Theatre Listings
What's on in the Auditorium & Charles Room
| My Mother Said I Never Should Pump House Theatre Co. (Amateur) Monday 20 September to Saturday 25 September 2010 Price: £10 (£8) (£6 Mondays) Charlotte Keatley’s play, My Mother Said I Never Should was first performed at the Contact Theatre, Manchester, in 1987, and won both the Royal Court/George Devine Award and the Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best New Play. The play centres on four generations of women living through the 20th Century’s enormous social changes. Doris and her daughter Margaret experience the blitz. Margaret argues with her daughter Jackie about her hippy morals and unsuitable boyfriend. Jackie and her daughter Rosie hardly know each other, and don’t seem to care. The play’s warm and poignant themes highlight growing up, growing old, and possibly, growing wiser. www.phtc.info BOX OFFICE: 07786 844541 | |
| An Education (12) Watford filmhouse Thursday 30 September 2010 Price: £3/5 Director: Lone Scherfig Sixteen-year old student Jenny is on track for Oxford when she meets a suave and charming older man and enters a sophisticated world of concerts and dinner parties. A nuanced coming of age story set in 1960's suburbian London. BOX OFFICE: Membership booking line 07981 819686 | |
| Company Triple Threat Theatre (Amateur) Monday 4 October to Saturday 9 October 2010 Price: £15 (£13 concessions) (£10 first performance) Robert is single,lives in New York and is 35 today.He also has commitment issues. His friends,mostly married couples,gather in his apartment to throw a surprise party for him. What follows,is a series of vignette's examining the pro's and con's of marraige,each featuring one of the couples and Robert. Throughout the show,Robert watches and learns from his friends. He realises there are up's and down's to relationships,and finally sees that although being with someone is not always a bed of roses,life is better if you have someone to share it with. Online box office BOX OFFICE: 07855 822115 | |
| A Murder is Announced Belmont Theatre Co. (Amateur) Wednesday 13 October to Saturday 16 October 2010 Price: £11.50 (£9.50 concessions) In true Agatha Christie style this absorbing thriller has many twists and turns as the intrepid Miss Marple sets about solving the murders. A good evening's entertainment to delight all the family. Book early to avoid disappointment. BOX OFFICE: 0845 521 3453 | |
| Touching the Void (15) Watford filmhouse Friday 22 October 2010 Price: £3/5 Director: Kevin McDonald (106 mins) A deceptively simple documentary. The story of two British mountain climbers who stared death in the face while climbing a treacherous peak in the Peruvian Andes, Touching the Void is a gripping tale of ordinary men coping with extraordinary circumstances. BOX OFFICE: Membership booking line 07981 819686 | |
| "Double Dare"...A Haloween Thriller! Blag Theatre Company (Professional) Saturday 30 October to Sunday 31 October 2010 Price: £8 When a group of teenagers come together for a week of team building activities they get more than they bargained for. The activity week culminates in a prize for the team with the highest score but dirty tricks and foul play lead the way in this teenager thriller. Their last task is to spend the night in a disused theatre but arguments, desertion, ghost stories and a terrifying night with a ouija board sort out who the real winners are. BOX OFFICE: 01923 772320 | |
| Members Choice Night: Diva (15) Watford filmhouse Friday 12 November 2010 Price: £3/5 (117 mins) (Subtitled) DIVA is a charming French original that combines intrigue, romance and a delirious soundtrack in a visually stunning and stylish debut from Jean-Jacques .Jules, a postal courier is obsessed with Cynthia Hawkins, an international opera star who refuses to be recorded. Jules smuggles a recorder into a performance to commit her voice to tape. He privately enjoys his recording until he shares his secret and simultaneously finds himself at the center of an international drug and sex scandal and a pirating operation that will do anything to get hold of his precious tape. Dizzying chase scenes are masterfully shot, culminating in a heart-pounding motorcycle chase through the underground Paris Metro. BOX OFFICE: Membership booking line 07981 819686 | |
| Absurd Person Singular Pump House Theatre Co. (Amateur) Monday 29 November to Saturday 4 December 2010 Price: £10 (£8) (£6 Mondays) It’s Christmas party time at the Hopcroft’s and the only present they want is to succeed in scaling the social ladder. Havoc ensues at the drinks party they hold to impress their high-powered friends - but that’s nothing compared to what happens over the next two years when the friends return their hospitality! A painfully funny comedy with outrageous characters - this is Ayckbourn at his best! www.phtc.info BOX OFFICE: 07786 844541 | |
| It's a Wonderful Life (U) Watford filmhouse Saturday 11 December 2010 Price: £3/5 Director: Frank Capra (135 mins) (Shown in Colne River Room) The film is one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made by director Frank Capra. It is actually a dark, bittersweet post-war tale of a savings-and-loan manager who struggles against a greedy banker and his own self-doubting nature. A Dickensian tale similar to A Christmas Carol, although told from Bob Cratchit's point-of-view rather than from Scrooge's. BOX OFFICE: Membership booking line 07981 819686 | |
| BIG Christmas Night Out Blag Theatre Company (Professional) Wednesday 15 December to Thursday 23 December 2010 Price: £14 (£12 concessions) For the 11th year Blag Theatre Company return with their unique Christmas Show. Songs,Sketches,Games and the odd bit of audience participation,guarantee you a 'Laugh-Out-Loud' experience you'll never forget. BOX OFFICE: 01923 772320 | |
| The History Boys (15) Watford filmhouse Saturday 15 January 2011 Price: £3/5 Director: Nicholas Hytner (112 mins) (Shown in Colne River Room) A class of gifted teenage boys charm and wisecrack their way through the summer of 1983 as two very different teachers steer them towards their Oxbridge exams. The big screen version of Alan Bennett's stage play. Many of the interior shots are of Watford Boys’ Grammar School. BOX OFFICE: Membership booking line 07981 819686 | |
| The Shows must go on Pump House Monday 30 January to Tuesday 31 January 2012 Price: Perhaps not quite a show but the “Shows must go on” and the only way that can happen at the Pump House is by the support of our volunteer management and staff. If you would like to join this friendly team of volunteers and ensure the future of the Pump House please give us a call. One of our team will be pleased to chat with you and see what you could get up to with us. BOX OFFICE: 01923 241362 |
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