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Performing Arts students set for series of shows

Performing Arts students set for series of shows

Final-year BA (Hons) Performing Arts (Film, TV, and Stage) students are taking to the stage at a variety of venues over coming weeks for a trio of shows combining murder mystery, farcical comedy, and forbidden love.

Edge-of-your-seat suspense is in order for murder mystery comedy play A Murder Has Been Renounced, at the Old Town Hall, part of Wycombe Swan Theatre, in St Mary Street, High Wycombe, at 7.30pm on Tuesday (26 February). Tickets £6 (£3 concessions).

A Murder Has Been Renounced will also be performed at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, in Altwood Road, Maidenhead, at 7pm on Tuesday 12 March, with tickets £7 (£3 concessions).

Money, madness and mayhem are set to collide in the farcical comedy Funny Money, which is at the Old Town Hall in High Wycombe at 7.30pm next Thursday (28 February). Tickets £6 (£3 concessions). Students then take Funny Money to Albany Theatre in Albany Road, Coventry, at 7pm on Wednesday 6 March, with tickets £8 (£4 concessions).

The students will also be treading the boards with The Ballad of House Zennor, a tale of love and loss through the eyes of Cornwall’s mythical fairy Piskies, at the Old Town Hall at 7.30pm on Monday 4 March. Tickets £6 (£3 concessions).

The show is then at South Hill Park, in Ringmead, Bracknell, at 7pm on Monday 18 March. Tickets are £7 (£5.50 concessions).

Senior Lecturer Jem Kelly said: “We have a range of genres for people to enjoy and we hope we’ll be joined by enthusiastic audiences for a series of high-quality productions.

“Students have held fundraising events to finance the shows and we are all hugely proud of their efforts and anticipate some fantastic performances.

“Solving the mystery in A Murder Has Been Renounced will have people on their edge of their seats quivering with anticipation, and Funny Money is a trip back to the 90s for an intense and high stakes evening of comedy and laughter, full of twists and turns.

“The Ballad of House Zennor is a tale of forbidden lovers which blends comedy, original music, unrequited love, and unmerciful loss that we are sure will capture audiences’ imaginations.”

Follow the students’ progress on their course page on Facebook.