Halesworth, Suffolk
HighTide Festival 2010 takes place in the Suffolk market town of Halesworth. Halesworth is close to the Suffolk / Norfolk boarder, situated south of Norwich, north of Ipswich, and is just a short drive from the costal holiday resorts of Southwold and Aldeburgh.
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HighTide Festival 2010 is located in Halesworth town centre in three key venues:
The Cut
HighTide's Theatre where performances of Ditch, Moscow Live, and all Platforms, Films For Free and Workshops take place. The box office and cafe are open from 10am daily. Situated one-minute from Halesworth Train Station and on-route from the Station to the Town Centre Thoroughfare.
The Scout Hut
Site-specific performance location where performances of Lidless take place. It is located on Chediston Street, which can be reached straight off the Throughfare after a four minute walk.
HighPoint
Located on the Thoroughfare and open from 10am daily for box office sales and information on accommodation, parking, local services, and Festival information.
N.B the performance locations of the Secret Shorts will be revealed upon collection of your tickets. The locations are within easy walking distance of the Festival venues.
National Express Trains manages the line from London Liverpool Street, via Ipswich, to Halesworth. Services also run from Cambridge and Norwich.
Journeys from London Liverpool Street take just over two hours.
For further information on rail services or to book tickets call 08456 007245 (National Express East Anglia) or 08457 484950 (National Rail Enquiries) or visit www.nationalexpresseastanglia.com
If you book your train ticket far enough in advance and travel at off peak times, there may be some fares for as little as eg £6 single London Liverpool Street – Halesworth.
Halesworth is easily accessible by car and is situated just off the A12 on the A144.
Halesworth has two main town-centre car parks which are within easy walking distance of The Cut, and the station is also just minutes away on foot. Visitors are strongly requested not to park in the streets around The Cut, where space is very limited.
Hotels
The Angel
Situated in the centre of Halesworth, walking distance to the Festival.
Bed and Breakfast
Halesworth Bed and Breakfast
Walking distant to the Festival
Telephone: 01986 873574
Wissett Lodge
2 miles from Halesworth
Valley Farm
1.5 miles from Festival
Gavelcroft
1.5 miles from Festival
Holiday Lets
St. Michaels View
5* Accommodation in Peasenhall
Best of Suffolk
Holiday Lets in Suffolk
During the Festival, The Cut's café bar is open from 10am until the evening. Providing drinks, snacks and hot food throughout the day.
For details of local restaurants please follow this link.
Since our inaugural Festival in 2007, The Cut has been HighTide's partner, offering to our itinerant theatre company a home. As the scale and ambitions for our productions have grown, The Cut have worked tirelessly to accommodate our vision for presenting contemporary theatre with provocative and audacious staging.
The Cut is an imposing red-brick former maltings building, located in the Suffolk market town of Halesworth. Situated in the heart of the Blyth Valley and just a few miles inland from the popular East coast resort of Southwold, The Cut bridges the gap between the conurbations of Ipswich and Norwich in which, until now, there has been no large community arts venue.
The Cut has three audotoria; The Main House, a semi flexible 220 seat main theatre; The Studio, a black box space; and The Gallery, an unusual and atmospheric hall suitable for immersive theatre such as Stovepipe, which we staged as in promenade in The Gallery.