Contact: Margaret Hinde, 1 Warford Hall Drive, Great Warford, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, SK9 7TR. Tel: 01565 872643 email: info@knutsfordu3a.co.uk
We are called performance arts and not performing arts, as we want to make it perfectly clear that - we do not perform - we merely, and we hope enjoyably, attend performances.
We currently have over 50 members and try to arrange a programme as varied and as interesting as we can, whilst keeping the expense within reasonable limits.
Because our minibus only takes 12, including the driver, we necessarily stick to a first come first served policy. We would, therefore, urge members to book as soon as possible after the dates are published.
For a booking form, which can be printed off, click here
Programme for Winter 2011/12
Tuesday , 10th January YOU CANT TAKE IT WITH YOU
At The Royal Exchange, Manchester Cost, including transport, £27.50
The mini-bus will leave Knutsford bus-station at 6.pm.
This should be fun! The Exchange 2011 Christmas Production is a 1930’s Broadway Comedy hit. ‘ A joyful, mad and eccentric celebration of family’. The Exchange is collaborating with Told by an Idiot, an acclaimed theatre company with a ‘uniquely inventive physical style’!
Please send your booking form with a cheque made out to Jessie Bunyan to
26, Blackhill Lane, Knutsford WA16 9DD (01565 651139)
Last booking date, 30th November
Wednesday, 25th January BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
At The Lowry Theatre Cost, including coach transport, £36.00
Birmingham Royal Ballet in a colourful, gothic fairy tale which has received enthusiastic reviews. – ‘thrilling, heart warming and visually exquisite’
Please note this is a MATINEE production which we thought might be popular on a dull January day!
Therefore the coach will leave Knutsford Bus Station at 12.30 p.m. This should leave time for a coffee and a quick snack at The Lowry before the 2 p.m. start
A few tickets available. Contact Margaret Hinde on 01565 872643
Last booking date, 12th December, 2011
Just to remind you that there are only 11 seats on the mini-bus, so to secure places it is best to book right away. However, as we think one or two of the visits on our programme might be popular, we have booked a slightly larger coach for these, so we hope you will want to join us. Please book early!
Wednesday,1st February AN INSPECTOR CALLS by J. B. Priestley
At The Lowry Lyric Theatre Cost including transport £23.00
The mini-bus will leave Knutsford bus-station at 6.pm.
The magnificent West End and Broadway production of Priestley’s classic thriller, originally produced by The National Theatre. The play has been successful all over the world, winning 19 major awards, more than any other play in history.
‘A thrilling, magisterial production’ – The Sunday Times
‘Wildly imaginative, urgent and thrilling’ – The Guardian
Please send your booking form with a cheque made out to Margaret Hinde to
1, Warford Hall Drive, Great Warford, Alderley Edge, SK9 7TR (01565 872643)
Last booking date, 12th December, 2011
Wednesday, 15th February LOVE’S LABOURS LOST by William Shakespeare
At New Vic Theatre, Newcastle under Lyme Cost, including transport, £18.00
The mini-bus will leave Knutsford bus-station at 6.pm.
Another Northern Broadsides production (which we all enjoy) of Shakespeare’s comic battle of the sexes. Shakespeare at his most extravagantly funny.
Please send your booking form and a cheque made out to Ruth Cowper at
The Coach House, Tabley Road, Knutsford, WA16 ONG (01565 634762)
Please book before December 12th
Thursday (Not Wednesday!) 1st March SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING
Adapted from the novel by Alan Sillitoe
At The Royal Exchange Theatre Cost including transport £18.00
The mini-bus will leave Knutsford bus-station at 6.pm.
Please send your booking form with a cheque made out to Jessie Bunyan to
26, Blackhill Lane, Knutsford WA16 9DD (01565 651139)
Please book before December 12th
Thursday, March 8th
A rare opportunity to hear THE LEIPZIG ST THOMAS CHOIR of male and boy voices, from the church where Bach was Cantor for over 25 years
Bach’s ST MATTHEW PASSION
Bach’s huge masterpiece, telling the Easter story. Sung by the choir who first performed it almost 300 years ago
At The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Cost, including transport : £ 33.50
Please note the concert the concert starts at 7 pm
so the coach will leave Knutsford at 5.30 pm
Please send your booking form, with cheque made out to Mrs Sue Hopkin,
39 Valley Way, Knutsford, WA16 9AY, (01565 651839)
Please book before December 12th.
SUNDAY, April 1st ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC
Another musical treat!
At Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Cost including transport : £ 36.00
The coach will leave Knutsford bus station at 6 p.m.
Prokofiev, Symphony No 1 in D ‘Classical’
Tchaikovsky, Piano concerto No 1 in B flat minor
Shostakovich, Symphony No 5 in D
A few tickets available. Contact Margaret Hinde on 01565 872643
Please book before December 12th
Just to remind you that there are only 11 seats on the mini-bus, so to secure places it is best to book right away. However, as we think one or two of the visits on our programme might be popular, we have booked a slightly larger coach for these, so we hope you will want to join us. Please book early!
SPECIAL PURCHASE! OPEN TO ALL U3A MEMBERS
Leonard Bernstein’s ‘WONDERFUL TOWN’
At the Lowry Theatre, Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
For the first time ever, The Royal Exchange Theatre, The Halle Orchestra and the Lowry will combine their artistic forces and present this fully staged production of the legendary composer Leonard Bernstein’s musical comedy, ‘Wonderful Town’, which first premiered in New York in 1953.
The show will be directed by the Royal Exchange Artistic Director, Braham Murray OBE and Bernstein’s score will be performed by the full forces of the Halle Orchestra, conducted by Sir Mark Elder CBE. Connie Fisher, star of the Sound of Music and winner of the BBC’s ‘How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?’ will lead the cast.
There will only be 16 performances during a two week run and tickets are selling rapidly. We have been able to secure a small block of tickets, with a special ‘early bird’ price reduction of £10 per ticket, for the evening of Wednesday, April 4th 2012.
The cost of each ticket will be £39.00, which includes a door to door coach journey from Knutsford to the Lowry.
To take advantage of this offer and ensure you have a seat for this unique production, please complete the form below. Tickets will also be on sale at the June general meeting. Numbers are limited and places will be sold on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. Initially, these are restricted to Members only. We will put names of non-members on a waiting list for possible distribution at a later date, if you include their names on the purchase form.
Margaret Hinde
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