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Quarterhouse Spring 2017
Contents 3 Welcome
4 Theatre 7 Children & Families 11 Children’s Participation 12 Projects for Young People 14 Music 16 Talks 17 Comedy 18 NT Live 20 International Women’s Day 22 Get Involved 24 Film 25 Booking Tickets 26 How to find Quarterhouse 27 What’s On
Welcome to Quarterhouse Welcome to spring 2017 at Quarterhouse and an amazing array of theatre, music, comedy, talks, family events and workshops, including premiere performances of two shows – Declining Solo and The Boy and the Mermaid – that have been developed here at Quarterhouse. We’re expanding across art forms and are delighted to have become a venue for NT Live; broadcasting National Theatre productions live to Folkestone. This is Psychedelia is the first in a series of micro festivals curated by Melting Vinyl focusing on the vibrant, exciting genres tickling the underground music scenes. This year, we celebrate International Women’s Day with three long-term projects exploring moments of transformation or revolution in women’s lives: Boss(y) Girls, The Motherhood and Identity Project and Older Women Rock! The spring season is bursting with powerful work by and about women – from Bridget Christie and Hollie McNish to E15, A Hounslow Girl, Hedda Gabler, Write Like a Grrrl and a new road movie from outstanding British film director Andrea Arnold. There are plenty of opportunities to get involved from early morning walks to improvisation and choir plus two major projects for young people. Crossing Lines with international outdoor arts company PAN.OPTIKUM invites young people aged 16-24 to take part in a once in a lifetime opportunity. Meanwhile Raw Roads return to Folkestone for a week-long Easter residency working with professional DJs, rappers and songsmiths. We’re also launching NEON – an incredible opportunity for children and young people to take part in regular after school workshops using theatre, dance, art, music and technology to create original work for performance. We look forward to seeing you in 2017! Cheryl Pierce Quarterhouse Director (maternity cover)
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THEATRE
THEATRE CONRAD MURRAY
DOM COYOTE AND THE BLOODMONEYS
DenMarked
Songs for the End of the World
Wednesday 8 February, 7.30pm
Wednesday 22 March 7.30pm
Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / Ages 16+ / 60 mins
Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / Ages 12+ / 90 mins Part gig. Part play. Part apocalypse
Tales from the council estate of dodgy best friends, that rite of passage; your first arrest, dinner with your social worker and the Christmas dad went to prison.
Set in a dystopian future steadily steam-rolling towards catastrophe. When the apocalypse finally arrives, astronaut Jim Walters is suspended in orbit, broadcasting his songs for the end of the world back to a silent Earth where the few remaining survivors must fight for their future.
An autobiographical performance told through storytelling, singing, rapping and a loop station. Created by Conrad Murray and developed with Battersea Arts Centre, DenMarked explores the extent to which we are marked by events in our lives.
Inspired by Philip K Dick’s post-apocalyptic novel Dr. Bloodmoney, Ziggy Stardust and 1950s rock’n’roll, Songs for the End of the World is a show like no other. Dom Coyote is an associate artist of Kneehigh Theatre and his high octane, multi-instrumentalist band, the Bloodmoneys, has toured and recorded with artists including Beth Orton, Scissor Sisters, Gary Numan, Goldfrapp, Beth Gibbons, and Tinie Tempah.
Conrad is co-founder of hip-hop theatre company Beats & Elements, director of the Battersea Arts Centre Beatbox Academy and Rodium Records.
Join them as they explore the line between epic theatre and raucous gig.
Two young theatre-makers are mixing it up. Just what theatre needs. The Guardian
LUNG
AMBREEN RAZIA WITH BLACK THEATRE LIVE
Friday 10 March, 7.30pm
Wednesday 29 March, 7.30pm
Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / Ages 13+ / 75mins
Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / Ages 14+ / 85 mins
‘We want social housing, not social cleansing.’
A funny, bold & provocative coming of age tale.
On 19th October 2013, 29 sheltering single mothers and children received eviction letters. Faced with the threat of sky-rocketing rent or forced relocation, these women launched a campaign that pushed housing to the top of the political agenda.
You’ve heard of an Essex Girl and a Chelsea Girl but what is a Hounslow Girl?
E15
The Diary of a Hounslow Girl
From traditional Pakistani weddings to fights on the night bus, The Diary of a Hounslow Girl is told through the eyes of a bolshy hooped earring, headscarf-wearing 16 year old British Muslim girl growing up in West London. A funny, bold, provocative play highlighting the challenges of being brought up in a traditional Muslim family alongside the temptations and influences of growing up in and around London.
From the Houses of Parliament to the streets of Newham, this piece of documentary theatre is adapted exclusively from real-life testimonies of the Focus E15 campaign to provide a truthful re-telling of a national issue and how one group of women refused to be marginalised.
First there was Bridget Jones’s Diary, then Legally Blonde, and now there is The Diary of a Hounslow Girl, geared up to take on the world. A comic story of dreams, aspirations and coming of age.
Loud, raucous and angry, but also deceptively disciplined and focused. The Guardian
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THEATRE
CHILDREN & FAMILIES PIED PIPER THEATRE COMPANY
Burglar Bill
Sunday 15 January 2.30pm Adults £6 / Children £5 / Family £20 (2 adults 2 children) / Age 3+ Join Pied Piper Theatre Company in a fun and engaging stage adaptation of Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s charming picture book Burglar Bill. Who’s that creeping down the street? Who’s that climbing up the wall? Who’s that coming through the window? Who’s that? It’s Burglar Bill. Capturing the spirit of the book, and with an exciting set featuring lots of windows to climb through, Burglar Bill and Burglar Betty tell this much loved story with the help of puppets, music, song and dance. Children aged three plus, and their parents and grandparents will love this show! There could not be a better way than this to introduce your young child to theatre. Surrey Advertiser
WORLD PREMIERE TWO DESTINATION LANGUAGE
Declining Solo
Saturday 29 April, 7.30pm Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / Ages 12+ Combining text with choreography, video and specially commissioned music, Declining Solo follows the award-winning Near Gone with an exploration of ageing and fading memories.
A Woman returns to visit her childhood home and misses the one thing she values most: the father she remembers. It’s in a place where there’s singing and dancing and eating and drinking and being merry, of friendships and familial links as the core of communities.
Two Destination Language are Alister Lownie and Katherina Radeva. They make work that draws upon their different backgrounds (Scottish and Bulgarian) with a shared interest in story-telling through language, movement and visual art. They have been developing Declining Solo ‘in residence’ at Quarterhouse.
It’s in a place where the summer smells of sun, and the winter smells of burning coal. I think if I piece it back together somehow If the vase has been broken and I put back the pieces, it can get better. Box Office 01303 760750
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BIG IMAGINATIONS
Sponge
Wednesday 15 February, 11am & 2.30pm Adults £6 / Children £5 / Family £20 (2 adults 2 children) / For babies aged 4 months to children under 4 years and their grown-ups / 50 mins alike. Dance company Turned On Its Head makes exciting participatory theatre for early years taking children on a creative journey and encouraging lots of family interaction. Everything in Sponge can be made with simple materials at home so there’s plenty more fun to be had after leaving the theatre!
Roll, squeeze and pop yourself through a new malleable kind of family dance show, set to a 1970s-influenced score, perfect for babies, young children and families. Sponge is about all things spongy, a child’s ability to soak information up like a sponge, a nice piece of cake and the squishy, squashy texture that fascinates children and adults 7
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CHILDREN & FAMILIES
CHILDREN & FAMILIES PAPER BALLOON
The Boy and the Mermaid Sunday 5 March, 2.30pm Adults £6 / Children £5 / Family £20 (2 adults, 2 children) / Ages 6+ / 60 mins shanties exploring the fate of one little fishing town exposed to the mercy of sea monsters, mer-creatures and spectacularly bad town planning.
On the furthest edge of a wind-battered rock there sits a small fishing town. Sometimes it feels like the town is on the edge of the world. That’s mainly because it is! Dylan lives in the town with his grandma, forbidden from venturing beyond the shore. But the terrifying tales of horrors in the deep only whet his appetite as he stares at the ocean and dreams.
Paper Balloon Theatre Company create original storytelling theatre for, with and by young people. Their work fuses together original live music and song, puppetry, physical theatre, movement, spoken word and poetry to create performance appreciated by all ages. They have developed this show in partnership with Quarterhouse.
A magical new show for families mixing innovative puppetry, lyrical storytelling and traditional sea
WORLD PREMIERE
STORY POCKET THEATRE
King Arthur
Saturday 18 February, 2.30pm Adults £6 / Children £5 / Family £20 (2 adults 2 children) / Ages 7+ / 75 mins Excalibur, Lancelot and Guinevere. Join awardwinning Story Pocket Theatre as they tell exciting stories of brave chivalry, battles and the search for the Holy Grail in a fast-moving family adventure packed with physical theatre and outstanding storytelling.
A thrilling tale of magic, heroism, love and betrayal adapted from the novel Arthur: High King of Britain by Michael Morpurgo, the author of War Horse and Private Peaceful. A drowning boy is rescued by a mysterious figure who claims to be Arthur Pendragon. As the old man tells his stories, he is transported back to the heady days of Camelot, the Round Table, Merlin,
A masterclass in serious theatre for older children. The Stage
Birthday parties @ Quarterhouse If you enjoy our family programme at Quarterhouse, why not combine a show with a party to celebrate your child’s birthday? Our café-bar is a unique and fun space in which to host a kid’s party. Pre and post show birthday parties available for a minimum of 10 guests. For enquiries, call Sally Otteson 01303 760755. It’s so different to see a live show and then have a party under the same roof with such brilliant hosts – thank you Quarterhouse!
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CHILDREN & FAMILIES
CHILDREN’S PARTICIPATION
Morgan & West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show for Kids and Childish Grown-ups Sunday 19 March, 2.30pm Adults £6 / Children £5 / Family £20 (2 adults 2 children) / Ages 5+ / 60 mins Time travelling magic duo Morgan & West present a jaw dropping, heart stopping, brain busting, opinion adjusting, death defying, mind frying, spirit lifting, paradigm shifting, outlook changing, furniture rearranging magic extravaganza! Witness a mountain of mysterious magic, a hatful of hyper-reality, and a truck full of tricks and tea. Mixing brain boggling illusion and good old fashioned tom-foolery, Morgan & West present a show for all the family, where magic and silliness abound! Hilarious and good for all ages. Primary Times
LITTLE ANGEL THEATRE
Wow! Said the Owl Monday 3 April, 11am & 2.30pm Adults £6 / Children £5 / Family £20 (2 adults 2 children) / Ages 2-5 years / 35 mins
Neon after school @ Quarterhouse Theatre, Dance, Art, Music, Technology
Explore the wow-world of colours with a curious little owl who is determined to stay awake to see what daylight brings. From the warm pink glow of dawn through to a day filled with the bright colours of green leaves, blue sky, grey clouds and, finally, a stunning rainbow — WOW!
With Sadie Hurley and James Middleton Tuesdays 17 January – 28 March (half term 14 February) 5-8 Years, 4pm – 5pm / 9-11 Years, 5.15pm – 6.15pm / 12-16 Years, 6.30pm – 7.30pm / £40 per 10 week term Our brand new Neon after school workshops will explore a variety of art forms, techniques and styles for children and young people who are interested in the visual and performing arts.
But despite the beauty of the daytime world, the little owl decides that the night-time stars are the most beautiful of all. WOW! Said the Owl is brought to life through a blend of beautiful story-telling, puppetry and music.
Over each ten week term participants will explore, create and develop original work from scratch around a given theme culminating in a performance showcasing the term’s work.
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Alongside weekly sessions with our in-house practitioners, Sadie Hurley and James Middleton, we will be inviting artists working in spoken word, visual arts, puppetry, costume, special FX and digital arts offering young people a chance to develop in confidence and imagination, learn new skills and have fun! Neon was great. It was full of exciting games, new friends and a production at the end which blew our parents away. Louis (Neon 2016) 11
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PROJECTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
PROJECTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
PAN.OPTIKUM
RAW ROADS
Power Of Diversity – The Crossing Lines Project
IMAGINE
An incredible opportunity for young people aged 16-24
Tuesday 11 – Saturday 15 April
In 2017 Quarterhouse is working with renowned German outdoor arts company PAN.OPTIKUM, as well as ten partners from around Europe. The company will work with a group of young people for two weeks across hip-hop dance, theatre, rap and spoken word to create an exciting performance in a unique location. Following the performance in Folkestone, three of the participants will be selected to go to Germany to work with PAN.OPTIKUM at their production site in Freiburg. They will work with the company and three participants from each of the European partners for 6 weeks to create a new piece of outdoor theatre to tour across Europe. Audition workshops will take place on: 24 March, 6pm – 9pm 25 March, 3pm – 6pm 26 March, 10am – 1pm Box Office 01303 760750
To participate in this project you must be available for all audition workshop days. The performance will be made in residency at Quarterhouse from 1 to 10 June. Selected participants will be required to rehearse in Germany from 19 June – 30 July 2017 and to go on tour! Please note that the project is open to everyone aged 16-24. In order to be selected to go to Germany you must, however, be 18+ by 1 June 2017. For more information about this project and to get involved please contact Katie Burse katieburse@creativefoundation.org.uk Crossing Lines is part of Power of Diversity, co-funded by the European Union as part of the Creative Europe Programme.
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Workshops begin on Tuesday 11 April at 3pm Are you a Singer? MC? Lyricist? Poet? Performer? Artist? Musician? Writer? Filmmaker? Raw Roads: IMAGINE is coming to Folkestone! Raw Roads is a national touring project offering FREE artist-led workshops and performance events for people aged 13 to 25.
At the end of the week, we will have a public show where all the new raps, songs, films and whatever else we create during the week will be performed in a professional event at Quarterhouse. All activities are free of charge. You don’t need to have previous experience. You just need to be actively creative.
This is your invitation to develop your creative and IMAGINE is a Raw Material project presented in performance skills with a team of professional partnership with Folkestone Fringe artists, and perform your own work at a showcase For more information about this project and event alongside the Raw Roads crew. to get involved please contact Katie Burse A team of artists from Raw Material, Brixton katieburse@creativefoundation.org.uk – rappers, DJs, filmmaker, singers and a performance director – will be at Folkestone Quarterhouse throughout the week, holding workshops for and with local young talent. 13
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MUSIC
MUSIC
This is Psychedelia Saturday 1 April, doors 6pm, start 6.30pm Tickets £15 advance / £19 door / Ages 14+ (under 16s accompanied by an adult)
FOLKESTONE FRINGE, HOT SALVATION RECORDS & UNLABEL
Profound Sound
Friday 3 – Sunday 5 February Single event £5, day pass £10 / Early bird weekend pass £20 (before 15 Jan), weekend full price £27 Profound Sound reaches across traditional forms of music to the fringes of sound-art covering song & instrumental performance, spoken word, radio broadcasting, sound installations, contemporary classical and jazz, electroacoustic, sound-art, film and video. Performers and works hail from as far as New York and Hong Kong and include homegrown samples. Headline Acts:
Fri: 7pm Mozart vs Machine by Mahogany Opera Group with music by D W Robertson (previously known as Ergo Phizmi), 10pm Leafcutter John. Sat: 4pm Nate Wooley (avant improvised jazz trumpeter from New York), 7pm Hot Salvation Records present Cow Town, Zam Duo, Virginia Wing. Sun: 3pm Cosmic Thoughts, Hunters Loaf.
In April we celebrate all things Psychedelic in music. The festival starts at 6pm with five profiled psych artists covering a cross of genres and gender throughout the evening including Vanishing Twin, Cosmic Thoughts, The Lucid Dream, Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation and The Embrooks. With visuals from Innerstrings, co- founders of Lewes Psychedelic festival and creator in part of what makes Liverpool Psych Fest look stunning, this promises to be the start of a brand new movement for Folkestone.
The Handsome Family + William The Conqueror Friday 4 March, doors 7pm, start 8pm Tickets £15 advance / £17 door US husband-and-wife duo the Handsome Family has been labeled both alt-country and traditionalist, but truthfully their often-dark music lies in a unique space somewhere in between, blending the sounds of traditional country and bluegrass, especially murder ballads, into a more modern scenery.
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Hot 8 Brass Band + Support Wednesday 5th April, doors 7pm, start 8pm Tickets £20 advance / £24 door / Ages 14+ (under 16s accompanied by an adult)
Their brilliant new album Unseen is 10 songs with the guiding theme of colour; telling stories mostly inspired by real events, exploring the light which emanates from things we can’t see.
Transcending genres and trends, the New Orleans band Hot 8 have performed and collaborated with a wide range of artists from Lauryn Hill to Mos Def to the Blind Boys of Alabama and were nominated for a Grammy in 2013 for their second album The Life and Times Of…
In the live arena, Hot 8 Brass Band continue to win over audiences with their old school street brass fused with some harder, funkier currents and juxtaposing magnificent originals with fresh versions of Snoop Dogg, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Specials and Basement Jaxx.
Haunting, primal and strangely heroic. The Times
Number 1 purveyors of jazz infused, funk and hip hop. BBC 6 Music
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TALKS
COMEDY
Hollie McNish – Nobody Told Me
Andy Parsons tour warm up
Saturday 11 February, 7.30pm
Friday 10 February, 8pm
Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / Ages 14+ / 60 mins
Tickets £12 / Ages 14+ / 90 mins plus interval
With Benjamin Zephaniah stating ‘I can’t take my ears off her’, Kate Tempest describing her poetry as ‘welcoming, galvanising and beautiful’ and fans ranging from Robin Ince, Pink, Tim Minchen, Marian Keyes to most of the UK’s midwives, Hollie McNish is is an Arts Foundation Fellow in Spoken Word, has garnered over two million YouTube views for her online poetry performances and was the first poet to record at London’s famed Abbey Road Studios.
Cracking adlibbing….a joke-rich rallying call for a better Britain. The Guardian Potent live performer… can nail a nonsense with beautiful economy of words. The Times Worried about your job? Worried about your family? Worried about yourself? Worried about the health service? Education? Climate change? World War 3? Worried about worrying? Sod it! Come and have a laugh about it. It’s one of the things we do best. Or is it? Was it something we did best but like everything else has now gone West. Or South. Or East. Ah - go on. Take a risk. Put on your lucky pants and your party shoes – and get yourself on a night out. Or maybe come out dressed in a bin bag, top hat and clogs. We could all use a laugh.
Hollie will perform poems, read from and chat honestly and openly about her latest book, Nobody Told Me; a unique blend of poetry and storytelling taken straight from her personal diaries. As she states herself ‘it is not a polished collection’ but a very candid, at times gutting, at others hilarious, look at her experience of motherhood; from pregnancy to the pre-school drop off. Expect strong language as she talks colours, cravings, politics, transformers, sex, tree-climbing, feeding, train journeys, lots and lots of love and occasionally locking herself in toilets to cry.
As seen on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo, Q.I. – and repeated on Dave. Brilliantly funny and insightful. Metro
The world needs this book. The Scotsman
Michael Portillo – Life: a game of two halves
LAKIN MCCARTHY PRESENTS
Saturday 18 February, 7.30pm
Bridget Christie – Because You Demanded It
Tickets £18.50 / 90 mins plus interval
Friday 31 March, 8pm Tickets £16 / Ages 14+
It took Michael Portillo little more than 10 years to get a seat in the House of Commons and then rise in power and esteem to a point where he was a favoured leader of his party and possible future PM.
Multi-award winning Bridget Christie brings her critically acclaimed, sell-out show to town.
A track record like that suggests a privileged friend of the rich and famous with little or no understanding of or care for the ordinary citizen but since leaving the house a decade ago, Michael has endeared himself to many with his obvious respect for solid workmanship and creative energy, as found in our great Victorian Railways, and the daily toil of the working man. A historian at heart, he has used a Victorian railway guide to take millions of TV viewers on a historical voyage of discovery throughout the UK, Ireland and most of Europe. Listen to his extraordinary story and then feel free to question him about it. Box Office 01303 760750
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The people of the UK have voted to leave the EU, even though no-one had a plan for what would happen if it did. If you didn’t want to leave the EU, or you did, but now don’t, because you haven’t got any of the things you were promised, then this is absolutely the show for you. If you did want to leave the EU, and still do, then you will still find it funny, but for different reasons, as you witness the liberal female comedian’s exasperated and despairing meltdown. The most electrifying comedy I’ve yet seen on the Fringe. ***** The Guardian She’s pulled it off again with a wit and vim that is enjoyable as it is timely. **** The Times Whatever your political views, this show is one you’d be foolish to miss. **** The Telegraph 17
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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE National Theatre productions broadcast live at Folkestone Quarterhouse from this spring...
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE
Amadeus
Hedda Gabler
Thursday 2 February, 7pm
Thursday 9 March, 7pm
Tickets £14/ £12 concessions
Tickets £14/ £12 concessions
Music. Power. Jealousy.
“I’ve no talent for life.”
Lucian Msamati (Luther, Game of Thrones, NT Live: The Comedy of Errors) plays Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s iconic play, broadcast live from the National Theatre, and with live orchestral accompaniment by Southbank Sinfonia.
Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God. After winning multiple Olivier and Tony Awards when it had its premiere at the National Theatre in 1979, Amadeus was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film.
Tony Award-winning director Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic Theatre) returns to National Theatre Live screens with a modern production of Ibsen’s masterpiece. Ruth Wilson (Luther, The Affair, Jane Eyre) plays the title role in a new version by Patrick Marber (Notes on a Scandal, Closer).
Saint Joan
Twelfth Night
Thursday 16 February, 7pm
Thursday 6 April, 7pm
Tickets £14/ £12 concessions
Tickets £14/ £12 concessions
Gemma Arterton is Joan of Arc, broadcast live from the Donmar Warehouse.
Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity.
Bernard Shaw’s classic play follows the life and trial of a young country girl who declares a bloody mission to drive the English from France. As one of the first Protestants and nationalists, she threatens the very fabric of the feudal society and the Catholic Church across Europe.
A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love. Where music is the food of love, and nobody is quite what they seem, anything proves possible.
Josie Rourke (Coriolanus, Les Liaisons Dangereuses) directs Gemma Arterton (Gemma Bovery, Nell Gwynn, Made in Dagenham) as Joan of Arc in this electrifying production.
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Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.
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Simon Godwin (NT Live: Man and Superman, NT Live: The Beaux’ Stratagem) directs this joyous new production with Tamsin Greig (Friday Night Dinner, Black Books, Episodes) as a transformed Malvolia. An ensemble cast that includes Daniel Rigby (Flowers, Jericho), Tamara Lawrence (Undercover), Doon Mackichan (Smack the Pony) and Daniel Ezra (The Missing, Undercover).
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY The Motherhood and Identity Project
Carry Greenham Home
Has becoming a mother affected your sense of self? Does this change in life change who you are? How are the physical, social, or political aspects of your identity altered by motherhood? The Motherhood and Identity Project started on social media in spring 2016 and developed into a blog and a zine drawing together women’s written responses for WOW Folkestone 2016 – motherhoodandidentityproject.com
Wednesday 22 February, 7.30pm Tickets £3 / 66 mins + Q&A Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson spent seven months filming at the women’s peace camp at Greenham Common. Their film covers the main actions from December 1982 to June 1983 as well as showing the daily life of the camp. The film gives a fuller picture of what life was like than the fragmented news reports of the time and covers the processes underlying the women’s decisions, the influence of outside forces, and the verve and style with which they developed their own brand of non-violent direct action.
Boss(y) Girls © Aglaé Plaete
For 2017 we want to hear more women’s voices. We will be making recordings at workshops on 20 and 27 January to which all women are welcome: details will be shared on the website. With these recordings a sound piece and event will be created to be presented during the week of International Women’s Day.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Workshops: Friday 20 and 27 January, various times, Quarterhouse Meeting Room.
This spring we explore important ideas for women and girls with a series of projects culminating in a week of events around International Women’s Day on 8 March.
OLDER WOMEN ROCK!
Young women aged 13 to 25. Do you want to make your voices heard? Come and join us for discussions, debates, and the chance to express your thoughts and feelings about the challenges facing young women today. We need your input and skills to create a campaign inspired by bold women of the past – from Suffragettes to Riot Grrrls - culminating in a public installation around town. Boss(y) Girls gives you the opportunity to talk, design, create, meet like-minded people and most importantly have fun. Whether you are artistic, non-artistic, confident or shy, come along and get stuck in. Because, in the great words of Beyoncé, “I’m not Bossy, I’m the Boss.”
Older Women Rock!
An innovative project using poetry and vintage clothing to raise awareness and explore issues that face women in their mid-50s to early 70s. The Older Women Rock! pop-up shop and exhibition will be open from 18 February to 12 Workshops: Monday 13 & Tuesday 14 March at Space Gallery on the Old High Street February, 10am to 4pm, Quarterhouse Theatre. and events will be taking place in the shop and at other locations in Folkestone including the For more information contact following events at Quarterhouse: bossygirlsproject@gmail.com Open discussion & planning sessions: Saturdays 21 January, 28 January, 11 February, 18 February, 25 February from 2pm – 4pm, Quarterhouse Meeting Room.
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Please contact motherhoodandidentity@gmail. com if you would like to find out more.
Boss(y) Girls
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Spare Rib Monday 27 February, 7.30pm Tickets £3 / 90 mins A panel discussion with Polly Russell, British Library Curator of the Spare Rib digital archive, and women who were on the S pare Rib collective.
Profanity Embroidery Group – The Common Thread Sunday 5 March, 10.30am-1pm [women 55+] & 2.30pm-5pm [open] / Tickets £3 Subvert your doilies, spice up your hankies, add a naughty message to the lining of your work clothes. Bring something to embellish and let the Profanity Embroidery Group help you express yourself through stitching. All abilities welcome.
Spare Rib was an active part of the emerging Women’s Liberation Movement in the late 20th century. Running from 1972-93, this now iconic magazine challenged the stereotyping and exploitation of women while supporting collective, realistic solutions to the hurdles women faced.
Stories from the She-Punks
Women Over 50 Film Festival Wednesday 1 March, 7.30pm Tickets £3 / 120 mins including Q&A The Women Over 50 Film Festival champions the work of older women on both sides of the camera. Begun in Brighton in 2015, the festival has quickly gained traction and in 2016 screened 44 international short films some of which we are delighted to welcome to Folkestone for this special screening event. The concept is simple; for a film to be eligible for WOFF it has to have a woman over 50 at its centre OR have a woman over 50 in the core creative team (writer, director or producer).
Wednesday 8 March, 7pm Tickets £3 / 60 mins including Q&A Gina Birch from The Raincoats and Helen Reddington, Helen McCookerybook of The Chefs, present a documentary in progress consisting of interviews with women who played in punk bands in the 1970s. We hear about acquiring instruments, their DIY approach to learning to play, forming bands and getting gigs. The film reflects all the anarchy and excitement of the movement that revolutionised British culture. Join us on stage at the end of the evening for a DIY punk band session. We’ll supply some instruments (or bring your own) and take part in a glorious she-punk jam – all welcome.
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GET INVOLVED
GET INVOLVED GO TO THE PINE
IGNITE WITH WRITE LIKE A GRRRL & FOR BOOKS’ SAKE
In Praise of Walking
Write like a Grrrl
6 January, 3 February, 3 March, 7 April, 8.30am
Mondays 30 January to 6 March, 7pm – 9pm
Meet at Quarterhouse / 60 mins / Free
Tickets £60 / £36 concessions Women! Always wanted to write fiction? Or haven’t written for a while and want to kick-start your practice? Then this low-cost, women-only, 6 week ‘Ignite’ course is for you.
A series of morning walks through the local landscape on the first Friday of every month. Led by eco-poet Chris Poundwhite of Go to the Pine, the walks will be taken mainly in silence and include readings from In Praise of Walking by the Scottish poet Thomas A Clark.
You’ll develop skills in characterisation, dialogue, creating dynamic settings and other essential writing techniques in a warm, welcoming environment. You’ll learn to push through doubt, reduce fear of the blank page, become disciplined and enjoy writing so much more. Over two hundred women have graduated from Write like a Grrrl and For Books’ Sake’s Ignite courses. Stop dreaming and become your dream. Tackle selfdoubt. Gain strength and a sense of community. Revolutionise your writing.
“There are things we will never see, unless we walk to them.” Dogs welcome. Please wear suitable shoes and dress for the weather – we will walk rain or shine!
We welcome self-identifying women of all ages.
Wildflowers Choir Musical Director Carol Grimes Mondays from 16 January, 6pm – 7.30pm Wildflowers is a different kind of women’s choir – dynamic and innovative singing pop, folk, jazz and blues. The choir was formed in September 2015, is managed by its members and meets each Monday in the theatre at Quarterhouse. New singers welcome (no audition).
Improv Gym
Contact us at wildflowerschoir@ gmail.com for membership, bookings, general enquiries or just turn up.
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Mondays from 16 January, 7.30pm – 9pm A free drama improvisation workshop open to all who want to practice being more “in the moment”, to laugh more, and to draw out the playful side of themselves. We’ll play ice-breaker and warm-up games, and practice skills at the heart of improvisation such as listening, making 22
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FILM
I, Daniel Blake (15)
Thursday 26 January, 7.30pm / Tickets £5 / £4 concessions Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain. Directed by Ken Loach, written by Paul Laverty and winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2016.
Fire at Sea (12A)
Thursday 9 February, 7.30pm / Tickets £5 / £4 concessions Winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival 2016, Gianfranco Rosi’s incisive, poignant and deeply moving portrait of the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa and the humanitarian crisis occurring in the seas around it is both a masterly work of documentary filmmaking and a timely call for urgent action. Situated 150 miles south of Sicily, Lampedusa has hit headlines as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of refugees hoping to make a new life in Europe. After spending months living on the island and engaging with its inhabitants, Rosi accumulated an incredible array of footage portraying the history, culture and daily lives of the islanders. The result is a lyrical, poetic and searingly powerful documentary that casts neither judgement nor aspersions, but simply shows the world to the viewer - to utterly devastating effect.
American Honey (15)
Thursday 23 February, 7.30pm / Tickets £5 / £4 concessions British director Andrea Arnold (Wuthering Heights, Fish Tank) takes to the American road with her fourth feature introducing magnetic newcomer Sasha Lane who plays a teenage girl with nothing to lose. Star, a free-spirited teenager on the brink of adulthood, leaves her troubled home in the American Midwest and hits the road with a mag crew - itinerant laborers who peddle publications door-to-door for long hours during the day and party hard at night. Led by hard-driving manager Krystal (Riley Keough) and her seductive enforcer Jake (Shia LaBeouf), the crew becomes a surrogate family to Star, offering hope, love and the freedom that comes from being on the road. Shot by Arnold’s longtime cinematographer, Robbie Ryan, American Honey buzzes with beautiful light, majestic backdrops, an urban soundtrack and a truly fizzling potent energy, this is a fresh take on the American road movie. Box Office 01303 760750
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Access
We are a fully accessible venue – please inform the Box Office of your requirements.
Concessions
Opening times Monday to Saturday – 10:00 to 17:00 Sunday – Closed (except on event days) Box Office reopens at 6pm on event nights
Concessionary rates apply (where stated) to under 16s, full time students, senior citizens (age 65+), registered unemployed, registered disabled plus companion. Proof of status will be required.
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All details are correct at time of going to print. Quarterhouse reserves the right to change the programme and introduce special offers and discounts without prior notice. These will not apply to tickets already purchased before the announcement. Updates will be available on the website and at the Box Office. Latecomers will not be allowed their seats until a suitable break in the performance. Audio recorders, cameras and mobile phones may not be used in the venue. The management reserves the right to refuse admission. All tickets are non-transferable and will be void if re-sold. Events marked 16+ No ID, No Entry are strictly for people aged over 16 and you may be asked to prove your age. You will not be permitted access to the venue if you are unable to produce photographic identification. Accepted forms of identification include a valid UK passport, UK driving licence, or an accredited pass card, e.g. Validate UK. Forms for a Validate UK card are available from the Box Office or by visiting www.validateuk.co.uk. We do not accept photocopies or out of date identification. On all other events under 16s must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
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How to find Quarterhouse
What’s On
By Train
Parking
High speed trains run regularly from London St Pancras International (journey time 57 minutes). The last return train from Folkestone to London is at 22:56.
Parking is available at Quarterhouse (50 Spaces). Parking permits can be purchased from the pay and display machine located in the Quarterhouse car park. Prices are £1 per hour, up to £5 for the day. Parking is free after 6pm. For more Folkestone Central Station is a short walk from the information please call Quarterhouse Box Office. centre of town and approximately 15 minutes from Other parking includes, Tram Road (2mins), Quarterhouse. Payers Park (2mins) and the Harbour car park (5mins). All council car parks charge daily fees For full details go to our travel partner’s website starting from £1 per hour. www.southeasternrailway.co.uk
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A direct National Express coach service runs from London Victoria Coach Station to the main bus station in Bouverie Square, Folkestone. Stagecoach operates a network of routes linking local towns and villages to Folkestone.
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Profound Sound
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Saint Joan
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Thu 23 Feb 7.30pm American Honey (15)
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Hire Quarterhouse Our flexible auditorium space, meeting rooms and bar area are available for conferences, parties, exhibitions, wedding receptions and performances. Our experienced events team will help you turn your vision into reality. With great transport links to and from London and the rest of Kent and competitive rates, our fully accessible venue is the perfect choice in East Kent. Auditorium Our state of the art theatre boasts a capacity of 250 seated or 490 standing across two levels, and can be configured to suit your event, from cabaret-style tables and chairs to fully raked seating or as an open performance space/dance floor. We also offer dressing rooms and breakout spaces. Quarterhouse Meeting Room Whether you are conducting an interview, boardroom discussions or an away day, the Meeting Room is the ideal space, seating up to 30 boardroom style or up to 50 theatre style. Projectors and a screen can be provided along with a phone line and Wifi. Quarterhouse Bar Is a modern, vibrant space which can be hired with the auditorium or on its own. With floor to ceiling windows, it is light, spacious and perfect for fun packed parties. For more information and to discuss your ideas contact Sally Otteson on 01303 760 755 or email sallyotteson@creativefoundation.org.uk www.quarterhouse.co.uk