SATURDAY, March 9, 7.30pm, St Mary?s Church, Thame. Thame Chamber Choir’s concert – The Greatest Genius? Britten? Byrd? Parry? Elgar? Thame Chamber Choir presents the case for each and the audience chooses the winner and thereby their encore!
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MUSIC in the Park 2013 ? Thame?s fantastic family music festival is back! Put Sunday, May 12, in your diaries now! With a generous variety of music and dance on offer, there?s sure to be something for all tastes. The event will feature two main stages with live music and dance, and an acoustic stage.
Have fun dancing the day away or chill out with a leisurely picnic. Of course, there will also be all the usual goodies you?d expect at a festival, including tasty real ales, a wide variety of delicious foods, fun activities for children and adults, and beautiful arts and crafts.
The music programme will once again feature a wealth of local talent including Muttz Knuttz, Little Bill?s Big Band, Stone Cold Broke and Bootlegger. Already confirmed for this year from further afield, is ‘Hats off to Led Zeppelin’, the tribute act that wowed visitors last year, as well as the Dung Beatles – you guessed it, a Beatles tribute act.
Headlining will be Oxfordshire-based, Bolt From The Blue, who will thrill visitors with their high-energy show packed with soul and R&B classics. The line-up includes Thame’s very own Vic Winslade (Fore Golf shop, Buttermarket, Thame) on Alto/Tenor Saxophone.
Last year?s Music in the Park attracted some 3,500 visitors and raised more than
THE DEEP BLUE SEA by Terence Rattigan – performed by Thame Players at The Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame, from Tuesday, March 5, to Saturday, March 9, 2013.
The Deep Blue Sea is considered by many to be Rattigan?s finest work. The play was first performed in London in March 1952, when it was praised by critics and audiences as evidence that Rattigan’s view of life was growing deeper and more complex. It also won praise for actress Peggy Ashcroft, who co-starred with Kenneth More in the first production.
In creating the play, Rattigan was inspired by the suicide of a young actor with whom he had previously had a relationship. Peggy Ashcroft said of the part: “I feel I’m walking around the stage naked.” Her comment served to indicate how emotionally revealing the play is. Yvonne Maxwell, the Director for Thame Players’ production, commented: “It?s a play about love and sexual repression against the backdrop of austerity Britain.”
The play revolves around the relationship between Hester Collyer and her lover Freddy Page. Freddy was a Spitfire pilot in World War II. He came out of that a war hero and worked as a test pilot, but lost his nerve and hit the bottle. Before we join the play, Hester has left her husband and is living with Freddy, pretending to be his wife. We join them at the nadir of their relationship.
The Deep Blue Sea will be performed at The Players Theatre at 7.45pm each evening between Tuesday 5th and Saturday 9th March. Tickets cost
BILLED as recalling ‘The decade that fashion forgot’, Friday’s 1980s celebration saw flouncy-cuffed New Romantics, a couple of Michael Jacksons, a gaggle of Bee Gees, and at least two Village Persons party the night away at the Spread Eagle Hotel in Thame.
DJ Kristian spun the discs and those who couldn’t make it are regretting that they missed the social event of the year!
Peter Butt, Chair of the Thame Youth Memorial Trust, was delighted with the turn out, and on his Facebook page he posted: “To everyone that came along last night, to all the local businesses who donated raffle prizes, to the staff of The Spread Eagle Hotel and to all our friends and family that assisted us in planning and running last nights 80’s night – THANK YOU!!!!!
“With your help, we raised a massive
THE family and friends of Alex Woods, who was severely brain damaged in a Rugby accident, continue to organise fund-raising events to help his family and Alex deal with rehab and everyday living expenses of a young family without a dad around all time.
Tickets are now available for the ‘Making Waves for Alex’ Winter Wonderland Ball, to be hald on February 9, at Thame Football Club. They are being sold from today, at Thame Football Club, Racquets Fitness Centre, Cattlemarket, Thame, and Brothers hairdressers in Buttermarket, Thame. Tickets are
UNTOUCHABLE – Friday, February8, at 8pm – Released: 2011; France Cert: 15 112 mins Directors: Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache Cast: Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clotilde Mollet, Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy
This film has proved to be a hit across the Channel; an irreverent take on disability, apparently drawn from real life. Les Intouchables is the second-highest-grossing domestically produced film of all time, and up for an Oscar nomination.
Driss, a Senegalese man living in a Paris slum, applies for a job as caretaker to a wealthy quadriplegic, but all he wants is to get his paper stamped so he can get benefits. Despite his lack of qualifications, he lands the job because of his attitude: Philippe, the quadriplegic, wants a caretaker who will look at him without pity. As Driss reluctantly learns to move, feed, and clean Philippe, the two men discover a blunt but vital humour that not only bridges the cultural and class divide between them, but gives Philippe a renewed joy in life.
Untouchable is not really a film about race, or disability, or anything other than friendship.
A massive success in France; the movie has the sweet sincerity and uplifting conclusion that make for a classic feel-good experience.
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IN AID OF THE THAME YOUTH MEMORIAL – 7pm to 1am, with DJ Kristian, Spread Eagle Hotel, Thame. All proceeds on the night to Thame Youth Memorial. Tickets
A six week course for parents of 5-11 year olds will be held every Tuesday at Christchurch, Thame from 9.15am to 11.00am commencing Tuesday, February 19.
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THE Thame First Thursday Club, which meets monthly at the Stables, behind The James Figg pub, will be celebrating its third birthday this Thursday.
Thame?s biggest, monthly, music event was originally started by Jonny Littler, and has since grown to become the regular diary event for many people in Thame and the surrounding area.
Jonnie?s band, 2am Blue, are the featured act this month. The band is comprised of Jonnie himslef on lead guitar and vocals, Jim Greenough on rhythm guitar and vocals, Steve Greenough on Bass, Tom Reveler on percussion and new band member Vanessa Hake on Keyboards and vocals.
Joining 2am Blue for the birthday celebrations will be:
The August List
Joshua Gilbert
The Band with No Name
The Memphis Rattlesnakes
Dave and Sophie Crowe
Hopefully Sir Walt will get back from Derby in time, and 2am Blue themselves should be on at around 10pm.
Anyone can play on the night just by signing up at the venue from 7.45pm.
Check out the club on Facebook ‘The First Thursday Music Club’ or at www.firstthursdaymusicclub.com where you can find more information including contact numbers and addresses for the organisers.
THE Oxford based professional company, Gobo Theatre Foundation, will be visiting The Players Theatre in Thame, at 7.45pm on Saturday, February 2, with a modern adaptation of Lewis Carroll?s Alice in Wonderland, simply called, Alice.
This adaptation is not as ?twee? as many earlier versions and provides a thought provoking story suitable for adults and older children.
The white rabbit as a hoodie-wearing yoof? The Queen of hearts as Alice?s own mother? Croquet as a bargaining stage in mourning? It’s Alice in Wonderland, but not as we know it. Alice is a new adaptation of Carroll?s story, by Yorkshire playwright Laura Wade, here performed by the Gobo Theatre Foundation.
The foundation is a charity as well as a theatre group, operating a ?fair paid is fair played? ethos to give acting opportunities as well as financial and career management advice to budding 16-25 year old actors. This is a rare helping hand in an industry whose cut throat competitiveness, combined with the recent evaporation of government support, is threatening the cultivation of future dramatic talent in this country.
Alice is updated, from a Victorian, hairband-sporting dreamer, to a modern day teenager whose elder brother has just died in a car crash. The play opens with the funeral reception in which a bewildered Alice staggers amongst an assorted array of emotionally absent parents, interfering school teachers and well-meaning relatives. As the clich