GINNY ON TOURNew show for
Kenilworth, Edinburgh and Warwick Words Festivals! “Double Booked” is a brand new comedy monologue for 2010 written and performed by Ginny Davis. Mother of three, Ruth Rich, is sandwiched between ill-behaved teenagers and a mildly bewildered Granny. Useless Husband, bossy (Rachel's mum) and bitchy (Timmy's mum) friends and an adulterous schoolmaster make matters worse. Ruth spares the truth in an effort to please everyone. The trouble is... not everyone's telling the truth to her. Chaos unfolds. With echoes of “Outnumbered” and “Shirley Valentine”, “Double Booked” charts a week of family mayhem seen through the eyes of a modern, midlife mother. Double Booked can be seen this month on 25th June at the Ettington Community Centre, Warwickshire, 7.30pm (Box Office 01789 740188. Tickets £15 to include two course meal) 2nd July The Old Joint Stock Theatre, Temple Row, Birmingham. 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Contact 07889 216474 for tickets. And of course at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – The Cellar, Pleasance Courtyard from 4 – 30 Aug. Tickets may be booked from 9th June from The Pleasance ticket office tel: 0131 556 6550/ www.pleasance.co.uk/edinburgh or from the Fringe Box Office 0131 226 0000. Later in the year Ginny will be performing in Oundle, Warwick and, we hope, in Wellesbourne too. Details to be announced later.
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NATIONAL TRUST CHARLECOTE PARK
Have you seen the new building in the Car Park at Charlecote? The new Visitor Reception area is now up and running – a welcome venue for all visitors, who now collect a token that operates the turnstile into the Park and at the same time check the special events that are happening that day and collect other National Trust information. June offers include a special half price soup and farmhouse bread meal in the Orangery restaurant (£1.95 for a delicious meal!) available on Wednesdays and Thursdays until the end of the month. On Saturday 26th June you could join one of the popular Walks with the Gardener - or come on Sunday 27th June for the Falconry Day. Looking further ahead there will be a Bat Walk on 3rd July – a bookable event, costing £5. We are also having a stall at the Wellesbourne Fayre on June 5th, come and see us there. The National Trust relies on its many volunteers who help in a variety of ways. On Tuesday 1st June there will be a recruitment event between 11 am and 4pm in the Gatehouse at Charlecote. Why not pop in and find out more about it and consider, helping as part of the team. Missed that event? Just ring Charlecote and offer! For further details please contact Charlecote Park on 01789 470277 or visit: WELLESBOURNE RESIDENTS' PASSESWellesbourne Residents can now apply for new free passes for entry to the Park and Gardens valid on Wednesdays and Thursdays until the end of October 2010 and daily, excluding 24th and 25th December from 1st November 2010 to 28th February 2011. If you missed the distributions made in the library, just leave a stamped addressed envelope in the temporary library in the village hall car park, with a note saying how many people living in your household over the age of 4 years need passes. Allow up to 10 days for delivery. These passes are available to Wellesbourne residents only. A little boy was overheard praying: |
Stour Singers– May concert 2010 On 8 May 2010 The Orchestra of the Swan came to St Edmund's Church, Shipston to partner Stour Singers in a Handel - Vivaldi concert. This was the first time this distinguished orchestra and local choral society had worked together and the effect was electric. The large audience of 200 people listened to three entirely unfamiliar works, (Vivaldi's Magnificat & Beatus Vir & Handel's Laudate pueri Dominum) in rapt attention and, in the interval, enthused over the inspired singing of the choir. The sense of occasion was heightened by the virtuosity of international guest soprano, Katharine Fuge, in many fiendishly difficult Handelian 'runs' in Laudate and the serenity of Covent Garden mezzo Emma Selway's interpretation of the well-loved Ombra mai fu to the tune of Handel's Largo. The success of the evening was due to Richard Emms, Stour Singers' founder director, whose skilful conducting brought out the best in all performers, amateur & professional. The next Stour Singers concert, also with The Orchestra of the Swan, will be on Sat 11 December 2010 when the programme will include Britten's Community Cantata, Saint Nicolas. Make a note of the date. If you would like to sing with the choir then, new members are always welcome – no auditions. Please contact Vic Twyman, tel: 01608 664215 for further details. Volcano: Turner to Warhol Compton Verney has created the first exhibition to explore the history of human perception of volcanoes and the remarkable artistic outpourings that they have inspired over the past five hundred years. Through paintings, photographs, prints, film, books and diaries, and from images made on the spot to the most fanciful imaginings, the show demonstrates the long-held fascination of artists for these extraordinary natural phenomena. |
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