New
Season at Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham
January
– April 2017
Queen's Hall Arts once again has a
packed new season of the highest quality drama, live music, dance, film, exhibitions
and much more… in fact we’re already into the new season with recent great
performances from Royal Northern Sinfonia’s principal flautist Eilidh Gillespie
and Norwich Puppet Theatre’s The Tinderbox, and a packed house for Quebec’s finest, Le Vent du Nord
You
can view our new January – April 2017 season brochure here
on their website
Selected forthcoming highlights
include…
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Opera della Luna returns with The Tales of
Offenbach, their take on the hilarious one act operas by the French master
of comic opera, Jacques Offenbach.
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There’s
Dirty
Dancing going on at QHA this March and we’re off to Broadway
and Beyond in late February.
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There
is Great Drama in abundance as we
welcome the star of Crazyhead and Eastenders, Arinze Kene in good dog and you can
join Vicky Barret in John Godber’s The Empty Nesters’
Club at the end of February. Multistory Theatre retells a 400 year old
Shakespearean story with huge relevance particularly in this day and age in Pericles –
All at Sea and
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Celebrating
the life and magic of Tommy Cooper is Just Like
That; The Tommy Cooper Show with John Hewer, and chock full of marvelous
mind boggling feats of magic, fresh from their appearance on Penn &
Teller’s show, will be Morgan & West when they offer up their Parlour Tricks.
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There’s dance from Northern School of
Contemporary Dance with Verve
and Lo-Giudice Dance conjure up a nameless beast in their performance of Savages.
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Our
cover stars are the
Owl and the Pussycat from Kitchen Zoo who using puppets and live music will
bring their children’s stage show to us in early April. And the Dinosaur
Detectives are on the case in February as they seek out fossils and bones
(and Dinosaur Poo!!) All good fun for little people….!
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We’ve
some great live music
lined up over the next few months but all our White Room Folk
Nights are now sold out. There
are main house shows with north east singers The Pitmen Poets,
from the Isle of Skye Peatbog Faeries,
Flamenco legend Juan
Martin and classical music from Mishka Rushie
Momen and the Sitkovetsky
Piano Trio.
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Our
current exhibition from Louise Mackenzie entitled Viral
Experiments continues into March with London’s Hayward Gallery Touring
Exhibition of Hairstyles
and Headdresses running from March in to April.
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Queen’s Hall Film Club is
showing 2 classic films, The Maltese
Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart and The
Graduate with Dustin Hoffman.
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And
add in community performances
from Northumberland Young Farmers and Tynedale Music Festival.
Artistic Director Geof
Keys says “First of all, thanks to all of you that helped make our autumn
season the busiest it’s ever been – your support for our shows, events, films,
exhibitions and workshops is vital for the arts centre and the community it
serves.
This new season
continues our aim to provide a wide range of art and entertainment, with
something for everybody. There are regular favourites: Le Vent du Nord,
Clydebuilt Puppets, Multistory Theatre, Juan Martín and Théâtre Sans
Frontières, plus some exciting and fun new visitors – Peatbog Faeries, The
Tommy Cooper Show, The John Godber Company and Morgan & West. We’re also
pleased to welcome the return of the fabulous Opera della Luna with The Tales
of Offenbach.
Our galleries
programme grows from strength to strength. This season we have a selection of
material from Louise Mackenzie, one of the bright stars of Lumiere Durham, and
from J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere – a major national tour of the Nigerian
photographer’s work curated by the Hayward Gallery. We’ll also be launching www.queenshalldigital.com , our
online gallery, to host a range of digital art. “
Tickets:
Tickets are available
from the box office at the Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Beaumont Street, Hexham, NE46 3LS
Box
Office (Open 10.00am – 5.00pm Mon to Fri, 10.00am – 4.00pm Sat)
Telephone: 01434 652477
Email: boxoffice@queenshall.co.uk
Online
booking at www.queenshall.co.uk
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