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TH.E DANCE
HOUSE
• Ellenduné Community
Centre, Wroughton
Saturdar 21 September
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Under 12,s £1 Family ticket £15
Was it much ado about nothing? tickets on door (if not sold out)
or send dieques and.
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Matt Holland opines on Shakespere in the Park on 27 July Lava,
If you have lived in Swindon for some years, particularly the west, you have doubtless enjoyed and made use
of Lydiard Park in many and various ways.
There's the family and friends Ado About Nothing. And it was a contented and good humoured
barbecue and rounders session, sell out. An audience of over 400 audience. And the hard-working Cdleen
the Sunday afternoon stroll, the spread their picnics on the grass, cast of seven, directed by former
squeals and tears time in the little collected their free glass of punch likely lad, James Bolam, thrived on
ones' play area, a nature talk-walk and with Lydiard House as stunning grass and fresh air; and achieved Mobile freelance
with the naturally Mike-named backdrop, settled down to enjoy a the appropriate sense of mischief,
rangers, any number of games of break from the Olympics. fun and frolics. Their comings and hairdresser in
football, country fairs, pop music And they discovered that getting goings, peepings and punnings West Swindon
fests, kite flying conventions or even your Shakespeare al fresco has were all neatly timed and executed.
old attic tours! But would you ever things going for it that the indoor As was the gentle way they 12 years experience
expect to go there for your fix of experience does not. Like the sun's connected with the audience.
Bardic humour, romance and setting rays across a croquet lawn, Benedick was positively charming Appointments available
intrigue? the wood pigeon's coo, the pale as he sought out wise, fair and weekdays or evenings
Well, one Saturday in late July, moon rising over big trees, bats virtuous women from among the
Shakespeare came to the Park in flitting by, and the slamming door of picnickers. Very reasonable rates
the shape of an open air a portaloo. This was a delightful way to spend
performance by Heartbreak But these distractions were a summer's evening and a splendid Tel: 873896
Productions of the comedy Much embraced as enhancements by the new use for Lydiard.

Museums September celebrations It's free! It's f u n!
Swindon's museums will be celebrating National Heritage Weekend on
14 and 15 September with free entry and special offers. It's for everyone!
There will befree entry to Lydiard
House and St Mary's Church. Arts and Museums Open Weekend
Every visitor will receive a free September 14th - 15th
colour guide book normally priced
at £1.50. In the church, the unu- Be a Movie Maker! Feeling a Bit Arty?
sual triptych painting showing the September 14th September 14th
St John's family tree will be on Brilliant opportunities in filming Have fun with Wiltshire Young
view, with a guide on hand. and animation for you at Media Artists and see the exhibition by
The house and church will be Arts, Town Hall Studios local artists Frank Quinton and
open: Saturday lOam - 530pm. Tel: 01793 493451 Peter Burton at the Arts Centre,
Sunday 2pm - 530pm. Cream Devizes Road
teas will be served in the visitor Sample Life in the Past Tel: 01793 614837
centre cafe for £1.50 per person. September 14th - 15th
Special activities on Saturday Now is your chance to join in Dance the Day Away!
include a morning for children at & be a Roman or Anglo Saxon September 14th - 15th
11 am, and at 730pm, Music for an all weekend at Bath Road Your chance to dance Jazz,
Autumn Evening, a concert in St Museum Tap, Creative, Contemporary,
Mary's followed by refreshments Tel: 01793 493188 Baroque, Flamenco and Line
and Elizabethan madrigals in the Explore Swindon's History! Dancing at Thamesdown
house. Tickets are available from September 14th Dance Studios
the house. Gamekeeper Henry Hiscocks, to be Quizzes, tours and something Tel: 01793 493697
seen in the Victorian Lydiards exhibition
Get closer to Lydiard currently on display in the house for everyone at Faringdon Road Is This the Tate?
The Friends of Lydiard Tregoz give GWR Museum. Open on the September 14th
you the chance to get closer to the It will be an excellent opportunity to 15th too - free entry. Find out about Modern Art for
history of Lydiard. Formed in 1967 find out about joining. Tel: 01793 493189 yourself. And calling all children,
when the park and St Mary's Church Heritage Heads! have a go at the picture puzzle
were little known, the Friends have Renault opens hi-tech doors September 14th - 15th & help make a dazzling creation
successfully raised the profile of Architect Norman Foster's award Come one, come all, free entry to decorate the Gallery Wall.
Lydiard, bringing its beauty and rich winning hi-tech Renault Building at all weekend to Lydiard House Art Gallery, Bath Road Museum.
history to the attention of people all Westmead, Westlea will also be and St Mary's Church Tel: 01793 493188
over the country. Members of the open on Saturday 14 September Tel: 01793 770401 Leisure Services
Friends organisation will be helping as part of National Heritage THAMESDOWN
at the Lydiard Park open weekend. weekend. BOROUGH COUNCIL