Spring Brochure 2020

Quarterhouse
COMEDY
Mark Steel: Every Little
Thing’s Gonna Be Alright
Saturday 28 March, 8pm | Tickets £15 | Age 14+
Not long ago it seemed highly unlikely the
UK would vote to leave the EU. We had a
reasonable opposition to the Tory government,
Donald Trump was a buffoon who surely wasn’t
going to beat Hilary Clinton, and Mark was living
the married suburban ideal. Since then, it’s all
gone to absolute shit! But don’t worry, as Mark
thinks Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright.
Mark’s sell-out show Who Do I Think I Am
revealed that his natural father was a world
backgammon champion. Now the star of
Radio 4’s Mark Steel’s in Town, and newspaper
columnist of the year, he is back on the road
with a new show that is guaranteed to make the
world seem even more ludicrous than it really is.
LIVE SCREENING
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LIVE
Swan Lake
Wednesday 1 April, 7.15pm |
Tickets £14, £12 conc/member
Liam Scarlett’s glorious 2018
production of Swan Lake returns
for its first revival. While remaining
faithful to the Marius Petipa/Lev
Ivanov text, Scarlett’s additional
choreography and John
Macfarlane’s magnificent designs
breathe new life into what is
arguably the best-known and
most-loved classical ballet. The
entire Royal Ballet Company shines
in this eternal tale of doomed love.
The Royal Ballet’s spellbinder
leaves you weeping.
The Guardian
MUSIC
FOLKESTONE NEW MUSIC
Melinda Maxwell
MUSIC
FOLKESTONE NEW MUSIC
Julian Warburton
Sunday 29 March, 7.30pm | digital:glassworks,
Mill Bay | Tickets £10
Virtuosic oboe pieces by two great Italian
composers, Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna,
plus, a rare opportunity to hear two classic
electroacoustic works: Jonathan Harvey’s
Mortuos Plango – Vivos Voco (where a boy’s
voice is set against the great tenor bell of
Winchester Cathedral) and Varèse’s Poème
Électronique, widely acknowledged to be one of
the first great creations of electronic tape music.
Melinda Maxwell is one of the leading oboists
in the country, as well as a composer and
improviser. She gave the first performance of
Harrison Birtwistle’s Pulse Sampler, written
specially for her, and worked closely with Berio.
She performs regularly as principal with the
London Sinfonietta.
Thursday 2 April, 7.30pm | Tickets £10
An opportunity to hear a wide range of new
music for percussion, performed by one of the
finest players around. Music by Xenakis, John
Cage, Franco Donatoni, Morton Feldman and
Brian Ferneyhough. Julian Warburton has
performed as a soloist throughout the UK,
Europe, South America, India and China.
He made his BBC Proms solo debut in 2001
performing Xenakis’ Rebonds to critical acclaim.
Renowned for his musical versatility,
Warburton frequently collaborates with
international artists including Korean dancer
Lee Kyung-eun; New York experimentalist
Marc Ribot; South Indian percussion gurus
Selvaganesh and Vinayakram; the Modified Toy
Orchestra; Richard Alston Dance Company; and
most recently National Dance Company Wales.
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