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Private Release GAPA - Group 5 Date range Tickets £148 Age guidance Group 5: Ages 11 - 14 years Venue Rehearsal Room Trigger warning Find out more Book now Running time 2 hours Group bookings Find out more Accessibility Find out more The Garrick Academy of Performing Arts Saturday Class - Term 2 2024/25 Season Group 5: 11:30am - 1:30pm, Ages 11 - 14 years GAPA Saturday Groups GAPA currently runs seven Saturday groups: six on a Saturday morning for our 8 to 18 year olds, with our MINI GAPA class, for 5 to 8 year olds, on Saturday afternoons. Throughout the year, the groups work towards the goal of putting a production onto the main stage. The year starts with stagecraft, skills and audition preparation, giving students the opportunity to enhance and develop their performance skills. Then it’s audition time and, once the play is cast, the rehearsals start and all the elements of the show are put together. Working through this process, the students learn the valuable skills required of rehearsing and putting on a production, whilst being surrounded by fun and laughter. Private Release Book Tickets Wed 15 Oct Last few left 00:00 Show more times Trailer Reviews Gallery Friends of the Garrick Become a Friend of the Garrick! You can buy discounted tickets and support your local theatre. Become a Friend Now Join our mailing list Subscribe

Everyone is welcome Altrincham Garrick Playhouse is the beating heart of the community. A theatre, cinema, youth academy and community creative social place for all to enjoy. Garrick Production Jack & The Beanstalk - The Garrick Pantomime Dec 6, 2024 - Jan 5, 2025 Find out more Book Now What's On See More Do you want to visit the Playhouse? The Garrick's vital community work provides life-changing experiences and makes exceptional theatre available to all. None of this would be possible without your support. Help us raise funds and reach even more people by donating or becoming a Friend of the Garrick today. Donate Friend of the Garrick Loyalty Scheme Get to know us There’s so much more to the Altrincham Garrick than the performances on our stages. Find out how to get involved in making theatre with us, try an audition or join our academy and truly get behind the scenes. Just follow the links below to explore… Find us Altrincham Garrick Playhouse Barrington Road, Altrincham, Greater Manchester WA14 1HZ Free parking available Box office 0161 928 1677 Mon – Fri : 11am – 4pm & 6pm – 8.30pm Sat: 9am – 12pm Drink & relax Bar: Non-show nights: Wed, Thurs & Fri 6.30pm – 11pm Show nights: 6pm - 11pm Matinees 1 hour before start. Find out more Join our mailing list Subscribe

Private Release GAPA - Group 2 Date range Tickets £148 Age guidance Group 2: Ages 11 - 14 years Venue Rehearsal Room Trigger warning Find out more Book now Running time 2 hours Group bookings Find out more Accessibility Find out more The Garrick Academy of Performing Arts Saturday Class - Term 2 2024/25 Season Group 2: 9am - 11am, Ages 11 - 14 years GAPA Saturday Groups GAPA currently runs seven Saturday groups: six on a Saturday morning for our 8 to 18 year olds, with our MINI GAPA class, for 5 to 8 year olds, on Saturday afternoons. Throughout the year, the groups work towards the goal of putting a production onto the main stage. The year starts with stagecraft, skills and audition preparation, giving students the opportunity to enhance and develop their performance skills. Then it’s audition time and, once the play is cast, the rehearsals start and all the elements of the show are put together. Working through this process, the students learn the valuable skills required of rehearsing and putting on a production, whilst being surrounded by fun and laughter. Private Release Book Tickets Wed 15 Oct Last few left 00:00 Show more times Trailer Reviews Gallery Friends of the Garrick Become a Friend of the Garrick! You can buy discounted tickets and support your local theatre. Become a Friend Now Join our mailing list Subscribe

Private Release GAPA - Group 4 Date range Tickets £148 Age guidance Group 4: Ages 8 - 11 years Venue Rehearsal Room Trigger warning Find out more Book now Running time 2 hours Group bookings Find out more Accessibility Find out more The Garrick Academy of Performing Arts Saturday Class - Term 2 2024/25 Season Group 4: 11:30am - 1:30pm, Ages 8 - 11 years GAPA Saturday Groups GAPA currently runs seven Saturday groups: six on a Saturday morning for our 8 to 18 year olds, with our MINI GAPA class, for 5 to 8 year olds, on Saturday afternoons. Throughout the year, the groups work towards the goal of putting a production onto the main stage. The year starts with stagecraft, skills and audition preparation, giving students the opportunity to enhance and develop their performance skills. Then it’s audition time and, once the play is cast, the rehearsals start and all the elements of the show are put together. Working through this process, the students learn the valuable skills required of rehearsing and putting on a production, whilst being surrounded by fun and laughter. Private Release Book Tickets Wed 15 Oct Last few left 00:00 Show more times Trailer Reviews Gallery Friends of the Garrick Become a Friend of the Garrick! You can buy discounted tickets and support your local theatre. Become a Friend Now Join our mailing list Subscribe

Private Release GAPA - Group 7 Date range Tickets £74 Age guidance Group 7 (Mini GAPA): 2pm - 3.30pm, Ages 5 - 8 years Venue Rehearsal Room Trigger warning Find out more Book now Running time 2 hours Group bookings Find out more Accessibility Find out more The Garrick Academy of Performing Arts Saturday Class - Term 2 2024/25 Season Group 7 (Minis): 2pm - 3:30pm, Ages 5 - 8 years GAPA Saturday Groups GAPA currently runs seven Saturday groups: six on a Saturday morning for our 8 to 18 year olds, with our MINI GAPA class, for 5 to 8 year olds, on Saturday afternoons. Throughout the year, the groups work towards the goal of putting a production onto the main stage. The year starts with stagecraft, skills and audition preparation, giving students the opportunity to enhance and develop their performance skills. Then it’s audition time and, once the play is cast, the rehearsals start and all the elements of the show are put together. Working through this process, the students learn the valuable skills required of rehearsing and putting on a production, whilst being surrounded by fun and laughter. Private Release Book Tickets Wed 15 Oct Last few left 00:00 Show more times Trailer Reviews Gallery Friends of the Garrick Become a Friend of the Garrick! You can buy discounted tickets and support your local theatre. Become a Friend Now Join our mailing list Subscribe

Private Release GAPA - Group 1 Date range Tickets £148 Age guidance Group 1: Ages 8 - 11 years Venue Rehearsal Room Trigger warning Find out more Book now Running time 2 hours Group bookings Find out more Accessibility Find out more The Garrick Academy of Performing Arts Saturday Class - Term 2 2024/25 Season Group 1: 9am - 11am, Ages 8 - 11 years GAPA Saturday Groups GAPA currently runs seven Saturday groups: six on a Saturday morning for our 8 to 18 year olds, with our MINI GAPA class, for 5 to 8 year olds, on Saturday afternoons. Throughout the year, the groups work towards the goal of putting a production onto the main stage. The year starts with stagecraft, skills and audition preparation, giving students the opportunity to enhance and develop their performance skills. Then it’s audition time and, once the play is cast, the rehearsals start and all the elements of the show are put together. Working through this process, the students learn the valuable skills required of rehearsing and putting on a production, whilst being surrounded by fun and laughter. Private Release Book Tickets Wed 15 Oct Last few left 00:00 Show more times Trailer Reviews Gallery Friends of the Garrick Become a Friend of the Garrick! You can buy discounted tickets and support your local theatre. Become a Friend Now Join our mailing list Subscribe

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Private Release GAPA - Group 3 Date range Tickets £148 Age guidance Group 3: Ages 14 - 18 years Venue Rehearsal Room Trigger warning Find out more Book now Running time 2 hours Group bookings Find out more Accessibility Find out more The Garrick Academy of Performing Arts Saturday Class - Term 2 2024/25 Season Group 3: 9am - 11am, Ages 14 - 18 years GAPA Saturday Groups GAPA currently runs seven Saturday groups: six on a Saturday morning for our 8 to 18 year olds, with our MINI GAPA class, for 5 to 8 year olds, on Saturday afternoons. Throughout the year, the groups work towards the goal of putting a production onto the main stage. The year starts with stagecraft, skills and audition preparation, giving students the opportunity to enhance and develop their performance skills. Then it’s audition time and, once the play is cast, the rehearsals start and all the elements of the show are put together. Working through this process, the students learn the valuable skills required of rehearsing and putting on a production, whilst being surrounded by fun and laughter. Private Release Book Tickets Wed 15 Oct Last few left 00:00 Show more times Trailer Reviews Gallery Friends of the Garrick Become a Friend of the Garrick! You can buy discounted tickets and support your local theatre. Become a Friend Now Join our mailing list Subscribe

Private Release GAPA - Group 6 Date range Tickets £148 Age guidance Group 6: Ages 14 - 18 years Venue Rehearsal Room Trigger warning Find out more Book now Running time 2 hours Group bookings Find out more Accessibility Find out more The Garrick Academy of Performing Arts Saturday Class - Term 2 2024/25 Season Group 6: 11:30am - 1:30pm, Ages 14 - 18 years GAPA Saturday Groups GAPA currently runs seven Saturday groups: six on a Saturday morning for our 8 to 18 year olds, with our MINI GAPA class, for 5 to 8 year olds, on Saturday afternoons. Throughout the year, the groups work towards the goal of putting a production onto the main stage. The year starts with stagecraft, skills and audition preparation, giving students the opportunity to enhance and develop their performance skills. Then it’s audition time and, once the play is cast, the rehearsals start and all the elements of the show are put together. Working through this process, the students learn the valuable skills required of rehearsing and putting on a production, whilst being surrounded by fun and laughter. Private Release Book Tickets Wed 15 Oct Last few left 00:00 Show more times Trailer Reviews Gallery Friends of the Garrick Become a Friend of the Garrick! You can buy discounted tickets and support your local theatre. Become a Friend Now Join our mailing list Subscribe

< Back The Lady In The Van - By Alan Bennett Previous Production Next Production to 30 May 2021 It is said that charity begins at home. For Alan Bennett, it began at the bottom of his drive with a yellow custard van inhabited by an irascible eccentric who refused to budge. The Lady in the Van is the true story of Miss Shepherd, an offbeat woman of uncertain origins, who “temporarily” parked her broken-down van in writer Alan Bennett's London driveway, and proceeded to live there for the next 15 years. Miss Shepherd’s stay may have been a blight on Bennett’s front garden, but it eventually allowed him to unravel the fascinating story of her life - for which we are all eternally indebted. Rick Bowen - Stage Struck https://www.stagestruck.info AS I left the Garrick on Monday night one question was running through my mind - why doesn’t Celia Bonner do more acting? She gives a captivating performance as Miss Shepherd, the enigmatic down and out taken in by Alan Bennett and who lived on his driveway for what was supposed to be a temporary basis. But “temporary” turned into 15 years and an unlikely friendship grew between the genius playwright and an old woman whose outlook on life was, to put it mildly, unique. It soon emerges that Miss Shepherd has a past, psychologically she’s damaged goods and her unapologetic attitude to personal cleanliness had the audience wincing with disgust when I saw this on opening night. Celia’s sense of timing is flawless and, under the astute direction of Carole Carr, she’s ably supported by Mike Shaw and Jonathan Black, who share the role of Bennett himself. Nobody tells a story quite like this national treasure and has turn of phrase is quite brilliant. But you have to be prepared to listen. It’s a case of blink and you’ll miss his priceless witticisms. Barry Purves’ and Amanda Cooke’s spartan set captures perfectly the suburban London in which this remarkable story unfolds, a tale which can be summed up in the phrase “you couldn’t make this up.” While Miss Shepherd’s lack of personal hygiene repulsed me at times, I found myself drawn to someone who refused to live by society’s rules. Alan Bennett was similarly drawn and he got a play out of it. Star rating - 3.5 out of 5. Photos by Martin Ogden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Car Parking. Cosy Bar. Great Prices. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

< Back Dick Barton - Special Agent Previous Production Next Production to 8 February 2014 Gabardine collar up, trilby at rakish angle, intrepid sleuth Dick Barton faces arch enemies Baron Scarheart and Marta Heartburn in a series of exotic, action-packed adventures, aiming to rid the world of evil in the name of decency and patriotism. Based on the 1940's BBC radio serial this critically acclaimed and hugely successful play is 'Deliriously funny' poking fun at English hearts-of-oak heroics with all the attendant class distinctions and tender regard for the little woman. It walks a very fine line between homage and camp spoof. The result is something that captures all the patriotic fervour of Hunhating post-war Britain even as it sends it up rotten. [gallery ids="https://www.altrinchamgarrick.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/dicka.jpg|,https://www.altrinchamgarrick.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/dickb.jpg|,https://www.altrinchamgarrick.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/dickc.jpg|,https://www.altrinchamgarrick.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/dicke.jpg|,https://www.altrinchamgarrick.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/dickf.jpg|,https://www.altrinchamgarrick.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/dicki.jpg|,https://www.altrinchamgarrick.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/dickj.jpg|,https://www.altrinchamgarrick.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/dickg.jpg|,https://www.altrinchamgarrick.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/dickk.jpg|"] CAST Dick Barton/ Snowy White Adam Whittle Baron Scarheart Nick Sample Viper?sNestMC/ Sir Stanley Fritters David Gonet Lady Laxington/ Marta Heartburn/ Daphne Fritters Laura Chandler Jock Anderson Sean Gonet BBC Announcer/ Colonel Gardener Barry Spencer Sale & Altrincham Messenger's Review by Rick Bowen Mission accomplished - Dick Barton entertains at the Garrick Dick Barton - Special Agent is quite unlike anything I've ever seen before. It's a sort of musical adult pantomime with some Carry On style jokes thrown in. When I say 'adult' I don't mean seedy and you could take granny to see this gloriously daft, cartoonish caper. Being a child of the 60's the archetypal English hero who inspired the piece means nothing to me, but I could really appreciate what is being sent up here. The sort of Englishman who's retains a stiff upper lip in a crisis, uses phrases like 'Johnny foreigner' and drinks tea from bone china cups. Spoofs can get on your nerves but this Altrincham Garrick production, expertly directed by Charlie Cook, is perfectly pitched, with a strong, animated and energetic cast effortlessly bringing their characters to life and making the most of the fun dialogue. Laura Chandler plays - among other roles - Martha Heartburn, henchwoman of Barton's arch enemy, Baron Scarheart. For me, this is Laura?s finest performance on this stage to date and her late dad Terry, a stalwart of this theatre, would have been proud of her. Adam Whittle is also very impressive as Barton and his cockney sidekick, Snowy. Dick Barton - Special Agent simply sets out to entertain and it's definitely a case of mission accomplished in a production that's a real antidote to the February gloom. Enjoy. Star Rating ★★★★

< Back A Touch of the Sun Previous Production Next Production to 12 August 2019 Barker, Ian Caldwell, Pamela Johnston, Robert