Canolfan UCHELDRE Centre

Come and join Signdance Collective at their  free, fun and interactive drop in workshops based on Dr Seuss’ Yertle The Turtle. There is more than meets the eye with this intelligent and fascinating animal - one of the oldest life forms on Earth.  In the workshops children from ages 4 to 11 can explore the story of Yertle The Turtle through sign language /theatre story telling, dance, music and scent! 

To book contact the Ucheldre box office on 01407 763361

Come and join Signdance Collective at their  free, fun and interactive drop in workshops based on Dr Seuss’ Yertle The Turtle. There is more than meets the eye with this intelligent and fascinating animal - one of the oldest life forms on Earth.  In the workshops children from ages 4 to 11 can explore the story of Yertle The Turtle through sign language /theatre story telling, dance, music and scent!

To book contact the Ucheldre box office on 01407 763361

Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland burst onto the stage in 2011 in an explosion of colour, stage magic and inventive, sophisticated choreography. Joby Talbot’s score combines contemporary soundworlds with sweeping melodies that gesture to ballet scores of the 19th century. Bob Crowley’s wildly imaginative, eye-popping designs draw on everything from puppetry to projections to make Wonderland wonderfully real.

At a garden party on a sunny afternoon, Alice is surprised to see her parents’ friend Lewis Carroll transform into a white rabbit. When she follows him down a rabbit hole events become curiouser and curiouser…

 

Alice encounters a cast of extraordinary and instantly recognizable characters, from the highly strung Queen of Hearts – who performs a hilarious send-up of The Sleeping Beauty's famous Rose Adage – to a playing-card corps de ballet, a sinuous caterpillar and a tap-dancing Mad Hatter. But the ballet does not avoid the darker undercurrents of Lewis Carroll’s story: a nightmarish kitchen, an eerily disembodied Cheshire Cat and the unhinged tea party are all here in vivid detail. The delicious result shows The Royal Ballet at its best, bringing together world-class dance with enchanting family entertainment.

Come and join Signdance Collective at their sharing of the work developed in the workshops and rehearsals. Work based on Dr Seuss’ Yertle The Turtle. There is more than meets the eye with this intelligent and fascinating animal - one of the oldest life forms on Earth.  The workshops for children from ages 4 to 11 explored the story of Yertle The Turtle through sign language /theatre story telling, dance, music and scent!  To book contact the Ucheldre box office on 01407 763361.

An opportunity to read your own, or other people's work in a friendly, supportive atmosphere. Led by Karen Ankers and Trefor Stockwell.

Held in the Ucheldre's Café.

Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife poetry collection becomes a chamber opera by trailblazing  young composer Tom Green.

Scored for soprano, string quartet, and loop pedals, The World’s Wife is a musical adaptation of Duffy’s poems presenting actions and stories of famous men of history and myth from their spouses’ perspectives. The feminist approach to the literary collection is further strengthened in Green’s work, as his score includes musical quotes of music by female composers – better known or forgotten – ranging fom Clara Schumann to Barbara Strozzi. The musical staging of The World’s Wife thus features double revenge from the female point of view: not only do women re-tell world-renowned stories in their own words, but often overlooked musical works by women are here celebrated and become the perfect commentary to accompany the presented tales.

Cast & Creative Team: Composer Tom Green, Soprano Amanda Forbes, with the Mavron String Quartet, Director Ed Madden, Designer Grace Smart.

The World’s Wife is sung in English with surtitles in English

To see a trailer from YouTube click the link here

Join us for a two-day extravaganza of Chinese culture, presented by the internationally acclaimed Chongqing Performance Company. Headlined by a stunning performance of Chinese music and dance, activities will include Chinese craft demonstrations, tea ceremonies and an exhibition of Chinese art.

Wednesday 1 November

4 - 5pm Chinese craft demonstrations

5-7pm Food & refreshments available, booking required

7-8.30pm Performance of Chinese music and dance*

Thursday 2 November

10.30-11.30am Chinese craft demonstrations

*Tickets for performance only from Ucheldre Box Office (other events free of charge)

box-office@ucheldre.org / 01407 763361

                                 This event is a fundraiser for Canolfan Ucheldre Centre

As part of a two-day extravaganza of Chinese culture, presented by the internationally acclaimed Chongqing Performance Company. Activities will include Chinese craft demonstrations, tea ceremonies and an exhibition of Chinese art.

Wednesday 1 November

4 - 5pm Chinese craft demonstrations

Thursday 2 November

10.30-11.30am Chinese craft demonstrations

The exhibition will be displayed in the Aisles over the whole of the two day visit.

As part of the two-day extravaganza of Chinese culture we have a stunning performance of Chinese music and dance.

Part 1-Traditional Song and Dance performances

 -- Interval --

 with a small tea ceremony and guzheng music in café area run by Confucius Institute staff

Part 2 -3 Chinese Folk Music performances

Part 3 -Sichuan Opera performance

This event is a fundraiser for Canolfan Ucheldre Centre

Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical is staged for the first time at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas. New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves.

Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Staunton play the magnificent Follies in this dazzling new production. Featuring a cast of 37 and an orchestra of 21, it’s directed by Dominic Cooke (The Comedy of Errors). Winner of Academy, Tony, Grammy and Olivier awards, Sondheim’s previous work includes A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George

The Met presents the American premiere of Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel, inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name.

The Exterminating Angel is a surreal fantasy about a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape. Over a period of two nights encapsulated in three acts we are engaged by an ever more sinister and bizarre turn of events.

Hailed by the New York Times at its 2016 Salzburg Festival premiere as “inventive and audacious … a major event,”

Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto, directs the new production, and Adès conducts his own adventurous new opera.

                                Ahead of the November 24th release of the feature film we have

Manifesto: Live from Tate Modern

An opportunity to read your own, or other people's work in a friendly, supportive atmosphere. Led by Karen Ankers and Trefor Stockwell.

Held in the Ucheldre's Café.

Daniel Morden transports you to the Land of No Return, his storytelling served by the hypnotic string accompaniment of Sarah Moody and Oliver Wilson-Dickson.

The ensemble will take you on an epic journey, through a dreamlike land where you will encounter a king turned to stone, an old woman living in the claw of a giant cockerel and a glass man filled with wasps.

The essence of all cinema, theatre and literature is a gripping tale well told. By weaving traditional stories into an epic narrative The Devil’s Violin return us to that essence. STOLEN is a tale of lost loves, bravery, and above all else, hope. 

No guards met him at the palace.

He made his way through a great pair of gates.

Through chambers that echoed with his footsteps.

He came to a hall thick with fog - was that a statue?

No, not a statue but the King himself.

The King of this country, as still and grey

as the stone his throne was made from.

“You could hear a pin drop...like the air was all onstage with them. The music is divine.” Bristol Old Vic

For YouTube trailer please click here

"DUETS" is an award winning comedy.   It deals with four separate stories and four sets of characters.

Jonathan (Peter Preston) and Wendy (Karen Ankers) are on a "Blind Date", hoping   to get it right this time, even though they never have before.  

Secretarial Skills" introduces us to Barrie (Mike Gould) who is not interested in woman, while Janet, his secretary, (Donna Jones) sees that as no reason to stop trying. 

In "The Holiday", we meet Shelley (Caroline Tattersall) and Bobby (Brian Davies) who have decided to holiday in Spain to finalise their divorce while drowning in cocktails.   

Finally in "Bride-to-Be", Angela (Sandra Fraser) is marrying for the third or  fourth time much to the dismay of her brother Toby (Andy Littlefield) and amidst a barrage of bad omens, not to mention a dress resembling a parachute.  

"Duets" highlights the chaotic world of love, relationships

and why the grass is never greener. 

"DUETS" is an award winning comedy.   It deals with four separate stories and four sets of characters.

Jonathan (Peter Preston) and Wendy (Karen Ankers) are on a "Blind Date", hoping   to get it right this time, even though they never have before.  

Secretarial Skills" introduces us to Barrie (Mike Gould) who is not interested in woman, while Janet, his secretary, (Donna Jones) sees that as no reason to stop trying. 

In "The Holiday", we meet Shelley (Caroline Tattersall) and Bobby (Brian Davies) who have decided to holiday in Spain to finalise their divorce while drowning in cocktails.   

Finally in "Bride-to-Be", Angela (Sandra Fraser) is marrying for the third or  forth time much to the dismay of her brother Toby (Andy Littlefield) and amidst a barrage of bad omens, not to mention a dress resembling a parachute.  

"Duets" highlights the chaotic world of love, relationships

and why the grass is never greener. 

"DUETS" is an award winning comedy.   It deals with four separate stories and four sets of characters.

Jonathan (Peter Preston) and Wendy (Karen Ankers) are on a "Blind Date", hoping   to get it right this time, even though they never have before.  

Secretarial Skills" introduces us to Barrie (Mike Gould) who is not interested in woman, while Janet, his secretary, (Donna Jones) sees that as no reason to stop trying. 

In "The Holiday", we meet Shelley (Caroline Tattersall) and Bobby (Brian Davies) who have decided to holiday in Spain to finalise their divorce while drowning in cocktails.   

Finally in "Bride-to-Be", Angela (Sandra Fraser) is marrying for the third or  forth time much to the dismay of her brother Toby (Andy Littlefield) and amidst a barrage of bad omens, not to mention a dress resembling a parachute.  

"Duets" highlights the chaotic world of love, relationships

and why the grass is never greener. 

Rory Kinnear (The Threepenny Opera, Penny Dreadful, Othello) is Marx and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night, Green Wing) is Engels, in this new comedy written by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman. Broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre, London, the production  is directed by Nicholas Hytner and reunites the creative team behind Broadway and West End hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors.

1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary is a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy. Creditors, spies, rival revolutionary factions and prospective seducers of his beautiful wife all circle like vultures. His writing blocked, his marriage dying, his friend Engels in despair at his wasted genius, his only hope is a job on the railway. But there’s still no one in the capital who can show you a better night on the piss than Karl Heinrich Marx.