INDEX arts Dreamboats and Petticoats The Musical
Susan Norvill rounds up September’s jam-packed local arts scene
Groovy, baby!
Six-piece band The Jackie Generation offers a ‘feast of 70s fabulousness’ (so think covers of songs by Abba, ELO and The Osmonds) for those who head to Trinity, Tunbridge Wells, on Saturday 24 September at 8pm. For more information see
www.jackiegeneration.com. Tickets are £12 (£10 concessions) and £6 for children through the box office on 01892 678678, or online at
www.trinitytheatre.net
If Rock ‘n’ Roll is your era, make sure you’re at The Assembly Hall between Monday 19 and Saturday 24 September, when Dreamboats and Petticoats The Musical comes to town, allowing you to return to a world where greats like Roy Orbison, Billy Fury and The Shadows dominated. Tickets are £14.50 – £30.50. To book and for times call 01892 530613/532072 or see
www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk.
ArtsAttack!
Take a trip to The Stag Theatre in Sevenoaks on Friday 23 September and you’ll catch Think Floyd – widely considered the UK’s leading Pink Floyd tribute act – on stage at 7.30pm. To book tickets (£17.50; concessions £15), call 01732 450175, or visit
www.stagsevenoaks.co.uk
Brush with art
The award-winning play The Pitmen Painters comes to The Assembly Hall, Tunbridge Wells from Monday 5 to Saturday 10 September as part of a national tour, prior to its West End opening. It tells the tale of a group of miners who learnt to paint in the 1930s and affords a moving look at art, class and politics. Written by Lee Hall, who created the legendary Billy Elliot, expect humour and tragedy in this stirring production. Tickets cost £20 – £29. To book, call 01892 530613/532072 or see
www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk The Electric Lantern Film & Arts
Festival (affectionately known as ELF) takes place in Tunbridge Wells from Monday 5 to Sunday 11 September. Uniting local artists, film-makers and the community, ELF is the brainchild of film- maker Samuel Marlow. Expect film screenings and art at Trinity, while The Tempest will be performed on Wellington Rocks, Tunbridge Wells Common, on Thursday 8 to Saturday 10
September at 7pm with a matinée on the final day at 2pm. For
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further information, see
www.electriclanternfestival.co.uk.
Book bonanza
This year’s Sevenoaks Literary Celebration brings together some tremendous talent, including novelist Hilary Spurling and literary commentator and writer Daisy Goodwin, from Monday 19 September to Wednesday 5 October. Biography and autobiography feature prominently, with BBC veteran and Sevenoaks resident Peter Sissons talking about his newly-published memoirs, and Professor John Mullan previewing his forthcoming book on Jane Austen. Most tickets cost £8 from Sevenoaks Bookshop on 01732 452055. Full details are at
www.sevenoaks literary
celebration.com
Bargain eye
A truly fascinating array of 101 self portraits is on show at Paddock Wood’s gem, Mascalls Gallery, from Friday 9 September to Saturday 10 December. The Borchard Collection was built up by writer Ruth Borchard, who paid just 21 guineas per portrait, and consists primarily of works from the 1940s and 1950s. For further information call 01892 839039, or visit
www.mascallsgallery.org. You can still catch
Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery’s The Victorian View, if you get there before Saturday 3 September. The highlight is
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Frederick Goodall’s enormous Road to Mandalay, last shown publicly at The Royal Academy in 1899. Works by celebrated local painters, such as landscape artist Charles Tattershall Dodd, will also be on view, complete with period costumes, Victorian decor and a dressing-up area for visitors. For more information, call the museum on 01892 554171, or see
www.tunbridgewellsmuseum.org.
Have a laugh
Lee Hurst is touring for the first time in 10 years and brings his own brand of humour to Trinity on Thursday 22 September at 8pm. Book tickets at £15 through the box office on 01892 678678 or online at
www.trinitytheatre.net
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The INDEX magazine september 2011
The Victorian View at
Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery
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