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Whats on at Ropetackle Arts Centre

Stage Fri 28 Jan 8pm

Clean! The Musical

@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Admn: £15

Clean! is a rousing musical about the women of Laundry Hill, Brighton. With themes of hardship, suffrage and sexuality, Clean! celebrates women’s resilience and sisterhood across 150 years of history. There are eerie parallels with today, including the smallpox outbreak of 1950.

Exploring the lives of seven women living in the historic Roundhill (or Laundry Hill) area of Brighton through different eras, Sam Chittenden and Simon Scardanelli’s Clean! The Musical won the Outstanding Show Award at Brighton Fringe in June 2021 and attracted a string of five-star reviews. Several people likened it to Les Misérables, Six and Emilia.

Book by Sam Chittenden. Music by Simon Scardanelli.

“I’ve never heard a new musical come up to this one… This should be in the West End, outstanding show” ~ Fringe Review

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Comedy Sat 29 Jan 8pm

The Comedy Network

@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Admn: £15

The Comedy Network is coming to Ropetackle!

Come and unwind after a stressful week at one of our Comedy Network comedy club shows. Gather your friends, grab a drink from the bar and enjoy laugh out loud comedy from some of the hottest comedians on the circuit.

The brilliant line-up for January is: Pierre Novellie, Glenn Moore, and Ania Magliano

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Kids Sun 30 Jan Various times

Robin's Winter Adventure

@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Admn: £8

A young boy’s incredible journey with a feathered friend.

Will facing his fears turn out to be the greatest adventure of all?

An uplifting tale of change, bravery and friendship told with puppetry, poetry, music and magical design for ages 3+ and their families.

“There could not be a better way than this to introduce your young child to theatre.” Surrey Advertiser

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Other Wed 9 Feb 7pm

City Books presents: Nan Sloane - Uncontrollable Women

@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Admn: £10

Join us for the book launch of Nan Sloane’s latest work

Uncontrollable Women is a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Very few of them are well-known today; some were unknown even in their own day. All of them contributed something to the world we now inhabit.

At a time when women were supposed to leave politics to men, they spoke, wrote, marched, organised, asked questions, challenged power structures, sometimes went to prison and even died. History has not usually been kind to them, and they have frequently been pushed into asides or footnotes, dismissed as secondary, or spoken over, for, or through by men and sometimes other women. In this book, they take centre stage in both their own stories and those of others, and in doing so bring different voices to the more familiar accounts of the period.

These women and many others played a part in developing political ideas and freedoms as we know them today, and some fought battles which still remain to be won or raised questions that are still unresolved. These are their stories.

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Music Thu 10 Feb 8pm

The Sharon Shannon Quartet

@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Admn: £20

Sharon Shannon is a musician who likes to surprise. While best known for her arrangements of traditional Irish tunes and Irish-influenced compositions, she has always been eager to explore new styles, and to meet and work with other musicians.
The accordionist from Ireland has achieved legendary status throughout the world and made the much-maligned accordion ‘cool’ in her home country. Renowned for her collaborations, not just in Irish traditional music, but through all musical genres, Hip-Hop, Cajun, Country, Reggae, Classical and Rap.

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Music Fri 11 Feb 8pm

Limehouse Lizzy

@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Admn: £20

Limehouse Lizzy continue to keep the spirit of Celtic rock icon Philip Lynott and his band Thin Lizzy alive, well, and dominating stages worldwide.

From their official PRS award as the UK’s hardest working band, to performing for Virgin Atlantic in Barbados, TV appearances to actually being recruited to record and tour by members of the original Thin Lizzy, Limehouse Lizzy are in a true league of their own. Their legions of fans have followed them for close-on three decades, with new fans coming on board each year, and once you see them, you’ll know why.

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Comedy Sat 12 Feb 8pm

An Evening with Su Pollard

@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Admn: £20

Join Su on her first ever “An Evening with …” tour where she will talk about her exceptional career, which is sure to be filled with laughter and a few tears. Su will also undertake a Q & A with the audience.

Su made her television debut on Opportunity Knocks, where she came second to a singing Jack Russell dog. She is best known for her role as Peggy in the BAFTA Award-winning sitcom Hi-De-Hi and was honoured to be the subject of This Is Your Life. Other television & film credits include: Two Up Two Down, You Rang M’Lord, Call up The Stars, Oh Doctor Beeching, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Benidorm Christmas Special, Run For Your Wife, Hacker Time, Last Laugh In Vegas, Doctors, Andy and The Band, Penny Crayon, The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends, Little Robots and Claude (voice).

*Limited tickets for meet and greet with Su also available!

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Kids Sat 19 Feb 11am

Oldilocks and the 3 Bears

@ Ropetackle Arts Centre
Admn: £8

One winter, Oldilocks finds a teddy bear in the park
and remembers a delicious bowl of porridge she tasted years ago in the woods.
Something else happened but she can’t quite remember what… so she sets off for
the forest. Will she find the bears
house and what will happen then?

A wonderfully funny and warm-hearted celebration of the classic story
starring a naughty old lady who looks very familiar… and 3 funny bears who love
their breakfast.

Garlic Theatre hold their young audience spellbound with lovingly crafted puppets, music and some steaming bowls of porridge.

For ages 3 to 7 years.

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