Bath Spa Productions Spring Season

Live Performances

at Bath Spa University

Spring Season January - April 2020

What’s on...

Spring Season 2020 Book at bathspalive.com or visit Bath Box Office, 2 Terrace Walk, Bath BA1 1LN (01225 463362) www.bathboxoffice.org.uk

All performances except SKUNK are available through Bath Box Office

Events

Dates and Times

Performance Club

BURDALL’S YARD

8 January 2020, 7:30pm

Dwelling

MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

17 - 18 January 2020, 7:30pm

USTINOV THEATRE

30 January - 1 February 2020, 7:30pm/Sat Mat 2:30pm

Skunk MA Song writing

BURDALL’S YARD

20 February 2020, 7pm

Still I Rise (Tribe)

UNIVERSITY THEATRE

21 February 2020, 8pm

Evolve

UNIVERSITY THEATRE

26 February 2020, 7:30pm

St Swithin’s Spring Concert

ST SWITHIN’S CHURCH

28 February 2020, 7:30pm

Contemporary Music for All

MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

7 March 2020, 7:30pm

These Beautiful Things

BURDALL’S YARD

10 March 2020, 8pm

Shining Bath Abbey Concert

UNIVERSITY THEATRE

12/14/17/18/19 March - 6:30 and 8:30pm. 13/16 March - 5 and 7:30pm (No performance on Sunday 15 March)

BATH ABBEY

13 March 2020, 7:30pm

UNIVERSITY THEATRE

24 March 2020, 7:30pm

Carmen

MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

1 - 4 April 2020, 7:30pm

The Power of the Voices of the Ancestors

MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

17 April 2020, 7:30pm

BOIBA Award Winner’s Concert

MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

22 April 2020, 7:30pm

Untold Dance Theatre presents Women Wise

UNIVERSITY THEATRE

23 April 2020, 7:30pm

Triple Bill, Edge

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Performance Club

BURDALL’S YARD

8 January 2020 7:30pm Full Price £7 • Concessions £5 The Entertainer gives the audience what they want. The Artist gives the audience what they didn’t know they wanted. A mash up of comedy, theatre and song from Bath Spa University students and tutors down at Burdall’s Yard.

Dwelling

MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

17 - 18 January 7:30pm Full Price £10 • Concessions £8 • Bath Spa Students £6 Filmed at Poltimore House, a derelict mansion in Devon, Dwelling explores the eeriness of ruins, when emptied of the human what remains in the disused and discarded places that are stained by time? It’s about the fleeting and eerie; the unknown. Things that we all know about but rarely consider as we tend to push them to the margins...only to return as ghosts. Combining film, live performance and vocal-looping, Dwelling attempts to make sense of stories that escape comprehension as it deconstructs the familial, the domestic, and the Gothic.

Skunk by Zawe Ashton

USTINOV THEATRE

30 January - 1 February 2020 7:30pm/Sat Mat 2:30pm Full Price £12 • Concessions £10 • Bath Spa Students £6 (Bookings via www.theatreroyal.org.uk or 01225 448844) Otto is a normal teenager with normal parents. They have the usual parent aspirations for him – Mum thinks Cambridge University, Dad thinks Arsenal Football Club. Life is the usual teenage combat zone. Until one day when Otto wakes up feeling pretty weird. He discovers, to his surprise, that he has been inexplicably transformed into a skunk. Inspired by Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis, Zawe Ashton’s Skunk takes a surreal, dreamlike and hilarious look at the pressures and transformations that happen as teenagers grow up.

Presented by third year acting students. All performances will be captioned and integrated signed performances on 30th and 31st.

MA Songwriting

BURDALL’S YARD

20 February 2020 7pm Full Price £3 • Bath Spa Students Free Masters students from Commercial Music Singer-Songwriters present their latest work in the informal setting of Burdall’s Yard

Still I Rise (Tribe)

UNIVERSITY THEATRE

21 February 2020 8pm Full Price £12 • Concessions £10 • Bath Spa Students £6 Danced with full-bodied urgency and gutsy power, this raw visceral and emotive work from choreographer Victoria Fox creates a fragile world of simmering tensions and unrest. The work channels the resilient, unapologetic nature of the iconic poem by Maya Angelou. An unflinching relentless hope for the human spirit runs through this dance work. Cinematic sounds from pounding beats to stirring classical arias, drives the journey onwards. Falling down, gathering up… we rise.

Evolve

UNIVERSITY THEATRE

26 February 2020 7:30pm FREE (booking required) Bath Dance and Bath Spa University present Evolve 2020. This annual graduate platform showcases the choreographic work of emerging artists in the South West. Following the performances the audience are invited to join a post show discussion with the artists. Tickets are free and are available to book or get on the door.

St Swithin’s Spring Concert

ST SWITHIN’S CHURCH

28 February 2020 7:30pm Full Price £10 • Concessions £8 • Bath Spa Students £5 Come and join us in the beautiful setting of this beautiful Georgian Church and listen to Bath Spa University Music Students perform some well known classics featuring the Bath Spa University Orchestra performing Peer Gynt Suite, and the Wind Band performing Vaughn Williams’ English Folk Song Suite. This promises to be a real treat for classical concertgoers.

CoMA (Contemporary Music for All)

MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

7 March 2020 7:30pm FREE CoMA (Contemporary Music for All) was founded in 1993 to enable musicians of all abilities to participate actively in contemporary music.

It has a national network of instrumental and vocal ensembles and an expanding international programme. CoMA’s Bristol ensemble presents a programme of new compositions written for the group, including selected pieces by Bath Spa University postgraduate student composers.

These Beautiful Things

BURDALL’S YARD

10 March 2020 8pm Full Price £3 • Bath Spa Students FREE The intimate atmosphere of Burdall’s Yard is the setting for BA Commercial music students staging a night of performances from the next generation of music makers.

Shining

Bath Spa Productions and David Glass Ensemble

UNIVERSITY THEATRE

12/14/17/18/19 March - 6:30 and 8:30pm 13/16 March - 5 and 7:30pm (No performance on Sunday 15 March) Full Price £12 • Concessions £10 • Bath Spa Students £6

“David Glass ...a modern master” Dominic Cavendish, The Times.

Shining, a terrifyingly enjoyable immersive piece inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s classic horror film The Shining. Devised with third year acting students and directed by David Glass.

Regularly appearing in lists of the most well loved films around the world, Stanley Kubrick’s film ‘The Shining’ is a master work in horror. Centring as it does on madness and the family and set in the isolated Overlook Hotel, International Theatre maker David Glass returns to Bath Spa University - after the visually stunning Bleak House last September - to present the second iteration of ‘Shining‘.

A powerfully thrilling hour of horror that reimagines this iconic horror in a constantly changing and haunted film set. Unlike any immersive theatre you’ll have seen before.

(This production will not be seated and the audience will be moving around the performance space - running time 60mins).

Bath Abbey Concert

BATH ABBEY

13 March 2020 7:30pm Full Price £10 • Concessions £8 • Bath Spa Students £5 Bath Spa University Choir perform choral masterpieces in the majestic setting of Bath Abbey. Highlights will include Dan Forrest’s LUX: The Dawn from on High alongside other choral classics.

Triple Bill, Edge

UNIVERSITY THEATRE

24 March 2020 7:30pm Full Price £12 • Concessions £10 • Bath Spa Students £6 EDGE Dance Company’s 2020 tour features a triple bill of brand-new works by renowned choreographers Kristina and Sadé Alleyne (Alleyne Dance), Riccardo Buscarini and Igor X Moreno. With each piece comes a new point of exploration: how movement can create emotion or characters; how dance interacts with different art forms; how using the body can reveal meaning, ideas and desires. Expect physicality, poetry, rigour and beauty as the 14 young dancers from across the globe (including the USA, Norway, Slovenia, Israel, Canada, Poland and the UK) invest power and passion into each work.

Carmen

MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

1 - 4 April 2020 7:30pm Full Price £12 • Concessions £10 • Bath Spa Students £6 Fate and passion collide in Bizet’s masterpiece, filled with some of the world’s most famous melodies, from the sultry Habanera to the ecstatic Toreador’s Song. But beneath the infectious score beats a dark heart that pulses with obsession.

Carmen knows she’s dancing with death. This is one of the greatest operas ever written and is presented by students from Bath School of Music and Performing Arts.

The Power of the Voices of the Ancestors

MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

17 April 2020 7:30pm Full Price £12 • Concessions £8 • Bath Spa Students £6 Concert in memoriam Dr Chartwell Dutiro As a WOMAD Foundation recommended artist, Chartwell Dutiro was one of the world’s most famous and inspirational master mbira players from Zimbabwe.

For him, the role of mbira within the deep, spiritual Shona culture made it a powerful medium for building bridges and making connections between people and cultures. This celebration of Chartwell’s life and work will feature mbira players and other guest musicians he regularly performed with. It will include new musical collaborations that epitomise his ethos and promote his legacy.

Bath Opera Isobel Buchanan Award Winners Concert – Kieron Connor Valentine

MICHAEL TIPPETT CENTRE

22 April 2020 7:30pm Full Price £10 • Bath Spa Students £6 Kieron Connor Valentine returns to the Michael Tippett Centre after winning the prestigious Bath Opera Isobel Buchanan Award and stages his very own concert.

Highlights will include works from Handel and a selection of Welsh Art songs.

Untold Dance Theatre presents Women Wise

UNIVERSITY THEATRE

23 April 2020 7:30pm Full Price £12 • Concessions £10 • Bath Spa Students £6 An intergenerational all female dance company have a story to share with you. A tale of growing up, growing into yourself, growing older and all the extra in between. Inspired by true stories from the performers and women’s groups in Bristol.

“Performed by an age diverse group … cohesively bonded, despite the generation gap…it retained my attention throughout.” Graham Watts, 2018

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By bus Catch the U5 from Bath Bus Station directly to campus.

Burdall’s Yard

7a Anglo Terrace London Road Bath BA1 5NH

By bus No’s. 3, 271, 272 & X31 stop at Snow Hill (3 minutes’ walk from Burdall’s Yard).

No’s. 231 and 271 run from the bus station.

By car The nearest free parking is available in the streets off Snow Hill. Free parking is also available after 8pm in the Cattle Market car park on Walcot Street. Passengers can also be dropped off in the loading bays opposite Burdall’s Yard.

By train Burdall’s Yard is about 20 minutes walk from Bath Spa Train Station.

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Theatre Royal Bath Saw Close Bath BA1 1ET Tickets: www.theatreroyal.org 01225 448844 ST SWITHIN’S CHURCH

The Paragon Bath, BA1 5LY St Swithin’s is situated on the A4 The Paragon, at the meeting point with Walcot Street (A3039).

BATH ABBEY

Bath, BA1 1LT Bath Abbey is situated in central Bath with plenty of parking throughout the city.

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