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LEEDS CASTLE FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR // 3-4 NOV
25,000 starbursts will fill the sky above the Castle for the biggest firework
display in the South East of England. ‘Remember, remember’ the 3rd
and 4th November as the Leeds Castle Fireworks Spectacular this year
celebrates ‘dancing’. “You can dance, you can jive, having the time of
your life,” at this year’s two-night Fireworks display. Children will love
watching the stunning fireworks over the Castle whilst dancing to
songs from their favourite films including ‘I like to Move It’ and ‘Just
Dance’. This year’s funky theme will have everyone from children to
grandparents dancing the night away during this incredible evening
of party pyrotechnics. Plenty of entertainment will be on offer during
the afternoon including live music from singer Adam Chandler and
Jonny Meah from Heart who will be doing a live Club Classic DJ set to
get the party started.
From 2pm. Price: £23 (children £15)
Leeds Castle, Maidstone ME17 1PL
www.leeds-castle.com / 01622 765400
TO HELL IN A HANDBAG // 6 NOV
While others are
preoccupied
with cucumber
sandwiches and
railway
cloakrooms,
two minor
characters from
The Importance
of Being Earnest
are up to their
necks in
something else.
A country rector
and a
governess,
models of
Victorian
propriety in
public. But in
private? This is
the play behind
the play: a tale
of blackmail,
false identity…
and money. A
subversively
funny new take
on an Irish theatrical classic. Written and performed by Helen Norton
and Jonathan White.
8pm. Price: £13.50
The Woodville, 15A Wrotham Road, Gravesend DA11 0PA
https://woodville.thebigideaonline.co.uk / 01474 337459
THE CASE OF THE FRIGHTENED LADY // 5-10 NOV
THE GHOST TRAIN // 6-10 NOV
Inspector Tanner is called to investigate a ruthless murder at the grand
ancestral home of the Lebanon family. Navigating a bloodline-obsessed
patriarch, a groundskeeper with a grudge and two unsettling footmen,
Inspector Tanner discovers nothing is quite as it seems. As Tanner
moves closer to the heart of the mystery he uncovers a shocking and
closely guarded secret. The star cast led by John Partridge, best known
to TV audiences as the suave and charismatic Christian Clarke in
EastEnders, is also celebrated as one of musical theatre’s most respected
leading men, having played in major West End musical hits such as
Starlight Express, Chicago and in Bill Kenwright’s recent lavish musical
of La Cage Aux Folles.
7.30pm (Saturday matinee 2.30pm). Price: from £18.50
The Orchard Theatre, Home Gardens, Dartford DA1 1ED
www.orchardtheatre.co.uk / 01322 220000
When a group of strangers find themselves stranded at a rural train
station in the remote Cornish countryside, their overnight wait for their
connecting train takes a turn for the worse, with chilling consequences.
Isolated in the station’s waiting room until early morning with a storm
raging outside, they are visited by the local stationmaster who had seen
flittering lights through the heavy rain. He shares a shocking story of
a fatal train crash that happened a little further down the tracks some
years earlier, on an evening as treacherous as this. The train that crashed
and killed all on board is now said to haunt the tracks and can often be
heard screaming past the station as it races to its fate. Keen to lock up
the station, he strongly warns the travellers to seek shelter elsewhere
as legend says, if seen, the Ghost Train will bring death to all those who
set eyes upon it. Will the passengers make it through until morning or
will the evening be one they will live to forget? Written by English actor
and playwright Arnold Ridley, widely known for his portrayal of Private
Godfrey in the classic television sitcom Dad’s Army, this suspense
thriller is bound to have you on the edge of your seats!
7.30pm. Price: £14
The Hazlitt Theatre, Earl Street, Maidstone ME14 1PL
www.parkwoodtheatres.co.uk/Hazlitt-Theatre / 01622 758611
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