When the flurry of applications to perform in the Open Season flood in we never cease to be impressed by the energy and ambition of the work.
It's exactly what the Open Season is for - the chance that performers from around the region have to explore our stages and share their work.
This annual showcase has brought many surprises and much excitement to the New Wolsey Theatre and Studio over recent years and 2013 is no exception. With the range of musicals, plays, work from young people, original work and new ideas this year looks like something really special.
Terrific too to welcome professional companies, Playing ON and Slung Low, as they showcase work they are making with the youth and community groups.
- 2013
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Hearing Things
14 June 2013
For the past two years, Playing ON has been collaborating with NHS clinicians and service users, drawing together the stories of those receiving and providing mental health care.
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Suffolk Soul Singers
15 June 2013
Inspired by a call to "get up and sing", Suffolk Soul Singers is a 30 strong community choir based in Ipswich. Created in 2009 and directed by Andi Hopgood, Suffolk Soul Singers present real music creating an opportunity for anybody to get involved.
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Little Women - The Broadway Musical
19 June 2013 - 22 June 2013
Based on Louisa May Alcott's own family experiences and novel, Little Women follows the adventures of Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March as they grow up in Civil War America.
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Into The Woods
26 June 2013 - 29 June 2013
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's iconic multi award winning musical Into the Woods combines the well-known fairy tales of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Little Red Riding Hood with the story of a Baker and his Wife who desperately want a child.
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Don't Miss The Jellicle Ball!
3 July 2013 - 6 July 2013
The Co-op Juniors Theatre Company presents a major feline musical, an international smash-hit since it first opened in London in 1981.
If you haven't guessed already please visit www.coopjuniors.co.uk for more information.
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In Health and in Sickness
3 July 2013 - 5 July 2013
Built from the legacy and vision of a great Ipswich surgeon, The Bartlet Convalescent Home was the much loved heart of community convalescent care for the East Suffolk Area from 1926 until 2008 when it was closed and the building put up for sale.
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The Show Must Go On
9 July 2013 - 12 July 2013
Dame Sheila Shufflebottom is due to make one final appearance for her adoring fans! But behind the scenes it's chaos and nothings ready.
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Ordinary Days
13 July 2013
When Deb loses her most precious possession - the notes to her graduate thesis - she unwittingly starts a chain of events that turns the ordinary days of four New Yorkers into something extraordinary.
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Les Misérables - School Edition
18 July 2013 - 20 July 2013
Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables is a worldwide musical phenomenon set against the backdrop of 19th-century France.
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Act One - The Cave
18 July 2013 - 20 July 2013
Unscene Suffolk is a ground-breaking new community theatre company for adults with visual impairment. They have been working together since February 2013 and Act One marks their first public performance.
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Big Ideas 5 - Moby Dick
27 July 2013
Just 5 days to make the play, 5 days to change the future of theatre for young people, by young people, with young people - forever.