Exciting Live Theatre throughout Rutland.
The new season of drama productions will be available soon. There are performances all over Rutland in 2018 and 2019.
Our first is
Burning Books
On Teach First student Kat’s first day at Hurstville Community College, Nicky Morgan announces forced academistation for all state schools. Kat is ready for the picket line but her attempts to join the NUT are met with contempt by union stalwart Janine. The head teacher is invisible and the staff are more concerned about losing their staff room, disappearing books and a History teacher who hasn’t been seen for weeks.
A powerful and humorous look at an education system buckling under government cuts and targets. A story of protest and the teachers who choose to fight back.
Background
Burning Books is an adaptation of a music and poetry show of the same name which I took to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014 and 2015 with my band, Jess Green and the Mischief Thieves before touring it nationally in autumn 2015 to venues including Roundhouse, Richmix, Komedia Brighton and Unity Theatre, Liverpool.
Rutland County Museum, Saturday September 8th at 7.30pm.
Tickets £10 from Oakham Wines or wegottickets.com
The Rutanders Return is a play written by Andy Barrett about Rutland after WW1. The project has heritage lottery funding and the stories have been researched especially for the play. It is being performed by local people with a team of proffesionals involved with the production. The Rutlanders return follow the lives and social context of life back in Rutland after 1914. There will be especially composed music with a live band and it is to be performed all over Rutland
Thursday 25th October 2018 – 7.30 pm, Rutland County Museum, Oakham.
Friday 26th October 2018 – 7.30 pm, Kendrew Barracks, Cottesmore.
Saturday 27th October 2018 – 11.30 am South Luffenham Village Hall
Saturday 27th October 2018 – 7.30 pm, Uppingham Town Hall.
Sunday 28th October 2018 – 2.00 pm, Rutland County Museum.
Tickets are free but visit www.a4r.org.uk to book.
New Perspectives Theatre – Crossings
Two great theatre companies with many years performing in UK villages in collaboration for the first time. One village hall. Two stories. 100 years apart. Lost souls from the same family and chance meetings across time.
Date: Friday 16 November 2018
Start Time: 19:30:00
Venue: Rutland County Museum (LE156HW)
Community: Oakham
Show/Event: Crossings
Tickets £10.00 from Oakham Wines or wegottickets.com
Suitable for children over 14 years of age
Rob Gee
Saturday 25th January
Rutland County Museum
7.30pm
£10.00
Suitable for children over 11years of age.
Spitfire Solo
Affecting and gripping one man theatre performance telling the story of 80 year old Peter, a former Spitfire pilot facing a battle as big as his own involvement in the Battle of Britain. Intimate and filmic, the show has been touring successfully since 2011.
Date: Friday 26 April 2019
Start Time: 19:30:00
Venue: Rutland County Museum (LE156HW)
Community: Oakham
Show/Event: Spitfire Solo
Tickets £10.00 from Oakham Wines or wegottickets.com
Suitable for children over 11 years of age
