May 2024 - 2 Theatre Performances this month
Saturday 11th May 2024 - 7pm
Rambling and our rights of way
Join Mikron on a ‘hill-arious’ ramble through the history of land access in England.
From ze Norman Conquest to loitering in lockdown, via The Mass Trespass at Kinder Scout.
The Pendale and District Ramblers are looking forward to celebrating ‘in stile’ on their 50th anniversary walk, but the path has been blocked by the landowner.
How will they find their way through?
Their quest for freedom and fresh air won’t be easy, as they navigate bulls, beavers, and wandering sheep.
Grab your boots and waterproof for a meander with Mikron on a hike through history.
Tickets: https://mikron.org.uk/show/common-ground-the-cluntergate-centre/
Rambling and our rights of way
Join Mikron on a ‘hill-arious’ ramble through the history of land access in England.
From ze Norman Conquest to loitering in lockdown, via The Mass Trespass at Kinder Scout.
The Pendale and District Ramblers are looking forward to celebrating ‘in stile’ on their 50th anniversary walk, but the path has been blocked by the landowner.
How will they find their way through?
Their quest for freedom and fresh air won’t be easy, as they navigate bulls, beavers, and wandering sheep.
Grab your boots and waterproof for a meander with Mikron on a hike through history.
Tickets: https://mikron.org.uk/show/common-ground-the-cluntergate-centre/
Sunday 26th May 2024 - 7.30pm
Katie and Hannah love murder. They go to bed listening to podcasts about serial killers; they clutch blankets glued to gruesome documentaries. They're in deep. Burrowing beneath the skin, beneath the guts, beneath the veins and blood and mess of flesh. They're not sure if they can stop, and they're not sure if they want to.
Dead Girls Rising is a furious coming-of-age punk cabaret show about trying to survive in a violent patriarchy, our deepest fears, and how we seek to control them. It's a play about holding your breath as you walk home at night.
It's a play about the edges of us and how the world sharpens them.
Written and lyrics by Maureen Lennon, with music and lyrics by Anya Pearson (from acclaimed punk band Dream Nails).
Tickets: https://www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk/events/dead-girls-rising
Katie and Hannah love murder. They go to bed listening to podcasts about serial killers; they clutch blankets glued to gruesome documentaries. They're in deep. Burrowing beneath the skin, beneath the guts, beneath the veins and blood and mess of flesh. They're not sure if they can stop, and they're not sure if they want to.
Dead Girls Rising is a furious coming-of-age punk cabaret show about trying to survive in a violent patriarchy, our deepest fears, and how we seek to control them. It's a play about holding your breath as you walk home at night.
It's a play about the edges of us and how the world sharpens them.
Written and lyrics by Maureen Lennon, with music and lyrics by Anya Pearson (from acclaimed punk band Dream Nails).
Tickets: https://www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk/events/dead-girls-rising
March 2024 - 3 Theatre Performances this month - all £5 per person
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 still resonating today.
In this hard-hitting musical comedy, we follow the fortunes of three sisters determined to set up a branch of Women Against Pit Closures. We’re Not Going Back tackles the resilience of working communities, the make-and-mend fabric of family and the power of sticking two fingers up to a government hell-bent on destruction.
Written by ex-Chumbawamba founder member Boff Whalley, this musical will have you laughing and crying in equal measure.
This event was supported with a Culture Grant by Wakefield Council
3 Sisters.
1 Cause.
(And a six-pack of Babycham)
2024 is the fortieth anniversary of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, a dispute still resonating today.
In this hard-hitting musical comedy, we follow the fortunes of three sisters determined to set up a branch of Women Against Pit Closures. We’re Not Going Back tackles the resilience of working communities, the make-and-mend fabric of family and the power of sticking two fingers up to a government hell-bent on destruction.
Written by ex-Chumbawamba founder member Boff Whalley, this musical will have you laughing and crying in equal measure.
This event was supported with a Culture Grant by Wakefield Council
Sunday 10th March 2024 - 7.30pm - £5 per person
Tickets: www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk/events/were-not-going-out-2024-the-cluntergate-centre-horbury
Tickets: www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk/events/were-not-going-out-2024-the-cluntergate-centre-horbury
It’s about the places that make us and the places we make. It’s about growing up and moving away. It’s about where we’ve been and where we are now. It’s about belonging and not belonging. It’s about not fitting in and finding a place to fit in. It’s about here. It’s about there. It’s about me and it’s about you.
Join Phil in his journey as he recreates beer ads we have loved, the 1968 Rugby League Challenge Cup final, under-16s disco night at the Mecca ballroom, Wakefield, and his mum and dad’s silver-wedding party. This show is about the places we grow up in and the traces they may or may not leave; finding, losing and re-discovering roots.
Using popular performance forms A Good Neet Aht explores class, identity and belonging. It’s a kaleidoscope of experiences travelling through time and place with its feet placed firmly in the pit village of Phil’s youth. It’s at turns comic, reflective, celebratory and occasionally abrasive but always heartfelt.
This event was supported with a Culture Grant by Wakefield Council
Join Phil in his journey as he recreates beer ads we have loved, the 1968 Rugby League Challenge Cup final, under-16s disco night at the Mecca ballroom, Wakefield, and his mum and dad’s silver-wedding party. This show is about the places we grow up in and the traces they may or may not leave; finding, losing and re-discovering roots.
Using popular performance forms A Good Neet Aht explores class, identity and belonging. It’s a kaleidoscope of experiences travelling through time and place with its feet placed firmly in the pit village of Phil’s youth. It’s at turns comic, reflective, celebratory and occasionally abrasive but always heartfelt.
This event was supported with a Culture Grant by Wakefield Council
Saturday 16th March 2024 - 7.30pm - £5 per person
Tickets: https://www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk/events/a-good-neet-aht-2024-at-the-cluntergate-centre-horbury
Tickets: https://www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk/events/a-good-neet-aht-2024-at-the-cluntergate-centre-horbury
Man overboard! Man overboard! Call control. Blow the whistle.
Love is a complicated business. It gets even more complicated when the person you love doesn’t want to be alive. Tender, funny and defiantly hopeful, The Light House is a real-life story of falling in love and staying in love, even when the lights go out and you’re lost in the dark. It’s a love letter to life.
Join the emergency response as we dance in the kitchen, sing in the streets and try to turn the lights back on. It gets lonely, muddling through these days and nights. So why don’t we do it together?
The Light House is supported by Arts Council England, Leeds Playhouse, Theatre Deli and Slung Low, in partnership with the Samaritans.
This event was supported with a Culture Grant by Wakefield Council
Love is a complicated business. It gets even more complicated when the person you love doesn’t want to be alive. Tender, funny and defiantly hopeful, The Light House is a real-life story of falling in love and staying in love, even when the lights go out and you’re lost in the dark. It’s a love letter to life.
Join the emergency response as we dance in the kitchen, sing in the streets and try to turn the lights back on. It gets lonely, muddling through these days and nights. So why don’t we do it together?
The Light House is supported by Arts Council England, Leeds Playhouse, Theatre Deli and Slung Low, in partnership with the Samaritans.
This event was supported with a Culture Grant by Wakefield Council
Saturday 23rd March 2024 - 7.30pm - £5 per person
Tickets: https://www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk/events/the-light-house-2024-at-the-cluntergate-centre-horbury
Tickets: https://www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk/events/the-light-house-2024-at-the-cluntergate-centre-horbury
February 2023
Lots of new events to look forward to!
Saturday February 18th 2023 - 7.30pm - Doors Open 7pm
Tickets from www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk/events/blow-down-the-cluntergate-centre
Tickets from www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk/events/blow-down-the-cluntergate-centre
Saturday February 25th 2023 - 7.30pm - Doors Open 7pm
Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-cluntergate-centre
Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-cluntergate-centre
September 2022
Another great night of comedy at the Centre!
10th September 2022 - 7.30pm
15 year-old Reece is roughly accosted by the police outside M&S.
His teacher Gillian watches as his face is pressed into the wet gravel with a policeman’s knee in his back, frozen out of fear for her own safety.
The next day Reece locks them both in her classroom, refusing to relinquish the key. He wants her to pay – and to fully understand the pain her inaction has caused.
Tickets £5
https://www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk/.../my-voice-was...
Funded by Wakefield Council.
@mywakefield
#culturegrantswfd
15 year-old Reece is roughly accosted by the police outside M&S.
His teacher Gillian watches as his face is pressed into the wet gravel with a policeman’s knee in his back, frozen out of fear for her own safety.
The next day Reece locks them both in her classroom, refusing to relinquish the key. He wants her to pay – and to fully understand the pain her inaction has caused.
Tickets £5
https://www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk/.../my-voice-was...
Funded by Wakefield Council.
@mywakefield
#culturegrantswfd
July 2022
30th July 2022
Performances at 6pm and 7.45pm Tickets £6.50 per person including booking fee Everyone says that boys are easier to look after than girls when they're teenagers. Manhood, is a coming-of-age play which follows the story of sixteen-year-old boy, Ben and his dog Otto on his journey to find Manhood! With an absent father figure, Ben seeks for the right answers in becoming a man. However, it isn't easy when his father is behind closed doors after a crime, he committed 10 years ago. Does Ben realise that he doesn't need a father figure on his journey? Or does he still see his dad as the hero his 6-year-old self-thought he was. The play explores themes of coming of age, sex and family dynamics. |
December 2021
November 2021
Tickets on sale Monday 8th November 2021
October 2021
3rd October
Undermined
‘Police Brutality? Money problems? No worries, I’ve got my mates!’
Inspired by the accounts of miners who lived through the strike, Undermined depicts a year when friendships were strengthened and communities came together. Experience a series of events through the eyes of young miner Dale, as he takes you through his personal story inviting you into the action. This one-man show explores the humour and struggles of the miners’ strike through energetic and gripping storytelling. Danny Mellor presents a youthful and contemporary approach to one of Britain’s most controversial disputes.
Undermined
‘Police Brutality? Money problems? No worries, I’ve got my mates!’
Inspired by the accounts of miners who lived through the strike, Undermined depicts a year when friendships were strengthened and communities came together. Experience a series of events through the eyes of young miner Dale, as he takes you through his personal story inviting you into the action. This one-man show explores the humour and struggles of the miners’ strike through energetic and gripping storytelling. Danny Mellor presents a youthful and contemporary approach to one of Britain’s most controversial disputes.
September 2021
11th September
Happy Earth Day
Part of Wakefield's Festival of the Earth
Come along and make a pledge, find out about Green Park, make Seed Bombs, take part in some seasonal sewing, enjoy some plant based snacks.
Free entry
11am - 3pm - drop in anytime
Happy Earth Day
Part of Wakefield's Festival of the Earth
Come along and make a pledge, find out about Green Park, make Seed Bombs, take part in some seasonal sewing, enjoy some plant based snacks.
Free entry
11am - 3pm - drop in anytime
August 2021
28th August
Live Theatre
'Life Below'
There's more than coal beneath your feet, There's a Life Below.
Life below explores the Gooder family and their life within the mine and after a terrible incident in the Gawber Pit. Rosie Gooder fights for the mines to stay open as her family's lives' have evolved around the pits. Jumping between 1849 to 1984 we see how the past life of the Gooder Family effected the ambition and drive in 1984.
Tickets advance £5/£6 on the door
Performances at 6pm and 7.15pm
Tickets via Wakefield Theatre Royal
Live Theatre
'Life Below'
There's more than coal beneath your feet, There's a Life Below.
Life below explores the Gooder family and their life within the mine and after a terrible incident in the Gawber Pit. Rosie Gooder fights for the mines to stay open as her family's lives' have evolved around the pits. Jumping between 1849 to 1984 we see how the past life of the Gooder Family effected the ambition and drive in 1984.
Tickets advance £5/£6 on the door
Performances at 6pm and 7.15pm
Tickets via Wakefield Theatre Royal