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Theatre l Music l Dance l Film l Exhibitions l Workshops
January - April 2020
... the creative heart of the community
Transform your Arts Centre
What’s On Welcome to our Spring Season!
We are opening the doors at Queen’s Hall Arts Centre to invite
04 January everyone inside for our exciting Spring Season. We have a
wonderful array of performances and experiences to really lift
06 February
your spirits after a long dark winter.
13 March
Spring is definitely the time for something new whether it is
19 April Green Eggs and Ham, the Opera or GUY: A New Musical. Or
25 Exhibitions a beautiful new play – Robin and Rose – created through a
26 The Queen’s Club partnership between Queen’s Hall Arts, Tynedale Hospice at
Home and Mad Alice Theatre Company. Bring along the family
26 Queen’s Hall Cafe
to enjoy traditional tales, with a new twist, from Lempen
26 Queen’s Hall Digital
Puppet Theatre and Kitchen Zoo or laugh your way through
27 Courses & Workshops Gonzo Moose’s crazy tale. And why should children have all
28 Seating Plan the fun? Book a place on our trapeze workshop!
29 Booking your Tickets We are absolutely thrilled to announce the development
Thanks to funding from Arts Council England, we
30 Season’s Diary of a brand new Studio Theatre here at Queen’s Hall with
are aiming to transform the Queen’s Hall Arts Centre
the support of a capital grant from Arts Council England.
through the creation of a brand new studio space.
The Opening Doors Project will see the creation of a flexible
A fully accessible and well equipped studio, space for performance, workshops and exhibitions as well as
on the site of the existing Green Room will enable us ensuring that all our performance spaces and dressing rooms
to offer you a broader range of shows and exhibitions, are accessible. We will really need your help to achieve our
alongside many more opportunities for you and the ambitious plans, so keep your eyes open for how you can help
family to get creative too. us raise money over the next two years. And you will all be
LIKE US invited to the grand opening!
We need to raise an additional £50,000 /queenshallarts The bold claim of our March show is How to be amazingly
to make this happen! happy! - we hope that the Spring Season will really put a smile
FOLLOW US on your face.
@queenshallarts
Will you play your part? Katy Taylor
SEE US Artistic Director/Chief Executive | Queen’s Hall Arts
www.queenshall.co.uk queenshallarts
Box Office 01434 652477
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January
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Wednesday 22 January 6.00pm
David Harper: Unexpected Tales
Theatre l
April 2020
January -
Thursday 23 January 7:30pm
Join us as we look at the season ahead, giving you an insight
in to forthcoming shows, playing you some video snippets Join TV celebrity David Harper (as seen on TV in
of shows, audio tracks of some of the music events and Bargain Hunt, Antiques Roadtrip and lots more), as he
giving you loads more insight into the season. shares tales from the world of TV, art and antiques!
Join us after the event at 7.00pm to meet the staff and the The show will feature funny behind the scenes
trustees at our Season Launch Drinks Reception. anecdotes from TV, live auctions, exciting antique
community
... the creativ
e heart of the
finds, huge profits, even bigger losses, as well as
FREE ENTRY WITH A TICKET!
stories from celebrity TV appearances and historical
journeys through time.
27 Up Pantomime Tickets: £14.00
Alice in Wonderland
Thursday 9 – Saturday 11 January 7.00pm
Saturday 11 January 2.00pm
Cheer and boo as past members of Northumberland Young Farmers perform the traditional
pantomime, Alice in Wonderland.
Tickets: Thursday £10.00 | Friday: £12.50
Saturday matinee: £10.00 (adults) | £8.00 (under 14)
Saturday evening: £12.50
Mark Jon Bolderson
Dance, Circus and Theatre workshops Percussion Foundation
Thursdays from 16 January at 6.00pm – 7.30pm. Drum Festival Hexham & District Music Society
Saturday 25 January
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Are you aged 16 years+ and looking to try something new and
exciting this New Year? Lizzie J Klotz and her team of dance, Tuesday 28 January 7.30pm
A celebration of all things drumming
circus and theatre performers will be leading 4 workshops.
with free performances and workshops Vadym Kholodenko is fast building a
Thursday 16 January Thursday 30 January throughout the day including a jazz reputation as one of the most musically
Static Trapeze with Tilly Lee-Kronick Story Telling with Charlie Dearnley drumming Masterclass from jazz drummer dynamic and technically gifted young pianists
Learn beginners’ movements on the static Explore exercises in writing for performance, Martyn Kaine, and a demonstration from performing today. His 2015 recording of
trapeze, aiming to build a sequence of your in a playful and game-led environment. the Corp of Army Musicians. the Grieg piano concerto was hailed by
own. Only 8 places available. Thursday 6 February ALL EVENTS FREE. Gramophone magazine as ‘truly outstanding’.
Thursday 23 January Contemporary Dance with Alex Rowland Evening concert: O Duo 8.00pm Programme
Physical Theatre with Alys North and João Maio Renowned for their vibrant drumming from Mozart Piano Sonata no.14 in C minor, K457
Developing characters through movement, An introduction to the foundations of across the globe, O Duo have performed Schubert Piano Sonata no.13 in A major, D664
including individual and group tasks in contemporary dance, learning sequences, twice at the BBC Proms, as well as on BBC Saariaho Ballade
improvisation and Physical Theatre. floor work and partner work. Radio 2 and 3, Classic FM, Channel 4 and Scriabin Preludes (selection)
These workshops are part of the Research and Development of a new dance show BBC television. Rachmaninov Piano Sonata no.2 in B flat minor
‘This is a show about Lying’, supported by Arts Council England.
EVENING CONCERT IS FREE WITH A TICKET Tickets: £16.00 | £8.00 (student)
4 Tickets: £3.00 per workshop | £10.00 for all 4 workshops £1.00 (schoolchildren) 5
February
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LIVE
GUY: A New Musical IN THE
LIBRARY
Monday 3 February 7.30pm
Finding love isn’t easy being fat, gay and nerdy. Luckily for Guy, you can be Andy May Trio
anybody online… including your best friend. But little does Guy know, he’s Friday 7 February 7.30pm
not the only one with a big reveal.
Three award winning musicians
Queer as Folk meets Bridget Jones with a cat-fishing musical twist, this from Newcastle - Northumbrian
award-winning show gives you 12 heart-pounding electronic pop anthems piper & pianist Andy May (Jez
and a witty, heartfelt story about modern dating through a diverse Lowe and the Bad Pennies,
cross-section of gay men. Baltic Crossing), guitarist Ian
A rom-com about body image, prejudice, and mental health, GUY is a Stephenson (422, Baltic Crossing)
reminder that the only person you should be is yourself: #nofilter. and fiddler Sophy Ball (422, Bottle
Bank Band) - with music inspired
GUY was winner of Best Show, Birminghamfest 2018 by the North East.
and winner of Best New Writing, Buxton Fringe 2018.
TRY Expect high energy traditional
Tickets: £15.00 | £12.00 | £5.00 (student) IT FOR AR
TENNE
Full Circle tunes from Northumberland
alongside newly composed material
Theatre Company
“A monumental piece with an by members of the band, all
In the Middle of Our Street delivered with a unique warmth
imperative message... this musical
could go all the way” Thursday 6 February 7.30pm and humour.
Blackstar Hannah wants more than the repetition of Tickets: £12.50
daily life has to offer, and finds herself in an
inventors’ workshop, opening her eyes to
endless exciting possibilities. Hannah can see
freedom, and sets off on a great mission.
This is a visually spectacular show packed
with Full Circle’s usual mix of power,
poignancy and humour and explores,
with a bit of magic, what adulthood and
independence means.
“If ever there is a show that so positively, and
in such a visual and beautiful way, challenges
negative perceptions about learning disabled
people, then this is it. It is a fantastic story,
told with passion, skill, humour.” Annabel
Turpin, Artistic Director ARC Stockton
Tickets: £10.00 | £7.50 (student)
Devised and performed by Full Circle Theatre
Company, and directed by Vici Wreford-Sinnott, this
is A Little Cog production in partnership with ARC
Stockton.
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February
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100% Simon Brodkin
Friday 7 February 8.00pm
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson,
multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances
following world-famous stunts on Theresa May,
Sepp Blatter, Donald Trump, Kanye West and
Britain’s Got Talent, the award-winning comedian
unleashes his funniest creation yet… himself!
Fresh from a critically-acclaimed, sell-out run
at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Simon takes
his debut stand-up show 100%
Simon Brodkin on a nationwide tour.
One of The Guardian’s ‘Top Shows
at The Fringe
One of The Evening Standard’s
‘Best Comedy Shows at The Fringe’ Ben Hart: Wonder Gonzo Moose
Tickets: £22.00 Sunday 9 February 7.30pm Once Upon A Time…
Britain’s Got Talent 2019 finalist, West End Tuesday 11 February 7.30pm
star and multi award-winning magician Ben Gonzo Moose are back with a comedy
Hart is embarking on his debut solo tour. adventure packed full of hilarious slapstick,
Described by David Walliams as ‘the living verbal wit, live music and a sensational
embodiment of magic’, with the simplest of death-defying finale.
props and using the objects and minds of Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are
the audience, Ben Hart conjures a show that about to publish the final volume of what will
shines a light on magic, life, the universe and become the greatest ever collection of fairy
the darkest corners of your imaginations. tales. But on the eve of their greatest triumph,
a shadowy figure from their past returns to
“Unbelievable!
collect an old debt.
That was unbelievable…
really… I’m shocked” Now their sister, Lotte must go on a deadly
Simon Cowell mission deep into the Fairy Tale Kingdom in
order to save her beloved older brothers.
Age restriction of 12 years +
Three fearless and daring actors switch wildly
Tickets: £17.00
between a myriad roles in this gripping and
£15.00 (Members / benefit conc / student)
fast paced comedy featuring Mexican elves, a
biscuit eating badger and the world’s worst
marriage guidance counsellor.
Tickets: £15.00
£13.00 (Members / benefit conc)
8 £10.00 (student) 9
February
Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Jive Aces Big Beat Revue 2020 Lempen Puppets
Saturday 15 February 7.30pm The Golden Princess
Renowned worldwide for their high-energy spectacular showmanship, Britain’s Got Tuesday 18 February Workshop 11.00am | Show 2.00pm
Talent semi-finalists, The Jive Aces have firmly established themselves as the UK’s No.1 Melo, the strange, one legged musician, sits alone by the sea, content in his world and playing
Jive & Swing band. the most beautiful music. But who comes here? A golden carriage bearing a
Featuring special guests: the songstress from Down Under with the golden tonsils and Princess so beautiful that she wears a golden mask to hide her
furious tap dancing, Miss Kara Lane, the blonde bombshell with the low-down baritone blinding beauty. And she pushes him in the mud!
sax, Lottie B, the hot licks of jazz trumpeter Antonio Socci and the smooth accordion of What kind of a world is this, where one who hides her beauty
Grazia Bevilacqua, the show is an exciting mix of hot jive, swinging rhythm and blues behaves so badly to the one with beauty at his fingertips?
and classic rock ’n’ roll.
A theatrical performance using acting, puppets, shadows and music
“The crazy energy of the Jive Aces can certainly whisk you for everyone from 5 years old to 105 years young.
away to a different era and tempt you to Jump, Jive and Wail
Running time: 55 minutes
out of happiness and joy!”
The Student Newspaper, Edinburgh
Tickets: £18.00 | £16.00 (Members / benefit conc / student)
Mask Making Workshop
Surprise your family and friends with
a new you and create your own
amazing mask. Could it be a witch
or an elf? A princess, an alien or
something else? The choice is
yours and anything goes.
But what does it feel like to look out
from another skin? How do people
react when you don’t look like
yourself anymore?
Running time: 1 hour
Max 20 participants
For ages 6 years +
(adults can stay and help)
Northumberland Young Farmers Drama Competition Show Tickets:
£6.50 | £10.00 (including pre-show workshop)
Sunday 16 February 3.00pm
£1.00 (Babe in arms)
Teams from across the county compete, with the winning team representing
Workshop Tickets:
the County in the National competition.
£6.50 per child
For tickets please contact the YFC County Office by emailing (Free for accompanying adults / Babe in arms)
10 countyoffice@northumberlandyfc.co.uk 11
March
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Brit Rock Film Tour 2020
Friday 28 February 7.30pm
The Brit Rock Film Tour is back with its
strongest line up to date, comprising the
best new climbing films from the UK’s top
adventure filmmakers, featuring some of
the country’s most popular climbers.
This stunning new line up of four compelling films from the vertical world includes
Climbing Blind, a 60 minute film of the incredible story of the first blind lead of the
Old Man of Hoy.
Tickets: £10.00 | £8.00 (student)
Mad Alice Theatre Company
Rose and Robin
Wednesday 19 February 2.00pm
From childhood to old age, Rose
and Robin have had a wonderful life
Hexham & District
together – and they want to share it Music Society
with you! They’ve enjoyed so much Toby Hughes and
together. But most of all, they loved Daniel King Smith
to dance.
Thursday 20 February 7.30pm Eleventh Hadrian’s Wall Opera North
They’ve had their bumps in the road,
Toby Hughes, still only in his 20s, is a Archaeology Forum Green Eggs and Ham
of course, and now Robin can’t
true virtuoso on the double bass, having Saturday 29 February 9.45am - 4.00pm Monday 2 March 1.30pm & 4.30pm
remember where they keep the
performed with major orchestras in the
clothes pegs. The programme will include reports on the The perfect introduction to opera for 4-7
UK and Europe, and has already given a
Commissioned by Queen’s Hall Arts, recital at London’s Wigmore Hall. group of excavations recently undertaken year olds and their families!
and directed by Geof Keys, Rose and in the environs of the fort at Benwell, the
Daniel King Smith has given concerts Meet the hilariously persistent Sam-I-Am on
Robin is a playful and serious, sad and results of investigations at Vindolanda in
all over the world as both soloist and a mission to persuade a grumpy grouch to
happy show that celebrates life in all 2019, analyses of material recovered from
accompanist. try a delicious plate of green eggs and ham!
its richness. the Birdoswald cemetery excavation in
Programme 2009, progress of the Wallcap project, and The classic Dr Seuss book is beautifully
A perfect play for children aged research on coins from the northern frontier brought to life, teaching us all (even the
Dutilleux Sarabande et Cortège
7 years and over to enjoy with their zone. grown-ups) the very important life lesson
Lowell Liebermann Sonata for
grandparents and parents. - you cannot know what you will like until
Contrabass and Piano, op. 24 Tickets: £25.00 (includes tea/coffee and
Running time: 50 mins approx. Fauré Romance in A major, op. 69 you have tried it!
lunch at Hexham Abbey)
Berio Psy Featuring 2 opera singers and a 9-piece
Tickets: £8.50
Mišek Sonata no. 2 in E minor for orchestra, this short 45 minute performance
£7.50 (group of 4 or more, per
Double Bass and Piano, op. 6 will begin with an interactive workshop
person)
Tickets: £16.00 | £8.00 (student) introducing families to the music,
£1.00 (schoolchildren) instruments and themes within the piece.
12 Tickets: £6.00 (adult) | £6.00 (child) 13
March
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Matt Forde: Pursued by a Bear
TRY
State of Grace IT FOR AR Friday 6 March 8.00pm
DOVES TENNE
Join Britain’s leading political comedian as he once “our foremost satirical
Wednesday 4 March 7.30pm again promises his last show as an EU citizen (maybe). stand-up... Whatever
As seen on Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, your politics, you’ll
Part road movie, part 80s noir, DOVES is find excellence here”
The Royal Variety Performance and Unspun.
a new dance-theatre work for ages 14
years+ that charts the rite of passage of Age guideline: 14 years +
The Sunday Times
two very different young women from the
Tickets: £16.00
Deep South of the US.
The Times
Set against a filmic cyclorama and
wrapped in a unique, musical soundscape
The Scotsman
the two sisters (Cora-Jay Williams and
Alice Henry) fight for survival and an
understanding of who they really are.
Commissioned by Dance City, DOVES will be
presented along with a new work in partnership
with Youth Dance Tynedale.
Tickets: £10.00 | £7.50 (students)
Thank ABBA for the Music
Gazebo Theatre TRY
IT FOR AR Saturday 7 March 7.30pm
WANTED TENNE Grab your platforms and flares for a
Thursday 5 March 7.30pm journey back in time to when ABBA
dominated the charts and ruled the
WANTED explores the stories of 5
airwaves in this two-hour theatre
extraordinary ordinary women who
spectacular that captures all of the
share a passion for standing up for
magic and excitement of one of
what is right!
pop history’s most successful and
This powerful new play features an entertaining live bands.
array of historical figures; Irena Sendler,
Featuring all of ABBA’s greatest hits including Dancing Queen, Waterloo, Mamma Mia, Take
who rescued more than 2,500 children
A Chance On Me, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, Knowing Me Knowing You, Fernando, Super
from the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation; Olive Morris, British Black Panther and
Trouper and many more!
avid activist for women and squatters’ rights; Phoolan Devi, the fearsome Bandit Queen,
and a woman way ahead of her time, Dr James Barry. With stunning costumes, live band, interactive video projection, some tongue-in-cheek
Swedish humour and, of course, ABBA’s spectacular trademark harmonies, this is the ultimate
A drama littered with humour, honesty and heart, WANTED is written and performed by
feel-good party show!
Tonia Daley-Campbell, Therese Collins and Pamela Cole-Hudson.
ABBA and 70s fancy dress optional … but encouraged!
In Celebration & Recognition of Women’s History Month 2020.
Tickets: £22.50 | £19.50 (Members / benefit conc / student)
Tickets: £10.00 | £7.50 (students)
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March
Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 How to be amazingly happy!
Thursday 12 March 7.30pm TRY
IT FOR AR
Green Room Studio Theatre
TENNE
Is your happiness not where you expected? TRY
Has your self gone AWOL with the life plan? IT FOR AR
TENNE
Victoria Firth is on a quest. She wants happiness and she wants
it now. No matter how tough, how busy, how ridiculous - she’s
VERVE
going all out and getting this done. Join her as she asks what do
Tuesday 17 March 7.30pm
you do with the rest of your life when you don’t have kids? Hexham & District
It’s Tales of the Unexpected meets Miranda in this big hearted, big thinking show of Music Society Fourteen dancers.
storytelling and physical comedy. Sacconi Quartet Four distinct, exhilarating works.
Physically ambitious,
Tickets: £10.00 | £7.50 (student) Monday 16 March 7.30pm strikingly original dance.
The Sacconi Quartet have
VERVE’s exceptional dancers tackle brand
enjoyed a highly successful
new works by Olivier award-winning
international career, performing
dance theatre maker Botis Seva, dancer &
regularly throughout Europe,
acclaimed choreographer Lali Ayguadé,
Jon Boden at London’s major venues,
rising star in Scandinavian contemporary
in recordings and on radio
Sunday 15 March 7.30pm dance Mari Carrasco, and maverick
broadcasts, and are Quartet in
choreographer Douglas Thorpe.
Best known as the lead singer of the Association at the Royal College
VERVE is the internationally touring postgraduate
progressive folk juggernaut Bellowhead, Jon of Music. company of Northern School of Contemporary
Boden was named Folk Singer of The Year at Dance (NSCD).
Their 2017 CD was named as
the 2009 BBC Folk Awards. He has become
one of Gramophone magazine’s Tickets: £10.00
the ‘stand out performer of his generation’
recordings of the year. £7.50 (student)
(The Guardian) of traditional folk artists, but
one whose repertoire extends far beyond the Programme
boundaries of the genre. Haydn String Quartet in D major,
op. 64 no.5 (The Lark)
Since Bellowhead split in 2016, Jon has
continued his development as one of the Beethoven String Quartet no.11
foremost names in English folk music. in F minor, op. 95 (Serioso)
Mendelssohn String Quartet
‘Jon Boden solo is certainly something no.1 in E flat major, op.12
not to be missed, a variety of
Tickets: £16.00
instrumentation and song, the
£8.00 (student)
dramatic gestures of a rock concert – £1.00 (schoolchildren)
not something you often get from a
solo folk performer’ Americana UK
Tickets: £20.00
£18.00 (benefit conc / members / students)
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April
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LIVE
IN THE
LIBRARY
Tyne Valley Film Festival
Film: 2040 (PG)
Zoë Gilby Quartet
Tuesday 24 March 7.30pm
Thursday 19 March 8.00pm
An Australian documentary in which Fitting Stillhouse Junkies
Zoë Gilby is a vocalist and songwriter, TRY LIVE
IT FOR AR
director Damon Gameau embarks on IN THE
making a stunning impression on the Wednesday 25 & Wednesday 25 March
music scene today.
a personal journey to explore what the
Thursday 26 March TENNE 8.00pm
LIBRARY
future could look like by the year 2040 if 7.30pm
Expect a powerful collection of we embraced the best solutions already Influenced by bluegrass, Western
compelling, original songs with a available to us to improve our planet and Magic is everywhere. Wear a dress and Swing, blues and a touch of classical,
strong narrative, written with double shifted them rapidly into the mainstream. people treat you one way. Try a pinstripe Colorado’s Stillhouse Junkies create
bassist husband Andy Champion, and suit and, abracadabra, it’s like you are a an attractive groove-filled blend of
Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year- different person.
an adventurous blend of contemporary American roots music.
old daughter, Damon blends documentary
composers from Kate Bush to Pink Fitting is about Matt’s adventures in Rooted in the American West, their
with dramatic sequences and high-end
Floyd alongside the sensitive treatment dresses and suits with some magic tricks evocative songs accompanied on fiddle,
visual effects to create a vision board for his
of jazz standards. Completing the up its sleeves. Follow Matt as they navigate guitar, upright bass, mandolin and
daughter.
quartet are guitarist Mark Williams and and explode the ground between gender clawhammer banjo, run the gamut of
drummer Richard Brown. Running time: 1 hour 32 minutes binaries. human experience from disenchantment
Tickets: £12.00 Tickets: £6.00 with the pace of modern living, to story
Matt has brought along some frocks and
songs from the small-town bartender or
ties, some sleight of hand, some fitting in
a lonely cattle driver.
and some standing proud. Matt is neither a
Stitch in Time: A Knitting Cabaret boy nor a girl but has been both. Matt will Tickets: £12.50
TRY
Tuesday 24 March 7.30pm IT FOR AR do their best, for you.
TENNE Tickets: £10.00 | £7.50 (students)
Hexham Library
A scintillating evening of the lost knitting songs of WWI and
WWII from Britain, Canada, America and France.
During the two World Wars, millions of women knit for the Free Flowing Words
soldiers, with popular music often reflecting the trends of the Thursday 2 April 7.00pm
time. Some of the songs were very close to disappearing forever,
Hexham Library
but in Stitch in Time, this music has been preserved, and given a
chance to live again. Continuing our series of readings of poetry by North East poets; published poet Pauline
Plummer writes short stories, teaches creative writing and has won prestigious prizes and
Feel free to bring your knitting (or crochet), and stitch along to these funny, poignant, awards. Lesley Mountain has had three collections published, the latest “Vamoose” in
toe-tapping, needle-clicking tunes. 2018. Josephine Scott has two collections, with a third to be launched in May.
Tickets: £10.00 | £7.50 (student) Tickets: £5.00
18 19April
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Feast of Fiddles Lyngo Theatre
Thursday 2 April 7.30pm Jack and the Beanstalk
Feast of Fiddles is a band of friends that puts on a show of huge dynamic range Saturday 4 April 11.00am & 2.00pm
performed with passion, joy and a liberal dose of fun.
Expect lots of surprises and beautiful
Fiddlers Peter Knight (Gigspanner, Steeleye Span), Chris Leslie (Fairport images in this classic fairy tale as Patrick
Convention), Brian McNeill (Battlefield Band), Ian Cutler (Bully Wee), Tom Leary Lynch from Cbeebies tells the gripping
(Lindisfarne) and Garry Blakeley (Band of Two) add the large range of fiddle story of Jack who sells his cow for 5
playing styles to the rock back-line of guitars, keyboards, sax and accordion – all magic beans and finds himself in the
held together by legendary drummer Dave Mattacks. land above the clouds.
The Thinking Drinkers:
“The best fiddle players of a generation” fRoots It’s a show for the over 3 years (and
their giants) with something for Heroes of Hooch
“Britain’s fiddling supergroup” Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2
everyone – enormous shoes, tiny Saturday 4 April 8.00pm
Tickets: £20.00 | £18.00 (Members / benefit conc / student) houses, showers of silver and gold,
The Thinking Drinkers’ brand
and a big, leafy explosion!
new show is a hilarious and
Tickets: £8.50 intoxicating look at history’s
£7.50 (group of 4 or more, per person) greatest drinkers.
£1.00 (Babe in arms)
Enjoy five free drinks as the
award-winning experts reveal
how alcohol has inspired
Fee Fi Fo Fum! pioneering explorers, politicians
and painters in equal measure,
It’s a giant of a from Plato and Picasso, to
show, we’d love Nelson, Napoleon and Norm
from Cheers.
you to come! You’ll learn a lot, laugh a lot
Hexham & District Music Society and, don’t forget, you get five
Pelléas Ensemble free drinks.
Friday 3 April 7.30pm ‘Pioneers of alcohol-
Formed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama based comedy’
in 2011, The Pelléas Ensemble has already won several Sunday Times
awards, including the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Suitable for ages 18 years +.
Henderson Chamber Ensemble award in 2017.
Tickets: £16.00
In this evening’s fascinating programme, Debussy’s
enchanting sonata for flute, viola and harp, and music
by Rameau and Jolivet sit alongside Robert Peate’s
Three Diversions and Gilad Cohen’s arrangement of
music from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.
Tickets: £16.00 | £8.00 (student)
20 £1.00 (schoolchildren) 21April
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The National Trust Megson
Fan Club Friday 17 April 8.00pm
Wednesday 8 April 7.30pm Four times nominated in the BBC
Packed to the brim with Goretex, Dad’s Army Radio 2 Folk Awards and double
cream teas, and a loyal canine Radio Show winners of the Spiral Earth Awards,
assistant (when NT rules allow), Wednesday 15 April 7.30pm Megson draw heavily on their Teesside
Helen Wood’s one-woman heritage to create a truly unique brand
quest was to visit every National Two actors, two microphones, over twenty of folk music.
Trust property and become the five characters – and lots of sound effects!
Comprising Debs Hanna (vocals,
National Trust’s biggest super-fan. Perry and Croft’s classic BBC sitcom is whistle, piano accordion) and Stu
Don’t miss this chance to see brought gloriously to life with three Hanna (guitar, mandola, banjo),
Helen’s new show direct from its episodes of the hugely popular radio series, Megson have gained fame on the
world premiere at the Edinburgh hilariously and lovingly enacted by two British folk scene, not only for their
Festival Fringe. master performers in this highly-acclaimed arresting & intelligent song-writing,
production. but for their exquisite musicianship
Tickets: £14.00
and northern humour.
£12.00 (Members / benefit conc ‘Endearing, sincere, David Benson and Jack Lane will transport
you back to Walmington, working from As fRoots Magazine puts it ‘if you
/ student) wholesome and zany.
original radio scripts, complete with sound don’t like the music here then you
Comic genius!’ effects, vintage music and all of Perry and have a problem’
Everything Theatre Croft’s beloved characters and catchphrases.
Tickets: £14.00
Benson and Lane’s two-man
Army are a comedy force to be
Kitchen Zoo reckoned with.
WOLF! Radio Times
Tuesday 14 April 11.00am & 2.00pm Age guidance: 12 years+
Beneath the Moon, amongst a flock of Tickets: £16.50
woolly sheep, Jack is bored. £15.50 (Members / benefit conc / student)
Bored of watching sheep
Bored of counting sheep
but most importantly...bored of SHEEP!
And down in the village just a whisper of
a wolf will cause a panic!
With original music, puppetry and a tale
you thought you knew, join us for an
adventure and find out what happens
when Jack cries WOLF! Running time: 55 minutes, no interval.
For under 5s and their families.
Tickets: £8.50
Inspired by Aesop’s Fable, The Boy who Cried Wolf,
£7.50 (group of 4 or more, per person)
and presented by Kitchen Zoo, the makers of The
£1.00 (Babe in arms) Three Bears at Christmas, Owl & the Pussycat, Tin Foil
22 Astronaut. 23Exhibitions
Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 The Quo Experience
OPEN: MONDAY TO FRIDAY 10.00AM - 5.00PM, SATURDAY 10.00AM - 4.00PM
Saturday 18 April 7.30pm
Expect hits spanning five decades of Status
Quo’s incredible music history from the Words for Birds
UK’s Number One Status Quo Tribute An Exhibition of images and
Show, hits like Rockin’ All Over The World, poetry celebrating birds.
Whatever You Want, Down Down, Living
On An Island, In The Army Now, What
Sunday 2 February - Saturday 21 March
ENTRY TO ALL EXHIBITIONS IN GALLERY ONE & TWO IS FREE
You’re Proposing, Burning Bridges and Words for Birds is an exhibition that celebrates the
more… launch of a collaboration between two local poets
Robin Moss and Tom Moody, and local artists
The Quo Experience is, however, not
Victoria Holt and Fran Garcia. The artists have responded
just another Quo tribute band - it is an
to the many bird poems the poets have produced in
‘experience’, with a full stage show that
recent years, with woodcuts and prints of their
includes the legendary Status Quo wall of own images suggested by the poems.
white Marshalls and replica guitars.
“An excellent show, really capturing the essence of the Quo I played with
for 13 odd years – the attention to detail was awesome!” Free Flowing Words: Words for Birds
Matt Letley, Status Quo drummer 2000-2013 Tuesday 17 March 7.00pm
Tickets: £20.00 Hexham Library
Words for Birds, an exciting collaboration between local poets, Robin Moss and
Tom Moody and local artists Victoria Holt and Fran Garcia. The two poets have
SPIEGELTENT SPECTACULAR! combined their bird poetry into a new collection, which is illustrated with art
work provided by the artists. Words for Birds will be launched at the Queen’s
Hall tonight, with a reading from the poets, and an exhibition and sale of the
24 - 30 April 2020
artists’ work.
Tickets: £5.00
Bug Fest 2020
Where Have All the Insects Gone?
Monday 30 March – Monday 20 April
Be a part of the story at Hexham Book Festival 2020 and enter the magical, mirrored Bug Fest is an exciting partnership between
Spiegeltent! For tots to teens, grown-ups to the eternal Peter Pans, find captivating cabaret, young people, artists and North Pennines AONB
Photo credit : Simon Haworth
circus, theatre and comedy, alongside spell-binding story telling from literary legends. Partnership to create a response to climate
www.hexhambookfestival.co.uk change. QHA will curate this festival of bugs –
The Spiegeltent, Under the Trees, Sele Park, Hexham
real and imagined.
Bug Fest will help us all visualise the impact of
loss of biodiversity and extinctions.
24 25Courses & Workshops
Book online: www.queenshall.co.uk l Call the box office: 01434 652477 Queen’s Hall Youth Theatre
play
Join our Friends scheme, At Queen’s Hall Arts Centre
The Queen’s Club, and QHA’s Youth Theatre continues to develop
a professional ensemble approach across all
support the North East’s four youth theatre groups, and have some
most vibrant Arts Centre. exciting projects and collaborations with
other artists and youth theatres lined up.
Everyone wants to get the most from their money and coming to the arts As part of the youth theatre development
the 30 weekly sessions will now roll on
Photo: Queen’s Hall Youth Theatre
centre is no exception, which is why The Queen’s Club is the perfect
choice for regular visitors to the Queen’s Hall. continuously.
sing dance create
Down Stage:
Members get money-saving discounts, a host of exclusive benefits, invitations Skills based group for ages 8 to 11 years
to exciting special events, and lots more. At the same time as having fun today Mondays 4.00pm – 5.30pm
you will be helping us to invest in the future, ensuring there is a next generation
Stage Note:
of artists, musicians and performers coming through to entertain us tomorrow!
Skill and Performance group for ages
12 to 14 years
Individual Membership at £25 per year Tuesdays 4.00pm – 5.30pm
Tynedale Community Choir
Joint Membership at £35 per year Creatives:
Performance and Production group for ages
Mondays 8.00pm
15 to 19 years
At St Aidan’s Church, Hexham
Tuesdays 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Sing, relax and unwind with folk songs,
All groups £60 per term
shanties, rounds, gospel, contemporary
(early bird price: £50 if paid before 27 Jan)
songs and more led by musical director,
Kathryn Davidson. Suitable for beginners Book through Box Office 01434 6452477
Queen’s Hall Cafe Queen’s Hall Digital and experienced singers alike, all voices,
ages and abilities welcome.
Tam Lin Youth Folk Band
Open Monday - Saturday is an online exhibition
£20 per half term (concessions available)
10.00am - 4.00pm portal for new work and Mondays from 4.30pm - 6.00pm
For more information contact
Run by Jevon Scudamore, previously innovative projects. Mark 07879 263848
At Queen’s Hall Arts Centre
the baker at Hexham Abbey, the QHA’s youth folk group for young people
It focuses on creating opportunities aged 11 years and above.
Queen’s Hall Cafe is open for home
made cakes and scones, as well as
for artists working with digital and Tyne Valley Jazz Ensemble £50 for the term
moving image technologies and aims (9 -13yrs)
soup & sandwiches... and according Book through Box Office 01434 6452477
to build and connect an international Tyne Valley Youth Big Band
to many customers, the best coffee community of artists to local and (12-19yrs)
in Hexham! national audiences.
At The Phoenix, Hexham Projectors Youth Theatre
Look out for best-selling items, the The Queen’s Hall Digital platform will Led by the jazz trumpeter and leader of Tyne Mondays 6.00pm – 8.00pm
cheese and bacon scones and the commission a number of works via a Valley Big Band Dave Hignett, these two At Queen’s Hall Arts Centre
New York Deli sandwich. mix of selected works and open calls bands are a great opportunity for aspiring Projectors Youth Theatre is a drama-based
providing an exciting opportunity for us young musicians. initiative for young people aged 16 to 25
to get to know what you are making, For more information contact with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and/
stimulating interesting discussions that david.hignett@virgin.net or communication difficulties who, due
could lead to further opportunities. to their very specific needs, are unable to
access our existing Youth Theatre sessions.
www.queenshalldigital.com For further information please contact
26 susan.priestley@queenshall.co.uk 27Booking Your Tickets
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Y 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Y Monday to Friday 10.00am - 5.00pm We offer concessionary prices on selected
X 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 X Saturday 10.00am - 4.00pm shows for full-time students, registered
W 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 W Plus one hour prior to a performance unemployed, people with disabilities and
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people under 18. A group price based on
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4 or more people attending is available on
Telephone bookings can be made on 01434
Main S 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 S selected performances.
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Auditorium R 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 R Tickets can be posted (a £1.50 handling Discounts are also available on selected
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users may attend shows free of charge.
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Guide dogs are welcome in all areas of the
Tickets can be booked online through our
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C 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 C Reserved ticket applies. Hearing loop facilities are available
B 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 B Seating throughout the auditorium and balcony.
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in advance.
case of a cancelled show.
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Season’s Diary
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Thurs 9 - Sat 11 Jan 27 Up Pantomime: Alice in Wonderland 4 Thurs 12 Mar How to be amazingly happy! 16
Thurs 16 Jan Static Trapeze Workshop 4 Sun 15 Mar Jon Boden 16
Wed 22 Jan Season Preview Night 4 Mon 16 Mar Hexham & District Music Society: Sacconi Quartet 17
Thurs 23 Jan Physical Theatre Workshop 4 Tues 17 Mar Free Flowing Words: Words for Birds 25
Thurs 23 Jan David Harper: Unexpected Tales 5 Tues 17 Mar VERVE 17
Sat 25 Jan Mark Jon Bolderson Percussion Foundation Drum Festival 5 Thurs 19 Mar Zoe Gilby Quartet 18
Tues 24 Mar Tyne Valley Film Festival: Film: 2040 (PG) 18
Tues 28 Jan Hexham & District Music Society: Vadym Kholodenko 5
Tues 24 Mar Stitch in Time: A Knitting Cabaret 18
Thurs 30 Jan Story Telling Workshop 4
Wed 25 Mar Stillhouse Junkies 19
February Wed 25 & Thurs 26 Mar Fitting 19
Sun 2 Feb - Sat 21 Mar Exhibition: Words for Birds 25 Mon 30 Mar - Mon 20 Apr Exhibition: Bug Fest 2020 - Where Have All the Insects Gone? 25
April
Mon 3 Feb GUY: A New Musical 6
Thurs 6 Feb Contemporary Dance Workshop 4
Thurs 2 Apr Free Flowing Words 19
Thurs 6 Feb Full Circle Theatre Company: In the Middle of Our Street 7
Thurs 2 Apr Feast of Fiddles 20
Fri 7 Feb Andy May Trio 7
Fri 3 Apr Hexham & District Music Society: Pelléas Ensemble 20
Fri 7 Feb 100% Simon Brodkin 8
Sat 4 Apr Lyngo Theatre: Jack and the Beanstalk 21
Sun 9 Feb Ben Hart: Wonder 9
Sat 4 Apr The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch 21
Tues 11 Feb Gonzo Moose: Once Upon A Time… 9
Wed 8 Apr The National Trust Fan Club 22
Sat 15 Feb Jive Aces Big Beat Revue 10
Tues 14 Apr Kitchen Zoo: WOLF! 22
Sun 16 Feb Northumberland Young Farmers Drama Competition 10
Wed 15 Apr Dad’s Army Radio Show 23
Tues 18 Feb Lempen Puppets: Mask Making workshop 11
Fri 17 Apr Megson 23
Tues 18 Feb Lempen Puppets: The Golden Princess 11
Sat 18 Apr The Quo Experience 24
Wed 19 Feb Mad Alice Theatre Company: Rose and Robin 12
Thurs 20 Feb Hexham & District Music Society:
Toby Hughes and Daniel King Smith 12
Fri 28 Feb Brit Rock Film Tour 2020 13
Sat 29 Feb Eleventh Hadrian’s Wall Archaeology Forum 13
March Queen’s Hall Arts is a registered charity. Our Mission is to be the cultural Queen’s Hall Arts Centre
Mon 2 Mar Opera North: Green Eggs and Ham 13 heart of our community, delivering great arts experiences and supporting Beaumont Street
professional and aspiring artists. Hexham
Wed 4 Mar State of Grace: DOVES 14 Northumberland
If you would like to comment on our service, please contact the Artistic
Director Katy Taylor or the Chair of the Trustees Andrew Harvey at the NE46 3LS
Thurs 5 Mar Gazebo Theatre: WANTED 14
Fri 6 Mar Matt Forde: Pursued by a Bear 15
Queen’s Hall Arts Centre.
Email katy.taylor@queenshall.co.uk
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