Dancing Schools UK! 2025

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DRET Primary Music Festival 2025: The Magic Flute

Royal and Derngate Theatre 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP

The David Ross Education Trust presents a 60-minute version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute in partnership with the Royal Ballet & Opera. 300 students from Northamptonshire primary schools join with professional singers Samantha Hay, Emyr Lloyd Jones, Blaise Malaba and instrumentalists from the Royal Academy of Music to retell this magical interpretation of Mozart’s ever popular opera. Relive the story of the prince Tamino discovering the princess Pamina, of the birdcatcher Papageno desperately searching for his ‘Papagena’, of the conflict between the powerful Sarastro and Queen of the Night, and of the mysterious power of a magic flute and magic bells. Perfect for audiences young and old! Wed 26 March Booth Wood Academy, Bringhurst Primary School, Cedar Road Primary School, Eastfield Academy, Greenfields Primary School, Ingoldsby Academy, Malcolm Arnold Preparatory School and Rockingham Primary School Thu 27 March Abbey CE Academy, The Arbours Primary Academy, Bobby Moore Academy (Primary), Briar Hill Primary School, Falconer’s Hill Academy, Kings Heath Primary Academy, Newnham Primary School and Welton CE Academy

Mark Steel: The Leopard In My House

Royal and Derngate Theatre 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP

Join multi-award-winning, BAFTA-nominated writer and comedian Mark Steel for his new tour The Leopard In My House. The topic? His battle with throat cancer. A battle he is winning (thankfully) and which only his rapier wit could fashion a comedy tour show out of. Cancer has done nothing to dull Mark’s acute political observations or quash his “frankly bonkers” energy: you will laugh, you will cry, but you’ll laugh again, and again, and again. The Leopard In My House is proof that this leftie, working-class, Radio 4 favourite truly deserves his place in the UK comedy pantheon.

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