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SUMMARY:Play Reading Social
DESCRIPTION:  \nWould you like to \n\nTry your hand at reading a part out loud\nHelp Davenham Players find good play scripts\nCome along for a social and meet us and other drama people\nHave a quiet cup of tea and biscuits and listen\n\nYou 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. \nCONTACT DEE FOR MORE INFORMATION here
URL:https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/event-and-production/play-reading-social-6-2021-09-02-2021-11-04-2022-01-06-2022-02-03/2022-12-01/
LOCATION:Davenham Theatre\, 59 Church Street\, Northwich\, CW9 8NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Club,Featured
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SUMMARY:Indian Summer by Lucy Maurice
DESCRIPTION:In Crewe railway station buffet on a quiet afternoon\, buffet staff Laura and Steph chat about their lives and future. \nTrains come and go\, customers come and go\, bringing their own problems\, worries and stories. \nWill Laura open her cafe in India? Will Steph and Tom escape too? \nCome along to the buffet to find out and have tea and cake with us after the show. \nIndian Summer\, a comedy drama with backgound musical tracks you will know\, opens Tuesday 6th December to Saturday 10th December at 7:45pm. \nTickets £11.00 from our ticket shop at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/davenhamplayers \nDirected by Bob Almquist with loads of help from Sheila Hetherington and the Davenham Players crowd.
URL:https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/event-and-production/indian-summer-by-lucy-maurice/
LOCATION:Davenham Theatre\, 59 Church Street\, Northwich\, CW9 8NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Drama,Featured
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SUMMARY:Indian Summer by Lucy Maurice
DESCRIPTION:In Crewe railway station buffet on a quiet afternoon\, buffet staff Laura and Steph chat about their lives and future. \nTrains come and go\, customers come and go\, bringing their own problems\, worries and stories. \nWill Laura open her cafe in India? Will Steph and Tom escape too? \nCome along to the buffet to find out and have tea and cake with us after the show. \nIndian Summer\, a comedy drama with backgound musical tracks you will know\, opens Tuesday 6th December to Saturday 10th December at 7:45pm. \nTickets £11.00 from our ticket shop at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/davenhamplayers \nDirected by Bob Almquist with loads of help from Sheila Hetherington and the Davenham Players crowd.
URL:https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/event-and-production/indian-summer-by-lucy-maurice-2022-12-07/
LOCATION:Davenham Theatre\, 59 Church Street\, Northwich\, CW9 8NF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221208T194500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221208T213000
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SUMMARY:Indian Summer by Lucy Maurice
DESCRIPTION:In Crewe railway station buffet on a quiet afternoon\, buffet staff Laura and Steph chat about their lives and future. \nTrains come and go\, customers come and go\, bringing their own problems\, worries and stories. \nWill Laura open her cafe in India? Will Steph and Tom escape too? \nCome along to the buffet to find out and have tea and cake with us after the show. \nIndian Summer\, a comedy drama with backgound musical tracks you will know\, opens Tuesday 6th December to Saturday 10th December at 7:45pm. \nTickets £11.00 from our ticket shop at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/davenhamplayers \nDirected by Bob Almquist with loads of help from Sheila Hetherington and the Davenham Players crowd.
URL:https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/event-and-production/indian-summer-by-lucy-maurice-2022-12-07-2022-12-08/
LOCATION:Davenham Theatre\, 59 Church Street\, Northwich\, CW9 8NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Drama,Featured
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SUMMARY:Indian Summer by Lucy Maurice
DESCRIPTION:In Crewe railway station buffet on a quiet afternoon\, buffet staff Laura and Steph chat about their lives and future. \nTrains come and go\, customers come and go\, bringing their own problems\, worries and stories. \nWill Laura open her cafe in India? Will Steph and Tom escape too? \nCome along to the buffet to find out and have tea and cake with us after the show. \nIndian Summer\, a comedy drama with backgound musical tracks you will know\, opens Tuesday 6th December to Saturday 10th December at 7:45pm. \nTickets £11.00 from our ticket shop at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/davenhamplayers \nDirected by Bob Almquist with loads of help from Sheila Hetherington and the Davenham Players crowd.
URL:https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/event-and-production/indian-summer-by-lucy-maurice-2022-12-07-2022-12-09/
LOCATION:Davenham Theatre\, 59 Church Street\, Northwich\, CW9 8NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Drama,Featured
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SUMMARY:Indian Summer by Lucy Maurice
DESCRIPTION:In Crewe railway station buffet on a quiet afternoon\, buffet staff Laura and Steph chat about their lives and future. \nTrains come and go\, customers come and go\, bringing their own problems\, worries and stories. \nWill Laura open her cafe in India? Will Steph and Tom escape too? \nCome along to the buffet to find out and have tea and cake with us after the show. \nIndian Summer\, a comedy drama with backgound musical tracks you will know\, opens Tuesday 6th December to Saturday 10th December at 7:45pm. \nTickets £11.00 from our ticket shop at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/davenhamplayers \nDirected by Bob Almquist with loads of help from Sheila Hetherington and the Davenham Players crowd.
URL:https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/event-and-production/indian-summer-by-lucy-maurice-2022-12-10/
LOCATION:Davenham Theatre\, 59 Church Street\, Northwich\, CW9 8NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Drama
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221212T193000
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SUMMARY:Davenham Writers' Group - CANCELLED OWING TO BAD WEATHER
DESCRIPTION:EVENT CANCELLED – BAD WEATHER\nDavenham Writers Group – Monthly Meeting\nCome 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. \nIf 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. \nFor more details you can contact Flick here 
URL:https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/event-and-production/davenham-writers-group-4-2021-12-09-2021-11-08-2022-02-14-2022-12-12/
LOCATION:Davenham Theatre\, 59 Church Street\, Northwich\, CW9 8NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Club,Featured
ORGANIZER;CN="Flick Goodman":MAILTO:felicity.goodman@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:REARRANGED Readthrough of "Escaped Alone" & "A Number" by Caryl Churchill
DESCRIPTION:OWING TO INCELEMENT WEATHER \nTHIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE ONLINE\n\nPlease note\, due to adverse weather conditions there is a change to the schedule for this week. \nThe readthrough of the two Caryl Churchill plays tomorrow evening 13th December will now take place on Zoom at 7.30pm – NOT at the theatre. \nIf you wish to participate\, please contact director Kelly Cowley to receive the link which she will send out just before the meeting. \nThe auditions for BOTH plays will be at the theatre on Sunday 18th December at 1.30-3pm for ‘Escaped Alone’ and from 3pm for ‘A Number’ \nThere will be NO meeting at the theatre on Thursday 15th \nKelly will accommodate anyone who has difficulties with these times or dates by auditioning on line . \n\nHere are Kelly’s notes on each play. You can contact the director to say you will be there or ask any question by clicking Kelly.\n\nEscaped Alone by Caryl Churchill\n\nDuration = Approximately 1 hour \nCast = Four Women in their 60s or 70s \nPlot \nThree old friends – Sally\, Vi and Lena – spend a summer afternoon (or several summer afternoons) chatting in Sally’s back garden. They are joined by a neighbour\, Mrs Jarrett\, who regularly breaks away from their group to deliver monologues describing a postapocalyptic future. Caryl Churchill’s play juxtaposes tea with catastrophe\, while exploring themes of ecological disaster\, unspoken turmoil\, and female endurance. \nStyle \nBlack comedy. The dialogue between the four women is made up of fragmented thoughts and half-finished sentences. The effect is somewhere between naturalistic and abstract\, a kind of hyper-realism. There’s a lack of stage directions and punctuation. The intention of this is to grant creative freedom to the actors and director. Add your own punctuation\, your own pauses and pacing\, shape the dialogue how you think best. \nSet and Tech \nA small island of green turf centre stage with four garden chairs and a low table set with tea and biscuits. The outskirts of the stage would look dark\, desolate and ruined\, like a derelict building that has been ransacked and then abandoned. Sound and lighting would be used to create an apocalyptic atmosphere for Mrs J’s monologues. \nCharacters \nMrs Jarrett (60s/70s) – A neighbour\, more so than a close friend\, perhaps the reason she is the only one of the group who is not known by her first name. She worked as a lollipop lady and is implied to be the most working class. She says the least in the group scenes but has the most monologues\, during which she appears to be an apocalypse survivor. \nVi (60s/70s) – The blunt no-nonsense one of the group. We learn that she was in prison for six years after receiving a manslaughter sentence for killing her husband. She insists that it was an act of self-defence. This killing led to an estranged relationship with her son. \nSally (60s/70s) – The funny bubbly host of the garden gathering. Sally is close friends with Vi. We learn she witnessed her crime many years ago. She has a crippling phobia of a cats. \nLena (60s/70s) – An anti-social agoraphobic. She is quietly struggling with depression. She finds it hard to get out of bed or to do simple things such as visit the shops. \n  \nA Number (Caryl Churchill\, 2002) \nDuration = Approximately 1 hour \nCast = Two Men\, one 35–40\, one 60+ \nPlot \nBernard has recently discovered that he is one of ‘a number’ of human clones. His father Salter confesses to him that he was once friends with a scientist who must have taken his son’s DNA and used it to create these copies. It is later revealed that Bernard himself is a clone of Salter’s only son\, who he put into childcare after the death of his wife. This clone experiment was brought about by Salter wanting a second chance at fatherhood. It comes back to haunt him when the original Bernard tracks him down. \nStyle \nPsychological sci-fi thriller. Half father/son story and half speculative exploration into the ethics of genetic experimentation and nature vs nurture. \nSet and Tech \nAll the scenes take place in Salter’s home\, a simple living room set with some futuristic touches to indicate the near-future setting of the play. No major sound or lighting effects would be required\, just blackouts for the scene changes. \nCharacters \nSalter (60s/70s) – The father of Bernard 1 and adoptive father of Bernard 2\, a clone he made of his son\, who he put into care at age four. Salter abandoned his original child because he was too grief-stricken over his wife’s death to be a good parent. \nBernard 1\, Bernard 2 and Michael Black (30s/40s) – All three characters are played by the same actor. Bernard 1 is Salter’s original son\, who has grown into an angry damaged man\, embittered that his father replaced him. Bernard 2 is naïve and sheltered\, as Salter has kept the truth of his origins secret from him until the start of the play. Michael Black is another clone of the original Bernard\, who comes to meet Salter for the first time at the end of the play. Michael is an amiable family man and teacher.
URL:https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/event-and-production/readthrough-escaped-alone-a-number/
LOCATION:Online\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Club,Featured
ORGANIZER;CN="Paulette Anderson":MAILTO:donpolander@tiscali.co.uk
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SUMMARY:EVENT REARRANGED - SEE NOTES BELOW
DESCRIPTION:THE EVENT TODAY IS CANCELLED \n\n\nPlease note\, due to adverse weather conditions there is a change to the schedule for this week. \nThe readthrough of the two Caryl Churchill plays on 13th December takes place on Zoom at 7.30pm – NOT at the theatre. There will be NO meeting on Thursday 15th December \nThe auditions for BOTH plays will be at the theatre on Sunday 18th December at 1.30-3pm for ‘Escaped Alone’ and from 3pm for ‘A Number’ \nKelly will accommodate anyone who has difficulties with these times or dates by auditioning on line . \n\nHere are Kelly’s notes on each play. You can contact the director to say you will be there or ask any question by clicking Kelly.\n\nEscaped Alone by Caryl Churchill\n\nDuration = Approximately 1 hour \nCast = Four Women in their 60s or 70s \nPlot \nThree old friends – Sally\, Vi and Lena – spend a summer afternoon (or several summer afternoons) chatting in Sally’s back garden. They are joined by a neighbour\, Mrs Jarrett\, who regularly breaks away from their group to deliver monologues describing a postapocalyptic future. Caryl Churchill’s play juxtaposes tea with catastrophe\, while exploring themes of ecological disaster\, unspoken turmoil\, and female endurance. \nStyle \nBlack comedy. The dialogue between the four women is made up of fragmented thoughts and half-finished sentences. The effect is somewhere between naturalistic and abstract\, a kind of hyper-realism. There’s a lack of stage directions and punctuation. The intention of this is to grant creative freedom to the actors and director. Add your own punctuation\, your own pauses and pacing\, shape the dialogue how you think best. \nSet and Tech \nA small island of green turf centre stage with four garden chairs and a low table set with tea and biscuits. The outskirts of the stage would look dark\, desolate and ruined\, like a derelict building that has been ransacked and then abandoned. Sound and lighting would be used to create an apocalyptic atmosphere for Mrs J’s monologues. \nCharacters \nMrs Jarrett (60s/70s) – A neighbour\, more so than a close friend\, perhaps the reason she is the only one of the group who is not known by her first name. She worked as a lollipop lady and is implied to be the most working class. She says the least in the group scenes but has the most monologues\, during which she appears to be an apocalypse survivor. \nVi (60s/70s) – The blunt no-nonsense one of the group. We learn that she was in prison for six years after receiving a manslaughter sentence for killing her husband. She insists that it was an act of self-defence. This killing led to an estranged relationship with her son. \nSally (60s/70s) – The funny bubbly host of the garden gathering. Sally is close friends with Vi. We learn she witnessed her crime many years ago. She has a crippling phobia of a cats. \nLena (60s/70s) – An anti-social agoraphobic. She is quietly struggling with depression. She finds it hard to get out of bed or to do simple things such as visit the shops. \n  \nA Number (Caryl Churchill\, 2002) \nDuration = Approximately 1 hour \nCast = Two Men\, one 35–40\, one 60+ \nPlot \nBernard has recently discovered that he is one of ‘a number’ of human clones. His father Salter confesses to him that he was once friends with a scientist who must have taken his son’s DNA and used it to create these copies. It is later revealed that Bernard himself is a clone of Salter’s only son\, who he put into childcare after the death of his wife. This clone experiment was brought about by Salter wanting a second chance at fatherhood. It comes back to haunt him when the original Bernard tracks him down. \nStyle \nPsychological sci-fi thriller. Half father/son story and half speculative exploration into the ethics of genetic experimentation and nature vs nurture. \nSet and Tech \nAll the scenes take place in Salter’s home\, a simple living room set with some futuristic touches to indicate the near-future setting of the play. No major sound or lighting effects would be required\, just blackouts for the scene changes. \nCharacters \nSalter (60s/70s) – The father of Bernard 1 and adoptive father of Bernard 2\, a clone he made of his son\, who he put into care at age four. Salter abandoned his original child because he was too grief-stricken over his wife’s death to be a good parent. \nBernard 1\, Bernard 2 and Michael Black (30s/40s) – All three characters are played by the same actor. Bernard 1 is Salter’s original son\, who has grown into an angry damaged man\, embittered that his father replaced him. Bernard 2 is naïve and sheltered\, as Salter has kept the truth of his origins secret from him until the start of the play. Michael Black is another clone of the original Bernard\, who comes to meet Salter for the first time at the end of the play. Michael is an amiable family man and teacher. \n\n\nTo see the audition texts click https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/escaped-alone-audition-monologues/
URL:https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/event-and-production/audition-for-escaped-alone-directed-by-kelly-cowley/
LOCATION:Online\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Club,Featured
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SUMMARY:Jazz Tom Seals - SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:Photograph Courtesy of Music Gurus \nSORRY – GIG NOW SOLD OUT\nThe mantle of UK Piano Man has been dominated by Elton John\, Jools Holland and Jamie Cullum. Over the past five decades no one else has come remotely close – until now that is! Fresh from his sell-out “Let The Good Times Roll” Tour – Tom Seals\, “quite possibly the future of jazz and blues”\, has the world at this fingertips. His virtuoso soloing\, excellent improvisations skills and distinctive voice have left top industry officials hailing him the UK’s finest boogie woogie and blues pianist/vocalist. \nStill only in his twenties\, Seals is surely destined for greatness. Hot on the heels of sold-out shows across the globe including London’s legendary Ronnie Scott’s\, a stunning performance at Birdland Jazz Club on Broadway in New York and working with Jools Holland\, Tom Seals’ star is destined to soar stratospherically in 2022 with the release of his debut album\, own TV show and festival appearances worldwide. \nRead more about Tom at https://www.tomseals.co.uk/ \nBookings 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 \nIf 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. \nFrom JAZZ@DAVENHAM TEAM\nGREAT GIGS\nFABULOUS BANDS \nClick to see the full Jazz Programme \nSPONSORED BY TATTON BREWERY\nwww.tattonbrewery.co.uk
URL:https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/event-and-production/jazz-tom-seals-2/
LOCATION:Davenham Theatre\, 59 Church Street\, Northwich\, CW9 8NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Music,Jazz
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SUMMARY:Auditions for "Escaped Alone" and "A Number" directed by Kelly Cowley
DESCRIPTION:Today\, under arrangements altered by inclement weather\, Kelly Cowley is holding auditions of two one-act plays by Caryl Churchill that she is going to direct at Davenham in March 2023. A readthrough of both plays will have taken place online on Tuesday 13th December.\n\nThe audition for “Escaped Alone” will start at 1:30pm and the one for “A Number” starts at 3:00pm.\n\nHere are Kelly’s notes on each play. You can contact the director to say you will be there or ask any question by clicking Kelly.\n\nTo see the audition texts click https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/escaped-alone-audition-monologues/\n\n\nEscaped Alone by Caryl Churchill\n\nDuration = Approximately 1 hour \nCast = Four Women in their 60s or 70s \nPlot \nThree old friends – Sally\, Vi and Lena – spend a summer afternoon (or several summer afternoons) chatting in Sally’s back garden. They are joined by a neighbour\, Mrs Jarrett\, who regularly breaks away from their group to deliver monologues describing a postapocalyptic future. Caryl Churchill’s play juxtaposes tea with catastrophe\, while exploring themes of ecological disaster\, unspoken turmoil\, and female endurance. \nStyle \nBlack comedy. The dialogue between the four women is made up of fragmented thoughts and half-finished sentences. The effect is somewhere between naturalistic and abstract\, a kind of hyper-realism. There’s a lack of stage directions and punctuation. The intention of this is to grant creative freedom to the actors and director. Add your own punctuation\, your own pauses and pacing\, shape the dialogue how you think best. \nSet and Tech \nA small island of green turf centre stage with four garden chairs and a low table set with tea and biscuits. The outskirts of the stage would look dark\, desolate and ruined\, like a derelict building that has been ransacked and then abandoned. Sound and lighting would be used to create an apocalyptic atmosphere for Mrs J’s monologues. \nCharacters \nMrs Jarrett (60s/70s) – A neighbour\, more so than a close friend\, perhaps the reason she is the only one of the group who is not known by her first name. She worked as a lollipop lady and is implied to be the most working class. She says the least in the group scenes but has the most monologues\, during which she appears to be an apocalypse survivor. \nVi (60s/70s) – The blunt no-nonsense one of the group. We learn that she was in prison for six years after receiving a manslaughter sentence for killing her husband. She insists that it was an act of self-defence. This killing led to an estranged relationship with her son. \nSally (60s/70s) – The funny bubbly host of the garden gathering. Sally is close friends with Vi. We learn she witnessed her crime many years ago. She has a crippling phobia of a cats. \nLena (60s/70s) – An anti-social agoraphobic. She is quietly struggling with depression. She finds it hard to get out of bed or to do simple things such as visit the shops. \n  \nA Number (Caryl Churchill\, 2002) \nDuration = Approximately 1 hour \nCast = Two Men\, one 35–40\, one 60+ \nPlot \nBernard has recently discovered that he is one of ‘a number’ of human clones. His father Salter confesses to him that he was once friends with a scientist who must have taken his son’s DNA and used it to create these copies. It is later revealed that Bernard himself is a clone of Salter’s only son\, who he put into childcare after the death of his wife. This clone experiment was brought about by Salter wanting a second chance at fatherhood. It comes back to haunt him when the original Bernard tracks him down. \nStyle \nPsychological sci-fi thriller. Half father/son story and half speculative exploration into the ethics of genetic experimentation and nature vs nurture. \nSet and Tech \nAll the scenes take place in Salter’s home\, a simple living room set with some futuristic touches to indicate the near-future setting of the play. No major sound or lighting effects would be required\, just blackouts for the scene changes. \nCharacters \nSalter (60s/70s) – The father of Bernard 1 and adoptive father of Bernard 2\, a clone he made of his son\, who he put into care at age four. Salter abandoned his original child because he was too grief-stricken over his wife’s death to be a good parent. \nBernard 1\, Bernard 2 and Michael Black (30s/40s) – All three characters are played by the same actor. Bernard 1 is Salter’s original son\, who has grown into an angry damaged man\, embittered that his father replaced him. Bernard 2 is naïve and sheltered\, as Salter has kept the truth of his origins secret from him until the start of the play. Michael Black is another clone of the original Bernard\, who comes to meet Salter for the first time at the end of the play. Michael is an amiable family man and teacher.
URL:https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/event-and-production/audition-for-a-number-directed-by-kelly-cowley/
LOCATION:Davenham Theatre\, 59 Church Street\, Northwich\, CW9 8NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Club,Featured
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