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What's On in April
2011 Events
27th April 2011 7.30pm
Scottish Chamber Orchestra - Symphonic Opera
Younger Hall, Byre Theate, St Andrews
Mozart Overture, Così fan tutte Mozart Voi che sapete (Le
nozze di Figaro) Mozart Recit & Smanie implacabili (Così fan
tutte) Mozart Symphony No 35 ‘Haffner’ Rossini Overture Il
barbiere di Siviglia Rossini Cruda sorte (L’italiana in Algeri)
Rossini Una voce poco fa (Il barbiere di Siviglia) Haydn
Symphony No 82 ‘The Bear’ Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Conductor Renata Pokupic Mezzo Soprano Favourite arias by
two of the greatest operatic composers of their respective ages
sung by an acclaimed young mezzo of the moment. This concert is
a must for any opera lover – and it comes with the symphonic
bonus of Haydn’s hugely entertaining ‘Bear’ symphony, full of
rustic influences. Mozart’s ‘Haffner’ symphony, on the other
hand, is a suitably grand work written for one of the grandest
of the great Salzburg families. Ticket Prices: £19,50;
£16,50; £12.50; £10,50 Seniors: £17,50; £14,50; £10,50; £ 8,50
Students: £5,00; £5,50 Children: £5,00; £5,00; £5,00; £5,00 If
your concession is not listed here please contact the box office
on 01334 475 000
www.byretheatre.com
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Di Gilpin’s Knitting Bothy Studio. Open
10am - 5pm Thurs to Mon or by appointment. Tel: 01334 840431 or
07966 629216. The Studio is in the village of Largoward.
Thursday 1st April 7.30pm
Cash on Delivery by Michael Cooney
The Byre Theatre, St Andrews
Have you ever thought of cheating the D.S.S? Poor Eric
tried it and - oh dear - how it backfired! Come and watch him
struggling to cover his first little fibs with bigger pork pies
and daft deceit.
"O what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to
deceive."
Ticket Prices: £10 (£8) Matinees £8. Phone No: 01334 475000
Friday 2nd to Monday 5th April 10.30 to
4.30pm Daily except 12.30 to 4.30pm Sunday
Easter Exhibition of unframed work
St Andrews Art Club 14c Argyle Street, St Andrews, Fife.
Meet the artists and buy a picture
Friday 02 Apr to 28th April Daily
from 10am - 5pm
Seeing The Wood And The Trees Exhibition - .
Botanic Garden, St Andrews Botanic Gardens The Canongate St
Andrews
Tree Art - An exhibition inspired by wood, 'Seeing The Wood
And The Trees' has paintings, pastels, turned wood and furniture
on display. Tel: 01334 476452
Friday 2nd April 7.30pm
Cash on Delivery by Michael Cooney
The Byre Theatre, St Andrews
Have you ever thought of cheating the D.S.S? Poor Eric
tried it and - oh dear - how it backfired! Come and watch him
struggling to cover his first little fibs with bigger pork pies
and daft deceit.
"O what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to
deceive."
Ticket Prices: £10 (£8) Matinees £8. Phone No: 01334 475000
www.byretheatre.com
Saturday 3rd April 9am - 1pm
Farmers’ Market
Fife Farmers Market; Car Park, Argyle Street
features: Arbroath smokies, bacon, baking, beef, buffalo,
cheese, eggs, fruit drinks & wine, herbal remedies, jewellery,
lamb, pork, poultry, soap, vegetables, venison, etc; free
admission.
Saturday 3rd April 2.30pm (Audio
Described) & 7.30pm
Cash on Delivery by Michael Cooney
The Byre Theatre, St Andrews
Have you ever thought of cheating the D.S.S? Poor Eric
tried it and - oh dear - how it backfired! Come and watch him
struggling to cover his first little fibs with bigger pork pies
and daft deceit.
"O what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to
deceive."
Ticket Prices: £10 (£8) Matinees £8. No concessions Saturday
evening.
Phone No: 01334 475000
www.byretheatre.com
Sunday 04 Apr 2pm
St Andrews Botanic Garden Walk
St Andrews Botanic Gardens Canongate St Andrews KY16 8RT
Guided walk exploring different aspects of St Andrews
Botanic Garden and plants.
Organised by Friends of St Andrews Botanic Garden. Charge: £2,
£1 Concessions
For more information contact Tel: 01334 476452 E-mail:
standrews.botanic@fife.gov.uk Website:
www.st-andrews-botanic.org
Tuesday 6th April 11.30am & 2pm Ages 3+
The Ugly Duckling
The Byre Theatre St. Andrews
Major Mustard’s Travelling Show
Major Mustard is on tour with his musical Box of Delights
when he meets a sad and grumpy little duckling. In this unusual
and delightful version of Hans Christian Andersen's tale, Major
Mustard and the audience call on all their skills of song, music
and story to cure the duckling's sadness.
A regular and very welcome visitor to the Festival, Major
Mustard presents another of his entertaining shows for all the
family in his own unique way...a travelling show extraordinaire!
Ticket Prices: £8 (£6) Phone No: 01334 475000
www.byretheatre.com
Wednesday 7th April 7.30pm
Les Amoureux (the lovers)
The Byre Theatre
In her tattered once-wedding dress, the vampire Countess
turns over a tarot card. Never before has she drawn Les Amoureux.
Her keeper and shadows bear witness to the arrival of the
handsome soldier... Based around Angela Carter's story,
this twisted gothic Sleeping Beauty is a unique and mesmerising
mix of dance, opera and theatre. Ticket Prices: £14
(£12/£10) BUY TICKETS ONLINE! Location of Event: AB Paterson
Auditorium Phone No: 01334 475000
www.byretheatre.com
Thursday 8th April 8pm
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra Featuring MUGENKYO TAIKO
DRUMMERS
The World of the Gods
The Byre Theatre
East meets west as thrillingly theatrical Japanese
percussion combines with jazz creativity in this spectacular
collaboration by the hugely acclaimed Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers
and the internationally lauded Scottish National Jazz Orchestra.
As the UK’s first and only professional Taiko group, over the
past fifteen years Mugenkyo has become synonymous with
stunningly visual performances that range from industrially
powerful rhythms to delicately expressive bamboo flute sequences
and have wowed audiences from Glastonbury to Cork Jazz Festival
to the Last Night of the Proms.
Featuring music specially researched and composed by SNJO
director Tommy Smith, depicting the forces of nature in graphic
dimensions, the World of the Gods presents a unique musical
adventure by true masters of their respective arts. Ticket
Prices: £18 (£16/£8 Schools)
BUY TICKETS ONLINE! Location of Event: AB Paterson Auditorium
Phone No: 01334 475000
www.byretheatre.com
Friday 9th April 7.30pm (2.30pm Saturday
matinee)
Opera Della Luna Present - The Sorcerer by Gilbert & Sullivan
The Byre Theate - AB Paterson Auditorium
Opera Della Luna’s brand new production of Gilbert and
Sullivan’s first success moves the story from its quaint
Victorian setting to sleepy rural Britain in the 1970s.
John Wellington Wells, the celebrated dealer in “magic and
spells”, spreads chaos and havoc in an unsuspecting country
village, when he places a powerful aphrodisiac in the village
hall teapot. The resulting revelations are indeed “a marvellous
illusion, a terrible surprise!”
www.operadellaluna.org
Ticket Prices: £16 (£14) BUY TICKETS ONLINE! Phone No: 01334
475000
www.byretheatre.com
Saturday 10th April 7.30pm (2.30pm Saturday matinee)
Opera Della Luna Present - The Sorcerer by Gilbert & Sullivan
The Byre Theate - AB Paterson Auditorium
Opera Della Luna’s brand new production of Gilbert and
Sullivan’s first success moves the story from its quaint
Victorian setting to sleepy rural Britain in the 1970s.
John Wellington Wells, the celebrated dealer in “magic and
spells”, spreads chaos and havoc in an unsuspecting country
village, when he places a powerful aphrodisiac in the village
hall teapot. The resulting revelations are indeed “a marvellous
illusion, a terrible surprise!”
www.operadellaluna.org
Ticket Prices: £16 (£14) BUY TICKETS ONLINE! Phone No: 01334
475000
www.byretheatre.com
Saturday 10th April 11.30am Duration 50 mins. Ages 5+.
Puppet Animation Festival - The Water Kelpie of Loch Ness
The Byre Theatre - Lawrence Levy Studio Theatre
Presented by the Yugen Puppet Company. Taken from our rich
heritage of folk tales about the Loch Ness monster – or water
kelpie – the most famous Scottish creature of all has its own
special story to tell. This is a tale about one man’s
quest to seek out the beast, which in darker ancient times has
been terrorising the local countryside. He outwits the
shape-shifting water horse and takes away its powers, but in
doing so he inherits strong and magical abilities of his own.
Ticket Prices: £8 (£6) BUY TICKETS ONLINE! Phone No: 01334
475000
www.byretheatre.com
Wednesday 14th April 11.30am. Duration 45 minutes. Ages 3+
Puppet Animation Festival - Red Riding Hood's Magic Purse
The Byre Theatre - AB Paterson Auditorium
The Wicked Wolf plans to have “Grannie for lunch and Little
Rosie for afternoon tea!” Find out how Red Riding Hood’s Magic
Purse saves the day in this delightful show from one of
Scotland’s most well known puppetry companies. Presented by
Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre. Ticket Prices: £8 (£6)
BUY TICKETS ONLINE! Phone No: 01334 475000
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Wednesday 14th April 7.30pm
Friends Of The Byre Present - An Evening of Horticulture &
Questions with Jim McColl
The Byre Theatre - Location of Event: AB Paterson Auditorium
Please come with your horticultural questions! Answers
from a panel of experts hosted by Jim McColl from the Beechgrove
Garden. Ticket Prices: £10 (£8 FOB) BUY TICKETS
ONLINE!
Phone No: 01334 475000
www.byretheatre.com
Thursday 15th April 7.30pm
Ballet Central
The Byre Theate AB Paterson Auditorium
Ballet Central is proud to bring their 25th anniversary tour
to the Byre Theatre, offering a varied programme of ballet,
contemporary and jazz from some of the world’s leading
choreographers.
The 2010 repertoire features David Nixon’s Song to St Andrew,
Christopher Bruce’s Shift and excerpts from Peter Wright’s
Giselle and Michael Pink’s Dracula. Kit Holder, Louise Bennett
and past graduate Christopher Marney are creating new pieces for
this tour, and the School’s Director Sara Matthews will be
reviving Dances from a Knot Garden. Michael Pink’s dramatic
narrative piece I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire and
Phillip Aiden’s Let Yourself Go complete this exciting
programme.* Philip Feeney, Musical Director, will provide live
accompaniment during the tour. Ticket Prices: £12 (£10) BUY
TICKETS ONLINE! Phone No: 01334 475000
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Friday 16th April 11.30am. Duration 45
minutes. Ages 2+
Puppet Animation Festival - The Princess and the Pea
The Byre Theatre - AB Paterson Auditorium
Presented by Banyan Theatre Company
Once upon a stormy night, while the wind and the rain were
howling outside, the Royals were all tucked up warm in bed.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door, and a very wet and
untidy girl was brought inside...
Become a part of this playful and comic story of a prince in
search of a real princess, a clever queen, a girl who is not as
she first appears, a tower of mattresses, and of course...a tiny
pea.
A charming adaptation of Hans Andersen’s bedtime story created
by one of England’s leading companies among sheet and blankets,
beautiful puppets and dreamlike projections.
Ticket Prices: £8 (£6) BUY TICKETS ONLINE!
Phone No: 01334 475000
www.byretheatre.com
Saturday 17th April 11.30am - Duration
50 minutes. Ages 3+
Puppet Animation Festival - The Frog Princess
The Byre Theatre - Lawrence Levy Studio Theatre
Three royal brothers are ordered by their father, the King,
to marry. Each prince must shoot an arrow high and far into the
air, and must take as his bride whosoever finds and returns it.
For the two eldest brothers their arrows are brought back by
beautiful, perfect princesses.
But the third brother is surprised and dismayed when a frog
brings back his arrow! But perhaps everything is not as it
seems...A gentle and beautifully crafted adaptation of the well
know Russian folk tale by one of Scotland’s leading companies.
Ticket Prices: £8 (£6) BUY TICKETS ONLINE!
Phone No: 01334 475000
www.byretheatre.com
Saturday 17th April 1pm
Byre Theatre Auction - AB Paterson Auditorium
Putting the fun into fundraising - join the Byre Theatre
board and guests for a fun filled auction with a range of
special lots and items donated by our many patrons and
supporters.
The funds raised go towards the Byre Theatre's education work
with Rachel House, Kinross (CHAS) serving children and families
across Scotland, and our work with vulnerable children and young
people in Fife. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Donations welcome. Please email e.colingsworth@gmail.com
regarding making a donation. Thank you. View
www.byreauction.com for further details and Auction
items. Ticket Prices: £5 includes glass of wine or a soft
drink BUY TICKETS ONLINE!
Phone No: 01334 475000
www.byretheatre.com
Saturday 17th April 8pm
Clare Teal
Byre Theatre AB Paterson Auditorium
The multi-award winning singer-songwriter, Radio 2 presenter
and columnist brings her unique blend of humour and great music
to The Byre for the very first time.
Featuring material just recorded, plus selections from her
impressive back catalogue - a glorious mix of standards,
classics and originals from the albums spanning her highly
successful career. Ticket Prices: £14 (£12/£10) BUY
TICKETS ONLINE!
Phone No: 01334 475000
www.byretheatre.com
On the Rocks
18 – 25 April 2010
Student arts festival
www.ontherocksfestival.com
Sunday 18th April 1 - 5pm
Charities’ Spring Fete
live music, childrens’ rides and games, food from local
producers, etc; On The Rocks Festival; St Salvator’s Quad,
North Street St Andrews.
ontherocks@st-andrews.ac.uk free.
Sunday 18th April
2
- 6pm
Otters Sing Lullabies
St Johns Garden, Market Street;
outdoor concert with Scottish folk bands;
On The Rocks Festival;
ontherocks@st-andrews.ac.uk ; £3.
Monday 19th April
On the Rocks! - On The Rocks is a week long Scottish and Student
Arts Festival.
Location of Event: Outreach
Last year it brought sell out performances of The History Boys,
Hamlet and Krapps Last Tape as well as stand up comedy, art,
music and modern experimental theatre to the Byre.
This year’s On The Rocks promises to be even better, featuring a
wide variety of work from across Scotland. The programme will be
announced just before Christmas and in the meantime you can keep
up to date by having a look at the website –
www.ontherocksfestival.com .
For more information contact
ontherocks@st-andrews.ac.uk . Time(s) of Event: Various
Ticket Prices: Various BUY TICKETS ONLINE!
Phone No: 01334 475000
www.byretheatre.com
22nd April 7.30pm
Scottish Chamber Orchestra - Pastoral Symphony
The Byre Theatre, St. Andrews
Robin Ticciati conductor Tom Poster piano
Dvořák Legends (selection)
Ligeti Piano Concerto Beethoven Symphony No 6 ‘Pastoral’
Ticciati’s first Beethoven with the SCO shares the programme
with Dvořák‘s immensely likeable Legends and a 20th century
classic by one of the greatest composers of our time. Ligeti is
very unusual in that he wears his sense of humour on his sleeve.
Even in his weightiest work there is room for a clownish moment
or quirky feature. Here he requires slide-whistle, ocarina and
kazoo and sets the pianist one of the most virtuoso tests
imaginable. Not to be missed.
Time(s) of Event: 7.30pm. Pre-concert talk: 6.30pm (free to
ticket holders) Dr Michael Downes, Director of Music at the
University of St Andrews, talks about Ligeti’s Piano Concerto.
Ticket Prices: Price Band I - £19 Price Band II - £16 Price Band
III - £12 Price Band IV - £10 Ticket discounts Senior citizens -
£2 off standard ticket prices Children, students and unemployed
people - £5 per ticket (stalls only) People with a disability –
50% off standard ticket prices for people with a disability and
a carer.
Box Office Tel 01334 475000
www.byretheatre.com
Friday 23rd April 9pm
John Jorgenson Gypsy Jazz Quintet
The Inn at Lathones
Grammy-winner JOHN JORGENSON is a well-known pioneer of the
American gypsy jazz movement. An acknowledged master of the
Django Reinhardt style of gypsy jazz, Jorgenson also brings his
own unique flair to the stage with exciting new compositions,
amazing fretwork, and searing clarinet playing, supported by
distinguished world-class musicians. Tel; 01334 840494
www.mundellmusic.com Tickets £24
Saturday 24th April 9pm
John Jorgenson Gypsy Jazz Quintet
The Inn at Lathones
Grammy-winner JOHN JORGENSON is a well-known pioneer of the
American gypsy jazz movement. An acknowledged master of the
Django Reinhardt style of gypsy jazz, Jorgenson also brings his
own unique flair to the stage with exciting new compositions,
amazing fretwork, and searing clarinet playing, supported by
distinguished world-class musicians. Tel; 01334 840494
www.mundellmusic.com Tickets £24
29 APRIL TO 3 MAY
TULIP FESTIVAL 2010
Cambo Gardens. Cambo House, Kingsbarns, St.Andrews, Fife, KY16
8QD
Thousands of tulips to see growing and cut Talk by renowned
author/journalist Anna Pavord Phone - +44 (0) 1333 450054 Fax -
+44 (0) 1333 450987
www.camboestate.com
Friday 30th April 1.30pm & 7.30pm
Journeys End
The Byre Theatre - AB Paterson Auditorium
Produced By The Original Theatre Company, Icarus Theatre
Collective, Anvil Arts And In Association With South Hill Park
Arts Centre
The young, talented and war-weary Captain Stanhope is confronted
with the fresh face of his past as an old schoolmate joins his
platoon. As the offensive looms ever closer, Stanhope must
inspire his men to make the ultimate sacrifice for a war he no
longer understands and for a cause he no longer remembers.
This compelling play based on R. C. Sherriff's own experience in
the trenches with its heroism, humour and inevitable tragedy
shows humour and courage in the face of certain tragedy.
All staged within Stanhope’s claustrophobic dugout, time creeps
to a standstill as soldiers await their orders before racing to
its heart wrenching climax as these young men face their
‘Journey’s End’. Ticket Prices: £14 (£12/£10/£8 schools)
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