Central Studio Basingstoke

QMC Performing arts DEPARTMENT @ central Studio



Wednesday 8th - Saturday 11th February at 7.30pm
SWEET CHARITY
QM Hall

scMusic by Cy Coleman 
Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Book by Neil Simon
Following the success of Les Miserables, Hair, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Tommy, Footloose and last year Jesus Christ Superstar,  the performing arts department will be presenting Cy Coleman and Dorothy Field’s musical, Sweet Charity. The musical follows the
romantic ups-and-downs of dancer-for-hire, Charity Hope Valentine, in the Fan-Dango Ballroom.  This Tony Award winning musical features many big band numbers such as Big Spender, The Rhythm of Life and If My Friends Could See Me Now.
Tickets:  £9 full, £7 concessions, £5 children & students, £22 family (2 adults, 2 children)


Wednesday 29th February & Thursday 1st March at 7.30pm
Btec Level 3 National Diploma Students present
ERPINGHAM CAMP

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Joe Orton’s Farce was originally a television play written in 1965 and rewritten in 1967 for the stage.
In this, ‘… his version of The Bacchae, a fun palace revolution set in a Butlin’s holiday resort – ‘Erpingham Camp’ – ‘nobody came closer than Orton to reviving on the English stage the outrageous and violent prankster spirit of comedy…….’ John Lahr.

Tickets: £5.10 full, £4.10 concessions, £3.10 students and children






Wednesday 7th - Thursday 8th March at 7pm
DANCE EXPLORATION

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 Come and support the students and help make their exam show enjoyable as you watch a mixture of  duos and trios by the A level group and solo pieces by the AS students.
 Tickets: £5.10 full, £4.10 concessions and children, £3.10 students







Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th March 2012 at 7.30pm
In QM Hall

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

by William Shakespeare

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The second year acting diploma students present Shakespeare’s magical fantasy play, using physical theatre and “steam punk” to underpin the narrative.  This famous mismatch in love includes the six labourers, “rude mechanicals”, who attempt to put on a play to celebrate the nuptials of their King, Theseus; the Fairyland lovers, Titania and Oberon, wage war with each other, using the forces of nature over the possession of an Indian boy and the four young Athenian lovers fall in and out of love as they traverse the forest. 
Tickets: £5.10 full, £4.10 concessions, £3.10 students and children


Monday 19th March at 7.30pm
A-Level students present
SING WE AT PLEASURE

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 Sing We At Pleasure is the title of a composition by Thomas Weelkes, one of the set works the students are  to study this year. In this concert the students perform a kaleidoscope of works from a variety of periods and  genres, creating a sociable and jolly event that the great English madrigalist would have most likely  appreciated.

 In support of Precious School, Uganda
 Tickets: £5.10 full, $4.10 concessions, £3.10 children and students





Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd March at 7pm

DANCE STEPS
The BTEC 2nd year students present their Final Major Project performing pieces from Hairspray, some ballet and street. The 1st year students will perform 'Dance Steps'.

Tickets: £5.10 full, £4.10 concessions and children, £3.10 students

Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th March at 7.30pm
DIRECTOR’S PIECES

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The second year extended diploma students direct the first years in a range of extracts from the contemporary repertoire taking on the full responsibility of directing.
Tickets: £5.10 full, £4.10 concessions, £3.10 students and children



Wednesday 25th & Thursday 26th April at 7.30pm
In QM Hall

A LITTLE GERMANY

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 The first year Extended Diploma students present a selection of songs with a German  theme, including extracts from The Producers, The Sound of Music and Threepenny Opera.   
 Tickets: £5.10 full, £4.10 concessions, £3.10 students and children


Wednesday 16th & Thursday 17th May at 7.30pm
Y2 Extended National Diploma students present
THE ENQUIRY

by Charlotte Hastings

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An intense drama about a prisoner sentenced for killing her very sick child.  Set in an  open prison of the 1950s, she is attacked and driven to attempt suicide.  The prison  authorities discover that the attack was made by an inmate Gow who has a lesbian  attachment to another prisoner, Valentine, and who is insanely jealous of Kate’s  innocent friendship with Valentine.  By the end of the play the question over the death  of the child is investigated and the truth revealed.
Tickets: £5.10 full, £4.10 concessions, £3.10 students and children 


Wednesday 20th - Thursday  21st  June at 7.30pm
HOTEL PARADISO
By Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres

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 The first year extended diplomas present Feydeau’s hirlarious farce.  Boniface arrives at the Hotel   Paradiso  to meet Marcelle; Maxime has been enticed there by an enterprising and amorous   maidservant; Cot goes  there to investigate the strange noises which he is convinced emanate from  the drains.  In order to avoid  extremely compromising confrontations, everyone spends the entire  night dashing up and down the stairs, in  and out of beds in a crescendo of hilarious chaos which is  made  even worse by a sudden police raid on the  unsavoury hotel.
 TICKETS: £5.10 FULL, £4.10 concessions, £3.10 students

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