What’s on | Editor’s pick 11 – 17 November
A proper pain in the neck
You can’t beat a great scary story, full of chills, madmen, ghouls, graveyards and diary entries that get progressively more and more alarming. The original and best of them is in Peterborough in theatrical form on Monday, 11 and Tuesday, 12 November, as Blackeyed Theatre Company present their version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Don’t forget to take a garlic capsule or two before you go, just to be on the safe side…
Dracula
Monday, 11 and Tuesday, 12 November, 7.30 – 9 pm
Key Theatre, Embankment Road
www.vivacity-peterborough.com
www.blackeyedtheatre.co.uk
A night out fit for a king
Experience all the exhilaration of a live performance of a work by England’s greatest ever playwright, starring one of Britain’s most exciting actors in a production from one of the world’s leading theatre companies. And you don’t even have to leave town! The Key Theatre will be live-streaming the RSC’s acclaimed production of Richard II, with David Tennant in the title role, direct from Stratford-upon-Avon. Expect deadly rivalries, rebellions – and bloody, bloody murder…
Royal Shakespeare Company Live Screening of Richard II
Wednesday, 13 November, 7 – 9 pm
Key Theatre, Embankment Road
www.vivacity-peterborough.com
www.rsc.org.uk
A big treat for little ones
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler mania shows no sign of abating, which is fantastic news for kids and parents everywhere who love the pair’s quirky drawings and beautiful, lyrical stories. Help yourself to a slice of Donaldson/Scheffler magic at Peterborough Central Library with a reading of the Snail and the Whale, especially for under fives, on Friday, 15 November.
The Snail and the Whale under fives storytime
Friday, 15 November, 2.15 – 2.45 pm
Peterborough Central Library, Broadway
www.vivacity-peterborough.com
Turning over an old leaf
What could be a nicer way to spend a chilly November day than mooching around a second-hand book fair, in beautiful surroundings, with tea and cake on offer and the chance to hit the jackpot with a hitherto undiscovered first edition? Throw in a pub lunch at the nearby and newly re-opened Black Horse and we think you’ve got pretty much the perfect English Sunday…
Highgate Hall Bookfair
Sunday, 17 November, 10 am – 4 pm
Highgate Hall, Overend, Elton
www.missingbookfairs.co.uk
Only when I laugh
Alan Davies is one of the UK’s favourite comedians and comic actors, excelling both as long-suffering foil to Stephen Fry on QI and as the eponymous Jonathan ‘when are they going to make another series?’ Creek. Enjoy his musings on life, pain and everything else as he takes his show Life Is Pain on the road.
Alan Davies – Life is Pain
Sunday, 17 November 8 – 10 pm
The Cresset, Bretton Centre
www.cresset.co.uk
