2010 events at The Hawth

Moscow State Circus

Legenda – Once In A Life Time

Monday 1st – Wednesday 3rd March
8pm plus Tues & Wed at 5pm

Roll up roll up the circus is coming to town! Moscow State Circus returns to The Hawth with this once in a life time opportunity to see the award-winning show Legenda, bringing with it a huge cast of Russia’s greatest and most flexible circus performers. Many of the critically acclaimed acts are pushing the boundary of human physical ingenuity to its limits.

However this time the greatest show on earth has had a facelift and been revolutionised. The world’s most famous circus collides with the legendary Russian folklore figure Rasputin to create a sensational show that combines contemporary & classical circus at its very best.

Rasputin was often described as a romantic, a mystic and a visionary. Words that could easily be used to describe this new spectacle. His vivid dreams will form the theme of the show, entwined with the pride of Russia’s most magnificent circus artistes and state of the art special effects.

The newly devised show is set to include The Didyk, a double Russian swing troupe, Gregory’s Girls suspended in mid-air on floating silks, Doctorovs unbelievable Human Statues plus body twisting contortionists Bortnikova.

Award-winning clowns, Valik & Valerik will also be there with their perfect slapstick and Buster Keeton style cunning capers.

Tickets priced £25, £18 (discounts: £22, £15). Family of Four: £75 available from The Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

Please note the artists listed may be subject to change.

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Eleanor Bennet

OFF HER TROLLEY
Thursday 4th March 7.45pm

A blend of stand-up, character and song that explores the lives of those that live and work in residential care for the elderly, Off her Trolley looks at the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on the individual and their loved ones and of poor working conditions on quality of care.

Eleanor Bennet is an actress, playwright and song-writer. Like many actors she also has a day job, working as a care assistant for the elderly.

Increasingly disillusioned and concerned with the impact of poor working conditions on quality of care, this was a major motivation for writing the show, along with the desire to express the wisdom that older people have to offer.
Packed with gentle anecdotal humour, Off Her Trolley is the chance to join the carer, the NVQ student and the visitor and share their lives.

Laughter and reflection guaranteed.

Tickets priced £13 (discounts: £11) are available from The Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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SETH LAKEMAN
Thursday 4th March 8pm

Seth Lakeman returns to The Hawth in March after selling out his at the theatre in 2008. The West Country born singer and songwriter credited with bringing folk music to a whole new audience since his 2005 Mercury nominated album, Kitty Jay, is set to wow audiences in Crawley once again in Thursday 4 March.

Seth’s performance in Crawley is one of only seven special concerts. Armed with raging fiddle and rampant imagination Seth takes the established folk orthodoxy and turns it on its head. The spirit of a rock band meets the timeless and heartfelt subject matter of the folk tale in a blur of fiddle, acoustic guitar and foot-stomping rhythms that charm audiences to their feet.

Tickets priced £20.50 are available from The Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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Half Moon present

BEGIN/END
Friday 5th March 7.45pm

An exciting fusion of new writing and multimedia comes to The Hawth in Half Moon’s brand new show Begin/End for audiences aged 14+.

Writer David Lane has connections with West Sussex as he attended Warden Park School and Haywards Heath Sixth Form and still has family in the area.

Inspired by his own work with teenagers and the intensity of friendships that dominate the lives of many young people, David’s new script has been developed in consultation with young people and speaks with the authenticity of their voices. David is an exciting new writer and Begin/End is his first full commission.
Directed by Angela Michaels, Begin/End is a compelling piece of drama in which betrayal and loss of trust can mean that sometimes even the greatest friendships just end.

BeginEnd photo by Ludovic Des Cognets

The multimedia production features the visceral artform VJing not often explored in theatre – blending the original soundtrack with projected video and imagery.

The show centres on the friendship of two girls Lili (Amy Costello) and Yaz (Rachel McKenzie) who are struggling with their identities and growing up. Their friendship offers a form of escapism from their problems at home and school and they become an inseparable gang of two. However something unspoken grows between them and as relationships form and dissolve it is the beginning and end of everything.

Tickets priced £13 (discounts: £11/Schools: £8) are available from The Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk

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Guitar Greats Part two

Tommy Emmanuel
Mon 8th March 7.30pm, Theatre

Back after his last sell-out show, two-time Grammy nominee Tommy Emmanuel returns.

The legendary guitarist’s dazzling performance, flawless guitar skills and voluminous repertoire never fail to thrill.

Tickets: £17.50 (discounts: £16)
Tickets are available from The Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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So & So Circus Theatre present

THE HOT DOTS
Tue 9th March 7.45pm

Kaveh Rahnama and Lauren Hendry set up award-winning So & So Circus Theatre in 2005 while training at The Circus Space, London.

The Hot Dots follows Frank Johnstone and Evie Steele, who met in 1928. It is the story of two hugely successful vaudeville performers and their spectacular fall from grace.

Featuring So & So’s trademark acrobatic balancing and a fantastic story set against the backdrop of 1930’s Music Hall, this show is a real one-off treat.

Like all their work, The Hot Dots, combines an extremely high technical level with strong characters and narrative. The show was developed in 2008 with director Abigail Dooley at Sadlers Wells and then Jacksons Lane.
‘clever and funny and poignant – really entertaining!’ The Stage

Tickets priced £13 (discounts: £11) are available from The Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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BALLETBOYZ: THE TALENT
Friday 12th March 7.30pm

Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, founders of Balletboyz, have been hailed as pioneers for making dance accessible and reaching a wider audience through their celebrated stage and television work (their most recent film, Balletboyz: The Rite of Spring was screened on Boxing Day Last year, featuring the TALENT choreographers Paul Roberts and Freddie Opoku-Addaie).

The Balletboyz have performed at The Hawth regularly in the past and they return in March with a new, must-see piece, the TALENT starring eight exceptional dancers, handpicked by Nunn and Trevitt.

The show features a mixed programme of brand new work by rising star Freddie Opoku-Addaie (Place Prize finalist and Royal Opera House2 Associate Artist), Paul Roberts (choreographer for Girls Aloud, Robbie Williams, Diana Ross, Pixie Lott, and America’s Got Talent) and an exciting reworking of Russell Maliphant’s explosive Torsion as well as Balletboyz trademark films.

A truly bold, invigorating and entertaining evening of dance – book now!

Tickets priced £16 (discounts: £14/child/schools: £8) are available from The Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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FORWARD MOTION: A DAY OF DANCE
Sat 13th & Sun 14th March
Sat 7.30pm, Sun 3pm

Crawley Community Arts presents its annual celebration of dance featuring many local dance schools and a huge variety of dance styles.

Forward Motion – A Day of Dance is one of the highlights of the year in the Community Arts calendar. The show gives local dance schools and groups the opportunity to show off their talents at The Hawth to one of the most encouraging audiences ever!

Due to the enormous success of the show which is always a sell-out, there will be two performances this year which gives more dancers the chance to participate.

Jo Joseph, Community Arts Officer, says ” This show is bursting with talent from groups all over Crawley – the standard is always exemplary. There’s a diverse range of dance styles during the shows to thrill anyone who has an interest in dance. We have street, tap, ballroom, Irish and belly dancing to name a few and four new exciting groups who will be entertaining us for the first time”.

This year the dance schools set to entertain are Fi-Steps, Hot Taps, Stagecoach Crawley Dance troupe, Footloose, Pound Hill Dance Club, X-treme Beatz Dance Academy, Tornoir School of Irish Dance, Louise Ryrie School of Dance & Drama, Cheneler School of Dance, Stages Performing Arts, Street Urban Dance, Euphotic Dance Company, Deb’s Egyptian Bellydance, The O’Brien School of irish Dancing, Caroliners Line Dancing, Andromeda Edmunds School of Irish Dancing, Storms World Dancers and SA Academy.

Tickets priced £7.50 (discounts £6.50) are available from the Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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Jake & Cake
Saturday 20 March 11am
The Hawth Studio

If you’re lost in the woods and fall asleep in the circle of magic stones,

a great grey wolf will bring you the dreams you need to dream.

Theatre Centre present an evocative new play, Jake & Cake, by Godfrey Hamilton, for children aged 6 plus.

Jake has moved to the country. Missing his best friend Raymond, he wishes to be back in London. One day, a local girl called Cake tumbles into his life with stories of strange magic and ancient myths. As storm clouds gather, they move into the woods in search of friendship and the winding path home.

‘Hamilton’s writing is rhapsodic, passionate, compelling.’ The Independent

Theatre Centre produces and tours new writing and theatre which is pioneering, truthful and culturally significant. The company puts an emphasis on touring high quality productions which connect with young audiences, inspire their creativity and reflect their diversity.

Tickets priced £6.50 (Family of Four £24) are available from the Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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The Hawth Brass Season

BAND OF THE CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS
Sunday 21 March 3pm

The Hawth Brass Season for 2009-2010 comes to a close on Sunday 21 March with The Band of the Corps of Royal Engineers.

The Band is currently based at Brompton Barracks in Kent. Over the years the Band of 35 musicians has travelled around the world supporting both military and civilian events, demonstrating their great talent as both in large and small ensembles.

The 2009-2010 Brass season has drawn over 2000 people to book so far, those who have attended previous concerts have enjoying music from Mack and Mabel and Over The Rainbow to Verdi’s Force of Destiny. There are still tickets remaining for this final concert of the season – book now!

Tickets priced £11.25 (discounts: £9.50) are available from the Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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BJÖRN AGAIN
Monday 22 March 8pm

It’s time to dig out your platform shoes, lycra catsuit and blue eyeshadow because BJÖRN AGAIN, the world’s best-known and best-loved Abba tribute band are back at The Hawth with 2010 Here We Go Again!

Since the band were formed in Melbourne in 1988 to pay homage to their heroes, Abba, they have achieved cult status in their own right.

With the voice of legendary DJ Tony Blackburn and classics from the original Swedish supergroup including Gimme Gimme Gimme, Dancing Queen and Mama Mia you’ll be feeling like a Super Trooper by the end of the night.

Tickets priced £ 18 are available from the Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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Guitar Greats Part Three
Koshka Mon 22 March 8.15pm, Studio

Conservatoire trained Russian fiddlers Oleg Pomonarev (formerly of Gypsy band Loyko) and Lev Atlas (principal viola with Scottish Opera) and gifted acoustic guitarist Nigel Clark met in Glasgow and honed their style playing at the city’s intimate Russian Cafe Cossachok. From these roots they have developed a dazzling, enthralling sound, drawing on their love of gypsy, classical, folk, and hot-club As a trio Koshka now stand at the cutting edge of gypsy string music, taking it to increasingly dizzy heights of invention and creativity.

Tickets: £13 (discounts: £11)
Tickets are available from The Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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PAPPY’S WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT
Tuesday 23 March 8.15pm

Fresh from Channel 4 and a sell out run at the Edinburgh Festival, ‘the funniest sketch troupe on the Fringe’ (The Scotsman) return to take Crawley, and the record books, by storm.

Join Ben, Brendan, Matthew and Tom for a full night of hilarious sketches and songs and a chance to see them attempt the impossible: 200 sketches. 60 minutes. 1 world record.

In 2006, the team took An Hour of Fun to Edinburgh. The following year they performed in comedy venues across the UK, were heard on Radio 4’s 28 Acts in 28 Minutes, were nominated as Chortle’s Best Newcomer, and received a string of fantastic reviews and a nomination for the If. Comedy Award (formerly the Perrier) at the Edinburgh Festival for their second full-length show.

In 2008 Pappy’s starred in their own TV show for Channel 4, their own radio show for Radio 4, and appeared as part of Comedy Shuffle on BBC3 and Comedy Cuts on ITV2. Their third Edinburgh show, Funergy, garnered further critical praise.

Is this world record attempt heroic or is it spectacular folly?, the Guardian says “Whether they succeed or not, they’re hilarious” so come along and enjoy the show.

Suitable for ages 16 plus.

Tickets priced £13 (discounts: £11) are available from the Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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Attic Theatre present

1936
Wednesday 24 March 7.45pm

A thrilling take on the run up to the Berlin Olympics in 1936 by Tom McNab, seen through the eyes of American journalist William Shirer.

1936 is a gripping piece of theatre with a nine actor cast. The stakes were high. Hitler craved power, the German Jews were under threat. America was uneasy, the Olympic Committee out of touch. It all rested on the few… and the athletes, among them Jesse Owens.

Tom McNab has experienced success as an Olympic coach, prize winning novelist and Technical Director of Oscar-winning film, Chariots of Fire. A leader in the sports world, Tom has coached international athletics, the British bobsleigh team and England’s silver medal winning squad in Rugby’s 1992 World Cup. He draws from a rich vein of personal experiences in sport, literature, politics and film in all his work and 1936 is no exception.

The play is followed by an excerpt from the Riefenstahl film Olympiad and a discussion led by Olympic coach Tom McNab.

Tickets priced £13.50 (discounts: £11.50/Schools: £8.50) are available from the Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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PHILIP CLOUTS QUARTET
Thursday 25 March 8.15pm

Playing a new set of uplifting music, influenced by Latin and African jazz, pianist Philip Clouts is best known for his work with Afrobeat band ZubopGambia.

In his quartet he teams up with F-ire Collective saxophonist Carlos Lopez-Real, whom Dave Liebman says ‘plays with a sound that comes from his soul’.

Jazz Review commented that ‘Clouts’ deft, lively, intensely rhythmic piano is skilfully complemented throughout by a vigorous but sensitive rhythm section’, don’t miss him at The Hawth Studio.

Tickets priced £13 (discounts: £11) are available from the Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk

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CHARLIE & LOLA’S BEST BESTEST PLAY

Thursday 25 – Saturday 27 March
Thur 4.30pm, Fri 10am & 1.30pm, Sat 11am & 2pm

Here’s a wonderful chance to take little ones to a theatre show designed especially for them – everyone’s favourite brother and sister, Charlie and Lola, in their extremely everso wonderful stage show, are coming to The Hawth Crawley!

Charlie is 7 and Lola is 4. She adores her older brother and has an imaginary friend, Soren Lorenson. The play follows Charlie and Lola as they encounter everyday activities such as tidying their rooms and getting ready for bed. They always manage to make the most mundane and boring tasks into a magical and fun adventure! Together they can go anywhere and do anything. Charlie has all the time in the world for his younger sister…unless she breaks his ultimate favourite toy.

Jonathan Lloyd, who adapted Charlie and Lola for the stage, says: “I was really drawn to Charlie and Lola, to the lovely situations that young audiences can recognise. My job was to work out how we were going to make the books and TV episodes into a play. The trick was to take some of the best stories and find a simple way to link them into a day in the life of Lola.”

Charlie and Lola’s Best Bestest Play is presented by four puppeteers, with specially made puppets and the voices from the TV series. Charlie and Lola appear as cut-out cartoon characters in the same magical 3D world they inhabit in the books and TV series. From pink milk to party rings, everything you expect is there!

Charlie and Lola’s Best Bestest Play is 1 hour and 10 minutes and is ideal for ages 3+.

Tickets priced £11 (groups of 8 or more: £9) are available from The Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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Guitar Greats Part Four

Johnny Dickinson and Paul Lamb
Fri 26 March 8.15pm, Studio

After working together in the early ’90s in The King Snakes, these two highly respected and hugely talented players are back together.

Johnny is one of the most potent slide players in the UK and Paul is the hottest harp on the block and has collected a bagful of awards including six years as ‘Best UK Harmonica Player’ and four time winner of ‘Best UK Blues Album’ (BBC Blues Awards).

Tickets: £13 (discounts: £11)
Tickets are available from The Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING
TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT AT THE HAWTH

Monday 29th March – Saturday 3rd April
Mon 7.30pm, Tue – Thur 2.30pm & 7.30pm,
Fri 5pm & 8pm, Sat 2pm, 5pm & 8pm

When JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT returns to The Hawth in March, audiences will undoubtedly recognize the young man in the leading role. Craig Chalmers who was one of the most popular finalists in the hit BBC series Any Dream Will Do returns to Crawley once again after wowing audiences with his performance in 2008.

Watched by millions every Saturday night, Any Dream Will Do was produced to find a leading man for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new West End production, and Craig, chosen from tens of thousands of wannabees, charmed audiences week after week with his vocal talents, finishing in the top five.

Before Joseph, Edinburgh-born Craig was a professional vocalist and entertainer. He was part of successful boyband No Reason who enjoyed a top ten hit as well as performing alongside Blue, McFly, Sugarbabes and Girls Aloud.
 
Having enjoyed sensational reviews, Bill Kenwright’s ‘amazing’, ‘superb’, ‘wonderful’ and ‘brilliant’ production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sparkling family musical continues to enjoy huge success across the country with standing ovations at every performance.
 
This colourful retelling of the biblical story of Joseph, his eleven brothers and the coat of many colours sings out to young and old alike with a score full of hits including Close Every Door and Any Dream Will Do.

Bill Kenwright, one of the most successful and prolific producers in British theatre today (whose current hit West End shows include the musicals Blood Brothers and Cabaret and acclaimed drama The Letter), was on the expert panel of judges alongside Andrew Lloyd Webber, Denise Van Outen and John Barrowman and is delighted that Craig is taking on the leading role.

The role of Joseph will be played by an alternate performer at the Wednesday matinee and Saturday 2pm performances.

Tickets:
Mon – Thur at 7.30pm & Fri 5pm: £28
Tue – Thur 2.30pm: £23
Fri 8pm & all Sat performances: £30
Discounts available at most performances.

Tickets are available from The Hawth Box Office on 01293 553636 or you can book online at www.hawth.co.uk.

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