SpringGuide

January toApril 2012

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Calendar of EventsWelcome to the exciting - rather packed - SpringSeason at The Richard Whiteley Theatre. This yearalso marks the Quincentenary of Giggleswick School.

At the Edinburgh Festival last summer I sawTranslunar Paradise by Theatre Ad Infinitum whichsold out every day, and rightly so…it is a wonderfuland touching piece of theatre expertly performed bythe company – if you don’t believe me, read the reviews! I am delightedto welcome this show in double bill with Caroline Horton’s beautifulYou’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy. Fringe First award winners, ThePaper Birds Theatre Company return to Giggleswick with their new showThirsty; a high energy, visually impressive and emotionally engaging lookat our nation’s love affair with alcohol.

I want to ensure our programme engages and inspires our youngeraudiences too… I’m sure you won’t have had enough snow by now(I’m writing this before Christmas...) so come and see it snow insideand have fantastic fun with Snow Show, or be transported anddelighted by folklore storyteller, Lawrence Speck with Once Upon aTime Up The Road. Our Sunday family films, Puss in Boots and Alvinand the Chipmunks 3 were voted for by our younger audience memberslast season.

We are delighted to welcome Tom Figgins, OG, back from London for anacoustic evening joined, among others, by singer songwriter Sam Beeton.I already have my tickets for the Hallé Orchestra, my tissues ready forthe film War Horse... oh and PS, watch out for the secret symbols...Helen Lindley, Artistic Director

To Book TicketsOnline: www.giggleswick.org.uk/rwtPhone: 01729 893180Box Office open for personal callers: Monday, Wednesday andFriday 9.30 - 12.30 (Please ring to check we are open.)

We accept payment by all major credit and debit cards or cheques. Each booking incurs afee of £1. Our online system allows you to ‘basket’ multiple bookings and then pay only onebooking fee.Tickets MUST be paid for before they are released. Provisionalbookings will only be held until three working days prior to theperformance. If payment is not received by that time, reserved ticketsmay be released for sale. All tickets sold are non-refundable, except inthe case of a performance cancellation. If you find you no longerrequire your tickets, please let us know and, in the event that aperformance is sold out, we will do our best to resell your tickets.Whilst we try to be as accurate as possible with this information somechanges may occur. Latest information is always available on ourwebsite: www.giggleswick.org.uk/rwt

Date Event Time Venue

Sunday 15 January Lyngo Theatre Company 11.00am Richard WhiteleySnow Play Theatre

Saturday 21 January Organ Recital 7.30pm GiggleswickVoices of Angels School Chapel

Sunday 22 January Community Cinemas 3.30pm Richard WhiteleyPuss in Boots Theatre

Saturday 4 February DOUBLE BILLTheatre Ad Infinitum 7.00pm Richard WhiteleyTranslunar Paradise Theatre

Caroline Horton Richard WhiteleyYou’re Not Like The TheatreOther Girls Chrissy

Sunday 5 February Community Cinemas 3.30pm Richard WhiteleyAlvin & The Chipmunks 3 Theatre

Sunday 19 February Lawrence Speck 2.30pm Richard WhiteleyOnce Upon a Time up Theatrethe Road

Saturday 25 February Acoustic Night 7.30pm Richard WhiteleySam Beeton, Tom Figgins Theatre

Friday 2 March Leonie Sutherland, OG 7.15pm Richard WhiteleySailing the World Theatre

Monday 12 March The Paper Birds 7.30pm Richard WhiteleyThirsty Theatre

Thursday 22 March Verdi’s Requiem 7.30pm GiggleswickSchool Sports Hall

Sunday 25 March Community Cinemas 3.30pm Richard WhiteleyWar Horse Theatre

Thursday 29 March Northern Garden Lectures 5.30pm Richard WhiteleyBob Brown Theatre

Saturday 30 June The Hallé at Giggleswick 8.00pm Pape’s Field(Gates open 6pm)

Helen Lindley

Introduction

Translunar Paradise takesyou on a journey of life,death and enduring love.After his wife passes away,William escapes to aparadise of fantasy and pastmemories, a place far fromthe reality of his grief.Returning from beyond thegrave, Rose revisits herwidowed companion toperform one last act of love:to help him let go.

Using a live accordionaccompaniment, thisexquisite piece of mask andmovement theatre was a

multi-award winning,critically acclaimed sellout atthe Edinburgh FestivalFringe 2011. Theatre AdInfinitum is an award-winning internationalensemble, developing newand original theatre for amulti-cultural audience.Written and directed byGeorge Mann.

‘An extraordinaryperformance; TranslunarParadise so moved mebecause of its uniquelydevastating method,prompting thoughts aboutbereavement using onlygesture, never cheapeningits subject by attempting todescribe the indescribable’Observer

‘Extraordinarily poignant…beautifully performed….packs a real emotionalpunch.’ The Guardian

An eccentric, acutelymyopic French woman’stale of love in WW2.

January 1945. Paris hasbeen liberated. Christiane,waits at Gare Du Nord for aticket to England to bereunited with her fiancé.Whilst she waits, thisgloriously irrepressiblemademoiselle recounts thestory of her love affair withCyril, a tongue-tied Englishteacher from Staffordshire.From a chance encounter at

Cheadle Tennis Club, theirstory takes us tocosmopolitan 1930s Parisbefore their inevitableseparation by war. Aseparation which she hopestoday will finally come to anend. A fond, comical andultimately poignant portraitof one woman's experienceof love and war.

“Comic theatre at its mostmoving and inspiring.”The Guardian

Both these are fundraising events for theRichard Whiteley Theatre, part of GiggleswickSchool Reg. Charity No. 1109826.

Double BillJoin us for an evening oflove, life and loss with acombined ticket for boththis show and TranslunarParadise.Tickets: £17 (U18’s £15)to include “rations”between shows.

Ticket for one show:£8.50 (U18s £7.50)

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Double Bill: Love, Life and LossTheatre Ad Infinitum presentTranslunar Paradise

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Caroline Horton presentsYou’re Not Like The OtherGirls Chrissy

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Sat 4 February 2012TRANSLUNAR@ 7.00pmCHRISSY @ 8.45pm

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Based on our nation’s loveaffair with alcohol, thiscritically acclaimed showweaves together realstories, memories andbooze-based confessionscollected from a ‘drunkenhotline’ and an onlinequestionnaire. Fusing livemusic, verbatim text andstunning physical theatre,The Paper Birds explore thestories and socialrepercussions of lostmemories and gainedtraumas, bruised knees,uncontrollable laughter,urine stained beds and soreheads, particularly focusingon the women waving theflag for 'Booze-Britain'. Adynamic theatrical

exploration delving beyondstatistics, facts and figures,Thirsty looks to the facesand the voices of everyonewho likes a drink and askswhy, as a nation, are weso thirsty?

"Terrifically sharp, vibrantlychoreographed andsensitively paced, poignantwithout getting preachy"The Independent onSunday

"An energetic rollercoasterride through the reasonsthat make so many of usreach for the bottle…,exuberantly performed"The Telegraph

This is a fundraising event for The RichardWhiteley Theatre, part of Giggleswick School

Reg. Charity No. 1109826

Tickets: £10 (U18s £8)

The Paper Birds presentThirsty

Lyngo Theatre Company presentSnow Play

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Starring Patrick Lynch fromCbeebies and Carlo Rossi fromItalian TV! When Mr Greencomes back from his Christmasholidays, it’s the start of abrrrrilliant series of adventures.Mr White wants to sleep andhave fun but Mr Green can’t

stand the snow. Who gets tostay, and who has to go away?Make a giant snowman, have asuper snowball fight and helpus to bring back the spring inthis smash-hit Londonproduction. Age 3-7

‘A fantastic, utterly enchantingshow.’ Evening Standard

Tickets: £7 (Children mustbe accompanied by anadult). Buy 2 or more ticketsand one adult goes free.

Both these are fundraising events for TheRichard Whiteley Theatre, part of GiggleswickSchool Reg. Charity No. 1109826

Mon 12 March 2012@ 7.30pm

A show for children and theirfamilies that investigates ourrelationship with luck andsuperstition, through the re-telling of myths from the Northof England. Meet Clive, he’sscared of just abouteverything and he’s got a

story or two to tell you usinggood old fashioned inspiringstorytelling,clowning,puppetryand anexcitingoriginalsound-scape.Aged 7+

Tickets:£5

SNOW PLAY:Sun 15 Jan 2012@ 11am

LAWRENCE SPECK:Sun 19 Feb 2012@ 2.30pm

Lawrence SpeckOnce Upon A Time Up The Road

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Puss in Boots (U) (2011)In the days before Puss inBoots meets Shrek andaccompanied by hissidekicks, Humpty Dumptyand Kitty Softpaws, Puss ispitted against Jack and Jill,two murderous outlaws whodiscover an ancient powerwhich threatens the world.Who knows what couldhappen….

Tickets: £4.70

War Horse (2011)Following the highlyacclaimed National Theatreplay production, StevenSpielberg’s epic film, starsJeremy Irvine, Emily Watsonand Benedict Cumberbatch.Michael Morpurgo’s story is atale of loyalty, hope andtenacity set in rural Englandand Europe during the FirstWorld War. A young mannamed Albert and his horse,Joey, develop a remarkablefriendship, but they areforcefully parted when Joey issold and sent to the trenches.Despite being too young toenlist, Albert heads to Franceto save his friend. The filmfollows the extraordinaryjourney of the horse as hemoves through the war,changing and inspiring the

lives of all those heencounters before the storyreaches its emotional climax.

Tickets £4.70

All our films are fundraising events for TheRichard Whiteley Theatre, part of GiggleswickSchool Reg. Charity No. 1109826.

Playing around whileaboard a cruise ship, theChipmunks and Chipettes

accidentally go overboardand end up marooned in atropical paradise. Howeverthey discover their new turfis not as deserted as it firstseemed…

Tickets: £4.70

PUSS IN BOOTS:Sun 22 Jan 2012@ 3.30pm

ALVIN & THECHIPMUNKS 3:Sun 5 Feb 2012@ 3.30pm

Alvin & The Chipmunks 3 (U) (2011)

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WAR HORSE:Sun 25 March 2012@ 3.30pm

Children’s Film and Theatre DealWhy not book and save at the same time!

Buy a ticket for Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 andPuss in Boots together with Once Upon A Time UpThe Road: £13.50

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Voices of AngelsJason Lowe, Chapel Organistin Giggleswick School Chapel

Educated at the RoyalNorthern College of Music,Jason Lowe was a finalist inthe College’s Organ RecitalPrize, 2008. Hisperformance of JamesMacMillan’s ‘le Tombeau deGeorges Rouault’ was metwith great acclaim by thecomposer at the RNCM2009 ‘Raising Sparks’festival. Organ Scholar ofManchester Cathedral fromSeptember 2009 to August2011, he developed aparticular interest in psalmaccompaniment. He tookup his post at Giggleswick

School in September 2011where, in addition to chapelservices and instrumentalteaching, he is responsiblefor the upkeep and care ofthe chapel’s fine ‘FatherWillis’ Organ.

Jason’s inauguralGiggleswick recital willfeature works by: JohannSebastian Bach, CesarFranck, Louis Vierne, NoelRawsthorne and AntonioCorrea-Braga.

This is a fundraising event for GiggleswickSchool Reg. Charity No 1109826.

Tickets: Adults £9,Senior Citizens £7.50,U18s £5.

Verdi’s RequiemGiggleswick Choral Societyand Giggleswick SchoolChoir join forces with SettleOrchestra and fouroutstanding soloists, LaurieAshworth (soprano), KateGrosset (alto), Ben Tharpa(tenor) and local bass,David Rees-Jones for aperformance of Verdi’smuch loved sacredmasterpiece. This concertwill be the spring highlightof Giggleswick School’sQuincentenary celebrations.

Aside from his operas, Verdiis best known for thisextraordinary Requiem,written in memory of theItalian writer and nationalistAlessandro Manzoni. The

dramatic power of thefamous Dies Irae and thesublime lyricism of thework’s solo passages haveled many to describe it asmore of an opera than aformal Requiem Mass.

This is a fundraising event for GiggleswickSchool Reg. Charity No 1109826.

Tickets: £10 (U18s £5)

Sat 21 Jan 2012@ 7.30pm

Thurs 22 Mar 2012@ 7.30pm

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Soprano: Laurie Ashworth

Bass: David Rees-JonesSettle Orchestra

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Acoustic Night with three singer-songwriters

Sam BeetonNottingham songwriter SamBeeton has been writingand recording songs sincehe was just 15. His firstsingle 'What You Look For'was Record of the Week forboth Radio One's Jo Whileyand Scott Mills and hetoured nationwidesupporting James Morrisonand The Script.

Tom FigginsWe are excited towelcome back TomFiggins, whose careercontinues successfully inLondon with regular gigs

and radio appearances,and an upcoming musicvideo with SBTV. Aguitarist of skill andsubtlety. A songwriter ofdepth and imagination. Avoice that makes you situp and listen ~ lean backand dream.

This is a fundraising event for GiggleswickSchool Reg. Charity No 1109826.

Tickets: £10 (U18s £5)

For details of the thirdsinger, visit our website.

Sat 25 Feb 2012@ 7.30pm

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DM Academy DanceShipley based DM Academyruns a range of classes forchildren and adults at theRichard Whiteley Theatre.

Children’s classes afterschool: Zumbatonics(age 4-7)Sure, chillin’ out is cool, butrockin’ out is a blast!Zumbatonic is a fast-forwardfusion of the adult Zumbaprogram designed to letkids chill out on fun andfitness at the same time.

Teen Street Jazz (age 7+)Fuse the urban rhythms ofstreet dance with thetraditional discipline of Jazzand you have the latestdance craze – Street Jazz!

DMA Kidz PerformingArts (age7+)DMA Kidz study the ‘triplethreat’ of dance, drama andsong. Great for confidencebuilding and personaldevelopment, all whisthaving fun and exploringexciting new skills.

Adult classes:ZUMBA ‘Ditch theWorkout & Join the Party’The ZUMBA programmefuses hypnotic Latinrhythms and easy to followdance moves to create aone-of-a kind fitnessprogramme that will blowyou away.

For details on all theseclasses and much moreplease contact DMAcademy on 01274 585317.

www.zumbabradford.co.ukwww.dmacademy.co.uk

Leonie Sutherland, a formerGiggleswick School pupil,was a member of the crewon “Welcome to Yorkshire”,the only English boat whichtook part in the ClipperRound the World YachtRace in 2011. In this lectureshe will describe herexperiences and herreasons for wanting to raisemoney for Teenage CancerTrust. The talk isaccompanied by a 15minute video show andthere will be an opportunity to put your questions to

Leonie.

"You will never conquer thesea, but you can learn tocope with it" Robin KnoxJohnson

Tickets free, retiringcollection in aid ofTeenage Cancer Trust.

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Fri 2 March 2012@ 7.15pm

Leonie Sutherland, Illustrated Talk‘Sailing the World’

Bob Brown of CotswoldGarden Flowers is headingto Giggleswick to share hisvast plant knowledge withus. Formerly a schoolteacher, Bob turned hispassion for growing easyand unusual perennials andsmall shrubs into a thrivingnursery in Worcestershire.In 2010 the RoyalHorticulture Societyawarded him the VeitchMemorial Medal which isgiven to those who “have

made an outstandingcontribution to theadvancement andimprovement of the scienceand practice of horticulture”.A true plantsman, thispromises to be anenlightening andentertaining talk.

Tickets: £10

Date for your diary: NGLwith Lord Cavendish fromHolker Hall, Cumbria onThursday 18 October 2012.

Northern Garden LecturesBob Brown

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Thurs 29 Mar 2012@ 5.30pm

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The Hallé at Giggleswick – anopen air extravaganzaon Giggleswick School‘Papes’ playing field

The Hallé Orchestra is comingwith fanfare and fireworks toGiggleswick! In 2012Giggleswick School celebratesits Quincentenary – 500 yearsof education in thispicturesque Yorkshire Dalesvillage. To mark this historicmilestone it is hosting a publicoutdoor picnic concert onthe playing fields next to thesite of the first school.

The Hallé is the 4th oldestsymphony orchestra in theworld and Britain’s oldest.This year, for the secondconsecutive year, they wontwo awards at theGramophone Awards

ceremony in London.Conducted by James Burton,they will perform lightclassical, musical theatre andoperatic favourites perfect forall the family, featuringinternationally acclaimedsoloists, bass baritone SirThomas Allen, sopranoSarah Fox, and tenor BarryBanks. The programmeincludes works byTchaikovsky, Verdi, Puccini,

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Handel and Bernstein, allbuilding to a rousing fireworksfinale. A local youth choir andGiggleswick Choral Societywill join the Hallé and soloistsfor part of the programme.

So, get together with yourfriends and family, grab yourpicnic, table and chairs, coolbox and champagne and

head to Giggleswick for anunforgettable evening of worldclass music against thestunning backdrop of theYorkshire Dales.

Tickets: Adults £30 (Groupsof 10+ £27pp), U16’s £5.Corporate Packagesavailable.

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: Theatre Info

The Richard WhiteleyTheatre is situated withinthe grounds of GiggleswickSchool. Giggleswick villageis a mile from the markettown of Settle and is easilyaccessible from the A65which runs from Leeds toKendal. For Sat Nav usersour post code is: BD240DE. The theatre is located

within the main schoolcampus and parking areasare available nearby.

More comprehensivedirections can also befound on our websitewww.giggleswick.org.uk/rwtGiggleswick & Settle areserved by public transportuntil 21:00 daily.

The Theatre is fullyaccessible for all disabledusers with suitable toiletfacilities. There is an infra redhearing loop for the hard ofhearing and wheelchairspaces are available. Please

notify the BoxOffice of yourrequirements atthe time ofbooking. Companion ticketsare available for allwheelchair users.

Thanks to the generous supportof the Theakston family andBlack Sheep Brewery we areplease to be able to provide abar service at all our events. TheBlack Sheep Baa is open 30minutes before all performancesand during the interval.

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