Looking For Me Friend – the Music of Victoria Wood

Ripon Arts Hub 49 Allhallowgate, Ripon, United Kingdom

*SOLD OUT* “The most feel-good show in town”⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ (The Daily Mail) has spread nostalgia and laughter throughout the UK and has the seal of approval from Victoria’s very own schoolchums and colleagues. Featuring the star of BBC1’s ‘All Together Now’, Paulus The Cabaret Geek “King of Cabaret” (The Stage) with Michael Roulston …

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£14 – £16

Tales from Honeypot Village

The Unicorn Hotel 2 Market Place East, Ripon, United Kingdom

Join our Storyteller in Residence, Ilaria, for a breakfast-time adventure. Funny and interactive stories featuring loveable characters Rita the Mouse and The Tidy Trolls. Age guide ​4+ A Pay What ​You Can event. Recommended price £4 per ​child.  

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Ayla’s Dream

Ripon Library The Arcade, Ripon, United Kingdom

Another magical miniature suitcase show from expert puppeteers, Eye of Newt. A captivating tale of night skies, light and counting sheep. Puppet workshop making beautiful moths accompanies the library performance. Age guide ​3-10 A Pay What ​You Can event. Recommended price £4 per ​child. Performance is also repeated every ten minutes in Ripon Cathedral from …

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Monoliths – Saturday morning

Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United Kingdom

Three 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. …

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£5

Tales from Honeypot Village

Little Ripon Bookshop 12-13 Westgate, Ripon, United Kingdom

Join our Storyteller in Residence, Ilaria, for an imaginative adventure with puppets. Funny and interactive stories featuring loveable characters Rita the Mouse and The Tidy Trolls. Age guide ​4+ A Pay What ​You Can event. Recommended price £4 per ​child.  

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Monoliths – Saturday afternoon

Ripon Cathedral Minster Road,, Ripon, United Kingdom

Three 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. …

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£5

The Trial of John Sinkler

Courthouse Museum Minster Road, Ripon, United Kingdom

Step 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 …

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£4

The Adventures of Doctor Dolittle

Newby Hall and Gardens Skelton-on-Ure, Ripon, United Kingdom

Doctor 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 …

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£11 – £17

We’re Not Going Back

Ripon Arts Hub 49 Allhallowgate, Ripon, United Kingdom

75 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 …

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£12 – £14

Opera Brunch

Valentino's Restaurant 14 Westgate, Ripon, United Kingdom

*SOLD OUT* With the Down-to-Earth Diva, Nicola Mills.An uplifting start to your Festival Sunday with a truly unique performer. Choose from a wide-ranging Song Menu from Italian arias to crossover classics. “I laughed and was amazed in a matter of minutes” Tickets £16 - includes brunch Brunch includes sweet or savoury pastries with Bucks Fizz …

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£16

Fate and the Warrior

Workhouse Museum Sharow View, Allhallowgate, Ripon, United Kingdom

In 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 …

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As You Like It

The Old Deanery Minster Road,, Ripon, United Kingdom

Shakespeare'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 …

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£11 – £18