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New Dame Ian Parkin Brings Cabaret Glamour to Lowestoft Panto!

As the countdown to panto begins, 4 Poofs and a Piano Star steps in to play Dame Able Mabel

Shiploads of nautical fun will sail into town next week as The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan begin on Thursday 13 December. The talented cast will perform an incredible 32 performances over the run which concludes with a New Year’s Day show at 3pm. Captain Hook (Eastenders Sid Owen) will be trying to outwit our hero, Peter Pan (Anthony Sahota) in Never Land. We will also meet Wendy Darling (Sophie Holt), Tiger Lily (Naomi Slater) and the delectable Dame Able Mabel now being played by 4 Poofs and a Piano’s  Ian Parkin.

Ian appeared regularly on TV’s Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (BBC) for nine years as part of house band 4 Poofs and a Piano. The group went on to play 6 times at Glastonbury Festival and had three national tours with television appearances on Daybreak, This Morning and Loose Women.

Marina Theatre CEO, Emma Butler Smith said “We are delighted to have Ian with us for this year’s Pantomime. We have no doubt he’ll be a hilarious and dazzling dame!”

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TRAFFIC DISRUPTION ANNOUNCMENT

Emergency work to repair a damaged sewer on Station Square, Lowestoft will begin next week.

This may affect anyone travelling to the Theatre from;

1 October – 7 Jan

7.30am – 5.30pm weekdays and some weekends.

The repair work will commence on 01 October and will last for approximately five weeks. A southbound lane closure will be in place on Station Square which will see traffic approaching from Denmark Road diverted via Katwijk Way/A12. Access for the emergency services will be maintained throughout the duration of the repair.

Further repair work will also need to be carried out on Commercial Road up to the A47 Junction which will last for 10 weeks, and will begin once the Station Square works have been completed. The road will be closed but a full diversion will be in place.

Regan Harris from Anglian Water said: “We appreciate this sewer is on a busy main road and we’re very sorry for any inconvenience the work may cause. We hate disrupting customers and road users, but the work needs to be carried out and we’ll be doing everything we can to minimise disruption.

“Currently we’re using over land pipes to ensure our customers in the local area can continue to use their toilets and washing machines as normal.”

The water company will have teams working to repair the sewer between 7.30am – 5.30pm on weekdays, with weekend work, if required, to complete the work as quickly as possible.

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Audition for Lost Boys in the Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan

Pantomime auditions for PHA production of PETER PAN at the Marina Theatre in Lowestoft

Auditions for the Lost Boys

Paul Holman Associates and Marina Theatre, Lowestoft are seeking actors to play the roles of John Darling, Michael Darling and the Lost Boys in their 2018 production of The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan.

All applicants must be…

  • Confident
  • Enthusiastic
  • Disciplined

And should have…

  • Clear speaking voices
  • Some singing & dancing ability

John & Michael – aged between 9 – 14 years may apply, and should not exceed 5’0” in height.

Lost Boys – aged between  9-14 may apply and should not exceed 5’0” in height.

Michael is the youngest & smallest of the brothers, with an ideal playing age of 7-8 years old.

John, his older brother, has an ideal playing age of 11-13.

Rehearsals starting: Saturday 2nd December 2018

Performances starting:  Wed 13 December 2018

Performances closing:  Mon 1 January 2019

Auditions will be held at the Marina Theatre, Lowestoft on

Saturday 22nd September, with registration at 11.30am.

Parental/Guardian consent

All children attending auditions should be accompanied by a parent/guardian who will need to sign a parental permission form on the audition day to agree participation & media coverage.  If the child is not attending with their own parent/guardian, then the form can be obtained by emailing Will  Isgrove, Head of  Young People and Outreach at the Marina Theatre, at –willisgrove@marinatheatre.co.uk.  The signed form must be brought along on audition day.

Availability

Successful children must be available for the whole rehearsal & performance period from Saturday 2nd December to Tuesday 1 January 2019.

They should also live & go to school within a maximum of 30 minutes travel time from the Marina Theatre.  There may be some weekend rehearsals scheduled prior to the main rehearsal period, which are to be confirmed. They may need to miss some school term time.

There is no need to pre-prepare anything for this audition – just turn up on the day and script and basic movement will be set.

Further information

This year, the stars of the panto include Eastenders’ Sid Owen as Captain Hook & Anthony Sahota from TV’s Let It Shine, alongside Lowestoft’s returning favourites Terry Gleed & Fenton Gray.

For further information, please contact Will Isgrove – willisgrove@marinatheatre.co.uk

 

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Wilde Wednesdays – Screenings from the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre

Staged by the Classic Spring Theatre Company, the Oscar Wilde Season will be broadcast live to Marina Theatre from the Vaudeville Theatre in the heart of London’s West End.

Tuesday 9 October is The Importance of Being Earnest followed in 2019 with a season of Wilde Wednesdays;

Classic Spring is the new theatre company from Dominic Dromgoole, former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe. The company’s first season is a year-long celebration of the late genius Wilde, one aiming to provide a much fuller picture of the man and the artist, revealing this much-loved but complex playwright as the brilliant renegade he was in his own time.

Dominic Dromgoole will personally direct the first play A Woman of No Importance, starring Olivier Award-winning actor Eve Best as Mrs Arbuthnot and BAFTA-nominated Anne Reid as Lady Hunstanton, alongside Eleanor Bron and William Gaunt.

Multi-award-winning actor, director, comedian and playwright Kathy Burke will then direct Lady Windermere’s Fan, bringing together a talented comedic cast including the Olivier Award winning actress Samantha Spiro as Mrs Erlynne, Kevin Bishop as Lord Darlington, and guest starring Jennifer Saunders as the Duchess of Berwick, marking her return to the West End stage for the first time in over twenty years.

Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Classic Spring, comments: “Oscar Wilde was a lover of the modern in all its forms, and I’m sure the idea that his plays could now be broadcast live to so many people, in so many places, would have delighted him. We are very pleased that these glorious plays are going to reach an even wider audience and have life beyond their runs in the West End.”