Coming Soon
Play in a Week - Once Upon A Forest
Play in a Week directed by Brandon McGuire
Monday 24 to Sunday 30 July
performances 29 July at 7.30, 30 July at 2.30
Tickets: £13
An original play, specially commissioned for PIAW. This annual week-long fully inclusive project enables actors with learning and/or physical disabilities to enjoy the magic and benefits of participating in a theatre show and putting on public performances. “Always a treat!”
We are delighted to be able to announce that the title of this years’ production is “Once Upon A Forest”. Written for us by Rachel Barnett, it is a humorous twist on all those fairy tales we know and love.
About Play In a Week
Play In A Week -a week-long fully inclusive project, enabling actors with learning and/or physical disabilities to enjoy the magic of theatre.
Strictly Come Shakespeare Finale 2016
Nomes Youth Theatre Summer School 2017
Summer Show in a Week
Monday 31 July to Friday 4 August 2017, for ages 8 to 17
Daily classes culminating in a show on Friday 10.30 to 3pm each day
£145
Summer Storytelling
31 July to 4 August 2017
10 to 11 am each day for 4 to 7 year olds
£35
see www.nomesyouththeatre.co.uk for latest information
Ember Big Band
Saturday 9th September at 8pm
Tickets: £15
Come and hear the big band sound! This is a fundraising event for the new greenroom, enjoy wonderful music and help fit out the new bar.
The Ember Big Band is a not-for-profit line-up of 23 talented musicians that made its debut in March 2015. It performs at major events throughout Elmbridge (and often way beyond – the Eastbourne Air Show is on the cards for August). Past gigs have included sell-out Christmas concerts, regattas, Thames Heritage days, a Rat Pack dinner dance at Whiteley Village and a special ‘command performance’ for the Mayor of Elmbridge’s nominated charities for 2017.
Our line-up of 23 musicians (plus talented singers) perform numbers in styles and tempos ranging from the Great American Songbook to swing, Latin, funk and rock. The band is conducted by Bill Geldard, one of the UK’s best known trombonists and arrangers. Since turning professional at the age of fifteen he has played with some of Britain`s most famous orchestras and musicians including The Squadronaires, Geraldo, Ted Heath, John Dankworth and Jack Parnell. Ask him about the high spots of his career and there is a modest pause (probably because there are too many to mention). Then he recalls touring with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Liza Minelli and Sammy Davis Jnr; having a solo specially written for him by Sinatra’s arranger, Nelson Riddle; performing with Henry Mancini at “The Pink Panther” premiere in Switzerland; playing on the sound track of the first Bond film, “Dr. No” - and on the signature tune of ITVs hit 70s TV series “Minder”.
Bill says: “Ember is an amateur band - but we take a professional approach to everything we do. There`s a difference between being ‘amateur’ and ‘amateurish’. We’ve got a cracking programme lined up for the Nomad Theatre – and are confident of a great audience.”
www.emberbigband.uk
Move Over Mrs Markham by Ray Cooney and John Chapman
directed by Jeff Wightwick
Wednesday 4 October to Saturday 7 October at 7.45, matinee at 2.30 on Sat 7th
Tickets: adults £14, children/students £10, £12 for all adults on 4th
This wonderful farce is set in a top floor London flat, belonging to Philip and Joanna Markham. The flat has been renovated, and so has been largely empty. Philip is a publisher of children’s books, and he shares an office with his partner, Henry Lodge, on the ground floor. Philip agrees to let Henry borrow his apartment for the evening to “entertain” his latest girlfriend. At the same time, Joanna Markham is persuaded by Linda Lodge to let her borrow the apartment, so she can entertain her lover. What nobody knows is that the interior designer who had been decorating the apartment for the past three months has decided that this was the night he and the au pair girl would try out the new round bed! When all three sets of people converge on the apartment, expecting to find it empty, chaos and confusion ensue.
TBC
24-28 October at 7.45
Presented by Theatreviva
Dick Whittington by Peter Denyer
Dick Whittington - pantomime
Tuesday 12 to Saturday 16 December
Evenings 7.30, matinee at 2.30 Saturday
Tickets: adults £16, children/students £10, £12 adults on 12th
A traditional pantomime which follows the story of Dick Whittington, his cat and his rise to fame in London. This show has got it all - from shipwrecks to streets paved with gold!
With barrels of laughs, slapstick, great musical numbers and plenty of audience participation there will be something for everyone to enjoy.
The origins of the story of “Dick Whittington” will not be found in any book of fairy tales. The pantomime is the only one based on a true subject. There actually was a Richard Whittington, and he did become (Lord) Mayor of London in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
Dick Whittington is a poor boy who has travelled to London to seek his fame and fortune. He has been told that “The streets are paved with gold”. He arrives penniless, and without a friend in the world.
In the pantomime it is often the Fairy – Fairy Bow Bells who introduces “Tommy” the cat to Master Whittington. He now has a true friend, but what he and Tommy want most is to earn an honest living.
Dick Whittington and Tommy the Cat steal on board the ship as stowaways, to seek their fame and hopefully their fortune. A great storm brews up. The ship is in danger and the characters are washed ashore-bedraggled, wet and lost. The Dame, Idle Jack, the Captain and the Mate, and finally Dick and Tommy arrive safe and sound.
Will Dick find any treasure on the island? How will they get back to London?
Join us and you’ll find out… Oh, yes you will!
Take a look at what NODA thought of our last pantomime, Cinderella – https://www.whereisthenomad.com/noda-review-cinderella/