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Sheringham Little Theatre

Phone: 01263 822347

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Sheringham Little Theatre

Phone: 01263 822347
Fax: 01263 821963

Email: enquiries@sheringhamlittletheatre.com

Website: www.sheringhamlittletheatre.com

2 Station Road

Sheringham

NR26 8RE

Sheringham Little Theatre is a community venue serving the people of North Norfolk. The theatre has a firm commitment to involving the local community in quality arts activities and providing a wide variety of performances, exhibitions and events, accessible to everyone.

As a valuable community resource, local groups regularly use the theatre for performances and functions, with many groups also using the theatre’s wardrobe and workshop facility.

Performances and workshops take place throughout the year in theatre, music, film and literature in addition to a regular programme of events for children and families. Supporting the wealth of regional talent, professional and amateur visual artists are invited to show their work in the exhibition area, whilst local musicians are given the opportunity to perform in the informal setting of the coffee bar on Sunday evenings.

Since the re-opening of Sheringham Little Theatre in June 1997, the theatre has attracted new audiences throughout the region. At Sheringham Little Theatre we celebrate and promote the arts in all its forms and aim to bring a varied and balanced programme to the North Norfolk residents and visitors.

Events:

Date: Wednesday 20th August '08
Event: SUMMER REP - Snakes & Ladders	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre Matinees @ 2.30pm Evenings @ 8pm
to Tue 26 August Evenings 8pm. Matinees 2.30pm (29 July, 21 & 26 Aug) Snakes & Ladders A farce by Eric Chappell presented by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd Sam and Fay Spencer think they are about to have a peaceful and relaxing holiday in the luxurious (and free!) Spanish villa of Fay’s boss Sidney … but just how wrong can they be? The assumed identities, breakneck pace and hilarious mishaps of farce mix with the tension, mystery and startling plot reversals of a thriller in this clever and amusing play from the author of Theft, Natural Causes and TV’s Rising Damp. Sponsored by WATSONS RESIDENTIAL

Date: Thursday 28th August '08
Event: SUMMER REP - Blithe Spirit	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre Matinees @ 2.30pm Evenings @ 8pm
to Tue 2 Sept Evenings 8pm. Matinees 2.30pm (2, 9 & 11 Sept) Blithe Spirit An improbable farce by Noel Coward presented by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd Blithe Spirit takes place in the living room of successful British novelist Charles and his second wife Ruth. They have invited the Bradmans over for a séance with psychic medium Madame Arcati. All are highly sceptical of Madame Arcati's ability to reach "beyond the grave”; however, they humour her so Charles can get material for a book he is researching. What ensues is a wacky romp through this world and into the next, complete with surprising twists and disastrous results. Sponsored by THE STABLES RESTAURANT AT THE LOBSTER

Date: Monday 1st September '08
Event: ART EXHIBITION - "Norfolk Coast, Light & Life" by Karen Rowlands	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre
Monday 1 September to Saturday 4 October ART EXHIBITION Norfolk Coast, Light & Life Karen Rowlands - Oil paintings of the Norfolk Coast; the landscape, the people and the wildlife. Detailed paintings of a variety of subjects each painted with a fascination for the play of light, enjoyment of the richness and vitality of colour in enhancing the atmosphere and a desire to bring each subject to life.

Date: Wednesday 3rd September '08
Event: SUMMER REP - Dangerous Obsession	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre Matinees @ 2.30pm Evenings @ 8pm
to Sat 6 Sept Evenings 8pm. Matinees 2.30pm (22 July & 4 Sept) Dangerous Obsession A thriller by N J Crisp presented by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd A sunny afternoon in the Home Counties. Sally Driscoll is watering her plants in the conservatory of her luxurious home, clad only in a swimsuit. Peaceful enough - but suddenly a bespectacled, suited man, John Barrett, appears at the door. Is he selling double-glazing? No – it would appear that the Barretts met the Driscolls in Torquay. Simple Barrett may appear, but simple he is not. After some exacting word-play, and the arrival of Mark Driscoll, it seems that Barrett is “dangerously obsessed” with pinning the blame for his wife’s accident on someone. Gradually the tale unfolds … Sponsored by DELPHINIUM IFA

Date: Monday 8th September '08
Event: SUMMER REP - Blithe Spirit	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre Matinees @ 2.30pm Evenings @ 8pm
to Sat 13 September Evenings 8pm. Matinees 2.30pm (2, 9 & 11 Sept) Blithe Spirit An improbable farce by Noel Coward presented by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd Blithe Spirit takes place in the living room of successful British novelist Charles and his second wife Ruth. They have invited the Bradmans over for a séance with psychic medium Madame Arcati. All are highly sceptical of Madame Arcati's ability to reach "beyond the grave”; however, they humour her so Charles can get material for a book he is researching. What ensues is a wacky romp through this world and into the next, complete with surprising twists and disastrous results. Sponsored by THE STABLES RESTAURANT AT THE LOBSTER

Date: Tuesday 16th September '08
Event: FILM - Happy Go Lucky (15)	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 2.30pm & 8pm
Director: Mike Leigh UK 2008. Running time: 118mins Starring: Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman, Sinead Matthews Mike Leigh’s ninth feature sees a calmer, more optimistic take on post-Blair Britain compared with his previous films. In Happy-Go-Lucky he portrays contemporary Britain as a country where old-fashioned ideas like community and selflessness still exist. Poppy (Sally Hawkins, The Painted Veil) is an irrepressible 30-something enjoying her life in Camden. Whether out on her bike, preparing lessons for her primary school class, or drinking with her friends in the local, she keeps a smile on her face and a joke on her lips. Despite the misgivings of her younger sister, who has settled down in the suburbs to start a family, Poppy is happy with her life and determined to get the most out of every day. When her bicycle is stolen, she opts to invest in driving lessons, a decision that will bring her face-to-face with Scott, a character with a worldview quite unlike her own. Mike Leigh’s first film since the Oscar-nominated and Venice prize-winning Vera Drake marks the third collaboration between the veteran director and actor Hawkins. She is in almost every frame, and she lights up the screen with a performance of infectious energy and enthusiasm. Tickets £5.00

Date: Wednesday 17th September '08
Event: THEATRE - I Caught Crabs in Walberswick	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7.30pm
presented by Eastern Angles / High Tide by award-winning playwright Joel Horwood A hot new play fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival I Caught Crabs in Walberswick takes an explosive look at teenage life. Best mates Fitz and Wheeler are fishing for crabs in sleepy Walberswick when they are ambushed by Dani, the fittest girl on the beach. So begins 24 hours that will change the lives of the three 16-year-olds forever. Wheeler is a high-flying kid destined for university, football-mad Fitz is struggling to cope with his disfunctional father and posh-girl Daniella feels misunderstood … all three are looking for some action. Joel Horwood’s writing fizzes with energy, warmth and wit … anyone with a teenager in their life will recognise the real-life humour and hormonal hang-ups of the three characters. 70 minute show with no interval. There will be a question and answer session after the show with the cast. Tickets £8.00 (students £5.00)

Date: Friday 19th September '08
Event: ENTERTAINMENT @ THE HUB - 1940s Style Sing-a-Long	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7pm
presented by the Little Theatre Staff and special guests An informal evening of entertainment in the Hub - 1940s style. Join us for an informal evening of nostalgia as we invite you to a community style sing-a-long of war-time favourites and other songs enjoyed during the 1940s. Come in uniform or civvies, dressed for the war effort or 2008 - everyone is welcome. Come and go as you please, staying for half an hour or for the whole evening. To emphasise the relaxed and participatory atmosphere the evening will take place in The Hub - the Theatre’s Bar & Coffee Shop. We hope everyone will join in enthusiastically and thoroughly enjoy this fun, musical trip down memory lane. Donations to Little Theatre funds on the door

Date: Saturday 20th September '08
Event: BREAK FUNDRAISER - Keith Skipper & The Press Gang	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7.30pm
Special Charity Fundraising Performance to Celebrate 40 years of Break Keith Skipper and his Press Gang entertainers have raised thousands of pounds for Break with special shows during their marathon stint on the local circuit. Now, on the last lap of a 25-year adventure, they are delighted to lend more support in the charity's home town. A potent mixture of yarns, songs and reflections with that distinctive local flavour has helped fill village halls, theatres and other community meeting places since 1984. The Press Gang's Final Farewell Tour this year, with sell-out fixtures in village, town and city, underlines an insatiable appetite for a special brand of home-grown squit and wit. "It's lovely to have a perfect excuse for this farewell fling at the Little Theatre. Several of us have been on stage here before, but this is bound to be a truly emotional experience ... especially for an old trouper like me from Cromer" says Keith. Tickets £20.00 (includes wine!)

Date: Tuesday 23rd September '08
Event: FILM - Son of Rambow (12A)	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 2.30pm & 8pm
Director: Garth Jennings UK/France 2007 Running time: 95mins Starring: Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Neil Dudgeon, Jessica Hynes Described by its makers as a film about friendship, faith and the weird business of growing up, Son of Rambow merges Grange Hill with the wit and imagination of Michel Gondry to winning and original effect. In 1980s England, Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is the good-hearted but sheltered son of a Plymouth Brethren family. The Brethren forbid radio, television and films, but Will finds escapism in his drawing, creating a wildly inventive fantasy world. A bit of bother at school throws him together with playground hard-nut Lee Carter (Will Poulter), who shows him a bootleg copy of Rambo: First Blood. Blown away by what he sees, Will's imagination goes into overdrive, and soon he is helping Lee shoot a camcorder epic with just a few makeshift props and an Eric Sykes cameo. Charming, eccentric, funny and profound, Garth Jennings’ film is also a visual tour de force and one of the most likeable and perceptive titles of the year. "Truly remarkable" Empire. Tickets £5.00

Date: Wednesday 24th September '08
Event: LAMDA EXAMINATION CLASSES	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre
Led by Natalie Peatchey 10 week Autumn term - Wednesdays @ the Hub 24th Sept; 1st, 8th, 15th & 22nd Oct; 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th Nov and 3rd Dec Exam session week after final lessons (date to be confirmed) 4-5pm: 8-12 years (Max. 8) - Course cost £50 5-6pm: 12-16 years (Max. 4) - Course cost £60 6-7pm: 16+ (Max. 3) - Course cost £80 Places are very limited so please book early LAMDA Examinations LAMDA (The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts) is an internationally renowned drama school that offers external examinations in Performance and Communication skills. Subjects include Acting, Devised Performance, Mime, Spoken English, Verse & Prose, Musical Theatre and Reading for Performance. The examinations are QCA approved and the Advanced Level examinations carry UCAS points. They offer a great opportunity to develop confidence, technique and knowledge. Natalie Peatchey BA(Hons), LLAM (Hons), ALAM Natalie has taught Speech and Drama for over 4 years to students from aged 5 to 68 in theatres and schools in London and Norwich. She worked at the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich for 4 years, leading LAMDA examination classes and teaching Youth Theatre classes. She has directed various productions, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Shelter, Closer, and more recently, a devised musical focusing on Invisible Disabilities and The Crucible. She joined Sheringham High School in September 2008 and has set up Sheringham Youth Theatre for 16-25 year olds.

Date: Friday 26th September '08
Event: FOLK - An Evening with Fred Wedlock	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 8.00pm
presented by Folk Beyond the Pier On the eve of the Folk on the Pier festival last May the primarily Norfolk audience immediately took this West Country folk comedian to their hearts. Back by demand and making his first appearance at the Little Theatre the audience can be assured of an evening of great humour and super songs by an artist that has spent the last 30 plus years developing his craft. A few things about Fred Wedlock: he achieved the perfect start for an entertainer - born and brought up in a pub. He has a deep love of all things West Country, especially his native Bristol. (Even tolerates Bristol Rovers). He has experimented with several careers, including teaching in the East End of London, but has managed without a proper job for over 25 years now. Fred has invited local singer Dan Platton as support. Tickets £10.00

Date: Saturday 27th September '08
Event: SLAM NIGHT	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7.30pm
The fantastic MC Charlie Blue brings his Throwdown Crew back to The Little Theatre for another stunning Slam night. Expect B-Boy, popping, breaking and locking showcase, open mic challenges, scratchin contests and graffiti competitions. Throwdown is one of the largest organisations in the UK for this style of event. Throwdown regularly tours Europe and the UK and Sheringham is one of their favourite gigs! Tickets £5 on the door

Date: Tuesday 30th September '08
Event: FILM - Caramel (PG)	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 2.30pm & 8.00pm
Director: Nadine Labaki France/Lebanon 2007. 96mins Starring: Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Elmasri, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad. Arabic & French / English subtitles A charming comedy drama, Caramel marks an auspicious Caméra d’Or-nominated debut for the film’s writer, director and star, Nadine Labaki. In Beirut, five women meet regularly in a beauty salon, a colourful and sensual microcosm of the city where members of different generations come into contact, talk and confide in each other. In the salon, their intimate and liberated conversations revolve around men, sex and motherhood, between haircuts and waxing with Caramel. A witty and stylish work that vividly portrays modern-day Beirut with all its complexities and contradictions, the film is sensuously shot, intelligent and brilliantly performed. Tickets £5.00

Date: Saturday 4th October '08
Event: CHILDREN'S SHOW - Puck's Bottom	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 2.30pm
presented by Wild Wood Theatre (formerly Josh Elwell) created and performed by Josh Elwell with music by Jeremy Avis Based on A Midsummer Night's Dream this is an enchanting burlesque tale for children from 5 years and their parents. It is a visual and magical piece with hand carved puppets and an original musical score, inspired by traditional English and African folk music. A tapestry of slapstick, puppetry, magic and music. Puck leads the audience on a perilous journey through Fairyland as Nick Bottom the Weaver and friends are preparing a play to perform before the Duke and Duchess on their wedding day. Meanwhile in the forest the King and Queen of the fairies are at war. The world of humans and spirits are entwined and turned upside-down until Puck comes to the rescue. The show has been popular over the last four years performing at Arts Centres and Theatres across the UK. It has also visited some more unusual venues including; The Eden Project, Glastonbury Festival and an International Puppet Festival in Taiwan. Josh Elwell Theatre has been creating family theatre for the last five years and is one of the UK’s first 'Carbon Neutral' theatre companies. We source all our energy from renewable sources, run a solar powered lighting system and run our van on bio-diesel. We are based on the edge of the New Forest on the Hants/Dorset border. Tickets £5.50 (under 16s £5)

Date: Saturday 4th October '08
Event: MUSIC - Red Oktober	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7.30pm
Red Oktober is one of the most highly regarded acoustic groups in the region. Paul Marriot, Tony Randall and Brent Weller have been playing together since 2000 and have supported some of the best known names in the business, including Maddy Prior, Ralph McTell and Lindisfarne. Their current set includes some old favourites from their recordings, some new songs and some of their own material written in the contemporary folk style which has become so popular. The guys play a variety of acoustic instruments including guitar, mandolin and bodhran with a little bit of ‘electric’ to charge up the show. Tickets £9.00

Date: Monday 6th October '08
Event: ART EXHIBITION - A Sense of Place	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre
to Saturday 1 November ART EXHIBITION A Sense of Place Nora Gaston - I am inspired by landscape, though not just the surface of it. Through spontaneous mark making I find the rhythm, through colour I express the mood, through symbols I give a sense of place. My palette is rich and varied as a result of all my travels, places east and west. Ideas come from here and there and in between.

Date: Tuesday 7th October '08
Event: FILM - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 2.30pm & 8.00pm
Director: Steven Spielberg USA 2008 Running time: 138mins Starring: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, Shia LaBeouf Everyone's favourite archaeologist adventurer returns for another globetrotting trek as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg team up with screenwriter David Koepp (Carlito’s Way, Spiderman) to bring Indiana Jones (Ford) back to the big screen over 25 years after ‘Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark’ (1981). Undoubtedly the film of the summer, if not the year, this boasts an all-star cast, action and in-jokes galore. Tickets £5.00

Date: Saturday 11th October '08
Event: IMPROV NIGHT @ THE HUB	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 8.00pm
Who’s Line is it Anyway? presented by Smoking Mic Comedy Club Featuring special guest North Norfolk Radio's Greg Powles. This is a fantastic evening of improvised comedy from East Anglia's premier touring comedy club. In the vein of 'Whose line is it anyway?' professional comics will be playing some of the funniest theatre games around. The Improv Night is unscripted, topical, satirical, witty and fast. If you like live performance you'll love this. Tickets £5.00

Date: Monday 13th October '08
Event: FILM - The Edge of Love (15)	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 2.30pm & 8.00pm
Director: John Maybury UK 2008 Running time: 126mins Starring: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys, Cillian Murphy A beautifully drawn love story directed by the acclaimed Maybury (Love is the Devil), The Edge of Love revolves around two feisty, free-spirited women, Caitlin (Miller) and Vera (Knightley); Vera’s husband, William (Murphy); and the brilliant, charismatic poet Dylan Thomas (Rhys) who loves both women. Broken promises, passion, betrayal, the shadow of war and the constant threat of imminent death push the protagonists to the edge of love. By no means a biopic in the traditional vein, the story explores the collision of the bohemian underworld with war-torn London, and the intimate complexities of two young couples whose lives and loves become dangerously intertwined. Tickets £5.00

Date: Wednesday 15th October '08
Event: AMATEUR THEATRE - Habeas Corpus	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7.30pm
to Saturday 18 Oct presented by Cromer and Sheringham Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society The play is set in the house and surroundings of the Wicksteed’s house in Hove. There, in a satirical merry-go-round, we meet a family and its friends and acquaintances for whom the determination to put sex and the satisfaction of the body (or corpus) before everything else is the ruling passion of their lives. The permissive society is taken to task in a farcical comedy in which the characters, stereotypes as their names (e.g. Cannon Throbbing) suggest, move – and indeed dance – in and out through a maze of mistaken identities and sexual encounters. As Wicksteed says at the close, 'He who lusts last, lasts longest'. The play contains saucy seaside humour! Special Matinee performance on Sat 18 Oct at 2.30pm Tickets £7 Evening Tickets £7 (Wed & Thur) £8 (Fri & Sat)

Date: Tuesday 21st October '08
Event: FILM - Sex and the City (15)	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 2.30pm & 8.00pm
Director: Michael King USA 2008 Running time: 150mins Starring: Sarah Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Kim Cattrall Carrie Bradshaw (Parker), successful author and everyone’s favourite fashion icon next door, is back, her famously sardonic wit sharper then ever, as she continues to narrate her own story about sex, love and the fashion-conscious single women of New York City. Sex and the City finds Carrie, Samantha (Cattrall), Charlotte (Davis) and Miranda (Nixon) four years after the hit HBO series ended, continuing to juggle jobs and relationships while navigating motherhood, marriage and Manhattan real estate. Tickets £5.00

Date: Saturday 25th October '08
Event: THEATRE - The Gasman Cometh	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7.30pm
Presented by Northern Theatre Touring The award winning Northern Theatre return with their ever-popular revue of the songs of Flanders & Swann. Northern Theatre’s award-winning revue will be welcomed by all with happy memories of Flanders & Swann and will be a revelation to those who missed the show first time round. “Have some Madeira M’Dear”, “The Gnu”, “The Reluctant Cannibal”, and “The Hippopotamus Song” come alive again in a show full of absurd wit and subversive lunacy. Iain Thompson and Daniel Sproats’ renditions of these classics have delighted audiences around the country and won ‘five stars’ at the Edinburgh Festival. “If you don’t come out smiling from ear to ear it will be because you are still whistling the songs.” The Scotsman Tickets £10.00

Date: Sunday 26th October '08
Event: PERFORMANCE @ THE HUB - The Jehane Markham Trio	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 8.00pm
Poet and playwright, Jehane Markham will be reading from her collections, with a range of subjects from Frank Sinatra to Cambodia. The JMT will perform the world premiere of their latest composition, Vladivostok to Moscow. The Jehane Markham Trio makes a welcome return to Sheringham Little Theatre with a brand new piece of work: Vladivostok to Moscow – part memoir, part homage to the world of Russian literature, it is the reflection of a poet on an epic train journey augmented by a soundscape of mellow jazz. This will be the second in the trio’s collaborative symphonic poems (The London Series was first performed at Sheringham Little Theatre in 2006). Tickets £6.50

Date: Tuesday 28th October '08
Event: FAMILY FILM - To Kill a Mockingbird (PG)	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 2pm & 7pm
This film is being shown as part of the Black History Film Festival which is a Black History Month initiative from Creative Arts East and the Norfolk Racial Equality Council. A much-loved, critically-acclaimed, classic trial film, faithfully adapted from Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Considered one of the top 100 films of all time. To Kill a Mockingbird is a poignant coming-of-age story set in the racially charged atmosphere of Alabama in the 1930s. It is a timeless film packed with beautiful scenes and meaningful life lessons for which it won four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and Best Actor. Tickets £5.00 (under 16s £2)

Date: Wednesday 29th October '08
Event: HOLIDAY ACTIVITY - See the Scene	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 10.00am - 4.00pm
One day drama workshop for 8-12 year olds Popular drama practitioner Bridget Robinson and her team offer a one-off holiday workshop exploring acting and performance skills. Starting the day with drama games and warm up exercises, the session develops into an exploration of acting styles as the participants work towards staging a scene to share at the end of the day. Everyone is welcome – no experience necessary, come and enjoy the fun of being on stage! Bring a packed lunch. Tickets £12.00

Date: Saturday 1st November '08
Event: SLAM NIGHT	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7.30pm
The fantastic MC Charlie Blue brings his Throwdown Crew back to The Little Theatre for another stunning Slam night. Expect B-Boy, popping, breaking and locking showcase, open mic challenges, scratchin contests and graffiti competitions. Throwdown is one of the largest organisations in the UK for this style of event. Throwdown regularly tours Europe and the UK and Sheringham is one of their favourite gigs! Tickets £5 on the door

Date: Monday 3rd November '08
Event: ART EXHIBITION - What they half create and what perceive	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre
to Saturday 6 December Justin Barnard - … all the mighty world Of eye and ear, - both what they half create, And what perceive…(William Wordsworth, from Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey). The idea is ageless. What the eye sees is ever changing. Our genes are unique as our thoughts. Most music and form are still to be discovered. Reality constrains imagination only slenderly.

Date: Thursday 6th November '08
Event: AMATEUR THEATRE - The Cemetery Club	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7.30pm
toSaturday 8 November by Ivan Menchell presented by The Sheringham Players Three Jewish women meet once a month for tea before visiting their husband's graves. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty woman who wants to have fun and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam, a butcher, enters the scene. He meets the women at the cemetery whilst visiting his wife's grave. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They become guilt stricken however when this nearly breaks Ida's heart. This play is a touching study of life after bereavement and explores the complexities of friendship in difficult times with humour and dignity. Tickets £8.00 (first night £7.50)

Date: Friday 14th November '08
Event: ARCHIVE FILM - Housewives' Choice (U)	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 8.00pm
Director: various UK 1926 -1955. Running time: 82mins. Starring: various Not so long ago housewives had a number of very good reasons to be desperate. Not only did they have to look after their families in an age of depression, war and austerity, but they did so without the consumer durables that we now consider essential. With humour frequently in its sights, Housewives' Choice is a programme of films from the BFI National Archive that explores the lives of British housewives from the 1920s to the 1950s. The programme includes documentaries, cinemagazines, propaganda films and adverts. It also features films by two of the women who helped to shape the British documentary movement of the 1930s and 40s – Ruby Grierson (1904-40) and Kay Mander (1915). SPECIAL EVENT: The film will be introduced by film historian Stewart Orr. Tickets £5.00

Date: Saturday 15th November '08
Event: THEATRE - Dracula's Guest	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7.30pm
presented by Rumpus Theatre Company A magnificent slice of Gothic horror based on Bram Stoker's wickedest creation A young woman is invited to a party - at a house she's never visited ... and with a host she's never met! From the company that brought you Bram Stoker's The Judge’s House! and hot on the heels of The Ripper Files! in Autumn 2007, Dracula’s Guest! is the latest spine-tingler in a long line of Rumpus chillers. Featuring the most famous of all Gothic horror creations, Dracula’s Guest! offers further proof that "Rumpus know better than many how to please an audience" (Times) HE'S AWAKE ... AND HE'S HUNGRY ... DON'T MISS THE PARTY! Tickets £12.50

Date: Tuesday 18th November '08
Event: FILM - Mamma Mia! (PG)	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 2.30pm & 8.00pm
Director: Phylida Lloyd UK / USA 2008 Running time: 109mins Starring: Meryl Streep, Julie Walters, Christine Baranski, Pierce Brosnan Mamma Mia! brings the timeless lyrics and melodies of iconic super-group Abba and the worldwide smash stage hit to the big screen. An independent single mother who owns a hotel on a Greek island, Donna (Streep), is about to let go of her daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), as she is getting married. Sophie has secretly invited three guests; on a quest to find her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna’s past to the island they visited 20 years earlier. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled. Inspired by the storytelling magic of ABBA’s songs, Mamma Mia! is a celebration of mothers and daughters, old friends and new family found. Tickets £5.00

Date: Thursday 20th November '08
Event: CONCERT - Robert Wolfe	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7.30pm
Robert Wolfe is recognised as one of the leading theatre organists of the world. He is acclaimed for his sheer artistry and musicality. At the age of 16 he became the youngest musician to play the Wurlitzer of the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool. In 1981 Robert was invited to inaugurate the Wurlitzer Show at the Thursford Collection, Norfolk and this year marks his twenty-eighth season. During the winter months he performs concerts, not only around the UK, but in New Zealand, the USA & Canada. Robert’s music is often heard on Radio 2 and has been featured on television, including playing live for The National Lottery. An audience of around 20 million heard the magnificent sounds of the Wurlitzer Organ. For Robert’s concert this evening, he will be playing another American instrument, the Lowrey Organ. This concert will feature music from the 1930s to the present day, ranging from ballads to ragtime, dance music to light classical, plus tunes from top West End musicals. Tickets £11 (£10 concs)

Date: Saturday 22nd November '08
Event: MUSIC - Showbitz	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7.30pm
Showbitz are thrilled to return to Sheringham Little Theatre to bring you their Autumn programme of great songs from your favourite West End and Broadway shows. All the magic of the musicals, rolled into one non-stop night of entertainment. With an exciting and dramatic mix of the most popular numbers from shows such as 'Cabaret', 'Phantom of the Opera', 'Wicked', 'Mamma Mia', 'Spamalot', 'A Chorus Line', 'Les Miserables' and many others, Showbitz invite you to sit back, relax and join them for an exciting musical journey featuring some of the best-loved numbers ever written for the theatrical stage. Tickets £9.50

Date: Tuesday 25th November '08
Event: FILM - The Duchess (cert TBC)	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 2.30pm & 8.00pm
Director: Saul Dibb UK 2008 Running time: tbc Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes pair up as an unhappy aristocratic couple in the 18th-century-set costume drama The Duchess. Knightley portrays the scandalous Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, in a film adaptation of the eponymous 1998 bestselling biography by Amanda Foreman. Georgiana was a socialite and celebrated beauty who maintained a famed literary salon, gambled her money away, and led a menage-a-trois with her husband and his mistress - who was also Georgiana's best friend. Partly filmed at nearby Holkham Hall and directed by UEA graduate Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy) The Duchess is a sumptuously shot account of the controversial aristocrat who has been described as the Princess Diana of her time. Tickets £5.00

Date: Friday 28th November '08
Event: AMATEUR THEATRE - The Magic Lozenge	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7.30pm
to Saturday 29 November presented by The Sheringham Savoyards Sheringham hosts a world premiere! The Magic Lozenge is a light-hearted story of dark secrets and private passions, to the accompaniment of evocative new music infused with tantalizing echoes of Gilbert and Sullivan favourites. Mocking modern society's craze for a quick fix, this musical play, written by two members of The Sheringham Savoyards, is about a group of friends who hope for life-changing effects from a so-called magic lozenge. However the magic is found only in the power of belief, and the knock-on effects of the 'little orange sweetie' change the lives of some of these friends for ever. Tickets £8.00

Date: Saturday 6th December '08
Event: PANTOMIME - Peter Pan	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre
to Saturday 3rd January It’s pantomime time again at the Little Theatre and this year promises to be the best ever. After last year’s ‘sell out’ production of Snow White, PDM Entertainments are presenting Peter Pan, the biggest, most spectacular pantomime there is. Join us for a fabulous ‘Flight’ with Peter Pan to ‘Never Neverland’ - meet Pirates, Lost Boys, Mermaids and Indians, then sit scared as you meet the evil ‘Captain Hook’. Come with us on a Swashbuckling adventure. A show with something for everyone: music, dancing, comedy and slapstick. A truly ‘traditional’ pantomime - an ideal treat for all the family. Get into the festive spirit with the ‘Little Boy who never grew up’. Peter Pan is sure to be a sell out, so book early ... Tickets from £9.00

Date: Sunday 7th December '08
Event: COMEDY - A Kipper Country Christmas	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre 7.30pm
presented by Sid Kipper For your delight Sid Kipper, icon and iconoclast, pulls out the plums of his Yuletide repertoire, sticks bits of holly on them, drenches them in brandy and sets them ablaze. By their light he looks back at rural winters when snowflakes glistened, frosty winds made moan, and it really was deep and crisp and even. "It was cold, but fair. Well, even the rich couldn't light a fire with a little boy up their chimney, could they?" Present times are not ignored and the show has tips for those new to rural life, culled from Sid's recent Channel 4 podcast series 'The Kipper Country Code'. This is sprinkled over seasonal songs, stories, rhymes and reason, with the odd musical instrument and - this being Christmas - nuts. "Nuts are very important at Christmas - along with stockings, crackers, breast, legs and stuffing. Without them mother wouldn't know what to talk about." Along the way Carol is sung, Belle's told, and Sherry is trifled with. There's turkey talked, pies minced, and sausages rolled. In short, Yule is comprehensively logged in a thoroughly entertaining fashion. Tickets £9.00

Date: Monday 8th December '08
Event: ART EXHIBITION - Open Show 2008	Venue/Time: Sheringham Little Theatre
to Saturday 31 January Art under £100 This year’s open art exhibition will be a Christmas selling show of affordable art and every item for sale will be under £100. If you would like to submit your work please collect an entry form from the Box Office.