The Davenham Players

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 (Europe/London) | 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, 2022-02-21 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

Davenham Writers' Group
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

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

Audition - Bouncers by John Godber
2022-03-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Mike Kelsall is coming to Davenham to direct Bouncers by John Godber to be staged 20th to 24th September 2022. In preparation, Mike is holding, on two consecutive nights, a readthrough and an audition for the play. Wednesday 2nd March is the audition.
ALL regardless of age, gender are welcome to come to one or both nights to find out about the play. However, Mike is looking for four men with playing age between 20 and 60, as the script states.
ABOUT THE PLAY
Step back in time to the world of 1980’s nightlife!
Remember preparing to head out at the weekend with ‘the lads’ or ‘the girls’.. the anticipation of the evening ahead and the trepidation when you arrived at the doors of the nightclub in case you got turned away by the men in black?
But did you ever give any thought to the lives those gruff men lead, the things they see, the worries they have and the fantasies they lose themselves in?
Set ‘up north’, Bouncers by John Godber, is a comedy, stacked with humour and pathos. It’s a 4-handed play where the actors perform multiple roles.
Don’t be shy coming forward – we anticipate a good turnout!

Readthrough - Bouncers by John Godber
2022-03-01 19:30 - 21:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Mike Kelsall is coming to Davenham to direct Bouncers by John Godber to be staged 20th to 24th September 2022. In preparation, Mike is holding, on two consecutive nights, this readthrough and an audition for the play. Tuesday 1st March is the readthrough.
ALL regardless of age, gender are welcome to come to one or both nights to find out about the play. However, Mike is looking for four men with playing age between 20 and 60, as the script states.
ABOUT THE PLAY
Step back in time to the world of 1980’s nightlife!
Remember preparing to head out at the weekend with ‘the lads’ or ‘the girls’.. the anticipation of the evening ahead and the trepidation when you arrived at the doors of the nightclub in case you got turned away by the men in black?
But did you ever give any thought to the lives those gruff men lead, the things they see, the worries they have and the fantasies they lose themselves in?
Set ‘up north’, Bouncers by John Godber, is a comedy, stacked with humour and pathos. It’s a 4-handed play where the actors perform multiple roles.
Don’t be shy coming forward – we anticipate a good turnout!

Jazz Emma Johnson's Gravy Boat
2022-02-24 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Photo Credits: Maria Altzamora, Elle Jones
Emma Johnson’s Gravy Boat is a contemporary, cinematic jazz quintet led by Leeds based saxophonist and composer Emma Johnson.
Emma’s writing displays a contemporary sound rooted by infectious melodies and the group have been described as demonstrating a “strong and joyful bond, immediately apparent in their sound”. Gravy Boat is a band that aspires to write and perform melodic, accessible jazz that anyone can enjoy.
Gravy Boat play ‘a relaxed, melodic and distinctive style of contemporary jazz’.
A recent review on Bebop Spoken Here noted: ‘Johnson gets a great sound on tenor and has a technique to match. Not one of those in your face players but someone whose solos build gradually and logically, with a natural lyricism reminiscent of Coltrane.’
The band were selected for the Jazz North Northern Line scheme for the year 2019 and have performed at many prominent festivals including Marsden, Manchester and Lancaster Jazz Festivals.
Emma has been awarded a Peter Whittingham Development Award and thanks to the support of Help Musicians UK, the band have released their debut album Worry Not to much acclaim this year.
LINE-UP
Saxophone – Emma Johnson
Guitar – Fergus Vickers
Piano – Richard Jones
Double Bass – Angus Milne
Drums – Steve Hanley
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
