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Five New Theatre Packages for the Autumn, 2012
Whichever Theatre Package you choose you will receive tickets for your chosen show including a complimentary interlude drink per person, overnight accommodation at the Black Swan Hotel in a classic room, a two course pre theatre meal served in the Black Swan Brasserie, and full English breakfast the following morning.
01439 770466
1. Thursday 17th of January 2013
7.00pm
National Theatre Live Presents
The Magistrate
Join us for another stunning performance beamed in live from The National Theatre. Academy Award nominee and Tony Award-winner John Lithgow takes the title role in this uproarious Victorian farce. The Magistrate is sure to have audiences doubled up with laughter. When amiable magistrate Posket (John Lithgow) marries Agatha (Nancy Carroll) little does he realise she’s dropped five years from her age – and her son’s. When this looks set to be revealed, it sparks a series of hilarious indignities and outrageous mishaps.
Director Timothy Sheader
Written by Arthur Wing Pinero
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2. Sunday 20th of January 2013
3.00pm
New Mill Male Voice Choir
When 12 men gathered in a local pub to sing together in 1991, one of the gathering, Les Williams, a former singer with the Welsh National Opera, provided the inspiration and encouragement needed to form a choir. Two years later and with more members, this 50-piece Choir sang as part of the World Choir at Cardiff. Since then they have appeared at the Royal Albert Hall and have sung in Italy, the Czech Republic, Spain and Poland.
£94.50
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3. Sunday 20th of January 2013
3.00pm
Bolshoi Ballet Live Presents
La Bayadere
Marius Petipa's seminal work La Bayadère was first performed at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St.Petersburg in 1877 in a grandiose production portraying a mysterious India and the impossible love between the sacred dancer Nikiya and the warrior Solor. A scene from the ballet, known as The Kingdom of the Shades, is one of the most celebrated excerpts in all of classical ballet, and is considered to be one of the first examples of abstract ballet. Although a major work in Russian tradition, the ballet remained unknown for a long time in the West.
Young warriors led by Solor are hunting. Before entering the forest, Solor sends a fakir to tell bayadère Nikiya (a “Temple Dancer”) that he will meet her later at night. When Nikiya and Solor meet, they swear eternal fidelity to each other.They are unaware that the High Brahmin also in love with Nikiya, overhears them and decides to take revenge. He rushes to reveal this secret to the Rajah who has selected Solor to be the fiancé of Gamzatti, his beloved daughter. Nikiya, unaware of the arrangement, agrees to dance at the couple's betrothal celebrations.
The jealous High Brahmin -in an effort to have Solor killed and have Nikiya for himself- tells the Rajah that the warrior has already vowed love to the bayadère over. But the Rajah, rather than becoming angry with Solor, vows that Nikiya must die. Gamzatti, who has eavesdropped on this exchange, summons Nikiya to the palace in an attempt to bribe her into giving up her beloved. As their rivalry intensifies, Nikiya picks up a dagger in a fit of rage and attempts to kill Gamzatti. Nikiya is stopped at the last moment and flees in horror at what she has almost done. As did her father, Gamzatti vows that the bayadère must die…
£94.50
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