Sat 19th March 2.30pm THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER


Banyan Theatre for age 3+ Tickets: £7adult, £5child, £5.50 con, family £20 Five and twenty tin soldiers all identical but for one. A chance tumble from a window ledge begins a journey into the unknown..


This charming adaptation of the traditional tale illustrates beautifully the transition between fantasy and reality, told gently through puppetry, music and storytelling.


Fri 25th March 7.30pm Sat 26th March 2:30pm


THE LAST MINER Tortoise in a Nutshell Theatre - for age 8+ Tickets: £10 and £8 Under your feet lies a secret, a place full of shadows and memories, the home of a forgotten soul, The Last Miner.


For years one man has lived underground in the place he used to work, hiding from his memories and the constantly changing world above. But as the roof of his home begins to collapse and his past comes flooding back, he’ll be left with a choice: should he stay down below or come back up into the world he left so long ago?


Using puppetry, light and an innovative soundscape, The Last Miner is an immersive, original tale remembering an amazing life amongst the coal dust.


‘The Tortoise in a Nutshell company create a mini-masterpiece with this very unusual piece’ - The Stage


The Last Miner was developed in association with Catherine Wheels Theatre Company.


Wed/Thu 30th/31st 7.30pm MACBETH ATE MY HAMSTER by Jim Blythe & Graham Parry


(non-puppetry) Spooky kid Productions Tickets: £7, £6 con. Bramfield 24 broadcasts local news around the clock to the village of Bramfield. From collapsing trestle tables to people found asleep, no story is too small. Running the show is Duncan, undisputed king of the airwaves. But ambitious reporter John MacBeth has other ideas. Crazy, murderous ideas that are about to run completely out of control…


From the writers of ‘Jack the Ripper – The Panto’ comes this modern re-telling of MacBeth that swaps the tragedy for comedy and shows there is no empire so insignificant that someone won’t want to take it over.


Thursday March 17th to Sat March 25th - Nightly 7.30pm plus Sat Mat March 26th -2.30pm Tickets £12, £10 & £8


The Maddermarket Theatre Company presents


DOUBLE FALSEHOOD By William Shakespeare with John Fletcher


For over three hundred years this play has been disregarded; however, its credentials were endorsed in 2010, when the play was accepted as being written at least in part by William Shakespeare. Set in Spain, this romantic tragic-comedy tells of two brothers - one full of virtue, the other an aristocratic villain who pursues two women of vastly different backgrounds.


Wednesday March 30th - 7.30pm - all seats £12.50


THE ACOUSTIC HEARTBEAT OF THE STRAWBS 2009 marked the 40th anniversary of the release of the first Strawbs album on


A&M Records. Acoustic Strawbs are David Cousins, Dave Lambert, and Chas Cronk, the front-line of the classic 1970s line-up of Britain’s most successful international folk-rock band, and who tour regularly as Acoustic Strawbs. In the early 1970s Strawbs scored chart success in Britain with huge albums such as Grave New World and Bursting at the Seams. From the mid-1970s the group concentrated their attention on the United States and Canada where their albums, including the classics Hero and Heroine and Ghosts, spent over fifty-two weeks on the Billboard charts. Strawbs have toured with the likes of Santana, Peter Frampton, The Eagles, REO Speedwagon, Joe Walsh, Blue Oyster Cult, King Crimson and Frank Zappa. www.strawbsweb.co.uk


Thursday March 31st – 7.30pm All Seats - £15


TOM COURTENAY PRETENDING TO BE ME His own dramatised compilation from the letters, articles and poems of PHILIP LARKIN, the poet and Hull University librarian. Pretending to be me was first produced at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2002 and transferred to the West End’s Comedy Theatre in 2003. In 2010, the 25th anniversary of Larkin’s death, Courtenay was invited by the Larkin Society to perform his show in Hull, his home town - the place where Larkin wrote most of his best-known poetry. www.celebrityproductions.info


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