On stage at the Theatre

IN THE CAFÉ BAR

WEDNESDAY 7 JANUARY at 7.30 pm

CAFÉ SCIENTIFIC 'Science Exchange'

Professor Roger Eccleston  

"Chasing the Big Bang : New Technologies for Age-old Questions"

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will shed new light on some of

the fundamental questions about the origins of the Universe and the

nature of matter.  The construction of this remarkable machine has

involved the development of cutting-edge technologies and advanced

engineering from novel detector systems to large superconducting

magnets.  Roger will describe some of the technical challenges and their solutions.

Roger Eccleston is Director of Technology at the Science and

Technology Facilities Council, which supports the UK 's involvement in

major international facilities like CERN.

Space is limited to about 50 people. Please arrive early to secure a place. 

Doors open about 6.45 pm and the Bar opens soon after !

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THU 15 JAN to SAT 31 JAN '09

(Not Sundays & Mondays)

NIGHTLY at 7.30 pm

ALL Saturday Matinees performances are SOLD OUT

Still seats available for evening performances

GALA PERFORMANCE : Wed 21 Jan '09 at 7.30 pm

with Sparkling Wine and Canapés included in the ticket price

Sinodun Players' Traditional PANTOMIME

"Puss in Boots"

TICKET PRICES : UNDER 16s -  £5.00 all performances (except Gala night)

                                 ADULTS - Tuesday, Wednesday (not Gala Night) & Thursday £9.00 

                                 ADULTS - Friday and Saturday £10.00                  

                                 GALA NIGHT - Wed 21 Jan - ALL SEATS £15.00

PLEASE BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

THERE ARE USUALLY A BETTER SELECTION OF SEATS 

EARLIER IN THE RUN AND EARLIER IN THE WEEK

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SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY

" Pete Allen's Valentine Jazz"

NOW BOOKING                   All seats £12.50

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SUNDAY 1 MARCH to SATURDAY 7 MARCH

The FIRST Wallingford CHOIR FESTIVAL  

To celebrate 10 years of The Wallingford Children’s Choir 

This wonderful week of music will see choirs from Wallingford and surrounding villages taking to the Corn Exchange stage and performing a wide range of music, with something for every taste. The Wallingford Children’s Choir is now in its 10^th year and this

The Festival will afford local choirs the opportunity, which the Children’s Choir has been lucky enough to have regularly, of performing at the Corn Exchange.

In between the choir items there will be a chance for previous members of the Children’s Choir to return to the stage to show how their music making skills have matured over the last ten years.

The two matinees will be performances of “Alice” by the Children’s Choir, the first musical they performed. The current choir will be joined on the Sunday by original cast members revisiting their earlier roles.

The week will finish with a Gala Concert on the Saturday evening.

The Sunday and Saturday Matinees will be at 2.30 pm and all the evening shows daily (except Sunday) at 7 pm. 

Tickets will be on from Friday 2 January at 10 am  : £6 for Adult and £4.00 for under 16s.

Proceeds from the week will be shared between Water Aid, and the Alzheimer’s Society.

Concert schedule & list of participants:

Sunday 1 March : 2.30 - 4.15  pm :         Wallingford Children's Choir  : "Alice"

Monday 2 March : 7.00 - 9.00 pm :         Wallingford School & Wantage Crown Singers

Tuesday 3 March : 7.00 - 9.00 pm :        Brightwell Primary School, Fir Tree Primary School,

                                                                   The Oratory Prep. School, Cranford Choral Society

Wednesday 4 March : 7.00 - 9.00 pm :  Cranford House School, The Thames Consort,

                                                                   St. John's Primary School, Crowmarsh Primary School

Thursday 5 March : 7.00 - 9.00 pm :       The Wallingford Singers, Cholsey Primary School,

                                                                   The Manor School Junior Choir

Friday 6 March : 7.00 - 9.00 pm :             Wallingford School Fun Band, Wallingford Parish Church Choir

                                                                    Wallingford Parish Choir Juniors

Saturday 7 March : 2.30 - 4.15 pm :        Wallingford Children's Choir  : "Alice"

Saturday 7 March : 7.00 - 9.00 pm :        Wallingford Children's Choir, Wallingford Chamber Choir

THIS PERFORMANCE SOLD OUT      Moulsford School, The Manor School Year 5 & 6 Choir

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TUESDAY 10 MARCH at 7.00 pm

The Sinodun Players' Wardrobe Department 

(under the Direction of Jan Castle) present

"A Cavalcade of 20th Century Costume"

A unique fashion show, a nostalgia trip and 

an educational experience all rolled into one !

For many years the people of Wallingford have donated wonderful costumes to the Sinodun Players’ wardrobe department. Now you have the chance to see some of these outfits, never before seen on stage, in a unique fashion show which will span the whole of the 20^th Century. These are not costumes we have made for shows but the genuine article from the Flapper era, through The Fifties and The Swinging Sixties, the era of Power Dressing, and a selection of wedding dresses dating from 1911. This one-night show will be a nostalgia trip for many, an educational experience for drama, art and design students and a memorable occasion for all.

Doors open for this fun-filled evening at The Corn Exchange Wallingford on Tuesday 10 March at 7 pm with a complimentary glass of wine and programme for the "Cavalcade of 20^th Century Costume" which hits the stage at 7.30 pm.

Tickets at £8.00 each will go on sale at the Corn Exchange box office from Friday 9 January 2009.

Please book early to avoid disappointment !

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WEEK ENDING SATURDAY 4 APRIL 

Sinodun Players' SPRING PRODUCTION 

The hilarious farce by Ray Cooney

"Funny Money" 

to  be directed by Ric Harley  -More details later

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SATURDAY 25 APRIL at 7.45 pm

PRESENTED BY ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S FINEST REPERTORY ACTORS, 

GUY MASTERSON, WHO IS THE GREAT NEPHEW OF RICHARD BURTON !

Following the remarkable success of his solo interpretation of Under Milk Wood, Guy Masterson presents his favourite 'other' - rarely heard and rarely performed - works of Welsh genius, Dylan Thomas, comprising possibly his greatest verse FERN HILL and two of Thomas' wonderful short stories; A Visit To Grandpa's and Holiday Memory.

After the interval he presents AMERICAN POODLE [winner of a number of Edinburgh Fringe awards] an hysterically absurd take on the 'special relationship’ from opposite sides of the pond. It comes in two interspersed tales... a scatalogically manic,

SNOWBALL - written and performed by Guy Masterson - is a crazy physical analysis of the Britain's winning... and losing the United Colonies in the New World... From their discovery by, yes, a Welshman - Prince Madoc ap Owain Gwynedd - in 1170... through the race by European nations to colonise the New World at the expense of its natives... through the Franco-Indian Wars for dominance of North America until... hmmm... they lost it - not quite all of it - just the bit that really mattered… This is hysterical stuff - a romp through Early US history with Masterson playing all the parts... you'll never look at history in the same way again!

In SPLAYFOOT - written by Brian Parks - Guy Masterson plays a modern American businessman on his first trip to the "olde country" viewing everything around him through Dickensian spectacles and classic Hollywood movies... He is America today... or what it has become... He is a living pop-up history book of clichéd presumption concerning those quaint "L'il Brits"!

THE ANNUAL CORN EXCHANGE DRAMA FESTIVAL

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THURSDAY 2 JUNE to SAT 11 JUNE

Sinodun Players' present "PETER PAN - The Musical"

Devised and directed by Polly Gibson

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SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER

Independent Ballet Ballet present their most popular ballet

" MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM"

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TUESDAY 20 OCTOBER to SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER

The Musical Theatre Company present

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN

Directed by Marilyn Leadbetter

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