Arlington Arts Centre

Box office

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Arlington Arts Centre, Mary Hare, Newbury, RG14 3BQ. A map is here.

Adolf, 4th February, 20:00
What made Adolf Hitler so compulsive? How could any cultured person follow him to destruction, desolation and genocide to leave a long deep scar on the 20th century? Created from the words of Mein Kampf and Table Talk, Pip Utton’s amazing play furnishes an acute anatomy of fascism; its ideological justifications, its poisoned utopias. He takes his audience on a journey into themselves, gently coaxing an understanding of the mindset of a nation that could allow a man such as Hitler to take control. This is live theatre at its best - powerful, challenging and divisive, illustrative and educational. It is utterly provocative and totally necessary. Everyone should experience it.

The Wind in the Willows, 7th to 9th February, 19:30
St Gabriel’s returns to Arlington Arts once again with a lively and colourful production of that quintessentially English favourite, The Wind in the Willows. As the action moves from the riverbank to Toad Hall via the Wild Wood, the gaol and the canal, we follow Toad’s adventures and disasters, supported by his faithful friends and (almost) thwarted by the treacherous gang of weasels and stoats. With a large cast of actors, musicians and dancers and Alan Bennett’s wonderful script, this is a show which is sure to delight and entertain you and send you out into the February gloom with a smile on your face.

The Third Tunnel, 8th to 10th March, 19:45
Following the success of last year’s Scurrilous, A Class Act return with a brand new version of David Slade’s The Third Tunnel. The Blitz is at full strength and half of London is sheltering in the London Underground except for Alby, a local wise-cracking cockney, who not only loses his clothes, his house and his flaming dignity during an air strike, but also ends up with his backside laced like a football after being mistaken for a looter by his neighbour’s dog during another. Charlie and Winnie are sheltering down the tube when they meet Connie and Alice, two of London's socialites. Can Connie change Charlie? Is he really a conscientious objector? Ralph, a typical East End Spiv, loves a scam and has his eye on the local copper's wife. With the help of some London street kids he gets what he wants but the children nearly lose their lives when everything goes off in The Third Tunnel.

Alice in Wonderland, 15th to 17th March, 19:30 and 15:30 on Saturday
Join Alice’s madcap adventures in Wonderland as she chases the White Rabbit, races the Dodo Bird, gets tied up with the Tweedles, raps with the Caterpillar, and beats the Queen of Hearts at her own game! This fast-paced stage adaptation of Alice in Wonderland features the classic Disney songs as I’m Late, The Un-birthday Song and Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. A Newbury YoungStars production.

For more details

see the Arlington Arts Centre web site at www.arlingtonarts.co.uk.