The 'The Blue Note Club' is about the Swingjugend (swing youth) of war-time Germany: a youth group who were willing to risk their lives to pursue their love of swing and jazz. Claudia and Otto are a part of such a group, finding a nightly escape from their propaganda-filled daily lives by dancing at Otto’s ‘Blue Notes Club’. But as the early years of the 1940s run their course, their nightly escape turns deadly as the Gestapo hunt down anyone associated with the word ‘jazz’.
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As a finale to this year’s football season, I would like to invite all players and parents to attend the Abingdon School Football Club Awards Dinner. The evening will start at 19:00 in the new pavilion for a casual buffet style dinner. This will include speeches and awards for the teams as well as our annual clubman of the year award.
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Our final concert of term sees the larger ensembles take to the stage. The Chamber Orchestra, Concert Band, Sinfonia and Symphony Orchestra will all perform their term’s work with notable highlights including U6 performances of Shostakovich Piano Concerto, Koussevitzky Double Bass Concerto and Vaughan Williams’ ‘Songs of Travel’. Interval refreshments will be served in the Pavilion. Do join us for a wonderful evening of music making to round off the term’s musical activities.
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Stagecoach Abingdon's Further Stages students perform Grease young@part.
Performances:
22 March 2024 at 8:30pm: Stagecoach Abingdon Further Stages
23 March 2024 at 12:30pm: Stagecoach Botley
23 March 2024 at 6:15pm: Stagecoach Abingdon Sat Afternoon School
24 March 2024 at 12:30pm: Stagecoach Abingdon Sat Morning School
24 March 2024 at 6:45pm: Stagecoach Abingdon Friday School
Please note: Children aged 3 and under are able to have a free ticket. Please contact the Box Office to add your complimentary Under 3 ticket to your booking once you have placed your order.
Emily Portman and Rob Harbron both have award-winning reputations as performers, composers and recording artists. Now they have formed an inspired new collaboration in which they delve into English folk traditions, creating a boldly exposed and intricately woven contemporary folk sound.
Emily (voice, banjo and piano) is best known as an original songwriter and for her work with the acclaimed folk band The Furrow Collective. Rob (concertina, guitar and voice) tours with Leveret, Fay Hield, Jon Boden and many more, being in great demand as one the finest multi-instrumentalists in the UK.
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When the young geisha, Cio-Cio-San, marries American Naval Officer Pinkerton, she believes she is entering a real, binding marriage for life. Forsaking her religion and community, she learns all too late that for Pinkerton, their marriage is merely an illusion – with tragic consequences.
With a score that includes Butterfly’s aria, 'Un bel dì, vedremo' (‘One fine day’) and the Humming Chorus, Giacomo Puccini’s opera is entrancing and ultimately heart-breaking. Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s exquisite production takes inspiration from 19th-century European images of Japan. Asmik Grigorian performs the role of Cio-Cio-San, with Kevin John Edusei conducting
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Anything Goes is a story set on an ocean liner bound from New York to London. Billy Crocker is a stowaway in love with heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Public Enemy Number 13, “Moonface” Martin, aid Billy in his quest to win Hope.
Come and join Oxfordshire Youth Music Theatre’s students, performers and instrumentalists drawn from county secondary schools, as they present a high-energy performance of this popular, crowd-pleasing musical which includes plenty of toe-tapping songs – Anything Goes, You’re the Top, It’s De-Lovely and I Get a Kick Out of You. Relax and enjoy an uplifting evening!
Suitable for ages 8+
Danses Concertantes, commissioned by Ninette de Valois in 1955, was MacMillan’s first major work. An early sign of the incredible artistic output that would follow, the work’s critical success spurred MacMillan to abandon performing in favour of choreography. It is followed by Different Drummer, MacMillan’s complex and haunting balletic interpretation of Woyzeck, Georg Büchner's play about a soldier’s descent into madness. The mixed programme concludes with Requiem, his 1976 work for Stuttgart Ballet, created in memory of its late artistic director, MacMillan’s friend and former Royal Ballet dancer and choreographer John Cranko.
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Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play.
1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.
Written by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and designed by Es Devlin (The Crucible), the Evening Standard award-winning best new play was filmed live during a
sold-out run at the National Theatre.
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Out hunting, Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans. One among them transforms into the beautiful human Odette and he is immediately enamoured. But Odette is bound by a spell which keeps her captive as a swan during the day. Can Siegfried free her?
Tchaikovsky’s sensational score combines with the evocative imagination of choreographer Liam Scarlett and designer John Macfarlane to heighten the dramatic pathos of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s quintessential ballet classic. Swan Lake remains to this day one of the best-loved works in the classical ballet canon.
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Created to celebrate 200 years since Clara Wieck Schumann’s birth in 1819, I, Clara tells her extraordinary life story in her own words. It is the sixth Composer Portrait created by Lucy Parham, receiving its London premiere at Kings Place in October 2019. Lucy Parham is joined for this special performance by internationally acclaimed actor Dame Harriet Walter
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Damiano Michieletto's sizzling new production evokes all the passion and heat of Bizet's score, which features Carmen’s sultry Habanera and the rousing Toreador song. Antonello Manacorda conducts an exciting international cast, with Aigul Akhmetshina performing the title role.
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Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state and created the NHS.
Confronted with death, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill.
Written by Tim Price and directed by Rufus Norris (Small Island), this epic new Welsh fantasia will be broadcast live from the National Theatre.
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King Leontes of Sicilia is crippled with an all-consuming jealousy when his friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, stays with him and his wife Hermione. What follows is a tale where a marriage is destroyed, a child is abandoned and all hope is seemingly lost for two lovers.
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, The Winter's Tale is an award winning modern ballet classic, packed with emotional turmoil heightened by Joby Talbot’s compelling score and Bob Crowley’s atmospheric designs.
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The peaceful village of Bebko is alive with joyous celebrations. Suddenly, under attack, everything changes forever. Three siblings, Leto, Mati and Tana, must embark on perilous journeys in order to survive.
Message In A Bottle is a spectacular new dance-theatre show from five-time Olivier Award nominee, Kate Prince, inspired by and set to the iconic hits of 17-time Grammy Award- winning artist Sting, including Every Breath You Take, Roxanne, Walking On The Moon and more. With a mix of exhilarating dance styles, high-energy footwork and breath-taking athleticism, Message In A Bottle tells a unifying and uplifting story of humanity and hope.
Message In A Bottle is the latest masterpiece from the ground breaking creator behind West End hits Some Like it Hip Hop, Into the Hoods, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (choreography) and SYLVIA (Old Vic), and features the astonishing talents of dance storytelling powerhouse, ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company.
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At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror, transforming the power balance between Chénier, his beloved Maddalena, and Gérard, the man who could destroy him...
Jonas Kaufmann headlines David McVicar’s spectacular staging, under the baton of long-time collaborator Antonio Pappano – who conducts Giordano’s epic historical drama of revolution and forbidden love in his last production as Music Director of The Royal Opera.
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We are delighted to offer you the opportunity to join us for the latest in our popular series of rugby evenings with another iconic name from the World of rugby, Shane Williams MBE.
Shane is considered to be one of the greatest wingers ever to play Rugby Union, playing 87 times for Wales and a further 4 times for the Lions. He is Wales' record try scorer and the 4th on the World all time list. He was voted World Player of the Year in 2008. Since retiring, Shane has built a great reputation as a pundit and businessman as well as staying fit by completing many Iron Man challenges.
Shane has a wealth of stories and insights into a glittering career and it promises to be an evening to remember.
We will chat to Shane about his career and then follow with an opportunity for the audience to get involved with a Q&A session.
Tickets are priced at £20 plus booking fee. There are also a limited number of VIP Tickets available priced at £40 plus booking fee which will include a “Meet & Greet” with Shane, a photo opportunity and ONE signature from the man himself plus seats in the front two rows.
PLEASE NOTE THERE MAY BE SOME ADULT LANGUAGE
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Melbourne sister duo Charm of Finches deliver intricate folk-pop that is simultaneously graceful and darkly bewitching. Their seamless blood harmonies traverse melancholy and wonder in equal measure.
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Come and see it!
Tickets are £5
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Mini Professionals Dance Academy celebrates their 10th Anniversary in style with their incredible Summer Showcase! Students aged 2 to 18 will take to the stage presenting dances in ballet, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, contemporary, tap and music theatre. The show will take you on a journey through the ages celebrating music from the 1920s to present day, as well as delving into what the future might hold. This show is not to be missed!
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