SHAKESPEARE UNITED DAY 23/24 APRIL 2010

• JOHN O' GROATS - "WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A PLAY" - from the Harbour to the Precinct. 2.30 pm Saturday 24 April. THURSO PLAYERS "All singing, all acting, all dancing, ALL FUN!" (peterjackson566@btinternet.com )
• BELFAST - SHAKESPEARE SCENES, SONNETS & SOLILOQUIES (Directed by Rosie Pelan) - also celebrating the re-openingn of the Crescent Arts Centre. 1.00 - 1.45 pm Saturday 24 April 2010, Crescent Arts Centre, 2-4 University Road, BELFAST, BT7 1NH, Northern Ireland. Phone: 02890242338
• SHAKESPEARE HAPPENS: A MARATHON -  is produced by Laura Catherine Kressly, Paul Christopher Mooney of River Productions, and Porl Matthews of SweetDreams. The dates are 23-25 April The day runs from 10:00am to 10:00pm at The Scoop at More, London, between London Bridge and Tower Bridge on the Southbank, next to City Hall - for programmes and information please contact: shakespeare.happens@googlemail.com or visit www.riverproductionsuk.com
• PUB SHAKESPEARE QUIZ, BRIGHTON - SHAKESPEARE QUIZ AT THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD IN BRIGHTON 24TH APRIL 7PM START. "Be there, all you Shakepseare buffs!" Contact: leetown@hotmail.co.uk or 01273 608251
• SALFORD CITY COLLEGE - PENDLETON CENTRE - Ben Kinglsey Theatre  - BITS OF THE BARD - 12.00 noon on 23 April 2010 (contact lkatkinson@yahoo.co.uk)
• GARRICK'S TEMPLE, HAMPTON COURT - "The Sonnets" (as many as poss!) - ALL WELCOME: 2.00 pm Saturday 24 April, Garrick's temple on Hampton Court Road, by the river. (Actors/readers apply to Jenny Thorne at email: jenny@jennythorne.orangehome.co.uk)
• MARLBOROUGH, WILTSHIRE – The Theatre on the Hill, St John’s School, 23 April 2010 at 7.30pm FINDING THE WILL presents ‘Bard Heads’ – two forty minute monologues written and performed by Jules Hobbs and Richard Curnow:
  The Dust Behind The Door – Hermia (twenty years later) and The Whirligig of Time – Malvolio (one year later) Contact: Kate O’Connor   01672 51953
• LONDON, BAREFACED THEATRE COMPANY - "Come join us at the Crypt within St. Andrew's Holborn on  St.Andrew Street, London EC2 on 23rd April 2010 at 2pm and 6pm & 24th April 2pm". Extracts from MEASURE FOR MEASURE Reserve tickets at: tickets@barefacedtheatre.com  £5.00 each www.barefacedtheatre.com
• CAWOOD near SELBY, NORTH YORKSHIRE - Parish Church, Cawood - ROMEO AND JULIET - 28, 29, 30 April (director Alan Brent - alanbrent51@aol.com)
• OXFORD CHAMBER THEATRE - 2.30 pm Saturday 24 April 2010, Friends' Meeting House, St Giles, Oxford. The Oxford Chamber Theatre presents LOVE AND MAJESTY - three actors and a singer with zittern present scenes from Shakespeare's rulers and lovers. (shakespeare2012@aol.com)
• BELFAST ACTORS STUDIO - present two pieces: 1. The Fifteen Minute Romeo & Juliet directed by Michael Poynor and 2. ‘Pyramus & Thisbe’ directed by Stephen Beggs. Both will be performed alternately, every half hour, from midday till 6 pm in the Botanic Gardens, Belfast.  Phone: 0287 7750240 Contact: michaelpoynor@hotmail.com
• LONDON EAST END - 4.00 pm on Friday 23 April 2010 "Scenes from Macbeth" organised by Peter Searles for Crisis in The Performing Arts Room, Crisis, 66 Commercial Street, London E1 6LT (contact shakespeare2012@aol.com)
• SWANSEA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY - 7.00 pm on Friday 23 April 2010 at Swansea Metropolitan University, Townhill Theatre: SHAKESPEARE' S GOT TALENT - an entertaining evening highlighting the talent Shakespeare has to offer.
• HERNE HILL, LONDON SE24 0AG FRIENDS of CARNEGIE LIBRARY, SATURDAY 24^th April 2010 2.30 – 4.30pm in the GALLERY at the Library BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE! Shakespeare United will be supported by the Friends of Carnegie Library during 2010, 2011 and 2012. The first meeting for all those interested will take place in the Gallery on Saturday 24th April to celebrate the Birthday of the Bard of Avon, with refreshments and very silly games on a Shakespearean theme. Quizzes, readings and themed quotations. All welcome
•  LEEDS - THE CENTRAL LIBRARY - a display of books about Shakespeare. "Not a ‘jazzy, all bells & whistles’ display but includes children’s, Manga, graphic novels, plays, life & times of etc." It's on ground floor in the Leeds Central Library, Calverley Street, Leeds LS1 3AB & will be up till end May. 
• BROMYARD, HEREFORDSHIRE - (A44 from Worcester) SHAKESPEARE SHORTIES -"Eat, drink and be merrie, with Shakespearean snax, as Players perform Shakespeare snippets to order!" The Bromyard Youth Theatre. Saturday 24 April 2010, from 10.00 am in the foyer.
• AND: TheChamberlain's Men, with Master William Shakespeare, perform THE TAMING OF THE SHREW for diners at an Elizabethan Banquet. The Falcon Mews, Bromyard, Friday 23 April 2010 at 7.30 am (Details from The Falcon)
• AND: SONNET SUNDAY - Bromyard Poets invite you to hear readings of the sonnets and join in too, if you wish, with your own favourites. "ONE SONNET IN EVERY CAFE AND PUB IN BROMYARD!" - Starting at the MARKET PLACE at 10.30 am on Sunday, 25 April 2010
• AND: SHAKESPEARE MARATHON led by Ben Humphrey in Worcester (where in 1882 Will and Anne Shakespeare got their marriage licence!) A 24-hour session with professionals and amateurs. (More details to come!)
• SHAKESPEARE AND WALES: Public Lecture and Symposium, Cardiff University: Friday April 23rd, 2010: The afternoon will include a lecture by the award winning theatre director, Michael Bogdanov, and a symposium led by scholars from around the world. 12.00 pm  Public Lecture: Michael Bogdanov, “The Welsh in Shakespeare” 2.30-6pm Symposium: “Shakespeare and Wales” Participants include: David Baker (North Carolina) Michael Bogdanov;  Martin Coyle (Cardiff) Katie Gramich (Cardiff) Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam) Chris Ivic (Bath Spa) Margaret Jones-Davies (Sorbonne) Willy Maley (Glasgow) Stewart Mottram (Aberystwyth) Philip Schwyzer (Exeter) Margaret Tudeau-Clayton (Neuchatel) Richard Wilson (Cardiff)
  Admission is free, but please register your interest in attending by sending an email to encap-events2010@cf.ac.uk or by telephone on 029 2087 6049. The event will take place in Cardiff University’s Main Building, opposite the Students’ Union on Park Place, CF10 3AT.
• OLDHAM, LANCASHIRE - A TASTE OF SHAKESPEARE: Scenes from "Much Ado", "Macbeth", Sonnets and Songs, and workshops. Saturday 24 April 2010, 10.30 am to 1.00 pm at Christ Church, Block Lane, Oldham OL9 7QB. (Presented by Christ Church, Chadderton, and Oldham Coliseium Theatre) with support from local primary and secondary schools - and others. (Information: 0161 652 2950)
• FORTY HALL, ENFIELD - SHAKESPEARE'S GREAT SPEECHES AND SONNETS by the Principal Theatre Company (Forty Hall: a magnificent building dating from1629) between 12.00 noon and 2.00 pm on Saturday 24 April. FREE admission, visit www.principaltheatrecompany.com
• NONSUCH DANCE AT RADA - Saturday 24^th April. Shakespeare Day – an afternoon of Dances from the time of Shakespeare. At the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, 62-64 Gower Street, London. 1.30pm – 5.30pm. Members £20  (Non-members £25). In association with Shakespeare United. www.nonsuchdance.co.uk
• WORKSHOP, HOLBORN, LONDON: NB Earlier dates! The workshop, directed by Colin David Reese will take place on the 17th and 18th April at The Drill Hall, Holborn, from 10am-5pm on the 17th and 11am-3pm on the 18th. The cost will be £120 for the two days, this includes a filmed copy of your final performance for your records.To apply for the workshop please email Lucy on shakespeare@marlowes-agency.com  
• LLANWRTHWL, POWYS, WALES - 2.30 - 6.00 pm on Saturday 24 April 2010 at The Living Willow Theatre, Llanwrthwl, Powys, bbbNATURAL SHAKESPEAREbbb- a joyful, playful day of imagining and creating volunteers and the community on an organic farm, linking Shakespeare's nature with the local environment and the natural cycle of the season, Resulting in a promenade performance to launch a Shakespeare-themed Nature Trail. (www.shakespearelink.co.uk 01597 811 487)

• NORTH WEST LONDON EQUITY BRANCH  presents a new fun revue  HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR WILLIAM!  for Shakespeare’s birthday on Friday 23 April at the Magdala Pub, Hampstead. (Two houses,  7.00 to 8.00 pm  and 8.30 to 9.30 pm.) An hour of songs, sonnets, soliloquies and comedy with music in the style of Dowland, Schubert, Cole Porter and Stevie Wonder. There is foaming beer and exquisite food at the bar and in the restaurant, so come and celebrate!!! Entry is free, with a collection at the end of the show. The Magdala (020 7435 2503) South End Green, is at 2a South Hill Park, NW3 2SB, right next to Hampstead Heath OVERGROUND station, or 6 min walk from Belsize Park tube station.

• BURTON-TAYLOR THEATRE, OXFORD - 8.00 pm on Saturday 24 April 2010. Premiere of Robert Cohen's new play,PROPAGANDA, about William Shakespeare and political intrigue. Tickets £8 and £5 concessions. 
• COVENT GARDEN, LONDON - 7.30 pm Saturday 24 April 2010 "William Shakespeare - A Birthday Tribute in Words and Music" at the Actors' Church, St Paul's. Covent Garden, Bedford Street, London WC2E 9ED (Underground: Covent Garden) performed in period costume by The Friends Musick(directed by Norman Harper) and the Friends Recorder Consort - with readings from Shakespeare by Charles Neville (Tickets £12 and £10 concessions from www.thefriendsmusick.com - Online box office www.WeGotTickets.com/event/73840 - Enquiries and information: 020 8467 2988)
•  LIVERPOOL - Shakespeare in the Streets, Sonnet walks around the streets of Liverpool City Centre. 24 & 25 April 2010 every 15 minutes from 12.30 until 15.15 both days.Walks start at the Unity Theatre, Hope Place. Tickets http://www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/whats-on/86-april-2010.htmlor call 0151 709 4988 More information at http://shakespeareinthestreets.com    
• LEE GREEN, LONDON - SUPERMARKET SHAKESPEARE - free performance inspired by SONNET 23 - six performers do intertwining stories around the supermaket: Sainsbury's, Lee Green, London. Go to www.teatrovivo.co.uk for more details
• HEXHAM - on Sunday 25 April at The Moot Hall in Hexham at 19.30 0rganised by the Hexham Community Partnership with the music group Antiphon as part of a Hexham St George's Day weekend. It will be an evening of Shakespeare readings and of music from the period.
• SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE, LONDON - 1 - 2 pm Thursday 22 April 2010 BRIGHT UNCONQUERED SUNS a lunchtime show of Shakespeare retold through five young modern characters: "all this world knows well; yet none knows well" (nick.wingback@googlemail.com
• ACT ONE - BLACKPOOL -  Reading scenes from JULIUS CAESAR, AS YOU LIKE IT, TWELFTH NIGHT, MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. These will be in the Studio at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool  from 1.30 to 3.30 as part of the ACT ONE programme on Saturday 10 April and then on 8 May. Please check with the box office at the Grand Theatre for tickets at £3.
• BRACKNELL - Home Counties West General Equity Branch 7.30 pm Friday 23 April 2010 a Shakespeare Evening at the Studio South Hill Park , Bracknell RG12 7PA
• DERBY - "Great Shakespearean Workout", Derby City centre. 23 April 2010
• HAMMERSMITH, WEST LONDON - Thursday 22nd April at  6pm in Hammersmith Central Library in Shepherds Bush Road, London W6 7AT. From Stage to Page - a platform performance of scenes from Shakespeare and a First Folio talk. Phone 020 8753 3820
• BARD ON THE BARGE - Hammersmith Mall London W6 (moorings upstream of the bridge) Saturday 24 April 2010 at 2.00pm
  - speeches and songs on the theme of water and weather - with Joe Cushley and Michele Monks (0752 787 5383)
• WOLVERHAMPTON - Off The Page Theatre Company present "Shakespeare's Words: An Evening of Monologues" at Wightwick Manor and Gardens, Wightwick Bank, Wolverhampton, WV6 8EE For tickets call 01902 760100 or visit www.offthepagetheatre.co.uk  For enquiries call 01902 761400, or email offthepagetheatre@talktalk.net
• KENTISH TOWN, LONDON - at the John Lyon Theatre, Covent Garden on the 23^rd  April and at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre. 42-44 Gaisford Street. Kentish Town, NW5 2ED, for a performance on the 24th of April Performance Lab Company present Sex, Lies and Power (Directed by Vivienne Rochester) , Tickets from Ticketweb 08444 771000 or book online www.ticketweb.co.uk
• THEATRICKS in DARTFORD - Unit 6a Victoria Industrial Park,  Victoria Road, Dartford, Kent, DA1 5AJ : Saturday 24th April 10.00 - 1.00. "We have decided to concentrate on "Romeo & Juliet". Using the text with the older group and introducing the story to the younger ones. Muscially we will work on "West Side Story". Our dance teacher, Larissa Webb, will concentrate on the opening scene, very like the R&J opening fight scene, and also "America". The singing teacher, Alec Newman, will work on "America" and "I Feel Pretty".  And of course our Principle, Wendy Reynolds, will be involved too." http://www.wix.com/kaliannerichardson/Theatricks