Comedy historian Robert Ross returns to Barton upon Humber’s Ropery Hall next month with a seasonal offering of Christmas Crackers.
Robert, who last appeared at Ropery Hall last autumn with his show Forgotten Heroes of Comedy, will be celebrating the time when everyone gathered around the television to watch comedy favourites perform.
“Robert will be going back in time and saluting those perennial holiday treats enjoyed alongside mince pies, mulled wine and a few carols” said Liz Bennet of The Ropewalk.
“Whether its Laurel and Hardy selling fir trees off the back of their Model T Ford, Sid James as a department store Father Christmas, or the Two Ronnies reinventing Walt Disney’s Pinocchio as a murderous killer doll, these hilarious ghosts of Christmases past are still an integral part of the festive season,” she went on.
Of course, there’ll also be Eric and Ernie but perhaps like you’ve never seen them before.
Described as a one-man encyclopaedia of the very best of British comedy, Robert will be saluting these perennial holiday treats in an affectionate celebration, stuffed with rarely seen clips from the archives on Tuesday, December 17, starting at 7.30pm.
Tickets cost £5 in advance or £7 on the door. Advance tickets can be bought online at www.roperyhall.co.uk, in person at The Ropewalk’s Craft Gallery or by calling 01652 660380.
Comedy historian Robert Ross returns to Barton upon Humber’s Ropery Hall next month with a seasonal offering of Christmas Crackers.
Robert, who last appeared at Ropery Hall last autumn with his show Forgotten Heroes of Comedy, will be celebrating the time when everyone gathered around the television to watch comedy favourites perform. (more…)
The First Farewell Tour – Peggy Seeger with Calum MacColl
Making a very welcome visit to Ropery Hall on her ‘First Farewell Tour’, the charismatic Peggy Seeger – singer, songwriter, feminist, icon, Ewan MacColl’s partner and muse – is the undisputed queen of folk and political song. Join Peggy and her son Calum MacColl, an exceptional musician in his own right, for a glorious evening of up-close performance. Expect to hear some of Peggy and Ewan MacColl’s most loved songs, readings from Peggy’s award-winning memoir ‘The First Time Ever’, plenty of audience participation and lots of relaxed family banter.
“Peggy may be folk royalty, but there’s nothing either reverent or nostalgic about this joyous and intimate performance” The Guardian
“Glorious – Peggy is a commanding presence” The Times
“An effortlessly intimate affair” The Scotsman
“A memorable warm and charming evening of great music, family humour and grace.” Irish World
(15) 1hr 40mins –
A musician from Glasgow dreams of becoming a Nashville star.
Starring Jessie Buckley, Matt Costello
(2019) 12 | 1h 58min
Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.
Stars: Renée Zellweger, Finn Wittrock
Written and performed by Mark Farrelly
Directed by Linda Marlowe
Following his much-acclaimed performance of Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope at Ropery Hall last year, Mark Farrelly returns with his riveting, kinetic solo show portraying one of the great English writers of the inter-war years. Patrick Hamilton was a dazzling success in his twenties, producing hit plays Rope (filmed by Hitchcock) and Gaslight, and classic novels Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky, Hangover Square and The Slaves of Solitude.
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But Hamilton was also an alcoholic, whose wit darkened as his inner and outer worlds collapsed. Covering the entire sweep of Hamilton’s thrilling life and writing, The Silence of Snow entertains and challenges in equal measure, asking audiences: why do so many of us get through life without feeling we ever truly knew another person?
Mark Farrelly’s West End credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opposite Matthew Kelly. He is directed by EastEnders star Linda Marlowe, who also directed Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope.
★★★★ “You won’t be able to take your eyes off this magnetic actor Mark Farrelly. He inhabits the character of Hamilton with a blazing fluidity” The Times
★★★★ “Farrelly’s performance is electric” What’s On Stage
★★★★ “Horrifyingly funny snapshot of the wit, novelist and playwright. Brilliant” The Spectator
★★★★ “Farrelly’s revelatory autopsy of a cauterised heart of darkness is intimidatingly implosive: stand well close” The Reviews Hub
★★★★ “Farrelly’s achievement is to portray a life so lacking in personal happiness so entertainingly” British Theatre Guide
For over a decade folks have been asking Snake for an album of gentle, relaxing pieces – music to chill out to, stretch to, fall asleep to. Frog on a Lily Pad is that album and tonight Snake plays pieces from the album live and explains the history of their composition and recording.
Featuring the Japanese Shakuhachi, Chinese Dizi, the beautiful Handpan drum, whistles, and the saxes at their most mellow. Plus general banter, requests and Question and Answer
