2018/2019 Season
The Turn of the Screw
Thursday 7th February 2019
1.30pm/7pm
"Nobody but me, till now, has ever heard. It's beyond
everything. Nothing at all that I know touches it."
New for 2018, we're proud to present a brand new
adaptation of Henry James' disturbing story of
horror and corruption.
In an isolated country house, a young governess
arrives to take care of her new charges, Miles and
Flora. But before long she begins to believe there is
something darker at work in the depths of Bly House,
and battles to save the children from the mysterious
figures who seek to corrupt them.
The Turn of the Screw premiered at the 2018
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, enjoying a sold-out
three week run at the Underbelly Cowgate.
Running time: 60 minutes
Closer
Friday 22nd & Sat 23rd March 2019
7.30pm
Patrick Marber's incredible play about truth. A celebrated piece of work for an adult audience.
Marber’s raw tale of sexual betrayal among four star-crossed characters earned him comparisons with the emotional heavyweights of 20th-century theatre.
“It is right up there with Williams’s Streetcar, Mamet’s Oleanna, Albee’s Virginia Woolf, Pinter’s Old Times and Hare’s Skylight,” wrote one critic.
Josie Rourke, the artistic director of the Donmar, describes it as “one of the great plays about the human heart”.
It’s about love, sex and the damage we do to each other in the names of these gods, with or without meaning it. (The Guardian)
Page-2-Stage Productions have been touring work across the country since 2010 and this is their first visit to the King's Theatre.
Echo 42
Saturday 9th February 2019
7.30pm
Echo Four Two Big Band is an 18-piece band line up with feature and guest vocalists. Yorkshire’s longest continuous running and most versatile big band.
The band is based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
Their musical specialities are:
- Big band concerts
- Dance events & festivals (including strict tempo dance)
- 1940s music and themed events – wartime weekend events, hangar dances etc
Gym & Dance Display
Thursday 14th - Sat 16th March 2019
7pm
A showcase of a range of dance styles including contemporary, latin, street and lyrical. Gymnasts also display fantastic skill and precision with performances to impress. This year celebrates a decade of Gym and Dance. All performances were a sell out again last year so book early to avoid disappointment.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
Wednesday 3rd - Friday 5th April 2019
7pm
QE Senior Drama Production
The play cleverly re-interprets Shakespeare's Hamlet from the point of view of two minor characters: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The Laurel-and-Hardy-like pair are totally incidental to the action of Hamlet, subject to the whims of the King Claudius – who gets them to betray Hamlet – and then tricked by Hamlet into delivering a letter that condemns them to death. Tom Stoppard's breakthrough play. play turns Hamlet on its head by giving these two the main roles and reducing all of Shakespeare's major characters (including Hamlet) to minor roles. Written around and in-between the lines of Shakespeare's play, Stoppard brilliantly takes the main concerns of contemporary theatre, the inevitability of death, the breakdown in communication and feeling – and inserts them into the text of a much earlier play.
QE Choir Festival
9th May 2019
7pm
An evening concert where choirs from Queen Ethelburga’s and local primary schools join forces to demonstrate the skills of their singing groups.
A celebration of music, singing and our local community
Alice
Thursday 13th June 2019
1.30pm/7pm
A QE Production: Kings Magna
An adaptation by Fortina Stone
Directed by Justine Langford
Join Alice as she falls down the rabbit hole and into a world of the mad, marvellous and magnificent.
Featuring all your favourite characters, the show is a fast-paced, funny, family show for all.