Theatre and Concert Visits
Contact: Margaret Hinde
Tel: 01565 872643
Email: info@knutsfordu3a.co.uk
BOOKINGS FOR THEATRE AND CONCERT VISITS – Clarification of Procedure
All bookings must be accompanied by a bookings form and a cheque made payable to Knutsford u3a. Please write the name of the performance or outing on the back of the cheque.
We will contact you only if your booking has not been successful. If you want confirmation that you have the places you want, please enclose a stamped addressed envelope. Usually your cheque will not be paid in until two weeks before the event.
If a performance is fully booked when we receive your cheque you will be informed and placed on the waiting list.
Places on u3a trips and outings can only be booked for full or associate members of Knutsford u3a. If you need to bring a companion/carer to enable you to take part in a trip or visit please see our Accessibility Policy.
We hope to take bookings for the current performances at our general meetings but, as our outings are proving very popular we cannot guarantee the availability at the time of the meeting. In other words please book early to be sure of a place!
PLEASE use a separate booking form and a separate cheque (made payable to Knutsford u3a) for each performance and send to Mrs Margaret Hinde, 1 Warford Hall Drive, Great Warford, Alderley Edge, SK9 7TR.
A Day In Buxton
Including a matinée performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s
‘The Gondoliers’
Saturday, 27th July, 2024, 9:30 am
Cost, including travel, morning coffee £45.00
Buxton Opera House and central stalls seat in the Opera House
Coach departs the bus station 9:30 am
NOTE the £45 cost does not include an optional guided walk. That requires a £12 pp supplement.
Leaving Knutsford at 9.30 am, we should arrive in Buxton by 10.30 am, when we have coffee and biscuits in the Pavilion Gardens restaurant (included in your price).
At 11am we will be met by guides, who will take those who wish to, for a guided walking tour of central Buxton, lasting a little over an hour. This walk costs £12 and needs to be booked on your order form please.
You are then free to find your own lunch in the cafés around Buxton or bring a picnic and sit in the delightful Pavilion Gardens. Plenty of seating available, and delicious ice cream!
At 2.30 pm, the performance of ‘The Gondoliers’ starts. This takes place in the beautiful Georgian Opera House designed by Frank Matcham, opened in 1903, and perfectly restored in 2001. The interior is a treat in itself! ‘The Gondoliers’ is part of the International Gilbert and Sullivan festival, performed by the world renowned National G and S Opera Company. I doubt if Gilbert and Sullivan need any introduction from me!
I would expect to be back in Knutsford by 6 pm.
Places for this day out can be reserved by sending your booking form together with your cheque made out to Knutsford U3A, to
Margaret Hinde, 1 Warford Hall Drive, Alderley Edge, SK9 7TR.
TEL. 01565 872643.
Any remaining places will be available at the Members’ Meeting on Thursday, April 11th.
Evening performance at The Lowry Theatre
‘The Kite Runner’
Wednesday 8th May
Coach departs Bus Station at 6.00pm prompt
Cost £42.00 pp
‘The Kite Runner’ has already had two successful West End seasons and one Broadway season. Both productions have been enthusiastically reviewed and the Broadway production is now on tour and coming to the Lowry.
It is a strong story, taken from a very successful novel written by Khaled Hosseini. It is told by the adult Amir, a wealthy Afghan refugee now living in California, who looks back on his early life in Afghanistan when he was close friends with Hassan, the illiterate son of a family servant. Kite flying was their passion, leading to the excitement of a kite flying tournament, and later a terrible incident which shattered their lives.
“The best ‘page to stage’ show since War Horse – a spellbinding production” – The Stage
“Enormously moving, satisfying and soulful” – New York Post
Tickets for the above can be reserved by sending your application form together with your cheque for £42.00 pp, made out to Knutsford U3A, to
Margaret Hinde, 1 Warford Hall Drive, Alderley Edge, SK9 7TR.
TEL. 01565 872643.
Any remaining seats will be on sale at the Members’ meeting on Thursday, March 14th.
Evening performance at The Royal Exchange Theatre
‘A TASTE OF HONEY’
by Shelagh Delaney
Tuesday April 9th 2024
SOLD OUT
Shelagh Delaney’s ‘A Taste of Honey’ is one of the early ‘kitchen sink’ dramas. It first appeared as a West End play in 1958, then was made into a film, starring Rita Tushingham, in 1961. It is a sharply portrayed portrait of working class life in Salford in the 1950’s and the battles between mother and teenage daughter.
Interesting to think that it was written not much more than ten years after Noel Coward’s ‘Brief Encounter’ which we saw recently. Quite a contrast!
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Thursday, 26th September – ‘War Horse’ an evening performance at The Lowry Theatre.
Tuesday, 26th November – Matthew Bourne’s ‘Swan Lake’ an evening performance at The Lowry Theatre.