SPRING 2018 FEBRUARY-MAY

Box Office

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OPENING HOURS in-town box office (not films) The Master’s House, St Katherine’s Mon, Thurs, Fri 9.30am-4.30pm Tuesday 9.30am-6pm Whichever way you book your tickets... Saturday 9.30am-12.30pm we don’t charge a booking fee! Welcome to oUr Spring Season Programme! LIVE SHOWS & SCREENINGS

Another sparkling season of professional drama is ahead with two big hits from the Edinburgh Fringe – The Drive from our old friends Angel Exit Theatre Company, and The Man on the Moor from Something for the Weekend Theatre Company. Also coming, and making their third visit to Ledbury, are the hilarious Pantaloons with H G Wells’ War of the Worlds, Sunny Ormonde (Linda Snell from The Archers) in Dorothy, and local company Our Star with Tapley House. And do not forget LADS’ own Spring production of Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced!

You are spoiled too, with the music that we are bringing to you, with return visits from The Budapest Café Orchestra, Remi Harris Trio, The Moscow Drug Club, The Roving Crows, Red Hot Boogie, and Keith James with a celebration of the music of Nick Drake.

And then there is the season of screenings from the Royal Opera House, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and The National Theatre, which is probably the best ever with familiar names like Tosca, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Winter’s Tale, Carmen, Julius Caesar, Bernstein, Manon, and An American in Paris. TOSCA If after all that you have some time left, why not come and see one of the sixteen films Live Screening from the we will be showing? You can even see them for half price – see page 15! Royal Opera House

Event Key Live Satellite Film Wed 7 Feb I 7.15pm I £15*

Tosca is one of the great evenings of Information Market_Theatre MarketTheatre opera, and from its strident opening chords conjures up a world of political Buy Tickets See front cover for details of how to book. Tickets may also be bought on instability and menace. the door, subject to availability. Please note that we are unable to take returns – even if Young Marx you are picking up your tickets on the door. However, if there is a full house we are happy National Theatre Live - Encore Jonathan Kent’s production for The to try to resell them for you. Royal Opera captures the dangerous Wed 31 Jan I 7pm I £14* political turbulence of Rome in 1800. The The Market Theatre is situated in Market Street (off Bye Street, for satnavs the postcode Chief of Police, Scarpia – one of the most is HR8 2AQ). The Market Theatre is a trading name of Ledbury Amateur Dramatic malevolent villains in opera – ruthlessly Rory Kinnear is Marx, in this new comedy Society Ltd (LADS) which owns and runs the Theatre for the benefit of the community. pursues and tortures enemies of the that reunites the creative team behind It provides a dedicated venue for amateur and professional performing arts. It has 128 state. His dark, demonic music contrasts Broadway and West End hit comedy One seats, foyer, bar, wheelchair access, disabled toilet and hearing loop. The Theatre or with the expansive melodies of the Man, Two Guvnors. Foyer may be hired by emailing [email protected] idealistic lovers, Tosca and Cavaradossi, who express their passion in sublime 1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist The foyer and bar are open 45 minutes before each show or film. arias, including Vissi d’arte and E lucevan is hiding in Soho. Broke, restless le stelle. Giacomo Puccini’s dramatic Two public car parks (HR8 2AB) are off the top of Bye Street (with the clock tower and horny, the thirty-two-year-old Parking work was a hit with audiences on its at the top). revolutionary is a frothing combination 1900 premiere and it remains one of the of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric most performed of all operas – with its Market Theatre Film Club For just £20 you are able to get in for half price to the 30 or so wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy. gripping plot and glorious music, it’s films that we show a year at the Theatre. This represents amazing value – see all our films His writing blocked, his marriage dying, easy to see why. and you save around £70! See page 15 for details of how to join. Of course if you do his only hope is a job on the railway. But not want to join the Film Club, you can book in the normal way (see front cover) or buy there’s still no one in the capital who can *Students and over 60s £12.50 tickets on the door (subject to availability). show you a better night on the booze than Karl Heinrich Marx. LADS Youth Theatre Company We are afraid that membership is currently full. *Students and over 60s £12

Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 3 CELEBRATING THE RED HOT BOOGIE SONGS OF NICK DRAKE CAT ON A A haunting and immaculately crafted Sat 17 Feb I 8pm I £12 concert from Keith James HOT TIN ROOF Songs from the 1960s by artists such National Theatre Live – Encore Sat 10 Feb I 8pm I £14 as The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elvis, Credence Clearwater Revival, The Thur 22 Feb I 7pm I £14* After his tragic death in 1974, aged Animals, Chuck Berry and many more. only 26, Nick Drake’s music almost By Tennessee Williams disappeared into obscurity; but now, One of the most popular rock’n’roll Directed by Benedict Andrews thanks to a re-evaluation of his genius, TWELFTH NIGHT bands in the area, Red Hot Boogie have he has become a National Treasure. RSC Live Screening long been delighting audiences with Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century their up-tempo versions of fifties and masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Keith James is the first artist to have Wed 14 Feb I 7pm I £15* sixties hits. played a strictly limited season in brought Nick’s music to theatres across London’s West End in 2017. Following Over 100 years experience between the UK and Europe. Now, 1500 shows Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love his smash hit production of A Streetcar them means the boys guarantee you will later, Keith continues to bring us some of – hilarious and heartbreaking. Two twins Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ be on your feet and rocking in the aisles the finest songs to bless that catalogue are separated in a shipwreck, and forced ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars to the wonderful sounds of the golden of English song-writing that includes to fend for themselves in a strange land. Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell period of rock’n’roll. An evening not to Nick Drake’s three cherished albums Five The first twin, Viola, falls in love with and Colm Meaney. be missed! Leaves Left, Bryter Layter and Pink Moon. Orsino, who dotes on OIivia, who falls for Viola but is idolised by Malvolio. Enter On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Beginning with an introductory set of Sebastian, who is the spitting image of Southern family gather at their cotton timeless songs by brilliant songwriters his twin sister... plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s contemporary with Nick, including Roy birthday. The scorching heat is almost Harper, Sandy Denny and Bert Jansch, Christopher Luscombe, Director of as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and poems by William Blake which Keith the glorious Love’s Labour’s Lost and and Maggie dance round the secrets and has set to Nick’s guitar arrangements, Much Ado About Nothing (2014 and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy the concert moves to Nick’s own fragile 2016), returns to the Royal Shakespeare their marriage. With the future of the and intriguing music including River Man, Company to tackle Shakespeare’s family at stake, which version of the truth Fruit Tree, Day is Done, Northern Sky and greatest comedy, a brilliantly bittersweet is real – and which will win out? Pink Moon. account of “the whirligig of time”.

“A bold reimagining…innovative Some of the most atmospheric and *Students and over 60s £12.50 and powerfully acted” Sunday Times emotive music you will ever hear The Independent *Students and over 60s £12

4 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 5 THE WINTER’S TALE DOROTHY (The Airings Live Screening from the Royal Ballet of an Archers Actor’s Aunt) Sunny Ormonde (Lilian Bellamy Wed 28 Feb I 7.15pm I £15* in The Archers) stars

Christopher Wheeldon, Artistic Sat 3 March I 8pm I £14* Associate of The Royal Ballet, created his adaptation of Shakespeare’s late great The indomitable Dorothy is the mainstay romance The Winter’s Tale for The Royal of Neighbourhood Watch and scourge Ballet in 2014. Building on the success of of litter louts. After losing her slot on ROVING CROWS Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The hospital radio, due to an unfortunate Powerful Celtic undertones and intoxicating tribal rhythms Winter’s Tale received ecstatic praise incident with a golf ball and a pair of at its premiere, acclaimed by critics tights, she has seized control of a new and audiences alike for its intelligent, Sat 24 Feb I 8pm I £13* microphone. So she is now broadcasting distinctive and emotionally powerful to the residents of her retirement home: story, told through exquisite dance. It Barmy Frank, Mad Alice, One-Armed Roving Crows push the boundaries of the Celtic Folk genre and play with genuine passion, is now widely judged to be a modern Annie and the rest. energy and soul – a must see live act. ballet classic. Of course, she has Media Connections, A vibrant mix of Celtic-inspired alongside original and intelligent lyrics backed by The story follows the destruction of a what with her niece Sunny being in The pounding, tribal and electronica infused dance grooves; the band comprises fiddle, electric marriage through consuming jealousy, Archers – something she manages to slip and acoustic guitar, electric 5 and 6 string bass, pumping bongo percussion rhythms the abandonment of a child and a into every conversation. Several times. and vocals. seemingly hopeless love. Yet, through And she takes advantage of her new remorse and regret – and after a show to air her views about everything, As well as almost constant national touring, the band has released 3 albums and 2 EPs seemingly miraculous return to life – from Desert Island Discs to doctors; from since their launch in 2009. The most recent album Deliberate Distractions received 4* the ending is one of forgiveness and net curtains to corsets. reviews in the Financial Times and R2 Magazine amongst many more. reconciliation. With powerful designs by Bob Crowley and atmospheric music The multi-talented Sunny Ormonde (Lilian International Artist of the Year – Australian Awards 2017; Band of the Year - by Joby Talbot, The Winter’s Tale is a Bellamy in The Archers) gives a virtuoso FATEA Music Awards 2014 masterful modern narrative ballet. performance as the unstoppable Dorothy in this hilarious play by Jane James. *Students and over 60s £12.50 Great party music...I love that band - Paul O’Grady, BBC A Standing Ovation greeted the Really individual Celtic group - , BBC first performance of Sunny’s new The next folk super group in waiting - Nancy Dunham, folking.com One Woman Show – echoes of some of Victoria Wood’s best comic creations, together with the poignancy of Alan *Students £10 Bennett’s “Talking Heads”.

*Students £9

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CARMEN Encore Screening from the Royal Opera

Sun 11 March I 6.45pm I £14*

Carmen is the best-known work by French composer Georges Bizet, and one of the most famous operas in the entire art form – numbers such as the Habanera and the Toreador Song have permeated the popular consciousness as little else Hereford One has. The opera’s heady combination of passion, sensuality and violence initially Act Play Festival proved too much for the stage, and it was a critical failure on its 1875 premiere. Thur 8 - Sat 10 March Bizet died shortly after, and never Thur & Fri 7pm, Sat 2pm & 7pm learned of the spectacular success his £8 per session / £12 both Sat Carmen would achieve. sessions / £20 all four sessions This ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s highly The Market Theatre has been chosen physical production, originally created to host this year’s Festival. Come for Frankfurt Opera. The Australian and see some of the best in amateur director is one of the world’s most drama with teams from Ledbury, Ross sought-after opera directors, whose on Wye, Hereford, Eardisley, Orleton, Royal Opera debut with Shostakovich’s Monmouth and Norbury competing to, The Nose in 2016 was greeted with hopefully, proceed in the All- delight. For Carmen he has devised a Theatre Festival. The companies will be far-from-traditional version, incorporating providing a mixture of drama, comedy music written by Bizet for the score but and music performed by actors of all not usually heard. ages. There are well known one act plays along with some original offerings. Who *Students and over 60s £12 knows, we may see a future West End star performing this week!

Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 9 TERRY WALTON: JULIUS CAESAR ALLOTMENT TIPS National Theatre Live Screening FROM THE JEREMY VINE Thurs 22 March I 7pm I £15* ALLOTMENT Presented by Ledbury Allotment By William Shakespeare Association Nicholas Hytner directs a new take on Wed 21 March I 7.30pm I £5 the Shakespeare classic. Caesar returns in triumph to Rome Terry Walton can regularly be heard and the people pour out of their on Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio 2 show homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the providing gardening tips to listeners. autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite

THE DRIVE conspire to bring him down. After his Presented by Angel Exit Theatre Company Since the age of four, when Terry’s dad assassination, civil war erupts on the first took him to his allotment, he’s had a streets of the capital. Sat 17 March I 8pm I £12* ‘growing’ desire to garden. Terry took his first allotment aged 11, and has been on Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the same allotment site for over 50 years. Memory is everything. The truth of who we are, what shapes us. There were four of us. the audience into the street party that Now we are two. greets Caesar’s return, the congress Terry combined a busy life in industry, a that witnesses his murder, the rally that happy family life with his wife Anthea and One of the best physical theatre companies around, the lovely Angel Exit, are back in assembles for his funeral and the chaos two sons with (at one stage) keeping ten Ledbury: you may remember their Moonfleet and The Secret Garden. that explodes in its wake. allotment plots on the go. The Drive recounts an unexpected Nordic road trip which sees two estranged friends Ben Whishaw (The Danish Girl, Skyfall, He’s a born again organic gardener having thrown together on a tense journey from London to Oslo. The further Nat and Becky get Hamlet) and Michelle Fairley (Fortitude, seen the error of his ways in the late 1960s from home the closer they come to confronting the demons of their shared past. Game of Thrones) play Brutus and and dispensed with using chemicals, now Cassius, David Calder (The Lost City of Z, growing all his produce using all-natural Spliced through with humour, slick physicality, an original contemporary soundtrack and The Hatton Garden Job) plays Caesar and means of nourishing them. video projection, The Drive is a show about memory, friendship, grief, and turning 40. It David Morrissey (The Missing, Hangmen, also looks at who owns the truth when something cannot be proven. The Walking Dead) is Mark Antony. Terry retired in 2001 and by some very fortunate means started broadcasting *Students and over 60s £12.50 Visually stunning and thought provoking - Fringe Biscuit **** from his allotments on the, then new, Fast and neat, dramatic, moving and humorous! Recommended - Fringe Review Jeremy Vine show. Saw this show in Edinburgh last year and had to bring it to Ledbury - paul@themarkettheatre

Students *£8

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BERNSTEIN CENTENARY Live Screening from The Royal Ballet THE WAR OF THE WORLDS THREE BALLETS, TWO NEW Presented by Pantaloons Theatre Company PRODUCTIONS

Sat 24 March I 8pm I £12* Tues 27 March I 7.15pm I £15*

Yes: after massive public demand Leonard Bernstein was one of the following their hugely successful first classical composers in America versions of Pride and Prejudice and The to achieve both popular and critical Importance of Being Earnest, they are acclaim. He was eclectic in his sources back in Ledbury again! – drawing on and modernism, the traditions of Jewish music and No one would have believed in the last the Broadway musical – and many of years of the nineteenth century that Bernstein’s scores are remarkably well this world was being watched keenly suited to dance. He was particularly and closely by intelligences greater associated with Jerome Robbins, their than man’s…” credits together including Fancy Free and West Side Story. To celebrate the And fewer would have believed in the centenary year of the composer’s birth, first years of the twenty-first century that The Royal Ballet has united all three of H. G. Wells’ science fiction classic would its associate choreographers to celebrate be performed live by just four actors the dynamic range and danceability of with intelligences lesser than average… Bernstein’s music.

The brilliant Pantaloons invade the stage The programme includes two world in this funny yet faithful new adaptation, premieres by Resident Choreographer as they use musical instruments, puppetry Wayne McGregor and Artistic Associate and, um, enthusiasm to recreate deadly Christopher Wheeldon, marking each heat-rays, giant fighting-machines, artist’s first foray into Bernstein. At squidgy tentacled Martians and the heart of the programme is the first interplanetary warfare on an epic scale. revival of Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett’s The Age of Anxiety, created The chances of success? A million to one… in 2014 to Bernstein’s soul-searching Second Symphony. *Students £8 *Students and over 60s £12.50

12 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 FILM CLUB MOSCOW DRUG CLUB JOIN THE ALL-ENGLAND MARKET THEATRE Sat 7 April I 8pm I £13* MACBETH THEATRE FESTIVAL FILM CLUB The Moscow Drug Club is a curious RSC Live Screening QUARTER FINAL musical place where certain elements for of 1930’s Berlin Cabaret, Hot Club Wed 11 April I 7pm I £15* de France, Nuevo Tango and Gypsy Sat 14 April 2pm & 7pm HALF PRICE FILMS Campfire meet, have a few to drink and ‘Something wicked this way comes’ £12 both sessions – 6 plays stagger arm in arm into the darkness £8 one session – 3 plays For £20, Film Club of some eastern European cobbled Returning home from battle, the membership will grant you street on a mission to find the bar where victorious Macbeth meets three witches The All-England Theatre Festival (AETF) admission for £3 to every Django Reinhardt and Tom Waits are on the heath. Driven by their disturbing now in its 8th decade, is the only one of the 30 or so films having an after-hours jam with the local prophecies, he sets out on the path countrywide, competitive festival of Tziganes. Combining their original to murder. one-act drama in England. that we show every year. material with songs by the likes of Jaques Brel, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits The RSC’s contemporary production of The 6 month long competition is Send a cheque for £20 (payable and Bertolt Brecht, Moscow Drug Club Shakespeare’s darkest psychological organised regionally, and, after a series to LADS Ltd) with your name, provide an intoxicating and intimate thriller marks both Christopher of preliminary, quarter and semi-final address, and email address (if you musical experience. You are cordially Eccleston’s RSC debut and the return of rounds across the country, culminates have one) to The Market Theatre invited to share a wry smile with us as Niamh Cusack to the Company. in a Grand Final in which the four ‘Area’ Film Club, Tivoli, 5 Elmsdale Road, you enter the darkly comic world of champions compete for the title of Ledbury HR8 2EG. Moscow Drug Club... *Students and over 60s £12.50 ‘English Champion.’

This way please - and mind the stairs! For the Quarter Final, 6 one-act plays performed by 6 different groups, will be *Students £8 competing for a place in the Semi-Final of the All-England Theatre Festival that will be taking place at the Swan Theatre, Worcester on 12th May. The audience has the unique opportunity to see the plays and listen to the public reviews of those plays from an independent professional expert. NB: does not include live screenings and encores All groups including the Herefordshire winner will already have won a drama festival, so a high standard of performance is guaranteed.

14 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 15 The Film Orchestra MANON Live Screening from The Royal Ballet Concert Band Conductor Edward Roberts-Malpass Thurs 3 May I 7.15pm I £15* Sat 5 May I 7.30pm I £12 Kenneth MacMillan’s source for Manon was the 18th-century French novel The Film Orchestra, founded by Jane already adapted for opera by Massenet Whittle and Edward Roberts-Malpass in and Puccini. The premiere was given on 2013, is the UK’s first amateur orchestra 7 March 1974, with the lead roles danced performing only original music from film, by Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell. television and video games. The success The ballet quickly became a staple of The of the project has seen numerous TfO Royal Ballet’s repertory, and a touchstone ensembles formed, including wind of adult, dramatic dance. bands, brass bands, choir and jazz bands, all performing in the same genre. MacMillan found new sympathy with The TfO Concert Band is the leading the capricious Manon and her struggle TfO wind band and is very much looking to escape poverty. Designs by his forward to performing at The Market A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED regular collaborator Nicholas Georgiadis Theatre with a programme to include LADS presents a classic Miss Marple Mystery by Agatha Christie reflect this, depicting a world of lavish music from War Horse, Captain America, splendour polluted by miserable The Good The Bad and The Ugly and The Thurs 26 - Sat 28 April I 8pm I £10* destitution. MacMillan’s spectacular Witches of Eastwick. ensemble scenes for the whole Company Would you advertise a murder? Someone did! The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are create vivid, complex portraits of the *Students £8 astounded to read an advert in the local gazette stating that a murder that will take distinct societies of Paris and New place at Little Paddocks, the home of Letitia Blacklock on Friday, the thirteenth. Unable Orleans. But it is Manon and Des Grieux’s to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at the appointed time when, impassioned pas de deux – recalling the without warning, the lights go out… intensity of MacMillan’s earlier Romeo and Juliet – that drive this tragic story, *Students £6 and make Manon one of MacMillan’s One is alone when the last one most powerful dramas. who remembers is gone *Students and over 60s £12.50 Miss Marple

16 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 17 THE BUDAPEST TAPLEY HOUSE Presented by Our Star Theatre Company CAFÉ ORCHESTRA REMI HARRIS TRIO Sat 12 May I 7.30pm I £12 Fri 11 May I 8pm I £15* Sat 19 May I 8pm I £12* Donnie and Sid are a couple of lazy Back by popular demand, the fiery twenty-somethings, thrown together The Remi Harris Trio take Gypsy Swing vivacity and awe-inspiring musicianship by fate under the roof of Tapley AN AMERICAN characteristics and infuse them with of the finest purveyors of Eastern House. Landlady Mrs Tapley keeps an influences from Jazz, Blues, Rock’n’Roll, European gypsy music this side of a IN PARIS unnervingly close eye on them as they Funk, World Music and more. They play Lada scrap heap will leave you with Encore Screening from stumble through life, dreaming of an an eclectic mix of original compositions, a grin on your face and rhythm in The Dominion Theatre extraordinary business plan that will get jazz standards and new arrangements your feet. them rich quick without ever having to Thurs 17 May I 7pm I £14* of music from Django Reinhardt, Jimi get off the sofa. When a new tenant Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, Charlie The BCO plays traditional folk and arrives, a dark secret is revealed and Parker, Peter Green and more. The show gypsy-flavoured music from across the The Tony Award winning Broadway things will never be the same again features Remi on a variety of acoustic world. Raucous, toe-tapping Balkan musical about love, hope and loving for the unsuspecting lodgers of Tapley and electric guitars accompanied by a and Russian numbers are combined your dreams, has taken the West End by House. Jealousy, love, and a mysterious hot club rhythm section of acoustic guitar with jazz and swing inflections, Klezmer, storm, with standing ovations from the old lady all entwine and entangle until it and , and it includes solo, Romanian Doinas and Hungarian Czardas public and a record-setting 28 five-star becomes clear that Donnie and Sid are duet and trio playing interspersed with are awarded fresh treatments before reviews from UK critics. the only two idiots that can save the day. Remi’s commentary about the history of they give way to a disarmingly beautiful the music and the guitars he plays. Remi arsenal of ballads such as the Schindler’s With gorgeous Gershwin tunes and his trio have toured worldwide as List theme or Andy Statman’s (including the classic hits ‘S Wonderful well as performing at Buckingham Palace, bitter-sweet The Flatbush Waltz. and I Got Rhythm), stunning designs Montreal Jazz Festival, BBC Proms at the and show stopping choreography, this Royal Albert Hall with Jamie Cullum, on breathtakingly beautiful new musical is BBC 4 Television and live on BBC Radio 2 inspired by the Oscar winning MGM film Last night we went, with friends, and BBC Radio 3. to see The Budapest Cafe and tells the impassioned story of an Orchestra. It was the most exciting, American GI discovering art, friendship inspiring and uplifting evening. The and love in the “City of Light” in 1945. An extraordinary musician whole event was a delight and everybody Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2 in the audience were stamping and *Students and over 60s £12 Astonishing stuff shouting for more. Thank you for Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 6 Music bringing such class entertainment to our area - audience member Proceeds from this showing will go to *Students £8 *Students £12

18 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 19 DIARY DATES SPONSORING EVENTS AT THE MARKET THEATRE

THE MAN ON THE MOOR Something for the Weekend Theatre Company

Sat 26 May I 8pm I £12*

A huge hit from The Edinburgh Fringe! WUTHERING HEIGHTS Hotbuckle Theatre Company On 12th December 2015, an elderly looking Sat 2 June I 8pm gentleman was found dead on Saddleworth With live music, multiple Moor. He was carrying no ID. In his pockets characterisation, humour and were just £130 in cash and return train inventiveness this story is as enjoyably tickets from London from the previous day. engaging as should be in the reliable hands of Hotbuckle! Despite a national campaign, he remained unidentified. He appeared to have no family, SALAD DAYS no friends, and no home. He didn’t even LADS presents have a name. Who was this man? Why did Wed-Sat 13-16 June I 7.30pm he seemingly travel 200 miles to die? And A summer musical, originally written for why did nobody seem to miss him? the Bristol Old Vic’s resident company, featuring a strong LADS cast and a live Forty different people reached out to supporting band. claim ‘the man on the moor’ as their missing husband, father or brother. These people are ‘the left behind’. Those who SWAN LAKE Encore Screening from The Royal Ballet pick up the pieces when someone they Sun 17 June I 7.15pm love leaves and simply never comes home A new production of Tchaikovsky’s again. This is their story. magnificent classical ballet.

Beautifully written and incredibly ROMEO AND JULIET poetic… His words and his message Live Screening from will stay with you long after the The Royal Shakespeare Company show ends - Voice Magazine Wed 18 July I 7pm Shakespeare’s most famous story of A deeply mature piece of storytelling... love at first sight explodes with intense makes you think, makes you feel, makes passion in this contemporary production you want to find the answers with heartbreaking consequences. Broadway Baby

*Students £6

20 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 FILMS All Films £6 I Students / Film Club Members £3 DUNKIRK 106mins I 2017 I 12A I US/UK/Fr/Ned Fri 23 Feb I 8pm

The evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, NOTORIOUS the British Empire and France, who were cut off 101mins I 1946 I U I US and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, between May Fri 9 Feb I 8pm 26th and June 4th 1940, during the Battle of France in World War II. Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece. Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father’s Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work. LOVING VINCENT 95mins I 2017 I 12A I UK/Poland Thurs 1 March I 8pm

The world’s first fully-painted feature film takes MY COUSIN RACHEL its story from the life and miraculous, glowing 116mins I 2017 I 12A I US/UK canvases of master artist Vincent Van Gogh. Wed 14 Feb I 10.30am Animated from 65,000 oil painted frames produced by 115 professional artists, it explores A young Englishman plots revenge against his Van Gogh’s death, delving into the ambiguities of late cousin’s mysterious, beautiful wife, believing his last days via the stories of his paintings and her responsible for his death. But his feelings the people who inhabit them. A truly stunning become complicated as he finds himself falling cinematic achievement, it’s not to be missed. under the beguiling spell of her charms. Stars Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin.

THE DEATH OF STALIN TOMORROW/DEMAIN 107mins I 2017 I 15 I France/UK 118mins 2015 PG Fr Subs I I I I Fri 2 March I 8pm Fri 16 Feb I 8pm Armando Iannucci’s (In the Loop, Veep) hilarious Our climate is changing and moved by predictions new political satire – depicting the last days of of dire consequences by the end of the 21st Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and the chaos of Century. Film-makers Cyril Dion and Melanie the regime after his death in 1953 – is stuffed Laurent undertake a journey around the world, to with acting talent, including Steve Buscemi (as investigate the causes of our ecological crisis and Nikita Khrushchev), Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, any possible solutions. A feel-good movie, lively Andrea Riseborough and even Paul Whitehouse. and bright in its delivery, showing solutions that are Like Iannucci’s other work, it promises to be accessible to everyone and firmly putting power in relentlessly funny, acerbic and intelligent (it’s co-scripted with his former Alan Partridge our hands. Demain has taken France by storm and collaborator David Schneider) and to offer a commentary on contemporary as well as asks “will this be tomorrow’s world?”. historical strongman politics. In aid of THE SIZE OF HEREFORDSHIRE, a locally based response to climate change, aiming to sustain an area of Amazonian Rainforest the size of our county. www.sizeofherefordshire.org

22 All Films £6 I Students / Film Club Members £3 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 23 WEA FILM STUDY DAY THE SENSE OF AN ENDING A DAY WITH DIETRICH 108mins I 2017 I 15 I UK Wed 14 March I 10.30am Sat 3 March Tickets from 01531 634333 10.30am-4.30pm I £20 Divorced and retired, Tony Webster, an ageing Londoner and vintage camera shop owner, Marlene Dietrich was one of the most famous whittles down the solitude of his isolated film stars of the 1930s. She made the transition existence by keeping an affectionate relationship from Germany to Hollywood along with her with his ex-wife, and by accompanying his long-time collaborator, the director Josef von daughter to antenatal courses. However, the Sternberg. Paramount Studios marketed Dietrich unexpected arrival of an unsettling letter will as a rival to MGM’s Greta Garbo. disrupt the fine balance of things in Tony’s orderly life, reconnecting him with his first love The day will start with a talk about her star persona and distinctive style and the special from college, and the nostalgic, yet clouded lighting system developed for her by Lee Garmes. This will be followed by a double bill of memories of a distant past. Is he ready to face film screenings, beginning withBlonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg 1932) and ending with the truth? the comedy Western Destry Rides Again (George Marshall 1939).

Tutor: Catherine Constable (Professor of Film Studies at Warwick University) Refreshments and sandwiches are available at the theatre. In collaboration with Market Theatre Film Club. VICTORIA AND ABDUL 112mins I 2017 I PG I UK Fri 30 March I 8pm BUENA VISTA SOCIAL Abdul Karim arrives from India to participate in Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee. The young CLUB: ADIOS clerk is surprised to find favour with the Queen 106mins I 2017 I 12A I UK I Subs herself. As Victoria questions the constrictions of Mon 5 March I 8pm her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance that her household and The musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club inner circle try to destroy. As their friendship exposed the world to Cuba’s vibrant culture. deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing Reunited by band leader Ry Cooder, their surge world through new eyes, joyfully reclaiming her to international fame with their 1997 album was humanity. Stars Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, captured in Wim Wender’s, Oscar nominated, documentary. Now British film maker Lucy Olivia Williams. Walker has made a sequel, not only chronicling the late-life careers of the Buena Vista stars (many now dead) but also telling their often painful back-stories.

DETROIT 143mins I 2017 I 15 I US A MAN CALLED OVE 116mins I 2017 I 15 I Sweden I Subs Fri 6 April I 8pm Wed 7 March I 8pm A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest race riots in United States history. A Swedish smash hit, Hannes Holm’s A Man The story is centred around the Algiers Motel Called Ove is an irresistible adaptation of incident, which occurred in Detroit, Michigan Fredrik Backman’s bestselling novel. Ove is the on July 25, 1967, during the racially charged quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated 12th Street Riot. It involves the death of three retiree with strict principles and a short fuse. But black men and the brutal beatings of nine other when pregnant Parvaneh and her family move people: seven black men and two white women. next door, his solitary, regimented world is shaken in ways he would never have imagined, and from inauspicious beginnings an unlikely friendship forms, resulting in a tale of unreliable first impressions and a reminder that life is sweeter when shared.

24 All Films £6 I Students / Film Club Members £3 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 25 GOODBYE VICTORIA AND ABDUL CHRISTOPHER ROBIN 112mins I 2017 I PG I UK 107mins I 2017 I PG I UK Wed 9 May I 10.30am Wed 11 April I 10.30am Abdul Karim arrives from India to participate in Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee. The young A rare glimpse into the relationship between clerk is surprised to find favour with the Queen beloved children’s author A A Milne and his herself. As Victoria questions the constrictions of son Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along and devoted alliance that her household and with his mother Daphne, and his nanny Olive, inner circle try to destroy. As their friendship Christopher Robin and his family are swept up deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing in the international success of the books; the world through new eyes, joyfully reclaiming her enchanting tales bringing hope and comfort to humanity. Stars Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, England after WWI. But with the eyes of the Olivia Williams. world on Christopher Robin, what will the cost be to the family?

MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE STORIES FROM 70mins I 2016 I PG I Swiss I Subs THE HOP YARDS Fri 18 May I 8pm 90mins I 2018 I U I UK Courgette (Zucchini) is an intriguing nickname Fri 4 May I 8pm for a 9-year-old boy, although his unique story is surprisingly universal. After his mother’s From the makers of Chewing The Cud: Memories disappearance, Courgette is befriended by a from Hereford’s old livestock market comes police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him a brand-new heritage film about the glorious to his new foster home filled with other orphans traditions of Herefordshire hop picking. With their his own age. At first he struggles to find his place distinctive aroma and connections to beer, the in this strange, at times, hostile environment. Yet film mixes archive photographs, films and newly with Raymond’s help and his new-found friends, recorded oral-history interviews from farmers, Courgette eventually learns to trust and find traders, pickers and brewers. We listen to stories of true love. days past and present from Herefordians, people from South Wales, the Black Country, Polish migrant workers and Gypsy Roma travellers. Part of the Herefordshire Life Through A Lens project. MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS 114mins I 2017 I 12A I US Fri 25 May I 8pm

JOIN THE MARKET A lavish trip through Europe quickly unfolds FILM THEATRE FILM CLUB into a race against time to solve a murder aboard a train. Everyone’s a suspect when FOR HALF PRICE ADMISSION Detective Hercule Poirot arrives to interrogate all Details on page 15 passengers and search for clues before the killer CLUB can strike again. Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer.

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