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April 2020
Royal Opera House: Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci
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Two opera classics are drawn together in this wonderfully observed re-creation of life in a south Italian village as a travelling theatre visits and emotions erupt.
In this award-winning production by Damiano Michieletto ‘Cav and Pag’ distils into one wonderful night out, the enduring appeal of Italian opera in its most familiar form.
Spring Double Bill & Meal
In keeping with government guidelines on the Covid-19 pandemic we have decided to cancel all events for at least March and April. Thank you all for your support and understanding and hope to see you all in happier times! Take care and best of wishes, The Tideswell Cinema Team; Diana, Jacqueline, Margaret, Martin and Paul We are travelling to the exoticism of India, with the chance of a curry (or not) meal between! First on the menu is Heat and Dust (1983),…
Find out more »Theatre Royal, Drury Lane: 42nd Street – Encore
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Fresh off the bus from small-town America Peggy is just another face in the chorus line on Broadway’s newest show. But when the leading lady gets injured, Peggy might just have the shot at stardom she’s always dreamed of…
This is the largest ever staging of the Tony® Award-winning musical and it was filmed live at the magnificent Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in the heart of London’s West End.
Roma (Spanish with subtitles)
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Winner of three Oscars, including Best Foreign Language Film at the 2019 Academy Awards, this is a powerful and at times emotionally draining drama. It spans a year in the life of a middle class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s. Dr Antonio and Sofia have four children, and two domestic workers, one of whom is Cleo, the live-in maid and housekeeper. With Antonio running off with his mistress, and Cleo finding herself pregnant, the lives of Cleo…
Find out more »May 2020
New Adventures: The Red Shoes
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The Red Shoes is a tale of obsession, possession and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page lives to dance but her ambitions become a battleground between the two men who inspire her passion.
Based on the classic film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Set to the achingly romantic music of golden-age Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann, The Red Shoes is orchestrated by Terry Davies.
National Theatre: The Welkin
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One life in the hands of 12 women.
Rural Suffolk in England, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s comet, a young woman is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder.
New Adventures: The Red Shoes – Matinee Encore
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The Red Shoes is a tale of obsession, possession and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page lives to dance but her ambitions become a battleground between the two men who inspire her passion.
Based on the classic film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Set to the achingly romantic music of golden-age Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann, The Red Shoes is orchestrated by Terry Davies.
Yesterday
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Jack is a struggling musician from Lowestoft whose career is going nowhere despite the faith that his friend/manager Ellie Appleton has in him. On the night he decides to give it all up, the whole world is momentarily hit with a massive blackout during which he is hit by a bus. Upon regaining consciousness, Jack learns to his astonishment that he is now the only one who knows the music of the Beatles. Claiming their songs as his own, Jack…
Find out more »Royal Ballet: The Dante Project
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Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic journey through the afterlife: it encompasses the horrifying drama of Inferno and its damned, the lyrical mysticism of pilgrims on mount Purgatorio and the dazzling spheres of Paradiso with their endless configurations of light. The poem was inspired by the agony of Dante’s own exile, and traces his path from crisis to revelation guided by his literary hero Virgil and his lost love Beatrice.
Find out more »June 2020
Mick Fleetwood & Friends Celebrate The Music Of Peter Green
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Mick Fleetwood has assembled a stellar cast of musicians to celebrate the music that established Fleetwood Mac as one of the biggest bands in the world – the music of Peter Green.
With a line-up featuring Neil Finn, Noel Gallagher, Billy Gibbons, David Gilmour, Kirk Hammett, Jonny Lang, John Mayall, Christine McVie, Pete Townshend, Steven Tyler and Bill Wyman, this once-in-a-lifetime concert event was captured at The London Palladium on 25 Feb 2020
Royal Shakespeare Company: The Winter’s Tale
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King Leontes rips his family apart with his jealousy but grief opens his heart. Will he find the child he abandoned before it is too late?
A moving new production directed by Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman.
Royal Opera House: Elektra
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Strauss’ thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award-winning director Christof Loy.
This uncompromising opera, about a daughter intent on bloody revenge and a mother driven to madness, has provoked critics to lively debate and both shocked and excited audiences since its 1909 premiere.
National Theatre: Leopoldstadt
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Regarded as ‘Britain’s greatest living playwright’ (Times), Academy and Tony Award-winner Tom Stoppard’s critically acclaimed new play Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world.
The Farewell (Mandarin with subtitles)
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This bitter-sweet Chinese tragi-comedy perfectly balances emotion and humour. Chinese-American woman, Billi, returns to China when her beloved grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Billi struggles with the family decision to keep the knowledge of her terminal condition from the grandmother and to stage a wedding so that they can all see her one last time. Described as ‘captivating’, it is a beautiful portrayal of a long farewell, giving an insight into the differences between western and eastern culture. The…
Find out more »July 2020
Royal Shakespeare Company: The Comedy Of Errors
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How do any of us really know who we are? A man arrives in a strange town only to find that everyone knows his name, but thinks he’s someone else. A woman wonders why her husband is not the man he was, but starts to rather like it. Confusion mounts as everyone uncouples from themselves. Will they ever find themselves again? And do they really want to?
Find out more »National Theatre: Jack Absolute Flies Again
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A riotous new comedy. From the writer of One Man, Two Guvnors comes a hilarious new play, set in 1940s British summertime.
After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to rejoin his fearless young Hurricane squadron at RAF Fontwell. Once back on British soil, Jack is shocked to find his old flame, Lydia, on the base. He sets his sights on winning her heart, but with turbulence and hilarity never far away, his advances quickly turn to anarchy.
The Old Man And The Gun
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The swansong of a movie legend, Robert Redford, this film is based on the true story of Forrest Tucker, whose audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 is followed by an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public! Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession. “A…
Find out more »August 2020
Andre Rieu: 2020 Maastricht Concert – ‘Happy Together’
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Music has the magical power to heal and to bring people together like no other art form.
Following his very successful 70th birthday concert in cinemas, André Rieu invites you and your loved ones to a spectacular evening of music from his hometown Maastricht. Happy Together will be the feel-good music cinema event of the year!
Rocketman
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With music galore, this film moves from the 50s to the early 80s in the life of Elton John, showing his difficult early years and struggles with emotional instability and depression. Described as a ‘dazzlingly executed’ musical in its truest sense, it portrays a very real and human, yet flawed, man who achieves international stardom and happiness. Rocketman won a BAFTA for Outstanding British Picture of the Year, and Taron Egerton’s brilliant portrayal of the star won him a Golden…
Find out more »September 2020
Michael Ball and Alfie Boe: Back Together
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The ultimate musical duo, Michael Ball and Alfie Boe are ‘Back Together’ and set to delight cinema audiences with this recording of their final show of their UK tour.
Hot on the heels of their star turns in the West End’s phenomenally successful staged concert of Les Misérables, Ball and Boe will reunite to tour their third album ‘Back Together’ following the number one best-selling hits ‘Together’ and ‘Together Again’.
Royal Shakespeare Company: Pericles
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Forced to flee his native land, Pericles becomes a refugee at the mercy of sea and strangers. Scarred by the heart-breaking loss of family and home, he submits to the rhythms of the ocean in the hope of a miracle. Located in a familiar world of precarious journeys and treacherous alliances, this is Shakespeare’s touching and hopeful tale of loss and reconciliation.
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