The Wakeman Mummers
Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United KingdomFREE EVENT 11.15-11.30am Ripon Cathedral forecourt 1.15-1.30pm Ripon Cathedral forecourt
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Stone Soup
Ripon Marketplace Market Place, Ripon, United KingdomA wandering stranger holds the secret to making delicious soup, fit for the finest folk in the land. But can they really make soup with just a stone? Performed from a travelling cart and including elements of storytelling, music and comical puppet characters. Eye of Newt’s re-telling of this traditional folk tale invites audiences young and …
Theatre for One
Kirkgate Kirkgate, Ripon, United KingdomStreet theatre with a difference. 3 short performances lasting 3 minutes. Each performed to only one person at a time, (plus curious onlookers!) A most intriguing, and then exclusive, theatre experience! “A simple idea, the best ones often are, created with such loving care and attention to detail that you just have to smile. Sometimes …
Monoliths – Saturday afternoon
Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United KingdomThree women. Three voices. Three stories. An immersive, digital theatre experience, which interweaves three northern UK landscapes – a moor, a city and a coast – with sweeping soundscapes and poetic monologues. Written by Hannah Davies, Carmen Marcus and Asma Elbadawi, the stories are an arresting testament to the inextricable link between person and place. …
£5
The Trial of John Sinkler
Courthouse Museum Minster Road, Ripon, United KingdomStep inside a Magistrates Court room virtually unchanged since first being built and experience justice 1871 style in Ripon Courthouse as members of the Workhouse Theatre group invite you to the trial of John Sinkler for Poaching and Threatening to shoot a watcher. Ensure Justice is seen to be done as audience members or perhaps …
£4
Stone Soup
Minster Gardens Minster Road,, Ripon, United KingdomA wandering stranger holds the secret to making delicious soup, fit for the finest folk in the land. But can they really make soup with just a stone? Performed from a travelling cart and including elements of storytelling, music and comical puppet characters. Eye of Newt’s re-telling of this traditional folk tale invites audiences young and …
Theatre for One
Kirkgate Kirkgate, Ripon, United KingdomStreet theatre with a difference. 3 short performances lasting 3 minutes. Each performed to only one person at a time, (plus curious onlookers!) A most intriguing, and then exclusive, theatre experience! “A simple idea, the best ones often are, created with such loving care and attention to detail that you just have to smile. Sometimes …
The Adventures of Doctor Dolittle
Newby Hall and Gardens Skelton-on-Ure, Ripon, United KingdomDoctor Dolittle leads a simple life as the village doctor in sleepy Puddleby-On-The-Marsh. He often undercharges his patients, or even treats them for free, so he is terribly poor. But one day, with the help of his wise old parrot Polynesia, he makes an extraordinary discovery: that he can talk to animals. As news of …
£11 – £17
We’re Not Going Back
Ripon Arts Hub 49 Allhallowgate, Ripon, United Kingdom75 Mines. 3 Sisters. 1 Cause. (And a six-pack of Babycham) 2024 is the fortieth anniversary of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, a dispute that still resonates today. But the strike wasn’t just about pickets vs police – in this thought-provoking musical comedy, there are no miners and no cops. Instead, we follow the fortunes of …
£12 – £14
The Not So Big Bad Wolf
Ripon Spa Gardens Park Street, Ripon, United Kingdom“Welcome back Listeners – Little Red Riding Hood here! Stay tuned as I go undercover to reveal the truth behind fairytales’ most infamous villain – The Big Bad Wolf” Meet Little Red; adventurer, heroine and world-renowned “True Grimm” podcaster. She’s on a mission to debunk the myths around her so called nemesis, with the help …
Fate and the Warrior
Workhouse Museum Sharow View, Allhallowgate, Ripon, United KingdomIn the atmospheric surroundings of the Guardians' Room at Ripon Workhouse, Fell-Foss Theatre presents the first read through of a new play detailing the last years of Edgar Mittelholzer, credited as the first English speaking novelist from the Caribbean. He had a prolific output, gaining much success, though his work took an increasingly darker tone …
PWYC
As You Like It
The Old Deanery Minster Road,, Ripon, United KingdomShakespeare's leafy tale of banishment, love and disguise is given a light-hearted and musical treatment by Folksy Theatre. Rosalind, the daughter of a banished duke, falls in love with Orlando. Banished from the court by her usurping uncle, Rosalind takes on the appearance of a boy, calling herself Ganymede. She, her cousin Celia and jester …
£11 – £18