What's On Apr 12 - May 12

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CIRQUE MANDINGUE - FOTE FORE
Date: Tue 3rd Apr 2012 Time: 7.30pm

Trailblazing Guinean circus troupe Cirque Mandingue open CircusFest 2012 with their UK premiere of Fote Fore - an infectious mix of high-energy acrobatics and street dance set against a backdrop of live West African drumming and hip hop beats.

  • Ticket Price: £18 (limited number of £5 tickets for under 25s)
  • Touch Tour Time: N/A
  • Ticket Office Number: 0844 482 8008
CIRQUE MANDINGUE - FOTE FORE
Date: Wed 4th Apr 2012 Time: 7.30pm

Trailblazing Guinean circus troupe Cirque Mandingue open CircusFest 2012 with their UK premiere of Fote Fore - an infectious mix of high-energy acrobatics and street dance set against a backdrop of live West African drumming and hip hop beats.

  • Ticket Price: £18 (limited number of £5 tickets for under 25s)
  • Touch Tour Time: 6.45pm
  • Ticket Office Number: 0844 482 8008
MARY SHELLEY
Date: Thu 5th Apr 2012 Time: 7.45pm

Another of our world premieres is Mary Shelley, an exciting collaboration between the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse and Shared Experience which opens here in March.

This powerful new play explores Shelley’s remarkable life: her controversial philosopher father, her scandalous elopement aged 16 and how she wrote a novel, so radical in its ideology, that in 1817 she changed the literary landscape forever.

  • Ticket Price: £17 + a free companion
  • Touch Tour Time: TBC
  • Ticket Office Number: 0113 213 7700
TRAVELLING LIGHT
Date: Sat 7th Apr 2012 Time: 2.30pm

Nicholas Wright’s new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age. The award-winning Antony Sher plays Jacob.

  • Ticket Price: Please call for concessions
  • Touch Tour Time: 1pm
  • Ticket Office Number: 0844 811 2121
Spamalot
Date: Sat 7th Apr 2012 Time: 2.30pm

Audiences all around the world have been roaring with laughter since Monty Python’s Spamalot, by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2005.

  • Ticket Price: £22-£42
  • Touch Tour Time: 1.15pm
  • Ticket Office Number: 0844 871 7677