Take Art is a unique, magical, life-changing organisation that doesn’t live in a venue, or studio or a whacking great theatre but in the villages, towns and rural communities of Somerset. Every year we work with over 15,000 people across the county, providing opportunities for all ages and abilities to experience, participate and work within the arts.
You can support us by visiting our new 'Fundraising Page' or by going to see one or more of the below events.
Limited Golden tickets are available from Take Art, entitling you to see all four shows for the price of three at £30. Please contact Take Art on 01460 249450 or email sarah@takeart.org to claim your Golden Ticket.
Show 1: Adolf by Pip Utton
Thursday 13 September @ Tacchi-Morris Art Centre. Buy online here
Adolf is live theatre at its best with a theme and subject that is powerful, challenging and divisive, illustrative and educational. It is utterly provocative and totally necessary. Everyone should experience it...
The Fu?hrer’s bunker, Berlin 1945, the air is thick with betrayal as Hitler awaits the inevitable collapse of Berlin. Pip Utton, looking uncomfortably like the Fuhrer, stands before a huge Nazi banner addressing his party faithful. The 20th Century’s most notorious tyrant is daringly brought to the stage in one of the most successful and powerful solo works ever presented. Written and performed by Pip Utton, directed by Guy Masterson.
“Terrifying, searing, transfixing... It is quite impossible to be anything other than totally absorbed by Utton’s performance. Adolf reaffirms the need and worth of political theatre.” ***** The Scotsman
Show 2: Howjidoo. Reg Meuross & Will Kaufman… meet Woody Guthrie
Saturday 6 October @ Axbridge Town Hall. Buy online here
Reg meets Woody. A unique show featuring Reg Meuross, described as ‘one of Britain’s finest living songwriters’ and Will Kaufman, one of the world’s foremost experts on the life and work of Woody Guthrie. In an engaging, poignant and often humorous show the two beloved musicians swap selections of Woody and Reg’s songs, using a variety of guitars, fiddles, dulcimer and banjo.
Reg Meuross is a celebrated singer-songwriter with seven CD collections under his belt. Will Kaufman is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and Professor of American Culture. He is the author of the 2011 biography Woody Guthrie, American Radical.
Show 3: Eduardo Niebla Guitar Duo:
Thursday 14 November @ Wookey Hole Club. Buy online here
Hailed by The Guardian for his ‘exquisite’ playing, Eduardo is a technically brilliant, fantastically creative player and phenomenal live performer, who has benevolently offered his support for the Don’t Take Art Away campaign. This is a must see fundraising event. Wookey Hole Club will be talking about it for years. (See page 7 for more info).
“Exotic and percussive, Eduardo explores musical avenues that are rarely pursued. For sheer breathtaking artistry it takes some beating.” The Sun
Show 4: Matt Harvey and The Hip Yak Poetry Shack
Friday 30 November @ The Merlin Theatre in Frome. Buy online here
On 30 November Matt Harvey, writer, poet, enemy of all that’s difficult and upsetting, will be joining forces with the hugely popular Hip Yak Poetry Shack.
From Totnes to the Wimbledon Tennis Championships via Radio 4’s Saturday Live, the Edinburgh Festival and the Work section of the Guardian, Matt Harvey is always a sell out favourite on the rural touring scene.
He will be headlining the ramshackle hand-made interactive poetry comedy cabaret in the plush comfort of the Merlin Theatre in Frome and will be joined by national poetry stars Chris Redmond, Jonny Fluffypunk and Liv Torc.
“...not only funny but tender and true” The Guardian