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Performances Programme
April-August 2012
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Pip Utton is
'Churchill'
In Pip Utton's new play Big Ben chimes and strikes thirteen: a magical time when once a year the statues of the great statesmen in Parliament Square come alive again. Winston Churchill descends from...
Forest Forge Theatre presents
The Boy at the Edge of the Room
"He was not like other boys....He did not see the world through the same eyes as us"

A boy called Tony struggles to fit in and find his place. He has a different way of looking at the world...
London Klezmer Quartet
Be transported with the London Klezmer Quartet, who paint a picture in music and words of the joys and sorrows of a world that crosses cultural boundaries and continents. Moving audiences swiftly...
Harald Haugaard Quartet
Harald Haugaard is one of the most sensational musicians on the Danish music scene, who has toured throughout the world. With his characteristic style of playing, he offers contemporary Danish folk...
Hand to Mouth Theatre presents
Jack at The Beanstalk Cafe
Hand to Mouth Theatre present a nourishing bean-feast of stories in the Beanstalk Cafe, including the sweet and sour tale of The Old Woman in a Vinegar Bottle, and a tasty take on Jack and the...
Etran Finatawa
Artsreach welcome back Etran Finatawa, who first emerged onto the international stage in 2007 into a music scene ignited by Tinariwen and hungry for 'desert blues'. Their first release earned them a...
She'Koyokh
London's award-winning klezmer ensemble She'Koyokh takes you on a fascinating musical journey through Eastern Europe, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey. Expect soulful...
Hijinx Theatre presents
The Adventures of Sancho Panza
"There's a million other people in the world that I would rather be than me...."

Meet Sancho Panza. A son, grieving for his father, lonely in his thoughts. Until one day, as he remembers...
Alec Dankworth & Chris Garrick present
The iFoxes
When three leading UK jazz musicians, Andy Crowdy (guitar), Alec Dankworth (double bass) and Chris Garrick (fiddle), join the fantastic Mr Nigel Mckernaghan, maestro of the uilleann pipes and the...
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School presents
Moonfleet
Smugglers, shipwrecks, a haunted crypt, hidden treasure, vengeance and enduring love are the ingredients of J. Meade Falkner's classic tale Moonfleet, brought vividly to life in Bristol Old Vic...
Miracle Theatre presents
Waiting for Godot
Once famously described as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', Miracle Theatre proves that Waiting for Godot is one of the most profound, moving and funny plays ever written. Both deadly...