LANCASHIRE’S LARGEST THEATRE

SPRING 2018

Welcome to Spot On’s Spring 2018 tour

Spot On, Lancashire’s Rural Touring Networkc/o The Barn, 61A Manor Rd, Blackburn, BB2 6LX

Telephone: 01254 660360Email: hello@spotonlancashire.co.ukWeb: www.spotonlancashire.co.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/spotonlancashire

Tickets: All Spot On shows are priced from £8–£15 for adults and from £6 for children. Please check with each venue regarding their policy for concessionary tickets, group booking discounts and early booking incentives. Please book tickets with our promoters directly or check www.spotonlancashire.co.uk for online links.

Contacting promoters: Our promoter details are listed on pages 9 & 10 of our What’s On Guide. We strongly advise contacting promoters in advance or booking online as demand can be high for our events. In the case of library venues we recommend emailing or visiting the library directly to book or purchase tickets.

The network is coordinated by Culturapedia as part of the Cheshire

Lancashire Touring Partnership.

This season we’re bringing new writing with support from The Lowry, igloo-tastic children’s theatre with support from Big Imaginations and two international performances with help from the Canadian Arts Council. You’ll also see a whole host of world class contemporary dance on your doorstep through our partnership with the Rural Touring Dance Initiative. So if you like soulful suffragettes, icy adventures, tempting tales and chunky chips you’d best dive into the Spring 2018 brochure! Spot On is working to ensure that events are accessible to all. To ensure your night out with the network is an enjoyable one, please feel free to discuss access needs with either the venue promoter, the scheme manager or visit our website. If your venue is not yet on our map, call Spot On 01254 660360 to find out how you can host a show.

Lyndsey Wilson, Company Manager

CONTENTSShows 3–8Become a Spot On Supporter 9At a Glance 10–11Map & Venues 12

SPOT ON RURAL TOURING NETWORK SPRING 2018 TOUR2

Commissioned by the Rural Touring Dance Initiative, Warwick Arts Centre and DanceEast

The year is 1978, isolated from the mainland, Eric Valentine and Bernard Humphries have been stationed at Echo Point lighthouse, somewhere off the coast of England. The unlikely strangers have just begun to lay down foundations for this odd working relationship when the uncanny occurs. Point of Echoes is a haunting tale of love, death and monsters, blending the tones of a Wes Anderson movie with the eerie dread of The Twilight Zone.

“The whole audience was mesmerised throughout… [an] amazing performance”Claire Marshall, Carn to Cove

“Funny, thoughtful and disturbing in equal measure” Audience Member

BGROUP & CHINA PLATE PRESENTPoint Of Echoes

DANCECABARET

Sat 3 Mar 7:30pm / Fraser Hall, Cowan BridgeSuitable for ages 12+

Fri 9 Mar 7:30pm / Waterfront Cafe @ The Marine Hall, FleetwoodSuitable for ages 14+

SPILTMILK DANCEThe Little Love Cabaret

Packed with comedy and passion, The Little Love Cabaret is a scrapbook of real-life love stories collected from contributors aged 2 – 92 across the country.

Ultimate heart throbs, full-on obsessions, awkward mixed up emotions combine in a heart-warming, fun-filled, and at times completely absurd cabaret reminding us of the lengths we’ll go to for the things we love. Somewhere between a sketch show, dance performance, confessional and a gushing love letter, join Spiltmilk Dance and some special guests to rejoice in all the things that make life brilliant!

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This show has been supported in a partnership between Spot On Lancashire and the Rural Touring Dance Initiative

More info on all performances at spotonlancashire.co.uk 3

Sat 10 Mar 7:30pm / Whitechapel Village HallSuitable for ages 12+

Join award winning Protein for a highly entertaining evening with friends and family. Transforming Whitechapel Village Hall into a restaurant, you are invited to bring your own food (something you have grown, made or bought) and sit at decorated tables to watch, savour and digest a performance of dance, theatre and song that unfolds around you. Your charming and multi-talented hosts will win your affections with a playful mix of dances, songs and humorous monologues. Food will certainly be on the menu as the performance involves amuse-bouches and baking a scrumptious sticky ginger pudding for everyone to share! With a raffle orchestrated by the performers during the interval, this sumptuous evening promises to make you smile and enjoy the curious relationship we have with food.

“It brings a whole new meaning to the term: ‘supper theatre’…a yummy night out!”**** The Stage

“...lip-smacking fusion of song, dance, mime and sweet aperitif tomatoes.”**** The Guardian

LUCA SILVESTRINI’S PROTEIN PRESENTSMay Contain Food, May Contain You

DANCE

From medieval lute music, Spanish guitar classics, Delta Blues and hints of Chet Atkins and Django Reinhardt, through to the Beatles, Clive Carroll plays it all. Clive’s masterful compositions, coupled with his versatility and unparalleled technical virtuosity, have rendered him one of today’s most admired and respected guitarists. Clive has composed music for major films and has been awarded an array of awards and accolades, such as inclusion in Total Guitar Magazine’s “Top 10 Acoustic Guitarists of All Time”. Since then Clive has gone from strength to strength, touring solo around the world and alongside lauded guitarist Tommy Emmanuel.

MUSIC

Fri 16 Mar 7pm / Longton Library Sat 17 Mar 7:30pm / Dunsop Bridge Village HallSun 18 Mar 7:30pm / St Joseph’s Parish Hall, HoghtonSuitable for ages 8+

CLIVE CARROLL1000 Years of Music

This show has been supported in a partnership between Spot On Lancashire and the Rural Touring Dance Initiative

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See the world-class music programme at parbolddouglasmusic.org

Thu 22 Mar 7pm / Parbold Village HallSuitable for ages 12+

Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will be in promenade, thrusting its audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake. Ben Whishaw and Michelle Fairley play Brutus and Cassius, leaders of the coup, David Calder plays Caesar and David Morrissey is Mark Antony, who brings Rome back under control after the conspirators’ defeat.

LIVE SCREENING

A one-woman musical written by Boff Whalley and directed by Rod Dixon. February 1918, and after several decades of protest and four years of bloody war, Parliament is poised to grant what the suffragettes have demanded and fought for – votes for women. After years of direct action, arrest, imprisonment and force-feeding, it seems their time has come. Wrong ‘Un tells of the adventures of Annie Wilde, a Lancashire mill-girl galvanised by a rousing mixture of injustice, conviction, self-doubt and fear on her journey from schoolroom to prison cell and beyond in a musical drama that draws on class, privilege, hope and disappointment in wartime England.

FRONT ROW SCREENINGS AT PARBOLD PICTURE HOUSENTLive Julius Caesar

RED LADDER THEATRE COMPANYWrong ‘Un - A Suffragette Story

THEATRE

Sat 17 Mar 7:30pm / Whitworth LibrarySun 18 Mar 8pm / Halton MillSuitable for ages 11+

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Sam’s new show has been developed in a partnership between The Lowry and Spot On Lancashire

Award-winning storyteller and failed Buddhist monk, Sam Brady, performs two one-man shows in a single evening.Kindness: This funny, uplifting one-man show tells the true story of Sam’s journey from businessman to Buddhist monk to single parent.Things I Say When I Don’t Say I Love You: When Tommy is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, his son and grandson agree to help him fulfil his life’s dream to restore a vintage car. But amid stripped engines, rusted metal and frayed tempers, the three men discover that piecing together the past can have unexpected consequences.

SAM BRADY DOUBLE BILL:Kindness / Things I Say When I Don’t Say I Love You

THEATRE

Oolik is an ordinary girl who goes on an extraordinary journey… Sitting in her igloo, a drop of water falls on her head. Then another! Is her home melting? Join Oolik , this Easter holiday, as she sets out on a journey to find help. On her way she meets some exciting friends – including YOU! Journey into a dazzling, Arctic world of soaring snow geese, husky dogs and starry nights. And the kind of cold that makes your skin tingle! Travelling through snowstorms, across oceans and into our hearts, Oolik is not the kind of girl to give up on her quest… With enchanting live music, it’s a fun, magical experience for all the family, showing that when we work together, anything can happen! It’s a friendly, interactive show, with the audience seated very close to the action, creating an exciting, intimate experience where everyone can see and take part.

Thu 22 Mar 7:30pm / Mellor Brook Community CentreFri 23 Mar 7:30pm / St Peter’s School Church Hall, SimonstoneSuitable for ages 12+

THE BONE ENSEMBLEWhere’s My Igloo Gone?

FAMILY

Tue 27 Mar 1:15pm / Heysham Library Suitable for ages 5+ The show is accessible to non English speakers and Deaf audiences (no BSL or captions needed)

This show is supported by Big Imaginations – Children’s Theatre Consortium

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It’s the 1930s, movies are being made faster than you can say MGM, and being made to make you feel good. Budgets are increasing and the studios are making pictures bigger and bigger. Within the industry, four women emerge who refuse to be “just another ingénue”. Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, Lucille Ball and Bette Davis each made their own strides to make women a more prominent and powerful force in Hollywood. Rebecca Perry returns to Spot On for a night of marvellous melodies and scandalous headlines from the Golden Age of Hollywood!

REBECCA PERRYFrom Judy to Bette - The Stars of Old Hollywood

CABARETTHEATRE

Fri 13 Apr 7:30pm / Bleasdale Parish HallSat 14 Apr 7pm (Doors at 6.30pm) / Tockholes Village HallSun 15 Apr 7pm / Longton VM ClubSuitable for ages 15+

Tue 17 Apr 7:30pm / Garstang LibraryWed 18 Apr 7:30pm / Ansdell LibraryThu 19 Apr 7:30pm / The Barlow, EdgworthFri 20 Apr 7pm / Roughlee Village CentreSat 21 Apr 7pm / Clitheroe LibrarySuitable for ages 12+

BOX OF TRICKS THEATREChip Shop Chips

It’s the grand reopening of Booth and Son’s Fish & Chip Shop. Eric has returned home, over forty years after he left, and it’s time for a fresh start. But old flame Christine has other ideas. Transported back to a time of chippy teas and Northern Soul, there’s unfinished business for these old lovers. Watching teenage love stumble as hapless Lee makes a pass at the beautiful Jasmine, is it all just history repeating? Focusing on love at different ages and celebrating the nation’s favourite food, brace yourself for an immersive love story set to a soundtrack of Northern Soul and served with a fish and chip supper. This is theatre, but not as you know it: dinner, quiz and a show all rolled into one!

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Fri 27 Apr 7pm / The Rainhall Centre, BarnoldswickSat 28 Apr 7:30pm (Doors at 7pm) / The Bureau, BlackburnSuitable for ages 14+

From demure housewife to bloodthirsty goddess; gurgling infant to elephant man; meditating sage to cosmic fire eater. Hindu mythology illuminates a mind-blowing world of radical transformations. Kali is one of the wildest shape-shifters of all. Demon-slayer, life-saver, supreme-mother, destruction-dancer; this goddess is truly awesome. When an evil power spreads its clawed hands across the world, Kali’s time has come… Join storyteller, Emily Hennessey and sitar player extraordinaire, Sheema Mukherjee, for a white-knuckled tuc-tuc ride through sun-kissed palaces, fiend-infested forests and every cacophonous saffron-scented marketplace in-between.

Described as everything from indie-roots to chamber-folk, West My Friend has an acoustic blend of instruments and three-part harmonies that challenges the conventions of popular music. The band features pure and thrillingly elastic vocals with catchy arrangements of bass, guitar, mandolin, and accordion that draw from jazz, classical, folk, and pop influences. Inspired by artists such as Owen Pallett, Joanna Newsom, Bright Eyes, The Decemberists, and the Punch Brothers, and forged from a sonically adventurous acoustic music scene on Canada’s west coast, West My Friend is proving to be a key part of a new generation of grassroots folk music.

EMILY HENNESSEY & SHEEMA MUKHERJEEKali - The Story of the World’s Wildest Goddess

WEST MY FRIENDQuiet Hum Tour

STORYTELLING MUSIC

Thu 3 May 7pm / Clayton Green LibraryFri 4 May 7:30pm / Tosside Community CentreSat 5 May 7:30pm / Melling Village InstituteSun 6 May 7:30pm / Weeton Village HallSuitable for ages 8+

This show is brought to Lancashire with support from Folkus

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SPOT ON RURAL TOURING NETWORK SPRING 2018 TOUR8

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SUPPORTER

Spot On Supporters are loyal friends of Spot On rural and library touring.

This is your way to support Spot On. In return you can have free entry to Spot On performances.

Make a one off payment of £40 for a season or £75 for the year and you can attend as many Spot On performances as you can fit in. We also have supporter cards that allow you to take guests so you can include all the family.To order your Spot On Supporter card online visit our PayPal button on the website.

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