Saturday 22nd January 2022
Jazz Concert All tickets £12
featuring The Martin Hart Trio with Steve Waterman on Trumpet
Jazz Concert All tickets £12
featuring The Martin Hart Trio with Steve Waterman on Trumpet
- Ken McCarthy Piano
- Andy Crowdy Double Base
- Martin Hart Drums
17th - 21st May 2022
'Things We Do for Love' tickets £12/£10
by Alan Ayckbourn
directed by Steve Atkins
Regarded by critics as being one of Ayckbourn’s finest plays, ‘Things We Do For Love’ is a painfully funny, technically ingenious and very physical (in all senses) play with many screamingly funny moments. Premiered in 1997, ‘Things’ hit the West End in’98, with a national tour in 2014.
The action is set in a Victorian house in Fulham owned by Barbara, with her ground floor living room occupying most of the stage.
We also see a bit of the basement flat underneath, inhabited by Gilbert the postman, and the floor of the flat upstairs which Barbara is letting to her old school-friend Nikki, newly engaged to Hamish. Barbara and Hamish’s initial loathing of each other soon swings 180 degrees, and the fall-out from this fuels a hilarious second act as they are overcome with guilt and their old animosity flares up again. Ayckbourn in his prime is able to wring so much laughter from so much pain.
'Things We Do for Love' tickets £12/£10
by Alan Ayckbourn
directed by Steve Atkins
Regarded by critics as being one of Ayckbourn’s finest plays, ‘Things We Do For Love’ is a painfully funny, technically ingenious and very physical (in all senses) play with many screamingly funny moments. Premiered in 1997, ‘Things’ hit the West End in’98, with a national tour in 2014.
The action is set in a Victorian house in Fulham owned by Barbara, with her ground floor living room occupying most of the stage.
We also see a bit of the basement flat underneath, inhabited by Gilbert the postman, and the floor of the flat upstairs which Barbara is letting to her old school-friend Nikki, newly engaged to Hamish. Barbara and Hamish’s initial loathing of each other soon swings 180 degrees, and the fall-out from this fuels a hilarious second act as they are overcome with guilt and their old animosity flares up again. Ayckbourn in his prime is able to wring so much laughter from so much pain.
Saturday 28th May 2022
Jazz Concert all tickets £12
featuring The Martin Hart Trio with Karen Sharp tenor Sax
Karen Sharp
Karen took up the tenor saxophone whilst studying composition at the Royal Northern College of Music. With remarkable little fuss, Karen has risen from newcomer in the Humphrey Lyttelton’s final band to being voted top tenor saxophonist in 2010’s British Jazz Awards.
Her style is so flexible she can move effortlessly from an old standard like ‘Bye Bye Baby’ to her own ethereal title track, adjusting the sound through subtle shifts of tone and attack. Humph persuaded her to add baritone to her tenor, and she is equally impressive.
“Sharp loves melody, whether composed or improvised, as reflected in her relaxed and natural phrasing”
Jazz Concert all tickets £12
featuring The Martin Hart Trio with Karen Sharp tenor Sax
- Ken McCarthy Piano
- Andy Crowdy Double Base
- Martin Hart Drums
Karen Sharp
Karen took up the tenor saxophone whilst studying composition at the Royal Northern College of Music. With remarkable little fuss, Karen has risen from newcomer in the Humphrey Lyttelton’s final band to being voted top tenor saxophonist in 2010’s British Jazz Awards.
Her style is so flexible she can move effortlessly from an old standard like ‘Bye Bye Baby’ to her own ethereal title track, adjusting the sound through subtle shifts of tone and attack. Humph persuaded her to add baritone to her tenor, and she is equally impressive.
“Sharp loves melody, whether composed or improvised, as reflected in her relaxed and natural phrasing”
27th September to 1st October 2022
'Teechers' tickets £12/£10
By John Godber
directed by Jane Harris
In the 1980s, Hull Truck Theatre became a global success story, and ‘Teechers’, written by its Artistic Director John Godber , was one of the plays that made it so. ‘Teechers’ had a revival and tour in 2010 as Godber left Hull Truck after 26 years. John Godber’s ‘Teechers’ is GCSE material.
It is a play within a play in which three students put on a performance to their teachers, acting out their time in secondary school – particularly their time with Mr Jeff Nixon, who has ignited their love for drama and the belief that all children should be treated equally. Fast-moving, inventive and highly entertaining, Teechers brings to life an array of terrifying teachers and hopeless pupils through the unique eyes of Salty, Gail and Hobby; three senior students about to leave school for good, and uses contemporary chart music for relevance.
Towards the end of the play the three kids learn that Mr. Nixon may be leaving to teach at a ‘superior’ school, and they start to understand how much he has helped them.
'Teechers' tickets £12/£10
By John Godber
directed by Jane Harris
In the 1980s, Hull Truck Theatre became a global success story, and ‘Teechers’, written by its Artistic Director John Godber , was one of the plays that made it so. ‘Teechers’ had a revival and tour in 2010 as Godber left Hull Truck after 26 years. John Godber’s ‘Teechers’ is GCSE material.
It is a play within a play in which three students put on a performance to their teachers, acting out their time in secondary school – particularly their time with Mr Jeff Nixon, who has ignited their love for drama and the belief that all children should be treated equally. Fast-moving, inventive and highly entertaining, Teechers brings to life an array of terrifying teachers and hopeless pupils through the unique eyes of Salty, Gail and Hobby; three senior students about to leave school for good, and uses contemporary chart music for relevance.
Towards the end of the play the three kids learn that Mr. Nixon may be leaving to teach at a ‘superior’ school, and they start to understand how much he has helped them.
Saturday 15th October 2022
Jazz Concert All tickets £12
featuring The Martin Hart Trio with Stuart Henderson on Trumpet & Flugel Horn
"100 years of Jazz Trumpet"
(from Buddy Bolden to Miles David and beyond)
Ken McCarthy Piano
Andy Crowdy Double Base
Martin Hart Drums
Stuart Henderson
From 1983 - 2005 Stuart was principal trumpet of The Scots Guards Band in Her Majesty’s Household Division. During this period he played many times for the Royal Family and at State occasions all over the world. Since leaving the services Stuart has become a fixture on the UK jazz scene appearing with many of the countries finest jazz musicians.
He leads various small groups and is musical director of the Remix Jazz Orchestra. He has played at many jazz festivals including Edinburgh, Glasgow and Brecon. Recording credits include dance labels “Nanny Tango”, “Soul Purpose” and “Greenfly”, and artistic collaborations with Tongues of Fire, Macnas and Mark Anderson “Dark Spark”. His commercial work includes the Rebecca Poole quartet, the String of Pearls, Joe Loss, The Showbiz Pops Orchestra and Nick Heyward.
Jazz Concert All tickets £12
featuring The Martin Hart Trio with Stuart Henderson on Trumpet & Flugel Horn
"100 years of Jazz Trumpet"
(from Buddy Bolden to Miles David and beyond)
Ken McCarthy Piano
Andy Crowdy Double Base
Martin Hart Drums
Stuart Henderson
From 1983 - 2005 Stuart was principal trumpet of The Scots Guards Band in Her Majesty’s Household Division. During this period he played many times for the Royal Family and at State occasions all over the world. Since leaving the services Stuart has become a fixture on the UK jazz scene appearing with many of the countries finest jazz musicians.
He leads various small groups and is musical director of the Remix Jazz Orchestra. He has played at many jazz festivals including Edinburgh, Glasgow and Brecon. Recording credits include dance labels “Nanny Tango”, “Soul Purpose” and “Greenfly”, and artistic collaborations with Tongues of Fire, Macnas and Mark Anderson “Dark Spark”. His commercial work includes the Rebecca Poole quartet, the String of Pearls, Joe Loss, The Showbiz Pops Orchestra and Nick Heyward.
29th Nov to 3rd December 2022
'Ladies Down Under' tickets £12/£10
The popular sequel to ‘Ladies Day’ by Amanda Whittington,
directed by Frank Kaye
Commissioned by the Hull Truck Theatre, in this funny and heart-warming sequel to Amanda Whittington's popular ‘Ladies Day’ we follow the fortunes of four fish packers from Hull who won big on the races and are now following the dream by holidaying 'Down Under'. In the land of Oz these four fearless ladies find there's more to life than money and fish. Indeed, as Pearl discovers, 'life is what happens when you are busy making other plans'
The Reviews Hub critic reported that “The writing is brilliantly funny, from the pop culture references and offhand observations, to the frequent off-key renditions of Waltzing Matilda. However, something unexpected happens on arrival in Oz as the pace becomes less frenetic, the humour less coarse and the characterisation deepens.’ Round the campfire the outback is revealed as less Crocodile Dundee and more as a place of mystic spirituality … and terrifying spiders. Our girls meet a drunken Pom on a beach, a poseur of a surfer and a rugged bush hero, falling in love and sorting out their lives along the way, set against a background of Kylie and the Beach Boys
'Ladies Down Under' tickets £12/£10
The popular sequel to ‘Ladies Day’ by Amanda Whittington,
directed by Frank Kaye
Commissioned by the Hull Truck Theatre, in this funny and heart-warming sequel to Amanda Whittington's popular ‘Ladies Day’ we follow the fortunes of four fish packers from Hull who won big on the races and are now following the dream by holidaying 'Down Under'. In the land of Oz these four fearless ladies find there's more to life than money and fish. Indeed, as Pearl discovers, 'life is what happens when you are busy making other plans'
The Reviews Hub critic reported that “The writing is brilliantly funny, from the pop culture references and offhand observations, to the frequent off-key renditions of Waltzing Matilda. However, something unexpected happens on arrival in Oz as the pace becomes less frenetic, the humour less coarse and the characterisation deepens.’ Round the campfire the outback is revealed as less Crocodile Dundee and more as a place of mystic spirituality … and terrifying spiders. Our girls meet a drunken Pom on a beach, a poseur of a surfer and a rugged bush hero, falling in love and sorting out their lives along the way, set against a background of Kylie and the Beach Boys