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  1. In the real world, there isn't 'once upon a time' or 'happily ever after'. In a new adaptation by Nick Tait, the original Grimm stories are shared by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Classic favourites, and a few lesser-known stories, are presented once more by the brothers, whose only wish is to tell us the truth of the world. Presented by The Dilys Guite Players Click here to book tickets for Grimm Tales and use the discount code SHEFFORUM at checkout to receive £1.50 off the price of each ticket*. *Offer only applies to tickets booked for Grimm Tales online and not at the door.
  2. Canterbury And Other Medieval Tales Join us for a journey in medieval times to fulfil a pilgrimage, where everything within the journey is there to entertain. Nick Tait has adapted Chaucer's original tales as a collaborative performance, by an ensemble cast, especially for The Lantern. Performed by the Dilys Guite Players. Click here to book tickets (£10 - £12 available from our online box office).
  3. The classic Arthur Miller play is coming to The Lantern. Set in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1950s, Longshoreman Eddie Carbone and his wife Beatrice have raised their niece, Catherine; who is now coming of age. For Eddie it is a privilege to take in his wife's cousins straight off the boat from Italy as they try to rebuild their lives in American to help themselves and their family escape poverty. But as Catherine begins to fall for one of them, it becomes clear that it’s not simply Eddie’s disapproval of the match because the guy 'ain't right', but something much deeper and darker that Eddie can’t face. Something that will threaten their lives forever. Click to book tickets Presented by The Dilys Guite Players This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited
  4. Well this is an interesting post. We always enjoy seeing people's memories of the theatre, especially the early days. We've just refurbished the bar/foyer and put some photographs on the wall of the day the theatre renovations started back in 1957. We did get through the pandemic and we have shows on once again. If anyone would like to come and visit, to have a look at your old 'den', let us know. We're not there all the time as the theatre is entirely run by volunteers but we can arrange something. We're still working on the buildings at the back, the old stable block, which are our dressing rooms. I'm guessing those are the ones that John is referring to in the original post. We've put the story of the theatre on our website now, along with some pictures: https://www.lanterntheatre.org.uk/our-story You can email us at info@lanterntheatre.org.uk or through the contact forms on our website. Yes, we were originally known as The Chalet theatre when the Webster family built the venue back in 1893. When Dilys Guite and her friends renovated the building back in 1957, we reopened with the new name. We bet that was seat L1 We reopened in November 2021 and we have shows coming up throughout 2022 and beyond. We were actually closed for 600 days in total over the pandemic so it's good to be back!
  5. From the Lewis Carroll original stories, adapted for stage by Brainerd Duffield. Alice plunges down the rabbit hole and becomes involved in that madcap and deliciously satiric series of adventures immortalised by Lewis Carroll. Dramatised as a series of fourteen episodes from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, this play is a kaleidoscope of action, music and madness, with the necessary elements of suspense and frustration to make it all work. Alice In Wonderland is presented by The Dilys Guite Players Click here to book tickets - Sheffield Forum user discount code: SHEFFORUM (£1.50 off each ‘Alice’ ticket - available for online bookings only and applied at checkout)
  6. Mindgame | by Anthony Horowitz Mark Styler, a prominent author of novels and “true crime” stories, enters the secluded mental institution Fairfields looking to interview the subject of his next book. The man he’s eager to speak with is the serial killer Easterman who has been confined there for thirty years. Eventually Styler meets with Easterman; but the meeting is not quite as expected. "A truly gripping thriller [that] keeps you guessing and marveling from its deceptively normal opening to its fearful climax." - The Stage "Probes the terror of madness...while exhibiting a roguish love of the macabre." - London Evening Standard Sheffield Forum offer: 20% discount on Mindgame tickets booked online. Enter FORUMOFFER when checking out on the box office. Click here to book tickets.
  7. DGP Youth Group presents SHEFF SHAKES Summer School for 11-16 year olds! Sheff Shakes is a new inclusive Shakespeare based youth drama group situated at the historic Lantern Theatre in Nether Edge. Our team consist of highly experienced, DBS checked Dilys Guite Player members who want to expand the reach of this active community theatre to encourage younger members. Our week long Summer camp will be based on HAMLET and culminate in a final show complete with costumes, lights and sound. Summer school times: Monday 24 July - Friday 28 July (10AM - 3PM) Performance on Sunday 30 July (timings TBC) Summer school fees are £75 To register: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/375444
  8. September In The Rain by John Godber September in the Rain looks at the life of Yorkshire couple Jack and Liz told through their annual summer holiday taking them across the Pennines to Blackpool, which has been a ritual for over 40 years. It’s the golden age of donkey rides, talent contests, saucy postcards, stripy deckchairs, ice cream, rolled-up trousers and knotted hankies. Presented by the Dilys Guite Players Community Theatre Group. The Lantern Theatre, Sheffield Tuesday 17 to Saturday 21 May 2016 Doors Open at 6:30PM Starts at 7:30PM Ticket Price: £7.00 - £10.00* *booking fee applies (use code LTFEESAVE at checkout to save £1.50 on the booking fee for this production) Box Office: 01142551776 Click here to book tickets
  9. Foolish Mortals:Tickets £5 We’re acknowledging the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death with a festival that celebrates and draws on all of his plays. Men and Women have swapped their roles, all the conventional boundaries that usually define them have been stripped away and the hunt is on for the mortal beneath. It’s a Life lived in five acts. The storm of birth, disobedient children, disappointing parents, lust, the manacle of love, betrayal, notable cowards, endless lairs, promise-breakers, lascivious turtles, dark light, murder, grief, crown-less kings, debaucherous youth, joy, hope, discontented winters, summer-birds, guilt, loss, hags, enchantresses, spotted and inconstant men, monsters, rascals, sweet saints, maidens, foul wrinkled witches; fools all, ever striving to claw out an existence in spite of the gods. “Oh, what fools these mortals be” Presented by the Dilys Guite Players Community Theatre Group. Click here to book
  10. Wuthering Heights "He is more myself than I am, whatever our two souls are made of, his and mine are the same” Set amid the bleak beauty of Haworth Moor, this immortal love story tells the tale of Heathcliff's searing passion for the beautiful Catherine Earnshaw, it has the vividness of nightmare, the beauty and simplicity of an old ballad and depth and intensity of an ancient tragedy. It is a spellbinding thriller and ghost story interwoven with moments of humour and compassion; the original was penned at the Parsonage in Haworth and is now brought vividly to life in this theatre presentation. Presented by The Dilys Guite Players Click to book tickets online Ticket Price: £7.00 - £10.00* *booking fee applies
  11. Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward Novelist Charles Condomine, invites the mysterious Madame Arcati to his home for a séance. Charles intends the evening to be nothing more than research for his new book, hoping to learn some tricks of the trade. However, during the proceedings Madame Arcati falls into a deep trance and unexpectedly summons the ghost of his dead wife, Elvira. Charles is the only one who can see Elvira and she soon mischievously decides it’s time to reclaim her husband. Ruth, his new wife, obviously has something to say about this and is determined to make Charles see sense. Who will be the winner in this improbable supernatural comedy? Friday the 11th September features a talk before the performance on the history of the Lantern as part of the Nether Edge Festival, from 7pm. Click here to book online. Tickets £10 each (concessions available) and Sheffield Forum users can use LTBOOKFREE during checkout to save on the £1.50 booking fee (valid to all bookings made online before 11:59pm on Sunday 6 September 2015 for any night of the run). Presented by the Dilys Guite Players, Community Theatre Group. This amateur production of "Blithe Spirit" is presented by arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD.
  12. This exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem is both a gripping historical play and a timely parable of our contemporary society. The story tells “how small lies - children’s lies - build and build until a whole town is aroused and 19 men and women go to the gallows for being possessed of the Devil. They are good men and women, upright, hardworking, compassionate and Godfearing. Presented by the Dilys Guite Players, Community Theatre Group Click here to book Doors Open at 6:30PM Starts at 7:30PM Ticket Price: £8.50 - £10.00* * booking fee applies but waived with code below Sheffield Forum users can use the code LTBOOKFREE at the online checkout and the £1.50 booking fee will be waived (applies to all online bookings made for any performance of The Crucible by Arthur Miller).
  13. Confusions By Alan Ayckbourn Confusions is actually a set of five interlinked one act plays: Mother Figure, Drinking Companion, Between Mouthfuls, Gosforth's Fete and A Talk in the Park. Each play deals riotously, but with sharply pointed undertones, with human eccentricities and the human dilemma of loneliness; a mother unable to escape from baby talk, a disastrous fete, an unsuccessful seduction attempt, a fate fraught dinner encounter and the final play sums up with five self immolated characters on park benches. "Buoyant ... sad, sharp and funny." - London Guardian Presented by the Dilys Guite Players, Community Theatre Group Click here to book. Doors Open at 6:30PM Starts at 7:30PM Ticket Price: £8.50 - £10.00* * booking fee applies but waived with code below Sheffield Forum users can use the code LTBOOKFREE at the online checkout and the £1.50 booking fee will be waived (applies to all online bookings made before 6:30pm on 28 April 2015 for any performance of Confusions).
  14. Love Me Slender by Vanessa Brooks “Remember girls - not slim for today. Not slim for tomorrow. But slim for life!” With these words, Siobhan, the ‘Achiever of the Year’ inspires her hopeful new recruits in the Slim for Life dieting club. Siobhan has lost seven stone, found a new self, a fulfilling job and a wonderful husband. Armed with these she encourages others to achieve the same through a combination of diet and personal philosophy. Five stages - commitment, discipline, sacrifice, realisation and salvation - for the key to a new life. Can Jean, Claudette, Rosie and the rest win the fight with flab? The determination to succeed comes with a price and one not everyone is willing to pay. When the temptation rises and the motivation begins to wane, the edges begin to unravel in the face of Siobhan’s autocratic rule. Just how much is the price worth paying? “A satisfyingly humane and perceptive play that memorably nails one of the great issues of our times.” [Daily Telegraph] Presented by the Dilys Guite Players, Community Theatre Group Click here to book online. Doors Open at 6:30PM Starts at 7:30PM Ticket Price: £7.00 - £10.00* *booking fee applies Sheffield Forum readers can use the code LTBOOKFREE at the checkout and we'll waive the booking fee (available up to midnight 17 Feb 2015).
  15. The DGP present their unique version of Macbeth for the modern audience. The Company construct a stylishly beautiful yet horrific visual spectacle using choreographed stage pictures to craft an accessible and evocative journey into ambition, darkness and desire... ‘It will have blood, they say. Blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak. Augurs and understood relations have By magot pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret’s man of blood.—What is the night?’ Macbeth Act III Scene IV Join us from the 15th - 25th October 2014 at the Lantern Theatre to share the journey. The Lantern Theatre, Sheffield on Wednesday 15 October 2014 Doors Open at 6:30PM Starts at 7:30PM Ticket Price: £7.00 - £10.00* (Group reduction of £1.75 per ticket available for parties of 10+ applied at the checkout) *booking fee applies http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/64745
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