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August 2019
Summer Theatre Workshop 7-11years
Monday 5th 10am -4pm & Tuesday 6th August 10.30am -4.30pm (7-11yrs) THE WITCHES How wicked are you ?! Join us for this two-day theatre workshop where we will explore the weird and wonderful life of Witches! Create your own magical character through vocal and physical playing. This workshop is aimed at building stage skills and confidence and will be delivered by a professional theatre director. This workshop is aimed at building stage skills and confidence and will be delivered by…
Find out more »Summer Theatre Workshop 11+
Wednesday 7th August 11yrs+ 10-5.30pm £18 DISASTER! It's a DISASTER! It all goes wrong and you are at the centre of it! Join us for a for a one day workshop to explore what happens when disaster stories and theatre collide! Create script and scenes through imagination and improvisation. This workshop is aimed at giving you creative ownership over ideas and inject them with drama! Led by a professional director and playwright this experience will culminate in a short performance and sharing. If…
Find out more »October 2019
Screening: Wise Children
★★★★★ ‘Fantastic. Life-enhancing, brilliantly uninhibited, all-singing and dancing... Stars? I’m not sure why you would stop at five.’ The Observer ★★★★★ ‘It's pure, unadulterated theatre with an airtight company, subject, direction, and production. Rice not only blind-casts the whole piece, but single-handedly gives a masterclass on how to play with gender.’ Broadway World Wise Children By Angela Carter Multi-award-winning director Emma Rice brings her unique, exuberantly impish vision to Angela Carter’s great last novel in this brand-new theatre production. A…
Find out more »NT LIVE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
★★★★ A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute grows, the magical royal couple meddle with mortal lives leading to love triangles, mistaken identities and transformations… with hilarious, but dark consequences. Shakespeare’s most famous romantic comedy will be captured live from the Bridge Theatre…
Find out more »November 2019
NT LIVE: Hansard
National Theatre Live ★★★★★ Hansard; noun The official report of all parliamentary debates. See Olivier Award-winners, Lindsay Duncan (Birdman, About Time) and Alex Jennings (The Lady in the Van, The Queen), in this brand new play from Simon Woods, broadcast live from the National Theatre in London. It’s a summer’s morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Diana. But all is not as blissful as it…
Find out more »LIVE: MID WALES OPERA: Mrs Peachum’s Guide to Love and Marriage
PLEASE NOTE: The tickets are sold through Shropshire Music Trust's Ticket Source there may be a booking fee. We are thrilled to be hosting Mid Wales Opera at Sparc for the second year in collaboration with Shropshire Music Trust. "The Wench is married! Do you think your father and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Can you support the expense of a husband, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money…
Find out more »December 2019
NT LIVE: Present Laughter by Noël Coward
Present Laughter by Noël Coward Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter. As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, panic and soul-searching. Captured live from The Old…
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