Touring Production

Touring Production

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Coffee Morning

Earlsdon Festival

Coffee Morning

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Coffee Morning

Play Selection Committee

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Touring Production

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Audition

Coffee Morning

Wes Finch & Friends: 20th July Join us for a great night of live music featuring: The Absentees (bluegrass, blues & country) Wes Finch (pop folk & blues) Kirk Mcelhinney (exceptional guitar, soulful vocals) Second Episode (Ahmad Moslemifar’s Persian fusion music project) and Stylusboy. Tickets are £8 in advance and are available online and through Wes Finch (wesfinchuk@gmail.com or 07514 800 491).

The State Versus John Hayes - July 26th to 27th Written by Lucy Roslyn Presented by Bearded Theatre, guests of the Criterion Theatre Starring: Lucy Roslyn We are very proud to welcome back our friend Lucy Roslyn to the Criterion as she performs her one-woman thriller The State Versus John Hayes. Lucy started in our youth theatre and progressed through the ranks before going to drama school. This funny and seductive thriller comes to the Criterion before it heads to Edinburgh for a month in August. 'If you make the disguise so Goddamn good, people forget you're in it...' Seductress, or psychopath? Murderer, or victim? Electric chair, or psychiatric hospital? Huntsville Prison, Texas, 1959. Elyese Dukie is on Death Row for the murder of two people: the husband she despised, and the woman she killed him to be with. Tomorrow, she goes to court for the last time. But tonight, you're the jury. As Elyese reveals what she won't tell the court, or the string of psychiatrists they’ve sent into the jail to diagnose her. She may be in solitary, but she is not alone in her cell. John Hayes is in there with her, as he has been all along. On what may be the last night of her life, she makes a final appeal for understanding. But is she a calculating psychopath who deserves the electric chair? Or a multiple personality who needs psychiatric help? Laced with dark humour, raw pain and real poignancy, Lucy Roslyn's powerful new one-act play is based on extensive research into real-life female American killers, and their lives on Death Row. It’s a fascinating and dramatic exploration of human sexuality and the psychological forces that collide to make one woman kill. In one hour alone on stage Elyese conjures all the people who have made her the man she is today, as she contemplates what will happen to her next. This striking one-woman thriller is, by turns, funny, seductive and chilling. "Lucy Roslyn is utterly compelling ... she is by turns witty, endearing and surreal, seducing her audience utterly before she reveals chilling glimpses of the psychopathic killer within ... the direction is subtle and precise, the writing is brilliant and the performance is magnificent" Katie Campbell - Londongrip.com.

The State Versus John Hayes - July 26th to 27th Written by Lucy Roslyn Presented by Bearded Theatre, guests of the Criterion Theatre Starring: Lucy Roslyn We are very proud to welcome back our friend Lucy Roslyn to the Criterion as she performs her one-woman thriller The State Versus John Hayes. Lucy started in our youth theatre and progressed through the ranks before going to drama school. This funny and seductive thriller comes to the Criterion before it heads to Edinburgh for a month in August. 'If you make the disguise so Goddamn good, people forget you're in it...' Seductress, or psychopath? Murderer, or victim? Electric chair, or psychiatric hospital? Huntsville Prison, Texas, 1959. Elyese Dukie is on Death Row for the murder of two people: the husband she despised, and the woman she killed him to be with. Tomorrow, she goes to court for the last time. But tonight, you're the jury. As Elyese reveals what she won't tell the court, or the string of psychiatrists they’ve sent into the jail to diagnose her. She may be in solitary, but she is not alone in her cell. John Hayes is in there with her, as he has been all along. On what may be the last night of her life, she makes a final appeal for understanding. But is she a calculating psychopath who deserves the electric chair? Or a multiple personality who needs psychiatric help? Laced with dark humour, raw pain and real poignancy, Lucy Roslyn's powerful new one-act play is based on extensive research into real-life female American killers, and their lives on Death Row. It’s a fascinating and dramatic exploration of human sexuality and the psychological forces that collide to make one woman kill. In one hour alone on stage Elyese conjures all the people who have made her the man she is today, as she contemplates what will happen to her next. This striking one-woman thriller is, by turns, funny, seductive and chilling. "Lucy Roslyn is utterly compelling ... she is by turns witty, endearing and surreal, seducing her audience utterly before she reveals chilling glimpses of the psychopathic killer within ... the direction is subtle and precise, the writing is brilliant and the performance is magnificent" Katie Campbell - Londongrip.com.

Coffee Morning

Coffee Morning

Saturday 28 September Doors open 7pm, performance starts at 8pm To book tickets call 024 7667 4719 or book online. Ticket price £7.50 (members), £9.00 (guest). Davey Arthur is renowned as one of Ireland’s best-loved and most successful musicians with over 40 of his compositions being recorded and performed by some of the world’s finest artists and bands. Davey has thrilled audiences world-wide with his skill and artistry as a musician and his performances on Tenor Banjo are legendary and have earned him global acclaim throughout his career and a place in the Irish Music Hall of Fame in Dublin, alongside such other illustrious artists as U2, Sinéad O’Connor, The Corrs, The Chieftains and Clannad. Davey still tours extensively with The Fureys and has done so for over 35 years. He also delights audiences everywhere with his own show, when he is accompanied on stage by his son, Patrick (percussion), Steve Layton (acoustic guitar) and Pete Dunn on bass. They play an exciting mix of folk/Celtic music and song and by popular request, Davey always includes some of The Fureys well-loved songs, such as: "The Red Rose Cafe" and "When you were sweet sixteen". Davey has warmth, charm and a delightful sense of humour and is renowned as a great raconteur with that Irish gift for storytelling. An evening with Davey Arthur” – don’t miss it! “Davey Arthur....had the crowd stamping and calling for more and brought a standing ovation.” Salisbury Journal “Davey and the lads were fantastic.” St Werburgh’s Centre – Chester “Cool - He is a lovely guy”. Sue Marchant - BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Earlsdon-based writers Chris Arnot and Peter Walters will be talking about their new books in the Criterion Theatre bar on Tuesday, October 29.  Pete has written _THE STORY OF COVENTRY_ for the History Press, covering a thousand years of our city’s rich and colourful past, and he has promised to condense a millennium into a speech of 20 minutes or so!  His book will be published in December, just in time for Christmas.   Chris will be talking about _BRITAIN’S LOST MINES_, having travelled from Cornwall to Scotland and Down to Kent, talking to former miners who dug and blasted for coal, tin, slate, iron ore, fluorspar, lead and gold.  Lee Hall, who wrote Billy Elliot, has described his new book as _“an extraordinary gallery of lives and landscapes.” _ Published by Aurum, copies will be available for sale on the night.  Starts at 7.30 pm.       

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