Out & About July 2017

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It’s a great summer for outdoor entertainment. Arts Editor TRISH LEE’s pick of of themost exciting shows in August.
For reviews and arts news see N2 in the Newbury Weekly News each week
August dates for your diary
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World’s biggest 80s music
festival ~ Rewind South
Friday, August 18 to Sunday, August 20
Temple Island Meadows, Henley on Thames
Dig out the leg-warmers, big-up your hair, man-up
your mullet – this festival is a blast from the past
and Saturday night is party night at Rewind South
with a fantastic headline performance from New
York’s finest Village People and Gloria Gaynor.
Rewind is back for its ninth celebration of music, fun and good
times, set to a live 80s soundtrack from the biggest music icons
from the decade of DayGlo and big hair.
Sunday night is the time to totally rock out – with the one and only
Status Quo.
Among this amazing weekend you’ll find Big Country, Tom
Robinson, Musical Youth and Junior Marvin’s Wailers, Kim Appleby,
Glen Matlock, Jilted John, Owen Paul, Level 42, Sugarhill Gang
ft Grandmaster Melle Mel & Scorpio’s
Furious 5, Nik Kershaw, Nick Heyward, Dr
& The Medics, Imagination ft Leee John,
Midge Ure, Kim Wilde, Belinda Carlisle, The
South, Go West, The Christians and Sonia.
It’s one of the biggest parties this summer,
with camping, glamping, posh nosh,
theme bars, DJs, street entertainment,
funfairs, silent disco, big top bars, kidzone,
fireworks, trade stands, fancy dress and
much more.
Misrule in Messina
Oxford Shakespeare Company: Much Ado About Nothing
Wadham College Gardens, Oxford Until August 19
Bookings: 01865 305 305 or
‘RESISTENZA!’ Messina, 1943. War is raging... the Italian
Resistance defend their lands… and their hearts.
Newbury-born composer Nick Lloyd Webber joins director Nicholas
Green and on their third collaboration, joining the wonderfully-
creative OSC for the outdoor summer Shakespeare production
Much Ado About Nothing – a natural successor to last year’s
wondrous Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Telegraph’s Critics’ Choice.
Will Beatrice and Benedick ever fall in love or Claudio and Hero
ever marry? Resisting love is only part of their troubles; driven by
greed and jealousy, Don John and his gang of early Mafiosi seek
to undermine the sanctity of blood and bonds of family.
Meanwhile, the well-meaning antics of the Watch cause an
altogether more comic misrule...
Costume designer
Adrian Lillie explores
the fading romantic
glamour of a world on
the brink of change in
the beautiful setting
of Wadham College
Gardens.
Outdoor Spectacular
Crossing Lines
Saturday, August 12, 9.30pm
Goldwell Park, Newbury
Europe’s spectacular outdoor performance company Actiontheater
Pan.Optikum will perform one of the largest free outdoor events the
Corn Exchange and its 101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space have ever
presented.
Performed by 28 young people from nine European countries
– including Paige McKay, from Thatcham – and touring to each
participant’s country of origin, Crossing Lines combines dance,
performance, rap, video projection and a huge set.
The project aims to offering local young people the unique opportunity
to be a part of an international piece of performance, and create a
new multi-national European theatre ensemble of young people.
Pan.Optikum’s spectacular shows, featuring giant moving
structures, pyrotechnics and high impact sound and light, have
been presented at major arts festivals across the world.
Sit with Jane Austen
BookBench art trail around Basingstoke
Here’s a great idea for Jane Austen fans in this anniversary year.
Sitting with Jane is a creative art trail that follows her footsteps
around Basingstoke and discovers sites of significance to Austen’s
early life and other interesting places – all for free.
Colourful artist-commissioned BookBenches are displayed around
Basingstoke and beyond, until the end of the month, taking visitors
on a fascinating tour of the area.
The trail is all part of the wider celebrations of Jane Austen’s life in
Hampshire on the 200th anniversary of her death.
Visitors are guided around the trail with an app downloaded for
free – there is also a website with all the locations and images
of each BookBench.
The trail is getting huge attention from all over the world on social
media, with reports of Austen fans abroad travelling just to visit it.
The app allows visitors
to find and ‘unlock’ each
BookBench and some
special offers, vote for
their favourite, upload
their images and see how
many other people are
following the trail.
The BookBenches will be
auctioned on September
15, with proceeds to
the Ark Cancer Centre
Charity.