programme - Ilkley Literature Festival
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ilkley literature festival 10<br />
with Skipton Building Society<br />
123.<br />
Tuesday 12th October 6pm<br />
Manor House<br />
Close Reading 2:<br />
The poems of Jo Shapcott<br />
and Ruth Padel<br />
If you’ve ever read a poem and<br />
struggled to find a way into it, you<br />
can be sure you’re not the only one.<br />
Poet in Residence Antony Dunn<br />
offers a close reading workshop for<br />
those who’d like to know more about<br />
getting to the heart of a poem.<br />
A lively interactive workshop,<br />
exploring poems by poets appearing<br />
at the <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
£5 See also event 49.<br />
Jenny Eclair<br />
124.<br />
Tuesday 12th October 7.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Jenny Eclair:<br />
Chin Up Britain<br />
It’s time to return to basic<br />
commonsense and embrace a new<br />
austerity. In inimitable style, Jenny<br />
Eclair brings you hilarious tips for<br />
changing the way you live – from<br />
identifying your swappable skills<br />
(burying dead animals, tuning a<br />
freeview box) to a guide to gatecrashing.<br />
Much loved stand up comedian, first<br />
female winner of the Perrier award<br />
Jenny Eclair is co-creator of Grumpy<br />
Old Women.<br />
£9/7<br />
Sponsored by Specsavers<br />
125.<br />
Tuesday 12th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Our Billie: Ian Clayton<br />
Every parent’s worst nightmare<br />
became reality for well known<br />
broadcaster, Ian Clayton. On a short<br />
holiday his nine year old daughter<br />
Billie drowned. Our Billie is his story<br />
of how a family attempts to come to<br />
terms with something which makes<br />
no sense. Through memories of Billie<br />
and his wonderfully affectionate<br />
portrait of the Yorkshire town<br />
where the family has lived for<br />
generations, he weaves a story of<br />
loss and remembering, gratitude and<br />
forgiveness.<br />
£5/3<br />
126.<br />
Tuesday 12th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Nearly Lear<br />
‘Poignant, tragic, mischievous … and<br />
achingly funny’.<br />
King Lear, told by the King’s closest<br />
companion, his devoted clown, Norris.<br />
An emotional roller-coaster ride that<br />
confounds expectations of what a<br />
Shakespeare play should be, blending<br />
exuberant storytelling, music, song,<br />
and film alongside Shakespeare’s rich<br />
poetic text.<br />
An acclaimed one woman show by<br />
Canadian actor, Susanna Hamnett<br />
on tour from Toronto, directed by<br />
Edith Tankus of Kneehigh Theatre.<br />
£7/5 Family show adults and 10+.<br />
127.<br />
Tuesday 12th October 9pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Votes for Women<br />
Nina Boyd’s illustrated reading of<br />
poems about the Suffragettes.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 46 for full details.<br />
128.<br />
Wednesday 13th October 3pm<br />
Rombalds Hotel<br />
Tea with Elizabeth Noble<br />
and William Nicholson<br />
What happens when your previous<br />
love makes a surprise reappearance?<br />
Is it time for a second chance … or<br />
should you walk away?<br />
Elizabeth Noble, author of five<br />
best-selling novels including The<br />
Reading Group and Things I Want My<br />
Daughters to Know, discusses love and<br />
betrayal with fellow author William<br />
Nicholson. Playwright, screen<br />
writer (Gladiator, Shadowlands,<br />
Elizabeth: The Golden Age) and<br />
novelist, Nicholson’s latest novel All<br />
the Hopeful Lovers, set eight years<br />
after The Secret Intensity of Everyday<br />
Life, sees Belinda, wistfully reflecting<br />
how she’d never be unfaithful to her<br />
husband …<br />
£6 includes cream tea<br />
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