Previous Performing Arts events
Double Bill
Tuesday 27 March - Wednesday 28 March 2012
Our BTEC Extended Diploma Acting students provide an evening of
entertainment consisting of two contemporary one act plays written
specifically for young people. Themes include coming of age in a
world where you don’t fit in and how to find escape in a cyber
world where anything can happen.
Time: 7.00pm
Tickets: £5.00 (free drinks
& nibbles)
Venue: South Bank Arts Centre
Studio Theatre
Music Forum 2012
Wednesday 1 February - Thursday 2 February
2012
A music industry event including workshops and
demonstrations from software and instrument manufactures. Also
featured will be performances and master classes from expert
musicians and performers.
A full line up of performers and exhibitors will be announced
closer to the day.
Time: 2.00pm (schools) and 7.00pm (parents)
Tickets: Various (Please call
01234 291000 for more information)
Venue: South Bank Arts
Centre Studio Theatre
'Victoriana' – Fashion Show
Thursday 26 January 2012
A fashion show involving students from art and
design as well as music technology and media. The theme for this
year’s show is ‘Victoriana’.
There will be two shows – one at 2.00pm aimed at schools, and
one at 7.00pm for parents. Both shows will also be open to the
public visiting the open day.
Time: 2.00pm (schools) and 7.00pm (parents)
Tickets: FREE
Venue: South Bank Arts Centre
Studio Theatre
Twisted Xmas 3
Tuesday 13 December - Wednesday 14 December
2011
Christmas themed performances performed by our
Music Performance & Production students. Expect the
unexpected!
Time: TBA
Tickets: £3.00
Venue: South Bank Arts
Centre Studio Theatre
An Evening of Dance, Musicals and Devising
Tuesday 6 December - Wednesday 7 December
2011
An evening of varied entertainment including a
culmination of dance styles, musical numbers and new work created
by students during their first term. Preformed by first year
students studying the Extended Diploma in Performing Arts, Dance,
or Musical Theatre, and AS Level students.
Time: 7.00pm
Tickets: £5.00
Venue: South Bank Arts
Centre Studio Theatre
Arabian Nights adapted by Dominic Cooke
Friday 2 December 2011
Performed by our first year performing arts
students. The star of Dominic Cooke’s adaptation of Arabian Nights
is Sharazad whose bewitching tales include those of Ali Baba and
Es-Sinibad. The play celebrates the power of the imagination and
storytelling.
Time: 7.00pm
Tickets: £5.00
Venue: South Bank Arts
Centre Studio Theatre
An Evening of Drama
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Showcasing their skills and talent, our second
year performing arts students perform a contemporary play.
Time: 7.00pm
Tickets: £5.00
Venue: South Bank Arts
Centre Studio Theatre
Those Legs by Noel Clarke
9, 10 and 11 March
Performed by second year BTEC National Diploma Acting
students.
Georgia, Aaron and Leon have been friends since they were kids.
Now they're young adults, in their first jobs, and sharing a house
in the city with newcomer Lana. It's been two years since the
accident in which Georgia lost the use of her legs, and she's doing
her best to adjust but her boyfriend and friends find the change
testing. An intense, psychological drama that presents the
precarious nature of friendship and young love in startling
close-up.
Venue: South Bank Arts Centre Studio
Theatre
Cost: £3 per ticket
Age suitability: 15+
Time: This performance will begin at 7.30 pm.
Refreshments will be served from 6.30pm.
A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare
16 and 17 March
Performed by First year Level 3 Acting Students and supported by
BTEC Production Arts students.
This drama is one of the great comedy plays by William
Shakespeare. The play revolves around the adventures of four young
lovers, a group of amateur actors and their interactions with the
fairies that inhabit a moonlit forest. The story takes place in
Midsummer and is a complex farce featuring Hermia & Lysander
and Helena & Demetrius. Their romantic intrigues are confused
and complicated still further by entering the forest where Oberon,
the King of the Fairies and his Queen, Titania, preside. Puck (or
Robin Goodfellow) is a major character who is full of mischief and
tricks. Other visitors to the enchanted forest include Bottom the
weaver and his friends Snug, Snout, Quince and Flute the amateur
dramatists who want to rehearse their terrible but hilarious
version of the play Pyramus and Thisbe.
Venue: South Bank Arts Centre Studio
Theatre
Cost: £3 per ticket
Time: This performance will begin at 7pm.
Refreshments will be served from 6.30pm.
Bedford AV
7 April
An audio-visual exploration of the sights and sounds of the
local area. A multimedia performance by students on Level 3 Music
Technology courses.
Venue: South Bank Arts Centre Studio
Theatre
Cost: £3 per ticket
Time: This performance will begin at 7pm.
Refreshments will be served from 6.30pm.
Music Technology: Twisted Xmas 2: Santa's Revenge: Part
two
Date: Thursday 16 December
Music Technology: Twisted Xmas 2: Santa's Revenge: Part
one
Date: Wednesday 15 December
Dance: Year 1 & 2 Extended Diploma Performing Arts
Dates: Thursday 9 & Friday 10
December
Recommended age group: All
Acting: Year 1 Extended Diploma Performing Arts
Date: Tuesday 7 December
Recommended age group: 15+
Just Dance
National Diploma Dance
performance
Dates: June 16 & June 17 2010
An evening of dance that will cover a wide
range of styles ranging from Jazz to Contemporary.
An Evening of Contemporary Theatre
National Certificate & National
Diploma Level 1 Performing Arts Students
Dates: June 10 & June 11
An evening of innovative and experimental
contemporary theatre that will deal with youth culture issues.
17 Scenarios
National Diploma Performing Arts
Students
Date: June 9 2010
Martin Crimp's 17 scenarios for the theatre
are a rollercoaster of late 20th-century obsessions. From
pornography and ethnic violence, to terrorism and unprotected sex,
its strange array of nameless characters attempt to invent the
perfect story to encapsulate our time.
Animal Farm
1st Diploma Performing Art
Students
Dates: 26 May & 27 May 2010
Orwell's fairy story/nightmare of a utopian
collective turning in to a totalitarian regime is more relevant
today than it ever has been. Students will be creating and building
a stunning production full of movement and sound and physicality.
Don't forget - All animals are equal... Some are more equal than
others!
Showcase
Bedford College Music
Technology
Dates: 19 May & 20 May 2010
The Music Technology department at Bedford
College will be presenting a series of performances by students
across a wide range of courses representing some of the finest
musical talent in town! Performances ranging from rock & pop to
dubstep, hip hop and metal.
RENT – Musical Production
Dates: 25 March - 27 March 2010
Bedford College students are performing
in RENT the story of a group of creatives in New York dealing with
the ups and downs of life as they try to make a living and a name
for themselves while dealing with tough personal issues and a
demanding landlord. This production promises to be a real show
stopper!
Tickets for performances are available from
the Enquiries and Guidance department at the main College reception
at our Cauldwell Street campus, just pop in and see us or call us
on 01234 291000.