What was on - Stevenage Festival 2013
The Stevenage Festival provided a showcase for the wealth of local artistic and performing talent to be found within the Stevenage area.
The heart of the Festival was a fortnight of performances at the Gordon Craig Theatre, enabling local people, particularly our talented youngsters, to realise a dream by performing on stage in their community’s own theatre.
The Gordon Craig programme of events is listed below, but there is also a vibrant Festival fringe of community arts events around Stevenage.
Wednesday 25th of May to the 4th of August 2013
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Sat 24 May 7.45 pm |
Photography Exhibition - Friends of Forster Country |
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Gordon Craig Foyer Gallery |
Local photographers capture the beautiful landscape, flora and fauna near the home of Victorian humanist author EM Forster, most famous for his novel 'Howards End', set in the area. |
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Sat 15 June
7.00 pm |
Stevenage
Symphony Orchestra |
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Gordon Craig Theatre |
Tickets: £8.00 |
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Sun 16 June 7:45 pm |
Gordon Craig
Theatre School |
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Gordon Craig Theatre |
Join talented students from the Gordon Craig Theatre's Senior Drama Academy for a variety style performance that will have you rolling in the aisles with laughter, clapping along to dance routines, fighting the urge to sing along and weeping tears over heartfelt monologues! Tickets: £11.00 |
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Mon 17 June 7:00 pm |
Stevenage Dance Schools |
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Gordon Craig Theatre |
Presenting a spectacular evening of dance and performing arts from the amazing talent of Stevenage and the surrounding area. From the traditional ballet and ballroom to breathtaking gymnastics and aerial dance, this promises to be a night not to be missed Tickets: £8.00 |
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Tue 18 June 7.00pm |
Stevenage
Primary Schools |
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Gordon Craig Main Hall |
Young pupils take to the stage to share their musical talent. A celebration of music from Primary Schools in Stevenage and the surrounding areas. Stevenage Festival is always pleased to give an opportunity to young people to enjoy the experience of performing in a real theatre to support these first steps to musical performance. Tickets: All seats £6.00 |
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Tue 18 June - 21 June 2.30 - 7:45 |
Stevenage Film Festival |
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Gordon Craig Theatre |
Tuesday 18 June - Howard's End, with
an introductory talk by the Friends of Forster Country.
Based on E.M. Forster's 1910 novel, Howards End is a
masterful Edwardian Age romance. Tickets: £5.00 |
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Fri 21 June 7:45 pm |
Parnassus
Poetry |
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Gordon Craig - The Ellen Terry Suite |
TIckets: £5.00 |
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Sat 22 June 7:45 pm |
Stevenage
Festival Presents |
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Gordon Craig Theatre |
We present a night of song, dance and music from the amazing and varied talent that can be found right here in Stevenage. Our programme will include rousing choruses from Stevenage's Male Voice Choir and 'Alive and Singing', spectacular performances from dance groups Younique and Sabihah Stars Belly Dancers plus individual performances from talented young people Lydia Dobson, Daniel Galvin, Emily Dunn, Bethany Huckle, Jodie Charles and internet singing sensation Sophia Khoury. Tickets: £10.00 |
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Sun 23 June 7:00 pm |
Stagecoach Theatre Arts Schools |
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Gordon Craig Theatre |
Tickets: £8.00 |
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Mon 24 June 7.45pm |
Stevenage
Secondary Schools |
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Gordon Craig Theatre |
Talented young people from Barclay School, the John Henry Newman School and Thomas Alleyne School take to the stage for an evening of music, dance and drama. Tickets: £6.00 |
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Tue 25 June 7.00pm |
Stevenage Dance Schools |
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Gordon Craig Theatre |
Our ever-popular dazzling dance extravaganza making stars of performers of all ages from Stevenage and the surrounding area. From ballroom to ballet to boogie - an exciting evening for those who love all styles and forms of dance. Tickets: £8.00 |
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Wed 26 June 7.45 pm |
Stevenage Secondary Schools |
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Gordon Craig Theatre |
Talented young people from Nobel and Barnwell schools take to the stage for our second evening of music, dance and drama. Tickets: £6.00 |
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Thu 27 June 7.45 pm |
Knebworth Players |
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Gordon Craig Theatre |
Knebworth Players present this gripping drama from the master story-teller Jeffrey Archer. Accused of the wilful murder of his terminally ill wife, Sir David Metcalf finds himself locked in legal combat with his old rival, Anthony Blair-Booth QC. After a tense and gripping courtroom scene, Act I ends just as we are about to hear the jury's verdict. Act II takes us back in time to the fateful night of Lady Metcalfe's death and ends with a surprising twist.. ![]()
Tickets: £7.00 |
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Sat 29 June 2.30 pm, 8.00pm |
Stevenage - a multi-media solo performance |
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Location tbc - Ellen Terry or Lewis Silkin |
Stevenage – the first English New Town – an unlikely subject for a performance. But it’s a performance which explores many interlinked lives – the “young man in the brown corduroy suit”, an English pastoral poet, a young woman who moved south in the early years of the 20th Century, a young film actor, a town, two villages and the lives of a post-war generation – to the very present day. The life-journeys take in all kinds of experience – sex, cinema, town-planning, taxi-driving – and weave themselves into patterns so uncanny that it’s easy to feel rather lost. Your guide through the labyrinth of uncanny connections is transgender artist Mandy Romero. And the film – “Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush” – from the Swinging Sixties - was the reason this whole wonderful tangle of stories came to life,- Why Stevenage? Because it’s the clue to everything….. Tickets: £5.00 |
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Sat 29 June 7.45 pm |
Last Night of the Proms |
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Gordon Craig Theatre |
Tickets: £8.00 |
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Mon 1 July - Sun 4 Aug |
Art and Photography Exhibition |
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Gordon Craig Gallery Space |
The spirit of the Festival continues over the Summer as we take over the gallery space at the Gordon Craig Theatre with an exhibition of art, floral art and photography from local artists. |
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For information about other events that are taking place during Stevenage Festival please visit our page of Fringe Events.