Out & About Summer 2018

Pick of the ARTS

Trish Lee tips a fortnight of fun, summer adventure, a new look at a 60s musical and a trip back to the 80s groove. For reviews and arts news see N2 each in The Newbury Weekly News each week It’s hotting up in Hungerford

anarchic comedy from Sleeping Trees, literary lunacy from LipService, fascinating talks on subjects ranging from life behind the scenes at Westminster to Wild Cooking, thoughtful theatre from local groups, a thrilling Murder Mystery Supper, vintage fashion, guided walks, fun workshops, inspiring exhibitions, glorious gardens and music, music, music - from folk to jazz, Puccini to big band swing, a rock choir to classical guitar..

Hadcaf (Hungerford & District Community Arts Festival) June 29 – July 15 www. hungerfordartsfestival. com For a small town, Hungerford certainly packs a punch with entertainment. Its summer festival Hadcaf’s headline event is an evening of nostalgic rock from the Kast Off Kinks, former members of the iconic band now back together and reprising all their greatest hits, from Dedicated Follower of Fashion to Waterloo Sunset . Creation Theatre: Swallows and Amazons University Parks, Oxford July 9 – August 11 www.creationtheatre.co.uk You know those classic books, the ones that you’ll always go back to? Those are the stories Creation Theatre love – they

Dum-dee-dum-dee-dum- dee-dum… the festival launches on Friday, June 29, with dedicated followers of the world’s longest-running radio soap opera being treated to the inside story of The Archers , told by the

programme’s agricultural adviser and writer of more than 600 episodes, Graham Harvey. There follows a wide range of events – unforgettable songs from the Joni Mitchell Songbook,

take them off the shelf, hand them around, share them out and bring them to life. All over Oxford, they find unusual spaces to perform them – the stories aren’t set in theatres so they don’t put them there. Intrepid child adventurers, rival pirate gangs and unsinkable friendship take centre stage in this summer’s production of the classic Swallows and Amazons , made even more special by the setting of Oxford’s beautiful University Parks. Treat the whole family with this perfect summer outing from July to mid-August for a taste of the adventure yourself. I, for one, can’t wait to see it given the Creation treatment.

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