Princes Hall
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The Princes Hall in Aldershot
, England
is a 600-seat theatre
/ receiving house which presents a varied programme of music
, ballet
, comedy
and pantomime
The Princes Hall is currently also the only venue in Aldershot to show films. http://www.aldershot.co.uk/news/2000/2000766/cinema_drought_could_soon_be_over
An additional 3 function rooms named the Princes Suite, the Edinburgh Suite and the Tichbourne Suite (after the prominent Aldershot family) are available for hire for conference, parties and weddings. The Theatre is owned and managed by Rushmoor
Borough Council
The Princes Hall was awarded the Devereux Cup in 2008 for its contribution to the arts http://www.rushmoor.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=8058
Thw Princes Hall website www.princeshall.com won Best Recreation or Tourism Website at the 2008 Hantsweb Awards http://www3.hants.gov.uk/hantswebawards08/its-hantswebawards-winners08.htm
for 3 weeks every December. The show has been produced and directed by Hopkins Associates for the past 15 years and is written by James Barry. Since 2005 the Princes Hall have produced many well-known and well attended fairy tales to great acclaim. 2005 - Sleeping Beauty
, 2006 - Beauty and the Beast
http://www.aldershot.co.uk/news/2005/2005997/a_great_pantomime_oh_yes_it_is, 2007 - The Wizard of Oz
, 2008 - Peter Pan
, 2009 - Snow White
, 2010 - Cinderella
ON ICE, 2007 - Peter Pan
ON ICE, 2008 - Beauty & The Beast ON ICE.
the Princes Hall was named for HRH Prince Phillip The Duke Of Edinburgh.http://www.princeshall.com/history.htm
Aldershot
Aldershot is a town in the English county of Hampshire, located on heathland about southwest of London. The town is administered by Rushmoor Borough Council...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
is a 600-seat theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
/ receiving house which presents a varied programme of music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, ballet
Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
, comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
and pantomime
Pantomime
Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...
The Princes Hall is currently also the only venue in Aldershot to show films. http://www.aldershot.co.uk/news/2000/2000766/cinema_drought_could_soon_be_over
An additional 3 function rooms named the Princes Suite, the Edinburgh Suite and the Tichbourne Suite (after the prominent Aldershot family) are available for hire for conference, parties and weddings. The Theatre is owned and managed by Rushmoor
Rushmoor
Rushmoor is a local government district and borough in Hampshire, England. It covers the towns of Aldershot and Farnborough.It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the borough of Aldershot and the Farnborough urban district....
Borough Council
The Princes Hall was awarded the Devereux Cup in 2008 for its contribution to the arts http://www.rushmoor.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=8058
Thw Princes Hall website www.princeshall.com won Best Recreation or Tourism Website at the 2008 Hantsweb Awards http://www3.hants.gov.uk/hantswebawards08/its-hantswebawards-winners08.htm
Pantomime
The Princes Hall hosts an annual pantomimePantomime
Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...
for 3 weeks every December. The show has been produced and directed by Hopkins Associates for the past 15 years and is written by James Barry. Since 2005 the Princes Hall have produced many well-known and well attended fairy tales to great acclaim. 2005 - Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault or Little Briar Rose by the Brothers Grimm is a classic fairytale involving a beautiful princess, enchantment, and a handsome prince...
, 2006 - Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740...
http://www.aldershot.co.uk/news/2005/2005997/a_great_pantomime_oh_yes_it_is, 2007 - The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz (adaptations)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum, which has been adapted into several different works, the most famous being the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland...
, 2008 - Peter Pan
Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie . A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with...
, 2009 - Snow White
Snow White
"Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm...
, 2010 - Cinderella
Cinderella
"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...
Ice Show
From 2006 to 2008 the Princes Hall hosted a professional ice show in the main auditorium during the summer. Over 14 tonnes of crushed ice were used to create the ice rink on the main stage, on which over 30 Russian ice skaters and acrobats from Wild Rose http://www.wildroseltd.co.uk/ perform spectacular shows. 2006 - Snow WhiteSnow White
"Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm...
ON ICE, 2007 - Peter Pan
Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie . A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with...
ON ICE, 2008 - Beauty & The Beast ON ICE.
History
Commissioned by Rushmoor Borough Council as a civic hall and designed by Building Design PartnershipBuilding Design Partnership
Building Design Partnership is a firm of architects and engineers employing over 1200 staff in the UK and internationally.-Foundation:The firm was founded in 1961 by George Grenfell Baines with architects Bill White and John Wilkinson, quantity surveyor Arnold Towler and eight associate partners:...
the Princes Hall was named for HRH Prince Phillip The Duke Of Edinburgh.http://www.princeshall.com/history.htm