Ready to rumble at the Courtyard

From the archive, first published Friday 6th Jan 2006.

THE Courtyard Theatre in Hereford has announced details of its exciting new season.

Household names, hard-hitting drama and fringe art productions feature in a line up with something for every taste.

The Red Shift Theatre Company provides a highlight of the drama season. Get Carter tells a shocking tale of sin, revenge and redemption in the criminal underworld of a northern steel town in 1971.

The show, on Tuesday, January 24, at 7.30pm, promises to be dark, bruising theatre, with a stunning soundtrack featuring The Rolling Stones and The Kinks (Tickets £7 to £11).

On Monday, February 20, at 7.45pm drama fans can enjoy a double bill of plays by Nobel Literature Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter when the European Arts Company presents A Slight Ache and The Lover (Tickets £9.50, concs £8,50).

For a lighter evening why not enjoy music from popular West Country group The Wurzels on Saturday, January 28, at 7.30pm (Tickets £5 to £11.50).

The all-singing, all-strumming Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, which performed at this year's Glastonbury festival, will be at the Courtyard on Friday, February 3, at 8pm (Tickets £13 to £16).

In Rumble, a piece of urban dance theatre based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the cast of young hip-hop dancers will perform the exhilarating story from two enormous scaffolding towers that dominate the stage.

It comes to the Courtyard on Friday, March 3, at 7.30pm (Tickets £8 to £14).

Events for younger audiences include Sooty's Izzy Wizzy Holiday Show on Sunday, March 12, at 2pm and 5pm (Tickets £4.50 to £8).

A busy comedy schedule will keep audiences laughing right into spring.

In addition to the fortnightly Courtyard Comedy Club, veteran stand-up comic Mark Steel will be hitting the stage on Tuesday, March 23, at 8pm (Tickets £12, concs £10).

Bafta nominated Mark is a regular columnist for The Independent, and his show The Mark Steel Lectures returns to the BBC for a third series next year.

Other highlights include An Audience with Barry Norman, which sees the small screen icon tell all about a host of silver screen stars on Tuesday, March 30, at 7.30pm (Tickets £13, concs £11.50).

For tickets and further information about all shows call 0870 1122330.

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