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Royal Ballet: Sleeping Beauty
Online Events
Fri 24th Jul to Thu 6th Aug 2020
The masterful 19th-century choreography of Marius Petipa is combined with sections created for The Royal Ballet by Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell and Christopher Wheeldon.
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Royal Ballet: The Mad Hatter's Tea Party
Online Events
Fri 31st Jul to Thu 13th Aug 2020
ZooNation: the Kate Prince Company creates irresistible narrative hip hop dance theatre. Their exuberant, sell-out show The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party taps into the heady imagination of Lewis Carroll’s much-loved world, exploring its unique characters and wondering what has made them the way they are.
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Glyndebourne: The Rake's Progress
Online Events
Sun 2nd Aug to Sun 9th Aug 2020
A bearded lady, a small-town boy and a deal with the Devil.
When the mysterious Nick Shadow appears at his door, Tom Rakewell immediately abandons country life and his sweetheart Anne for the temptations of the city. But London’s glittering promise soon corrodes; love, money and even sanity slip further and further from Tom’s grasp.
Can true love save him, or will the Devil have the last laugh?

The Amelia Discovery Days: Victorian Stink Tubes
Online Events
Tue 4th Aug 2020
Join The Amelia Team as they take Discovery Days online and explore the surprising history of Victorian Tunbridge Wells with fun and free activities for you to try at home.
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Summer Cinema: Anne of the Thousand Days
Hever
Fri 7th Aug 2020
8.00 pm
Enjoy socially distanced outdoor cinema under the stars.
Join us on the main lawn at Hever Castle with a blanket or a chair to watch iconic films in the open air within the beautiful grounds.
Enjoy an alfresco summer meal with a BBQ, Pizza Van and Bar, or bring your own picnic. Soak in the summer splendour, with the Castle in the background.
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Romeo and Juliet
Hever
Sat 8th Aug 2020
8.00 pm
Enjoy socially distanced outdoor cinema under the stars.
Join us on the main lawn at Hever Castle with a blanket or a chair to watch iconic films in the open air within the beautiful grounds.
Enjoy an alfresco summer meal with a BBQ, Pizza Van and Bar, or bring your own picnic. Soak in the summer splendour, with the Castle in the background.
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Hot Fuzz
Hever
Sun 9th Aug 2020
8.00 pm
Enjoy socially distanced outdoor cinema under the stars.
Join us on the main lawn at Hever Castle with a blanket or a chair to watch iconic films in the open air within the beautiful grounds.
Enjoy an alfresco summer meal with a BBQ, Pizza Van and Bar, or bring your own picnic. Soak in the summer splendour, with the Castle in the background.
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The Amelia Discovery Days: Tunbridge Wells B...
Online Events
Tue 11th Aug 2020
Join The Amelia Team as they take Discovery Days online and explore the surprising history of Victorian Tunbridge Wells with fun and free activities for you to try at home.

Dinner Jazz on The Pantiles: Kate Daniels Qu...
The Pantiles
Thu 13th Aug 2020
7.00 pm
Dinner Jazz on The Pantiles: Kate Daniels Quintet
Jazz returns to the Pantiles with a new socially distanced layout.
All seated, call to make a reservation at:
- The Tunbridge Wells Hotel - 01892 530501
- The Kirthon - 01892 271151
- La Casa Vecchia - 01892 544700
No seat, no service, please do not just turn up!

Us
Hever
Fri 14th Aug 2020
8.00 pm
Enjoy socially distanced outdoor cinema under the stars.
Join us on the main lawn at Hever Castle with a blanket or a chair to watch iconic films in the open air within the beautiful grounds.
Enjoy an alfresco summer meal with a BBQ, Pizza Van and Bar, or bring your own picnic. Soak in the summer splendour, with the Castle in the background.
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The Goonies
Hever
Sat 15th Aug 2020
8.00 pm
Enjoy socially distanced outdoor cinema under the stars.
Join us on the main lawn at Hever Castle with a blanket or a chair to watch iconic films in the open air within the beautiful grounds.
Enjoy an alfresco summer meal with a BBQ, Pizza Van and Bar, or bring your own picnic. Soak in the summer splendour, with the Castle in the background.
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Central Market: Pleasuredome Festival Warmup
Royal Victoria Place
Sat 15th Aug 2020
12.00 to 10.30 pm

The Gentlemen
Hever
Sun 16th Aug 2020
8.00 pm
Enjoy socially distanced outdoor cinema under the stars.
Join us on the main lawn at Hever Castle with a blanket or a chair to watch iconic films in the open air within the beautiful grounds.
Enjoy an alfresco summer meal with a BBQ, Pizza Van and Bar, or bring your own picnic. Soak in the summer splendour, with the Castle in the background.
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The Amelia Discovery Days: Weird and Wonderf...
Online Events
Tue 18th Aug 2020
Join The Amelia Team as they take Discovery Days online and explore the surprising history of Victorian Tunbridge Wells with fun and free activities for you to try at home.


Eddie Izzard: Expectations of Great Expectations
De La Warr Pavilion
Wed 19th Aug to Sun 23rd Aug 2020
6.00 pm
To celebrate the reopening of the DLWP, Eddie Izzard invites you to his work-in-progress solo reading/ performance of Charles Dickens' classic epic Great Expectations, LIVE from the rooftop of the DLWP in COVID safe conditions.


Eddie Izzard: Wunderbar
De La Warr Pavilion
Wed 19th Aug to Sun 23rd Aug 2020
9.00 pm
To celebrate the reopening of the DLWP, Eddie Izzard returns with an abridged version of Eddie’s latest comedy wold tour Wunderbar. Eddie may be adding in a scene or two from past shows for good measure.
To celebrate the reopening of the DLWP, Eddie Izzard returns with an abridged version of Eddie’s latest comedy wold tour Wunderbar. Eddie may be adding in a scene or two from past shows for good measure.
LIVE from the rooftop of the DLWP in COVID safe conditions.
The show will go ahead come rain or shine.
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Mémoires d’un Amnésique
Finchcocks
Sat 22nd Aug 2020
8.00 - 10.00 pm
Mémoires d'un Amnésique: A piano, a film and Erik Satie, in his own words.
Tunbridge Wells pianist Alex Metcalfe performs Satie’s most important works, in character as the composer from the set of his Arceuil apartment. Sarah Miles’s script, edited from Satie’s own words, is narrated against the backdrop of Keith Lovegrove’s cinematic accompaniment.
"It is a fabulously well-crafted work of cinematic excellence as well as being a masterly piano recital – when all of that is put together the result is an installation piece that would probably sit very well in any modern art museum." The Greater Manchester Reviewer
Join us for drinks on the lawn at 8pm, weather permitting, followed by the open-air concert which starts at 8:30pm. The performance will be hosted in the private gardens of Finchcocks, framed by the west elevation of grade-1 listed manor house! A stage is being built in anticipation with on our much-loved Bosendorfer to be wheeled out to join guests on the lawn. The production will be narrated in French with English subtitles.
Please note the performance is rated 12+ due to some of Satie’s unavoidable and more colourful language!
- Adult £15 (+50p booking fee)
- Child (16 and under) £10 (+ 50p booking fee)

The Ronnie Scott
Hever Festival Theatre
Sat 22nd Aug 2020
8.00 pm
Direct from London’s world-famous jazz club and combining world class live jazz alongside narration, The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars, take you on a guided, musical tour of the music institution. Life at Ronnie’s is evocatively re-imagined through tales of the club’s past visitors, from pop stars, film stars and politicians to comedians and royalty, but above all, the musicians.
Direct from London’s world-famous jazz club and combining world class live jazz alongside narration, The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars, take you on a guided, musical tour of the music institution. Life at Ronnie’s is evocatively re-imagined through tales of the club’s past visitors, from pop stars, film stars and politicians to comedians and royalty, but above all, the musicians.
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An Evening of Gilbert & Sullivan
Hever Festival Theatre
Sun 23rd Aug 2020
8.00 pm
Part of the Bitesize Hever Festival for 2020
Join soloists from Charles Court Opera, “the masters of G&S in small spaces”, who last year treated Hever Festival audiences to their wonderful productions of HMS Pinafore and Ruddigore, as they take us through songs, scenes and ensembles from the G&S operettas.
Accompanied by David Eaton, and led by the company’s artistic director John Savournin, this promises to be an evening of summer joy.
Gates 6.30pm for picnics

A Midsummer Nights Dream
Hever Festival Theatre
Tue 25th Aug 2020
8.00 pm
Part of the Bitesize Hever Festival for 2020
The Three Inch Fools are a troupe of actors equipped with all manner of musical instruments who perform their own highly energetic, ingeniously imaginative and vibrantly musical take on Shakespeare’s plays.
The Fools are stepping back into the great outdoors, keeping their two meter distance with a one-off three-hander version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Join us for a show packed with live music-making, deft physicality and vibrant story-telling.
Gates 6.30pm for picnics

The Amelia Discovery Days: Q & A
Online Events
Tue 25th Aug 2020
Join The Amelia Team as they take Discovery Days online and explore the surprising history of Victorian Tunbridge Wells with fun and free activities for you to try at home.
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Illyria: The Wind in the Willows
Hever Festival Theatre
Wed 26th Aug 2020
2.00 & 4.00 pm
Part of the Bitesize Hever Festival for 2020
Mole yearns for adventure, Rat adores boats and Badger likes peace and quiet. Into their lives bursts Toad who loves very fast cars and just can’t seem to help getting into trouble. But can the animals reform Toad’s character and evict the squatters from his ancestral home to restore justice to the world? Kenneth Grahame’s perennial classic is brought to the stage in Illyria’s inimitable style.
Perfect summer fun for everyone aged 5+.
Gates 6.30pm for picnics

Sherlock Holmes
Trinity Theatre
Wed 26th Aug 2020
7.30 pm
The critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company put dynamic detective duo Holmes and Watson through their paces as they tackle their most fiendish case yet in this delightfully inventive and hilarious show for all ages featuring live music, audience interaction and mystery.


Boutique Alfresco
Colebrook Park
Fri 28th Aug to Sun 30th Aug 2020
A slimmed down version of the Alfresco Festival still with many of the original acts and stage hosts including Paranoid London, Crazy P, Graeme Park, Justin Robertson, Nein Records, We Are The Sunset, Craig Charles, Nancy Noise and many others.
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The Dolly Parton Story
Hever Festival Theatre
Fri 28th Aug 2020
8.00 pm
Part of the Bitesize Hever Festival for 2020
Journey through Dolly’s incredible career from her humble beginnings in the Smoky Mountains to her arrival as the Queen of Country. The Dolly Parton Story will bring a tear to your eye in one breath and in the next have you up and dancing. No doubt you will be left wanting more Dolly in your life!
A Night Owl production.
Gates 6.30 pm for picnics.

Simon & Garfunkel Unplugged
Hever Festival Theatre
Sat 29th Aug 2020
8.00 pm
Part of the Bitesize Hever Festival for 2020
Shadowing the same West End and International show that our seasoned festival audience know and love, the talented pair of artists will beautifully chronicle the story of two young boys from Queens, New York who went on to become the world’s most successful music duo of all time.
Gates 6.30 pm for picnics

Hole Park Proms Spectacuar
Hole Park
Sat 29th Aug 2020
6.30 pm
This will commence with a parachute display and a majestic Spitfire display accompanied by some well-known British war themes.
This will commence with a parachute display and a majestic Spitfire display accompanied by some well-known British war themes.
The orchestra will play all the proms favourites including the 812 Overture, the Hornpipe, Land of Hope & Glory, Rule Britannia and Jerusalem along with a whole host of other fantastic classical pieces. The concert will finish with a spectacular firework display fully synchronised to the music.
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Cream Tea Train
Spa Valley Railway
Sat 29th Aug to Mon 31st Aug 2020
2.00 pm
Join the train from 14:00 at Tunbridge Wells West and at 14:30 the train will set off for Groombridge.
Join the train from 14:00 at Tunbridge Wells West and at 14:30 the train will set off for Groombridge.
Whilst on your journey you will enjoy a Cream Tea on the return trip. You will return to Tunbridge Wells West for approximately 15:30. There will be a break at Groombridge for you to see the steam locomotive and access the station.


Fish & Chips Train
Spa Valley Railway
Sat 29th Aug to Mon 31st Aug 2020
7.00 pm
Tuck into a freshly prepared portion of fish & chips on board one of our heritage diesel trains whilst travelling through the glorious High Weald countryside!

Last Night of the Hever Proms
Hever Festival Theatre
Sun 30th Aug 2020
8.00 pm
The Brandenburg Sinfonia returns to Hever Festival to present its popular tribute to the Last Night of the Proms.

UK Queen + The Low Down
Hole Park
Sun 30th Aug 2020
6.30 pm
UK Queen with Alexander Koronka was formed out of a love of re-producing Queen’s top hits with top musicians.
UK Queen with Alexander Koronka was formed out of a love of re-producing Queen’s top hits with top musicians.
UK Queen seek to create a musical ‘experience’ and may be accompanied by classical quartets or top sopranos to deliver songs such as’ Barcelona’. Alexander’s desire is not just to faithfully reproduce Queen’s greatest hits, but to expand an audience’s musical journey by introducing more and more people to the truly magnificent and broad song book of Queen, accompanied by only the very best musicians.
Returning by popular demand for their second year The Low Down are a talented three piece covers rock and pop band based in Sussex. Their repertoire contains songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s, so there's a good mix of music to get you warmed up prior to the main event.

Mint DJs
Spa Hotel
Sun 30th Aug 2020
12.00 - 5.00 pm
Enjoy a picnic hamper in our stunning grounds with entertainment from international DJ’s and a saxophonist playing chilled house music.
Enjoy a picnic hamper in our stunning grounds with entertainment from international DJ’s and a saxophonist playing chilled house music.
Tickets are £70 for two people, and include a luxury picnic hamper full of delicious artisan treats, plus a choice of either a bottle of prosecco, wine, or bucket of beer.

Twelth Night
Trinity Theatre
Sun 30th Aug 2020
7.30 pm
The critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company present their own brand of socially-distanced open-air Shakespeare mayhem. Family-friendly fun with live music and audience participation!

Handlebards: Gnora The Gnome's Daytime Disco
E M Forster Theatre / Tonbridge School
Mon 31st Aug 2020
3.00 pm
Gnora the gnome, and her brothers Gnorman and Gneville, have all been stuck underground for months. Now that they can get back outdoors, they’re going to have a disco to celebrate - and you’re invited!
Gnora the gnome, and her brothers Gnorman and Gneville, have all been stuck underground for months. Now that they can get back outdoors, they’re going to have a disco to celebrate - and you’re invited!
With smash disco hits and lots of dancing bits, Gnora the Gnome’s Daytime Disco is fun for all the family, so come and join us at Tonbridge School’s Outdoor venue for a boogie.
This is an outdoor production so please feel free to bring your own chairs, blankets, and cushions. The show running time is 55 minutes (without an interval).

Handlebards: Romeo and Juliet
E M Forster Theatre / Tonbridge School
Mon 31st Aug 2020
7.00 pm
Three actors cooped up together during lockdown. Fuelled by cabin fever and with a bookshelf full of Shakespeare, they did what they do best and created an unhinged and bonkers, laugh-out-loud version of Romeo & Juliet.
Three actors cooped up together during lockdown. Fuelled by cabin fever and with a bookshelf full of Shakespeare, they did what they do best and created an unhinged and bonkers, laugh-out-loud version of Romeo & Juliet.
With music, mayhem and more costume changes than you can shake a spear at, expect the HandleBards usual irreverent, charming and hilarious style to come bursting on to the stage at Tonbridge School’s Outdoor Venue.
Forget the tears and tragedy, pack a picnic and get ready for some socially-distanced, live and wired Shakespeare as you’ve never seen it before.
This is an outdoor production so please feel free to bring your own chairs, blankets and cushions. The show running time is 90 minutes (without an interval).
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