Three school leavers, Salty, Hobby and Gail perform to an audience an account of their time at Whitewall Secondary School, specifically their time with Mr Jeff Nixon, the new drama teacher who ignites their passion for the stage with his idealism and belief that all children should be treated equally.

Written by John Godber, ‘Teechers’ is a play within a play in which three students put on a performance to their teachers and peers. Everything in the play is reduced to the bare essentials, with very little set and the three actors playing twenty other parts.

Join us this summer for a week of drama training and activities culminating in a performance on stage at the historic Y Theatre! Work with an industry professional with over 20 years’ experience as a professional actor, director, producer and casting director.

Dates:
Monday 20th – Friday 24th August: 10am – 4pm
Friday 24th August: 7pm performance

Cost:
£125 per place

Ages:
12-19

Over the course of the week you will:

- Learn how to improve your key acting skills as you develop vocal and physical techniques.
- Experience what would happen at a professional audition.
- Find out how to approach drama school applications.
- Discover the difference between acting for stage or screen.
- Grow in confidence.
- Make friends with like-minded performers.
- Work on character development.
- Perform onstage to an audience at 7pm on Friday 17^th August.
- HAVE FUN!

Book quickly to secure a place!

All the classics are lovingly and accurately replicated live from 'Sweet Child O' Mine', 'Welcome to the Jungle' and 'Paradise City' from the all time classic rock album 'Appetite For Destruction' right through to the phenomenal hits like 'November Rain', 'Estranged' and 'Civil War' from the later 'Use Your Illusion' albums.

The band is very proud to be widely recognized by fans, music critics and venue owners, to be the very best at what they do. For the masses of Guns N' Roses fans, UK Guns N’ Roses are also regarded as a very real alternative to the original. Many believe the band to be as close as you will ever get to seeing the original line up of GN'R live and some even rate this tribute to be better than the real thing.

Put simply.... if you want Guns N' Roses, get UK Guns N’ Roses!

On the day

On arrival you’ll meet your instructor who will take you through your training and provide you with your jumpsuit and harness. You’ll ride up to altitude in a Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft that has been specially converted for skydiving. During the 20 minute flight you can enjoy the beautiful views of the British countryside.

You and your instructor will exit the plane at approximately 13,500ft and you will freefall for about 45 seconds, reaching speeds of over 120mph. At 5,000ft your instructor will deploy the parachute slowing you down for a gentler ride, during which you’ll be able to try steering. Your instructor will take control for the landing and debrief you afterwards.

How to book

More information and registration form will be available here soon. If you’d like to know more you can contact the fundraising team on fundraising@leicesterymca.co.uk or 0116 2046224.

https://www.leicesterymca.co.uk/events/charity-skydive/

Lee Hurst, star of BBC1’s They Think Its All Over’ is back on the road in 2018 with his brand new show ‘Mucking About’.

In his new show Lee will be exploring the relationship between...
No he won't, he'll be leaving that old twaddle to comedians at the Edinburgh Festival.

There's no journey or message. If you want to go on a journey, buy an airplane ticket. If you want a deep message, run your voicemail through a sub-base woofer. If you want plenty of laughs this is for you.

Lee will be turning up, lobbing gags and funny stuff at you from all angles.

A hilarious night is about to hit town.

*** This is for tickets for the afternoon convention only ***

Twin lead guitar legends Wishbone Ash will start their XLIXUK Tour with a very special event at the Y Theatre on Saturday October 13th.  Doors will open at 7.30pm for a fully extended concert featuring special guests to celebrate their 49th Anniversary.

This will be preceded by their annual fan club convention commencing at midday. The event will feature a tribute band, a solo acoustic set by an ex member of the band and a matinee set by Wishbone Ash themselves.

Tickets for the main evening performance are priced at £23 and for the afternoon convention at £12.

*** This is for tickets for the Evening Performance only ***

Twin lead guitar legends Wishbone Ash will start their XLIXUK Tour with a very special event at the Y Theatre on Saturday October 13th.  Doors will open at 7.30pm for a fully extended concert featuring special guests to celebrate their 49th Anniversary.

This will be preceded by their annual fan club convention commencing at midday. The event will feature a tribute band, a solo acoustic set by an ex member of the band and a matinee set by Wishbone Ash themselves.

Tickets for the main evening performance are priced at £23 and for the afternoon convention at £12.

Fairport Convention has been making great music for over fifty years.Credited with originating British folk-rock music, they retain a passion for liveperformance. Whether you are a long-time fan or a newcomer to their music,an evening with Fairport Convention is sure to surprise and delight you.

“Impressive musicians with a great back catalogue... (they) take chances andclearly enjoy themselves.”  The Guardian

“Vigorous and confident...the music leapt around the room.”  The Mirror

Austentatious is saddling the horses for a Grand Tour of the United Kingdom!

Austentatious is an improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country’s quickest comic performers. Every single show the cast conjure up a brand new ‘lost’ Jane Austen novel based on nothing more than a title suggested by the audience.

The show comes fresh from six sellout runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, a monthly residency in London’s West End and a BBC Radio 4 special to mark the bicentenary of Austen’s death. Now their show will be appearing at two dozen theatres across the country to entertain and astonish audiences in equal measure.

Previous ‘lost’ masterpieces have included Sixth Sense & Sensibility, Double 0 Darcy and Mansfield Shark, and no two shows are ever the same. Performed in period costume with live musical accompaniment, this is a Regency treat guaranteed to delight Austen novices and die-hard fans alike.

★★★★★ “Ridiculously silly…wickedly funny” –The Times

★★★★ “A joy to behold” The Guardian

★★★★ “Supersmart and terrifically funny” The Scotsman

“A bravura slab of improvisation” – Independent

Age Rec: 12+

Austentatious said:“We are thrilled to be travelling the length and breadth of the country, rediscovering the lost classics Austen wrote and promptly forgot about. We love and admire Jane’s works and the public deserve an intimate acquaintance with them, particularly the very prescient ones about Donald Trump.”

Austentatious is performed by:
Amy Cooke-Hodgson
Andrew Hunter Murray
Cariad Lloyd
Charlotte Gittins
Daniel Nils Roberts
Graham Dickson
Joseph Morpurgo
Rachel Parris

Line-up varies. Each show stars 5-6 members of the cast.

The Wonder Stuff’s Miles Hunt embarks on a solo acoustic tour of the UK in October this year under the guise of The Custodian. With a back catalogue of over two hundred self penned songs to choose from, written over the last four decades, Hunt says that the idea of becoming The Custodian came from a conversation with one of his musical heroes.

“I was in New York a few years back and was invited to guest at a Tom Robinson solo show. Tom has long been an inspiration to me and given the opportunity to perform with him... well, lets just say I couldn’t polish my boots quick enough. During our brief rehearsal together on the afternoon of the show Tom asked me who I felt now owned the songs that I have written over all these years. I answered that whoever the publishing company I signed with probably did, but ultimately, I did. Tom was quick to correct me pointing out that all of my songs now belonged to my audience. Going on to explain that the songs I have written have been part of the sound track to thousands of people’s live and it is those people that now truly own them. He said that my position was now of The Custodian, the person who’s job it is to see that the songs are treated and performed with the respect the audiences deserve. It was an incredibly important thing to have said to me and something I have not and will not ever forget.”

With this in mind Hunt has rehearsed over sixty of his best loved compositions to perform in chronological order on his upcoming UK tour.

“There are a couple of songs from the back catalogue that I just couldn’t bring myself to sing again. Either a lazy or nonsense lyric, or just a rotten set of chords. When you’ve been at it as long as I have I don’t think anyone could expect a 100% strike rate. But really there are only two or three songs I would prefer not to revisit.”

As well as performing songs Hunt will also be reading a handful of excerpts from his three acclaimed books, ‘The Wonder Stuff Diaries’.

“I’m so very thankful to my younger self for keeping hand written diaries during the early years of The Wonder Stuff’s activities. I’m fortunate that I do have a pretty decent memory of what went on in those days, but to have the actual voice from the past, recorded on the page, to tell me straight how things were and how I felt about what was going on, well, I would like to buy that young man a beer for having the foresight to give such a gift to his elder self.”