Otley Courthouse Programme Spring-Summer 2022

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Otley Courthouse January—August 2022
National Theatre Live: Hex
Thursday 31 March
7pm
£15
£13 Courthouse Friends
Ntlive.com
Theatre
National Theatre Live
HEX
Recorded Screening
Book by Tanya Ronder.
Music by Jim Fortune
and lyrics by Rufus
Norris
A vividly original retelling of
Sleeping Beauty, a mythic, bighearted
new musical that goes
beyond the waking kiss.
Deep in the wood, a lonely
fairy longs for someone to
bless. When she is summoned
to the palace to help the
princess sleep, her dream
turns into a nightmare and her
blessing becomes a curse.
Soon, she is plunged into a
frantic, hundred-year quest
to somehow make everything
right.
Rufus Norris directs Rosalie
Craig (The Ferryman,
Company) in this new musical
filmed live on stage at the
National Theatre.
Little Grimm Tales
Saturday 2 April
2.30pm
£10 Adults
£8 Children
Age 3+
Boxtalesoup.co.uk
Theatre/Family
Box Tale Soup theatre
present:
LITTLE GRIMM
TALES
What if wishes were granted?
What if the magic were real?
A stunning adaptation of
Grimm’s most magical tales!
Head into the wood with
Hansel & Gretel, help the little
elves to make beautiful shoes.
Watch a slimy frog become a
prince and meet the princess
who’s champion of hide and
seek!
Join award-winning Box Tale
Soup on an adventure for
children aged 3+ featuring
beautiful puppets, innovative
theatre and spellbinding
original music.
Running time approximately
55 mins.
The Bridge © Alejandro Tamagno Photography
Friday 8 April
8pm
£15
ahmeddickinson.com
Music
THE BRIDGE: A
CUBAN GUITAR
JOURNEY
The Bridge is a compilation
of the most alluring works for
two guitars by iconic Cuban
guitarist and Grammy nominee
Eduardo Martín, performed
by Eduardo and fellow
countryman Ahmed Dickinson
Cárdenas. Here classical
styles and rock merge with son
montunos, while old Yoruba
chants, feel-good rumbas,
funk-boleros, new age tunes
and cinematic pieces sit
alongside Cuban tumbaos with
slap bass.
Cubans enjoy a natural sense
of rhythm and the guitar is
their favoured instrument,
conveying all the melodic and
rhythmic intricacies of South
America’s cultural diversity.
Eduardo’s style has an
expansive sense of freedom
that taps into pre-Columbus
traditions, jazz, flamenco, pop,
Afro and traditional Cuban.
With their musical empathy,
Eduardo Martín and Ahmed
Dickinson’s concerts arean
exalting celebration of the past
and present of many traditions
that enrich the Latin guitar.