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CHILDREN & FAMILY DANCE MUSIC COMEDY
Friday 6th, 6pm to 9pm Saturday 7th, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Thursday 5th, 7.30pm Wednesday 25th, 7.30pm
Family Roller Disco. In adv £5.50 (+ Gemma Short School of Dance: Reduced Shakespeare Company:
BF); skates & safety equipment hire All the World’s a Stage. A fantastic The Complete History of Comedy.
£2. MECA showcase of dance, drama and A deconstruction of the entire
Sunday 15th musical theatre. £12. Wyvern history of comedy in 90 rollicking
Mother’s Day at Roves Farm. Monday 23rd, 7.30pm minutes. £21.50. Wyvern
Mums free with a paying child. See Pasha Kovalev: Life through Dance. Thursday 5th, 8pm
the advert on page 32. Roves Farm A sparkle-packed journey through Lucy Porter: My Time. Lucy tries
Saturday 28th, 3pm & 7pm life and love, expressed by the lan- Elkie Brooks. One of the most to find her rightful place in history.
The Wind in the Willows. Join the guage of dance. £24. Wyvern powerful and versatile vocal talents Should she be a bewhiskered Vic-
Boat-loving Ratty, the sensible but Tuesday 24th of our generation is celebrating her torian explorer, a 1920s Hollywood
curious Mole, wise old Badger and The Great Big Dance Off. A na- 70th birthday with a UK tour. £24. starlet or Hathepsut the Egyptian
the fantastically irrepressible Toad tional dance competition open to Wyvern pharaoh? £15. Arts Centre
on the adventure of a lifetime. £15; primary and secondary schools in Friday 6th, 7.30pm
family £52. Wyvern England. £12; under 16s £5. Wyvern That’ll Be The Day, featuring classic THEATRE
Sat 28 March to Sun 12 April Thursday 26th, 7pm gold hits from the 1950s, 60s and Tuesday 3rd, 7.30pm
Easter Bunny. The bunny is back to Swindon Academy perform a 70s. £24.50. Wyvern Bleak House. Hilarious, tragic and
his old tricks. Create Easter cards, unique mixture of dance, vault- Friday 6th, 7.30pm romantic by turns, Dickens’ darkly
fluffy chicks and pictures in the ing and gymnastic routines. £3.50. Larry Miller. One of the must-see comic masterpiece is retold by a
craft area. Roves Farm. See page 32 Wyvern blues and rock guitarists, Larry is company of five actor-musicians.
famous for his high octane shows. £13. Arts Centre
DRAMA FILM £15. Arts Centre Wednesday 11th to Saturday 14th,
Monday 16th to Saturday 21st. Wednesday 4th, 7.45pm Sunday 8th, 3pm 7.30pm
Mon to Sat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat Cycling With Moliere (15). A Swinging to Victory with Astor Shady Business presented by West-
2.30pm warm, funny, literate comedy in Big Band. The 17-piece big band ern Players. Struggling nightclub
Copacabana. A tale of romance and which two egocentric actor friends and four singers perform memora- dancers face a crisis. Will anyone
stardom with sensational original begin rehearsals for a production of ble songs from the 1940s. £15.50 figure out what is going on. £9, to
songs by Barry Manilow, dazzling ‘The Misanthrope’ - and try not to - £21.50 (50% of profits and collec- book call 07575 711522. Arts Centre
costumes and fabulous choreogra- strangle one another in the process. tion at performance to Royal British Sunday 15th, 7.30pm
phy. £18 - £30.50. Wyvern SFS. Arts Centre Legion Poppy Appeal). Wyvern Jane Eyre. Blue Orange Thea-
OPERA Wednesday 18th, 7.45pm Tuesday 10th, 7.30pm tre Company presents Charlotte
Bronte’s tale of a young woman’s
Omar (15). This riveting thriller Steeleye Span. The folk rock pio-
Tuesday 3rd, 7.30pm is set in the Occupied Territories, neers are celebrating 45 years with courageous fight through injustice
where recklessness born of despair a new show featuring familiar clas- and hardship. £13. Arts Centre
– and romance - are the order of sics and new songs. £19 - £22.50. Thursday 19th, 7.30pm
the day. A very human story of love, Wyvern Above Bored. A woman has been
hope and reality. SFS. Arts Centre Thursday 12th, 7.30pm detained after her boss is found
Sunday 22nd, 8pm Paul Carrack. Singer, songwriter and dead. Her colleague also awaits an
Sing-A-Long-A Dirty Dancing (15) former frontman of Ace, Squeeze interview. Routine questions, but
Join Baby and Johnny in a fun-filled and Mike & The Mechanics returns what if the monotony of routine
Rigoletto presented by Russian sing-a-long screening of the 1987 to Swindon following his widely ac- was responsible for pushing one
State Ballet and Opera House. Sung dance classic film. Fancy dress not claimed recent album release, Rain of them over the edge? £12. Arts
in Italian with English surtitles this obligatory, but highly recommended. or Shine. £29.50 - £39.50. Wyvern Centre
tragic story revolves around the £16. Wyvern Friday 13th, 7.30pm
hunchback court jester, Rigoletto, Swindon Film Society (SFS) films are Showaddywaddy. A dynamic and ART
his beautiful daughter Gilda and the for members only. It is possible to uplifting show with all the band’s Tuesday 17th, 7.30pm
Duke of Mantua. £30 - £36. Wyvern Cricklade Art Group: AGM and por-
join at any film showing biggest hits. £20.50. Wyvern trait drawing. Cricklade Town Hall
Saturday 14th, 7.30pm Annex. crickladeart.co.uk
One Night of Tom Jones. Glen Leon
accompanied by the 13-piece Con-
nection Orchestra perform classics VENUES
from five decades. £20.50. Wyvern Arts Centre Devizes Road SN1 4BJ.
Saturday 21st to Saturday 28th Tel: 01793 524481
Swindon Music Festival. A platform Central Library Regent Circus
for amateur performance in all SN1 1QG. Tel: 01793 463782
fields of music for all ages through MECA Regent Circus SN1 1PR
competition. Arts Centre. Tel: 01793 251111
See swindonmusicfestival.co.uk Roves Farm Sevenhampton
Nr Highworth SN6 7QG.
Sunday 29th, 7.30 Tel: 01793 763939
Secret Love: The Life and Music Swindon Information Centre
of Doris Day. Acclaimed jazz singer Central Library SN1 1QG.
Claudia Morris, accompanied by Tel: 01793 530328
live band and actors, presents a Wyvern Theatre Theatre Square
toe-tapping celebration of her idol’s SN1 1QN. Tel: 01793 524481
90th birthday. £19.50. Wyvern Confirm date, time & price with venue
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