The Davenham Players

CANCELLED - An Evening of Short Films with Film Maker Alan Fleet
2022-09-02 19:30 - 22:30 (Europe/London) | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
FILM NIGHT CANCELLED
Apologies for the short notice, but the evening of short films has had to be cancelled. Bookings will be refunded in full to anyone who has paid.

An Evening of Short Films with
Screenwriter and Short Film Maker,
Alan Fleet, M.A.
What is a short film? Any film less than fifteen minutes in length
Who makes them? Anyone
What are they about? Anything
Location or Studio?
See over twenty short films shot on budgets ranging from £zero to £10,000, in locations as varied as the man-cave, the garden, Davenham, Beeston Castle, Santorini and Bergen.

“The Old Soldiers” from the short film “A Good Slap” on Location at The Bull’s Head Davenham
Big Film Crew?
From the £100,000 RED camera with £50,000 lenses to the humble GoPro, tracked dolly to hand-held, and cast and crew from 2-50, there are films of all ranges. As for talent, even a cast of frogs has a chance to go up against Bigfoot, Davenham Players regulars and Hollywood actor Terry O’Neil, who won ‘Best Actor, Short Drama’ for his role as Ray in the multiple award-winning short film, Giri.

Alan Fleet and Crew on location at Beeston Castle
Comedy, observation, contentious social issues are all on show together with a Q and A with the filmmaker at the end of the evening of entertainment and information for those who love films, and perhaps those who always wanted to make a film.
The purpose of the evening is to entertain, inform and encourage writers to explore the world of short film, and perhaps establish a short film group.
Friday 2nd September 2022
Doors and Bar 7pm for 7:30 start
Davenham Players Theatre, Church Street, Davenham CW9 8NF
AGE RANGE 16+ (some graphic detail)
Tickets: Adults £5, Students £3, online from www.danarts.co.uk or ring 01606 259596

FINAL AUDITION - Indian Summer
2022-09-01 19:30 - 21:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
An extra audition is being held at the theatre on Thursday 1st September 7:30pm for those who could not attend previous auditions or readings when Bob was there.
If you are one of those who have already auditioned, please be patient with us. We have not forgotten about you and will contact you very soon. The play with its multiple female characters is not easy to cast and we are waiting until casting is complete before we make an announcement.
More news soon!
Any queries contact Sheila or Bob

Davenham Writers' Group
2022-07-11 19:30 - 22:00, 2022-06-13 19:30 - 22:00, 2022-05-09 19:30 - 22:00, 2022-03-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Davenham Writers Group – Monthly Meeting
Come on down to the monthly Writing group at Davenham Theatre run by Flick Goodman. Whether you are a writer or a performer you are welcome to come to this relaxed group.
If you have written something and you want it read out loud, want to flex those writing muscles with a few short exercises, or want to try writing for the first time, this friendly group welcomes all levels.
For more details you can contact Flick here

Brennan Reece/Justin Moorhouse Comedy - Edinburgh Fringe Preview
2022-07-10 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Brennan Reece returns to Davenham accompanied by fellow stand-up Justin Moorhouse
Each comedian will present a preview of their 2022 Edinburgh Fringe show.
Brennan’s show is “Crowded” and Justin presents “Stretch and Think”
See both shows before the Edinburgh crowds get a chance!
Tickets £7.00 online via Danarts.Org or phone 01606 259596
Doors and Bar open 7:00pm, show at 7:30pm

Play Reading Social
2022-07-07 19:30 - 21:30, 2022-06-02 19:30 - 21:30, 2022-05-05 19:30 - 21:30, 2022-04-07 19:30 - 21:30, 2022-03-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Would you like to

Try your hand at reading a part out loud
Help Davenham Players find good play scripts
Come along for a social and meet us and other drama people
Have a quiet cup of tea and biscuits and listen

You can do all of these things if you come along to the theatre at 7:30pm each first Thursday of the month. Just turn up and Dee will do the rest. Tea and biscuits free for members. Small contribution for non-members.
CONTACT DEE FOR MORE INFORMATION here

Jazz Ilumetris - Tom Thorp Quintet
2022-06-30 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Ilumetris, new quintet project featuring Internationally award winning horn players Tom Thorp (Saxophone) and Neil Yates (trumpet). They bring a special preview showcase of their up-coming album “Here, there be monsters…” which explores the stories of mythical creatures from around the world. Conjuring vivid images of ancient gods, fantasy worlds and dangerous leviathans, the music is melodic and open, whilst filled with a complex textured, contemporary edge and virtuosic improvisation.
LINE-UP
Tom Thorp – Saxophones/Bass Clarinet
Neil Yates – Trumpet
Andrew Stamatakis-Brown – Piano
Grant Russell – Bass
John Arnesen – Drums

Promo video https://youtu.be/fgZa9ndfjXw
Bookings can be made via email jazz@davenham.co or telephone Harry on 07717 224 238 / 01606 74502 Doors open 7.30pm music at 8pm.Tickets £12 on the door
If you are suffering from Covid symptoms please do not attend and in any case advise us if you are unable to attend for any reason.
From JAZZ@DAVENHAM TEAM
GREAT GIGS
FABULOUS BANDS
Click to see the full Jazz Programme
SPONSORED BY TATTON BREWERY
www.tattonbrewery.co.uk

Folk Rod Picott
2022-06-27 19:30 - 22:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Over twenty years ago Rod Picott dropped his tool belt, picked up an acoustic guitar and hit the road; with a catalogue of acclaimed albums and tour dates completed across the US / Canada / Europe and the UK – June 2022 will see his third visit to Davenham Theatre, part of an extensive UK Tour celebrating the release of his new album Paper Hearts & Broken Arrows.
“Picott sings with a bare and bones grace reminiscent of Springsteen’s Nebraska and the off the cuff lyrical and musical directness of the late Jason Molina. Too many important artists fly under the musical radar today, and Picott is yet another valid wordsmith that needs to be heard.” – Glide Magazine
This concert will be held in accordance with prevailing Government regulations and social distancing guidelines at the time with regard COVID 19.
Tickets £12 advanced, £15 on the door.
Online https://www.wegottickets.com/event/535076
See poster for further booking options

NEW! Readthrough of "Indian Summer"
2022-06-23 19:30 - 22:00
Sheila Hetherington and Bob Almquist are holding a full readthrough of a one-act play they are going to direct in December. The play was originally written for a cast of two females playing multiple roles and played in a London studio theatre. Sheila and I want to involve more actors so we are looking for a number of people to play the roles.
The setting is a buffet in a busy railway station (could be Crewe?) and the main running plot is the relationship between two servers in the buffet and their future plans. Interleaved with this, customers stop by in ones and twos and speak about their lives. I want the buffet to be as realistic as we can manage with typical background sounds and to use themed music to introduce and punctuate the action as it changes from real time in the buffet to monologues ‘out of time’.
Some parts are short and others longer, offering opportunities for actors to try out a character without a long script to learn and some longer monologues to get your teeth into! There is also a comedy station announcer (voice only) who is new to the job and it shows!
We need to find out how the play reads and more importantly its playing time.
Hope you can come along! No need to book just turn up.
Bob & Sheila

Acting Group
2022-06-20 19:30 - 21:30, 2022-05-16 19:30 - 21:30, 2022-04-18 19:30 - 21:30, 2022-03-21 19:30 - 21:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Our Acting Group at the theatre on the 3rd Monday of every month gives anyone a chance to get up and have a go at some acting! There will be scripts, games and some friendly faces. No pressure, just play. Run by Tom Barry. Give it a try!
Free for members. £1 for non-members

Jazz Roger Beaujolais
2022-05-26 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
‘Master of the Vibraphone’ Roger Beaujolais originally gained recognition in the 1980’s with jump jive favourites ‘The Chevalier Brothers’ a combo noted equally for their musicianship & their anarchic sense of humour .
After a spell with ‘Fairground Attraction’ he formed Latin Jazz outfit the ‘Beaujolais Band’ and released 2 top selling albums on Acid Jazz Records. A track from the second album (Can’t Get Enough) reached number 1 on the US jazz charts.
In a long, varied career Roger has played on sessions with artists as diverse as Duffy, Rumer, Robert Plant, Paul Weller, Kirsty MacColl, Morrissey, Alexander O’Neal, Guy Chambers, Mary Coughlan, Neneh Cherry and many others
Over the past 20 years Roger has released 21 albums.
Roger’s line up will include Wendy Kirkland on piano, Pat Sprakes on double bass with Luke Flowers on drums.
Image Credit: Sfrevol
Bookings can be made via email jazz@davenham.co or telephone Harry on 07717 224 238 / 01606 74502 Doors open 7.30pm music at 8pm.Tickets £12 on the door
If you are suffering from Covid symptoms please do not attend and in any case advise us if you are unable to attend for any reason.
From JAZZ@DAVENHAM TEAM
GREAT GIGS
FABULOUS BANDS
Click to see the full Jazz Programme
SPONSORED BY TATTON BREWERY
www.tattonbrewery.co.uk

A Warwickshire Testimony by April de Angelis
2022-05-14 19:30 - 22:00, 2022-05-13 19:30 - 22:00, 2022-05-12 19:30 - 22:00, 2022-05-11 19:30 - 22:00, 2022-05-10 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
DAVENHAM PLAYERS PRESENT
A WARWICKSHIRE TESTIMONY by APRIL DE ANGELIS
Directed by Paulette Anderson
By arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd.
Set in two different twentieth century eras in the same Warwickshire landscape:-
In the past, the big house, the servant class, the close-knit family ties of a bygone generation. Was it a rural idyll or claustrophobic hellhole?
In the present, there’s big business and incomers, no shops and no locals, where nothing stays the same for five minutes. For better or worse?
April De Angelis’s funny and compassionate play powerfully illustrates a rapidly changing way of life, focusing on the loves, traumas and disputes of a Midlands family throughout the twentieth century.
Paulette Anderson has assembled a cast of a dozen for this entertaining play and is pleased that she has been able to cast several new members in our first full-length post-Covid production.
It’s going to be a full-on drama in Davenham Players style, so make sure you save the dates 10th-14th May in your diary.
Tickets @ £10 can be booked now online via the DAN website or by phone on 01606 259596.

Jazz Mike Hall Octet - Boplicity
2022-04-28 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Mike Hall was Musical and Artistic Director at the Royal Northern College of Music Big Band for 20 years. He then decided to channel his love of larger jazz groups into an the formation of an octet – Boplicity
The initial core of the band`s repertoire was along the lines of the West Coast jazz groups of the 1950s; Dave Pell, Gerry Mulligan et al. Mike is now starting to write his own arrangements, the latest one being a recreation of five movements of Billy Strayhorn’s re-writing of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite!
The core of the group is Mike`s regular jazz quartet;
Eryl Roberts on drums
Ed Harrison on double bass and….
Andy Hulme on guitar
…who are all very busy musicians in the jazz arena while the others playing brass and saxophone are all great players in their own right.
Bookings can be made via email jazz@davenham.co or telephone Harry on 07717 224 238 / 01606 74502 Doors open 7.30pm music at 8pm.Tickets £15 on the door
If you are suffering from Covid symptoms please do not attend and in any case advise us if you are unable to attend for any reason.
From JAZZ@DAVENHAM TEAM
GREAT GIGS
FABULOUS BANDS
Click to see the full Jazz Programme
SPONSORED BY TATTON BREWERY
www.tattonbrewery.co.uk

An Evening with Spitting Feathers
2022-04-23 19:00 - 22:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Spitting Feathers is a popular Northwich-based covers band with an experienced line-up featuring strong male and female lead vocals, backed by keyboards, guitars, bass and drums. The evening is likely to include songs from Fleetwood Mac, Bryan Adams, Bruce Springsteen, REM and Status Quo through to Tina Turner, Stereophonics, Blondie, Ed Sheeran and Sam Fender, performed in their own style and sometimes with the occasional surprises thrown in!
Band members will tell the story of how the band has evolved over the years and will play songs which represent various stages of the band’s development. This will be followed a more chilled acoustic set which will showcase the band’s vocal and instrumental versatility. To round off the evening, an upbeat set will encourage audience members to get involved ……. Maybe even dance!
Find out more at our website https://www.spittingfeathersmusic.co.uk/about and like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SpittingFeathersUK
Doors/bar open 7.00pm for a prompt 7.30pm start – Tickets £10
Phone reservations via our ticket line on 01606 259596

Davenham Writers' Group CANCELLED OWING TO ILLNESS
2022-04-11 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Davenham Writers Group – Monthly Meeting
Flic Goodman has unfortunately had to CANCEL tonight’s Writers’ Group (11th April) owing to illness.
Come on down to the monthly Writing group at Davenham Theatre run by Flick Goodman. Whether you are a writer or a performer you are welcome to come to this relaxed group.
If you have written something and you want it read out loud, want to flex those writing muscles with a few short exercises, or want to try writing for the first time, this friendly group welcomes all levels.
For more details you can contact Flick here

Jazz Alex Clarke Quartet
2022-03-31 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Photo credit Jim Milson
Band Line-up:
Alex Clarke – sax
Andrzej Baranek – keyboards
Ed Harrison – bass
Gaz Hughes – drums
As a finalist in the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2020, winner of the Rising Star category in the 2019 British Jazz Awards and nominee in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2021, Alex is known to be one of the most in-demand and versatile young saxophonists emerging on the British jazz scene.
Praised for her extensive repertoire list and intelligent ear for harmony, she brings a youthful, intuitive approach which sounds authentic in a variety of musical settings from New Orleans to bebop. Alex’s sound is steeped in the tradition of jazz; her deep respect for the heritage of the music can be heard in a swinging, melodic approach reminiscent of Scott Hamilton and Lester Young, with strong influences of Phil Woods and Cannonball Adderley.
Back in 2018, Alex released her debut album “Mirage”, and in 2019, recorded an album with acclaimed jazz, blues and country vocalist/pianist TJ Johnson – with whom she works regularly – entitled “Songs from the Jazz Country”. As well as leading her own projects, Alex has performed alongside many notable names such as Gilad Atzmon, Greg Abate, Clark Tracey and Art Themen.”
Further details can be found at http://www.alexclarkejazz.co.uk/bio.
Bookings can be made via email jazz@davenham.co or telephone Harry on 07717 224 238 / 01606 74502 Doors open 7.30pm music at 8pm.Tickets £12 on the door
If you are suffering from Covid symptoms please do not attend and in any case advise us if you are unable to attend for any reason.
From JAZZ@DAVENHAM TEAM
GREAT GIGS
FABULOUS BANDS
Click to see the full Jazz Programme
SPONSORED BY TATTON BREWERY
www.tattonbrewery.co.uk

Folk Ivan Campo
2022-03-28 20:00 - 23:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Making their Davenham Theatre debut toward the close of March are the popular electric /acoustic set up Ivan Campo.
Having met in the city of Preston whilst studying contemporary music at the University of Central Lancashire, English folk-pop trio Ivan Campo have released several albums / ep’s over the years, their latest album being ‘Season Of The King’ [2017] with a further single offering ‘The Girl Who Dreamed’ [2020]; a search on youtube will bring up both plus several other enchanting folk / pop songs.
With an impressive back story that includes four studio sessions for BBC 6Music and having their song ‘The Great Procrastinator’ featured on TV series Skins, ‘The Girl Who Dreamed’ sees them return in stellar form. With its light and uplifting aesthetic that combined wistful guitar hooks and sweeping vocals, their newest delight is sure to brighten the day of anyone who hears it.
https://www.mysticsons.com/article/getting-know-ivan-campo#.YbDQFtDP1PY©
Opening the night will be Widnes born singer-songwriter Greg Oldfield – previously in Great and Lady Soul, releasing several singles on Virgin Records. He is known for lyrics that often refer to his home town, and was a member of the Smoking Dragons project, writing much of the music.
Given the situation regarding Covid – ticket sales will be limited to under 50% of normal capacity to ensure social distancing can be maintained – all requirements stated by Government at the time of the show will be implemented.
Tickets available locally from Andrew Whalley txt 07510 853589 or on line via https://www.wegottickets.com/event/533167
