Les Enfants Terribles                                                 A Midsummer Night's Dream

1 July: Anne Fine

3 July: Ravenscliffe & Ryburn Valley High School

3 July: Grim North Theatre Group

6 July: The Terrible Infants

6 July: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Heartbreak Productions)

7 & 8 July: Calder High School

8-12 July: The Hypochondriac

9 July: Peter Pan (Heartbreak Productions)

9 July: Class Enemy

12 July: Calderdale Theatre School

ANNE FINE

Square Chapel Centre for the Arts

Tuesday 1 July 7.30pm

Tickets: £3.50, Family Ticket £10

Famous for Mrs Doubtfire, The Tulip Touch and Goggle-Eyes, Anne Fine has been a top author in the children’s book world since her first book was published in the mid 1970s.  She has now written more than forty books and won virtually every major award going!  This is your chance to catch one of our best children’s authors.

RAVENSCLIFFE & RYBURN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL / GRIM NORTH THEATRE GROUP

A Midsummer Night’s Dream / Drifters

Square Chapel Centre for the Arts

Thursday 3 July 7.30pm

Tickets: £4, £2 under 20s

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a challenging piece of theatre performed by this group of students with special needs and mild special needs with help from support staff.

Drifters is set 130 years in the future where space travel is commonplace and a strict class system is in force.  On a routine shipping run, a spaceship is flung into an uncharted area of space and only 8 crew remain. How will the remaining crew deal with their isolation?

LES ENFANTS TERRIBLE

The Terrible Infants

Square Chapel Centre for the Arts

Sunday 6 July 2pm

Tickets: £9, £7 concessions & £5 Under 19s

Meet Tumb, the boy who eats his mum, Thingummyboy with a face even his mother forgets, Little Linena; the material girl, Manky Mingus and of course little Tilly and her terrible tail.  Roald Dahl meets Tim Burton in this hugely theatrical, scary, funny, sad, silly, junk-filled, puppetry packed, dark, delicious, musical, magical piece of performance. 

Suitability age 6+

HEARTBREAK PRODUCTIONS

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Manor Heath Park

Sunday 6 July 7.30pm

Tickets: £10, £8 concessions & £5 Under 20s

Lysander loves Hermia, and Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius; Demetrius used to love Helena but now loves Hermia.  Egeus, Hermia's father, prefers Demetrius as a suitor…  Make way for Shakespeare's best-loved comedy ... you'd be an ass to miss it!  Bring a picnic and something to sit on to enjoy what will be a magical, enchanting and hilarious evening. 

CALDER HIGH SCHOOL

Monday 7 & Tuesday 8 July 7.30pm

Square Chapel Centre for the Arts

Tickets: £4, £2 under 20s

Consistently imaginative and high quality, Calder High school return for an eclectic mix of short music, dance and drama performances based on the theme of food.          

ACTORS WORKSHOP

The Hypochondriac by Molière

The Workshop, Halifax

Tuesday 8-Saturday 12 July

Tickets: £6, £4 concessions

Molière’s classic farce pokes fun at Argan, a man so obsessed with his own imaginary ailments that he can no longer control his household.  Using trickery, Argan’s closest relatives strive to cure the real disease from which he suffers. 

HEARTBREAK PRODUCTIONS

Peter Pan written by J M Barrie

The Piece Hall

Wednesday 9 July 7.30pm

Tickets: £10, £8 concessions, £5 under 20s

Join Peter Pan, Tinkerbell and Captain Hook in the unique setting of the Piece Hall.  Why not bring your own refreshments and soak up the magic of this fantastic story?  P – Peter Pan

HALIFAX HIGH SCHOOL

Class Enemy

Square Chapel Centre for the Arts

Wednesday 9 July 7.30pm

Tickets: £4, £2 under 20s

Students from Halifax High have been working with Red Ladder Theatre Company to devise this reworking of Nigel Williams’ play Class Enemy.  A teacher doesn’t turn up for a lesson with six ‘un-teachable’ boys – what will the boys discover about themselves?  Halifax High’s street dancers and junk band will also be performing as part of the evening.

CALDERDALE THEATRE SCHOOL

1968 / Nightmare on Gibbet Street

Square Chapel Centre for the Arts

Saturday 12 July 6.30pm

Tickets: £4, £2 under 20s

1968 was a momentous year.  It was called the year of revolutions.  Amongst many events, 1968 saw the assassination of Martin Luther King and Bobbie Kennedy; the Prague Spring; riots in the streets of Paris; the cancellation of the MCC tour to South Africa.  It was also the year that Halifax Education Department created Calderdale Theatre School.

In their 40th anniversary year, the CTS youngest group (aged 11 and 12) explore 1968 - the myth and the reality.

The government has sold off everything there is to sell.  It needs to raise some money fast and decides to sell a town - on e that no-one will ever miss...  Thus begins the fight to save Halifax by its very own liberation army.

A performance of the play that the CTS group aged 16-19 is taking to the Big Youth Theatre Festival in London later this month.  Come and see the only Yorkshire performance in the town in which the play is set!