AUDITION Mr Wonderful
2025-06-02 19:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Director Dee Barry is holding auditions for the play Mr Wonderful to be performed at the theatre from 16th to 20th November 2025.
The audition will be from 7:30pm at the theatre

LIST OF CHARACTERS

Norma Green is early to late 40s. Caring for her mum Phoebe, Norma searches for her Mr Wonderful through dating ads. This character shows a range of emotions from comedy & sadness to anger & vulnerability.
Phoebe, Norma’s mum, 60 +, is bedridden has an acerbic wit & lives her life through her daughter.
Geoff Lazenby, 40 to 50 ish , debonair, a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Lop Wink, 40 to 50ish, a comical fanatical cyclist.
Eric Box, 40 to 50 ish, another comical character who owns a DIY emporium. These men try their utmost to woo Norma with surprising results.

Davenham Writing Group
2025-06-10 19:30 - 22:00
Davenham Writing Group – Monthly Meeting
Meets on the Second Tuesday of the month
No August meeting

Free for members. Non-members pay £1 for refreshments

READTHROUGH - All My Sons by Arthur Miller
2025-06-12 19:30 - 21:00
Heather Milam is holding a readthrough for the play All My Sons to be performed 18th – 22nd November 2025.
If you are interested, please come along to the theatre at 7:30pm Thursday 12th June

AUDITION - All My Sons by Arthur Miller
2025-06-25 19:30 - 21:30
Heather Milam is holding an audition for the play All My Sons to be performed 18th – 22nd November 2025.
If you are interested, please come along to the theatre at 7:30pm Wednesday 25th June

Jazz Gaz Hughes Quartet
2025-06-26 20:00 - 22:30
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The box office is able to take bookings for one gig at a time, but do make a note of the dates which are of interest to you during our forthcoming season so that you can make your bookings at the appropriate time.

If possible, make your requests via email, but don’t forget to give us a little bit of notice if you know that you are going to be unable to attend. We appreciate that there will always be unavoidable, unforeseen circumstances, but clearly we want to make places available and fill all possible seats, particularly for gigs in high demand.

We are not a profit making organisation, but we do want to keep breaking even in order to keep music live.

Bookings
Call Keith on 07990 703 787
email jazz@davenham.co

Please do not assume that your places are confirmed unless you have had a response from J@D and, if you have not, then contact us again

Doors & Bar 7.30pm Gigs start @ 8pm Tickets £13 unless stated

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

LitFest - Milly Johnson
2025-06-28 19:30 - 21:30
Below is a list of the LitFest 2025 events to be held at Davenham Theatre
For tickets to these and other LitFest events, click https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/northwich-litfest-11101053202
Sat 28th June – Launch event, Milly Johnson
Sun 29th June – Julie Hesmondhalgh
Thurs 3rd July – Maggie Oliver
Mon 7th July – Kerry Daynes
Wed 9th July – Freya North
Sat 12th July – Rob Parker
Wed 16th July – Eve Ferret

LitFest - Julie Hesmondhalgh
2025-06-29 19:30 - 21:30

LitFest - Maggie Oliver
2025-07-03 19:30 - 21:30
Below is a list of the LitFest 2025 events to be held at Davenham Theatre
For tickets to these and other LitFest events, click https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/northwich-litfest-11101053202
Mon 7th July – Kerry Daynes
Wed 9th July – Freya North
Sat 12th July – Rob Parker
Wed 16th July – Eve Ferret

LitFest - Kerry Daynes
2025-07-07 19:30 - 21:30
Below is a list of the LitFest 2025 events to be held at Davenham Theatre
For tickets to these and other LitFest events, click https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/northwich-litfest-11101053202
Thurs 3rd July – Maggie Oliver
Mon 7th July – Kerry Daynes
Wed 9th July – Freya North
Sat 12th July – Rob Parker
Wed 16th July – Eve Ferret

Davenham Writing Group
2025-07-08 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-08-12 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-09 19:30 - 22:00
Davenham Writing Group – Monthly Meeting
Meets on the Second Tuesday of the month

Free for members. Non-members pay £1 for refreshments

LitFest - Freya North
2025-07-09 19:30 - 21:30
Below is a list of the LitFest 2025 events to be held at Davenham Theatre
For tickets to these and other LitFest events, click https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/northwich-litfest-11101053202
Sat 12th July – Rob Parker
Wed 16th July – Eve Ferret

LitFest - Rob Parker
2025-07-12 19:30 - 21:30
Below is a list of the LitFest 2025 events to be held at Davenham Theatre
For tickets to these and other LitFest events, click https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/northwich-litfest-11101053202
Wed 16th July – Eve Ferret

Davenham Acting Group
2025-07-15 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-16 19:30 - 22:00
Meets third Tuesday of each month except when a drama production is on stage
No August meeting
Free for members. Non-members pay £1 for refreshments

LitFest - Eve Ferret
2025-07-16 19:30 - 21:30
Below is a list of the LitFest 2025 events to be held at Davenham Theatre
For tickets to these and other LitFest events, click https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/northwich-litfest-11101053202
Sat 28th June – Launch event, Milly Johnson
Thurs 3rd July – Maggie Oliver
Sun 6th July – Julie Hesmondhalgh
Mon 7th July – Kerry Daynes
Wed 9th July – Freya North
Sat 12th July – Rob Parker
Wed 16th July – Eve Ferret

Davenham Improv Group
2025-07-22 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-08-26 19:30 - 21:30
Group formed by Kathryn Cooke for people interested in developing Improv skills
Monthly on the fourth Tuesday

Davenham Acting Group
2025-08-19 19:30 - 22:00
Meets third Tuesday of each month except when a drama production is on stage
Free for members. Non-members pay £1 for refreshments

Play Reading Group
2025-09-02 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-10-07 19:30 - 21:30
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 Tuesday of the month (except August).
Just turn up and Dee will do the rest. Tea free for members. Small contribution for non-members.
CONTACT DEE FOR MORE INFORMATION here

Mr Wonderful by James Robson
2025-09-16 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-17 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-18 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-19 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-20 19:30 - 22:00
Norma Green, a forty-five year old factory worker who looks after her bedridden mother, conceals a desperate sense of wasted time beneath her strong-willed but vulnerable exterior. She tries to find her Mr Wonderful through a dating agency. After two disastrous & hilarious blind dates Norma falls for Geoff but then discovers the unexpected true nature of the man, prompting Norma to take her revenge!
This play is full of surprises and spiky humour.

Mr Wonderful is directed by Dee Barry and runs from
Tuesday 16th September 2025 to Saturday 20th September 2025
Doors and Bar Open 7:00pm. Show at 7:30pm
Tickets @ £12 available from our TicketSource shop at
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/davenhamplayers

Davenham Improv Group
2025-09-23 19:30 - 21:30
Group formed by Kathryn Cooke for people interested in developing Improv skills, or just having a bit of a laugh with friends!
Maybe BOTH?
Monthly on the fourth Tuesday

Jazz The Breath
2025-09-25 20:00 - 22:00
The Breath is Manchester-based guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer/flautist Ríoghnach Connolly. They met on the city’s gig circuit in the late noughties. An unlikely pairing though it was, he an acclaimed guitar whiz, ex long-time member of The Cinematic Orchestra and a softly spoken Manchester urbanite, she a folk singer with a larger-than-life personality and a powerful voice to match. Their connection was immediate; they formed The Breath in 2016, a singer-songwriter duo to present their contemporary take on alt-folk.
For them, it’s all about the song. Connolly is a storyteller and their exquisitely crafted, honest, personal, heartfelt songs are as likely to touch on childhood summers and first love as cultural dislocation, post- colonial injustices and grief. But it’s Ríoghnach’s impassioned delivery and extraordinary stop-you-in- your-tracks voice, coupled with Stuart’s understated brilliance that is so engaging.
The Breath have released three albums on Peter Gabriel’s Real World label. Their breakthrough album, ‘Carry Your Kin’ (2016) delved deeply into the spaces between rock, ambient and Irish folk, where layered vocals, mesmerising guitar riffs and expansive folk arrangements created a big sound. ‘Let the Cards Fall’ followed in 2018, and, like the first, was recorded with a full band granting a multi-textured kaleidoscope of sound with a cinematic sensibility. References to Celtic history and cultural loss are woven into a bewitching collection of songs that span beguiling ballads and punch-the-air anthems. In support of the release, Stuart and Ríoghnach performed a series of shows – just the two of them. Stripped bare, they found a new depth and beauty in their songs allowing their extraordinary connection to shine through. The duo returned to the studio in 2019 to record ‘Only Stories (Let the Cards Fall Revisited)’ reimagining previous work (alongside two new songs) taking it back to its acoustic roots. This new direction would see Ríoghnach Connolly receive an RTÉ Folk Award nomination for Best Folk Singer and win Folk Singer Of The Year at the 2019 BBC R2 Folk Awards for which the duo were also nominated as Best Duo/Group.
During the pandemic of 2020/2021, The Breath returned to the studio to record a set of songs in remembrance of American lost folk icon, Karen Dalton. In the spring of 2021, they released a two-track single, ‘Something On Your Mind’ and original song, ‘Remembering Mountains’. They release their third studio album on Real World Records in 2023.
The Breath in Autumn 2023 build to their new album, ‘Land Of My Other’. Ten original tracks of raw, gorgeous, acoustic-minded music.Songs that tell stories in ways that soothe, stir, exalt, and touch emotional chords that will bring tears of lamenting joy, to your eyes.
QUOTES
“raw, soulful, often mesmeric, richly textured and lushly constructed…versatile persuasive vocals” Mojo
“folk roots but different horizons… the jaw-droppingly stunning, woozy voice of Ríoghnach Connolly” The Guardian
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The box office is able to take bookings for one gig at a time, but do make a note of the dates which are of interest to you during our forthcoming season so that you can make your bookings at the appropriate time.

If possible, make your requests via email, but don’t forget to give us a little bit of notice if you know that you are going to be unable to attend. We appreciate that there will always be unavoidable, unforeseen circumstances, but clearly we want to make places available and fill all possible seats, particularly for gigs in high demand.

We are not a profit making organisation, but we do want to keep breaking even in order to keep music live.

Booking Enquiries
Call Keith on 07990 703 787
email jazz@davenham.co

Please do not assume that your places are confirmed unless you have had a response from J@D and, if you have not, then contact us again

Doors & Bar 7.30pm Gigs start @ 8pm Tickets £13 unless stated

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

CANCELLED Low Drift
2025-09-26 19:30 - 22:30
THE LOW DRIFT –
SADLY, THE LOW DRIFT HAVE HAD TO CANCEL
THEIR APPEARANCE OWING
TO FAMILY BEREAVEMENT
TICKET HOLDERS WILL RECEIVE A REFUND
Songs inspired by the land. The beauty and the concrete, the mysteries and the folklore. Music about Family and Childhood and the memories that landscapes evoke.
“The Low Drift is a wonderfully poetic journey through land and memory, exploring the incredible connections we have to the geography around us. A truly beautiful album full of magic and haunting imagery.” Fatea
“Sounding like a dark bucolic folk answer to Crosby, Stills & Nash. A haunting, atmospheric album that brings a welcome new musical perspective on our connection to the land.” Folking.com
Three acclaimed singer-songwriters – Emma Thorpe, Matt Hill and Huw Costin – go on walks and then write songs about them. Inspired by a previous generation of English folk and poet musicians – Julian Cope, Robert Wyatt, Kate Bush – they travel beyond the Keep Out signs to the ancient green lanes and sunken tracks, where our ancestors buried their bones. The songs explore folklore, family, childhood and the memories that landscapes evoke.
This engaging evening of songs and stories will feature shimmering 12 string guitars, minimalist folk picking, spooky harmonies and primitive synths sounds. The Low Drift is a show that will reinvigorate your relationship to these wonderful islands we live on.
Low Drift line up
Emma Thorpe is signed to Vicious Charm Records as a solo artist and has duetted with Mark Lanaghan. She’s also a photographer.
Matt Hill writes of history and community, had 4 star reviews from Uncut and the Mirror and performed with Billy Bragg at Glastonbury festival.
Huw Costin fronts acclaimed band Torn Sail, has been A-playlisted on BBC 6Music and received album of the year in the NME yearbook.
All monies raised via ticket sales go to the bands and the theatre.
Doors 19.30 Start 20.00 Curfew 22.15
Online tkts available
£15.00 after 1st August 2025
https://wegottickets.com/event/640938
£13.00 [mark me as a friend] available now
paypal.me/andrewwhalley1
Local cash purchases
Call 07510 853 589 to arrange
£20 On The Door
Cheers
Andrew
