Havant Arts Centre

COMMUNITY PARTNER
A Double Bill presented by Bench Theatre
Crave AND Ghost from a Perfect Place

Crave: Thu 17, Sat 19, Wed 23, Fri 25 July, 7.30pm
Ghost: Fri 18, Tue 22, Thu 24, Sat 26 July, 7.30pm

Crave by Sarah Kane
An intensely personal and powerfully abstract exploration of love’s assault upon the individual.

Ghost from a Perfect Place by Phillip Ridley
Notorious gangster Travis Flood returns to the East End after 25 years in America. But soon Travis is witness to the horror of gang warfare when ‘The Cheerleaders’ arrive home.

www.benchtheatre.org.uk

£7.50, £5 concessions per single show
£12.50 both shows
2 for 1 offer : Thu 17th July (Crave) and Tues 22nd July (Ghost)
Bench / Backbench Members FREE
Both plays contain adult material and may not be suitable for those under 15 years

Wednesday 3 - Saturday 6 September, 7.30pm

Dynamo Youth Theatre present
Stags & Hens
Linda and Dave are getting married in the morning. Dave is legless when he enters the seediest club in town with his stag partying mates and forced by a mixture of curry and Guinness into the gents to spend the evening with his head down the bowl.
In the same club, Linda, the feisty wife-to-be, and her mates are getting drunk, dancing and trying to pull.
Expect an evening of comedy and tragedy in true Willy Russell style.

www.dyt.org.uk

NOT RECOMMENDED FOR UNDER 12’S
£8, £6 concessions

Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 September, 7.30pm
The Bench Theatre present
Home
A play by David Storey who mixes naturalism and The Absurd. Storey tweaks situations into something both funny and disturbing.

www.benchtheatre.org.uk

£7.50, £5 concessions
2 for 1 offer on the opening night
Bench / Backbench Members FREE

Friday 26 September, 8.30pm
Murray Lachlan Young
A unique performer, stand up poet and satirist who combines the predatory humour of the Victorian cautionary tale and the pointed whimsy of Noel coward with a B-movie sensibility to create a unique atmosphere and a bizarre take on contemporary living. Murray has had his own shows on MTV USA and BBC2 and is currently a house poet on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Saturday Live’.

Bewitching the crowds with his shaggy-haired charm … top grade fodder
METRO ****

www.murraylachlanyoung.com

£8.50, £7.25 concessions, students £5
ONLINE PRICE £7.70

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Thursday 2 October, 8pm
James Seabright, Eleanor Lloyd, Blue Box, Anthony Field Associates, Underbelly and Skullduggery present
Elizabeth and Raleigh : Late but Live

‘Though I have the body of a woman,
I have the heart and stomach of a king,
the brain of a dolphin, and the penis of a hippopotamus.
All I need now is some glue.’

A new comedy by Stewart Lee (Oxford Alumnus), Directed by Owen Lewis. With Simon Munnery as Queen Elizabeth I and Miles Jupp as Sir Walter Raleigh. Sir Walter Raleigh introduces an audience to his beloved Elizabeth I, the wittiest, wisest and most unforgiving of all the English Queens. Walter is in love with
Elizabeth, the spiritual embodiment of England. But will he end up in her bed, or will he lose his head? Potatoes, tobacco, Elizabethan dance, cross-dressing,
xenophobia and laughs galore from the team behind the Edinburgh Festival 2007 hit.

‘Very naughty and utterly knowing fun indeed’ ****The Herald
Unsuitable for under 16s

www.latebutlive.com

£9.50, £8 concessions, students £5
ONLINE PRICE £8.50

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Friday 3 October, Arrive 7pm (Dinner 7.30pm)
Cloak & Dagger presents
The Hoe Down Showdown
Get yourselves down to the Old West’s most famous bar with Big Bertha’s dancing girls, some trick shooting and all the fun of Big Bertha’s Bawdarama. But are the customers quite who they pretend? Is Mad Mick McGraw as mad as he seems? What dreadful secret lurks beneath Sheriff Scott Schot’s silver badge?
Strap on your shooter and mosey on down.

BIG BERTHA DOES LIKE TO SEE FOLKS DRESSED PROPERLY, SO LOOK OUT THOSE COWBOY BOOTS AND TEN GALLON HATS

www.murderdinner.co.uk

Menu
Corn fritters with a pepper relish
Southern Chicken Gumbo with fresh salad & bread
Vegetable Gumbo with fresh salad & bread (V)
Warm fresh peach cobbler with double cream
£28.50 per person (includes performance and three course menu)

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COMMUNITY PARTNER
Tuesday 7 to Saturday 11 October, 7.45pm
HumDrum present
Animal Farm
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
HumDrum return to the Havant Arts Centre with Peter Halls acclaimed adaptation of George Orwell’s 1945 classic.
With music by Richard Peaslee and lyrics by Adrian Mitchell this militant yet haunting adaptation, first staged in 1984, is a powerful, witty, and accessible version of Orwell’s political parable.
HumDrum are a major innovative force on the Portsmouth scene The News

www.humdrum.org.uk
£7.50, £6 concessions

Saturday 25 October, 8pm
Strangeface present
The Last Resort

A darkly comic folk tale with masks, puppets and live music. A remote village on the edge of ruin is visited by a soldier with a fortune on his back and a devil at his side. Strange events ensue.

Strangeface presents a satire about greed, ambition and, ultimately, redemption in a style best described as Spitting Image does Under Milk Wood. A darkly comic folk tale told with masks, puppets and original music played live.

Far from here and now, a remote village is teetering on the edge of ruin. One day a mysterious soldier thief appears in its midst with an astonishing fortune on his back and a disgruntled devil at his side. He lays an offer of salvation before the vil-lage elders, but at a terrible price. Will the village choose the last resort?

‘The masks are fantastic, the tale fascinating’ Three Weeks
SUITABLE FOR ANYONE AGED 11+

£9.50, £8, £7.25 concessions, students £5
ONLINE PRICE £8.50
www.strangeface.co.uk

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Friday 28 November 8pm
I, Lear
PRESENTED BY THE BLACK SHEEP
A brand new character comedy from
critically-acclaimed double act and Radio 4
writers The Black Sheep. Directed by the
award-winning Cal McCrystal, best known for
his work with The Mighty Boosh, Cirque du
Soleil, and Peepolykus.
Two of the country’s finest unemployed actors
will show you how theatre should be
performed, treating you to their unique
interpretations of scenes from Britain’s greatest
playwrights (and one or two foreigners). The
show culminates in a truly unforgettable and
startling reworking of King Lear. You’ll never
look at theatre in the same way again…
“Endlessly inventive and brilliantly funny”
The Scotsman
£9.50, £8 concs., students £5
ONLINE PRICE: £8.50
Unsuitable for under 14s
www.blacksheepcomedy.co.uk

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Evening performances:
Thursday 11 & Friday 12 December, 7.30pm
Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 December, 7.30pm

Matinee Performances:
Saturday 13th December, 11.30am & 4pm
Saturday 20th December, 2.30pm

Bench Theatre presents
Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame’s book adapted for the stage by Alan Bennett.

Join all your favourite characters for a delightful jaunt along the riverbank.
Enlivened by Alan Bennett’s trademark warmth and humour, Wind in the Willows promises to be the perfect way to spend a winter’s evening. Poop-poop!

Suitable for the whole family, but recommended for 8 years and up.

£8.50, £7.20 concessions
Bench / Backbench Members FREE

Bench theatre is an award-winning non-professional theatre company which has been staging high quality theatre in
Havant for nearly 40 years.
“As a charity, profit is not our primary motivation and so we can choose plays which we believe are interesting or challenging, or just deserve to be seen. We are always keen to welcome new members, both on and off stage. For more information come along to one of our lively club nights, which take place at Havant Arts Centre at 8pm on the first and third Thursday of every month”.

Please visit www.benchtheatre.org.uk for all the latest news on shows and membership.