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Join us and get creative at the Arts & Crafts Club at Gants Hill Library every Saturday. Its free, with no booking required, Just turn up and have fun – Limited Spaces available.
January 20th is Penguin Awareness Day. The day helps raise awareness about the flightless birds whose numbers are dwindling by the day.
Adults only board game session. Pop along, make new friends and play games like Scrabble, Cluedo, Dominoes & loads more!
Deep in the forest Mammy, Daddy and Baby Bear are preparing for winter. Each day the Three Bears head into the woods to collect interesting things to re-use for their home. As winter arrives their cosy house is turned upside down by a colourful whirlwind that threatens to sit in their chairs, eat their porridge and sleep in their beds. It’s Goldilocks!
So bring your bears and join us for an adventure in the woods with original music, puppets and a tale you thought you knew.
A Kitchen Zoo Production in association with Northern Stage
Directed by Bob Nicholson
*Prices include £1.50 Theatre Maintenance Levy
Redbridge Creates Theatre Company presents
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL JR.
Disney Channel’s smash hit movie musical comes to life at the Kenneth More Theatre in Disney’s High School Musical JR. Troy, Gabriella and the students of East High must deal with issues of love, friends and family while balancing their classes and extra-curricular activities.
It’s the first day after winter break at East High. The Jocks, Brainiacs, Thespians an all find their cliques. Basketball team captain and resident jock, Troy, discovers that the brainy Gabriella, a girl he met singing karaoke on his ski trip, has just enrolled at East High. The couple causes an upheaval when they decide to audition for the high school musical. Although many students resent the threat posed to the “status quo,” Troy and Gabriella’s alliance might just open the door for others to shine as well.
Book by David Simpatico
Based on a Disney Channel Original Movie Written by Peter Barsocchini
Songs by Matthew Gerrard & Robbie Nevil, Ray Cham, Greg Cham & Andrew Seeley, Randy Petersen & Kevin Quinn, Andy Dodd & Adam Watts. Bryan Louiselle, David N. Lawrence & Faye Greenberg, Jamie Houston
Music Adapted, Arranged and Produced by Bryan Louiselle
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe) All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe www.mtishows.co.uk
(prices include £1.50 Theatre Maintenance Levy)
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Come on a swashbuckling adventure with family favourite Groove Baby as it sails the seas in this exciting, jazz and funk fuelled show!
Grooving With Pirates is an animated and live-action mystical magical, nautical, musical adventure which follows three pirate friends on a dangerous mission to find some treasure…
A tale of friendship, loyalty and a magic chest. Meet monsters and mermaids, take musical challenges and strut your stuff on the gangplank.
Specially designed to be a midpoint between kid shows and ‘regular’ adult concerts, this show has something for all seadogs. High energy interactive theatre meets hard grooving gig. Blending electro jungle rhythms, infectious pop themes, and a heavy dose of 60s Blue Note soul jazz, the Groove Baby Organ Trio creates a non-stop groove that will have everyone on their feet!
Groove Baby is all about fun for the whole family. Created in 2013 to give parents the opportunity to experience concert hall quality music in a child friendly environment, the shows have developed into a unique- and definitely cool -form of musical theatre event. Featuring standout musicians from the UK jazz and contemporary circuit, Groove Baby shows are a firm family favourite in theatres and festivals the UK.
Prices include £1.50 Theatre Maintenance Levy
Join local 12 year old author Riku Fryderyk as they read out of their second book ‘Music to My Ears’. Drop-in for a fun opportunity to get your copy of Music to My Ears signed by the author.
Admission free, books will be available for purchase from the author on the day.
Blurb:
A burning passion for music has always filled June Watson’s soul, and to this point she has lived a normal life with her father in Mayfair, her GCSE exams approaching.
But then, an unexpected letter arrives…
Her life takes a sharp turn onto a road of fear, danger, enemies, allies, truth, and lies. On her treacherous journey battling mind-control, she uncovers her father’s secrets, and her life is put at risk. Before she knows it, she has been thrown into the midst of an attack on the citizens of London, the effects of which would be widespread across the capital and beyond. In a battle fought by those who will never surrender to the world’s greatest forces, she doesn’t know there’s no turning back now. The tables turn once too often.
Author bio:
Riku Fryderyk is a 12- year old author from Wanstead/London.
Music to My Ears is their second book, following The Witching Hour which was published in September of 2021.
Riku is also a narrator of four audiobooks- including their own debut and The Dragon Flyers series. Committed to delivering their narrations in the best way possible, Riku’s voice brings any story to life, making the listener want to listen over and over again.
Riku is also a regularly-uploading YouTuber, creating videos about various modes of public transport, with fun adventures exploring different networks, stations and their history, keeping subscribers up to date with the latest transport news.
IODS Presents… CURTAINS
Boston, 1959. At the Colonial Theatre, the cast of Robbin’ Hood takes their bows on opening night. Just as the curtain falls, so does Jessica Cranshaw, the profoundly untalented leading lady of the production. Enter Lieutenant Frank Cioffi, a fast-talking cop with a love for musical theatre. He quarantines the cast and crew inside the theatre while he searches for clues. But Cioffi doesn’t just investigate the murder–he also offers advice and insight into improving Robbin’ Hood. The musical will open again in 24 hours with a new leading lady, so the clock is ticking to find the killer and put on a killer show. Who could it be? Carmen Bernstein, the sassy and brassy producer? Christopher Belling, the campy and egotistical director? Georgia Hendricks, the lyricist who replaces Jessica onstage? Niki Harris, the ingenue with a secret? Everyone is a suspect, and only Cioffi can make sense of the evidence.
Curtains is a musical-theatre parody of whodunnit classics, with numbers ranging from the classic musical theatre song-and-dance “A Tough Act to Follow” to the heartfelt “I Miss the Music.” A comedic send-up suitable for all ages, Curtains will have the audience laughing until the last curtain falls.
Curtains is presented through special arrangement with and all authorised performance materials are supplied by Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW), www.theatricalrights.co.uk
(prices includes £1.50 Theatre Maintenance Levy)
Do you ever feel that there is something inside you?
Something very old, that will come out one day.
During the British Raj, to meet the world’s insatiable desire for blue, vast swathes of the Bengali countryside were given over to the cultivation of the indigo plant. The atrocities committed by British planters triggered an extraordinary revolution that changed Bengal forever.
1859. A field in Kanaipur, Bengal. Life-loving Sadhu Charan, an indigo farmer, is newly married to Kshetromani, a woman with visions of the future. At first, all is idyllic. But when the new British Planter, Rose, arrives, full of strange desires, the creeping malignancy of the indigo system begins to strangle their happiness…
Can’t you hear the footsteps all around?
The Indigo Giant is coming!
Born out of a dialogue between British and Bangladeshi theatre makers, INDIGO GIANT is a gripping, haunting new drama inspired by Dinabandhu Mitra’s trail-blazing INDIGO MIRROR, a play that shook colonial India.
Presented by Komola Collective
Written by Ben Musgrave
Produced, Dramaturgy and Lyrics by Leesa Gazi
Direction by Gavin Joseph
Design by Caitlin Abbott
Music by Sohini Alam and Oliver Weeks
Lighting by Nasirul Haque Khokon
Komola Collective are an award-winning arts company dedicated to telling stories from women’s perspectives.
Content warnings: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Violence
Supported by Arts Council England, Charles Wallace Trust, University of East Anglia & Redbridge Drama Centre