The Davenham Players

All My Sons by Arthur Miller
2025-11-18 19:30 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Written in 1947 by Arthur Miller, All My Sons was Miller’s first play to gain widespread success and is considered a classic of 20th-century American drama.

Directed by Heather Milam, All My Sons is a gripping drama exploring themes of family loyalty, guilt, and the pursuit of the American Dream following World War II. The story centers on the Keller family, whose secret about Joe Keller’s wartime past and the faulty parts his company supplied comes to light, leading to devastating consequences.

We are thrilled to be bringing this award-winning classic to our theatre. Book your tickets now.

All My Sons is directed by Heather Milam and runs from
Tuesday 18th November 2025 to Saturday 22nd November 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 Acting Group
2025-11-18 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-10-21 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-16 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-07-15 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

Davenham Writing Group
2025-11-11 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-10-14 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-09 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-08-12 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

Play Reading Group
2025-11-04 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-10-07 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-09-02 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

Jazz Amy Roberts / John Hallam Quintet
2025-10-30 20:00 - 22:00
The Amy Roberts / John Hallam Quintet
Flautist, Clarinettist and Saxophonist Amy Roberts is a multi-award-winning musician now based in Northamptonshire, UK.
Over the past 15 years she has been celebrated in the in the annual British Jazz Awards, winning the Rising Star category twice, and the Miscellaneous category for her flute playing. Through her career she has worked in the jazz world, aswell as in the theatre performing in musicals, and participating in world music projects.
John Hallam is an exciting clarinet and saxophone player who has worked alongside musicians from both sides of the Atlantic – including Clark Terry; Benny Carter; Al Grey; Allan Vache, and Marty Grosz, and more recently Howard Alden and Randy Sandke all from the USA, plus Danny Moss; John Barnes; Roy Williams; Campbell Burnap; Mark Nightingale; Jack Emblow and Digby Fairweather.
Amy and John will be joined by Nick Millward on drums, Ashley John Long on bass and Rich Hughes on piano
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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

Davenham Improv Group
2025-10-28 19:30 - 21:30, 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

Davenham Comedy Club - October
2025-10-26 19:30 - 22:00
Davenham Comedy Club resumes in October, running monthly (except December) until April 2026
LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH
7:30PM AT DAVENHAM THEATRE
For Tickets see Ticket Source at https://www.davenhamplayers.co.uk/

Spitting Feathers - Taking Centre Stage
2025-10-18 19:30 - 22:00
Following sell-out shows in 2022, 2023 and 2024, the band returns to Davenham playing their eclectic mix of well-known pop and soft rock covers to suit all tastes
From 1970’s classic hits through to more contemporary material, you can expect to hear anything and everything from Fleetwood Mac, Bryan Adams and Oasis through to the Foo Fighters, Ed Sheeran and George Ezra. The evening will start with some more laid back and chilled numbers but, later on, you can be certain that the band will perform songs that will get the audience singing and dancing along.
In addition to a wide range of covers, you will also hear some original compositions by the band, one of which was chosen by Radio Northwich as its record of the week.
Fronted by strong male and female lead singers, the band delivers tight backing vocals and harmonies. Instrumentation includes electric guitar, bass, keys and drums but, when the song calls for it, you may also hear a mandolin, acoustic guitar, harmonica plus a range of percussion.
Sit back and enjoy your evening with Spitting Feathers band at Davenham Players Theatre with its cosy atmosphere, comfortable seating and a fully licensed bar.
The event will feature a charity raffle in aid of St Luke’s Hospice
Saturday 18th October 2024 at Davenham Players Theatre

Tickets @ £12 are available online through TicketSource

And @ £6 for students & under 16s by phoning our Booking Enquiries line

Doors and bar open at 7.00pm
Performance starts at 7.30pm

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

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

Mr Wonderful by James Robson
2025-09-20 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-19 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-18 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-17 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-16 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
2025-08-26 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-07-22 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

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

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

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
