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timing Keep your pecker up this Christmas and beat the winter blues by sampling some of these comedy treats. Star of ‘The Thick of It’, Chris Addison comes to the Gulbenkian Theatre with his show, The time is now. Again. Expect some dry wit and very clever observations from this sceptical but hilarious comedian. The show is on the 10th and the 11th (7.45pm, tickets £20 available from the Gulbenkian website).
Also at the Gulbenkian, The Festive Funny Side Comedy Club is presenting Keving Precious – Aging Punk Rocker. This show is about Precious’ history of being a part-time punk rocker, and his still present mistrust of hippies and the monarchy.
The show starts at 8.30pm,
but turn up at 7pm and you can enjoy a festive turkey curry ( 14th, tickets £8 to £10, available at the Gulbenkian website).
www.indexmagazine.co.uk Puppets and
a post box If you haven’t had enough drama at home so far this month, then The Marlowe Theatre has a brilliant selection of plays on this month (and none of them about Christmas!). Estelle Rosenfeld presents
Capture on the 6th, a show that uses puppetry as well as modern motion-capture to explore human images and images of human beings. The show is free and starts every 15 minutes between 6.30pm and 9pm, but booking is required (
www.marlowetheatre.com). From the 8th till the 19th the Trestle Unmasked company are performing The Man with the Luggage, a play about a man trying to fi nd his way home as well as fi nd himself (8pm, tickets £12 available from website above).
If you want to get involved in the drama then take part in The Story Box on the 16th and 17th. This show is created from an actual ‘story box’ which the company leave in a public place so that people can add to it. There’s a box in the Marlowe
– As told by Jacob Marley (deceased) on the 12th. This one-man retelling is a refreshing twist on the Dickens’ classic and stars the award winning actor James Hyland (2pm and 7.45pm, tickets £14 available at above website).
Festive tunes
The festive season is upon us, and I’m sure everybody is already panic shopping, avoiding distant relatives and putting the sprouts on a low heat. If you need a breather from all the fun of Christmas
preparations, then Katie Turrell has a selection from the arts world to help you out.
Theatre right now, so contribute and help shape the story (plus it’s free!). The show is on at midday on Friday and 3pm on the Saturday.
For something a little more wintry, The Gulbenkian Theatre is hosting Ballet Theatre UK with their production of The Snow Queen on the 4th and
then again on the 20th and 21st.
This
enchanting tale is
told with beautiful dances, glittering scenery
and a mag- -nifi cent score
(7.45pm,
with a 2pm matinee on the 4th and 21st, tickets £14- £15, available at
www.kent.ac.uk/ gulbenkian).
If you want to get
proper Christmassy, then The Gulbenkian is also showing A Christmas Carol
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Sticking with the traditional, I can suggest two brilliant carol concerts this month. The fi rst (which I personally
recommend as an ex-student) is Canterbury Christchurch’s Carols by Candlelight, on the 6th (7.30pm), which boasts a selection of the university’s musicians and mixes traditional and contemporary styles. The service is held at Canterbury Cathedral and tickets are available at www.
canterbury.ac.uk.
Also at the Cathedral on the 16th (7pm) is the Canterbury Choral Society Family Carols, which is brilliant if you’ve got little ones with you, and there’s even a chance for them to join in, karaoke style! Tickets are between £4 and
£7 and are available from the Marlowe Theatre website. Whitstable Choral
Society’s Carol Concert is on the 17th at St Alphege Church at 7.30pm. Carol books will be available so the audience can join in. Tickets are £7.50 for adults and £5 for children (who will get a small reward for the contribution to a special
performance of
Away in a Manger). Tickets from Gatefi eld Sounds, 70 High Street, Whitstable.
The INDEX magazine December 2011
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