Upcoming Events
November 2019
Royal Shakespeare Company: Timon Of Athens
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In a world driven by greed, what do we truly value? Timon has it all – money, influence, friends. Surely it can’t last?
When the money runs out, Timon soon finds her influence and friends have also gone.
L’amant Double (French with subtitles)
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Disenchanted with the ephemeral glamour of the modelling world, Chloe, a vulnerable young Parisian woman, begins psychotherapy and soon falls in love with Paul, her psychoanalyst. After moving in with him she discovers that he is concealing part of his identity and there is more to him than meets the eye. This is a stylish film playing a game of mirrors, with lots of twists and turns and full of suspense. Directed by Francois Ozon, who also wrote the screenplay…
Find out more »National Theatre: Present Laughter
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As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, panic and soul-searching.
Find out more »December 2019
Dominion Theatre: An American In Paris – The Musical
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Jerry Mulligan is an American GI striving to make it as a painter in a city suddenly bursting with hope and possibility. Following a chance encounter with a beautiful young dancer named Lise, the streets of Paris become the backdrop to a sensuous, modern romance of art, friendship and love in the aftermath of war…
Find out more »Royal Ballet: Coppelia
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Toy maker Dr Coppélius seems to have a beautiful young woman in his house: Coppélia, who sits and reads on his balcony.
When Dr Coppélius goes to the local tavern, the young villagers slip into his house to introduce themselves to the strangely silent young woman.
Fisherman’s Friends
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Based on true events and set in beautiful coastal Cornwall, this charming gentle comedy – with wonderful folk music – is our pre-Christmas feel-good movie choice that will have you smiling from start to finish. It is the story of ten fishermen who are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. A film that highlights the little things that matter most such as friends, family, love and loyalty. Starring Tuppence…
Find out more »Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
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The Royal Ballet’s glorious 2016 performance of The Nutcracker is the production par excellence of an all-time ballet favourite.
It is Christmas Eve and Herr Drosselmeyer the magician sweeps young Clara away on a fantasy adventure in which time is suspended, the family living-room becomes a great battlefield, and a magical journey takes them through the Land of Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets.
January 2020
Andre Rieu: 70 Years Young
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André Rieu’s annual hometown Maastricht concerts attract fans from all corners of the globe. The medieval town square is transformed into a spectacular backdrop for unforgettable concerts filled with humour, fun and emotion for all ages – and, of course, magnificent music.
Find out more »Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
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The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn’t invited to Princess Aurora’s christening. She gives the baby a spindle, saying that one day the Princess will prick her finger on it and die. The Lilac Fairy makes her own christening gift a softening of Carabosse’s curse: Aurora will not die, but will fall into a deep sleep, which only a prince’s kiss will break.
Find out more »Royal Opera House: La Boheme
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When Rodolfo, a penniless poet, meets Mimì, a seamstress, they fall instantly in love. But their happiness is threatened when Rodolfo learns that Mimì is gravely ill.
Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, including lyrical arias, celebratory choruses for Act II’s evocation of Christmas Eve in the Latin Quarter and a poignant final scene over which the composer himself wept.
Stan And Ollie
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Hollywood’s greatest comedy double act, Laurel and Hardy, in the heart-warming story of what would become the pair’s triumphant farewell tour. With stunning performances by Steve Coogan as Stan and John C. Reilly as Oliver. With their golden era long behind them, the pair embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille (Shirley Henderson) and Ida (Nina Arianda) – a formidable double act…
Find out more »February 2020
Double Bill & Meal – The Odd Couple and The Apartment
We have two Jack Lemmon films to lift us from the gloom of winter! We start with the hilarious The Odd Couple (1968), starring Lemmon with Walter Matthau, two friends who try to share an apartment but their ideas on housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day. Based on Neil Simon’s play, this brilliant pair of actors are perfectly matched and the film, though moving at times, is funny from start to finish – a rare comic…
Find out more »Adelphi Theatre: Kinky Boots
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We will be showing Kinky Boots recorded in 2018 at the Adelphi Theatre on Tuesday 4th February at 7pm. Feel-good West End and Broadway award-winning musical inspired by a true story and celebrating a joyous triumph over adversity. With songs by pop icon Cyndi Lauper, direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde), and book by Broadway legend Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles) Winner of every major Best Musical award: 6 Tonys, 3 WhatsOnStage Awards and 3 Olivier Awards…
Find out more »Oscar Night: Green Book
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To coincide with Hollywood’s Academy Awards ceremony, we are showing the 2019 winner of Best Motion Picture Oscar, Green Book. Tough and uncouth Tony, an out of work Italian-American bouncer, takes the job of chauffeur to sophisticated African-American classical pianist, Don, for a concert tour of the Deep South. They are armed with The Negro Motorist Green Book to guide them through safe travel routes in America’s 1960s racial segregation. From initial dislike and a clash of values, this disparate…
Find out more »National Theatre: The Lehman Trilogy – Encore Screening
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On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers and an American epic begins.
163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and triggers the largest financial crisis in history.
Royal Ballet: The Cellist & Dances At A Gathering
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Choreographer Cathy Marston is previously an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Director of Bern Ballett, and much in demand internationally. The inspiration for her first work for The Royal Ballet Main Stage is the momentous life and career of the cellist Jacqueline du Pré.
A new work by Liam Scarlett, The Royal Ballet’s Artist in Residence, provides the second part of the programme.
The Breadwinner
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To conclude the first half of our season we have a highly acclaimed animated drama based on the novel by Deborah Ellis. Parvana is an 11-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom-and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical…
Find out more »March 2020
Royal Opera House: Fidelio
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We will be showing Beethoven’s Fidelio live from the Royal Opera House on Tuesday 17th March at 7.15pm Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife Leonore (disguised as ‘Fidelio’) who daringly sets out to rescue him. Set in strong counterpoint are the ingredients of domestic intrigue, determined love and the cruelty of an oppressive…
Find out more »April 2020
Royal Ballet: Swan Lake
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Liam Scarlett’s glorious production of Swan Lake, new in 2018, returns for its first revival.
While remaining faithful to the Marius Petipa/Lev Ivanov text, Scarlett’s additional choreography and John Macfarlane’s magnificent designs breathe new life into what is arguably the best-known and most-loved classical ballet.
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.
May 2020
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
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.
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 »September 2020
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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