A Special Fundrasing Event for The Watermill

Actress, model and activist, Joanna Lumley OBE will join us for an 'audience with' event. Best known for her roles in The New Avengers, Sapphire and Steel and Absolutely Fabulous, Joanna will share stories of her interesting life. Join her afterwards for champagne, tea and cake.

Writer, director and comedian, Stewart Lee returns to the live circuit with a new show, which begins in a high street coffee chain and ends in a pear cider that is 100% disappointment.

Expect some punchy stuff near the top, inexplicable hostility towards relatively innocuous figures, silences and repetition, sudden and/or gradual shifts in tone, velocity and volume, the possibility of failure and a quasi-serious bit at the end. This tour follows his acclaimed BBC TV series Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.

Age Guide: 16+

www.stewartlee.co.uk

The Rep College returns to New Greenham Arts following their successful visits with such classics as Cold Comfort Farm, The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Wyrd Sisters, Living Together and Dangerous Obsession.

The Rep College, based in Reading, trains actors for the professional theatre and maintains a very high standard. Please check with the box office for further details of the show nearer the time.

www.repcollege.co.uk

An evening of music and conversation with Paul Oliver (MBE) and Michael Roach (EBA)

Join one of the UK’s most eminent blues historians and his close friend and Director of the European Blues Association for an evening that traces the inheritance of the early music from the Carolina Piedmont Region.

Paul Oliver is a leading authority on the blues. His work, which began in the 1950s, includes interviews, field work and research in recording and printed sources tracing the origin and development of African American music. Michael Roach, from Washington DC, sings and plays guitar in the East Coast style following the tradition of performers like Blind Boy Fuller, John Jackson, Rev Gary Davis, Buddy Moss and Brownie McGhee. Between them, they present an evening that will be entertaining and enlightening, interesting and inspirational.

www.euroblues.org

Presented by Southern Sinfonia
Accordion: Jackie Doe
Double Bass: Sarah Luton

Capturing the charm and spirit of Paris with a wonderful programme of evocative French café music.

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Come along as the audience or join in. Learn a new tune and we'll find a backing band for you. Put a group together and try it out or just join in an open number and have fun.

There's a good bar with reasonable prices. See you at the Royal British Legion.

A family concert by this world renowned band will include music from the popular classics, the Big Band era and military music supported by superb solo performances. The Corps of Drums adds the spectacular colour and flavour of ceremonial state occasions for which the Band is famous.

Chortle Award Winner and Perrier nominee Alex Horne charts his hilarious quest to get an invented word into the dictionary. After making considerable progress his verbal inventions have appeared on several grown up TV shows, in almost all of the national newspapers and page 2 of Eurofruit, the leading trade magazine for fresh produce buyers in Europe.

This re-working of his 2008 show of the same name coincides with the launch of the accompanying book. Alex co-created, writes and co-hosts the comedy quiz We Need Answers on BBC4 and is widelyrenowned as a thoughtful and original stand-up, writer and solo performer.

“Rather like a rare bird … he is a fragile delight, covering any subject with a daft, surreal charm.” The Sunday Times

www.alexhorne.com

Accompanied by Peter Pontzen

David Wood presents his own theatre show for children combining magic, music and audience participation in an hour of entertainment and fun. He is accompanied by Peter Pontzen, the BBC Playschool pianist.

"Quality live entertainment from a master craftsman...everyone (parents too) enjoyed the show unreservedly." Bristol Evening Post

"Take your earplugs for the cheering..." Daily Telegraph

"...master of the deliciously silly..." Oxford Mail

Suitable for age 3 upwards.
The performance lasts 60 minutes.