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Come and join us celebrating Dickens!
Throughout the year we have tours, shows and activities that everybody can be a part of.
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FEBRUARY
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Box Office: 02392 828282
Groups: 02392 852208 / 852232
Social: twitter.com/kingssouthsea
facebook.com/kingstheatre
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DAVID COPPERFIELD
Tuesday 7th – Saturday 11th February
BY CHARLES DICKENS. STAGE ADAPTATION BY ALASTAIR CORDING
This wonderful story follows one boy’s journey into manhood, achieving his dreams against seemingly impossible odds.
Torn from his loving Mother, Clara, and Peggoty his devoted maid, by his wicked stepfather, Murdstone, David is abandoned into a cruel boarding school where the cane is the order of the day. When his weak but loving mother dies, he is sent to work in a factory, and forced into humble lodgings with the Micawbers. Fleeing to the protection of his eccentric aunt Betsey Trotwood, David at lasts starts to escape his past and fulfil his potential as a man.
Capturing many of the hardships Dickens himself endured… from abject poverty to cruelty and injustice at school, David Copperfield is a bittersweet but ultimately triumphant and uplifting masterpiece.
Directed by Pam Lippiett & Produced by David Lippiett
Performances: Tuesday 7th - Saturday 11th February 2012, 7:30pm.
Tues, Thurs & Sat mat, 2:30pm
Tickets: £12.00. £2 KC conc.
Website: www.kings-southsea.com
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DICKENS STORIES TOURS
Launching February 2012, 2pm-3pm!
Following the popularity of the Dickens Stories Tour at the Kings Theatre Open Day in January, we are now offering tours throughout the year as part of the 200th year Bi-Centenary celebrations of Charles Dickens.
Join your Dickensian Tour Leader and Kings Youth Theatre (on selected dates only) for a walk around the theatre back in time covering numerous aspects of Charles Dickens life; his Portsmouth origins, troubled childhood years through to the early years of his writing career as he rose from lowly jobbing journalist to world-famous author.
Discover the similarities between the theatre and his life with scenes and short extracts performed by Kings Youth Theatre en-route (on selected dates only).
Educational Dickens Tours and Workshops also available throughout the year. Please contact the Education Department for more information.
Tickets: Adults: £5.00 / Children (under 15 years old): £2.00
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APRIL
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“Sketches by Boz” – Education Partners Creative Writing Event
Monday 30thApril
A full day of activities aiming to promote literacy within both primary and secondary schools and to improve confidence through public speaking. This will involve a number of the theatre’s education partners including Ryde Academy, Park Community School, Charter Academy, Milton Cross Academy and Springfield School. Students will be mentored throughout the day by leading authors from the Portsmouth region and will be tasked to use aspects of Dickens characters, plots and stories to create a new play to be performed to 2-5yr olds.
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Barnaby Rudge Workshops
Throughout April & May
The director and cast of “Barnaby Rudge” are offering Key Stage 2&3 students and post 16 + students, the chance to participate in workshops focusing on comparing the riots within the story of Barnaby Rudge to those of the modern day riots (e.g. London and Manchester riots of 2011).
Workshops will be bookable for schools and for more information, please contact Education Co-ordinator.
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JUNE
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 New Apollo presents...
The Signal-Man
Friday 1st June 2012, 7:30pm
One of Charles Dickens’ short stories, first published as part of the "Mugby Junction" collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.
Based around a similar accident at Clayton Tunnel that occurred in 1861, this is a ghost story featuring an un-named railway signal-man experiencing haunting spectral appearances. Each time these appearances precede a tragic event on the railway on which he works. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the spectre, and then by a terrible accident.
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Box Office: 02392 828282
Groups: 02392 852208 / 852232
Social: twitter.com/kingssouthsea
facebook.com/kingstheatre
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Performances: Friday 1st June 2012, 7:30pm
Tickets: TBC
Please see our website for further information:
www.kings-southsea.com
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Where The Dickens! In Albert Road in conjunction with Portsmouth Festivities
Tuesday 26th June 2012
One road, One author and whole lot of local amateur dramatics groups! Staging pieces from Dickens works, or pieces inspired by the great man himself, Albert Road will be hosting one big promenade performance. Groups will be performing up and down the road in a variety of weird and wonderful performance spaces. Audiences can wander from one performance to the next and soak the Dickensian atmosphere all the way down the road!
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25th – 30th: London Film Institute/BFI Dickens on Tour – details still TBC
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AUGUST
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‘BARNABY RUDGE’ - A TALE OF THE GORDON RIOTS
Thursday 9th – Saturday 11th August 2012
Adapted and directed by Eileen Warren Norris
Gin without water... a hot day... a drunken mob... The breaking of Newgate Prison as London Burns.
A gallery of Dickens’ great characters brought to life for a night of treachery, villainy, comedy & romance. This adaptation of ‘Barnaby’ has it all!
Published in 1841 ‘Barnaby Rudge’ tells the story of the Gordon Riots in 1780 when mob violence took over the streets of London. Sounds familiar? Remember London 2011.
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“It is one of Dickens’ most neglected, but most rewarding, novels.….. in its evocation of a turbulent London, it transcends the usual boundaries of the historical novel and becomes a complete statement of human weakness and communal power”
Peter Ackroyd, Dickens biographer
“Eileen Norris’ dramatisation of ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’ by Charles Dickens....provides a splendidly entertaining theatrical experience. The production is notably successful in capturing the spirit of Dickens’ story ....”
Paul Schlicke BA, PhD - The Dickens Society.
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Performances: Thursday 9th – Saturday 11th August 2012, 7:30pm
Sat mat, 2:30pm
Tickets: £15, £13, £10. £2 KC conc.
Website: www.kings-southsea.com
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Box Office: 02392 828282
Groups: 02392 852208 / 852232
Social: twitter.com/kingssouthsea
facebook.com/kingstheatre
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