THE LITTLE THEATRE - MAY PROGRAMME

AMATEUR THEATRE
Thu 1 - Sun 4 May    7.30pm
The Boyfriend
Presented by Sheringham Little Theatre

An exciting production of this much loved musical, performed with great energy and fun by a mixed amateur company which allows experienced performers to share the stage with new up and coming talent. With all the popular toe tapping tunes and fabulous characters, audiences are in for a real treat.

Madame Dubonnet's finishing school, near Nice, could exist only in musical comedy. The charming young pupils burst into song at the least provocation, and forbidden boy friends are forever popping through the french windows to make up the numbers. Polly Browne is too rich to be allowed a boy friend. Tony, for whom she falls, turns out to be the Hon. Tony Brockhurst, which is very lucky, because Polly thought he was just a delivery boy. Written in the fifties as "a new musical of the twenties", this is still the most successful, tuneful and witty of the send-up musicals.

Tickets £6.50 (under 16s £5)

FILM   
Tue 6 May    2.30pm & 8pm
Earth (15)
Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield Germany / UK 2007 Running time: 96mins
Starring: Patrick Stewart as narrator

Five billion years ago an asteroid crashed into the Earth. The impact tilted the planet at an angle of twenty three and a half degrees. This cosmic accident created the world we know today. Using the Sun as a guide, we set out on an epic global journey.

In the Arctic, a polar bear family wakes to the first sunlight of spring. Will they find food before the ice starts to melt? Half a world away, an elephant mother and her calf must share precious water with a pride of lions. Will their uneasy truce last? For the final leg of the journey, we follow a humpback whale mother. She must keep her calf safe on their 6000 km migration to Antarctica.

This remarkable breath-taking story is narrated by Patrick Stewart and filmed with high definition cameras to create an unforgettable journey through the changing seasons and daily struggle for life across our planet, from rarely seen stunning landscapes to the smallest details in the lives of our best loved, wildest and most elusive creatures.

Tickets £5.00

ART EXHIBITION
Tue 6 to Sat 31 May
Norfolk Contrasting Views

Gill Baguley - This exhibition has allowed the artist to undertake two separate journeys that are linked with one idea. Alongside representational paintings of well loved views of the local environment are images inspired by concerns about the changes caused by erosion, population explosion and pollution. It is a journey of dreams and of imagination, a nostalgic record and a fantasy of the creative spirit.

NORFOLK & NORWICH FESTIVAL
Wednesday 7 May    7.30pm
Zivorad Nikolic and Milos Milivojevic

At the age of six Zivorad joined the Miloje Milojevic School of Music as a classical accordion player and was accepted as one of the most promising students. Zivorad was accepted by the National Conservatory of Music in Marseille, France. In his first year in Marseille he received d'unanimite' prize - Superior level award and was invited to play at Napoleon Palace in Marseille.

Serbian born accordionist Milos Milivojevic is a first prizewinner at International Competitions in Germany, France, Italy and Denmark. He was the winner of the RAM Club Prize at the Royal Academy of Music. He will be representing the Royal Academy of Music at the Wigmore Hall on the 24th of March 2008 at the The Derek Butler London Prize. This is Milos' second time performing at NNF.

..."a hurricane of imaginative invention" Hilary Finch, The Times

Tickets Rows A-Q £9.00, Row R £6.00 Under 26s Scheme £5 (must be purchased in advance)

MUSICAL THEATRE
Saturday 10 May    2.30pm
Cool Britannia!
presented by Time Of Our Lives Musical Theatre

Time of our Lives new Retro' Revue is a light-hearted look at the Brits from Wartime to 1997 election!

A fast moving mixture of musical medleys and comic sketches on our hobbies, habits, eccentricities, history and culture. Songs from Vera Lynn to The Spice Girls via Flanders and Swann, Noel Coward, British Soul, Lionel Bart, Merseybeat, Brit Pop, Andrew Lloyd Webber all rounded off with a rousing Last Night of the Proms medley for all to sing along to - bring your flags!.

Sketches on Queuing, The British Raj, Rhyming Slang, Football, The Permissive Society, Seaside Holidays, Gardening and Policital Sleaze!

"The frantic pace never slowed, costume changes were breathtaking, the singing was superb and there was a strong emphasis on comedy throughout. Audience participation was encouraged and everyone went home having enjoyed a first class entertainment". The Diss Express

Tickets £8.00

FILM
Tuesday 13 May    2.30pm &?8pm
Brick Lane (15)
Director: Sarah Gavron UK 2007 Running time: 101mins
Starring: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson

A superlative adaptation of Monica Ali's novel, Brick Lane is a contemporary story of love, cultural difference and the strength of the human spirit. After an arranged marriage to an older man, 17-year-old Nazneen (Chatterjee) exchanges her Bangladeshi village for a block of flats in east London. Pining for her birthplace and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence and to do her duty to her husband, who sorely tests her compliance. Nazneen submits, as she must, to fate and devotes her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until, that is, Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her life. Against a background of escalating racial tension, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life.

Tickets £5.00

NORFOLK & NORWICH FESTIVAL
Wednesday 14 May    7.30pm
Giovanni Guzzo and James Baillieu

Giovanni Guzzo has worked with prestigious musicians such as Sir Colin Davis, Maxim Vengerov, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the Maggini and Takacs Quartets, Hugo Wolf, Mats Lidstrom and Colin Carr. Giovanni has been awarded with numerous prizes such as the MBF Music Education Award 2004, Allcard Award from the Worshipful Company of Musicians, Gold medal at the Marlow Music Festival 2006.

James Baillieu has a similarly distinguished record: at the Royal Academy of Music he has won the Flora Nielsen, Ludmilla Andrews and Brenda Webb accompanist prizes. The Franck Sonata has a complex relationship between the violin & piano and Strauss wrote this Sonata for his wife. NNF are excited to have Guzzo and Baillieu back again at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival.

Tickets Rows A-Q£9.00, Row R £6.00 Under 26s Scheme £5 (must be purchased in advance)