Artrix, Slideslow Drive, Bromsgrove

Ruddigore or The Witch's Curse

This is a great showcase for Sullivan’s musical dexterity, including some of the best music he ever wrote. The sparkling score is full of energy from the riveting to the grippingly ghoulish. Gilbert’s satire remains sharp and pertinent as it pokes fun at the aristocracy and the relationships between them and their servants and local folk. This ‘upstairs, downstairs’ situation will strike a chord with audiences of all ages.

Set in a Quaint Cornish fishing village Robin Oakapple is keeping his true identity secret. He is really a baronet who wants a new life, so he fakes his own death to achieve this, leaving his younger brother to inherit his title. The wit of W.S. Gilbert is manifested in a plot that has aristocrats in stately homes, young women looking for wealthy husbands, old ladies gossiping, gentlemen farmers providing work, local villains seeking help to go straight and young women going off the rails and ending up homeless. Add to that some Eton-type Hooray Henrys down at the seaside for a jolly with the local girls, a local philanthropist who wants people to marry rather than live in sin and all makes for a G & S classic full of great humour & fun.

Tickets available from Ticket Secretary...Hazel Avon...0121 445 3120 OR boxoffice [at] artrix [dot] co [dot] uk

Weds - Sat evening: £13 (£12)
Sat Matinee: £12
Family Ticket (2+2 or 1+3): £45

Artrix, Slideslow Drive, Bromsgrove

Ruddigore or The Witch's Curse

This is a great showcase for Sullivan’s musical dexterity, including some of the best music he ever wrote. The sparkling score is full of energy from the riveting to the grippingly ghoulish. Gilbert’s satire remains sharp and pertinent as it pokes fun at the aristocracy and the relationships between them and their servants and local folk. This ‘upstairs, downstairs’ situation will strike a chord with audiences of all ages.

Set in a Quaint Cornish fishing village Robin Oakapple is keeping his true identity secret. He is really a baronet who wants a new life, so he fakes his own death to achieve this, leaving his younger brother to inherit his title. The wit of W.S. Gilbert is manifested in a plot that has aristocrats in stately homes, young women looking for wealthy husbands, old ladies gossiping, gentlemen farmers providing work, local villains seeking help to go straight and young women going off the rails and ending up homeless. Add to that some Eton-type Hooray Henrys down at the seaside for a jolly with the local girls, a local philanthropist who wants people to marry rather than live in sin and all makes for a G & S classic full of great humour & fun.

Tickets available from Ticket Secretary...Hazel Avon...0121 445 3120 OR boxoffice [at] artrix [dot] co [dot] uk

Weds - Sat evening: £13 (£12)
Sat Matinee: £12
Family Ticket (2+2 or 1+3): £45

Catshill Social Club, Meadow Road, Catshill, B61 0JJ

Joe Topping is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the Wirral, whose musical journey so far has been as colourful as it has varied. Joe has always been surrounded by music; his dad, Tom, who in addition to being a semi-pro musician ran a folk club and put on gigs by people as varied as Billy Connelly to Stephan Grapelli, from Martin Carthy to blues musician Blind Jessie Fuller. Many of these influences filtered down to Joe who is playing anything from traditional British folk music to Delta blues slide guitar. Joe also “has a gift to write songs that will last and that others will want to sing” John Wright. And “one of the most beautiful voices I have heard” Chris While. At gigs you are just as likely to hear him playing the mandolin, bouzouki, harmonica, dobro or banjo as you are the guitar.

 ‘The Room Upstairs’, Palace Theatre, Redditch, B98 8AE.

Tickets £8 & £6 from Box office  01527 65203 www.redditchpalacetheatre.co.uk/

Award winning Jestaminute Community Theatre brings you a roller coaster of emotions in their gripping new play. Join us on a poignant sometimes funny journey into the lives of three sets of characters connected by the theme of power and control.

Based on the accounts of people who have experienced domestic abuse, these fictional stories take us on a theatrical exploration into the heart of close relationships. A world where sometimes words alone are not enough to express feelings and emotions. A world where we discover that some people indeed are "an angel abroad and a devil at home"

For more information visit www.jestaminute.co.uk

Worcester Arts Workshop, Worcester, WR1 1UH.

Tickets £8 & £6 from Box Office 01905 25053 or www.worcesterartsworkshop.org.uk

Award winning Jestaminute Community Theatre brings you a roller coaster of emotions in their gripping new play. Join us on a poignant sometimes funny journey into the lives of three sets of characters connected by the theme of power and control.

Based on the accounts of people who have experienced domestic abuse, these fictional stories take us on a theatrical exploration into the heart of close relationships. A world where sometimes words alone are not enough to express feelings and emotions. A world where we discover that some people indeed are "an angel abroad and a devil at home"

For more information visit www.jestaminute.co.uk

Feckenham Village Hall, Feckenham, B96 6HN.

Tickets £8 & £6 from Feckenham community shop & The Rose & Crown Pub, Feckenham.

Award winning Jestaminute Community Theatre brings you a roller coaster of emotions in their gripping new play. Join us on a poignant sometimes funny journey into the lives of three sets of characters connected by the theme of power and control.

Based on the accounts of people who have experienced domestic abuse, these fictional stories take us on a theatrical exploration into the heart of close relationships. A world where sometimes words alone are not enough to express feelings and emotions. A world where we discover that some people indeed are "an angel abroad and a devil at home"

For more information visit www.jestaminute.co.uk

St John's Church, Bromsgrove

Performers:   Jonathan Kingston, Orchestra of St John and the Worcestershire Youth Jazz Orchestra

Programme to include Beethoven's Choral Symphony, Dvorak String Serenade, Poulenc Organ Concerto,  Mozart Sinfonia Concertante and much more

For more details about events and the Orchestra of St John visit www.o-s-j.org.uk

St John's Church, Bromsgrove

Performers:   Jonathan Kingston, Orchestra of St John and the Worcestershire Youth Jazz Orchestra

Programme to include Beethoven's Choral Symphony, Dvorak String Serenade, Poulenc Organ Concerto,  Mozart Sinfonia Concertante and much more

For more details about events and the Orchestra of St John visit www.o-s-j.org.uk

St John's Church, Bromsgrove

Performers:   Jonathan Kingston, Orchestra of St John and the Worcestershire Youth Jazz Orchestra

Programme to include Beethoven's Choral Symphony, Dvorak String Serenade, Poulenc Organ Concerto,  Mozart Sinfonia Concertante and much more

For more details about events and the Orchestra of St John visit www.o-s-j.org.uk