As the winter chill sets in, The Corn Hall in Diss, United Kingdom, is ready to warm hearts with a series of remarkable events. From vibrant musical performances like Coldplace, the world-renowned Coldplay tribute, to the unique folk charm of Churchfitters, there's something for every taste. Embrace the festive spirit with 'A Swinging Christmas with Jazz At The Movies' or start your day with the enchanting 'Breakfast with Santa'. Families can indulge in the classic pantomime 'Jack and the Beanstalk', while adults can enjoy the cheeky humor of 'Beauty Bangs the Beast'. Don't miss 'Father Brown and the Curse of the Christmas Fairy' for a thrilling close to the festivities.

A Festive Extravaganza: The Corn Hall's Spectacular Winter Events

The Suffolk village of Dangleford is hanging by a thread! As Xmas approaches, its veneer of civility is cracking, like last year's Yule Log. A series of poison pen letters, signed "The Christmas Fairy", threaten to expose corruption at the heart of village life. As the mulled wine simmers, old grudges reach boiling point. Even Father Brown's renowned frosted plums may fail to get the party going! He must use all his wits to stop the midwinter madness snowballing into…a snowball of terror! 

Father Brown and the Curse of the Christmas Fairy

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After their sellout debut Snow White and the Seven Inches, NOW! That’s...PANTO! are back with their hilarious new adult pantomime... Beauty Bangs The Beast!

Adult Panto - Beauty Bangs the Beast

From the producer of 2022’s smash-hit pantomime Sleeping Beauty, returns this Christmas with a giant pantomime adventure - Jack and the Beanstalk. 
 
 Packed with all of the traditional pantomime ingredients audiences expect, Jack and the Beanstalk features laugh out loud comedy, stunning scenery, beautiful costumes and plenty of boos and hisses. Join Jack, Simple Simon, Princess Jill, Dame Trott and Spirit of the Beans as they set off on an unexpected adventure where they face an evil giant and his side-kick Fleshcreep. 

Jack and the Beanstalk

Treat your children to the most magical Christmas surprise with our first ever Breakfast with Santa here at The Corn Hall. It's a wonderful way to begin the festivities and something that all the family can enjoy together. The Corn Hall Café will be fully decorated for Christmas to provide the perfect backdrop to your celebrations. 

Breakfast with Santa

The return of the joyous, jazzy A Swinging Christmas show with the Chris Ingham Quintet featuring Joanna Eden (aka Jazz At The Movies). Rated as “sublime seasonal jazz” by BBC Radio, this show is the perfect way to begin the festivities.

A Swinging Christmas with Jazz At The Movies

The Churchfitters is a folk group like no other. A double bass made out of scrap metal. Heart-wrenching vocals accompanied by a musical saw. Foot-stomping fiddle mixed with infectious funk-rock rhythms. Their “Christmas Cracker” show is a mouthwatering selection of traditional and original festive season songs which will see Christmas in with a bang, a paper hat-full of surprises, novelties – and some terrible jokes too

Churchfitters

As the world's leading tribute to Coldplay they have played over 650 shows in 24 different countries. They pride themselves on attention to detail both musically and visually. Their aim, as a tribute to one of the world's biggest bands, is to capture the feeling of a live Coldplay performance, the music, the visuals, the energy and the atmosphere. 

Coldplace

An uplifting two-hour show celebrating the music of Rock n Roll icons Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley.
 
Darren Page, as Roy Orbison, will perform hit after hit from In Dreams to I Drove all Night. Close your eyes and you will believe Roy is back in the room. 

We Three Kings - of Rock 'n Roll

When Hester Collyer, the wife of a High Court judge, is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a much younger man, a former RAF pilot, begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion. Behind the fragile veneer of postwar civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing. 

The Deep Blue Sea, By Terence Rattigan

This traditional treat is not to be missed - packed with great music, laughs and audience participation and celebrating the best singers from the golden age of swing and the big band era in a fun-filled traditional style holiday special.
 
Join vocalists Stephen, Paul and Natalie who have sung for the Queen, live on BBC Radio 2 and at some of the U.K.s most prestigious venues as they take you on a musical journey paying homage to such legends as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, The Andrews Sisters, Nat King Cole, Andy Williams, Dean Martin and Matt Monro to name a few.

Christmas Crooners

Performed by Discord the wellbeing choir, an evening of popular songs covering many genres and with something for everyone. Featuring a choir of nearly 100 voices, under the direction of local musician Michael Dann. 
 
 Raising money for both Cancer Research UK & Motor Neurone Disease Association, the choir is proud of its charity fund raising and has raised over £40,000 since being formed in 2011. Giving back is very much part of the choir’s ethos. Licensed bar and charity raffle. 

When you believe - Discord Choir Charity Concerts

“Cherup Captin and buy a flower offa paw gerl” - thus begins the story of Eliza Doolittle who is taken under the wing of Professor Henry Higgins, a linguistic expert. He has made a bet that within six months he can transform the scruffy, Cockney girl into a 'proper lady' and pass her off as a Duchess. 

Pygmalion

You think science is boring, think again; this is science like you have never seen it before. Designed for children and adults alike. Explore the strange and magical properties of matter with exploding elephant’s toothpaste, vortex-generating dustbins and howling jelly babies! 

Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show -

Get glittered up for a fun, fab and feel-good night of dancing with people your own age to the best ever 70s disco, 80s pop and 90s dance floor classics. 
 
Boogie the night away to classics from Donna Summer, Earth Wind and Fire, Chic, Sister Sledge, Odyssey, Chaka Khan, ABBA, Madonna, Robin S, Erasure, Bee Gees, Candi Staton, Faithless and many more. 

Discos for Grown Ups - Pop-Up Disco Party

Nick Cope has been writing and recording his beautiful and totally unique songs for children and their families for over 10 years, he performs with his guitar and stunning animations to sell-out crowds all over the country. His fanatical following of little and not so little fans has grown immeasurably over the last couple of years due to the phenomenal success of the CBeebies show ‘Nick Cope’s Popcast’, now in its third series. 

Nick Cope Family Show

Journey back to when the last giants roamed the gorges and hills, shaping the landscape with their steps! But what happens when humans arrive? 
 
A story about nature, friendship and the places we call home. After the show create your own mountain troll to take home. 

The Giant who slept for 10,000 years - show and workshop combined

A Fang-tastic magic show for the whole family! Join renowned entertainer Nicky Trix as he conjures up a spellbinding Halloween extravaganza like no other. 

Halloween Howls

Malca is passionate about how exhibitions can connect us to creativity and to each other. Using charcoal, pastels, crayons and lots more, Malca will work with us to create our own gallery of work inspired by her exhibition. 

Start with Art! inspired by Pictures from an Exhibition by Malca Schotten.

Do not miss this 'enchantingly staged' family folk opera, following the triumphant, Olivier Award-winning run in 2021. 
 
Red Riding Hood is tasked with delivering bread to her Grandmother, deep in the heart of the fairy-tale forest. But en route, Red meets a cunning Wolf who tricks her into taking a different path. Along the way, Red stumbles into a colourful cast of characters, including a scary witch, a talking cat and a rather persuasive Peddler.

Wolf Witch Giant Fairy

Thom Bailey Theatre supported by the Arts Council and the Seagull Theatre presents: Thas’ a Rummun! A new play by Mark Finbow, Roseanna Frascona, Abby McCann, and Mylo McDonald.

At the Devil’s hour, in a small hut somewhere deep within the Norfolk countryside, a tape recorder starts to play by itself…

Thas' a Rummun

“Nothing prepares you for the high-octane music of the Peatbog Faeries. Powerful melodies are dextrously pumped out with a smart degree of techno attitude, while cross-rhythms ricochet over a heavy bass that hits you forcefully like a massive heartbeat.” ~ The Scotsman.  

Peatbog Faeries

Acclaimed musical director of the Ronnie Scott’s Orchestra and the acclaimed Echoes of Ellington big band, Pete Long is also one the country's most exciting clarinettists. Tonight he interprets the irrepressible music of the King of Swing, Benny Goodman. 

PETE LONG plays BENNY GOODMAN

Tumble down the rabbit hole in this ballet adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s famous family story. Journey through Wonderland with Alice and encounter a host of curious characters in Christopher Wheeldon’s unique theatrical interpretation. 
 
At a garden party on a sunny afternoon, Alice is surprised to see her parents’ friend Lewis Carroll transform into a white rabbit. When she follows him down a rabbit hole, events become curiouser and curiouser

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Featuring Richie Sampson formerly in The Drifters, this is the UKs no.1 tribute to The Four Tops and The Temptations, and award winners in the National Tribute Awards 2013, 2016 and 2017. 

Soul Kinda Wonderful

Come in and paint a pebble in memory of your loved one, or make a lantern to inspire hope in our community or just for you.  The workshop is FREE and you can drop in anytime from 2:00 - 4:00 pm.  

Memory Making Workshop

The End of the Road Show is an interactive performance about death and dying, inspired by a series of honest and heartfelt conversations with volunteers who generously shared their stories, reflections and wishes about their own death and those of the people they love. The show blends storytelling, poetry, sound and ritual to create an informative and empowering exploration of end-of-life planning that is full of warmth, wit and humanity. 

The End of the Road Show

Join Designer Sam Wilde and Director Ian Nicholson (I Want My Hat Back Trilogy) on their next cardboard adventure. Using their trademark sustainable cardboard puppet style explore BOXVILLE, a land made entirely from sustainable cardboard! Work with the BOXVILLE engineers to craft - a - long with the story and build your own way through the tasks and trials of BOXVILLE, earning everything you need to become a fully fledged cardboard engineer! 

Boxville

Special Kinda Madness perform a truly authentic set from each band, combining the phenomenally energetic stage presence of The Specials with the wonderful iconic tunes of the Madness ‘Nutty Boys’. Playing a set from each band and producing a show that will have the audience up and dancing from the off, Special Kinda Madness will have everyone hankering after that exciting era of 2-Tone and ska.

Special Kinda Madness

 Kathryn Tickell is the foremost exponent of the Northumbrian pipes; a composer, performer, educator and successful recording artist with many releases to her name, whose work is deeply rooted in the landscape and people of Northumbria. She has performed across the world, in concert venues, theatres and on television. 

Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening

The year is 1900 - the dawn of a new century. Young Jack Grimes arrives to take up his post as assistant to the keeper of the Toll Point Light, off the coast of East Anglia. Isaac Troop has been keeper at Toll Point for 20 years and is suspicious of the new arrival - is he there to assist or to replace him? Guessing that his bosses at Trinity House have doubts about his mental fitness, he hesitates to tell Grimes about the other inhabitant of the lighthouse, as that would likely mean the end of his career. But Isaac is not the only one disturbed by the newcomer.

Ghost of the Toll Point Light

Stowmarket Concert Band origins go back to 1962. The Main Band will be performing their very popular Proms Concert on the 27th September. The music for this Concert will be a repertoire of popular modern and traditional music, followed by the second half which will be the usual rousing sounds of the traditional Last Night of The Proms. (In aid of Diss and District Rotary Charities)

Rotary Club - Charity Proms Concert

 "Wives may be merry, and yet honest too!" Sir John Falstaff, everyone's favourite Shakespearean sleazeball, has fallen on hard times. In order to fix his finances he plans to seduce the wives of two wealthy merchants. But, wise to his wily ways, the ladies take the opportunity to punish Falstaff by playing a series of hilarious tricks on the nincompoop knight. 

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Jan 9, 2025

Father Brown and the Curse of the Christmas Fairy

2 - 4 Jan, 2025

Adult Panto - Beauty Bangs the Beast

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