Kings Newsletter October 2013

Inside this Autumn

Issue:

V&A added to the Kings Card!

A brand new pub joins the many local businesses and restaurants to offer discounts to Kings Card holders: ‘The Victoria & Albert’ (also known around Portsmouth as V&A) will now

Shows at a Glance - November

Box Office 023 9282 8282

www.kings-southsea.com www.facebook.com/kingstheatre www.twitter.com/kingssouthsea

‘The Victoria & Albert’ joins our list!

Group Bookings

Discounts available for groups of 20+!

Make Christmas extra special and book your party now for this magical, traditional family pantomime with an all star cast.

Book now for more than 20 people and get a discount!

Starring Danniella Westbrook as Fairy Sparkle, Lynne McGranger of ‘Home and Away’ fame as Carabosse, Tony Adams as King Egbert the Oval and X Factor’s finalist Christopher Maloney and Helen Kent as Prince and Princess Beauty respectively.

For more information please contact Group Bookings on 023 9285 2208/2232 or

online kings-southsea.com

offer to Kings Card members 20% discount on food and drinks! Visit the website for more details on what this pub has to offer. From food and drinks to weekly entertainment, the ‘V&A’ has something for everyone: Albert Road, Southsea, PO5 2SX Tel: 02392 830184 http://www.victoriaandalbertsouthsea.co.uk/

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Kings Card: brand new offers!

Caen International Day

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Buddy Holly

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Wedgewood Rooms shows

Room 28

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Shows at a Glance Group Bookings

Caen International day

promoting their own representative countries and cities as places for destination visits.

The Kings Theatre is taking a delegation to the event to represent and promote Portsmouth to this diverse audience, made up of approximately 50 young people and accompanying adults, Kings Theatre staff plus our Pantomime dame Christopher Marlowe from this year’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and members of the Caen-Portsmouth Friendship Committee and Southsea businesses.

Our participation in the festival will include individual and group performances by Kings Youth Theatre, Groundlings Theatre Company, Pompey in the Community and Portsmouth Music Service, and a workshop for children directed by the French youth theatre company “Crea”. The ‘Caen à l’International’ will be the perfect occasion to further strengthen the bonds between Portsmouth and Caen, promoting our city and The Kings Theatre within Normandy.

‘Caen à l’International’ is a twinning celebration festival held in Caen, France on the 15th and 16th of November, where representatives from Caen's twinned counterparts take part in a weekend of events and activities,

Here are some of the upcoming shows for which you can use your Kings Card discount!

Free Tickets for Kings Card Holders - Children in Need Sunday 10th November 2013, 6pm

Join us for a night of fabulous entertainment as talented performers take to the stage to bring you a night of pure enjoyment! Proceeds go towards the fantastic Children in Need Charity, making this a brilliant night in more ways than one! You can book your free tickets via the box office or over the phone: 023 9282 8282.

Birdsong Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th November 2013, 7.30pm and Saturday Matinee, 2.30pm

A play by Rachel Wagstaff, based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks, ‘Birdsong’ tells the story of one man’s journey through an all-consuming love affair and into the horror of the first world war.

A Christmas Carol

November Wednesday

20th

Christmas Crooners

November Thursday

21st

The Magic of Motown

November Sunday

24th

Mack & Mabel

November Thursday 28th

to Wednesday 30th

‘Buddy Holly’

The Wedgewood Rooms Shows

No 28 Activities

The Kings Theatre is always expanding its range of activities and we have recently opened a new workshop space, called ‘No 28’. Situated on Albert Road, next to the stall entrance, No 28 is on the ground floor, with street level access, and provides workshop and exhibition space for the community.

Two workshops will be available this autumn:

The Wedgewood Rooms is a well-established live music venue, playing host to many national and international live acts in the worlds of music and comedy.

The Kings Theatre and The Wedgewood Rooms have successfully teamed up in 2012 to provide Portsmouth with a new entertainment concept, shifting the typical focus on live music of ‘The Wedge’ to live performance, with a staging of Stephen Lowe’s adaption of Robert Tressell’s classic novel ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist’. Having been a resounding success – the show was a few tickets short from being sold-out – Kings Theatre and Wedgewood Rooms have partnered to put on two more shows this Autumn:

This Week:

Monday 21st – Saturday 26th October

2013 7.30pm

Wednesday and Saturday Matinee

2.30pm

Presents Swan Lake

Friday 18th – Saturday 19th October 2013

For those who may need a music history review, Buddy Holly was one of the greatest musician of the 50s, whose legend tragically began when the airplane in which he and fellow stars Ritchie Valens and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were travelling crashed on the shores of Clear Lake, Iowa. Buddy Holly has been defined as one of the most influential musicians of all time, main influence of artists such as The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Don McLean.

The show, defined as the “world’s most successful rock ’n roll musical”, will be on stage from the 21st to the 26th of October, featuring some hours of the greatest songs ever written, including That’ll Be The Day, Oh Boy, Rave On, La Bamba, Chantilly Lace, Johnny B. Goode, Raining In My Heart, Everyday, Shout and many more, this show is just Peggy Sue-perb!

One of the highlights of our autumn schedule, Rave On Ltd’s ‘The Buddy Holly Story’ will finally make its debut at the Kings Theatre. This award-winning show, viewed by more than 20 million people in over 20,000 performances worldwide, opened in London’s West End back in 1989 and has been seen in Broadway, UK, Japan, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, Germany and South Africa, winning a plethora of awards along the way.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Sunday 27th October 2013, 7:30pm

Sunday 10th November 2013, 7:30pm - We Will Be Free: The Tolpuddle Martyrs

Presented by Brother Wolf, award-winning actor/writer James Hyland returns to Southsea with ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "bogey tale" is brought chillingly to life in this ground-breaking one-man show.

Towns End Productions presents ‘We Will Be Free’, a new drama set in 1834 about the Tolpuddle Martyrs that follows the extraordinary true story of George and Betsy Loveless, told through Andy Vine's powerful political cartoons and animation; through puppetry and the exquisite musical arrangements by folk singer player John Kirkpatrick.

Don’t forget: both of these two shows are discounted for Kings Card Holders!

Adventures in Sweetie Land Workshop 21 Oct, 28 Oct, 4 Nov, 11 Nov, 18 Nov, 25 Nov, 2 Dec, 9 Dec, 16 Dec, 23 Dec. 30 Dec 3.30pm – 1 hour session duration

Little Limelight Lovers

5 Nov, 12 Nov, 19 Nov, 26 Nov, 2 Dec, 9 Dec, 16 Dec

11.30am - 1 hour session duration

A morning activity group for children 1-3yrs old, exploring music,

stories, play and interactive activities!

Roots and Wings, creating work for Early Years and celebrate creativity, imagination and individuality in children and young people. Come join Nicola in her fun-filled workshops of interactive storytelling, music, props and creative play!