Ludlow Festival - 23rd June to 8th July 2012

2012 Events Guide

Music

25th June

3:30 PM

St Laurence

Gala Organ Recital

By Gordon Stewart

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear St Laurence’s magnificent church organ played by one of the UK’s finest concert organists.

The Play

25th June

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

Music

26th June

7:30 PM

St Laurence

English String Orchestra

The Grand Tour


Back in the late 1600s, the idea of the Grand Tour was born. For the next 200 years privileged young people embraced the opportunity to visit Europe’s capital cities for
‘cultural enlightenment’. Musicians, painters and writers all found inspiration in the peoples and architecture of the great European cities. Much of this music is very
 familiar to us now but the travellers would mostly have been hearing this music for the very first time and the impact was often astounding

Music

27th June

7:30 PM

St Laurence

Three Welsh Tenors

Accompanied by Caradog Williams, pianist

Three Welsh tenors, yet surprisingly different voices which complement each other perfectly. Alun Rhys-Jenkins, Aled Hall and Rhys Meirion, all professional opera singers, present a programme of songs, hymns and operatic arias, each delivered in their own inimitable style

The Play

27th June

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

Music

28th June

7:30 PM

St Laurence

Ensemble Sine Nomine

Long live Fair Oriana: Elizabethan Madrigals and Motets

In this concert, Ensemble Sine Nomine (their name is Latin for ‘no name’) will explore the extraordinary output of sacred and secular choral music in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

The Play

28th June

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

Music

29th June

12:00 PM

St Laurence

Benjamin Creighton Griffiths

Harpist

Ben, just 15 years of age, but already a veteran of the Ludlow Festival, started learning the harp when he was just 4 years old.

The Play (Schools Matinee)

29th June

2:30 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

The Play

29th June

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

Coach Tours

30th June

9:00 AM

Departing from Smithfield Car Park

Coach Tour 1 Follies and Quarries

Led by Professor Michael Rosenbaum and Andrew Pike FSA

Our first visit is to Hawkstone Park gardens which offers an amazing array of follies, grottoes rocky outcrops and cliffs. There is a fair amount of walking involved, but a Land Rover will be  available to take less mobile people around Hawkstone Park.

Music

30th June

1:00 PM

St Laurence

History of the Violin

By Michael Bochmann

Michael Bochmann takes us through a programme of inspirational violin music from Bach to Paganini, with a sprinkling of folk and modern melodies.

Talks

30th June

7:30 PM

St Laurence

David Lloyd Memorial Lecture

The Conservation of St Laurence's Church

An illustrated talk by the Conservation Architect Andrew Arrol and Clerk of Works Shaun Ward.

 

Sponsored by Treasure & Son

The Play

30th June

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

Walks

1st July

9:00 AM

Departing from Smithfield Car Park

Walk 1 Romans and Rebels

Led by Martin Hackett

Martin Hackett takes us on a journey from one of the possible sites of Caratacus’s last stand against the Romans in the year AD 51, then via Hopton Castle on to Brampton Bryan.

 

Talks

1st July

7:30 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Germaine Greer

Shakespeare's Wife

Shakespeare is above all the poet of marriage. Before him Tragedies were about loving “not wisely but too well” and Comedies were about getting away with adultery. But in play after play Shakespeare presents the finding of a worthy wife as a triumphant dénouement, and again and again constant wives redeem unjust and deluded husbands

 

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The Play

1st July

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

The Play

2nd July

8:00 AM

Ludlow Castle

2nd July

1:00 AM

2nd July

1:00 AM

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

The Play

2nd July

2:30 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

Workshop

2nd July

2:30 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Mask workshop

With Tanith Kinton.

Twelfth Night, a story of disguises, and a night for revelling... Perfect time for a Masquerade!
Make and decorate masks with  Tanith Kinton.

Music

2nd July

7:30 PM

St Laurence

BBC Big Band

The Age of Swing - and Beyond Directed by Barry Forgie

 Widely regarded as the UK’s leading and most versatile jazz orchestra, the BBC Big Band broadcasts on BBC Radio, particularly on BBC Radio 2’s long running series Big Band Special. The band regularly features on the UK jazz festival circuit, and has been voted the best Big Band many times in the British Jazz Awards, while concert tours with major artists have taken them all over the world.

The Play

2nd July

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

Talks

3rd July

11:00 AM

Ludlow Castle

Director's talk

By Charlie Walker-Wise

Charlie Walker-Wise, the Director of this year’s production of Twelfth Night, talks about his inspiration for the staging of the play and offers insight into the development of the performance.

Poetry

3rd July

7:30 PM

Moor Park School

Secrets and Inspirations

John Challis, Gabrielle Drake, Christopher Good, Colin Prockter & Janet Wantling

An amusing and entertaining evening of poetry, prose and music with a local theme. Presented by our own John Challis (Boycie from Only Fools and Horses), Gabrielle Drake, (UFO, Peak Practice, Heartbeat, Crossroads and Coronation Street). Christopher Good (Murder Most Horrid, Rumpole of the Bailey, Danger UXB and The Famous Five) Colin Prockter (Dr Who, Toast, Rock ‘n’ Chips, Eddie Maddocks in Coronation Street) plus regular Ludlow Festival supporter, Janet Wantling, an accomplished actor, who founded a youth theatre in the town in the 1980s.

The Play

4th July

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

Walks

5th July

9:00 AM

Departing from Smithfield Car Park

Walk 2 Castles and Canals

Led by Cheryl Johnston and Andrew Pike

We start our 8 mile walk in the impressive grounds of Chirk Castle. After hiking through some undulating countryside with distant views of the Welsh hills, we reach the Llangollen (or Ellesmere) Canal, arriving at the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct then along the towpath to the basin at Trevor, where refreshments are available.

Music

5th July

7:30 PM

Moor Park School

Madeleine Easton and Daniel Grimwood

Schubert for Violin and Piano

A selection of Schubert’s works for the violin and piano performed by outstanding Australian violinist, Madeleine Easton, and award winning British concert pianist Daniel Grimwood.

The Play

5th July

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

The Play (Schools Matinee)

6th July

2:30 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

Music

6th July

7:30 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Tenbury Operatic Society

Iolanthe

Arguably Gilbert & Sullivan’s most popular operetta, featuring such songs as Loudly let the Trumpet Bray, Strephon’s a Member of Parliament and If you go in, You’re sure to Win, Iolanthe or “The Peer & the Peri” is presented in a concert version by Tenbury Amateur Operatic Society.

The Play

6th July

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

Coach Tours

7th July

9:00 AM

Departing from Smithfield Car Park

Coach Tour 2 Wroxeter and Loton

Led by Andrew Pike and Cheryl Johnston

Wroxeter Hotel for coffee followed by a visit to the replica Roman villa, and an opportunity to visit Wroxeter Church. We then travel to Loton Park, seat of the Leightons, for lunch in the grounds.

The Play

7th July

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

Talks

8th July

7:30 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Gyles Brandreth

Presented in association with Clive Conway Celebrity Productions Ltd

They say all political careers end in tears. In Gyles Brandreth’s case it’s tears of laughter as the author, broadcaster, former MP and government whip takes us on an hilarious roller-coaster ride  through the corridors of power – from Buckingham Palace to the Kremlin, from the green benches of Westminster to the green rooms of the West End.

 

Sponsored by Nock Deighton

The Play

8th July

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

Workshop

9th July

2:30 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Mask workshop

With Tanith Kinton.

Twelfth Night, a story of disguises, and a night for revelling... Perfect time for a Masquerade!
Make and decorate masks with  Tanith Kinton.

The Play

9th July

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

Music

9th July

8:00 PM

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Barbara Dickson

With Nick Holland & Troy Donockley

Over four decades, Barbara Dickson OBE has established herself as one of the most popular entertainers in Britain today. Globally renowned for musical hits including Caravans, Another Suitcase, and I Know Him So Well.

 

Please note this event now starts at 8pm

The Play

9th July

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Twelfth Night

A Shakespeare Play

This is a play about people. Real people who do everything we do. They laugh, sing, sometimes they even get drunk and occasionally they fall in love. These are not just  figures from a dusty old book, they are alive and exciting. They have intrigues, jealousies and all the things you would expect from the people around you.
Put aside any preconceptions you may have about Shakespeare and be prepared for a surprise.

The Pop Concert

10th July

8:00 PM

Ludlow Castle

Festival Grand Finale with Shakin' Stevens

Supported by the Sultana Brothers