A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF WHAT’S ON DURING JULY 2012
HMS PINAFORE IN CONCERT
THE PLYMOUTH GILBERT AND SULLIVAN FELLOWSHIP Sat 7th July @ 7.30pm
For bookings and more information call 01803 839530
www.theflavel.org.uk 2.00 pm ‘The Newcomen Engine’
Following the success of their concert performance last year of The Pirates of Penzance, the Fellowship return with a semi-staged version of HMS Pinafore. One of the best loved comic operas of all times, the story takes place aboard HMS Pinafore. The opera’s humour focuses on love between members of different social classes and lampoons the British class system in general. The Plymouth G & S Fellowship are the winners of several NODA Regional Awards for Excellence and at the 2010 Buxton International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival gained two further awards for their production of Ruddigore.
FROM FLOODS DEFEND – THEATRE 9 - 10 July @ 7.30pm
A “must see” play about the life of Thomas Newcomen, born and bred in Dartmouth in the 17th century. Experience real characters of the day, including John Flavel after whom the Arts Centre is named. Newcomen’s greatest success was the invention of the atmospheric steam engine which started the Industrial Revolution. This creative, fact based production aims to explore the often under rated man behind the invention. What drove him to achieve so much and at what cost?
ADAM HART-DAVIS –
SPEAKER Wed 11 July @ 7.30pm Talk by well known TV presenter and writer, Adam Hart-Davis, about the Newcomen Engine, followed by 30 min film – The Birth of Steam which won the best documentary award from the Royal Television Society in 2010. The director and the narrator will do a Q&A session after the screening.
NEWCOMEN 300 – LECTURES Fri 13 July - Various
The Newcomen Society was founded in 1920. It is the oldest society in the world specialising in the history of engineering and technology. The society takes its name from Thomas Newcomen (b.1664 – d.1729) who invented the first practical working steam engine but its interests are broad and international, embracing all aspects of engineering from ancient times, through the great inventions of the 18th and 19th centuries to the sophisticated technologies of the 20th century and into today’s digital age.
11.15 am ‘Newcomen the Man’ Speaker: Brian Corfield. Brian is a direct descendant of Joseph Hornblower an associate of Thomas Newcomen and probably involved in erecting the first Newcomen engine at Dudley in 1712. He is a member of the Newcomen Society and the Trevithick Society.
Speaker: David Hulse. David was Chief Development Engineer at Royal Doulton wPotteries. He has been researching and constructing models of 18th century steam engines for over 25 years.
4.00 pm ‘The Archaeology of the Newcomen Engine’ Speaker: Prof. David Perrett. He has served on the Council of the Association of Industrial Archaeology and lectures widely on Industrial Archaeology and organises field visits and conferences. David is the immediate Past President of the Newcomen Society.
EDINBURGH FRINGE PREVIEW – COMEDY Fri 13 July @ 8pm.
Suzy Ruffel and Charlie Baker sponsored by The Royal Castle Hotel
CHARLIE BAKER
‘FRESHLY BAKED’ Join Charlie in trying out new material in this Edinburgh preview. Stand up from Award winning Comedian, Singer, Actor, Writer and Tap Dancer. Also Husband, Father, Son, Runner, Devonian and overeater.
SUZI RUFFELL:LET’S GET READY TO RUFFELL Join Suzi in trying out new material for her hotly anticipated debut Edinburgh show. Tales of social ineptitude, overbearing parents and desperately trying to fit in.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST – THEATRE
Thurs 19 July @ 7.30pm
Oscar Wilde’s ‘trivial comedy for serious people’ is a masterpiece of sharp wit and preposterous plotting. Set in the year 1912, with the Titanic sinking, mass production just beginning on the Morris Oxford and the Turkey Trot causing outrage across the dance floors of polite society, this tale of the strange contents of a handbag found at Victoria station has been subtly adapted to extract every drip of humour and contemporary relevance.
COFFEE CONCERT Sat 28 July @10.30am A classical concert given by talented local musicians Programme to include: Joseph Haydn’s Trio in G major for piano, flute and cello. Piano:Katrin Irvine Flute: Kathleen Bentham Cello: Jessica Heywood. J S Bach’s Fantasy in C Minor and Nikolai Kapustin’s Sonatina Op100 Piano: Angus Hadow
MADAM BUTTERFLY – NEW DEVON OPERA 24 & 25 July @ 7.15pm Madam Butterfly tells the true story of the passionate
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