insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 05 - July 2015 | Page 19

events Theatre In The Garden: The Fever Tree // 8 July 2-course dinner followed by theatre in the garden. In 1889, 23-year-old Rudyard is determined to quit India for good and his younger sister, Trix, is about to flee into a disastrous marriage. But before they part company, they must loosen the close bonds that bind them and lay some very real ghosts to rest. 6.30pm. Price: £40 Batemans, Bateman’s Lane, Burwash TN19 7DS www.nationaltrust.org.uk/batemans / 01435 882302 Worthing Food and Drink Festival // 4-5 July Now in its 4th year, this FREE event features an exciting actionpacked programme over the weekend with a celebrity chef, cookery demonstrations, market stalls, food sampling, competitions and musical entertainment. Price: Free Pavilion Theatre & Worthing Promenade, Worthing BN11 3PX www.worthingtowncentre.co.uk / 01903 203252 An Audience with Helen Lederer // 9 July The actress and writer shares a tongue-incheek journey around her brush with show business, literati and reality TV as well as an exclusive reveal of her debut novel Losing It. Best known for her role as the dippy Catriona in Absolutely Fabulous, she is renowned for her unique wit and observational humour. Helen has starred in a great number of top TV comedy and radio shows, including Bottom, French and Saunders, One Foot in the Grave and many more. 7.30pm. Price: £16.50 Connaught Theatre, 3 Union Place, Worthing BN11 1LG www.worthingtheatres.co.uk / 01903 206206 All Things Herbal // 4-5 July Discover the medieval uses of plants and herbs from cooking to calligraphy. Activities include making nosegays and cold water dying. 10.30am. Price: Free with normal admission prices Bodiam Castle, Robertsbridge TN32 5UA www.nationaltrust.org.uk/bodiam-castle / 01580 830196 The Stranglers // 10 July Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, The Stranglers are one of the longestsurviving and most continuously successful bands to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s. Major mainstream success came with their singles “Golden Brown”, “No More Heroes”, “Peaches”, “Always the Sun” and “Skin Deep”. 2015 brings the March On tour with dates around the length and breadth of Britain, finally arriving in Worthing for what is sure to be a huge show in the Assembly Hall. 8pm. Price: £25 Assembly Hall, Stoke Abbott Road, Worthing BN11 1HJ www.worthingtheatres.co.uk / 01903 206206 Baroq // 5 July A cabaret opera set to Baroque music at Eastbourne’s Under Ground Theatre. Janet Forbes and Linda Grace are the singing duo who tell the tale of a singer whose soul is in a bit of turmoil (she can’t find love); soprano friend who isn’t much help, and just might be casting spells behind her back; and a piano player who doesn’t really care. 2.15pm. Price: £10 Under Ground Theatre, Grove Road, Eastbourne BN21 4TL www.undergroundtheatre.co.uk / 01323 430077 19