The Davenham Players

Play Reading Social
2024-06-06 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-05-02 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-04-04 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-03-07 19:30 - 22:00 (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 Fugue & Groove
2024-05-30 20:00 - 22:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
The Fugue & Groove trio comprises the dexterous and versatile talents of
Rich Hughes on piano
Simon Smith on bass and
Steve Street on drums
Individually they have performed throughout the UK and toured internationally, working alongside such varied artists such as Kenny Ball, Ringo Starr and Dave Stewart. They have performed at venues and festivals which include Umbria Jazz Festival, Lincoln Centre (New York), Ambassadors Theatre, Glastonbury Festival, South by Southwest and La Bâtie Festival (Geneva) amongst many others.
F&G have played together for many years and provide the rhythm section for award winning jazz soloists such as Alex Clarke, the violinists Ralph Allin and Sally Minchin. All three players bring with them a variety of stylistic influences making for a diverse and rich musical tapestry. Rich’s musical background in particular has straddled both classical and jazz styles of music. He had the idea to feature this cross-pollination of styles and formed the trio about a year ago.
Since then Fugue and Groove have performed at venues across the country to rapturous acclaim.Their programme consists of fresh and inventive arrangements of familiar classics such as ‘Meditation’ by Massenet, Mozart’s Turkish March’ and Dvorak’s ‘Humoresque’. Solos provide opportunities to display their individual versatility, invention and synergetic musical interaction. The music ranges from the lyrical to fast and driving swing and there will be melodies that everyone will recognise, albeit in disguise!
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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 : 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, please contact us again

OR

call Harry on 01606 74502 or 07717 224 238

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

Davenham Comedy Club - CANCELLED
2024-05-26 19:30 - 22:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
MAY COMEDY CLUB CANCELLED
WE APOLOGISE FOR THIS SHORT NOTICE
A FULL REFUND WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY CREDITED TO THOSE WHO HAVE BOOKED ONLINE

AUDITION "Invisible" by Jane Barrie
2024-05-23 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-05-22 19:30 - 21:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
TWO AUDITIONS WEDNESDAY 22ND AND THURSDAY 23RD MAY
For our next production “Invisible” by Jane Barrie
You can download a pdf of audition pieces here AUDITION PIECES FOR INVISIBLE
Just come along to the theatre at 7:30pm and ask for Jane or you can contact her on janebarrie64@outlook.com

Davenham Acting Group
2024-05-21 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Meets third Tuesday of each month through to July
Free for members. Non-members pay £1 for refreshments

Nora: A Doll's House by Stef Smith
2024-05-18 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-05-17 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-05-16 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-05-15 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
This bold new version of Ibsen’s play reframes the classic drama in three different time periods:

women’s suffrage

the swinging sixties

modern day

An urgent poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past hundred years?
This play is both moving and thought provoking, and a fascinating reimagining of Ibsen’s powerful original examination of Nora and the intimacy of her marriage
NORA by Stef Smith
14TH – 18TH FEBRUARY 2024 AT 7:30PM
TICKETS @ £12 NOW ON SALE!

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/davenhamplayers

Nora: A Doll's House by Stef Smith
2024-05-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
This bold new version of Ibsen’s play reframes the classic drama in three different time periods:

women’s suffrage

the swinging sixties

modern day

An urgent poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past hundred years?
This play is both moving and thought provoking, and a fascinating reimagining of Ibsen’s powerful original examination of Nora and the intimacy of her marriage
NORA by Stef Smith
14TH – 18TH MAY 2024 AT 7:30PM
TICKETS @ £12 NOW ON SALE!

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/davenhamplayers

Davenham Comedy Club
2024-04-28 19:30 - 22:30, 2024-02-25 19:30 - 22:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Check our ticket shop for availability @ £13

Jazz Butcher's Brew
2024-04-25 20:00 - 22:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Butcher’s Brew is a modern jazz group that has played shows at Ronnie Scott’s, the 606 Club, Matt and Phreds and Peggy’s Skylight. Led by Ray Butcher, who is a jazz trumpeter who has played with many of the jazz greats from the UK scene.
Ray has worked with Dr John, Mica Paris and recorded a solo on the song ‘God’s Great Dance Floor’ from the US chart topping and GRAMMY nominated release by Chris Tomlin ‘Burning Lights’.
He is joined by drummer Miles Levin, who studied at the Guildhall, and is the the son of the Tony Levin who played regularly with Tubby Hayes.
Tim Amann, pianist, who studied History at Cambridge, is a composer and leader himself and has played with Art Farmer and David Murray among others.
Bassist Mike Green has performed with Jamie Cullum and is very much in demand around the midlands and beyond.
Sam Rogers (sax) is an agile improviser and has worked with many influential musicians over a long period and brings a great warmth to the band.
The band plays jazz, funk, blue note, latin instrumental music and Tim, Ray and Sam performed a similar set on two tours to Moscow and St Petersburg at the Union of Composers’ Club in 2007 and 2010. The band recently played at the 606 club in Chelsea.
For more see……
https://youtu.be/V_X6tGGJD5s
www.raybutchermusic.com
https://open.spotify.com/user/1142255609?si=at5uXqlARYGE5KjMqyBfRQ

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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 : 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, please contact us again

OR

call Harry on 01606 74502 or 07717 224 238

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

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

Davenham Writing Group
2024-04-09 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Davenham Writing Group – Monthly Meeting
Meets on the Second Tuesday of the month through to July
No August meeting

Davenham Comedy Club
2024-03-31 19:30 - 22:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
LINE-UP SO FAR FOR MARCH COMEDY CLUB
FREDDY QUINNE
KATIE TRACY
CAMERON JAMES
CHRIS WASHINGTON
A.N. Other tbc
(Sally Anne Hayward has had to postpone)
Check our ticket shop for availability @ £13

Jazz Both Sides Now play the Joni Mitchell Songbook "Court & Spark"
2024-03-21 20:00 - 22:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Artwork by Carolyn Hall Young
Both Sides Now play the Joni Mitchell Songbook
This year celebrating 50 years of ‘Court & Spark’!
The music of Joni Mitchell is celebrated in this performance of some of her best-loved songs. As Joni reaches her landmark 80th year, these concerts are an extended homage to her life and work, paying particular attention to the ever popular ‘Court & Spark’ (50 years old in 2024!) and her Gold Standard seminal album ‘Blue’.
The show draws on a three-decade journey of Joni’s incredible creativity, from folk singer to mainstream rock artist, as well as her abiding love affair with jazz.
Both Sides Now is a five-piece band showcasing the incredible voice of Sarah Miller – the band are all outstanding musicians in their own right, coming together in their joint appreciation of the work of a true genius. During their debut year of 2018, the band played at some of the UK’s leading music venues and has gone on from strength to strength, regularly selling out to ecstatic audiences keen to hear Joni’s songs played live.
The musicians’ CVs include such notable names as Don Felder of the Eagles, Badly Drawn Boy, Ruby Turner, Bernie Marsden, & Corinne Bailey Rae.

Featuring the radio hits of Help Me and Free Man In Paris (from double-platinum Court and Spark), Big Yellow Taxi (her most covered song), River and A Case of You (both from the breakthrough album Blue), the jazz-infused stylings of In France They Kiss On Main St (The Hissing of Summer Lawns) , Coyote (Hejira) and of course Both Sides Now.
For more information see:-
http://www.jonitribute.com
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=duTMkFyiBwE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifHsxG7V1ZI
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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 : 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, please contact us again

OR

call Harry on 01606 74502 or 07717 224 238

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
SPONSORED BY TATTON BREWERY www.tattonbrewery.co.uk

James Holt
2024-03-16 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
James Holt
Saturday 16th March 2024 – Davenham Players Theatre

March 16th 2024 sees the first visit of James Holt to Davenham Players Theatre

JAMES HOLT
“Brisk, funny, exciting… feels fresh and exciting to listen to.” – Brian Eno.
Bolton-born singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, James Holt has long been championed by music industry giants, such as legendary producer Brian Eno, and the listening public alike. With an arresting voice that is reminiscent of John Lennon or early Bob Dylan, wily lyrics and an upbeat weave of rock, prog and blues. The craftsmanship and energy of James’ songwriting translates effortlessly to his stage performance, having performed at the UK’s most prestigious venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and sellout shows at the Deaf Institute, Manchester and Hope & Anchor, London – it’s easy to see why his remarkable music is turning heads.
“Sounds so great on the radio!” – Chris Douridas, KCRW (Los Angeles)
“Very talented, very wonderful – absolutely love his voice” – BBC Introducing Manchester
Available from 01/01/2024 https://www.wegottickets.com/event/597665
All monies raised via ticket sales go to the bands and the theatre.
Online tkts available
£14.00 https://www.wegottickets.com/event/597665 (available from 01/01/2024)
£12.00 [mark me as a friend] paypal.me/andrewwhalley1
Local cash purchases
Call 07510 853 589 to arrange
On The Door £18 [Cash Only}.
Doors 19.30 Start 20.00 Close 22.15

Davenham Acting Group
2024-03-11 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Our Acting Group at the theatre on the 2nd 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 Kevin Hassett's Redux
2024-02-29 20:00 - 22:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Redux …..a Latin verb meaning to bring back, to restore, to revisit.

These definitions best summarise perhaps the Redux musical offer which is to provide new, respectful approaches to the great jazz standards of Porter, Gershwin, Ellington, Waller, Gillespie et al which have over the years, by repetition and familiarity perhaps, lost a little of their freshness and impact.
Melody is at the heart of what we do
Redux also intersperses the music with short anecdotes and stories providing a background and context for the songs performed. Stories which have emerged from the researches conducted into their origins.
The overarching aim of the trio however is to entertain and perhaps to provide just a little food for thought.
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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 : 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, please contact us again

OR

call Harry on 01606 74502 or 07717 224 238

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 SPONSORED BY TATTON BREWERY www.tattonbrewery.co.uk

Heaven Sent by Sebastien Thiery
2024-02-24 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-02-23 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-02-22 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-02-21 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-02-20 19:30 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
This hilarious, critically acclaimed and zany farce features mysterious chaos caused by materialism and human greed
The original play, written in French and set in Paris by Sebastian Thiery, was recently translated into English and relocated to Manchester’s suburbia by Charlie Gobbett, winner of the Dramatic Achievement Award in the 2022-23 Cheshire Theatre Guild Festival
HEAVEN SENT by Sebastien Thiery
20TH – 24TH FEBRUARY 2024 AT 7:30PM
TICKETS @ £12 NOW ON SALE!
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/davenhamplayers

Davenham Writing Group
2024-02-19 19:30 - 21:30
Davenham Writing 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

Davenham Acting Group
2024-02-12 19:30 - 21:30
