2pm Stowe House Gardens 120mins
MDCC presents Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing Also on Saturday 11 and Saturday 18 July in Stowe House Gardens. Stowe House Gardens are used by kind permission of the Institute of Leadership and Management. £8 in advance or £10 on the door (no seating is priovided, so please bring rugs and chairs). Book tickets Booking Code: 12A
3pm St Michael’s Church, Lichfield 120mins
Elias String Quartet 2
Haydn String Quartet in G major Op.76 No.1
Vine String Quartet No.4
Schubert String Quartet No.15 in G major D887  Schubert’s final quartet inhabits an intense and tortured world. Among the bleakest of all his instrumental works, it is nevertheless full of beautiful melodies. The 200th anniversary of Haydn’s death is marked with the first of his final series of quartets, arguably among the finest examples of the Classical Quartet. Vine’s 4th quartet has, according to the composer, a “decidedly bittersweet flavour”. Don’t miss the Elias Quartet at full throttle.
£16 unreserved (under 18s half price) Book tickets Booking Code: 12B
6pm Lichfield Garrick 60mins
Dreamfighter
by Tim Sutton
based on Dreamfighter and other Creation Tales by Ted Hughes Taplow Girls' Choir
Scottish Ensemble
Hannah Conway narrator  Ted Hughes’ short stories are playful, subversive, and fizzing with movement, sound and light. Dreamfighter presents us with enchanting and provocative perspectives on how the natural world came to be. As God and his mother hammer away in their workshop, the Scottish Ensemble will capture the bustle, moods and colour of his new creations and the Taplow Choir will sing the songs of these bewildered creatures as they lope, mope, scurry, wing and rage, struggling to be born.
Dreamfighter was commissioned by Lichfield Festival and the Scottish Ensemble and was made possible with funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Scottish Arts Council and the PRS Foundation. £12.50, £5 under 16s, £30 family ticket (2 adults, 2 children) Book tickets Booking code: 12C In conversation: Tim Sutton and Festival Director Richard Hawley join for an informal post-performance discussion on the Garrick Theatre stage.
7.30pm Lichfield Cathedral 120mins
Mantra
Musical Conversations across the Indian Ocean
The Orlando Consort
Kuljit Bhamra tabla, Indian harmonium
Jonathan Mayer sitar, sarod
Shahid Khan voice
 In the early 1500s, Portuguese missionaries and Goan Indians joined together in music as churches, built in the exotic land known as the “Pearl of the Orient”, resounded to the extraordinary blended sounds of Europe and Asia. These award-winning musicians re-create this historic cross-cultural encounter and apply their collective experiences to create a new dialogue for the 21st century.
Mantra is presented by the Orlando Consort working in association with the National Centre for Early Music. This tour has been supported by Arts Council England and the PRS Foundation for New Music. £16.50 (under 18s half price) Book tickets Booking code: 12D In conversation: Angus Smith and Kuljit Bhamra with Festival Director Richard Hawley at 6.30pm in the Lady Chapel. Free entry to Event 12D ticket holders.
8pm Lichfield Garrick Studio 60mins
SharpWire presents
Finkelstein's Castle “Have embarked on new adventure STOP May have bitten off more than I can chew STOP Am in grave danger STOP Again STOP.” The sequel to Johnny’s Midnight Goggles is an epic, tongue-in-cheek, Sherlock Holmes ‘whodunnit’, that takes us from deserted castles in Scotland to a sinister hydro-demolition operation in New York via the half-submerged town of Gallumphing-on-Twee.
What dastardly plans for world domination has Johnny stumbled upon this time? And will a pair of Wellington boots be enough to save him from the castle where people enter but no-one EVER returns?
A ravishing, virtuosic and thrilling musical adventure story with a twist!
P.S You are in grave danger too STOP Sorry STOP Finkelstein’s Castle has been commissioned by Corn Exchange, Newbury and the PRS Foundation. Supported by the Foyle Foundation Also on Saturday 11 July £10 unreserved, £8 students Book tickets Booking code: 12E
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