Twelve Wild Ducks

Multistory Theatre Company presents

Be careful what you wish for. That’s what the Queen discovers when after having 12 sons she wishes for a daughter. For at the very moment her beautiful daughter is born, her sons are transformed into wild ducks. When Princess Snow-Rose learns what happened to her brothers, she sets out to try to release them from their enchantment. She must weave and sew 12 shirts from nettles. And, as if that isn’t hard enough, for three years she must stay silent and neither smile nor weep. This traditional Norwegian tale is a fabulous fable of determination in the face of great hardship. multi story bring their customary magic to bear with a blend of live music, magical word-weaving and the engaging physicality that has become their hallmark.

Age 5+
1 hour workshop.
£2 per child/Adults Free.

Best of Comedy Buzz...

Another selection of the finest comedians in the land. Lugubriously sarcastic Mancunian Don Carroll introduces the top Welsh stand-up Noel James who brings some delightful visual puns. Support from brilliant comedy illusionist Alan Hudson, fast-rising comedy star Joe Lycett, and witty wordsmith Simon Rusty.

Bridgewater Community Concerts

FREE lunchtime concerts:

• Tue 12 Oct, 1pm – Laurence Perkins – bassoon and spoken word
• Tue 19 Oct, 1pm – The Casablanca Steps – 1920s/30s tunes
• Tue 26 Oct, 1pm – The George King Jazz Quintet

Romeo & Juliet

Proper Job Theatre Company presents

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear."

Proper Job Theatre Company brings the 2010 venue tour of their unique and dynamic adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, here to Sale Waterside Arts Centre. Set in the heat of Southern Europe, the visceral backdrop launches the audience into the lives and woes of well-known lovers Romeo and Juliet.

The performance is fast-paced and dramatic, with Shakespeare’s text stripped back to its essential poetic prose, incorporating flamenco, physicality, singing and music, affecting the audience with a sensory blowout. This is a fresh and exciting interpretation of a classic text, which will take the audience on a journey of love and fear

Comedy Sportz

Fast-paced comedy improv that will have you on your knees with laughter! Two teams battle it out for the biggest laughs. With quick-witted sketches, scenes and songs created form audience suggestions - this is feel-good fun at its wackiest. Ages 8+

The Blockheads

There’s no doubting that the most lovable, eccentric, cocky, funny, schoolboy-rude and artful characters from the punk generation are The Blockheads. Together with Ian Dury they created songs that were clever, insightful, subversive and, more often than not, just plain fun. Clever Trevor (sic), Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3, What A Waste and, the anthem for their generation, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, all carried the same trademark mark mix of humour, indignation, wonderfully witty wordplay and extreme musicianship.

They created their own genre from a previously untried potpourri of funk, punk and English music hall.

Dury may no longer be with us but The Blockheads – who celebrated their 30th Anniversary in 2007 - remain one of the hardest working groups to have emerged from the decade that gave us some of the most exciting and original music since the birth of rock and roll.

Now with a fantastically well-received new album – 'Staring Down The Barrel' (EMI) - The Blockheads have proved that there is life after Ian.

(STANDING CONCERT)

Beverley Craven - Live in Concert

Beverley Craven is one of the most successful singer / songwriters the UK has ever produced. Best known for her 1991 hits Promise Me and Holding On and multi-million selling debut album, Beverley is back on the road supporting her new CD "Close To Home", Live DVD and Autobiography. This an evening guaranteed to show you an artist at the top of her game.

www.beverleycraven.com

Hardeep Singh Kohli - 'The Nearly Naked Chef'

Hardeep Singh Kohli presents

Who could wish for more than arriving with your carrier bag bulging with carefully selected ingredients and then, an hour later, leaving with your taste buds
bursting from the fine cooking and your mind abuzz with pitch-perfect anecdotes?

Lord Savile's Crime

Rocket Theatre presents

"Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner".

A hilarious retelling of the classic story adapted for the stage by Martin Harris and James Anning. This brand new show revels in the wit of Oscar Wilde, while borrowing (rather cheekily) from Wodehouse, to create a wicked black comedy that positively fizzes with fun. You are invited to join Lord and Lady Arthur Savile in their new home for an evening of ludicrous indulgence.

LAUGH as Lord Arthur regales you with his astounding anecdotes!
MARVEL at the versatility of his man-servant!
GASP as his Lordship reveals secrets that will have you squirming in your seat!
Do you have the stomach for dinner with Lord Arthur Savile?

An Evening With Horace Ove

Rocksteady Tea Party presents

Acclaimed Trinidadian documentary maker and film director; Horace Ove CBE makes a rare visit to Greater Manchester to introduce and screen his films. Horace is known for making the definitive film that depicts the black experience in the UK, Pressure, which starred Norman Beaton & Ram John Holder (Desmond's). Ove's work includes Caryl Philips, Playing Away and BBC credits include Plays for Today. The night will be themed in Rocksteady style with reggae music and film provided by Troubadour and will be followed by Horace Ove's work.

Twinkle Twonkle: How I wonder what you are...

Tall Stories Theatre Company presents

Stella loves the stars. Every evening she gazes at them through her telescope. But one night her little brother Ryan wishes on a star, extends the telescope all the way and starts climbing up it. Stella follows him. But something is wrong in the night sky. There’s Pegasus the flying horse – but there’s also a cow jumping over the moon. And the Great Bear and the Little Bear have been joined by a medium-sized bear…

Tall Stories, the company that brought you The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom, presents its latest show, for everyone aged 4 and up. Inspired by nursery rhymes and the Big Bang – stories, music and the mystery of space lift ou up, up and away…