Fri 1 & Sat 2 Jul 7.30pm
Theatre – Grimm’s Tales by Carol Anne Duffy – 1812 Youth Theatre
Poet Laureate Carol Anne Duffy re-worked the tales of the Brothers Grimm to provide an experience that will entertain, delight and may produce the odd shiver and goosebump. Includes the well-known favourites The Three Wishes, Beauty and the Beast, The Emperor’s New Clothes, and Toby and the Wolf;
Mon 4 July 7.30pm
Lecture – Rosamund Jordan – The Staithes Group: Yorkshire Coast Impressionists of a Century Ago
The Staithes Group was a colony of around 25 artists including Dame Laura Knight and Frank Henry Mason who lived and worked in the small fishing village of Staithes near Whitby in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They were influenced by French Impressionists such as Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir and worked in oils and watercolours. Rosamund Jordan is a leading authority on the Staithes Group
Wed 6 July 2011 7.30pm
Cinema – Oranges and Sunshine – Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving
It’s well known that many of Australia’s first settlers were transported convicts. But forced transportation didn’t end in 1868, it continued up to the 1970s, and it affected the most vulnerable, and innocent of people. Children in care in the UK were deported to Australia without their parents’ permission – and in some cases were told (wrongly) their parents had died. This moving drama is based on true events.
Sun 10 Jul 7.30pm in the Walled Garden
Theatre – William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing – The Theatre of the Dales
Presented by Helmsley Arts Centre & Helmsley Walled Garden
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more – Men were deceivers ever.”
Shakespeare’s comedy about two pairs of lovers has been updated to just after WW2 in 1945. A slanderous scandal threatens to destroy one of the couple’s hopes and dreams. But will things come good in the end and became something to laugh about – will it all turn out to be a lot of fuss about not very much at all?
Wed 13 to Sat 16 Jul 7.30pm
Theatre – Oh Clarence! by John Chapman – 1812 Theatre Company
Adapted from the Blandings Castle stories by P. G. Wodehouse and directed by Dominic Goodwin.
Lord Emsworth is the head-in-the-clouds owner of Blandings Castle and has simple needs – he likes looking after his roses and his prize pig, The Empress. But Emsworth’s sister, Lady Constance is hatching a plan to get him married off against his wishes. This comedy by John Chapman is part of the Ryedale Festival.
Tue 19 Jul to Fri 2 Sept. Open daily 11.00am – 3.00pm.
Exhibition – Photographs by Sydney Smith and his wife Maud – Free entry
Sydney & Maud Smith ran a camera and photography shop in Pickering from the turn of the last century. They took many photos of local events, buildings and people, capturing a rich slice of the life and times of North Riding (as it then was). This exhibition is in association with the Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life which has a permanent Sydney Smith exhibition.
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