A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR
As we embrace the Autumn/Winter 2024 season at Cidermill Theatre, we are bubbling with excitement to present a lineup of performances that promise to inspire, entertain, and connect us all. With our second anniversary just around the corner in September, we are truly grateful for the support and enthusiasm you’ve shown us over the past two years.
Our season kicks off with Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, a classic comedy brimming with wit and romance. We’ll then delve into the gripping legal drama National Theatre Live: Prima Facie, a powerful exploration of justice. For fans of classic literature, Austen’s Women: LADY SUSAN offers a delightful treat, while I’m Glad I Asked provides a poignant and personal journey through Michele O’Brien’s touching storytelling and a life-sized puppet representing her mother, Gena.
We’re thrilled to welcome back Tread the Boards Theatre Company with their enchanting Robin Hood: The Pantomime, a festive favourite returning for its third year to spread holiday cheer.
Music enthusiasts, get ready for a treat! The Henry Frampton Group will bring their
dynamic performance to our stage, and An Evening without Kate Bush will pay a special tribute to the iconic artist. Don’t miss The Big Country Music Show, where a sea of cowboy hats and classic hits from legends like Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton will fill our theatre with foot-stomping fun.
Comedy lovers can look forward to the endearing Dad’s Army Radio Show and the sharp humor of Simon Evans. Families will delight in the amazing Lucky Pigeons’ circus skills and Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt’s You Choose, promising entertaining experiences for all ages.
Art aficionados, immerse yourself in Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman (Exhibition on Screen) and Hopper: An American Love Story (Exhibition on Screen), celebrating the beauty and depth of these artistic visions.
As always, we invite you to become part of our vibrant community by exploring volunteer opportunities. Your involvement is vital to our growth and success, and we warmly welcome your passion and dedication.
AT A GLANCE
Much Ado About Nothing 07/09/2024 12pm & 5pm THEATRE
NTL: Prima Facie 13/09/2024 7pm CINEMA
The Henry Frampton Group 14/09/2024 7:30pm LIVE MUSIC
Dad’s Army Radio Show 22/09/2024 7:30pm THEATRE
Mary Cassat: Painting the Modern Woman 27/09/2024 7:30pm CINEMA
An Evening Without Kate Bush 29/09/2024 7:30pm LIVE MUSIC
I’m Glad I Asked 04/10/2024 7:30pm THEATRE
Simon Evans 06/10/2024 7:30pm COMEDY
Lucky Pigeons 12/10/2024 2:30pm FAMILY
Austen’s Women: LADY SUSAN 27/10/2024 7:30pm THEATRE You Choose 28/10/2024 11am & 2pm FAMILY
Hopper: An American Love Story 14/11/2024 7:30pm CINEMA
The Big Country Music Show 21/11/2024 7:30pm LIVE MUSIC
Hooray for Hollywood 23/11/2024 7:30pm LIVE MUSIC
Robin Hood: The Pantomime 14-31/12/2024 Various FAMILY
DONATIONS
As a charity and community-funded theatre, we are reliant upon the support of the public, donors and our incredible audience members. You are able to donate via our website or we have a new donations box in the foyer of the theatre.
Any donation is hugely appreciated and ensures that we can keep providing outstanding performances to our local community and beyond. Thank you!
SEPTEMBER
Much Ado About Nothing
SAT 07 SEP at 12pm & 5pm £14 / £12
War is over. Claudio and Hero fall in love, bells toll. Benedick and Beatrice reunite, mischief ensues. Don Jon wants revenge. Featuring hysterical eavesdropping, a raucous dance party, and disastrous deception – join our lovers as they discover who gets their comeuppance and who gets their happily ever after.
NTL: Prima Facie
FRI 13 SEPT at 7:00pm £17.50 / £12.50
Jodie Comer’s (Killing Eve) Olivier and Tony Awardwinning performance in Suzie Miller’s gripping onewoman play returns to cinemas.
Prima Facie takes us to the heart of where emotion and experience collide with the rules of the game.
Justin Martin directs this solo tour de force, captured live in 2022 during a sold out run at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End.
The Henry Frampton Group
SAT 14 SEP at 7:30pm £13
Sonic influences include the lush, jazz infused themes of the Pat Metheny Group, the strident drive of the Canadian rock trio Rush, classical composers Vaughan Williams, Aram Khachaturian and the lush vocal arrangements of The Carpenters.
Henry’s passionate, lyrical, style fuses humanist subjects evoked by the grandeur of nature: epic, heart-felt, filmic.
SEPTEMBER
Dad’s Army Radio Show
SUN 22 SEPT at 7:30pm £18
The nation’s favourite sitcom returns! The boys are delighted to head to Wilton’s Music Hall with three new episodes. Two actors, two microphones, over twentyfive characters - and lots of sound effects! Dad’s Army Radio Show bring’s Perry and Croft’s classic BBC comedy to life in this highly acclaimed stage production. Three episodes of the popular sitcom - adapted for radio for the very first time - are hilariously and lovingly enacted on stage by two master performers - complete with sound effects, vintage music and all your favourite Perry and Croft characters and catchphrases.
Mary Cassat: Painting the Modern Woman
FRI 27 SEP at 7:30pm £12
Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, curious and engaging. This was a major shift in the way women appeared in art. Mary Cassatt, born in Pennsylvania in 1844, lived much of her adult life in France, to the extent that she became not an American artist but a French artist. In 1868, her painting A Mandolin Player became her first work to be accepted by the Paris Salon, the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Edgar Degas saw Cassatt’s work at the Salon and, in 1877, he asked her to exhibit with a new group called the Impressionists.
An Evening without Kate Bush
SUN 29 SEP at 7:30pm £22.50
Following its sold-out, critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe première, London seasons, UK and Australian tours this smashhit, award-winning show is back! Sarah-Louise Young and cocreator Russell Lucas pay glorious homage to the music, fans, and mythology of one of the most influential voices in British music.
OCTOBER
I’m Glad I Asked
FRI 04 OCT at 7:30pm From £14
This funny and tender one-woman show was drawn from workshops with women that asked, “What would you like to ask or have asked your mother?”. It reflects Michele’s own lived experiences with her 91-year-old Mother, Gena (represented by a life-sized puppet) and the impact that her mother’s dementia had on both of their lives. Through a truly personal and generous piece of storytelling theatre, Michele O’Brien explores the joys, heartaches, shared memories, love and conflict that binds generations together to convey a universal tale for all to enjoy.
Simon Evans: Have We Met?
SUN 06 OCT at 7:30pm From £17
Drawing on Joyce, Proust and the career of Philip Schofield to make sense of his own tangled past and possible future, Evans skilfully weaves comedy, pathos and narrowly averted cancellation into an unforgettable two hours of unique entertainment.
Lucky Pigeons
SAT 12 OCT at 2:30pm £12 / £8 / £35 Family
BrainFools circus company presents Lucky Pigeons, a vibrant show for the whole family. This surreal fable explores urban society through captivating performances, including stunning juggling and aerial tricks. Lucky Pigeons captures the whirlwind of city life, blending storytelling, movement, and circus arts for an unforgettable experience. Audiences will be amazed by the talented cast’s astonishing feats and energetic performances.
OCTOBER
Austen’s Women: LADY SUSAN
SUN 27 OCT at 7:30pm £18
The award-winning creators of Austen’s Women, A Christmas Carol, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic, Christmas Gothic, and A Room of One’s Own are back with a brand new solo comedy show: Jane Austen’s magnificently crafted tale of manipulation and manners.
Return to the Regency (or rather, Georgian) in this wickedly funny tale of society and the women trapped within it; their struggles, their desires, their temptations and manipulations - and at the vanguard, Lady Susan: charming, scheming, witty, and powerful; taking on society and making it her own. But has she met her match?
You Choose
MON 28 OCT at 11am & 2pm £14 / £12
You Choose – Every show is unique!
Based on the brilliant book by Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt Nonsense Room Productions (Shark in the Park and Hairy Maclary Shows) bring you an interactive musical show for all the family. But in this show – YOU CHOOSE what happens!
Using the picture book as inspiration and through a series of games and challenges each show will be unique with different characters, locations, costumes and much more every time!
“It’sallasentertaininglyrandomasthebook,particularlyforthoseyoungerpeoplein attendance.Themannerinwhichtheygoaboutthechoosingisjoyous,invitingyoung volunteersfromtheaudiencetopickacharacter….”
David Pollock, The List
“Quitesimply,it’sfun,it’sfunny,itappearsasimpleformatbutisactuallyclever;it’sa greatfamilyshow…”
Anne Hamilton, Lothian Life
“ThereisplentyofchoiceandbundlesofenergyatNonsenseRoomProductions’ adaptationofthechildren’spicturebook,YouChoose….”
Thom Dibdin, All Edinburgh Theatre
“A must-see”
The Spectator
NOVEMBER
“An impressive biography” The Guardian
Hopper: An American Love Story
THUR 14 NOV at 7:30pm £12
Edward Hopper is one of history’s most influential artists, so often imitated by photographers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists. I was initially drawn in by the idea of a man who was cantankerous, monosyllabic, and unpleasant but what I’ve learnt is that this is a very unfair summary of the man; that he is much more complex and more appealing than that. He is a thoughtful artist and a master storyteller.
Hooray for Hollywood
FRI 23 NOV at 7:30pm £13
The Pinewood Saxophone Quartet unites four London-based saxophonists whose talents span a wide range of orchestral playing, chamber music, jazz, West End musicals and film music. The Pinewood players share a love of film music and are inspired by the affinity between the Hollywood and London film industries. In addition to drawing upon the repertoire legacy of the great Hollywood Saxophone Quartet of the 1950s, the Pinewood Quartet creates its own arrangements and also incorporates jazz improvisation into its performances.
NOVEMBER
The Big Country Music Show
THUR 21 NOV at 7:30pm From £26
It’s gonna be a sea of cowboy hats when The BIG country music show rides into town!
A band of amazing musicians with male and female lead singers, stunning harmonies and live fiddle, it’s a two hour extravaganza of unashamedly old school singalong country music, filled with hand-clapping, foot-stomping, boot-scootin’ sing-along classics from the likes of Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and The Eagles. Featuring a ten-gallon hat full of great country and western hits including ‘The Gambler’, ‘Take it Easy’, ‘Man! I Feel Like a Woman’, ‘Ring of Fire’, ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia’ and many more.
If you like a little bit of classic country music then why not dust off those boots, grab your partners and mosey on down?!
DECEMBER
Robin Hood: The Pantomime
SAT 14TH DEC – TUE 31ST DEC
Relaxed Performance: 23 DEC at 1:30PM
Adult Pantomime Performances (18+): 27 DEC, 28 DEC and 31 DEC at 7:30PM
This Christmas prepare to rob from the rich and give to the poor as you join the legendary Robin Hood and his band of outlaws in Sherwood Forest as they fight the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and Prince John.
When the Sheriff decides to marry Maid Marian, it’s up to Robin and his friends Silly Willy, Fairy Fabulous and the Cidermill’s own Dame Dotty to save Marian and restore King Richard the Lionheart to the throne.
Tread the Boards Theatre Company returns to the Cidermill Theatre again this year with their critically acclaimed production. Full of songs, dances and hilarious routines to delight all ages.
CHRISTMAS COMPETITION
#Let Me Take a Selfie!
We will be holding a fun competition throughout the run of Robin Hood, where we invite audience members to take photos with a selfie frame and a handful of Sherwood Forest themed props! All we ask you to do it tag us on your insta or facebook post and we will do a random draw at the end of the run to WIN tickets to a show of your choice in the Spring/Summer season 2025.
Tag us with #cidermilltheatre #ttb86 and #SherwoodSelfieComp to be entered into the prize draw!
