Beverley Town Council is once again preparing all the ingredients for the next Beverley Food Festival. This year the event will take place on Sunday 2nd October and will be officially opened by Peter Levy of BBC Look North. This time there will be an emphasis on why it is important to support local food producers. Mayor of Beverley, Cllr Peter Astell, explained: “In the current economic climate, it is…
Helen Wild celebrated her 30th birthday by holding a masked Ball. The event was attended by friends, family and members of the Beverley Theatre Company and there with some unusual masks on show. Picture: Birthday girl Helen Wild at her Masked Ball [nggallery id=1697]
Off Shoots Musical Theatre Company followed on from their success of the Railway Children with another cracking production as they brought their latest production Summer Holiday to the Beverley Memorial Hall. Director Russell Fallon said it was a honour and a privilege to work with such talented and committed and passionate bunch of kids. On the stage the Off Shoots Musical Theatre Company pulled out all the stops bringing a…
Off Shoots Musical Theatre Company present the memorable musical, Summer Holiday, which originally starred Sir Cliff Richard and Una Stubbs in the iconic 1963 movie and Darren Day on stage in the 1990s, includes a romantic wedding in Italy as part of the famous road trip from London to Greece in a double-decker bus. Hit Songs include: Bachelor Boy, Dancing Shoes, The Young Ones, Living Doll. Not forgetting the title…
Off Shoots Musical Theatre Company present the memorable musical, Summer Holiday, which originally starred Sir Cliff Richard and Una Stubbs in the iconic 1963 movie and Darren Day on stage in the 1990s, includes a romantic wedding in Italy as part of the famous road trip from London to Greece in a double-decker bus. Hit Songs include: Bachelor Boy, Dancing Shoes, The Young Ones, Living Doll. Not forgetting the title…
With several hit records under her sleeve including Answer Me, The Caravan Song and January, February, plus various awards for her acting, Barbara Dickson must surely be considered a major coup for the Beverley Festival. Having begun her singing career in folk clubs around her native Fife in Scotland, she later went on to perform live on stage in the musical John, Paul, George, Ringo….and Bert which became a smash…
HU17.net Magazine issue 44, featuring pictures from the following events around Beverley: * Ward Scott LLP Open Their New Beverley Office * Swinemoor Primary School Welcome Project Sponsors * Bazaar And Rummage A Big Success For Beverley Theatre Company * Moths Make Magical Mark On Lockwood Road Bushes * FOLS’ Quiz Night @ The Norwood Recreation Ground * Samantha Nicholson’s 13th Birthday @ Beverley Rugby Club * Mitchell And Grantham…
Sue Townsend’s unique ability to wittily chronicle the minutiae of suburban life – and the neuroses suffered by the inhabitants – proved to be the perfect subject matter for Beverley Theatre Company’s first production of 2011. They are in the middle of staging ‘Bazaar and Rummage’, penned by Townsend, the creator of the engaging Adrian Mole series of books. The first two nights of the production have been a huge…
The Beverley Theatre Company will be staging their first production of 2011 when they perform the comedy, ‘Bazaar & Rummage’ at the Beverley Memorial Hall in Beverley from the 18th to the 21st May. Set in the early eighties, this comedy is the story of a group of women who have agoraphobia and have been encouraged to form a self-help group by their controlling volunteer social worker Gwenda. The story…
In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll, published his most well-loved and popular book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Telling the tale of a curious girl who follows a white rabbit to a fantastical world of talking animals and living playing cards, the novel was an instant hit. With witty puns, social satire and mathematical whimsy, it struck a chord with Victorian readers and has done so…
East Yorkshire-based Other Lives Productions take to the stage with their most ambitious play when they open with Waiting for Godot in an eight-venue East Riding tour, ending at Hull Truck Theatre (from Saturday 15th January 2011). Samuel Beckett’s play, which was first published in 1952, features two tramps, Vladimir (Neil King) and Estragon (Mike Burton), sitting by the roadside waiting for a man called Godot. They think they have…
East Yorkshire-based Other Lives Productions take to the stage with their most ambitious play yet when actors Richard Avery and Neil King open with Waiting for Godot in an eight-venue East Riding tour, that includes a performance at Toll United Gavel Church on Thursday 20th January. Samuel Beckett’s play, which was first published in 1952, features two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, sitting by the roadside waiting for a man called…
The London Theatre Voices come to Toll Gavel United Church, Beverley, on Thursday 13th January 2011 at 7.30pm with ‘A Night of Gilbert and Sullivan.’ Soprano Julie Dawn Lloyd, Louise Crane (contralto), Ben Kerslake (tenor) and bass Peter Willcock, accompanied by Simon Haynes on the piano, will sing a selection of Gilbert and Sullivan songs, duets and quartets. Louise has a great many Gilbert and Sullivan roles under her belt…
Pictures from the Beverley Memorial Hall where the Off Shoots Musical Theatre Company presented The Railway Children (a Musical) The show runs again, tonight, Friday 17 December at 7.30pm. Tickets are just £8 and £6 concessions available from Time & Motion in Beverley 01482 881574. To find out more about this show click here – Click here to purchase photos from this event HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail…
Off Shoots Musical Theatre Company will be presenting The Railway Children (a Musical) at Beverley Memorial Hall on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 December at 7.30pm each evening. Tickets are £8 and £6 concessions available from Time & Motion in Beverley 01482 881574. “Off Shoots is a youth group aged from 7 to over 18, and we have all enjoyed rehearsing this musical version of a well-loved story,” said Jane…
Beverley Musical Theatre’s annual pantomime this year is Mother Goose, starting on the 23rd and running till the 27th November at the Beverley Memorial Hall. There are loads of songs and dances and comedy and booing and hissing. Matinees on Saturday & Sunday at 2.30pm – Tickets availibe from The Beverley Music Centre. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size [nggallery…
The Beverley Theatre Company first production of the 2010/2011 season is underway at the Beverley Memorial Hall. Plaza Suite is a play, written by Neil Simon and was originally performed in New York in 1968. There are three acts that see three different couples dealing with very different issues in the same hotel room. For ticket information for the remaining shows please click here. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the…
Beverley-based actors Neil King and Richard Avery say the tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve is the inspiration behind their latest touring production, which is launched later this month in the East Riding (Friday 19 November). The duo, who run Other Lives Productions, have toured for the last three years with a first half of semi-dramatised readings around a theme, followed by a second half featuring a new…