulbenkian £10 (16+) Evening Menu available-Click here to see the Menu
Look out for: CHATBACK COMEDY: A NEW YEAR AT THE PARROT! TUESDAY 8^th March 2011 8pm _at_ THE PARROT PUB 1-9 CHURCH LANE CANTERBURY CT1 2AG Tickets: £6/£5 www.chatbackcomedy.com
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