Live Events May - August 2014

MAY - AUGUST 2014 box office: 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk

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Transitions Dance Company Chris Wood Budapest Cafe Orchestra Comedy Club Showstoppers! The Musical Tabletop Games Health, Wealth and Green Living King Lear (NT Live) The Seagull Robin Blaze & Elizabeth Kenny Hot Flush Swing Commanders The Fureys La Cenerentola Legacy Day The Gruffalo Henry IV part I (Live Screening) Verve 14 Simon and Garfunkel Story Comedy Club An Audience with Des O Connor Spiers and Boden Entertaining Mr Sloane An Evening with Wincey Willis The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (NT Live) Beyond the Barricade Finding Joy Matt Richardson Les Miserables

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Ladyboys of Bangkok Vikings Live (Schools edition)

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4 Marriage of Figaro 4 A Girl With A Book 5 Dick Gaughan 6-8 CourtLaughing Comedy Festival 11 The Searchers 12 Killing Roger 12 A Small Family Business 14 Blake 18 Henry IV Part II 16-17 Fresh 2014 19-21 Fifteen 24 Sauce for Goose 24 Manon Lescaut 25-26 Science Museum – Energy Show 25 Henry IV Part II (Live Screening) 28 Helen Vereker Singers

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£8 or £10 tickets with our 14-25 Courtyard Card either online or via the Box Office.

Comedy Curry £6 in advance £8 on the night served from 7pm onwards – you can book this with your ticket!

JULY

4 G&S Concert – 1964 4 Comedy Club 5 Thoroughly Modern Musicals 5 The Trials of Oscar Wilde 6 Don Giovani (Live Screening) 9 -12 Write On Festival 9-10 Stories on Our Doorstep and

The Projectionist 15-19 Close Your Eyes and Leap 18 Comedy Club 22 An Audience with Ann Widdecombe 23 Peter Knight’s Gigspanner 24 The Blues Show 27 The Sotty Show 30-31 Jethro AUGUST

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La Traviata (Live Screening)

Bookings from 1 April will incur a £1.50 booking fee per transaction, online in person and over the phone. For more information look online under - Terms and Conditions.

Our Membership schemes will be exempt, which include; Friends, Patrons, Business Club, Courtyard Card, Kids Club and Hereford Concert Society.

Workshops will be exempt

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Menu Highlights for the summer season...

Salmon Fillet in Chilli, Lime & Honey Marinade (G) £10.95

Spanish Spiced Pork (G)

Risotto Del Giorno (V) (G) £8.95

Plus keep your beady eye on our specials board for seasonal treats all year round.

Simply delicious marinated, fresh Scottish salmon fillet served with seasonal vegetables, new potatoes and salad garnish.

Fresh ingredients make this risotto a taste sensation, which is why we serve it as a seasonal special. Served with salad. Check the board for the day’s selection.

Did you know that marinating not only adds incredible flavours to foods but it also tenderizes cuts of meat and fish or vegetables?

Herefordshire pork shoulder & chorizo in a spicy tomato, red pepper and butter bean sauce. Served with sautéed potatoes and seasonal vegetables.

Mothering Sunday If you haven’t yet made your plans for Mother’s Day why not bring your special lady to The Courtyard for a day of culture and entertainment on Sunday 30 March? With screenings of Philomena or Mamma Mia!, backstage tours and delicious lunch, it’s the perfect way to show your appreciation and make the most of this opportunity to sneak-peek behind the scenes with a glass of fizz.

Prices: Tour & Lunch: £23.95 - 27.95 | Film, Tour & Lunch: £30.75 - £34.75 Prices are per person and include a half hour tour with a free glass of prosecco and a two/three course meal. Tickets for the tour and film can be bought independently.

Check out the website for details on the experiences available and to see the yummy menu at courtyard.org.uk/mothers-day and call Heather to book on 01432 346533.

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Live Screenings on your doorstep!

The Golden Age

Bolshoi Ballet Sunday 30 March | 4pm Tickets £15

La Boheme

Met Opera Saturday 5 April | 5:55pm Tickets £18, Concessions £15

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The Vikings Live

The British Museum Live Thursday 24 April | 7pm Suitable for 12A audience Tickets: £12.50 This special event offers an exclusive private view of the BP exhibition Vikings: life and legend in the company of world experts, presented live. Introduced by British Museum Director Neil MacGregor and presented by historian and broadcaster Michael Wood, the exhibition will be brought to life by curators.

Running time: 90 minutes

Experience cultural delights from London and beyond in Herefordshire at The Courtyard this season, whether you are fascinated by opera, classical music, moving drama or intelligent talks there is something for everyone.

Box Office: 01432 340555 Cosi Fan Tutte

Met Opera Saturday 26 April | 5.55pm Tickets £18, Concessions £15

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Der Roskenkavalier Glyndebourne Monday 9 June | 7pm Tickets £15

The Winter’s Tale

A Small Family Business

King Lear

Henry IV Part II (encore screening)

Royal Opera House Monday 28 April | 7:15pm Tickets £18, Concessions £15 National Theatre Live Tuesday 6 May | 7pm Tickets £14

La CENERENTOLA

Met Opera Saturday 10 May | 5.55pm Tickets £18, Concessions £15

Henry IV Part I

RSC Wednesday 14 May | 7pm Tickets £14

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time National Theatre Live Thursday 22 May | 7pm Tickets £14

The Vikings Live Schools Screening

National Theatre Live Thursday 12 June | 7pm Tickets £14

RSC Wednesday 18 & Wednesday 25 June | 7pm Tickets £14

Don Giovanni

Glyndebourne Sunday 6 July | 6.45pm Tickets £15

La Traviata

Glyndebourne Thursday 14 August 7pm Tickets £15

The Two Gentlemen of Verona RSC Wednesday 3 September | 7pm Tickets £14 Pre-recorded

The British Museum Live Tuesday 3 June | 1:30pm Tickets £4

To book your tickets contact the Box Office on 01432 340555 or look online at www.courtyard.org.uk RSC live screenings are supported by South Hereford Audi.

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Tuesday 29 April 8pm

Grumpy Old Women

Tickets £21

Thursday 1 May 7:45pm

Transitions Dance Company

Chris Wood

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Transitions will perform a mixed bill of new, progressive dance work specially commissioned from both established and upcoming choreographers; Stefanie Batten Bland, Ikky Maas and Dog Kennel Hill Project. Stefanie’s physically demanding full company dance work has a strong theatrical flavour that is emotionally driven and poetic, evoking worlds of human communication and spirit. Ikky’s abstract and traditionally technical sextet is structured around a central duet set to a vibrant Handel score, the group fragments into trios, duos and solos as people subtly change allegiance. Using text, voice and song, Dog Kennel Hill Project is known for creating pieces with an interesting audience/performer relationship.

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Come and bask in an orgy of fury and big laughs in this glorious live version of the hit TV show!

Thursday 1 May 7:30pm

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This jam-packed spanking new show includes… learning the art of ‘Grumpy Grooming’, the joy of large pants, a free nagging master class (how to get your own way without him even noticing), beards for women, which style will suit you? Complimentary Anger Management workshop, middle-aged drinking: the rules, navigating the smorgasbord of worry, voluntary euthanasia vs. retirement, how to customise an unwanted pole dancing kit and a mercifully brief Zumba demonstration. All this and more!

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Chris Wood has been nominated for a BBC Folk Award 12 times and received 6 awards from just 3 albums.

Joan Armatrading was so taken with Chris’s writing she invited him as special guest onto her 50 date UK tour. During the Armatrading tour, he’s travelled the country, eavesdropping on conversations from pound shops to tea rooms, army recruiting centres to hotel saunas collecting ‘the poetry of recession’. His response is, None The Wiser, a fourth solo album.

Buy a ticket Justin Mitchell (Keyboards/ for Chris Wood and Trumpet) and Felix Krish (Bass) join Chris as he get a free pint of sings humble hymns and Wye Valley sweeping statements. From Brewery’s Butty Alzheimers to William Blake, Bach with Wood lovingly takes the pulse every two of his homeland and this could tickets be his best album yet. purchased Over 18s only Tickets £15 Concessions £12.50

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Saturday 3 May 7:30pm

The Budapest Cafe Orchestra have built a reputation for captivating audiences with their surprising takes and swift turns through Balkan, Jewish and Russian traditional gypsy and folk music as well as their artful re-workings of masterpieces by the great Romantic composers.

Tickets £16

The Showstoppers have played four sell-out seasons in London’s West End and are now an Edinburgh Fringe must-see phenomenon. With an acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series to their name, the group have delighted audiences on tour across the globe with their ingenious blend of comedy, musical theatre and spontaneity.

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The Budapest Cafe Orchestra

A brand new musical comedy is created from scratch at every single performance of this award-winning show.

Audience suggestions are transformed on the spot into an all-singing, all-dancing production with unpredictable and hilarious results.

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Friday 2 May 7:30pm

Showstoppers

Saturday 3 May 7:45pm

Table Top Games A Stranger, a Savoir, a Sacrifice.

A tabletop football game in a café at a dreary seaside town out of season would seem to be an unlikely place to address one of the most important global problems of our time.

Whether you worship God, football or the latest X Factor celebrity, one question is clear…is religion killing faith?

Tickets £10 Concessions £9

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# Comedy Festival JUNe 2013

Friday 2 & 16 May, Friday 4 July & 18 July 8:30pm

Comedy Clubs

Come along with a group of your friends to one of The Courtyard’s comedy nights. With fast witted comedians and a lively atmosphere. The evening promises to be a hoot!

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STARRING ON July 4th:

STARRING ON May 16th:

STARRING ON July 18th:

Ash Firth Tom Craine Hayley Ellis

Steve Bugeja Luke Honnaraty Phil Wang

Diane Spencer Gareth Richards Hayley Ellis

Steve Bugeja Paul McCaffrey Kieran Boyd

Tickets £12.50

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Tuesday 6 May 7pm

Health, Wealth and Green Living Electric Transport Has Finally Arrived!

This event, organised by Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce, Herefordshire Greenlinks and Herefordshire Council, will showcase the very best energy-saving products, services, and innovative business projects from within the county and beyond.

Guest speaker Simon Crowfoot, Managing Director of Ecotricity’s Electric Highway programme and a board director of Ecotricity Group Ltd will describe how his company is bringing Electric Transport to life by ensuring that there is a charging point in every motorway services in the UK by the end of the year - just pop in for a coffee and 20 minutes later your Electric Vehicle is 80% recharged - and it gets even better - it is free, until Ofgem have worked out a pricing structure!

Tickets £5, Concessions at £3

Wednesday 7 May 7:30pm

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The Seagull Four Chekhov fanatics leap into action. Eager to emulate their favourite characters, their enthusiasm and innocence breathes new life into the lives of Arkadina, the self-obsessed, famous actress, her tormented son, Konstantin, and their lovers.

Chekhov’s characters consistently create their own tragedy, rejecting love that is freely given and seeking it where it is withheld. And there lurks the comedy, dark and bitter though it may be.

What starts as a game turns deadly serious.

Thursday 8 May 7:30pm Hereford Concert Society presents

Robin Blaze & Elizabeth Kenny Robin Blaze – countertenor Elizabeth Kenny – lute and theorbo Robin Blaze is now established in the front rank of interpreters of Dowland, Purcell, Bach and Handel and his career has taken him to concert halls and festivals worldwide, having worked with almost every distinguished conductor in the early field music.

Elizabeth Kenny is one of Europe’s leading lute players. Equally at home in solo chamber music and the opera house, she combines a love of the lute repertoire with a flair for imaginative collaborations that enrich an unusually varied performing life.

Playing with tragedy has deadly consequences!

Programme to include lutesongs and music by John Dowland, William Lawes, Henry Lawes and Henry Purcell.

Tickets £12 Concessions £11, Schools £8

Tickets £18 Concessions £15, Students £5, Children under 16 £3

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Friday 9 May 7:30pm

Hot Flush

Temperatures will rise, hormones will rage and pulses will gallop with the news that Hot Flush!, the naughtiest comedy musical in town, starring ‘Birds of a Feather’ icon Lesley Joseph, will tour the UK in Spring 2014.

So, take a deep breath and get set to meet Myra (Lesley Joseph), Sylvia (Lori Haley Fox), Helen (Anne Smith) and Jessica (Ruth Keeling), a quartet of feisty menopausal women who get together every Tuesday night at a local bar to offer each other moral support, cry on one another’s shoulders, and of course most importantly, gossip and malign the men in their lives – 15 of them all played by Matt Slack!

Tickets £22

Saturday 10 May 7:30pm

The Fureys FriDay 9 May 7:45pm

Swing Commanders

Legends of Irish music & song The Fureys & Davey Arthur, renowned for their hit songs.

This is a professional hire.

They are responsible for some of the most stirring music ever to capture the public imagination. Their Buy a folk / middle of the road ticket based songs and music for The Fureys and has received standing get a free pint of ovations in some of the Wye Valley biggest concert halls in Brewery’s Butty the world.

Bach with Their emotive songs stir every two many emotions... tears and tickets laughter, sadness and joy. purchased Over 18s only

Tickets £12 Concessions £11

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The Swing Commanders are making their Hereford debut with a show that will appeal to fans of Jive, Jazz and Country. For those who haven’t seen them live, they mix a cocktail of beautiful 1940’s harmonies with scintillating solos and a dash of vintage glamour.

Their song arrangements are exquisite and the range of instruments they play is breathtaking. Prepare to be transported to a golden age of song.

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Saturday 10 May 10am- 4pm

Thursday 15 May 7:30pm

Give yourself peace of mind by planning for the future.

Partnering with local Will writing specialists Lanyon Bowdler, The Courtyard is hosting a Will writing day. Lanyon Bowdler are offering their expertise to help you plan for the future and ensure the security of your loved ones, in exchange for a donation to The Courtyard. For more information about the day, or to book your individual consultation and take advantage of this special offer.

Contact Ellie Teasdale at The Courtyard on 01432 346510 ellie.teasdale@courtyard.org.uk www.lblaw.co.uk

Verve promises a dynamic and passionate performance by 12 dancers trained at some of the world’s leading conservatoires and includes four thrilling contemporary dance works choreographed by acclaimed artists Lea Anderson, Ben Duke, Gemma Nixon & Jonathan Goddard, and also emergent artist Jamaal Burkmar.

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Lea Anderson’s quirky new creation for Verve, Re-wind, is a full company piece, an unusual step for Anderson who famously usually works with either all-female or all-male casts. Lovers of both dance and music will be enthralled by Jamaal Burkmar’s Ocean, an incredibly passionate, fast-paced work set to be an unfaltering show-stopper. Ben Duke’s creations effectively combine theatre and dance; his meticulous characterisations helping his company win the UK’s most prestigious prize for dance, The Place Prize. And completing the programme, ex-Rambert dancers Gemma Nixon & Jonathan Goddard bring years of experience as dancers at the top of their game to create their first work for Verve.

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An Audience with Des O’Connor Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see a true showbusiness legend live on stage for a wonderful evening of comedy, laughter and music.

Friday 16 May 8pm

Simon and Garfunkel Story

Des O’Connor is today established as one of the world’s most popular and best loved entertainers.

Since landing his first television series in the UK in 1963 he has starred in his own mainstream television show every year since then - longer than anyone, anywhere in the world.

Sunday 18 May 7.30pm

Spiers and Boden Following on from their successful tenth anniversary tour including a special birthday party bash at Shepherds Bush Empire, the top traditional music duo on the scene continue their journey into the exciting nether-regions of traditional folk music.

Loud, proud, and with just a few acoustic instruments, they create a multitude of textures upon which they present traditional stories and dance music which have taken them on to the main stages of major festivals.

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Direct from London’s West End, award winning actor Dean Elliott (Buddy Holly in ‘Buddy -The Musical’) and a full cast of performers tell the compelling story of the greatest music duo of all time in this 50th Anniversary Celebration. Using projection photos and original film footage, The Simon and Garfunkel Story also features a full live band performing all their hits including Mrs Robinson, Cecilia, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound and many more. With every performance creating a standing ovation this is an evening not to be missed! www.courtyard.org.uk

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Box Office: 01432 340555 Monday 12 – Wednesday 14 May Mon 4:30pm; Tues & Wed 10:30am & 1:30pm

Tuesday 20 & Wednesday 21 May 7:30pm Classic London Theatre present

The Gruffalo

Entertaining Mr Sloane

Don’t miss Tall Stories’ hit musical stage adaptation of the award-winning picture book, The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

Kath and her elderly father, Kemp, live in a house on the outskirts of a rubbish dump. Their drab existence is interrupted by the arrival of a new lodger, the enigmatic Mr Sloane. Provocative and sexually ambiguous, Sloane soon has both Kath and her brother Ed competing for his favours.

But all is not as it seems. Behind Sloane’s nonchalant demeanour lies a calculating psychopath with a dark and secretive past. Seduction, blackmail and murder lie waiting in the wings.

Meet a wheeler-dealer Fox, an eccentric old Owl and a maraca-shaking, party mad Snake! Mouse can scare these hungry animals away with tall stories of the terrifying Gruffalo, but what happens when he comes face to face with the very creature he imagined...?

Voted the nation’s number one bedtime story by BBC Radio 2 listeners, The Gruffalo has been performed to well over a million people worldwide and has even hit the small screens in a star-studded TV animation.

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Watch a sneak preview online at www.gruffalolive.com

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The Gruffalo is the perfect family treat with plenty of songs, laughs and scary fun for children aged 3+ and their grown-ups.

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Saturday 24 May 7:30pm

Over 30 years since her days on TV-am as Britain’s first weather girl, Hereford’s Wincey Willis has enjoyed success through almost every realm of broadcasting.

With special guest Nick Owen, Wincey will share memories of her remarkable career and fascinating personal life in this intimate one-off evening.

Submit your question for consideration in writing to the Box Office by 8 May quoting your seat number.

This is a professional hire.

Tickets £17.50 Concessions £15

Beyond the Barricade Celebrating its 15th year, the UK’s longest running musical theatre concert re-creates original West End/Broadway musical hits. Featuring a cast of past principal performers from the West End production of Les Miserables, and the 25th Anniversary Concert at the 02 Arena.

The production will look back over the show’s fifteen years and includes many of the musicals that have made it the UK’s leading concert of its kind, including Miss Saigon, The Lion King, Phantom Of The Opera, West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, Blood Brothers, The Jersey Boys and many more, climaxing with a spectacular finale from, of course, Les Miserables!

Tickets £19.50 Concessions £18.50

Finding Joy Vamos Theatre, in a co-production with The Courtyard, is delighted to present its 2014 full mask touring production, Finding Joy.

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Joy is creative, funny, loves to dance, and is losing her memory: her grandson Danny is rebellious, fearless, bright, and always getting into trouble. When out of the blue Danny decides to become Joy’s carer, they discover a shared playfulness and a mutual affection. But is that enough to take on the challenges ahead?

Finding Joy is about memory, aging, love, and - of course - about Joy! Suitable for 12 years and upwards “Such a triumph” Philippa May, The Hereford Times Tickets £14 Concessions £13, Friends & Patrons 10% off tickets, Courtyard Card 20% off tickets

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An Evening with Wincey Willis

Friday 23 May 7:30pm

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Thursday 22 May 8pm

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Winner: Best New Show Leicester Comedy Festival 2012.

“Mildly laddish, but selfdeprecating stories all delivered with an irresistible twinkle” - The Guardian

Tickets £10

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Wednesday 28 – Saturday 31 May 7:30pm X-entricity presents <smaller text>

LEs Misérables School Edition

A musical by ALAIN BOUBLIL and CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG With a classic score, packed with iconic songs – from the heartbreaking I Dreamed a Dream and the moving Bring Him Home, the raucous Master of the House and Lovely Ladies to the stirring One Day More – Les Misérables is rightly the world’s most popular musical.

And now, following last year‘s sold out performances, X-entricity bring their simply stunning production to The Courtyard. With a cast of over forty exceptionally talented young people, over 300 superb costumes, an incredible set, lighting and sound, and an amazing orchestra of fifteen professional musicians, this show is unmissable!

School Edition specially adapted and licensed by JOSEF WEINBERGER LIMITED on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL and CAMERON MACKINTOSH (OVERSEAS) LIMITED

Tickets £15, Concessions £12

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Wednesday 4 June 7:45pm

A Girl With a Book What happens when a writer finds his research to uncover attitudes that are at odds with his liberal convictions? Can a Guardian reader really be prejudiced? The play also asks why a girl who wanted to go to school should become a target. It also poses a question raised by the Taliban, “If we care so much about Malala and her friends, why don’t we make as much noise about those children that are dying that we don’t know about?”

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Come & join multi-award winning stand-up Matt Richardson - co-host of The Xtra Factor and star of BBC’s Never Mind The Buzzcocks & Sweat The Small Stuff - for his hotly anticipated debut tour. High-energy, hilarious... and a little bit rude!

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Tuesday 3 June 7:30pm

Lady Boys of Bangkok

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The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back in another sizzling and seductive production in ‘Red Hot Kisses’ –a brand new show.

Setting the stage on fire with a fabulous mix of fun and frolics, this production includes 16 of Thailand’s most beautiful ladyboys, performing a show like no other! This show drips with diamante and sizzles with new songs and side splitting comedy in truly glamorous style, with flamboyant costumes, and show stopping choreography, this show is not to be missed.

The Marriage of Figaro The Marriage of Figaro is one of the finest operas ever written, Mozart’s sublime music is a feast for jaded opera goers and newcomers alike. Swansea City Opera are known throughout the UK for their sparkling performances of comic opera and their Figaro will be no exception.

Beautifully staged and sung in English, with elegant 18th century costumes and performed by some of the finest singers and orchestral players in the country, Figaro will give you an enchanting evening’s entertainment - a delight for the eyes and ears.

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Wednesday 4 June 7:30pm Swansea City Opera presents

Tickets £20 Concessions £19

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Thursday 5 June 8pm

Dick Gaughan Scottish musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer. Ex-member of The Boys Of The Lough and founder member of Five Hand Reel, and the 1990’s Scottish supergroup Clan Alba, Dick has a unique solo style and tours constantly throughout the world.

Buy a ticket for Dick Gaughan and get a free pint of Wye Valley Brewery’s Butty Bach with every two tickets purchased Over 18s only

The Searchers The Searchers remarkable career continues.

With such classic hits as, Sweets For My Sweet; Needles and Pins; Don’t Throw Your Love Away; Sugar and Spice and When You Walk In The Room, they have contributed enormously in establishing the UK as the world’s leading nation in the music industry. There is no doubt that the decade that gave us The Beatles as well as The Searchers and many others was very special and will go down in history as being the most imaginative period of music with creativity and expression.

With total record sales well in excess of 50 million, The Searchers still have great appeal to audiences of all ages. They tour the globe as much today as they have done throughout a fantastic career spanning 5 decades.

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Thursday 12 June 7:30pm

Killing Roger Provocative. Moving. Beautiful. Following the success of 5 star runs in London and Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013, ‘Killing Roger’ returns as part of a national tour.

Using stunning life-sized puppetry and original live music, this new play raises one of the most important questions of our generation in a moving and humorous tale of an old man and a boy at opposite end of their lives.

As the memories of Roger’s life unfold before us, Billy’s troubled mind faces an unexpected question. Can the boy become a man and make a decision that will change both of their lives forever?

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Wednesday 11 June 7:30pm

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Wye Valley Open Mic Night

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The Wye Valley Open Mic night will take place at the Courtyard on Saturday 7 June, you can either come and watch the up and coming comedy talent, or take part on stage, if you are a budding comedian!

To take part and register your interest contact The Courtyard on boxoffice@courtyard.org.uk or call 01432 340555.

Comedy Festival JUNe 2013

6 - 8 June

Comedy Festival Come along with a group of your friends to one of The Courtyard’s comedy nights. With fast witted comedians and a lively atmosphere the evening promises to be a hoot!

If you would like to watch, no need to pre-book, just come along to the Wye Valley Brewery Marquee for 8:30pm, sit back and relax!

Music

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Throughout the weekend there will be music to entertain you before watching one of the acts during the festival.

Food & Drink

The music will take place in the Wye Valley Marquee from 5pm on Friday 6, from 4pm on Saturday 6 and from 12noon on Sunday 7 June. The line-up of acts will be announced nearer the time.

The Café Bar brings back this succulent 100% Herefordshire beef burger in a pain rustique roll to keep laughing tummies full this summer; one of our firm favourites, with homemade tomato & red onion relish...

Mmm. Plus Wye Valley Brewery will be reuniting thirsty revellers with their Barrel of Laughs again in the Wye Valley Brewery tent!

Media partners: Tickets £12.50

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Box Office: 01432 340555

Headliners Sunday 8 June 8pm Big Name comedian - To be announced in March Friday 6 June 8pm Watch Facebook and Twitter for further announcements

Chris Ramsey What is it with us and smallness? We Brits love it being tiny but fierce, close but distant. This Jedwardhaired award-winning t**t is the same, and he returns with a new blisteringly big-small show. Watch him ejaculate thoughts about smallness; on keeping things small when life gets big.

‘A seriously good comedian.’ The Times ‘Russell Kane delivers magic in spades.’

The Scotsman ‘A smart, probing brain lurks below the vertiginous quiff’ The Evening Standard

After being “sent off” the Soccer AM sofa last year for misbehaving, Chris wonders whether he really is the Most Dangerous Man on Saturday Morning TV – not to mention, whether he wants to be.

Fresh from a complete sell-out, twice extended 2012 tour, multiple appearances on Celebrity Juice and 8 Out of 10 Cats, and a starring role in BBC Two’s Hebburn, Chris embarks on a brand new tour for 2013/2014.

Taking his brush with on air censorship as a jumping off point to muse on life, mistakes, expectation and offense, he examines what happens when you say the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Tickets £25 Concession £22.50

Tickets £22 Concessions £20

Saturday 7 June 8pm

Russell Kane

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Studio Theatre

Sunday 8 June 7:30pm

The Big Lebowski Director: Joel Coen Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore USA, 1998, 1 hr 52 mins

Friday 6 & Saturday 7 June 8:30pm

Comedy Clubs Come along with a group of your friends during the comedy festival to one of the comedy club nights. With fat-witted comedians and a lively atmosphere the evening promises to be a hoot!

Starring on 6 June:

One of the Coen Bros. standout films and a timeless cult comedy, The Big Lebowski traces The Dude (Jeff Bridges in storming bum mode, a dedicated pot-smoker and bowler) in this tale of catastrophe and mistaken identity. With an excellent supporting cast including John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, John Turturro and the late great Philip Seymour-Hoffman, this is a chance to catch a host of Hollywood talent at the top of their game in one of the funniest stories of the century.

Long live the Coens!

Tickets £5

Some highlights from last year’s comedy Festival

Carl Donnelly Robin Morgan

Starring on 7 June: Jarlath Regan Steve Bugeja

Sponsored by: Tickets £12.50

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Saturday 14 June 7:30pm

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Monday 16 - Tuesday 17 June 7:30PM

Thursday 19 - Saturday 21 JUNE 7.30pm

Brit-Award-winning harmony trio Blake return with a striking new show for 2014, featuring songs from their latest album, powerful video projections, hilarious comic banter and some unique musical surprises.

2Faced Dance’s annual schools performance ‘FRESH’ is back with a difference, showcasing a high energy electric mix of dance and music performances from young people in Herefordshire.

2Faced Dance Company’s prestigious annual dance show, showcasing the unique talent of young people from the company’s community and youth dance programme.

This two hour show features exclusive live songs from their latest album, along with the pop, classical & musical harmony covers the boys are famous for worldwide. BLAKE have performed three times for the Queen, stunned audiences at the Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Stadium and Wimbledon Centre Court, along with performing to half a billion people live on Chinese television. Don’t miss your chance to experience them in a unique intimate setting, for one night only!

Come and join us to celebrate the creativity, innovation and fresh energy of the school performers as they strut their dance moves and blast the audience away with their musical talents in this burst of athletic dance talent, exceptional music skills and raw performance energy.

‘FIFTEEN’ will see 2Faced Dance Company’s innovative mixture of urban and classical dance styles performed in a whirlpool of energy, attitude and creativity.

Tickets £25/£23, Friends & Patrons 10% off tickets

Tickets £12 Concessions £10

Blake

Fresh 2014

FRESH is held in partnership with The Courtyard Centre for the Arts and The Music Pool.

Fifteen

Join us this year as we bring the theatre and foyer to life for our 15th anniversary celebrations, featuring guest dancers, DJs and break battles.

Tickets £15 Concessions £12

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Wednesday 25 - Thursday 26 June Wednesday 7pm; Thursday 1:30pm and 7pm The Science Museum present

The Energy Show

Science Museum Live presents The Energy Show: explosive family theatre for curious minds.

Methane bubbles are set alight to make fireballs, hydrogen balloons explode and rockets are fired into the audience. Stand back and cover your ears – theatre just got dangerously exciting!

Two futuristic science students race against time to prove their knowledge of energy. With help from the incredible virtual lab-assistant, i-nstein, and a steampunk workshop full of gadgets and chemicals, they explore, experiment and explode anything and everything they can find, live on stage.

Produced by the world famous Science Museum in London, this show is suitable for everyone aged 7+.

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Saturday 5 July 7:30pm European Arts Company present

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

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European Arts Company returns to the The Courtyard with a dramatisation of the libel and criminal trials of Oscar Wilde. The play is written by Merlin Holland who is Oscar Wilde’s grandson.

So what happened during the trials and what did Wilde say? Was he persecuted or the author of his own downfall? Using the original words spoken in court, we can feel what it was like to be in the company of a flawed genius - as this less than ideal husband was suddenly reduced to a man of no importance.

Tickets £12 Concessions £8

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Tuesday 24 June 7:30pm Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company

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Get ready to join Helen Vereker Singers, Starlight Dance Company and BBC Wales’ Owen Money for a Toe-Tapping, Hand-Clapping Evening of Fun, Song & Dance.

With music from across the charts and West End shows, along with fast-wit and comedy from Owen Money, this concert is definitely not one to be missed.

This event is a hire

Following our sell-out Diamond Jubilee concert in 2012, join us as we celebrate the music and musicals of 1964!

The concert will include popular solos and choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan shows, songs by the Beatles and music from classic 1964 musicals such as ‘My Fair Lady’, ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘Fiddler on the Roof’. Dust off your mini-skirts and bell-bottoms and enjoy our tribute to the memorable music of this era!

This event is a hire

G&S Concert: 1964

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Its heady mix of passions, pace and pleasure are the perfect mix for a good night out. The plot is simple: Lucienne is being pursued by the married Pontagnac, who is astounded to discover that she is already married to his friend Vatelin. Lucienne has sworn to be faithful as long as her husband remains so too. But then a keen old ‘indiscretion’ of her husband’s arrives with her own husband from Germany in tow.

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Friday 4 July 7:30pm

You Can’t Stop The Beat

Georges Feydeau’s high spirited romp Sauce For The Goose is stuffed with preening characters knitting their legs in sexual frustration.

Suitable 12yrs+

Saturday 28 June 7:30pm

Tickets £15 Concessions £13

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Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 July 7:30pm Saturday 5 July 7:30pm

Thoroughly Modern Musicals

Stories on our Doorstep & The your Projectionist Close eyes and leap

Tuesday 15 – Saturday 19 July 7:30pm plus 2pm & 7:30pm on Sat 19 Hereford Academy of Dance present

JDG Productions are proud to introduce ‘Thoroughly Modern Musicals’. Coming to The Courtyard this summer, JDG will take you on a unique theatrical experience by introducing you to the musicals of the 21st century. From Wicked to Ghost and Next To Normal to The Last Five Years, you will witness our talented company demonstrating how musicals from legends such as Rogers and Hammerstein and Cole Porter have evolved, creating some of today’s smash hits.

So, come take a seat and watch JDG take to the stage as they perform what is promised to be a night of first class entertainment.

This event is a hire

The Senior Youth Theatre and Vamos Young People’s Theatre have both been working on intergenerational projects to uncover the wonderfully rich and diverse stories in all of us but specifically from the older generation.

As part of this project both youth theatre groups have been going into residential care homes to meet the residents and from the stories they have uncovered, created a piece of theatre. All true, all based around the lives of those so close to us and all full of live, lose and love.

The Courtyard’s Senior Youth Theatre using a script writer to interweave the stories and Vamos using Masks, but the simple similarity is that they are both based on true stories.

This will be an unforgettable night where the stories from the old are performed by the young!

Tickets £15, Concessions £13

Tickets £8 Concessions £7

All the students of the Hereford Academy of Dance come together in a vibrant production to celebrate the school’s 20th Anniversary. Taking a look back at highlights of past productions whilst showcasing the talent of today and looking forward to the future. A show full of energy, colour and emotion demonstrating the many dance styles for which the academy has become renown.

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In The Studio Friday 11th July 7:15pm

Soliciting Change – Ian Smith

Wednesday 9th July 7:15pm

Thursday 10th July 7:15pm

Returning home - Alison Leigh

Home Sweet Home – Gillian Parsons

This is a play about a family member who returns after four years having a traumatic life changing experience.

The play, Home Sweet Home, is a comment on the impact of the recently introduced bedroom tax. It touches on the life of a recently bereaved woman charting her journey from receiving bad news onwards. It describes her attempts to manage her new situation and the changes of circumstances she experiences along the way.

The Reason I’m Here – Karen Curry I will not do ‘tick-the-box-job-done-neatand-tidy. I will do messy and dirty and devious….’ So declares Max, forensic scientist, stuck on an Iron Age hill fort, trying to make sense out of what’s led her there.

Is it because of some ‘poor old sod’ illegally languishing in the mortuary? Or does it run deeper?

The Mammoth Trap – Penelope Simcock The Mammoth Trap is a short play in 10 scenes with adult content. It is set in a future when the scale and social consequences of past abuses have been recognised.

Each of the 10 short scenes relates to an aspect of the life of a woman who was abused in late childhood and early adolescence. The woman is participating in a form of therapy which helps her to explore some of the less painful of her poignant memories. The play looks at the impact of intrafamilial abuse on young people and what happens when adults fail to recognise and respond to child abuse.

Tickets £6

A paranormal investigator, acting on a tip-off from his researcher, goes to look at a house to feature on his tv show.

Unknown to him, the ancient Lady of the house has called back her sons for a special meeting. The two parties collide with surprising and supernatural results as cold-blooded murder and old secrets are unearthed.

The Good One’s Go First – Tony Hobbs The play takes place in Reg’s dugout and also at his home in Edmonton. While showing what his life was like and how he died, it also shows how his death impacted on the three main women in his life - his mother, Bessie, his sister Kathy, and his fiancee, Emma. Their reactions vary from a mother’s guilt in letting her under-age son join up to a lover’s anguish on her loss and a life with no future.

Saturday 12th July 7:15pm

The Rossville Barricade – Anthony Jenkins Set in County Derry Northern Ireland in 1972 the country is in a lifelong battle against religious disputes and British tyranny.

In the midst of this civil war the ‘Derry Young Hooligans’ plot to make a stand against the British Army during a Civil Rights march. All except one intend to fight for a free Ireland where as Cooper intends to seek revenge’.

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Studio Theatre

Wednesday 23 July 7:45pm

Tuesday 22 July 7:30pm

An evening with Ann Widdecombe

Peter Knight’s Gigspanner

Hailed by Songlines Magazine as ‘another milestone in folk’s rebirth of cool moment´, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner continues to engage hearts and minds with emotionally loaded and lifeenriching takes on British traditional and world music. Steeleye Span’s legendary fiddle player is joined by Roger Flack on guitar and Vincent Salzfaas on congas and djembe.

After her success on Strictly Come Dancing and her panto debut alongside Craig Revel Horwood, Ann Widdicombe is on something of a roll.

Her An Audience With... appearances prove endlessly popular - and no wonder! How often can you hear a former Shadow Home Secretary revealing what life is really like at the centre (well OK, right of centre) of British politics?

She had a formidable reputation in Parliament and remains relentlessly outspoken. However, live on stage Ann is engaging, entertaining and refreshingly down to earth. An unmissable evening, which definitely has ‘something of the night’ about it.

Tickets £16

Thursday 24 July 7:30pm

The Blues Show

Following last years ‘Blues Show’ the cast are back to recreate a live music showcase of blues music. With ripping guitar solos, soulful sax and phenomenal vocalists you will not be disappointed by this deep look into blues music of the 20th and 21st century. From BB King to Stevie Ray Vaughan there will be an area of blues music to enjoy on this exciting night. Musically Directed by Andy Morris a former student of Hereford Collage of Arts. The cast will consist of a range of local professional musicians.

Tickets £16 Concessions £14

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Box Office: 01432 340555 Wednesday 30 & Thursday 31 July 7:30pm

Jethro

The Sooty show

Cornish comedy legend Jethro is back, as large as life, and on tour in 2014 with his very own unique brand of irresistible West Country tales for a fun-filled night of adult comedy.

Jethro promises more tear-jerking, farcical stories featuring his old mates Denzil and Slip Along Trevaskis, as well as hilarious tales from his extensive repertoire and his successful career in TV and theatre.

Cornwall’s best-loved comic takes a very alternative look at life – in only the way he can! Don’t miss it.

Suitable for 16+

Tickets £12, Children £10, Family £38

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Sunday 27 July 11am & 2:30pm

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It’s Sooty’s Birthday party and things aren’t going to plan. Sooty and Sweep get messy baking the Birthday cake and will Soo ever decide which dress to wear?

Special party guests include legendary Sooty favourites Butch the bulldog and Ramsbottom the snake.

So join in with all the fun and games at Sooty’s Birthday Party! There’s also a chance to meet Richard and Sooty after the show.

A spectacular mix of magic, music and messguaranteed giggles for Sooty Fans old and new!

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Friday 28 November 2014 – Sunday 4 January 2015

Jack and the Beanstalk Fe Fi Fo FUN! 2014’s pantomime is Jack & the Beanstalk…

When Jack goes to sell his beloved cow, all he can get is a measly bag of beans, so the hapless hero is soon in the doghouse. But these are no ordinary beans. When a giant beanstalk appears in the garden, Jack realises his extraordinary adventures are just about to begin.

Join us on a journey with this fantastic family Christmas caper that will see Jack full of beans and up to his old tricks again.

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Schools £9.50 if paid

by Oct Half Term otherwise £10.00 also £10.00 for individuals or group bookers such as older people groups etc. No concessions. £15 & £16.50 Concessions £1.50 off, Family Ticket £59/£53 £17.50 & £18 Concessions £1.50 off, Family Ticket £67/£61 £19 & £20 No concessions, except group concession

Sat 13 December at 7pm Sign Interpreted performance: Friday 12 December at 7pm

Courtyard Centre for the Arts: Exhibitions; May - August 2014

2nd May - 15th June

Angela Gladwell

Originally from Woodford in east London, Angela Gladwell studied at the Royal College of Art and has lived in Herefordshire for the last thirteen years.

Her paintings develop an interest in nature and a particular engagement with beaches and the changing conditions of the shoreline.

2nd May - 15th June

20th June - 31st August

Working in traditional textile arts such as sewing, embroidery, knitting and appliqué, Kate Ganderton, Herefordshire-based art-doll maker, creates one-of-a-kind art dolls from found and given textiles and up-cyled ribbons, beads, buttons and wool. The sources of these materials are important as the memories and influences of the material’s original owners inform the construction of the dolls. The bespoke nature of the dolls allows for the creation of individual and often unexpected characteristics, giving each doll a personality that belies its size.

Kate Ganderton has a dual involvement in theatre and the visual arts, and works within the Education and Outreach Team at the Courtyard Centre For the Arts.

Ann Campbell’s work reflects her lifelong interest in animals. Her practice is based on observation and ideas of the archetype. She has travelled extensively, from an early childhood spent in Malaya and Italy to more recent explorations in China, South Africa and Sri Lanka. She has taught at Malvern College, Breden School and Hereford College of Art. She has exhibited widely and her work is held in public and private collections, in the UK and abroad.

Kate Ganderton Ann Campbell

Box Office: 01432 340555

20th June - 31st August

Paul Davies Photographs: Paul Davies spent many years working internationally in the film industry including developing important continuity techniques which are still in use.

Following this career, Davies suffered a stroke, which confined him to wheelchair.

Throughout his life he has been involved with photography, and has, by necessity, shifted his viewpoint, his recent work focussing on a relatively narrow set of interests: working practices, structures, local towns and the working lives of their inhabitants. For this exhibition at the Courtyard, the viewer will be able to see things from this changed viewpoint, and to re-assess the ordinary from Davies’ perspective.

Due to maintenance the exhibitions area will be closed from Sun 3 August until Sunday 10 August.

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Courtyard Audience Awards In response to your insatiable appetite for film we’re bringing back some favourites as part of our Courtyard Audience Awards, the pick of the crop from the awards season and a few other films that might not have got the gongs, but were certainly appreciated by all of us, so if you missed them the first time round, catch them with us from mid-March...

Fri 21 – Sat 23 Mar

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Sun 30 Mar – Wed 2 Apr

Philomena Fri 4 Apr

August: Osage County Mon 7 Apr

12 Years A Slave

(+ Friends Fundraiser with glass of wine in the evening)

Coming Up from May...

Only Lovers Left Alive Zero Theorem Noah Yves Saint Laurent Love Punch Transcendence

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Dallas Buyers Club Tue 8 Apr

The Invisible Woman Fri 11 – Thu 17 Apr

The Railway Man

We’ve also been getting a bit nostalgic and harking back to the days of the true screen diva so we thought what better way to celebrate these icons of the silver screen than with our own Screen Divas season starting from July?

We revive some of our favourite films featuring classic starlets from decades of yore, but we’ll also be celebrating the multi-faceted modern movie stars as well.

Season films include:

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Monday 15 – Wednesday 24 December The Elves and The Shoe Maker is a show for children and families created by The Courtyard.

This fun and exciting show will get you into the festive mood as it reveals the magic of Christmas. Join elves Corky and Peeptoe, as they go on a magical adventure to help poor shoe Maker, Giotto, recover his fortune. Along the way some best-loved and well known nursery rhyme and fairytale characters lend a hand, so look out for them!

Can the two loveable elves come to the rescue and save the day? Will Giotto’s fate change just in time for Christmas? Join The Courtyard and see the story unfold with some stunning shadow puppetry.

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Platinum

A supplier of great tasting ales to our Cafe Bar since opening, we’re delighted to welcome this award winning Herefordshire brewery to the Club as Gold members. The brewery will be using its membership to promote the great stuff going on in their County pubs and will also be supporting CourtLaughing Comedy Festival 2014... find out more on page 18. www.wyevalleybrewery.co.uk

Stirling Suzuki ‘We have a long history of supporting the community in Herefordshire, eg sponsoring the junior football leagues and schools football training. To build on this, Stirling Suzuki are pleased to support our community arts programme in joining the Business Club,’ says Stirling of Hereford’s B2B Manager Andy Black. www.stirlingofhereford.com

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Gerry Doverman There’s an unusual connection between The Courtyard and Gerry Doverman, a specialist servicing centre for Mercedes, BMW and Porsche on the Worcester Road. Service Director Martin Johnson’s grandson Archie is one of our ‘Courtyard Babies’ – one of the children born in 2008 (our 10th anniversary) who were gifted free tickets to theatre events and shows here up to their 21st birthday. ‘It’s a nice link and we’re pleased to support because I’ve enjoyed bringing Archie to see children’s theatre shows here,’ says Martin. www.dovermans.co.uk

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Sequani This contract research organisation, based in Ledbury, offers a comprehensive range of non clinical development services, helping develop safe and effective new medicines that make a real difference to people’s lives. www.sequani.com

Don’t forget!

Friends & Patrons receive 10% discount at Off The Wall in St Owen Street, Hereford.

Thanks to the following supporters for benefits in kind: ao.com, Go Ape (Forest of Dean), Tesco (Bewell Street) Hereford Sixth Form College, Hibiscus Room, Mike Gell, Sign-rite UK Ltd, Peter Prosser, Hereford College of Arts For all business enquiries, ring Melanie Denning on 01432 346503 or melanie.denning@courtyard.org.uk

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Help us continue our vital work in Herefordshire!

The Courtyard is not just an Arts Centre. We are an active charity working with all sectors of the community. Our community arts delivery is a major part of our strategy as Herefordshire’s Centre for the Arts; our work with older people, particularly focusing on those with dementia, is now widely acclaimed, with growing reach into local care homes and community centres.

We are a member of the national Dementia Alliance, and are actively encouraging organisations throughout Herefordshire to become ‘dementia friendly’ as we are. At the other end of the spectrum, our work with young people engages with more than 80% of local schools. Our Youth Theatre 400 young people aged between four to twenty every week, is more dynamic and innovative than ever, producing high quality live performances every year attended by many local people.

The Courtyard is all about increasing opportunities and improving the quality of people’s lives , their life skills and prospects, through engagement with the arts. However, we cannot do this alone. Much of this work is funded externally by individuals like you, and we need to continue to ask to make sure that this invaluable programme supporting local people is sustainable for the future.

PLEASE SUPPORT US NOW! There are lots of ways to give: at Box office (01432 340555), online at www.courtyard.org.uk, by cheque (please make out to The Courtyard and send to Lucy Wells, The Courtyard, Edgar St, HR4 9JR). Don’t forget you can gift aid your donation, giving us 25p in every £ donated, at no extra cost to you.

WHAT YOUR DONATION COULD FUND: • £5 will pay for the materials for 20 children to do an all day Summer Holiday workshop • £30 will pay for a term’s bursary in one of our outreach youth theatres, giving financial support to local children to learn new life skills through drama • £300 pays for care staff training sessions to develop creative activities allowing older adults in care homes direct access to participatory arts • £750 would pay for a local young person to pursue an acting career with a National Youth Theatre Bursary • £1000 will pay for a 10 week residency in a care home for a dementia specialist poet to lead a 2 hour session each week.

• £5000 pays for a year’s weekly Extend dance sessions for groups of older people across 6 rural Herefordshire locations

If you would like to find out about other ways of giving to The Courtyard, please contact lucy.wells@courtyard.org.uk or call the Development team on 01432 346505.

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There is a pay and display car park adjacent to The Courtyard. Spaces are limited; please ensure that you park in a designated bay and display a valid ticket. Parking enforcement is in operation. Both daytime and evening charges apply, 7 days a week (incl. Sundays and Bank Holidays).

Further car parks available at Merton Meadow, and Garrick House off Blackfriars Street. Please respect our neighbours and do not park in adjacent residential areas.

Users of The Courtyard attending or taking part in activities over 4 hours can purchase a ÂŁ2.50 day permit from the Box Office on proof of attendance.

The Courtyard supports twoshare, a free service that links drivers and passengers to share journeys and so reduce the number of cars on the road.

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Wheelchair spaces are available in the Main House stalls and the Studio Theatre with a free seat for a companion. Assistance from a steward is available if required. Please request a wheelchair space when booking.

Tactile signage is provided to help those with visual impairment. Audio Description is available for selected live performances and most film screenings.

Subtitles are available for selected film screenings, see film guide, website or call Box Office for more information.

Audio enhancement facilities are available for events in Main House and all films in the Studio.

Parent and baby facilities are located in the cloakroom on the ground floor.

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W - Wheelchair space C - Carer’s seat

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The Box Office is sponsored by The Courtyard, Edgar Street, Hereford, HR4 9JR

how to book:

Refunds & Exchanges: Refunds are not given unless the event is cancelled. Tickets may be The Box Office is open from 10am – 8pm Monday exchanged (subject to availability) for another to Saturday and 11am – 2.30pm on Sundays. For performance of the same show upon presentation Sunday evening performances the Box Office of the original ticket and payment of a £1 fee per opens 1 hour before the show starts. ticket. If a show is sold out, on request we can attempt to resell your tickets. If sold, the value of From 1 April there will be a £1.50 booking fee charged on tickets bought online, face to face and the sale less a £1 fee per ticket will be issued as a credit voucher. over the phone.

The management reserves the right to refuse admittance, On-line: www.courtyard.org.uk day or night. to provide alternative seats to those purchased (of In Person: Pay by cash, cheque, Theatre Tokens the same or higher value) or to make changes to the

or by most major credit and debit cards. debit and credit cards.

advertised cast or programme. Latecomers cannot be guaranteed entry. All children over the age of 18 months must have their own seat.

By Post: Cheques should be made payable to

Audio Description

By Phone: 01432 340 555 Pay by most major The Courtyard. Include your name, full address, contact telephone number, date and time of the performance. Either add £1 for postage or include a stamped addressed envelope. Post to, The Courtyard, Edgar Street, Hereford, HR4 9JR.

Reservations: Only available for live events.

Tickets will be held for up to three working days or seven days before an event, whichever comes sooner. Unconfirmed tickets will be released after this time.

Group Bookings: For every 10 tickets

Audio description is a live commentary, given between actors dialogue by trained describers, to help capture the atmosphere, costumes, characters and action during the course of a performance. This is relayed via a discreet headset linked to an infra-red system.

For more information about description for films and live events, call the Box Office and choose option 4.

The following live events will be described:

purchased, the 11th ticket is free. Applies to most live events unless otherwise stated. For larger • Entertaining Mr Sloan, Wed 21 May bookings contact the Box Office on 01432 340555 • Jack & The Beanstalk, Sat 13 Dec at 7pm Concessions: (unless otherwise stated) under 16s, students, senior citizens, claimants of There will be a Investment Fund levy added to the disability benefit, registered unwaged and Equity price of your ticket. £1 per ticket for live events in members. Proof of eligibility may be required. the Theatre and 50p a ticket added to the events in the Studio.

For full terms and conditions visit the

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