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 Chichester Festival Theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chichester Festival Theatre is one of the UK's flagship theatres with an international reputation for creating magical live performances.
During this time the theatre also delivers outdoor promenade performances and organizes a great deal of the festival's other events including Cabaret and Comedy nights and a great range of events designed to add to the experience of visiting the theatre including Platform Events, Family Days and Talks.
The Theatre is currently run as a plc and is chaired by Lord Young of Graffham.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chichester_Festival_Theatre   (275 words)

  
 Chichester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chichester is a small Cathedral city in the south of England, in the county of West Sussex, with a population of about 25,000.
It is the administrative centre of the Chichester district, a largely rural area with a population of over 100,000.
The city is also home to the world-renowned Chichester Festival Theatre whose annual summer season attracts the highest calibre of actors, writers and directors and is widely considered one of the most important annual events in British theatre.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chichester   (837 words)

  
 History of Chichester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Evidence suggests that the main role of Chichester was as farmland, taking advantage of its rich soil to produce grain, that would have been transported out of Chichester Harbour.
Chichester was invaded by the Saxons in 477.
Chichester Cathedral stands close to the early Roman town, and many of the current shops and houses that surround the cathedral today are built on the remains of old Noviomagnus.
www.chichesteruk.com /attractions/history/history_of_chichester_one.htm   (472 words)

  
 IndieLondon: Chichester Festival - 2006 preview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Chichester Festival Theatre is to the theatre what Glyndebourne is to the opera – a charming venue, which is set in an expanse of greensward that every year has a festival of plays; all of which may not be good but are always interesting and usually thought-provoking.
The theatre was the vision of a local optician and councillor, Leslie Evershed Martin, who in the early 1960’s motivated community members to raise over £100,000 to build the theatre, relying entirely on local donations.
The theatre is controlled by a board of Trustees and a social committee who appoint an artistic director to run the theatre and oversee the Festival.
www.indielondon.co.uk /Theatre-Review/chichester-festival-2006-preview   (1362 words)

  
 Chichester Festivities 2006
Chichester Festivities celebrated its 32nd year in style with its biggest extravaganza to date in 2006.
Sponsorship continues to be vital to the existence of the Festivities and we look forward to receiving more approaches to support us in 2007.
The dates of the 2007 Chichester Festivities are 29 June to 15 July.
www.chifest.org.uk   (291 words)

  
 The Sunday Times: Culture: Theatre
Duncan Weldon, artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre, casts in the same way that Robert Carrier used to cook ­ take two lobsters, a gallon of cream, simmer in a bottle of brandy and serve up to the middle classes.
For Hollywood's biggest-grossing female star of the 1980s, mostly in partnership with Michael Douglas and William Hurt, appearing at Chichester is the rather inevitable "fulfilment of a childhood dream".
Chichester has been on her list for a couple of years and the possibility of developing Tallulah clinched it.
research.haifa.ac.il /~theatre/turnerchich.html   (1059 words)

  
 Chichester Festival Theatre Sussex - Festival Theatre Reviews
The policy of the Festival management at Chichester of not employing big names in their shows demonstrates what a host of supremely gifted actors there are just waiting in the wings for their chance.
Edward Kemp, dramaturg at the Chichester Festival Theatre (CFT), has adapted a 1940s novel by the Russian, Mikhail Bulgakov, into a phantasmagoria of a play.
This is turned down by the theatre in Moscow and, from then onwards, the story develops into a series of seemingly unrelated and bizarre events.
www.easyadverts.co.uk /chichester-festival-theatre-main.htm   (1439 words)

  
 Chichester List - everything you need to know about Chichester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Chichester Festival Theatre are delighted that one of the UK’s leading stage actors, Roger Allam, will head the Pravda company in the central role of Lambert Le Roux, the South African newspaper tycoon intent on storming his way...
Chichester Cinema are delighted to welcome the director Tony Palmer today to introduce The Salzburg Festival: a brief history film and give a QandA after the screening.
Chichester Cinema at New Park are always in need of volunteers to join their roster of Cinema Stewards, who take tickets, monitor the auditorium during the film and clear away at the end of the screening.
www.chichesterlist.com /news/index.asp   (914 words)

  
 Chichester Festival Theatre : Youth Theatre
Chichester Festival Youth Theatre is for motivated young people who want to learn skills to produce theatre of their own to the best possible quality.
A weekly session with professional staff with the facilities of the Theatre readily available helps members expand on their performance skills: voice, character and movement with the opportunity to perform in a CFYT production in the Minerva Theatre or Festival Theatre.
There are also a number of opportunities for those wishing to get involved with all aspects of theatre: in lighting, design, stage management and directing - everyone, whatever their interest is given an opportunity to produce theatre.
www.cft.org.uk /content.asp?CategoryID=945   (187 words)

  
 The British Theatre Guide: Church to Take over Chichester
Birmingham Repertory Theatre's artistic director Jonathan Church is to leave the theatre in April 2006 to become artistic director at Chichester Festival Theatre.
During his time the theatre has received both critical and audience acclaim for its programme of new and diverse work and also for landmark productions such as Of Mice And Men and The David Hare Trilogy.
At the beginning of August, the artistic director triumvirate of the Chichester Festival Theatre - Steven Pimlott, Martin Duncan and Ruth Mackenzie - announced that they would be leaving at the end of the year, thus setting in motion the search for a new artistic director and chief executive
www.britishtheatreguide.info /news/churchchichester.htm   (472 words)

  
 Events news in Detail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
If the answer is yes, the BBC Concert Orchestra and Chichester Festival Theatre are running a free workshop day for aspiring young musical theatre singers at Chichester College on Saturday 1st October.
The project culminates in a pre-show event at Chichester Festival Theatre on Thursday 13 October, the evening of the BBC CO Frank Loesser concert, conducted by Richard Balcombe and featuring singers from ‘How to Succeed…’.
Some of the singers who attend the workshop at Chichester College on the 1st October will be chosen to perform their routine, in the foyer, prior to the BBC CO’s evening performance at Chichester Festival Theatre on the 13th October.
www.chichester.ac.uk /general/Eventsdetail.asp?ID=24   (222 words)

  
 Alan Bates Theatre Archive:"Fortune's Fool" Chichester Festival, 1996
IN THE NEW Simon Gray play that opened earlier this season at Chichester, Alan Bates took the role of a middle-aged widower suddenly confronted by a grown-up son he never knew he had.
Mike Poulton (who adapted Chichester's recent Uncle Vanya) is a Turgenev obsessive who last year was given a copy of a "lost" Turgenev comedy, Fortune's Fool (or The Parasite).
Chichester has spared nothing in star-power - Alan Bates plays the central part, the poor Kuzovkin; his son Benedick plays the new master; and the magnificent Desmond Barrit - sweaty, flushed, piggy-eyed - is the neighbour who forces the confession into the open.
alanbates.com /abarchive/stage/fool.html   (1261 words)

  
 Luis Palau Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Festival: 05/10-05/14 Tennessee Strawberry Festival, Dayton, TN Festival: 05/10-05/14 The Tennessee Strawberry Festival is the celebration of small town life.
Festival: 07/02-07/04 The City of Morganton Parks and Recreation Department proudly presents the 2nd Annual Red, White and Bluegrass Festival to be held in Morganton, North Carolina July 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
Festival: 07/08-07/09 Cedar valley traditional bluegrass music festival in Southern Indiana is good source of family entertainment with acoustic guitars, banjos, and fiddles.
luispalaufestival.moolpalau.com   (1565 words)

  
 The Theatre Archive Project - interviews - Frances Gray (page 1)
Senior lecturer in English Literature at Sheffield University talking about her experiences at Chichester Festival Theatre and the RSC in the 1960s and 70s.
And the Chichester stage is vast and she could dominate it.
I think Chichester itself took it quite seriously, and that was a posh retirement/commuter kind of town.
www.bl.uk /projects/theatrearchive/gray.html   (1662 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Arts | | Entertaining Angels
In their three years running the Chichester Festival Theatre, Steven Pimlott, Ruth MacKenzie and Martin Duncan spent time and effort dragging its programme - and audience - out of the ark and into the 21st century.
This may indeed be his plan for Chichester, but the opening play - Richard Everett's comedy starring Penelope Keith - sends out a distressing signal: this south-coast theatre is once again open for cosy boulevard comedy washed down with Pimms.
Keith plays Grace, an acid-tongued and recently widowed vicar's wife, in mourning for her lost husband and about to be turfed out of the English country vicarage by the incoming vicar - who happens to be a woman.
arts.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,,1771943,00.html?gusrc=rss   (429 words)

  
 Arts Council England : Project detail
Chichester Festival Theatre is one of the many theatres across England to benefit from our Theatre Review.
The Theatre Review was supported by Arts Council of England's national policy for theatre, which called on theatres to offer more of a range of high quality work and to attract more people.
The festival includes plays from classics to contemporary writing, promenade performances, cabaret and comedy nights and many other events such as family days and talks.
www.artscouncil.org.uk /aboutus/project_detail.php?sid=10&id=65   (228 words)

  
 Chichester : Attractions | Frommers.com
Chichester Festival Theatre, built in the 1960s, offers plays and musicals during the summer (May-Sept), and in the winter and spring months, orchestras, jazz, opera, theater, ballet, and a Christmas show for the entire family.
The Minerva Studio Theatre and the Chichester Festival Theatre are managed by the same board of governors but show different programs and different plays.
The course became dangerous for faster cars and was retired as an active track in the 1960s, as the 4km (2 1/2-mile) circuit was never modernized.
www.frommers.com /destinations/chichester/0434010029.html   (415 words)

  
 Arts in Sussex FREE information and listings for Sussex UK - Places to Visit - Venue Details
Chichester station is a 15 minute walk away from the Theatre, with regular direct links to London Victoria, Brighton, Portsmouth, Southampton, and Gatwick Airport.
August Strindberg is one of the fathers of modern theatre and The Father one of its most gripping psychological dramas.
Chichester Festival Youth Theatre brings to life this classic tale that has captured the imagination of children and adults for over a hundred years.
www.artsinsussex.com /places_detail.aspx?venue=20   (1403 words)

  
 Ballet - welcome to Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh - Scotlands Award-winning New ...
The Auditorium Theatre Council is an Illinois not-for-profit corporation committed to presenting the finest in international cultural, local and community programming to Chicago and committed to the continued restoration and preservation of this hist 192 oric national landmark Theatre.
Artword Theatre is a new 150-seat performance space in downtown Toronto, Canada, committed to fostering the development and performance of theatre, music, dance and multi-media works. Artword Gallery is a 1500 square-foot exhibition space that also serves as the lobby of Artword Theatre.
www.jyballet.com /theatre   (1368 words)

  
 Chichester Festival Theatre 2003
Chichester’s Arkadina is Sheila Gish, who comes with a medically mandatory eyepatch that gives her a raffish look altogether in keeping with her reading of the role.
This Chichester season seems to be proving so, never more than now, for Stoppard catches all the restless excitement of the would-be writer and the lover and much of the chilling despair that comes with the writer’s frustration and the lover’s rejection.
Chichester’s Arkadina played by Sheila Gish, stately as a galleon, gorgeous with self-esteem, voluptuous in her pursuit of Philip Quast’s laid-back Trigorin.
www.ipollard.demon.co.uk /PQContinuum/CFT2003.html   (7433 words)

  
 Chichester Festival Theatre - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Chichester Festival Theatre - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Chichester Festival Theatre, theatre situated in Oaklands Park, Chichester, England.
When it opened, in 1962, it had one of the first large thrust...
uk.encarta.msn.com /Chichester_Festival_Theatre.html   (65 words)

  
 The British Theatre Guide: Chichester Announces Festival Shows
Chichester Festival Theatre has announced its summer Festival season, which includes May Madness, a special ticket offer for performances during May. Over a third of all tickets for performances in the Festival Theatre in May are available for just £10.
To book for May Madness, you need to contact the Box Office (01243 781312) from 14th February and choose any Festival Theatre performance during May. Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Also in the Minerva is the Chichester Festival Youth Theatre promenade production of Arabian Nights, adapted by Dominic Cooke and directed by Dale Rooks (4th to 13th August).
www.britishtheatreguide.info /news/chichester05.htm   (414 words)

  
 English - Chichester, 2000 Years of History
The spire of Chichester Cathedral can be seen for miles around towering over the Sussex Plain.
The Goodwood Estate also hosts the acclaimed Festival of Speed, historic car racing at Goodwood Motor Circuit, as well as state rooms and apartments open to the public at Goodwood House.
For details of accommodation in the Chichester area, contact the Chichester Tourist Information Centre or visit the Chichester website.
www.southernenglishcities.com /pages/content.asp?pageid=61   (371 words)

  
 Chichester District Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Chichester District Museum nestles at the end of a quaint 18th Century street in Little London.
The exhibits date from pre-history to the reign of our current monarch, Elizabeth II, The City of Chichester's history is varied and broad.
Although a little dated in terms of interactivity, the museum staff organise a wide variety of events and exhibitions throughout the year.
www.chichesteruk.com /attractions/chichester_district_museum/chichester_district_museum.htm   (176 words)

  
 Chichester Festival Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Chichester Festival Theatre is developing the eStage project to give schools and home learners an insight into the creative processes involved in mounting a professional stage production with unique broadband enabled interactive e-learning functionality.
The Chichester Festival Theatre is using its 2004 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to develop educational materials that give an insight into the creative processes involved in mounting a professional play.
Thirty years later, art and education are at the heart of the theatre’s new strategy which returns the theatre to Olivier’s original 1962 vision.
www.nesta.org.uk /ourawardees/profiles/4798/print.htm   (745 words)

  
 Theatre
He was seen at the Chichester Festival Theatre as Angel Chicago in the 1974/5 season of the Nativity musical Follw that Star, which he repeated when the play was staged in London at the Westminster Theatre.
After playing with Joihn Wayne in the film Brannigan he returned to Chichester where his brilliant performance as Hovstad in Ibsens’s An enemy of the people in the 1975 season was universally acclaimed.
He spent three years at the Chichester Festival theatre as an actor and director and worked for over a year and a half on Peter Hall’s Oresteia which was performed not only at the National theatre but also in the 16000 seater amphitheatre at Epidaurus.
www.unofficialtonyrobinsonwebsite.co.uk /pages/theatre/Theatre.htm   (1426 words)

  
 University of Portsmouth | cinema, theatre and art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
There is no shortage of cinemas in Portsmouth and the surrounding area and we are not just talking cinemas, but nice comfy ones with big comfy seats and plenty of screens to chose from.
It also offers an exciting and challenging professional programme of drama, comedy and dance with especially good deals for students including £5 student standby seats and £5 upper circle seats which include a free drink.
Chichester's Festival Theatre stages more of the contemporary plays with well known performers and Titchfield Fesitval Theatre shows some great open-air plays set in an old abbey - very romantic.
www.port.ac.uk /studentlife/cinematheatreandart   (381 words)

  
 Chichester Web - Chichester Festival Theatre
After a spectacular summer season, it is going to be time for some more festive fun.
The Youth Theatre show off their extraordinary talents in their first ever Christmas production on the Festival Theatre stage, The Wizard of Oz.
Having earned an unrivalled national reputation over the last few years, their new production promises to be a genuine Christmas treat with a huge cast of over one hundred.
www.chichesterweb.co.uk /cft1.htm   (160 words)

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