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  • Jeanne Anderson | Altrincham Garrick

    Previous Next Jeanne Anderson We don't yet have a tribute to Jeanne. If you would like to suggest some words, please get in contact with us. Back to In Memoriam page

  • Ian Appleyard | Altrincham Garrick

    Previous Next Ian Appleyard Ian had been a member for over 50 years and spent some of his retirement as a volunteer member of the Front of House Staff. Back to In Memoriam page

  • The Adult Panto: Jack and his Giant Stalk | Altrincham Garrick

    Visiting Production The Adult Panto: Jack and his Giant Stalk Date range Tickets £19 - £20 Age guidance Adults only Venue Main House Trigger warning Find out more Book now Running time TBC Group bookings Find out more Accessibility Find out more Extending the panto season into the new year the Market Theatre company are back for their 21st year of touring the UK with their unique brand of Adult Pantomime. The show takes on a large tour across the UK from November 2024–March 2025. The Market Theatre Company Adult Panto started life in the company’s own small-scale venue in Hitchin in Hertfordshire with a four-week run back in 1996 to now running for over 3 months with the current show. It’s popularity (says artistic director Kirk Foster) is down to its wide appeal. Kirk said “The Adult Panto differs from others you might find in that it is much more of a farcical comedy play than a typical pantomime twisted with adult references. It relies on the idea that a team of just three actors must play all the characters and tell the story while everything goes wrong around them with lots of innuendo thrown infor good measure!” he continues, “the Adult Panto really does appeal to everyone from ages 18–80!”. Production Manager Glyn Doggett said “feedback for our last show was incredible across social media so we can’t wait to return to those venues we visited last year, plus a few new ones this year!” he continues, “One of the things I love about our adult panto’s is that we are constantly surprising audiences with where we take the original story and characters, that’s part of what makes us different. It all ends in confusion giving it a big farcical finish which has become our trademark.” Visiting Production 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

  • Free as Air | Altrincham Garrick

    < Back Free as Air ˂ Previous Production Next Production ˃ 1 January 1960 to 1 January 1960 Bell, Richard Burgess, Pamela Caldwell, Pamela Evison, Ray Grimshaw, Joan Harrop, David Holt, Margaret Lee, Muriel Lee, Reg Lewis, Cynthia Loveday, Harry Owen, Barbara Price, Mair Shaw, John Walton, Barbara Wilkinson, Wallace

  • Theatrical Screening - MACBETH: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo | Altrincham Garrick

    Garrick Cinema Theatrical Screening - MACBETH: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo Date range Tickets £18 - £20 Age guidance Venue Main House Trigger warning Find out more Book now Running time 114 minutes Group bookings Find out more Accessibility Find out more David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) and Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, Criminal Record) lead a stellar cast in an ‘enthralling’ (★★★★★ Daily Telegraph) new production of Shakespeare’s MACBETH, filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London, especially for the big screen. Unsettling intimacy and brutal action combine at breakneck speed as Max Webster (Life of Pi, Henry V) directs this tragic tale of love, murder, and nature’s power of renewal. With staging ‘full of wolfish imagination and alarming surprise’ (★★★★★ The Guardian), the immersive 5.1 cinema surround sound places the audience inside the minds of the Macbeths, asking are we ever really responsible for our actions? Garrick Cinema 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

  • Terry Panton | Altrincham Garrick

    Previous Next Terry Panton We don't yet have a tribute to Terry. If you would like to suggest some words, please get in contact with us. Back to In Memoriam page

  • Brian Moore | Altrincham Garrick

    Previous Next Brian Moore Brian was introduced to the Garrick in 1965 by his then girlfriend, soon to be wife, Ann, who was auditioning for the pantomime The Wizard of Oz . By the time they left that evening, Brian had been cast as The Scarecrow and had become a fully paid-up member of the theatre. Brian went on to act in or be involved with dozens of plays and musicals over the next 50+ years. After his final show, when he was in his late 70s, he turned his hand to assisting many other areas of the theatre, including the bar and, with the help of others, running the Sunday Jazz lunches. Finally, after the refurbishment of the theatre, Brian took over the running of the confectionery kiosk. He introduced the selling of ice creams within the auditorium during the interval, making in his time many thousands of pounds for the Garrick. When not at the theatre, Brian could be found at the golf course enjoying the outdoor life. Brian was delighted to have been made an honorary Life Member of the Garrick theatre. Back to In Memoriam page

  • Norma Noar | Altrincham Garrick

    Previous Next Norma Noar Norma served the Garrick in many ways over many years, as a member of the Social Committee, working as an ASM or Prompt, and for a very long time as a highly-valued member of the Play Selection and Casting Committee. In the latter role she was also a tireless administrator - organising all the performance licenses for Garrick productions and ordering the many scripts. Back to In Memoriam page

  • Peter Coatman | Altrincham Garrick

    Previous Next Peter Coatman We don't yet have a tribute to Peter. If you would like to suggest some words, please get in contact with us. Back to In Memoriam page

  • Elf - 2003 Film Screening | Altrincham Garrick

    < Back Elf - 2003 Film Screening ˂ Previous Production Next Production ˃ 10 December 2024 to Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn't know he exists and is in deseperate need of some Christmas spirit. A jovial seasonal treat from director Jon Favreau, Elf was reportedly inspired by Tom Hanks in Big, but took on a life of its own once Will Ferrell became involved, improvising many of his lines and endowing the whole thing with manic energy. Watch Elf on our 'Big Screen' with Family and Friends and get into the Christmassy spirit!

  • Bombshells | Altrincham Garrick

    < Back Bombshells ˂ Previous Production Next Production ˃ 26 September 2023 to 1 October 2023 Six women on the edge - of greatness, of love, and their sanity. These monologues showcase six women balancing their inner and outer lives with humour, poignancy and depth. Meet Meryl who fears she is the world's worst mother; Tiggy who has taken refuge in her local cacti- appreciation society; Mary who refuses to be upstaged by her arch-nemesis; Theresa who couldn't be more excited to be in her wedding dress; Winsome who has grown tired of being 'one of the widows'; and, finally, Zoe who wants you to know that despite what you've heard, she's back and better than ever! Delve into each character's life as they bare their most urgent wishes and thoughts - at times hilarious and, at others, heart breaking. Bombshells tells riveting personal stories that everyone can find themselves in, for better or worse... Number 9 Reviews Following on from last Season’s successful all-LBGTQ+ productions, Altrincham Garrick Studio opens this year’s Season of all female themed plays with 'Bombshells' by Joanna Murray-Smith. Originally written as a one woman show, the play features six monologues; a schoolgirl, a bride, a hassled young mother, a widow, a suburban divorcee, and a has-been cabaret singer. Six stories, six ages of woman, six insights, six emotional states. I love a monologues structure. It allows the actor an intimacy of connection that isn’t usually experienced in a traditional play and for the audience it can be electric. If the quality of the writing and the quality of the performance are strong, Bingo! You have yourself a hit. Joanna Murray-Smith has, in these six monologues, create a very entertaining, humorous and contrasting work. Each woman has her own insight, her own experience, her own denial, her own victories and failures, her own fears and joys. First we meet Meryl (Eilidh Pollard) mother of three very young children. We wake with her at 6.07am when her crying baby starts the day and we stay with her for 24 hours until 6.07am the next morning when the whole routine (or lack of) starts again. She is hassled, harassed, tired and emotional. She is overwhelmed with love for her beautiful children and the endless repetition of the tasks of the day. She craves approval, acceptance, reassurance that she is a good mum, and coffee. She is filled with self-doubt and chastises herself as a selfish woman for ever considering her own needs; for ever being anything other than a slave to mother and wifehood. Pollard portrays well a loving woman who is under pressure. Her interactions with her children are well expressed and she uses her voice effectively and understands the rhythm and psyche of the character. I would have liked to have seen a more realistic handling of her ever present, milk demanding baby with a more realistic and believable baby prop. I think it would have allowed more moments of change of pace for her by utilising her breastfeeding regime and given contrast to the frantic pace of her day. Next we meet Tiggy. (Lindsay Barker) Shy, sad Tiggy. Poor lonely Tiggy. Abandoned, angry Tiggy. Her husband Harry has left her for a much younger woman and in response she has embraced the world of cacti and succulents by joining a local appreciation society. She gives talks about them in local community centres. She comes alive when speaking on this her specialist subject. Barker conveys a gentle, shy woman who is kind and thoughtful, sweet and gentle, but much like a cactus if you catch it the wrong way, a sharp, stabbing painful moment can occur at any time. There is a vulnerability about her that Barker portrays effectively. Young Mary O’Donnell (Ciara-Alexandra Booker) is the MOST talented girl in her school. She can sing and dance like no other and is hotly tipped to win the prestigious St Bridget’s Annual Talent Contest as she did last year, and the year before. When her nemesis Angela McTerry unexpectedly performs the very song and dance routine that Mary has been preparing, she has minutes to decide what to do as an alternative performance. It’s not a problem. She is talented, almost a professional, she will cope. If Meryl Streep can, she can. What unfolds is hilarious, well judged and sweetly psychopathic. Booker excels in this performance. Just like Les Dawson’s piano playing – you have to be pretty good to be able to do it that badly and Booker was THAT good. Theresa McTerry (Kim Armston) is The Bride. Today is the happiest day of her life. We see her prepare excitedly for her wedding telling us of how she has planned this moment since being a young girl. As she dresses herself for this, the most important day of her life, we share her excitement and anticipation. But as the moment comes and she steps into the ceremony her doubts and fears begin to emerge with great comedy. Turns out she hasn’t really thought much beyond the dress and Amston portrays this role with great humour and nicely timed focus. As the ceremony moves to the reception her state of mind declines and her desperation to escape her reality hits home. It really WAS all about the dress and her journey from giddy girl to desperate woman is laid bare. It is a nicely jugged and well paced performance Winsome (Sarat Broughton) is a widow. Her widowhood defines her as she copes with life following the death of her husband. She surrounds herself with the company of other widows and falls into a fixed routine of activity that seems to function as an anaesthetic to her pain and loss. When volunteering for a local Blind Society, reading books to it’s members, she meets Patrick, a much younger man. Gradually he seduces her and an awakening occurs that is both unexpected and beautiful. It takes some skill to perform a seduction alone on a stage and I must applaud Broughton for her portrayal. Her movement, vocal expression and nuanced performance was for me, impressive. Zoe Struthers (Annabel Fox) is a Diva. An ageing, alcoholic diva who is past her best. We witness her swansong, a final performance for her adoring fans. She is demanding, self pitying, deluded and drunk. She laps up the adoration and manipulates it to suit her many needs. A monologue which is styled with audience banter inserted between songs this could have been a final showstopper. For me, Fox did not quite deliver. Her tragic performance needed to be much bigger, bolder, drunker and more Diva-esque. Basically, more Liza Minelli. In conclusion, I did enjoy this show. The intimacy of this lovely studio worked very well for this piece of theatre and there was a lovely connection with an appreciative audience. Between the monologues, actors repositioned the stage for the next performer and for me this did not work and lacked directorial imagination. Connections could have been made using these moments and I felt clear opportunities were lost. This was a shame as there was some real talent amongst a generally good cast. The piece was entertaining and enjoyable. It was good. It could have been great. Reviewer - Lou Kershaw on - 27.9.23

  • Allan Taylor | Altrincham Garrick

    Previous Next Allan Taylor We don't yet have a tribute to Allan. If you would like to suggest some words, please get in contact with us. Back to In Memoriam page

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