Dr. Kim Wade is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Warwick. Her PhD research investigated the role of photographic evidence in the creation of false childhood memories and more recently she has focused on how people determine whether a memory is real or fictitious. Part of this research has involved using photographic evidence to embed the false memory of a hot air balloon ride in her subjects.

Since 2002, artist AR Hopwood has been working under the collective pseudonym, ‘WITH.’ Under this guise he has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and overseas, including with major galleries such as Tate Britain, The Hayward Gallery, The ICA and The Victoria and Albert Museum. For his most recent project, Hopwood was been working with scientific researchers in the UK and USA – including Kim Wade – to explore the phenomenon of False Memory.

From May, films, images and documentation relating to AR Hopwood’s work with Kim Wade may be encountered across the University campus. Further information will be posted here as it becomes available.

To contribute your own, or someone else’s false memory, visit www.falsememoryarchive.com.

The False Memory Archive is supported by The Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England.

In just a few more decades, the world’s population will exceed 9 billion, 70% of which will live in cities. This exhibition brings together artists’ plans for innovative and radical solutions to a more sustainable and resilient way of life.

One of the first artists to examine sustainability was Joseph Beuys, a founder of the green movement in Germany in the 1960s. His famous multiple, Capri Battery, is here joined by the work of contemporary artists who propose a range of solutions to issues such as the waste and exploitation inherent in a textile industry founded in the Industrial Revolution, the hostility of the built environment to more sustainable behaviours, political divisions, food waste and the social and economic problems of Venice, a city faced with a binary catastrophe of rising sea levels and sinking land.

Visitors will be able to transfer some of the ideas to their own communities and homes and see how the Mead Gallery itself has endeavoured to limit the carbon impact of making this exhibition.

If you are planning to visit the exhibition with a school group, Teachers’ Notes are available to help you plan your visit and provide ideas for follow up activities. They can be downloaded by clicking on the icon to the right of the page.

The exhibition will be temporarily closed to visitors on Fri 3 May from 2pm – 9pm and on Sat 4 May from 12 noon – 5pm for the performance Still Life. The concurrent exhibition, Katie Paterson: In Another Time will remain open.

FREE Lunchtime Concerts
Thursdays 1.10pm
Ensemble Room, Music Centre,
Warwick Arts Centre

Come along to the Music Centre at lunchtime on Thursdays and check out our series of FREE concerts.

As well as supporting the student ensembles of the University, the Music Centre also hosts performances from professional artists.

Thu 25 Apr Minjung Baek, piano
Thu 2 May Gina Beukes, violin with Matthew Forbes, cello 
and Helen Leek, piano
Thu 9 May Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, mezzo soprano 
and Alice Turner, piano
Thu 16 May Lorna James, soprano and Tom Henderson, piano
Thu 23 May Warren Mailley-Smith, piano
Thu 30 May Adrian Uren, french horn and Lynn Carter, piano
Thu 6 Jun Coull Quartet with Simon Callaghan, piano
Thu 13 Jun Julian Jacobson and Mariko Brown, piano
Thu 20 Jun Sinéad Blanchfield, voice with the Vilensky String Trio
Thu 27 Jun University of Warwick Piano Showcase

Join the Mead Gallery’s Curators for an introduction to the exhibitions, Katie Paterson: In Another Time and Artists’ Plans for Sustainability.

The exhibition tours are free but places are limited so please book ahead by calling the Box Office on 024 7652 4524.

Acclaimed Argentine director Pablo Trapero reteams with his Carancho lead, Ricardo Darín, for this gripping drama about the work of Catholic priests in the slums of Buenos Aires.

Darín plays the dedicated Father Julián, who enlists the help of French priest Nicolas (Renier) to protect the inhabitants caught up in the violent drug war which has engulfed the slum. Joining them on their mission to tackle the druglords and the corrupt police, is caring social worker Luciana (Gusman).

Shot with Trapero’s trademark documentary-style realism, the film is elevated by powerful performances from Darín and Renier and a majestic score by Michael Nyman.

Please note: due to essential refurbishment work, the toilets in the cinema will be unavailable from Tue 7 May – Thu 20 Jun. Other toilets are available – please ask a member of staff for more information.

Zain wants to dance, but his family, the local fascists and his two left feet are all getting in the way. This brand new Bollywood and Street dance drama, from the producers behind the 2011 smash hit musical Britain’s Got Bhangra, sees one young boy attempt to escape the harsh reality of his home town – where the jobs are gone and the chicken shops are taking over – and turn his life into the glittering world of fantasies…

Tue eve: all tickets £15.50 (£13.50)
Wed – Sat eves: £18.50 (£16.50), £16.50 (£14.50)
Sat matinee: all tickets £15.50 (£13.50)
Under 26s: £10
Groups of 5 or more: best available seats £14.50 each – these can only be booked in person at the Box Office or by calling 02476 524524.

Running time: 1hr 50mins (including interval)
Age 8+
Post Show Talk: Wed 22 May

Josh Widdicombe, 2011’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer nominee and star of Channel 4’s Last Leg with Adam Hills brings his eagerly-awaited brand new show to Coventry.

It deals with his inability to embrace adventure in his life and his continued frustration with everything he comes into contact with. Unable to relax and enjoy life, Josh has instead decided it is everyone else that is at fault for his lack of enthusiasm for leaving the house.

“Guardian sports reporter turned ace observationalist Josh Widdicombe has the ability to find the sparkle in the mundane that puts him in line to be the next Sean Lock.” Guardian

“This is one of the most individual, accomplished, hilarious and unforgettable hours I have had this year.” The Scotsman

“His talent for comedy is priceless.” Evening Standard

www.joshwiddicombe.com

Twitter: @joshwiddicombe

Bill Bailey had Doubts about the modern world, but these have now grown into Qualms. He will be channelling these feelings of Unease and Apprehension, with the help of Religious Dubstep, his folk bouzouki, Horntallica, a re-appraisal of some of the world’s greatest works of art and perhaps a dub version of Downton Abbey.

He looks at the Consequences of Lies, the Unending Search for the Higgs and the Hiding Skills of Dentists. Bill tries to confront his Cluster-Qualm of living in a Time of Spectacular Ignorance, and Rare Planetary Alignment that may be part of the Mayan End of Days prophecy.

Come savour this Broth of Anxiety with Bill Bailey: Qualmpeddler.

This show has the all classic Bill Bailey elements: trademark musical mash-ups, multi-lingual riffs, films, songs, philosophizing and silliness on a grand scale… plus one amazing owl.

Please note: no support.

A biopic of the entrepreneur Paul Raymond, who opened the first strip club in London and went on to become a property magnate, dubbed the King of Soho.

Starring Steve Coogan as Raymond, the story follows his relationships with the three women in his life: long-suffering wife (Friel), his mistress (Egerton) and his daughter (Poots) who he begins to prepare to take over his empire.

Please note: due to essential refurbishment work, the toilets in the cinema will be unavailable from Tue 7 May – Thu 20 Jun. Other toilets are available – please ask a member of staff for more information.

“The word ‘poetic’ is a treacherous one to apply to any artist, but Paterson’s is a poetry of knowledge and mystery, cosmicomically rendered.” Brian Dillon, The Guardian, 6 April 2012

From transmitting Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to the moon and back, to providing a live phone line to a melting glacier, much of Katie Paterson’s work uses everyday technologies – from doorbells to record players – to make a connection between humanity and vast, intangible natural phenomena. Strangely intimate and inherently romantic, her work provides a poetic examination of the origins of time and space which is both understated and monumental.

Curated by Filipa Oliveira and Aldo Rinaldi, Katie Paterson: In Another Time is the largest, most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work in the UK to date. Co-produced by the Mead Gallery with Fundacao Leal Rios, Lisbon; La Casa Encendida, Madrid and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the exhibition will be adapted at each gallery to present individual, nuanced interpretations of Paterson’s practice.

Works presented at the Mead Gallery include letters of condolence for the death of stars, an archive of darkness from throughout the universe, and light bulbs specially created to simulate moonlight.

If you are planning to visit the exhibition with a school group, Teachers’ Notes are available to help you plan your visit and provide ideas for follow up activities. These can be downloaded by clicking on the icon to the right of the page.

In her first outing since her Oscar-winning In A Better World, Susanne Bier comes up with a natural born winner, a romantic comedy that pulls out all the stops.

On the way to his son’s wedding, widower Phillip (Brosnan) meets Ida (Dyrholm), the mother of the bride with marital problems of her own. With Ida’s ditzy generosity clashing with Phillip’s brusque manner, the pair’s initial icy exchanges soon warms into mutual attraction.

“Brosnan and Dyrholm have fizzingly good chemistry together.” ★★★★ The Telegraph

Please note: due to essential refurbishment work, the toilets in the cinema will be unavailable from Tue 7 May – Thu 20 Jun. Other toilets are available – please ask a member of staff for more information.

Returning to the delirious spirit of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Pedro Almodóvar takes to the skies in this highly bizarre but thoroughly entertaining comedy.

The film looks at the colourful characters aboard a plane bound for Mexico including a trio of camp air stewards, a corrupt businessman, a psychic, a former actress and a Mexican hitman. When a technical failure is discovered in the plane’s undercarriage, the passengers and crew descend into chaos with plenty of sex, drugs, alcohol and song and dance.

With echoes of the 1980s spoof flick, Airplane! and his own earlier films, Almodóvar has reassembled his usual cast of game and talented actors for this raunchy and raucous look at sex and death.

Please note: due to essential refurbishment work, the toilets in the cinema will be unavailable from Tue 7 May – Thu 20 Jun. Other toilets are available – please ask a member of staff for more information.

Bring the family along for a fun packed day of art activities in the Mead Gallery.

Take home works that you have made and win some fantastic prizes, while learning about art and getting creative. Children must be accompanied by an adult of 18+.

Please note: Lunch is not provided in the price of this ticket.

Please book in advance by calling the Box Office on 024 7652 4524.

The Coull Quartet are joined for this concert by the wonderful violinist Dave Le Page. Come and enjoy a cup of coffee with them and soak up the atmosphere in the Helen Martin Studio.

J. S Bach – Chaconne from Violin Partita no 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
Britten – String Quartet no 2 in C, Op.36
Purcell – Fantasia upon one note in F major arranged for string quintet

This special double bill from Cosgrove Hall, the creators of such TV shows as Dangermouse, The Wind in the Willows and The BFG (screening on Sat 20 Apr) features two very different classic fairy tales.

Brought to life in glorious stop-motion animation with beautifully expressive puppetry and haunting soundtracks, this is a must-see masterclass in animation.

Please note: due to essential refurbishment work, the toilets in the cinema will be unavailable from Tue 7 May – Thu 20 Jun. Other toilets are available – please ask a member of staff for more information.

Jonny Phillips – Guitar/Composition

Idris Rahman – Sax

Ben Davis – Cello

Nick Ramm – Piano

Adriano Adewale – Percussion
Ruth Goller – Bass

Seb Rochford – Drums

Emma Smith – Violin

Graeme Stephen – Steel string guitar

Neil Charles – Electric bassist

In May 2013 Oriole and Basquiat Strings, two of Britain’s most critically acclaimed and popular instrumental groups will tour together for the first time.

Their leaders Jonny Phillips (Oriole) and Ben Davis (Basquiat Strings), great friends for many years, have much in common from classical, Brazilian, and jazz music to travel and humour. They also share the same drummer, Seb Rochford (Polar Bear). This being said the sound of their two groups, although both utilizing the earthy raw sounds of folk/jazz/classical music informed by tradition, vary greatly.

Andy started in TV on Spitting Image as one of the main writers before embarking on a stand-up career which has led to such shows as Mock The Week and Live at the Apollo. This, his fourth show, is his favourite yet – come and get your dopamine fix!

“It’s great to welcome sharp, topical comedy on to the live circuit – and Parsons remains one of its most skilful exponents” The Guardian

“Andy Parsons’ lethal mixture of anger and ridicule leaves the Big Society in tatters” The Times

“This is a very specific point in time.

“I’ve been waiting to have the idea for this show for weeks, for months. A space held open in my head waiting for the idea. For months. I’ve done previews and I’ve booked the tour and I’ve stared at the internet and I’ve made chicken and I’ve tried not to worry. But the idea has not come and I have worried. I’ve worried and doubted and waited more and more and more.

“But then today, having dropped my dad off at the train station and met my friends for some coffee, whilst driving home to write this (very overdue) brochure copy – dreading the thought of heaving half lies and optimistic promises into something vaguely intriguing but not developmentally restrictive – half way home, it happened. Somewhere between East London and South London – it arrived. The Idea. Just like that. Like a child, late home from school, oblivious to the worry and the panic and the phone calls.

“It just walked in and sat down like it wasn’t even a big deal. So now I’m typing this in my bedroom because the boy who lives next door is playing the James Bond theme on what I assume to be a trumpet.

“And you have to trust me.

“Two hours ago I didn’t have the idea. Now I do. And it’s going to be good.”

- Daniel Kitson

Misty’s Big Adventure are an eight piece band from Birmingham led by Grandmaster Gareth, who John Peel once pronounced ‘The New God’. Since 2004, Misty’s Big Adventure have released five studio albums to critical acclaim, with the NME calling their last album “a masterpiece” and a 4 star review in Q. Their music is a unique mixture of pop, jazz, psychedelia, ska, folk, lounge and beats.

“The UK’s answer to the Arcade Fire” ★ ★ ★ ★ The Independent

“Misty’s sound like nothing you have ever heard before. Can this be the future of British Rock?” The Telegraph

From Monsoon Wedding director Mira Nair, comes an adaptation of Moshin Hamid’s Booker-nominated novel. Changez (Ahmed) is a young Pakistani man chasing corporate success on Wall Street. Despite being well-respected in his job, he notices how public attitudes towards him change after 9/11, and he finds himself questioning his belief in the American Dream, and the ways in which his homeland has been vilified by recent events.

“A well-crafted and thoughtful thriller that looks at familiar subject matter from a new angle.” The Independent

Please note: due to essential refurbishment work, the toilets in the cinema will be unavailable from Tue 7 May – Thu 20 Jun. Other toilets are available – please ask a member of staff for more information.

As the University’s students disperse for Reading Week and car parks are vacated, the Mead Gallery invites you to join us for our very own Drawing Week. Still-lives will be available for visitors to draw in the gallery on Tuesday and Thursday from 5 – 9pm and on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 12- 5pm.

There will also be opportunities for children to plant seeds and decorate their own plant pots from 12 – 4pm on Tuesday and Thursday and from 10am – 5pm on Sunday when the Mead Gallery opens for Warwick Arts Centre’s Sun-day Fun-day.

All of the activities are free and no booking is required.

With a crash of drums, The Circus arrives – a tour-hardy troupe of acrobats, aerialists, dancers, musicians, stuntmen and adventurers. Welcome to a world where who knows what will happen next.

A vibrant, poignant and surprising show that mixes comedy and chaos with bold physicality and eclectic live music.

And of course, true to its name, the show sends absolutely everything flying through the air…

Taking you to the dizzying heights and beyond, the best new circus comes to Warwick Arts Centre.

“Funny and earthy and mechanically ingenious” Sideshow Circus Magazine

Come along for an evening tour of the University of Warwick’s art collection.

The tour will focus upon a selection of artworks which address ideas raised by the Mead Gallery’s latest exhibitions – Katie Paterson: In Another Time and Artists’ Plans for Sustainability.

The tour is free but places are limited so please book in advance by calling Box Office on 024 7652 4524.

When losing is no longer an option, what do we have left to gain?
At Jack Dixon Investment Bank, a small group of individuals are on the verge of securing a secret financial heist and look set to get away with it. However, things are about to start going very, very wrong. With less than 24 hours to save their company and themselves, a group of people all chained together by one mistake find themselves with nobody to trust and everything to lose…

This new piece from award-winning Writer/Director Breman Rajkumar explores the secret and hidden world of investment banking. This immersive production combines a tribal, bass-driven soundtrack with filmic lighting effects to produce a truly cinematic spectacle, one that will engage audiences with a host of extremely realistic and moving performances.

Breman Rajkumar won four awards at this year’s National Student Drama Festival for The Babysitter, including the Sunday Times Playwrighting Award and the Directors Guild Award for Best Director.

Quotes about previous work from this team:

“Deeply impressed…genuinely laugh-out-loud funny…unbelievably realistic” – Michael Brazier, CEO and Director of NSDF

“The best acting, directing, writing I’ve seen in the competition this year” – Alex Spencer-Jones, Artistic Director of Action To The Word

“Superb Work…stonking” – Whole Hog Theatre

Show contains strobe and flashing lights.
Ages 12+ (strong language).

Visionary director Baz Luhrmann teams up once more with Leonardo DiCaprio for a dazzling adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest novel.

Nick Carraway (Maguire) is a newcomer to an elite Long Island community, who falls in with the lavish lifestyle of his enigmatic neighbour Jay Gatsby. Gatsby’s history with the married Daisy Buchanan (Mulligan) threatens to tarnish the polished facade of the area’s wealthy residents and soon hidden passions are brought to the surface.

Please note: due to essential refurbishment work, the toilets in the cinema will be unavailable from Tue 7 May – Thu 20 Jun. Other toilets are available – please ask a member of staff for more information.

Writer of hit TV drama Borgen and Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt, Tobias Lindholm’s solo directorial debut is an intense look at the high-pressure negotiations surrounding a hijacked ship.

The action seamlessly transfers from a claustrophobic hull to a plush boardroom as the viewpoint changes from the ship’s on-board cook Mikkel to the CEO of the vessel company. As the CEO tries to negotiate a deal with the pirates, the kidnapped Mikkel and his fellow shipmates begin to lose hope that they’ll ever escape alive.

A refreshingly naturalistic look at the subject of hijacking which avoids sensationalism and gratuitous violence.

“An absorbing, highly moving film that’s lingered heavily on the mind.” Indiewire

Please note: due to essential refurbishment work, the toilets in the cinema will be unavailable from Tue 7 May – Thu 20 Jun. Other toilets are available – please ask a member of staff for more information.

After a freak snowstorm on the southern tip of India, Kumar disappears. Gowri, 
his best friend, discovers that he has been captured by the formidable Snow Queen, and embarks on a journey across the length and breadth of the continent 
to save him.

From the burning heat of southern India, through lush backwaters, glitzy Bollywood and desolate bandit country, our brave heroine strives to bring the warmth of friendship to the icy north.

“Rosamunde Hutt’s production is acted with 
flair and humour and can hold an audience of schoolchildren rapt from start to finish” 
Financial Times

Age 6+
Running Time: 2hrs (including interval)


This acclaimed animation from Studio Ghibli tells the story of 5 year-old Sosuke’s friendship with Ponyo, a little fish that’s determined to become human. A heart-warming and imaginative retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s classic fairytale The Little Mermaid.

“A weird, wonderful aquatic romp, Ponyo is also a meditation on the state of this blue planet.” ★★★★ Empire

Please note: due to essential refurbishment work, the toilets in the cinema will be unavailable from Tue 7 May – Thu 20 Jun. Other toilets are available – please ask a member of staff for more information.

Families, join us for some fun and FREE activities on our Sunday Funday … get involved, there is something for everyone to enjoy!

10am – 5pm Search for the Stars
Sparkly stars will be hidden all around the Arts Centre for you to hunt for! Where will you find the brightest stars in the sky?

10am – 5pm Design a Superplant Mead Gallery
Plants and flowers can be pretty, edible, useful… but imagine what it would be like if they had super powers! Enter our gallery drawing competition and turn your favourite plant into a superplant!

10am – 5pm Meadow Making Upper Bar
Visit our lush Summer meadow, get creative, and make your own flowers!

10.30am & 2.30pm Indian Music Foyer
Indian music will be playing in the foyer to get you in the mood for Trestle Theatre’s Snow Queen.

1pm Picnic Time Upper Bar (Meadow)
Find a space on a picnic blanket, unpack your picnic lunch, and relax in our lovely floral meadow!

3pm Bake-a-Cake Competition
Everyone is invited to bake a cake for our cake competition, judged by the ladies of the Women’s Institute. Winner announced at 4pm.

There’ll also be FREE familiy activities in the Sports Centre on campus. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult at the Sports Centre.

11.30am – 1pm Family Sports and Fun in the Main Hall
This will be run by one of the Lifestyles Instructors and will be fun games using space hoppers, hoola hoops and other fun games.

12pm – 2pm Family Table Tennis in the Activity Room
Table tennis tables will be available for families to go and play within this period – all equipment will be provided.

1pm – 3pm Family Swimming in the Pool
The shallow end of the pool will be reserved for family swimming and there will be floats available for people to use. There is always a lifeguard on duty within the pool.

PLEASE NOTE: There is now an extra performance of Star at 12 noon.

Join the green-fingered Gardener and the tidy Tailor who live at opposite ends of the world.

All they share is a bright star glittering in the sky above them. One sad day this star disappears. As the Gardener and the Tailor search high and low for the star, they find something even more amazing and unexpected…

A lighthearted and touching 
tale of friendship, needlework 
and botany.

Presented by Goody and Storey 
and mac birmingham.

“A world of talent… Perfect for children aged 2 to 5” ★★★★ Birmingham Mail

Ages 2 – 5
Running Time: Approx 45mins

Join PoetryJoe, star of CBeebie’s Rhyme Rocket, performer, writer and – of course! – poet, in his light-up, pop-up world of fabulous foods, beastly bugs and peculiar pets.

Armed with his trusty overhead projector and the props, pop-ups and pictures of John O’Leary, PoetryJoe introduces the children and their families to lots of new friends, including a naughty but nice hamster, a cheating cheetah, and a whole family made out of paper and light.

The PoetryJoe Show is a fun-packed, interactive family show suitable for 3s and up, incorporating elements of magic lantern, shadow puppetry and live poetry. Take part in the fun and learn how to make your very own poems that glow.

A great introduction to poetry and spoken word for an early years audience and their families, the show spectacularly integrates interaction with performance, giving every child the chance to write and project their own poem.

Ages 3 – 6
Running Time: 55mins

A rare chance to revisit the land of Oz on the big screen.

Join Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Man as they make their way down the yellow brick road to see the Wizard of Oz.

Winner of Best Original Score and Best Original Song (Over the Rainbow) Oscar in 1940.

“The whimsical gaiety, the lighthearted song & dance, the lavish Hollywood sets and costumes are as fresh and beguiling today as they were ten years ago when the picture was first released.” TIME Magazine

Please note: due to essential refurbishment work, the toilets in the cinema will be unavailable from Tue 7 May – Thu 20 Jun. Other toilets are available – please ask a member of staff for more information.

After skipping out on the school ski trip, Lorenzo spends the week hiding in the family basement just to get some time on his own. His planned isolation is dashed when his older drug addict half-sister shows up needing a place to stay. Through the course of the following days, the two siblings discover more about each other and bond over their shared love of David Bowie’s Space Oddity.

Oscar-winning director Bertolucci’s first feature in ten years, Me and You revisits his past works such as The Dreamers and Last Tango in Paris, as an intimate drama about the turmoil of youth.

“An intimate wisp of youthful unease.” Hollywood Reporter

Please note: due to essential refurbishment work, the toilets in the cinema will be unavailable from Tue 7 May – Thu 20 Jun. Other toilets are available – please ask a member of staff for more information.

There was once only the sound of bees and the wind in the wiry grass, the low murmuring of moles in the cool dark earth, and the song of birds in the high blue sky.

Based on the award-winning book by Helen Ward and Marc Craste, Varmints tells the poignant tale of one small creature’s struggle to preserve a world in danger of being lost forever. Every day the city grows larger and the noise grows louder, until there is so much noise that no-one can hear themselves think.

This exhilarating new dance-theatre show is choreographed by Wilkie Branson (Champloo Dance Company) and directed by Sally Cookson who most recently collaborated on the brilliantly energetic Christmas show BOING!

Age 8+

Based on the character based comedy show which he took to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2012, You’re Probably Wondering Why I’ve Asked You Here… is a three-part performance unlike anything you have seen before. Phill Jupitus plays the part of three extraordinary characters and with the help of an inquisitive audience, we find out more about them.

The Late Vernon Herschel Harley is a legend of stage and screen who died at the age of 114 just last Thursday. He has worked with everybody in theatre and cinema and describes himself as “Quite lively for a dead chap.” and “An annecdote Gatling gun.”

The Late Kurt Schiffer was the ‘Korvettenkapitan’ of the U42B out of Hamburg part of the German Navy’s ‘Wolf Packs’, which were the scourge of the Atlantic shipping lanes. He died in 1944.

The Late Phill Jupitus died on June 24th 2052 on the eve of his 90th birthday.

Leave your preconceptions at the door but don’t forget to bring your curiosity.

“This show is a huge amount of fun and an impressive display of Jupitus’ skills” – The Scotsman

“I left an hour later with further admiration of the man’s talents and his willingness to try something different.” “It is an experience that should not be missed” – One4Review

Join artists and academics to examine what is the role of the artist in developing sustainable cities.

Please note, the event will take place in the Mead Gallery, not in the Ramphal Building as previously advertised.

Limited tickets are available; early booking is strongly recommended. Please book places by calling the Box Office on 024 7652 4524.

Great minds against themselves conspire and shun the cure they most desire

How much control do we have over our destiny, and what happens when this power is taken out of our hands? This retelling of Purcell’s first opera will have you questioning fate and frames the classic love story of Dido and Aeneas in a new light.

Performing in the Helen Martin Studio, this short, intimate piece is perfect for opera lovers and newcomers alike.

An acoustic guitarist who sings her own songs, Emily Browne is poised for breakout success in the months and years ahead. Her music is an eclectic combination of jazz, folk, funk and acoustic threads which all twist together in a curiously contemporary and yet musically 
satisfying way.

Find out more at www.emilybrowne.co.uk

Please note the change of date. REM has moved from Tue 4 Jun to Thu 6 Jun.

The regular showcase of short films from the region returns with a new harvest of delights. If you would like to submit your film for consideration in the programme, it should be less than 15mins in duration on DVD, DigiBeta or 35mm.

Please send it to: John Gore, Film Programmer, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL by Fri 31 May along with your contact details.

Please note: due to essential refurbishment work, the toilets in the cinema will be unavailable from Tue 7 May – Thu 20 Jun. Other toilets are available – please ask a member of staff for more information.

Gypsy guitar legend and singer Lulo Reinhardt performs complete with his top class band. Representing one of the most unique voices in gypsy-jazz music today, Lulo Reinhardt is from a long line of musicians; the grand-nephew of jazz legend Django Reinhardt and also the nephew of the gypsy violin master Shnuckenack Reinhardt, he comes from a lineage peppered throughout with highly talented musicians.

“The finest concert of acoustic guitar I have ever seen” 
Sydney Morning Herald

How much is beauty worth?
What will people pay for an air guitar on eBay?
Can I have a glass of milk?

These urgent questions and others are answered in The Price of Everything, a performance lecture about value. Daniel Bye‘s whistlestop tour of bizarre facts and impassioned arguments is occasionally shambolic and often tendentious – but always a joy to watch.

Comic, provocative, and possibly a tiny bit sad, this show is a must if you’ve ever wondered about the difference between the price of an
object and its value.

And you get a free glass of milk.

“The future of British theatre” The Times

Running time: 1hr
Age 14+
Post Show Talk: Thu 6 Jun

Daniel Bye will be On the Couch to discuss his work on Fri 7 Jun – come and join the conversation for free!

Based on the novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm sees Charlotte Rampling as Elizabeth, a wealthy and domineering matriarch on her deathbed.

With her two estranged children (Rush and Davis) rushing back to be by their mother’s side, their visit is soon reduced to bitterness, jealousy, manipulation and childish defiance.

“A regally dysfunctional trio par excellence.” The Village Voice

Please note: due to essential refurbishment work, the toilets in the cinema will be unavailable from Tue 7 May – Thu 20 Jun. Other toilets are available – please ask a member of staff for more information.

Critically acclaimed artist Daniel Bye was heralded as ‘the future of British Theatre’ by The Times and is the performer and writer of The Price of Everything (6 – 7 Jun).

“The Abbott & Costello of the sock world” (Time Out), stars of stage, screen & YouTube bring you a brand new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence with a Sci-Fi theme.

“Had every single audience member laughing until they cried.” ★★★★★ Edinburgh Evening News Aug 2012

Age 8+

Funny, magical, innovative, spectacular and inspiring, The Boy with Tape On his Face has won the hearts and minds of the critics and public alike. This is stand-up with no talking, drama with no acting and punch lines with no words.

2012 saw him sell out his entire month long run at the Edinburgh Festival, ending with him winning the Fosters Comedy Award and then topping off the year with three weeks in the West End. Now The Boy comes to you.

After appearances at last year’s Royal Variety Performance, BBC Comedy Proms with Tim Minchin at the Royal Albert Hall and on ITV’s Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford, it would appear the sky is the limit for this utterly unique comedy phenomenon.

“…simply spectacular, warranting the standing ovation” Metro ✭✭✭✭✭

“How best to describe Wills’ incredible, uplifting talent? It’s beyond words.” Chortle ✭✭✭✭✭

Support: Barry Dodds

Rob Halligan

Described by the BBC as “Bruce Springsteen having English tea with Billy Bragg”, Rob Halligan is an award winning recording artist and songwriter.

Rob’s song-writing reflects events in his life, from his experiences living on the streets to losing his father in the terrorist events of 9/11. There is a heartfelt honesty rarely found in popular music today and Halligan delivers with passion time after time.

www.robhalligan.co.uk

Mumbo Jumbo

A close-harmony, eclectic, semi-acoustic piano-led wonder, Mumbo-Jumbo plays rootsy original and rarely heard stuff in their own inimitable style – with no acoustic guitar in sight!!

Nominated for the British Blues Awards 2012, Mumbo-Jumbo brings together three top Midlands acoustic musicians/vocalists to produce an “Eclectic Acoustic” sound that is all their own, playing festivals, blues, acoustic and folk clubs, theatres, weekenders, village halls and pubs across the country: pianist & vocalist Abby Brant is currently touring with Jasper Carott and Bev Bevan of ELO and has also performed with Steve Winwood.

Oliver Carpenter – vocals, trumpet and percussion
Abby Brant – piano and vocals
Chris Lomas – bass, ukelele and vocals

www.mumbo-jumbo.biz

National Geographic photographer James Balog risked his life to travel across the arctic and capture climate change in action.

Using revolutionary time-lapse cameras, he collected images from over a three year period of the glaciers and landscapes changing. The undertaking of this epic quest and the breath-taking images that were captured as a result make for a fascinating story and one that deserves to be seen on the big screen.

“Stunning…Timely… A solitary quest with global implications.” The New York Times

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At five years old Andy and his brother snuck down stairs, after their parents had gone to bed, and taped the film Predator off the TV. They would watch the film religiously thereafter and began creating their own version. What started out as a scene-for-scene re-creation soon turned into their own re-imagining. Unfortunately they never managed to finish what they had started. 
So here’s Andy’s chance!

With a little bit of your help Andy will finish off what’s been 20 years in the making, using some of the same techniques he and his brother started with, as well as bringing to life and realising the fantasy that he wished they were able to achieve in 1991.

So please, sit down and join Andy at his table, as you play with remote control cars, action men, puppets and your own imaginations to complete your own version of the film Predator and finally finish off what Andy started when he was five.

Supported by The ShowRoom, University of Chichester & The Basement, Brighton.

“Oozing confidence… expertly improvised… engaging, side-splitting and chaotic” THE LATEST

Running Time: 70mins
Age 15+

Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and director of last summer’s smash hit Avengers Assemble balanced making the aforementioned big budget production by creating something distinctly low-fi and personal.

Shot entirely in his own house, with a cast of friends from previous projects (including Alexis Denisof and Amy Acker from Buffy/Angel) Whedon directs a classy modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identity, delivered in the original verse.

“A warm, funny and breezy contemporary version of William Shakespeare’s comedy of love and misunderstanding.” Screen International

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Chamber music has been called “the music of friends”. And for four decades as Quartet in Residence at the University of Warwick, the four extraordinary musicians of the Coull Quartet have explored every facet of human emotion. Their annual concert series is at the heart of the Warwick Arts Centre programme: concerts where the intimate becomes universal, secrets are shared, and everyone present is invited to experience the innermost feelings of some of the greatest minds in human history, in music of joy, sorrow and transcendent beauty.

So join Roger Coull, Philip Gallaway, Rose Redgrave and Nicholas Roberts as they take timeless music and make it vibrantly new.

Haydn – Quartet in D Op.76 No 5
Britten – Quartet No 3 Op.94
Schumann – Quartet in A Op.41 No 3

Death in Venice… at the end of his life, Benjamin Britten turned Prospero, and dissolved his enchantments in the shimmering waters of his Third Quartet. He called its finale La Serenissima, and it’s hard to believe that such ravishing music was being written in the 1970s.

But hear it for yourself, at the still centre of an evening that opens with a glowing, sparkling surge of imagination from the 65 year old Haydn, and ends with the delirious lovesongs of Robert Schumann’s ardent Third Quartet. Young love, great conversation, and the biggest questions of all: the Coull Quartet proves, once again, that four players can say more than the mightiest orchestra.

Pre-concert talk: Helen Martin Studio 6.15pm. Tickets £1

Dr. Kim Wade is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Warwick. Her PhD research investigated the role of photographic evidence in the creation of false childhood memories and more recently she has focused on how people determine whether a memory is real or fictitious. Part of this research has involved using photographic evidence to embed the false memory of a hot air balloon ride in her subjects.

Since 2002, artist AR Hopwood has been working under the collective pseudonym, ‘WITH.’ Under this guise he has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and overseas, including with major galleries such as Tate Britain, The Hayward Gallery, The ICA and The Victoria and Albert Museum. For his most recent project, Hopwood was been working with scientific researchers in the UK and USA – including Kim Wade – to explore the phenomenon of False Memory.

Here AR Hopwood and Kim Wade discuss False Memory Syndrome in relation to the film the artist has made on the subject. This is a free event but please book your seat through the Box Office on 024 7652 4524.

The False Memory Archive is supported by The Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England.

Ian Hill is a highly regarded Midlands based saxophonist and a regular on the jazz scene. He brings to the foyer his colleagues Chris Watts and Tom Bull on piano and bass respectively for a great session of cool, sophisticated jazz and blues including tracks from their latest album Soul Speaking.

Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award-winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the highly-anticipated West End production of The Audience, broadcast as part of National Theatre Live.

For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace; a meeting like no other in British public life – it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses.

The Audience breaks this contract of silence – and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional – sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive.
From young mother to grandmother, these private audiences chart the arc of the second Elizabethan Age. Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her next Prime Minister.

The Audience reunites writer Peter Morgan and Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren following their collaboration on the critically-acclaimed movie sensation The Queen. The Audience is directed by Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and presented in the West End by Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions, Robert Fox and Andy Harries.

There is an encore screening on Sun 16 Jun 7pm

Guitarist, singer, songwriter and unparalleled interpreter of traditional and contemporary folk songs, Dick Gaughan has been called “the Scottish Woody Guthrie” for the depth, passion and political conviction of his music.

Gaughan has one of the finest voices on the planet, capable of capturing the heart with the most traditional of ballads in one moment and stirring the fire of the spirit with his uncompromising commentary on social injustices in the next. And as a guitar player since the age of seven, his mastery of the instrument – acoustic and electric – is astounding.

“One of Britain’s most innovative and contemporary voices” Boston Globe

A sweet and stylish slice of kitsch cinema, set in 1950’s France. Rose (François) lives a mundane life in the countryside, doomed to become a bored housewife.

Determined to take charge of her own destiny, she responds to an ad looking for a secretary at an insurance company. Her boss (Duris) soon discovers that though she is a hopeless secretary, she is a remarkably fast typist. Entering her into speed-typing competitions, she’s soon winning titles, and hearts…

“A sparkling Gallic take on what feels like a vintage Hollywood love story.” Screen International

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Rising is an evening of work performed by Aakash Odedra, exploring different processes and aesthetics to create a new personal language.

Single-minded passion is never 
quite enough. Innovation is a collective performance.

Aakash performs solos choreographed by Russell Maliphant, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan, featuring lighting by Michael Hulls and Willy Cessa. Aakash also presents a contemporary Kathak solo choreographed by himself. All use Aakash’s background in Kathak and Bharatanatyam to create a new flavour of contemporary dance.

“It‘s the dance equivalent of a 
red-carpet event…establishes Odedra 
as a dancer to follow.” 
Judith Mackrell, The Guardian

Running Time: 65mins (including interval)
Post Show Talk Fri 14 Jun

Matthew McConaughey delivers a mesmerising central performance as the titular Mud, a mysterious man with a shadowy past. When two young boys encounter him living in the woods, they become enthralled by his stories, and promise to help him reconnect with his childhood sweetheart (Witherspoon), and escape from the bounty hunters he says are on his trail.

But soon the boys find themselves in a situation beyond their control, where none of the adults seem to be telling the whole truth.

“Mud has the look and feel of an American indie classic.” The Guardian

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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies is the story of five key D-Day spies: a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a Serbian seducer, a wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming, and a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love for her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception. Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is revealed for the first time in this widely acclaimed story.

Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He is the author of nine books including Agent Zigzag (2007) shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008, and the number 1 bestseller Operation Mincemeat (2010).

Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922 is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers’ mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and of Irish armed rebellion. It was a time, argues Ronan Fanning, when violence and the threat of violence trumped democratic politics.

Ronan Fanning is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at University College Dublin. Among his books are the definitive history of the Irish Department of Finance and a biography of Eliza Lynch (2009).

The Hippocrates Initiative began in 2009 as the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine for an unpublished poem on a medical subject. Since its launch the annual prize has attracted over 4000 applicants from 44 countries, and now includes annual international symposia at which the Hippocrates awards are presented, an international research forum for poetry and medicine, and The Hippocrates Press. In 2011 the initiative was awarded the Times Higher Education award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts.

This panel session will be led by founders of the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine Michael Hulse and Donald Singer, and feature award-winning poets Wendy French, Jane Kirwan and Michael Henry presenting their work.

Wendy French won the Hippocrates Prize in the NHS category in 2010 (and second prize in 2011, with two further poems commended by the judges). She lives in London and facilitates writing in healthcare and educational settings. She has published two full collections of poetry, most recently surely you know this (tall-lighthouse press, 2009). Her collaborative book on the NHS, co-written with Jane Kirwan, is published this year by the Hippocrates Press.

Jane Kirwan’s poetry collections, Stealing the Eiffel Tower (1997) and The Man Who Sold Mirrors (2003), were published by Rockingham Press. She won an English Arts Council Writer’s Award in 2002. In 2011, a prose and poem collaboration with Aleš Machácek came out in English and Czech. She was placed third (NHS category) in the 2012 Hippocrates Prize, with four further poems commended by the judges, and recently completed a book about the NHS written with Wendy French.

Michael Henry has published four collections of poetry with Enitharmon Press, the latest being After the Dancing Dogs (2008). George Szirtes has praised his “poignant elusive poetry full of surprises” and David Constantine has applauded his “honest, sympathetic and enquiring” verse. He won the Hippocrates Prize in the open category in 2011.

Donald Singer has been Professor of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics in the Warwick Medical School since 2003. He has published widely, and since 2007 has been President of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. Since 2010 he has been Secretary of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, and Chair of the Heads of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (BPS). In 2009 he co-founded the Hippocrates initiative with Michael Hulse.

Michael Hulse’s most recent collection of poetry is The Secret History (Arc, 2009) and his latest publication the anthology The Twentieth Century in Poetry (Ebury, 2011), co-edited with Simon Rae. He has translated over sixty books from the German, and with Donald Singer co-founded the Hippocrates initiative for poetry and medicine, which took a Times Higher Education Award in 2011. A new book of poems, Half-Life, is published shortly.

Cézanne: A Life is the first comprehensive assessment of the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Cézanne to be published in decades. Danchev’s account shows how Cézanne was the exemplary artist-creator of the modern age who changed the way we see the world. Cézanne is not only the fascinating life of a visionary artist and extraordinary human being but also a searching assessment of his on-going influence in the artistic imagination.

Alex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham. His publications include a biography of the military historian Basil Liddell Hart (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998) which was listed for the Whitbread Prize for Biography and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.

Cotton: the Fabric that Made the Modern World explores the early globalised economy of the cotton trade and its transformation after 1750 as cotton led the way in the industrialisation of Europe. By the early nineteenth century India, China and the Ottoman Empire switched from world producers to buyers of European cotton textiles, a position they retained for over two hundred years. This fascinating and insightful story ranges from Asian and European technologies and African slavery to cotton plantations in the Americas and consumer desires across the globe.

Giorgio Riello is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick; recent work includes The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1250-1850 (ed. with Prasannan Parthasarathi, 2009) and How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850 (ed. with Tirthankar Roy, 2009).

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things is a new biography exploring the forces that shaped the interior life of Britain’s most beloved novelist. Using objects that conjure up key moments or themes in Austen’s life and work – a silhouette, a vellum notebook, a topaz cross, a laptop writing box, a royalty cheque – Byrne builds up a picture of a writer who is far tougher, more socially and politically aware, and altogether more modern than the conventional picture of ‘dear Aunt Jane’ would allow.

Paula Byrne is a bestselling biographer and Fellow of Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College. Her books include Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (2009) and Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson (2005), which was long-listed for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize.

The Warwick Prize for Writing is an innovative literature prize that involves global competition, and crosses all disciplines. The Prize was launched in 2008 and is awarded every two years for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form.

This panel features Peter Forbes, winner of the 2011 Prize, reading from his winning work Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage. Professor Ian Sansom, chair of the 2013 judging panel, will lead the session which will include a special announcement about the 2013 Prize.

Peter Forbes is a science writer with a special interest in the relationship between art and science. He initially trained as a chemist and worked in pharmaceutical and popular natural history publishing, whilst writing poems, and articles for magazines such as New Scientist and World Medicine. He has written numerous articles and reviews for newspapers and magazines, many specializing in the relation between the arts and science; his books include The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are taking a leaf from nature’s book (2005) and Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage (2009).

Ian Sansom is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick and teaches on the Warwick Writing Programme. He is the author of nine books, including The Truth About Babies (2002), Ring Road (2004), and the popular Mobile Library series of novels. Ian Sansom writes for The Guardian and is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.

March, Women, March explores the women’s movement in Britain, from the passing of the Marriage and Divorce Act in 1857 to women attaining the vote in 1928. Published to commemorate the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who threw herself under King George V’s horse during the Derby and thus sustained fatal injuries, this fascinating book uses anecdotes and accounts by both famous and hitherto lesser known suffragettes and suffragists to explore how the voice of women came to be heard throughout the land in the pursuit of equal votes for females. Using diary extracts and letters, the main protagonists of the women’s movement are brought back to life as Lucinda Dickens Hawksley explores how they were portrayed in literature and art as well as the media reports of the day.

Lucinda Dickens Hawksley is the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens and a patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. She has written more than 20 books, including Lizzie Siddal, The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel (2004) and Katey, The Life and Loves of Dickens’s Artist Daughter (2006). A part-time lecturer as well as a writer, Lucinda is an expert in Dickens’s family life and has been awarded a fellowship to study the life of Augustus Dickens (Charles’s brother and the original “Boz”) at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Intelligence specialists Michael Smith, Sinclair McKay and Richard Aldrich will speak on this panel about Bletchley Park, the historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during WWII and birthplace of the modern computer.

Sinclair McKay writes for The Telegraph and Mail on Sunday, and is the author of the bestselling book The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There (2010). This is the first history for the general reader of life at Bletchley Park, and an amazing compendium of first-hand accounts from people now in their eighties who lived and worked there during the war; it has been praised as an “an eloquent tribute” (Mail on Sunday) and a “remarkably faithful account” (The Guardian).

Michael Smith is a number one bestselling author of books on intelligence and special operations. He served in the British Army before becoming a journalist, working for the BBC, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times. He is now a full-time writer, whose publications include The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park Codebreakers helped win the War (2011), The Emperor’s Codes: Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan’s Secret Ciphers (2002) and The Spying Game: The Secret History of British Espionage (2003), which revealed details of how MI6 and members of the British Special Boat Service were operating inside Basra throughout the 2003 war in Iraq.

Richard J. Aldrich is Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick. His main research interests lie in the area of intelligence and security communities, and related issues of cyber security, liberty and privacy, set against a background of accelerating globalization. He recently lead the AHRC project “Landscapes of Secrecy: The Central Intelligence Agency and the Contested Record of US Foreign Policy, 1947-2001”, a team of eight scholars at the universities of Nottingham and Warwick examining the creation of the public record of the CIA in realms such as history, memoirs, novels and film. His publications include GCHQ: the Uncensored Story of Britain’s Most Secret Intelligence Agency (2010), a gripping exploration of the last great unknown realm of the British secret service.

The Warwick Review is published four times a year from the English Department at the University of Warwick. It is international in scope, including poetry, prose fiction, essays and reviews, symposia and thematic sections. It is interested in history and politics, and hospitable to emergent as well as established writers. As Sean O’Brien writes, “curiosity, imagination and readiness to encounter the unfamiliar are qualities the Review asks of the reader, and in turn does much to embody.”

In March 2013 The Warwick Review celebrates its silver jubilee issue. To mark the occasion, this event features readings by two electrifying Review contributors, award-winning novelist Kirsty Gunn and acclaimed poet Lesley Saunders, and by the Review’s editor, poet Michael Hulse.

Kirsty Gunn’s first novel, Rain, was praised by Edna O’Brien and Faye Weldon when it appeared in 1994, and since then her fiction has been acclaimed by Jayne Anne Phillips, John Carey and many more around the globe. Widely translated and anthologised, her work has been turned into film and dance theatre and has won numerous awards. Her latest novel, The Big Music (Faber, 2012), was hailed by Michael Bywater in The Independent as “a masterpiece”. She is Professor of Writing Practice and Study at the University of Dundee.

Lesley Saunders has published several books of poetry, most recently Cloud Camera (Two Rivers Press, 2012), and has performed her work at literary festivals and on the radio. She has worked on collaborative projects with artists, sculptors, musicians, photographers and dancers, and has held several residencies including, in 2013, at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. She works as an independent researcher in education and is a visiting professor at the Institute of Education, London.

Michael Hulse’s most recent collection of poetry is The Secret History (Arc, 2009) and his latest publication the anthology The Twentieth Century in Poetry (Ebury, 2011), co-edited with Simon Rae. He has translated over sixty books from the German, and with Donald Singer co-founded the Hippocrates initiative for poetry and medicine, which took a Times Higher Education Award in 2011. A new book of poems, Half-Life, is published shortly.

In the recent BBC 2 series Servants: the True Story of Life Below Stairs, Pamela Cox revealed the history of Britain’s domestic workers throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, from the grand houses of the Victorian elite to the decline of domestic service in the 20th century. The series links to her book Bad Girls in Britain: Gender, Justice and Welfare, 1900-1950, which traces the history of delinquent and destitute girls and explores the central role of domestic service training as a means of reforming them.

Pamela Cox is a senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, teaching and researching across social history, social policy and criminology. She has published widely on female delinquency and is currently developing a new project on crime history.

The talk will be chaired by Dr Laura Schwartz, Assistant Professor in Modern British History at the University of Warwick, who appeared on the BBC series.

This innovative poetry workshop will help participants to create their own poem inspired by walking in wild places. A half-hour ‘fieldwalk’ through the scenic surroundings of Warwick’s campus will provide a starting point for participants to experiment with form, rhythm and shape. The workshop will explore humanity’s fascination with journeys, our love of favourite places and our own personal narratives of travelling in the outdoors. A creative and fun way to be inspired.

Dr. Yvonne Reddick is a scholar and poet based at Warwick University, where she is a postdoctoral researcher. She teaches at the Warwick Writing Programme and the Department of English, and publishes research on mankind and literature’s long fascination with landscape. Her poetry pamphlet LandForms was published in 2012.

Please note: this workshop will include a short walk around campus lakes, so please wear suitable shoes.

Dakota Fanning plays Tessa, a 17 year-old Brighton teenager diagnosed with terminal cancer. Determined to live her last days to the fullest, she begins to tick off her list of all the things a normal teenager would do.

With touching performances from both the younger and the older cast (Paddy Considine and Olivia Williams as Tessa’s divorced parents), this is a warm-hearted look at a young person’s determination to live and die by her own terms. Take a hankie.

“A brilliantly prickly performance from Dakota Fanning (complete with convincing English accent)” Film4

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In a weekly history essay for the Smithsonian, Mike Dash writes “history with all the interesting bits left in”, covering such diverse topics as slave rebellions in the Caribbean, Chilean witch trials, and hermits in the Siberian taiga. In this talk, Mike will reflect on different forms of writing history for popular audiences.

Mike Dash is the author of books including The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia (2009) and Satan’s Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York’s Trial of the Century (2007), both of which were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for History.

In Plato’s dialogue on erotic love, the Symposium, Eros is portrayed, amongst many other things, as a magician and a daimôn, a necessary intermediary spirit between mortal and divine realms, both revealing and strengthening the usually hidden harmonies in apparently disparate subject matter. As Eros is also said to be a philosopher, and as the character of Socrates is depicted in the dialogue partially as a representative of Eros, Plato is clearly inviting us to reflect on the relation between magic and the rational, philosophic life, an aspect of this thinking which current fashions in philosophy either deliberately ignore or unconsciously overlook. With the help of the Renaissance philosopher Ficino, I explore all these issues in this talk and argue that a true understanding of the Symposium entails a profound review of the nature of reason itself.

Angie Hobbs is Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Her chief interests are in ancient philosophy and literature, ethics (both theoretical and applied) and political theory, and she has published widely in these areas, including Plato and the Hero (Cambridge University Press 2000; paperback 2006). She contributes regularly to radio and TV programmes, newspaper articles and philosophy websites; she lectures and gives talks around the world. She also engages in a variety of public and political work in the U.K., promoting the role of philosophy in schools and adult education and advising on academic public engagement. She is currently writing a book on heroism, courage and fame and producing a new translation of, and commentary on, Plato’s Symposium, a vivid dramatic dialogue exploring different views on the origins, nature, aims and effects of erotic love.

Aimed at the aspiring writer of historical fiction, this workshop offers an exploratory overview of the novel writing process. Through discussion and exercises led by a published author of historical fiction, learn how to approach research with a novelist’s eye, refine your ideas into a workable plan of action, and to draft and edit your manuscript.

Attendees are encouraged to bring notes and ideas for projects they would like to develop. All levels of experience are welcome.

Tim Leach is a novelist and teacher of creative writing. His first book, The Last King of Lydia, is set in the ancient world, and was published in Spring 2013 by Atlantic Books. He has taught fiction at undergraduate level on the Warwick Writing Programme, where he also studied for his MA Writing. He now writes full time, and is currently based in Sheffield.

A History of the World in Twelve Maps examines the significance of 12 maps, from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world – whether the Jerusalem-centred Christian perspective of the 14th century Hereford Mappa Mundi or the Peters projection of the 1970s which aimed to give due weight to ‘the third world’.

Jerry Brotton is a Professor in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London. His books include Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World (1997) and The Sale of the Late King’s Goods (2006), and he has been shortlisted for prizes including the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2006. He is a regular broadcaster, critic and feature writer, most recently presenting the BBC 4 series Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession in 2010.

Can we learn from history? What does it have to teach us? How do we know that we’ve learned well? This panel considers various approaches to the vexed question of ‘the lessons of history’ in public and in private, in government policy and in pursuit of the good life.
Alex Danchev, Andrew Mumford, and Louise Sullivan will discuss these engaging questions in an hour-long panel.

Alex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham; his publications include a biography of the military historian Basil Liddell Hart (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998) which was listed for the Whitbread Prize for Biography and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.

Andrew Mumford is a Lecturer in Politics & International Relations at the University of Nottingham; his main area of research is state responses to sub-state violence, explored in his recent book The Counter-Insurgency Myth: The British Experience of Irregular War (Routledge, 2011).

Louise Sullivan is a doctoral student in the School of Politics & International Relations at the University of Nottingham. Her research examines historical learning within British overseas security, seeking to address why learning from history is important and how historical learnings are identified, stored and utilised.

India: A Portrait is an intimate biography of 1.2 billion people, telling the story of how India emerged from a turbulent struggle for independence to become a vibrant democracy with one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Patrick French travelled across the country talking to everyone from political leaders to mafia dons, from chained quarry workers to self-made billionaire entrepreneurs, to tell the story of post-independence India as never before.

Patrick French is the author of several books including Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer (1994), and The World Is What It Is: the Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul (2008) which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States of America.

Patrick French will be in conversation with David Hardiman, a professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick who specialises in the history of modern India.

Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting over 2000 years tells the epic story of how we have tried – and failed – to battle the bulge, and how the fashions and fads of body shape have changed over time. Drawing on material from letters, medical journals and the dieting bestsellers we continue to devour, Foxcroft reveals the extreme and often absurd lengths people will go to in order to achieve the perfect body.

Louise Foxcroft writes about medical perceptions of the human body and the ways these are related to present human experience. Her books include The Making of Addiction: the “use and abuse” of opium in nineteenth-century Britain (2007), Hot Flushes, Cold Science: a history of the modern menopause (2009), which won the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award 2009, and she writes for publications including The Times, Independent, and New Scientist online.

Falling Upwards: How we took to the Air is a compelling adventure story following the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, from the first heroic experiments of the Montgolfiers in 1780s to the tragic attempt to fly a balloon to the North Pole in the 1890s. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in unexpected ways, is the subject of this account.

Professor Richard Holmes is an award-wining author best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism. His works include The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beautyand Terror of Science (2008), Dr Johnson and Mr Savage (1993), which won the James Tait Black award for biography in 1993, and Coleridge: Darker Reflections (1998).

A Year of Shakespeare: Reliving the World Shakespeare Festival gives a uniquely comprehensive, expert and exciting overview of the largest Shakespeare festival the world has ever known: The World Shakespeare Festival, 2012. The book fully documents all 74 productions which formed part of the Festival in 2012, from a Lithuaninan Hamlet, an Israeli Merchant of Venice and Jonathan Pryce’s King Lear.

This panel will feature editor Erin Sullivan and contributors Will Sharpe and Peter Kirwan discussing the highlights and legacy of the Festival.

Erin Sullivan is a Lecturer and Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. She was the principal organizer of the Year of Shakespeare project, an online forum featuring reviews, discussion, and debate about the more than 70 Shakespearean productions staged in the UK as part of the 2012 World Shakespeare Festival and Cultural Olympiad. She is one of the editors of the subsequent book from Arden / Bloomsbury A
Year of Shakespeare: Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival.

Peter Kirwan is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the University of Nottingham, and was awarded his PhD by the University of Warwick in 2011. He is a prolific theatre and book reviewer for a number of academic journals and websites. His theatre review blog The Bardathon was begun at Warwick in 2006 and is read widely. He contributed four reviews to A Year of Shakespeare, as well as to other books and websites on the World Shakespeare Festival.

Will Sharpe is a visiting lecturer at the Shakespeare Institute and a contributor to the Year of Shakespeare project. He is associate general editor of the RSC Shakespeare series, as well as associate editor of the forthcoming RSC volume Collaborative Plays by Shakespeare and Others published by Palgrave Macmillan.

John Keats: A New Life is a landmark biography of the celebrated Romantic poet which explodes entrenched conceptions of Keats as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure of his vocation while bitterly resentful of the obstacles that blighted his career; devoured by sexual desire and frustration; and in thrall to alcohol and opium.

Nicholas Roe is Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews and author of acclaimed biographies and critical studies including Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt (2005), John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (1997) and Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years (1988).

Michael Scott’s new work brings together the historical and archaeological evidence for the oracle and sanctuary of Delphi over its 1000+ year life-span, presenting the very latest scholarship in order to understand how and why this small remote community became, and managed to remain, a crucial centre of the ancient Mediterranean world for so long.

Michael Scott is an Assistant Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. His publications include From Democrats to Kings: the brutal dawn of a new world from the downfall of Athens to the rise of Alexander the Great (Icon 2009). Michael has written and presented a number of BBC programmes including Guilty Pleasures: Luxury in the Ancient Greek and Medieval Worlds (BBC 4, 2011). He is currently working on new series for BBC 4 and BBC 2.

In what ways do experiences of pain and pleasure come together in the act of writing? How does a writer’s desire to write express itself on the page? Why might we read a writer’s emotional investment in her text through the lens of gender? In conversation with Julie Walsh, writer and academic Katherine Angel will be exploring such questions and sharing her experience of writing her book Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell.

Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell is an incisive, moving, and lyrical work that allows us to think afresh about desire. Touching on experiences of desire and pleasure, as well as grief and pain, the book probes the porousness between masculine and feminine, thought and sensation, self and culture, power and pliancy.

Katherine Angel is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions, Queen Mary. She has been published in academic publications, and written for the Independent, Prospect, and the New Statesman. Unmastered is her first book.

Julie Walsh is a Global Research Fellow at Warwick University where she works on the topics of narcissism, shame and contemporary identity practices. Part of Julie’s project entails a psychoanalytic examination of ‘Shame and the Act of Writing’.

“Spies and Secrecy” brings together three leading intelligence experts – Peter Hennessy, Calder Walton and Christopher Moran – whose ground-breaking works have revealed compelling new insights into British state history.

Peter Hennessy is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London and was recently elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Before joining the Department in 1992, he was a journalist for twenty years with spells on The Times as a leader writer and Whitehall Correspondent, The Financial Times as its Lobby Correspondent at Westminster and The Economist. He was a regular presenter of the BBC Radio 4 Analysis programme from 1987 to 1992. His book The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War (2002) offered a sensational account of Cold War Britain, drawing on recently declassified intelligence and war-planning documents, and interviews with key officials, to reveal a chilling behind-the-scenes picture of the corridors of power when the world teetered on the brink of disaster.

Christopher Moran is an Assistant Professor in US National Security and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at Warwick University. His research concerns the relationship between President Richard Nixon, his National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, and the Central Intelligence Agency. He has recently published Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain (2013), a fascinating account of the British state’s long obsession with secrecy and the ways it sought to prevent information about its secret activities from entering the public domain. The book reveals new insights into seminal episodes in British post-war history, including the Suez crisis, the D-Notice Affair and the treachery of the Cambridge spies, identifying a new era of offensive information management, and putting the contemporary battle between secret-keepers, electronic media and digital whistle-blowers into long-term perspective.

Calder Walton is a leading intelligence historian who has worked on British intelligence history at Cambridge University as a doctoral and postdoctoral researcher. He was a Research Assistant on Christopher Andrew’s unprecedented authorized official history of MI5 Defence of the Realm (2009). His book Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire (2013) offers a compelling new chapter in Britain’s imperial history, revealing the largely untold activities of British intelligence in the last days of Empire and adding to our understanding of the Cold War and the history of international relations since 1945. It has striking resonances for today, uncovering the use and abuse of intelligence by governments in the past, ‘rendition’ during the Second World War, the use of torture during interrogations in counter-insurgencies, and the balance that western countries struck between security and civil liberties.

Loving Faster than Light explores the popular reception of Einstein’s theory of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Blending literary analysis with history of science, Price reveals how cultural meanings for Einstein’s relativity were negotiated in newspapers with differing political agendas, popular science magazines, pulp fiction adventure and romance stories, detective plots, and esoteric love poetry.

Katy Price is a lecturer in modern and contemporary literature at Queen Mary, University of London. She has also published on William Empson, and on music technology, and is currently researching precognitive dreams as a site of negotiation between cultural authority and popular experience in Britain from 1925-1970.

Le parole perdute di Amelia Lynd (The Lost Words of Amelia Lynd) is the poignant, absorbing story of a 13-years-boy who struggles to save and educate himself in a narrow-minded, petit-bourgeois environment. In a Milan suburb in the early 1970s, Chino is trying to grow up. His school is the apartment building where his mother Elvira works as a concierge: a grotesque seedbed of meanness and selfishness, against which Elvira heroically stands up with her good heart and dreams of social redemption. One day, a new, utterly bizarre tenant appears, a lady of superior sensibility and education: Amelia Lynd, an aged idealist, a faded grande dame of cosmopolitan heritage, the author of a mysterious dictionary and the keeper of an unimaginable secret. Guided by his “second mother” and by Elvira’s benevolence, Chino undertakes a restorative journey of discovery into the complexities of words, ideas and human relations.

Nicola Gardini teaches Italian Literature at the University of Oxford. He published essays, poetry collections and novels. Among them: Così ti ricordi di me (Sironi 2003), Lo sconosciuto (Sironi 2007) and I baroni (Feltrinelli, 2009 and 2013). He edited the Meridiano Mondadori of Ted Hughes’ Poems and published Per una biblioteca indispensabile. Cinquantadue classici della letteratura italiana (Einaudi 2011) and Rinascimento (Einaudi, 2010). His official website is www.nicolagardini.com. Le parole perdute di Amelia Lynd won the Viareggio Prize (2012) and the Zerilli Marimò – City of Rome Prize (2012).

Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award-winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the highly-anticipated West End production of The Audience, broadcast as part of National Theatre Live.

For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace; a meeting like no other in British public life – it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses.

The Audience breaks this contract of silence – and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional – sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive.
From young mother to grandmother, these private audiences chart the arc of the second Elizabethan Age. Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her next Prime Minister.

The Audience reunites writer Peter Morgan and Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren following their collaboration on the critically-acclaimed movie sensation The Queen. The Audience is directed by Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and presented in the West End by Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions, Robert Fox and Andy Harries.

In this regular monthly series, poets come together in a celebration of all things spoken, sharing secrets and tales in an intimate performance space.

If you are not familiar with the names then this is your chance to witness local, national and international poets sharing stories and opinions as they engage in no-holds-barred conversation.

Previous wordsmiths include Lemn Sissay, Zoe Brigley, Kate Tempest, Polarbear and Inua Ellams.

Wordsmiths & Co. is a collaboration between Apples and Snakes and Nine Arches Press, with support from Warwick Arts Centre and Bloodaxe Books.

Mon 20 May host Jo Bell returns with wonderful wordsmiths Deborah Tyler-Bennett, Joe Coghlan, Hannah Silva & Helen Ivory.

Mon 17 Jun Jo will be with Lorna Meehan, Matt Merritt, David Morley & Luke Wright.

Joe Coghlan is a writer and performer who blends the rhythms and rhyme schemes of rap with the breathing space of great story telling. Joe has been performing at clubs, spoken word nights, theatres and festivals around the UK for more than a decade and has been commissioned to write, perform and deliver workshops by companies such as, Writing East Midlands, Friction Arts and Apple & Snakes. Joe is also currently being mentored by Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze MBE, as part of the ‘Final stage’ project run by Writing East Midlands and Renaissance One. The book ‘Raw light and Shadows’ will be Joe’s first collection of writing, an autobiographical work focusing on the stories of the people who have had the greatest influence on his life so far.

Deborah Tyler-Bennett’s current collection is Revudeville (King’s England, 2011): sequences united by images from visual art. In 2010 her collection Pavilion appeared (Smokestack) set in Brighton and inspired by dandies. Her chapbook collection of three portraits in poems, Mytton… Dyer… Sweet Billy Gibson… was published in 2011 by Nine Arches Press. She works as a poet for many national galleries and museums, including workshops for the Science Museum, the National Gallery, the Collection, the Usher Gallery, recently being resident poet for Sussex Day at the Royal Pavilion’s Tearooms, Brighton. In summer 2010 she was a Poetry Lives Here resident writer at Keats House, Hampstead.

Hannah Silva has shown her work internationally including at the Tokyo Design Centre, Krikri International Festival of Polyphony in Belgium and Poetry Hearings in Berlin. She has performed her poetry throughout the UK at festivals including Latitude, the Edinburgh Fringe, Ledbury Festival and Stanza. Her solo show Opposition toured nationally 2011-12 and was described by What’s on Stage as ‘radical, political, courageous’. Hannah has written for Radio 3 and regularly appears on The Verb. She is currently directing her play ‘The Disappearance of Sadie Jones’, touring a new solo work ‘The Total Man’ with Electronic Voice Phenomena and is Playwright in Residence at the Lady Eleanor Holles School. Her poetry is featured in anthologies from Penned in the Margins, Avalanche Books and Bloodaxe.

Helen Ivory is a poet and artist. Her fourth Bloodaxe Books collection is Waiting for Bluebeard (May 2013) She has co-edited with George Szirtes In Their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on their Poetry Salt 2012. She teaches for the Arvon Foundation, The Poetry School and mentors for the Poetry Society. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and is an editor for The Poetry Archive. Her poetry collection The Breakfast Machine (Bloodaxe 2012) has been praised as “mischievously dark, rich with anti-logic and harnessed to the power of something we used to call magic” (Katy Evans-Bush).

Lorna Meehan is an actor, theatre practitioner and playwright and has been performing poetry for about ten years. She was part of Birmingham collective New October Poets and toured various festivals, including Glastonbury. She has also worked with Apples and Snakes, both as a performer and workshop facilitator. Her poetry ranges from comic ranting to mellow introspection and she has recently been honing her Slam skills. Lorna occasional performs as her alter ego, monosyllabic American teenager Melinda Deathgoth, who recently subjected London audiences at Jawdance to her particular brand of poetic misery. She is currently part of the Decandant Poetry Diva’s who will be performing at Ledbury Poetry Festival later this year.

Matt Merritt is a poet and wildlife journalist from Leicester. His third collection, The Elephant Tests, is forthcoming from Nine Arches, and previous publications are hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica (Nine Arches, 2010), Troy Town (Arrowhead, 2008), and Making The Most Of The Light (HappenStance, 2005). He blogs at polyolbion.blogspot.co.uk

David Morley’s “The Gypsy and the Poet” is due from Carcanet Press in August followed next year by “Biographies of Birds and Flowers: Selected Poems”. He writes for The Guardian and Poetry Review. He judged the 2013 T.S. Eliot Prize and is judging this year’s Foyles Young Poets Award.

Luke Wright has been described as “the best young performance poet around,” by The Observer. He writes bawdy bar room ballads about Westminster rogues and small town tragedies. His poetry stage shows have toured the world. His seventh, Essex Lion, debuts this summer at The Assembly in Edinburgh. His debut collection, Mondeo Man, was published this year to five star reviews. The Huffington Post declared it to be: “a riot of cheek, giggles, boobs, tears and Facebook.” He co-curates The Spoken Word Arena at Latitude, one of the country’s biggest poetry events.

Charlie Ashanti is eleven years old. He’s a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats.

When Charlie’s parents are kidnapped, he sets off on a rescue mission – with a little help from a floating circus and its pride of performing lions.

Award-winning theatre company Complicite presents its first show for families and young people, inspired by Zizou Corder’s bestselling Lionboy trilogy and with a cast including Adetomiwa Edun from BBC’s Merlin.

Complicite is one of the world’s most exciting and unusual theatre companies, and has been touring internationally for the past thirty years. Recent productions include The Master and Margarita, Shun-kin and A Disappearing Number.

“Complicite produces the most imaginative theatre to be found anywhere” The Independent

Age 8+

T. Post Show Talk Wed 19 Jun

A Complicite co-production with Bristol Old Vic, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, Oxford Playhouse & Warwick Arts Centre

Nineteen years after Interview with the Vampire, director Neil Jordan returns to the gothic genre once more but this time with a female twist.

Gemma Arterton is Clara, a single mum who – along with her teenage companion Eleanor (Ronan) – is a modern-day vampire. Struggling to survive, the two arrive at a rundown seaside town where they move into the seedy Byzantium guest house. Whilst Clara works as a prostitute who occasionally feeds on her clientele, Eleanor enrols in a writing class and begins to share their secret story for the first time.

“A lush and atmospheric vampire tale.” Screen International

Following his performance at Warwick Arts Centre last year, catch this no-holds-barred documentary looking at the life and sound of legendary drummer Ginger Baker.

An illuminating film, it features interviews with his Cream colleagues Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce plus commentary from his many musical admirers, from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers to the Police, and examines the drugs and the demons that were the making and the breaking of the man.

“Fascinating portrait of the aging rock god as an angry old coot.” Variety

It might seem unusual for a gay, Marxist atheist to make a film about the Gospel of St. Matthew, but Italian director Pasolini makes a surprisingly believable and devout film about the story of Jesus Christ. Combining a cast of non-professional actors, a script taken directly from the Gospel and his trademark neo-realist cinematography, the director portrays Christ as a revolutionary standing against social injustice and hypocrisy.

“A breathtakingly beautiful, honest and emotional account, which should please Christians and non-believers alike.” ★★★★★ Time Out

“A fierce magnesium flame of a movie.” ★★★★★ The Guardian

A lively set list can be expected, spanning the genres of jazz, swing, latin, funk and soul to name a few. Whatever the song, the passion of the Big Band can always be heard; a society who love what they do and take pride in giving their listeners a truly great experience.

Lambert – The Rio Grande
Gershwin arr. Jack Jarrett – A Tribute to Gershwin
Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No. 2
Holst – The Planets

From the dancing lilt of the Rio Grande to the ever popular planetary power of Holst, from the youthful Piano Concerto (played by 2012 UoW Concerto Competition winner Dominic Bull) to a spectacular rendition of Gershwin hit melodies, the University of Warwick Chorus & Symphony Orchestra join forces for a fun, easy listening and spectacular afternoon Gala!

A gripping and stylish adaptation of Jens Lapidus’ best-selling novel, Easy Money tells the story of JW (Kinnaman, star of the American version of The Killing), a poor but ambitious student who leads a double life amongst the wealthy elite in Stockholm.

To keep up his expensive lifestyle, JW soon gets lured into drug dealing by the prospect of ‘easy money’. As he gets deeper into the underworld of organised crime, he comes into contact with Jorge, a Chilean who’s escaped from prison and Mrado, a ruthless hitman working for a Serbian drug cartel.

Daniel Espinosa’s (Safe House) crime thriller is a heady blend of strong violence, tension and empathetic characterisation which has already won the support of Martin Scorsese.

This documentary written and directed by Ken Loach (The Angels’ Share) focuses on 1945, a pivotal year in British history in which the unity that carried Britain through the Second World War led to the formation of the Welfare State.

Combining film from regional and national archives with sound recordings and contemporary interviews, Loach creates an absorbing political and social narrative about one of the most important periods in British history.

“This is a tender, soft and humane film. It’s a compelling mix of interviews, old and new, with archive footage, much of it from old newsreels and public information films.” ★★★★Time Out

For a taste of the film, do read our STAR (Student Arts Representative) Harley’s review.

The aftermath of the 1968 Paris student riots comes under the spotlight in writer-director Olivier Assayas’ (Summer Hours) new, semi-autobiographical film.

Profoundly affected by the clashes of May 1968 and February 1971, French teen Gilles and his friends mobilise to create protest posters and carry out night-time graffiti raids. When one of their attempts goes awry, the group escape to Italy, where Gilles’ self-discovery as an artist and filmmaker pulls him away from his ever-radicalising friends.

“Made with the bittersweet clarity of hindsight and the assurance of a director in peak form.” Variety

This long-awaited documentary from Shane Meadows (This is England) captures the reformation of The Stone Roses last year as they embarked on their world tour.

With unrestricted access to the band, the film includes never-seen-before footage as they rehearse for their first tour in over 20 years which culminated in three spectacular sold-out shows in Manchester’s Heaton Park.

It’s been nearly two decades since Lambchop released its first album, at the time pronouncing itself “Nashville’s most fu**ed-up country band.” Provocative it may have been, but the description made sense: at the heart of all of that ruckus was a band at once defying and embracing the musical legacy of its hometown. Since then, Lambchop has evolved into an accomplished ensemble, adding palpable depth and substance to singer-songwriter-guitarist Kurt Wagner’s songs.

For this performance Lambchop perform songs from their latest album, Mr. M, a collection of meditations on love and loss and the detritus of everyday existence.

“His lyrics are a mix of minor, concrete observations and poetic flights…I also find a deep satisfaction in Lambchop’s subtlety.” Pitchfork on Mr. M

Ancient Egyptians called it the Ka. Ancient Romans called it the Genius. Daimon is the word used by Plato, Hillman and Jung: aside from dictionary entries, it is the demon residing inside me, the image of myself I’m called upon to fulfil in my lifetime, it is the reason why I was born. It does not provide you with a reason to exist, but it is rather the form of my uniqueness.

Vocation, character, talent. What I must do. What I must have. What I am. DNA and environment are not enough. There is something more and it has been there forever for everyone of us.
The daimon has been urging us since our childhood: most of the games we used to play predict what we will be doing as grown-ups; those games represent an attempt to pursue our inclinations.

Alter ego, Avatar, Alien – whatever it is, everybody must live with it: it may devour you from the inside, it may occasionally crop up embodying regret, you may have clipped its wings, you may be still looking for it or you may have fulfilled it. It is the ultimate possession, the impossible exorcism.

How many people around the world are actually doing what they feel they were born to do?

After the performance there will be a hosted exchange with
the company so that, as an audience, you can help shape the
future of this exciting new show.

Daimon Projects is a Triggered@Warwick project in association with BE Festival.

For more information about Triggered@Warwick click here.

Performed in English and Italian
Duration 1hr
Age 14+

To book, please contact the Box Office on 024 7652 4524

A chance to see two Edinburgh preview shows ahead of this year’s festival.

Pete Firman – Edinburgh Preview 2013

The UK’s top comedic conjuror brings his latest box of tricks to Warwick Arts Centre. Fresh from BBC1s The Magicians, and hosting duties on E4’s The Body Shocking Show, Pete previews his brand new Edinburgh Festival show for 2013.

“The new poster-boy for British comedy” – The Telegraph
“The best magic tricks in the Universe” – Independent

Nish Kumar – Nish Kumar is a Comedian

A show about identity, offence and what happens when someone on the internet steals your face. Fresh from a sell-out London run and being nominated for Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival. Also he’s a brilliant dude. As heard on BBC Radio 4.

‘Massively charming and very witty … a delightful talent’ – Time Out

‘Impressive and accomplished’ – Scotsman
‘Superb … delivered with such glorious abandon’ List
‘A warm, likable presence … Kumar picks out his own weaknesses and holds them up to highly entertaining public ridicule’ Guardian

He’s been so phenomenally popular with Warwick Arts Centre audiences, Jimmy Carr’s coming back again with his hilarious show, Gagging Order.

The show will be packed with one-liners, stories and jokes. Some clever, some rude and a few totally unacceptable.

Everybody’s welcome. Just leave your conscious, sense of common decency and moral compass at home & come on out for a laugh.

Jimmy has sold over a million DVDs and hosted countless TV shows but live comedy is what he does best, come and see for yourself.

Some comedians use strong language and express controversial opinions. Please come prepared.

N.B. Not suitable for under 16s

After sold-out screenings in April, we welcome back this award-winning West End musical from The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper.

Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Les Misérables tells the tale of Valjean (Jackman), who has been hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Crowe) after he breaks parole. Now a factory owner, he agrees to care for worker Fantine’s (Hathaway) daughter Cosette, and in doing so changes their lives for ever.

When Gonzo starts receiving mysterious messages via his breakfast cereal, he and the Muppets embark on a journey to outer space to find his long-lost family.

With plenty of shenanigans from the Muppets, as well as from the human cast of Andie MacDowell, Rob Schneider and Ray Liotta, take a trip with the Muppets to infinity and beyond!

This is the Midland Voices eighth concert at the Warwick Arts Centre. A choir of 230 singers will be performing an exciting programme of well-known music. The repertoire includes a selection of hit songs ranging from such legends as Michael Jackson to Mozart, The Bee Gees to Gershwin, The Carpenters to Freddie Mercury.

You will hear superb vocal arrangements of such classics as Ben, Ave Verum Corpus, Tragedy, I Got Rhythm, We’ve Only Just Begun, Don’t Stop Me Now and many more.

It will be a night of memories which will not only get your feet tapping but will, on occasion, bring a tear to your eye. Don’t miss this spectacular event!

A tale cut from the same cloth as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, Audrey Tautou stars as a woman who finds herself trapped in a respectable marriage.

Thérèse marries for convenience rather than love, but soon begins to regret her decision when she witnesses her best friend’s passionate relationship with her Portuguese lover. Soon, she is searching for ways to escape the life she has created for herself. A cautionary tale about turning your back on passion.

Five days to make a five-minute film, in a five-person crew. That’s the challenge.

From that initial spark, right through to the world premiere, four films will be devised, scripted, storyboarded, rehearsed, shot, edited, soundtracked, mixed and mastered… all in a week – phew! With daily screenings and discussion of some of the very best short films around, it’ll be hard work, but a guaranteed good time.

On Friday, to end the week in true big-screen style, friends and family are all invited to our cinema for the finished films’ World Premieres!
The week will be led by Coventry filmmaker Dom Breadmore who is highly experienced in getting the most creative results from a young cast and crew.

Ages 12 – 15

Five days to make a five-minute film. That’s the challenge.

From that initial spark, films will have been devised, scripted, storyboarded, rehearsed, shot, edited, soundtracked, mixed and mastered… all in a week, by teams of young people.

To end the week in true big-screen style, friends and family are all invited to our cinema for this World Premiere of the finished films.

Time to be confirmed.

To book, please call the Box Office on 024 7652 4524.

The National Theatre presents a major new production of William Shakespeare’s celebrated play about the destructive power of jealousy.

Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester (Henry V at the National Theatre, BBC’s Hustle) takes the title role. Playing opposite him as the duplicitous Iago is fellow Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (The Last of the Haussmans, Skyfall), who is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner (Timon of Athens, One Man, Two Guvnors) following their acclaimed collaboration on the National Theatre’s recent production of Hamlet.

Othello, newly married to Desdemona – who is half his age – is appointed leader of a major military operation. Iago, passed over for promotion by Othello in favour of the young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair.

Following the sell-out Carpet Remnant World, the acclaimed writer and comedian presents a mixed stew of unrelated ideas in preparation for his 2014 TV series. See it live so you can begin the backlash ahead of transmission.

“He’s the most exciting comedian in the country, bar none.” Times

“Marvellously funny: mordant, thoughtful and crafted.” Observer

Anna Netrebko and Mariusz Kwiecien star as the lovestruck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s fateful romance.

Deborah Warner’s new production, set in the late 19th century, moves episodically from farmhouse to ballroom, with a powerful snowstorm providing the dramatic setting for the finale. Piotr Beczala is Lenski, Onegin’s friend turned rival. Russian maestro Valery Gergiev conducts.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera.

Eugene Onegin is part of the Met Opera Live series, beamed live and direct from New York to our screens at Warwick Arts Centre.

Rapper turned comedian Doc Brown brings his tongue-in-cheek take on hip hop culture to our theatre. Appearances include The Office Revisited Comic Relief sketch, The Inbetweeners, Rev, Derek, Miranda and the BBC Comedy Proms – proof that Doc is a must see act.

“If Brown keeps mining this rich seam of hip-hop comedy, his fame should look after itself.“ Guardian

“Sharp punch lines, imaginative devices and knows more than a thing or two about timing“. The Metro

“A seamless mix of truly inspired hip-hop and stand-up. He’s a total star… an utter joy”. Time Out

www.docbrown.co.uk
@docbrown88

Multi award-winning comedian Rob Beckett and his trademark grin will be bringing his highly anticipated debut UK tour to Warwick Arts Centre in October 2013. The plan for the show is for you to laugh a lot and leave happier than when you arrived.

As seen on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! (ITV2) 8 Out of 10 Cats (Channel 4) and John Bishop’s Only Joking (Sky 1).

“A little short of a revelation” ★★★★ The Scotsman

“Likeable high tempo comic” The Guardian

“The confidence of a veteran” The Times

World-renowned musical icon Alison Moyet has achieved sales of more than 20 million, both as a solo artist and as half of influential electro duo Yazoo.

Now she’s back out on tour, performing songs from her new album the minutes as well as classic tracks from her back catalogue.

Please note, this is an encore screening of the live broadcast of Othello from Thu 26 Sep.

The National Theatre presents a major new production of William Shakespeare’s celebrated play about the destructive power of jealousy.

Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester (Henry V at the National Theatre, BBC’s Hustle) takes the title role. Playing opposite him as the duplicitous Iago is fellow Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (The Last of the Haussmans, James Bond: Skyfall), who is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner (Timon of Athens, One Man, Two Guvnors) following their acclaimed collaboration on the National Theatre’s recent production of Hamlet.

Othello, newly married to Desdemona – who is half his age – is appointed leader of a major military operation. Iago, passed over for promotion by Othello in favour of the young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair.

The legendary Christy Moore is one of contemporary Irish music’s best-loved singer-songwriters. With a successful recording career spanning over 40 years, his stature and influence in Irish roots music is unparalleled.

Christy Moore has been singing, writing and collecting songs for most of his life. He has been on the road since 1966, and has made over 30 albums, both solo and with the prestigious bands Moving Hearts and Planxty. His live performances have run the gamut from small folk clubs in Ireland and England to premier concert halls throughout the world.

Please note: no support.

Following two previous sell-out tours of the UK and the release of his debut stand up DVD, Reginald – who is a popular guest on many of the UK’s best-loved TV shows including Live At The Apollo and Have I Got News For You – will be setting out to tour the country again in 2013 with his own unique blend of humour in a brand new show.

Father Ted star, Ardal O’Hanlon is delighted to present his latest stand-up show for 2013. The style is observational, the subject matter is Life itself, and the default expression is one of utter disbelief!

Lurking beneath Ardal’s mild-mannered demeanour resides a sharp and probing (and fairly mild-mannered) comic brain. Sometimes thoughtful, sometimes silly, but always punchy, he has tickled audiences all over the world. In a comprehensive set, he talks about not just the things that matter but also about the things that don’t matter at all. Which covers pretty much everything.

“Charm, intelligence and fabulous phrase-making” The Guardian

William Kentridge stormed the Met with his inventive production of Shostakovich’s opera, which dazzled opera and art lovers alike in its inaugural run in 2010. Now Paulo Szot reprises his acclaimed performance of a bureaucrat, whose satirical misadventures in search of his missing nose are based on Gogol’s comic story. Valery Gergiev conducts.

The Nose is a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera; the Festival d’Aix en Provence; and the Opéra National de Lyon.

The Nose is part of the Met Opera Live series, beamed live and direct from New York to our screens at Warwick Arts Centre.

Paul Merton, one of the UK’s best-loved performers, and his world renowned Impro Chums: Mike McShane, Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch and Suki Webster will create a new and unique comedy show, based entirely on suggestions from the audience, their own finely honed improvisational skills and an almost manic compulsion to show off.

“You could see this every night and never tire of it…they continue to be the finest components of the improv art” Daily Mirror

“Merton’s chums are some of the most seasoned performers in this field and know just how to work the games, the suggestions and the audience for maximum effect. …pure hilarity” British Theatre Guide

“Few can go comedy commando as well as this bunch” Evening Standard

Paul Foot‘s recent shows and tours have garnered a string of 5 star reviews and successive Barry Nominations at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Described by Chortle as “Inspired, surreal and incomprehensibly funny”, he is a true original, challenging comedic convention at every turn and delighting his connoisseurs. A BBC New Comedy Award and Daily Telegraph Open Mic winner.

“It’s baffling to me that Paul is not a household name in this country. His routines are like jazz clusters, loose hammocks, choked to the brim with jokes and ideas” Noel Fielding

“Unobtrusively masterful stuff” The Scotsman

“Utterly twisted alternative comedy unlike anything else you are likely to see.” ★★★★★ The Sydney Morning Herald

Puccini’s timeless verismo score is well served by an exceptional cast, led by Patricia Racette in the title role of the jealous diva, opposite Roberto Alagna as her lover, Cavaradossi. George Gagnidze is the villainous Scarpia.

Tosca is a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Teatro alla Scala.

Tosca is part of the Met Opera Live series, beamed live and direct from New York to our screens at Warwick Arts Centre.

Whit Smith – Guitar and Vocals
Elana James – Violin and Vocals
Jake Erwin – Bass and Vocals

From the bright lights of the Grand Ol’ Opry to the UK’s Glastonbury and Cambridge Festivals, regular appearances on Prairie Home Companion, Later…with Jools Holland and festival stages worldwide, Hot Club of Cowtown has ascended from its unlikely beginnings in NYC’s East Village more than a decade ago, to become the premier ambassador of Hot Jazz and Western Swing through sheer tenacity, virtuosity and the unstoppable power of their breathtaking live show.

Jason Manford has had a busy time since he was last on the road.

After his opera singing turn saw him emerge the winner on Born To Shine (ITV1), and appearing alongside Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton in the critically acclaimed hit west-end musical Sweeney Todd, everybody’s favourite northern comedian returns with a show featuring a wealth of comedy anecdotes, misunderstandings and audience banter delivered with likeable charm and teasingly intelligent wit.

Jason said: “Some of you might think I’ve had a career change what with all the opera and musical theatre I’ve been doing lately. Not a chance, I’m excited to be getting back to what I really love the most – stand up!”

“Effortlessly entertaining” – Evening Standard

“He’s blessed with the sort of laid-back charm and sharp turn of phrase you can’t manufacture” – Daily Telegraph

“Manford retains an affably jovial demeanour that makes him warmly enjoyable company.” – Chortle

After being “sent off” the Soccer AM sofa last year for misbehaving, Chris wonders whether he really is the Most Dangerous Man on Saturday Morning TV – not to mention, whether he wants to be.

Fresh from a complete sell-out, twice extended 2012 tour, multiple appearances on Celebrity Juice and 8 Out of 10 Cats, and a starring role in BBC Two’s Hebburn, Chris embarks on a brand new tour for 2013/2014. Taking his brush with on air censorship as a jumping off point to muse on life, mistakes, expectation and offense, he examines what happens when you say the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“A mainstream hit, a cult favourite or almost anything in between”
Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times

“Frighteningly talented. . .tearing up every stage he lands on”
James Mullinger, GQ

When the wheel in question is the perfect three-and-a-half minute pop song, Tilbrook is a certified patent holder and member of that elite group that includes such tunesmiths as Lennon & McCartney, Ray Davies and Elvis Costello.

As one half of the song-writing ampersand behind the beloved band Squeeze and now a successful solo artist, Tilbrook has perfected a signature style marked by brilliant melodic invention, cheeky humor and slice-of-life pathos, all wrapped up with unshakable hooks and his golden boy tenor. From chestnuts like “Up the Junction” and “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)” through stunning new tracks “Untouchable” and “Ray and Me”, he has amassed a veritable Sears Catalogue of memorable songs.

All music tells a story, and when a full symphony shouts it to the sky, it’s plain to hear. String quartets are a bit different. This is the music that’s simply too personal, too intimate, and too powerful to express any other way. For centuries whenever a great composer wants to whisper a confidence, bare their soul, or slip a message of hope past the censors, they’ve turned to the string quartet: a circle of four trusted friends, in which no secret is off limits.

To play music like this, you have to live with it. And for over 30 years, the Coull Quartet have done just that – exploring and re-telling some of the most incredible tales in all music. Beethoven gazes into the infinite, Britten stretches his wings; Shostakovich signals desperately as the authorities close in, and Borodin writes a love-note to his new wife. The story of the string quartet is the story of human emotion; let the Coulls share it with you this season.

All Pre-concert Talks take place in the Helen Martin Studio and tickets cost £1 each.

Colours of Dark Light – Wed 20 Nov 2013 6.15pm
The Three Ages of Beethoven – Thu 20 Feb 2014 6.15pm
Nocturne – Wed 5 Mar 2014 6.15pm
Russian Spring – Wed 7 May 2014 6.15pm

PLEASE NOTE: Only Concert Series 2013/14 Subscribers can currently purchase tickets for this concert, tickets goes on sale to the general public on Mon 5 Aug.

Britten – Phantasy Quartet Op.2 for oboe and string trio
Edward Cowie – Colours of Dark Light for oboe and string quartet -world premiere
Ravel – Quartet in F

Genius loves company, and when you add a wind instrument to a string ensemble something magical happens. The teenage Benjamin Britten found a completely fresh voice; for Edward Cowie, meanwhile, it’s a way to explore the outer limits of the universe itself in a stunning new work written specially for the Coull Quartet and the “blazing audacity” of oboist-extraordinaire Christopher Redgate.

This is music to astonish: but back in turn-of-the-century Paris, Ravel’s String Quartet caused outrage too! You’d never believe it today. Bright, serene and radiantly beautiful, it’s the perfect finish to an evening of music to send the imagination soaring.

Pre-concert Talk - Helen Martin Studio 6.15pm. Tickets £1

The grandest of all Ellen Kent’s operas returns to the UK.

A stunning, traditional production of this magnificent story of war, jealousy and revenge – the doomed love of the beautiful Ethiopian slave girl, Aida, and the Egyptian hero, Radames, set against stunning sets inspired by the Valley of the Kings.

Featuring spectacular ballet sequences, unforgettable arias (including the classic Triumphal March), and incredible pyrotechnics with a magnificent wall of fire!

Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

“Visually and vocally gripping from start to finish” The Independent

“Aida has one of the most imposing sets you will see on an operatic stage” Manchester Evening News

Best-known as the sardonic Head of Sixth Form, Mr Gilbert in the BAFTA award-winning The Inbetweeners, the critically acclaimed Greg Davies returns with his show The Back of My Mum’s Head due to popular demand.

“A man destined for greatness.” Time Out

“Uplifting, enjoyable and – most of all – extremely funny.” The Sun

“Rude, substantial, heartfelt, cunning.” The Times

Seats now available in rows BB/CC – please note, these seats are on the flat floor and might offer a restricted view.

Internationally acclaimed Canadian stand-up Craig Campbell brings his highly anticipated new live show to Warwick Arts Centre for one night only. Craig has supported Frankie Boyle on his last two sell-out national tours, has performed smokin’ sets on Dave’s One Night Stand, Russell Howard’s Good News, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and has more recently been touring the critically acclaimed 2012 Edinburgh show Return of the Lumberjacks alongside fellow Canadians Stewart Francis and Glenn Wool.

A formidable force, Craig never fails to impress with his high octane, charismatic performances and hilarious anecdotes. Catch this master storyteller now!

“Bringing a tale to life like a young Billy Connolly” Edinburgh Evening News

“One of the most skilled storytellers and jokesmiths on the circuit” Chortle

Fresh from a record-breaking season of shows at London’s Soho Theatre and a critically acclaimed total sell-out season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, South African comedian, Trevor Noah is proud to present his critically acclaimed show, The Racist, on a ground-breaking tour of the UK.

Trevor has been performing for a little over five years but his explosion onto the South African entertainment scene has been nothing short of meteoric, taking on TV, radio and his first love, stand up comedy, which he has performed on both local and international stages including the UK and US. His sharp wit, intelligent commentary, unmistakable charm and clinical delivery have established him as an extremely popular performer with undoubted world-class potential.

‘Slick, intelligent, blissfully funny… this is insightful, warm, classy comedy.’ Time Out

“Noah is an immensely likeable performer – warm, upbeat, with and inquiring, irreverent approach to other people’s prejudices…we can expect to see a lot more of him over here.” Observer

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A spellbinding adventure from the creators of The Gruffalo!

How the cat purred and how the witch grinned
As they sat on their broomstick and flew through the wind

The witch and her cat are flying happily along on their broomstick when a stormy wind blows the witch’s hat, bow and wand away into the night.

With the help of a daft dog, a beautiful bird and a friendly frog, her belongings are retrieved. But this broomstick’s not meant for five and – CRACK! – it snaps in two! When a hungry dragon appears, who will save the poor witch?
And will there ever be room on the broom for everyone?

A magical, musical delight for children aged 3+

A Tall Stories production.

Running Time: 55mins
Age: 3+

A self-confessed “miserable old git” since the age of 23, Ed Byrne is now in his forties. While for others this might result in a crisis that prompts the purchase of a sportscar, Ed embraces middle age with open arms. Come join him, as he truly comes of age and gives out his clarion cry: “I am in my Forties. HEAR ME ROAR!”

“Comedy’s holy grail…. Go see!” ✭✭✭✭ The Sunday Times

“Ed Byrne is on top form” Time Out London

“It is rare for a comic to merit the word ‘masterful’ but in this case it is no overstatement” ✭✭✭✭ The Scotsman

An undisputed master of Falstaff, Music Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s opera for the first time at the Met since 2005. Robert Carsen’s production—the first new Met Falstaff since 1964—is set in the English countryside in the mid-20th century.

Ambrogio Maestri (last season’s Dulcamara in the Opening Night production of L’Elisir d’Amore) sings the title role of the brilliant and blustery Sir John Falstaff, opposite a marvelous ensemble that includes Angela Meade, Stephanie Blythe, Lisette Oropesa, and Franco Vassallo.

Falstaff is part of the Met Opera Live series, beamed live and direct from New York to our screens at Warwick Arts Centre.

Jason Manford has had a busy time since he was last on the road.

After his opera singing turn saw him emerge the winner on Born To Shine (ITV1), and appearing alongside Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton in the critically acclaimed hit west-end musical Sweeney Todd, everybody’s favourite northern comedian returns with a show featuring a wealth of comedy anecdotes, misunderstandings and audience banter delivered with likeable charm and teasingly intelligent wit.

Jason said: “Some of you might think I’ve had a career change what with all the opera and musical theatre I’ve been doing lately. Not a chance, I’m excited to be getting back to what I really love the most – stand up!”

“Effortlessly entertaining” – Evening Standard

“He’s blessed with the sort of laid-back charm and sharp turn of phrase you can’t manufacture” – Daily Telegraph

“Manford retains an affably jovial demeanour that makes him warmly enjoyable company.” – Chortle

The great Renée Fleming returns to one of her signature roles, singing the enchanting “_Song to the Moon_” in Dvořák’s soulful fairy-tale opera.

Tenor Piotr Beczala co-stars as the Prince, Dolora Zajick is Ježibaba, and dynamic young maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium.

Rusalka is part of the Met Opera Live series, beamed live and direct from New York to our screens at Warwick Arts Centre.

PLEASE NOTE: Only Concert Series 2013/14 Subscribers can currently purchase tickets for this concert, tickets goes on sale to the general public on Mon 5 Aug.

Beethoven – Quartet in F minor Op.95
Beethoven – Quartet in D Op.18 No.3
Beethoven – Quartet in C sharp minor Op.131

Ludwig van Beethoven wasn’t just one man – he was everyman. And no music explores what it is to be human more powerfully than his string quartets. In just one concert, the Coull Quartet tells his whole story, from the hot-blooded young rebel-about-town of Op.18 No.3 to the uncompromising artistic statesman of his quartet Op.95. Then, to finish, the phenomenal Quartet Op.131: a vision of another world, from a deaf composer operating at the outer limits of genius.

This is music that always has something new to say, and it’s at the very heart of the Coulls’ musical life. Let them share something incredible tonight.

Pre-concert Talk - Helen Martin Studio 6.15pm. Tickets £1

PLEASE NOTE: Only Concert Series 2013/14 Subscribers can currently purchase tickets for this concert, tickets goes on sale to the general public on Mon 5 Aug.

Bloch – Night
Gorecki – String Quartet No.1 Op.62 Already it is Dusk
Barber – Dover Beach Op.3
Beamish – Tree Carols – world premiere
Borodin – Quartet No.2 in D

What dreams may come… night falls, and five composers let the darkness speak. Ernest Bloch hears quiet poetry, Samuel Barber and Matthew Arnold ask the deepest of questions, and Henryk Gorecki sings out with all the passion you’d expect from the composer of the famous 3rd Symphony. But Alexander Borodin’s thoughts turn to love – and no string quartet has produced as many pop hits as his gloriously tuneful Second! First, though the Coulls join forces with the great British baritone Roderick Williams for the world premiere of a new song cycle by one of British music’s most haunting musical landscape-painters: the wonderful Sally Beamish.

Pre-concert Talk - Helen Martin Studio 6.15pm. Tickets £1

EXTRA DATE ADDED ON SUN 9 MAR 2014 DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND

The British Comedy Award’s Queen of Comedy Sarah Millican is giving up the party scene (Ann Summers), easing off on the drinking (fizzy pop equals wealthy dentists) and settling down (taking her bra off). Determined to put down some roots, she now has a cat (furry baby) and even a tree (she has a lot of mugs).

On this, her third national tour, you will learn what to take on a dirty weekend, the easiest way to blend in in posh restaurants and how to teach a pensioner to swear. Join her for some hilarious domestic bliss.

“Sarah Millican is never less than belly-laugh hilarious” The Mirror

“An iron fist in a marigold glove.” The Guardian

Please note that tickets for this event will not be posted out to you until after April 2013

Triggered@Warwick is Warwick Arts Centre’s commissioning and artist development programme supporting selected artists with: time to develop creative ideas; a physical space to work in; producing support; a cash commissioning fee and an audience to reflect on the work.

Led by Matt Burman, Head of Programme & Audiences and produced by Warwick Arts Centre’s Associate Producers Ed Collier and Paul Warwick of China Plate, exciting new theatrical work has been commissioned under this programme by Action Hero, Teatro Sotterraneo, Reckless Sleepers, Mark Murphy, Contender Charlie, David Rosenberg/Glen Neath (Fuel) and Caroline Horton with more exciting projects in the pipeline for later this year.

After every performance, we will host an exchange with the company so that, as an audience, you can help shape the future of this exciting new show.

PLEASE NOTE: Only Concert Series 2013/14 Subscribers can currently purchase tickets for this concert, tickets goes on sale to the general public on Mon 5 Aug.

Haydn – Quartet in B minor Op.33 No.1
Shostakovich – Quartet No.5 in B flat Op.92
Beethoven – Quartet in C Op.59 No.3 Rasumovsky

There’s a good reason why they call him “Papa” – because when it comes to string quartets, Joseph Haydn really is the daddy of them all! Bold, inventive and crackling with wit, his Quartet Op.33 No.1 opened up a new musical world, and set a challenge that no later composer could ignore.

But is there more than meets the ear to Shostakovich’s deceptively jaunty Fifth Quartet? And can Beethoven take Haydn’s playful four-way conversation, and make it bigger, badder and more exhilarating than any symphony? Tonight, the Coulls answer those questions: keep your ears open, and get ready for the ride of your musical life.

Pre-concert Talk - Helen Martin Studio 6.15pm. Tickets £1