Madchester festival coming to stadium
A CHAT show with a difference is coming to Runcorn when Tea With Oscar Wilde is performed next month.
The Brindley will host the production on Friday, April 6.
Acclaimed actor Jonathan Goodwin plays the famed
AMADCHESTER themed mini-music festival will be coming to Widnes over Easter.
Halton Borough Council’s Select Security Stadium will host Mancholiday on Saturday, March 31.
The event is a celebration of the Madchester era with Resurrection, the band described by bassist Mani from the Stone Roses as ‘still the best tribute’ to the band, and the brilliant Happy Mondays tribute band Happy Mondaze.
The Stone Roses have a historical link to Halton having Victorian wit, in a show packed with comedy, music and audience participation.
A Halton Borough Council spokesman said: “Join Oscar as he interviews a leading celebrity of the Victorian era, recounts a story or two and played Spike Island in a legendary 1990 gig.
Both The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays also entertained at The Queen’s Hall in the town.
The festival is also an opportunity for local acts to show what they can do.
There will be two stages, with two great bands Factory and The Odds joining the headliners on the main Sports Hall stage.
There is also an acoustic stage in the Legends Bar featuring several great acoustic acts such as Catherine Hardman, invites his audience to get ‘caught in the act!’
“And you don’t need to go to Reading Gaol to experience it!
“The show is brought to you by Don’t Go Into The Cellar! Theatre Company – which describes itself as the British Beth Woods, Gareth Heesom, Greg Oldfield, and Strangers from 4pm.
Little Indie Night DJs will play all the biggest tunes in between bands.
For those who want to watch the big Anthony Joshua v Joseph Parker fight on the same date, the stadium will be screening it after the main bands finish at around 10pm to round off the event.
Tickets are currently still available at the early bird price of £10 from the stadium, by calling 0151 510 6000 or from www. ticketmaster.co.uk Empire’s finest practitioners of top-notch Victorian entertainment – which brought Dracula’s Ghost to the venue.” Tickets are £12 and £10. To book visit www. thebrindley.org.uk or call the box office on 0151 907 8360. HG Wells classic The Time Machine is coming to The Brindley in Runcorn.
Dyad Productions will be journeying from through the aeons from 1900 into the far future, and spanning the fall of mankind to the end of the world.
Rebecca Vaughan and Elton Townend Jones’s interpretation of the tale focuses on the adventure of a Victorian time traveller visiting extreme moments in the life of the universe.
The show programme notes said the story take place against the realworld backdrop of an age of ‘uncertainty’, ‘shadows of tyranny’, ‘intolerance’ and ‘war’. The Daily Mail hailed the show as ‘terrific’, ‘grips the imagination, ideas spit off the narrative like sparks from a welder’s torch’.
Tickets are £15, £13 from thebrindley.org.uk and the box office on 0151 907 8360 ●