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Poet John Davies presents an GROUP BOOKINGS of ten and more can be reserved and confirmed later by arrangement with evening of spoken word, music the box office. and dance based on his latest To book wheelchair spaces, in the Theatre or in the Studio, please call the box office. poetry collection Jizz (p. 10); and I’ve been very touched by the art and science come together Moish Sokal For further details on seating plans, access and parking please see inside the back page. welcome I’ve received since I in Emily Brown’s contemporary exhibition of works arrived here in March, and I’m so dance piece Lina (p.19). Wells grateful for everyone’s support Cathedral School are back with Wed 6 Sep - Wed 1 Nov BOX OFFICE CHARGES -thank you. a new production of Beauty and Tickets for live events at Strode Theatre carry an additional contribution as part of the ticket price, the Beast (p.33); Contralto singer helping to support the theatre since the loss of local authority funding in 2011. We had a great summer season Elizabeth Chivers and friends Moish Sokal was born during here with our first outdoor cinema present a recital of classical pieces, the Israeli War of Independence There is a booking charge of £1.50 on all online credit/debit card and cheque payments and festival in partnership with the guaranteed to make the hairs on and grew up in the port city a postage charge of £1 on each booking where tickets are posted from the box office. The Alfred Gillett Trust (AGT) and some the back of your neck stand on of Haifa. He studied Graphic transaction charge applies equally to bookings made in person, on the phone or online. fantastic films. Just in-case you end (p.24); and Richard Shelton Art and Design at Sydney didn’t catch some of those films, and The Denmark Street Big Band Technical College in Australia FILM CATEGORIES Please note that 15 or 18 we’ve put on some additional come to bring some glitz straight where he worked as a Graphic certificate films may offend. screenings (Letters from Baghdad from London’s West End! (p. 32). Designer and Illustrator for U Suitable for all ages Please ask box office or visit: & Mad to be Normal, 1 Sep; the next 22 years, frequently PG Parental Guidance. May be unsuitable for children www.bbfc.co.uk Maudie & A Man Called Ove, 2 I hope there is something in travelling to paint. He came to under 8 Sep; and Dunkirk, 5 & 8 Sep). here for you for the forthcoming live in England in 1990, regularly 12A  May be unsuitable for children under 12. Children Live shows do not carry autumn and winter evenings and exhibiting his works ever since. under 12 must be accompanied by an adult certification. We recommend I hope you’ll agree that we have weekends, and I hope very much 15 15 years and over - photographic proof of age essential that children are accompanied an exciting bumper season ahead! to see you soon. This exhibition presents a by an adult and the box office Within the film programme we selection of Moish’s recent 18 18 years and over - photographic proof of age essential team can give advice on have a series of curated Film beautiful watercolour works, For further details, visit: www.bbfc.co.uk suitability where available. Triptychs (see overleaf) and partly inspired by his recent an evening of two short film travels to South America. programmes (p.13). 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Curated series of three films based on a theme, 14 &19 Sep Kedi p.9 genre, director or actor. All triptychs include at least one current or recent-release film. 28 Sep Happy People p.12

This series of documentaries explore human relationships to animals, partly paying homage Focus on David Lynch to British art critic/writer John Berger, who died A in January; and partly to our resident theatre 22 Sep David Lynch: The Art LIfe p.11 cat, Harvey! The Seasons in Quincy is a portrait of the life and works of one of Britain’s great recent Baby Driver (15) Norman: the moderate The Seasons in QUincy: 29 Sep The Short Films of David Lynch p.13 thinkers through the eyes of Tilda Swinton, rise & tragic fall of a Four Portraits of including a meditation on his essay Why Look Tue 5 Sep 5.30pm STUDIO new york fixer (15) John berger (12A) 5 Oct Mulholland Drive p.15 at Animals. Kedi is a beautifully shot portrait of Thu 7 Sep 7.30pm THEATRE seven Istanbul cats and how they affect the Tue 5 Sep 7.45pm STUDIO Thu 7 Sep 7.45pm STUDIO Each season, we’ll “focus on” a film director or actor. lives of those around them. Finally, we move Director: Edgar Wright Sun 10 Sep 5pm THEATRE We start with one of the more challenging masters to Siberia with Werner Herzog’s stunning 2013 With Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Kevin Spacey Directors: Bartek Dziadosz, Colin MacCabe of celluloid film (and canvass): absurdist artist/ film on the life of trappers in Siberia’s remote UK/USA 2017 Director: Joseph Cedar Documentary 1hr 30mins director, David Lynch, of Twin Peaks and wilderness, where the relationship between 1hr 55mins With Richard Gere, Lior Ashkenazi, Mulholland Drive infamy! A feast for the eyes! DL humans and dogs is truly inseparable... A Michael Sheen Israel/USA 2016 2hrs The late John Berger was one In this US-set crime comedy the most quietly influential from British director Edgar British intellectuals of our Victoriana neoclassical film Wright (Hot Fuzz), Ansel Elgort Norman Oppenheimer (Richard time. After publishing his plays young getaway driver Gere) is a self-styled consultant, seminal work Ways of Seeing 21 - 27 Oct Victoria and Abdul p.20 30 Sep The Death of Louis XIV p.14 Baby - the best in the game, a small time operator eager and Booker Prize/James Tait as long as he has his favourite to make himself appear Black Prize winning novel G. 26 Oct The Young Victoria p.21 8 Oct Nightwatching p. 17 music playing in his ears. indispensable around Wall Street he moved to the Alpine village with his supposed ‘connections’. of Quincy, France. He realised 29 Oct Mrs Brown p.22 14 Oct Anna Karenina p.18 Baby has almost finished When he befriends a young that subsistence farming, which working off an old debt to crime Israeli politician (Lior Ashkenazi) had sustained humanity for With the release of Stephen Frear’s Victoria and Besides from being a classic period costume boss Doc (Kevin Spacey), and adrift in New York, he has a millennia, was drawing to a Abdul, here are two earlier films which cover drama; ‘Neoclassical’ film also replicates the when he meets the girl of his hunch that, this time, he may historical close and determined other important episodes of Queen Victoria’s aesthetic values of neoclassical oil paintings. dreams (Lily James), he sees a be onto a winner. And he’s right: to spend the rest of his life reign. Mrs Brown also stars Dudi Dench Dark and sumptuous colour palettes shot within chance to ditch his criminal life. three years later, the politician bearing witness to it. This ...twenty years earlier! V tight frames. The outcome is an immersive, But when their latest heist goes has risen to power. Eager to portrait, the result of a five-year claustrophobic experience which blurs the dangerously awry, Baby must capitalise on the acquaintance, project by Tilda Swinton, Colin boundaries between film and Old Master’s summon all his wits to save his Norman hatches an investment MacCabe and Christopher Roth, painting. Albert Serra’s fascinating Death of Louis life, love and freedom… scheme… places Berger in the rhythm of Coming out XIV is the latest ‘slow-film’ contribution to this the seasons in Quincy: four film genre. While Peter Greenaway - master of the “An awe-inspiring piece of “…in Richard Gere’s deft, essays taking different aspects 7 Nov Tom of Finland p.25 Neoclassical aesthetic - is the director of the filmmaking … Sweet, funny veteran hands, Norman of Berger’s life and work in the excellent Nightwatching which delves into the and utterly original” Empire. Oppenheimer is consistently, Haute-Savoie. “… a celebration 15 Nov God’s Own Country p.28 political intrigues behind Rembrandt’s painting completely fascinating.” of independent thought.” The The Nightwatch ...further blurring the boundary RogerEbert.com Observer. 23 Nov Call Me By Your Name p.30 between film and stage-play. Finally, Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina Three films which have just come out …about for Joe Wright’s 2012 film, offers an interesting Tickets £8.00 Tickets £8.00 Tickets £8.00 coming out! Sensitively portrayed, these dramas ‘mainstream’ intervention to this genre, with its Full concessions £7.00 Full concessions £7.00 Full concessions £7.00 deal with the emotional and social turmoil tightly shot theatrical scenes and ‘tableaux which often surrounds coming to terms with vivants’ references. Three beautiful films. - in these cases - male homosexuality. 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The beguiled (15) An inconvenient Sequel: The Midwife (12A) Despicable Me 3 (U) The red turtle (PG) Hotel Salvation (PG) Truth to power (PG) Fri 8 Sep 7.45pm STUDIO Sat 9 Sep 7.45pm STUDIO Sun 10 Sep 2pm THEATRE Sun 10 Sep 3pm STUDIO Sun 10 Sep 7.45pm STUDIO Sun 10 Sep 7.30pm THEATRE Sat 9 Sep 7.30pm THEATRE Sun 10 Sep 5.30pm STUDIO Tue 12 Sep 7.45pm STUDIO Fri 15 Sep 5.30pm STUDIO Directors: Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin Director: Michael Dudok de Wit Fri 15 Sep 7.30pm THEATRE Director: Sofia Coppola Director: Martin Provost With Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker (Voices of) Emmanuel Garijo, Tom Hudson With Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Directors: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk With Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot, (Voices) Fr/Bel/Jap 2016 Director: Shubhashish Bhutiani Kirsten Dunst Documentary Olivier Gourmet USA 2017 1hr 20mins With Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl USA 2017 USA 2017 France 2017 1hr 30mins India 2016 1hr 35mins 1hr 40mins In French with English subtitles 2hrs 1hr 40mins Another chance to see In Hindi with English subtitles The story of Gru, Lucy and this ravishing Studio Ghibli Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Former Vice President and Claire (Catherine Frot) is a the Minions continues in this animation, suitable for adults Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning veteran climate campaigner Al gifted and dedicated midwife, hilarious, 80s-retro-tinged and children alike; which tells An ominous dream convinces star in this atmospheric thriller Gore follows his 2006 Oscar- but lately the efficiency-driven adventure. After he is fired the story of a man shipwrecked 77-year-old Daya Kumar that his written and directed by winning An Inconvenient Truth methods of modern hospitals from the Anti-Villain League for on a desert island, whose every end is nigh. Hoping to attain Academy Award winner Sofia with this renewed call to action. have started to make her failing to take down the latest attempt of escape is scuppered salvation by making sure to die Coppola (Lost in Translation, In the intervening ten years, question her place and her bad guy, Gru is approached by a by a giant turtle. When he in the holy city of Varanasi, he Marie Antoinette), who weaves a much hot air has escaped, not skills. One day she receives a mysterious stranger who informs vengefully traps the animal in presses his ever-dutiful but over- story fraught with sexual tension only from our chimneys and strange phone call, a voice from him that he has a long-lost turn, a magical transformation worked son Rajiv into dropping and broken taboos. exhausts, but also from the the past. 30 years after having twin brother—a brother who occurs... everything and taking him to many meetings and conferences disappeared without a trace desperately wishes to follow in Mukti Bhawan, a dedicated As the American Civil War drags aimed at tackling the 88problem Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), his despicable footsteps... Free of dialogue, this guesthouse for those about on for a third year, injured Union – and still the ice-caps melt. the extravagant and frivolous mesmerising film will transport to die. But as the days go by, soldier John McBurney seeks mistress of her deceased father, Steve Carell reprises his role you to another world. Daya starts to bloom, while refuge in the sedate confines Encompassing Gore’s activities has important and pressing as Gru, Kristen Wiig returns as Rajiv struggles to juggle his of a Virginian ladies’ college. in the run-up to the 2015 Paris news and wants to see her super-spy Lucy, while South “Eloquent, profound and responsibilities back home. Apparently shielded from the Climate Conference and the again... Park star Trey Parker voices new moving, it left me with a heart turmoil of the war, the school 2016 US Presidential elections, villain Balthazar Bratt, a former full of bittersweet joy... It is This gentle and tender Indian soon erupts in a different kind this is a timely chance to catch “It’s Catherine v Catherine child star who has become simply magnificent.” Mark comedy won the UNESCO of storm as McBurney starts up with both, the frightening as two French acting obsessed with the evil TV Kermode, The Guardian. award at Venice Film Festival playing a dangerous game with state of the planet and an powerhouses come face to character he played in the ’80s. and is now a strong contender the young women’s affections… impressive campaigning ‘power- face in the sensitive and to be India’s Academy Award house’ at work. emotionally intelligent family entry in 2018. drama” TimeOut.com.

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Monseur Hulot’s Land of Mine (15) David gilmour - live in Kedi (U) THE BIG SICK (15) Final portrait (15) holiday (U) pompeii Tue 12 Sep 5.30pm STUDIO Thu 14 & Tue 19 Sep 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 15 Sep 7.45pm STUDIO Sat 16 Sep 5pm THEATRE Tue 12 Sep 7.30pm THEATRE Thu 14 Sep 7.45pm STUDIO Wed 13 Sep 7.30pm THEATRE Tue 19 Sep 7.45pm STUDIO Director: Ceyda Torun Thu 21 Sep 7.30pm THEATRE Director: Stanley Tucci Director: Jacques Tati Director: Martin Zandvliet Reccorded in 2016 Documentary With Armie Hammer, Geoffrey Rush, With Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, With Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, 1hr 54mins Turkey/USA 2016 Director: Michael Showalter Clémence Poésy Micheline Rolla Joel Basman In Turkish with English subtitles 1hr 19mins With Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, UK 2017 France 1953 Denmark/Germany 2016 Holly Hunter 1hr 30mins In French with English subtitles In Danish & German with English Subtitles 45 years after Pink Floyd’s David USA 2017 2hrs 1hr 29mins 1hr 39mins Gilmour filmed live at Pompeii Hundreds of thousands of cats in the legendary Roman roam the Turkish metropolis of In 1964, while on a short trip to Amphitheatre there, he returned Istanbul freely. For thousands In this culture-clash comedy Paris, the American writer and Jacques Tati was a master of As World War II comes to an end, for two spectacular shows on of years they’ve wandered set in present-day Chicago, art-lover James Lord (Armie the non-verbal knock-about a group of German POWs, boys his year-long tour supporting in and out of people’s lives, Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Hammer) is asked by his friend, chaos-comedy decades before rather than men, are captured his No.1 album Rattle That Lock. becoming an essential part of (Kumail Nanjiani) has a fling the world-renowned artist Mr Bean, and this wonderful, by the Danish army and forced the communities that make with psychiatry student Emily Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey good-natured trip to a far-away to engage in a deadly task - to The performances were the the city so rich. Claiming no (Zoe Kazan) following one of his Rush), to sit for a portrait. The summer at the seaside is a true defuse and clear land mines first-ever rock concerts for an owners, the cats of Istanbul live standup sets. However, when process, Giacometti assures classic of the cinema. from the Danish coastline. With audience in the ancient Roman between two worlds, neither their one-night stand blossoms Lord, will take only a few days. little training, no food rations, amphitheatre, and, for two wild nor tame, and they bring into the real thing, Kumail is in Flattered and intrigued, Lord Affectionately lampooning and the war-hardened Danish nights only, the 2,600 strong joy and purpose to those people a dilemma: he can’t face telling agrees… French social and political Army Sgt Rassmussen in charge, crowd stood exactly where they choose to adopt. Critics her that his traditional Muslim mores of the time, M. Hulot’s the boys soon discover that gladiators would have fought in and internet cats agree — this parents are busy trying to find “Stanley Tucci has created Holiday follows its well-meaning their war is far from over. the first century AD. cat documentary will charm him a suitable bride. Then Emily a very amusing, astringent protagonist to coastal Brittany its way into your heart! This is develops a mystery illness, and chamber piece of a movie, where he creates unintentional Inspired by real events, Land “...the most remarkable light the second in our Why look at Kumail is forced to confront his performed with sympathy havoc in the pursuit of leisure. of Mine tells a little-known show unleashes lasers so Animals triptych (see p. 4). options. and wit by Geoffrey Rush and story of post-war history. This bright the band are forced Armie Hammer. … highly “Widely regarded as the best multi-award-winning and to wear shades, beams of “…deftly goes beyond “… a joyous, generous-hearted entertaining … bold and excursion for Jacques Tati’s Oscar-nominated picture has turquoise and green and red [amusing feline footage] and romantic comedy that, even invigorating.” Peter Bradshaw, alter ego …” BBC.co.uk/Films. “…a tightly focused narrative that go macrame-ing across offers eloquent insights into as it veers into difficult terrain, The Guardian. that can hardly help but build the sky during the grand finale the modern city, animals, insists that we just need to M. Hulot was first exhibited at considerable tension and of Comfortably Numb.” Laura humans and the relationship keep on laughing.” The New Strode forty years ago today! poignancy.” Variety. Barton, The Guardian. between all three.” Empire. York Times.

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Exhibition on screen Happy People: A year in DETROIT (15) The short films of Somerset art works presents the Taiga (PG) david lynch (15) presents Canaletto: Art of Fri 29 Sep 7.30pm THEATRE ALL THE PEOPLE Venice Thu 28 Sep 7.30pm THEATRE Mon 2 Oct 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 29 Sep 5.30pm STUDIO A programme of short films, curated by Josephine Lanyon Sat 30 Sep & Thu 5 Oct 7.45pm Includes Q&A with Adam Chodzko Tue 26 Sep 7.30pm THEATRE Director: Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov STUDIO Director: David Lynch With Werner Herzog, Documentary Fri 29 Sep 7.30pm STUDIO At The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace Nikolay Nikiforovitch Siniaev, Director: Kathryn Bigelow USA 2002 1hr 15mins Gennady Soloviev With John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, 1hr 40mins Ben Rivers, Origin of the Species, 2008 (16 mins) Germany 2010 1hr 30mins USA 2017 2hrs 20mins Luke Fowler, Depositions, 2014 (24 mins 32 secs) In Russian with English subtitles Sarah Miles, Magnificent Ray, 2000 (23 mins) Exhibition on Screen gives us The second film in our “Focus Adam Chodzko, The Pickers, 2009 (17 mins, 52 secs) a ‘private view’ of the current From Oscar-winner Kathryn on David Lynch” series, this is a exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery In the third in our Why Look Bigelow (The Hurt Locker; rare treat no fan of David Lynch in Buckingham Palace with this at Animals? series, acclaimed Zero Dark Thirty) comes this or of abstract and absurdist art In this beautifully absorbing programme, we find people casting journey into the life and art of filmmaker Werner Herzog takes dramatisation of a true story should miss! their futures by re-imagining Britain’s rural past. The title is drawn Venice’s famous view-painter, us on a visually stunning journey set against the backdrop of the from the county’s fiercely independent 1911 motto ‘all the people of guided by Royal Collection Trust into a remote and extreme Detroit race-riots in 1967. Six short films spanning the first Somerset’ and gathers powerful stories of creative culture, agricultural curators and leading experts in landscape where man and dog three decades of David Lynch’s work and scientific investigations from the hinterlands. Venetian history. are truly inseparable. The heavy-handed shutting career, from early experiments to down of an unlicensed bar more fully realised visions, each We start our journey with Ben Rivers, who was born in Somerset. His No artist better captures the Deep in the wilderness, far ignites the powder-keg of film introduced on screen by the film,Origin of the Species (2008), focuses on one man’s life pondering essence and allure of Venice away from civilization, 300 accumulated resentment. man himself. Charles Darwin, shot on an acre of land in Scotland... than Giovanni Antonio Canal, people inhabit the small village Missiles are hurled and better known as Canaletto of Bakhtia in the heart of tenements are on fire. In the The films featured are: Luke Fowler’s Depositions (2014), explores the role of the Highland (1697-1768). Embark on your the Siberian Taiga. There’s no confusion two young soul Six Men Getting Sick (1967); traveller in Gaelic Highland history and culture, combining archival very own Grand Tour through telephone, running water or musicians seek refuge in a The Alphabet (1968); footage from the Isle of Barra with new footage and interviews. a remarkable group of over 200 medical aid, and daily routines downtown hotel, not aware that The Grandmother (1970); paintings, drawings and prints, and local culture have barely they will soon be embroiled in a The Amputee (1973); Sarah Miles returned to her childhood towns of Bridport and Portland which offer unparalleled insight changed over the centuries. terrifying police assault. The Cowboy And The to make Magnificent Ray(2000), which re-casts the landscape as a into the artistry of Canaletto and With insightful commentary “...a drama as powerful as Frenchman (1988); backdrop for a wild-west dream movie. his contemporaries, the city he written and narrated by Herzog, it is timely…a hair-trigger Lumiere and Company (1995). became a master at capturing. Happy People follows villagers, historical nightmare, one you Adam Chodzko’s, The Pickers (2009), features Romanian migrant fur trappers and their dogs can’t tear yourself away from.” BBFC Insight: Contains moderate workers at a strawberry farm in Kent. By the end of the film, we through the seasons of the year. Variety. domestic threat and grisly images understand the subjects are also the authors of the film...

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The Death of Louis XIV MC Promotions Royal opera house A journey through Mulholland Drive (15) insyriated (15) (12A) presents cinema french cinema (Cert tbc) Union Gap & Edison presents Thu 5 Oct 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 6 Oct 7.30pm THEATRE Sat 30 Sep 7.30pm THEATRE Lighthouse La BohÈme Tue 3 Oct 6.30pm STUDIO Tue 10 Oct 7.45pm STUDIO & Special Guest Star BEN EVANS Director: David Lynch Director: Albert Serra Tue 3 Oct 7.15pm THEATRE Director: Bertrand Tavernier With Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Director: Philippe Van Leeuw With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick d’Assumçao, Sun 1 Oct 7.00pm THEATRE Documentary Justin Theroux With Hiam Abbass, Diamand Bou Abboud, Marc Susini By Giacomo Puccini France 2016 France/USA 2001 Juliette Navis France/Spain/Portugal 2016 1hr 55mins Conductor: Antonio Pappano 3hrs 10mins, plus a 20 mins intermission 2hrs 30mins Belgium 2017 In Latin & French with English subtitles A great night from 60s chart Director: Richard Jones In French with English subtitles 1hr 25mins In Arabic with English subtitles toppers Union Gap and Edison Starring Nicole Car, Michael Fabiano, Lighthouse, performing their top Mariusz Kwiecień Versailles, August 1715. Back 40 pop-pickers from the 60s/70s 2hrs 35mins including one interval Film buffs are in for an amazing The third in our triptych set Winner of the Berlin Film from hunting, Louis XIV - and fantastic solo artist Ben Sung in Italian with English surtitles history lesson as director Focus on David Lynch; this Festival Panorama Audience magisterially interpreted by New Evans. Bertrand Tavernier presents this Hollywood-set mystery stars Award, Belgian director Philippe Wave icon J-P Léaud - feels a wide-ranging documentary on Naomi Watts as a wannabe Van Leeuw’s gripping Syrian pain in his leg. A serious fever Union Gap, best known for When Rodolfo, a penniless poet, French films, film-makers and movie star who is drawn into war drama revolves around a erupts. Surrounded by doctors their 1968 no. 1 hit “Young meets Mimì, a seamstress, they stars from the 1940s to the early a strange world when she tries mother of three (Hiam Abbas) and his closest counsellors, the Girl” are regarded as one of the fall instantly in love. But their 70s. Re-acquaint yourself with to help an amnesiac woman. who is trapped inside her Sun King struggles to run the best bands on the 60s circuit, happiness is threatened when the likes of Jean Renoir, Michel This unique genre-bending house in a city under siege. country from his bed. performaing at festivals and Rodolfo learns that Mimì is Piccoli, Claude Chabrol, Jean- mysterious thriller already She turns her flat into a safe theatres throughout the UK gravely ill. Acclaimed director Paul Belmondo, Jean Gabin stands as classic in it’s own right harbour for her family and Based on extensive medical and Europe. Edison Lighthouse Richard Jones (Boris Godunov) and Jean-Luc Godard in film and shows off David Lynch’s neighbours. When bombs records and memoirs of the topped the charts in 1970 for directs a new production of clips, archive interviews and verve for creating disquieting threaten the building, snipers Duke of Saint-Simon and five weeks with “Love Grows Puccini’s La bohème. Irresistible knowledgeable commentary worlds on screen. turn the courtyard into a no-go other courtiers, The Death of where my Rosemary Goes”. in its witty, passionate blend of galore. zone and burglars break in, Louis XIV is a wry neoclassical Special Guest Ben Evans was comedy and tragedy, the opera “After 16 years, David Lynch’s maintaining the thin balance chamber drama to kick-off our an original cast member of focuses on the lives of a group “… this incredibly personal and macabre mystery still exists of routine inside her four walls “Neoclassical” series (see p.4). Jersey Boys, playing Frankie Valli of young artists as they eke out occasionally idiosyncratic labor in its own eerily timeless becomes a matter of life and in London’s West End. an existence on the bohemian of love hails from one of the modernity … Mulholland Drive death. “Jean-Pierre Léaud gives the fringes of Paris. Jones brings his country’s leading experts on is as brilliant and disquieting performance of his career characteristically acute insight the medium, … with insights as anything Lynch has ever “…the kind of realism in this powerful, intimate Tickets £17.50 to this much-loved classic, that only Tavernier could done.” Peter Bradshaw, The associated with the most and moving account” Peter Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode visualised in Stewart Laing’s provide.” Variety. Guardian. gripping war films.” Bradshaw, The Guardian. Theatre Support Fund spectacular setting. Hollywood Reporter.

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HOLY TRINITY CHURCH Back to burgundy (15) MEtropolitan Opera Nightwatching (18) Lost in Lebanon (Cert tbC) Royal shakespeare TOWER ROOF RESTORATION presents an AS LIVE screening of company FUNDRAISER CONCERT Sun 8 Oct 3pm STUDIO Norma Sun 8 Oct 5.30pm STUDIO Tue 10 Oct 7.30pm THEATRE presents a LIVE screening of Coriolanus Sat 7 Oct 7.30pm THEATRE Director: Cédric Klapisch Sun 8 Oct 5.30pm THEATRE Director: Peter Greenaway Directors: Georgia Scott, Sophia Scott With Pio Marmaï, Ana Girardot, With Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Documentary Wed 11 Oct 7pm THEATRE François Civil By Vincenzo Bellini Eva Birthistle UK 2017 A packed evening of France 2017 Director: Sir David McVicar UK/Poland/Canada/Netherlands 2007 1hr 20mins By William Shakespeare entertainment in aid of the 1hr 55mins Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce 2hrs 15mins Director: Angus Jackson restoration of the roof of historic In French with English subtitles DiDonato, Joseph Calleja, Matthew Rose Starring Sope Dirisu Street Parish Holy Trinity Church, Runtime tbc Filmed over more than a Runtime tbc which stands opposite Strode In 1654 Amsterdam, Rembrandt year, this documentary goes Theatre. The cost of the works is Jean is 30 years old and has awakes from a worrying dream, behind the news reports and estimated at £38,000, so every spent the last decade travelling The priestess Norma is torn to remember the year 1642, statistics, and reflects the A full-throttle war play that penny counts! around the world. Now settled between loyalty to her when he was at the height of strange chaotic lives of the revels in the sweat of the in Australia with his own winery, oppressed people and love his powers and dared to throw people living in the shadow battlefield, Coriolanus transports Performances from local artistes he is called back home to France for a Roman soldier. On the out an accusation of murder, of the Syrian war. With the us back to the emergence of include Street Sings and to the bedside of his terminally eve of a Druid revolt, she must encoded in his most celebrated conflict pushing into Lebanon, the republic of Rome. Street Men, Bad Boys country ill father. It’s the end of the choose between two agonising work - The Nightwatch. Part of the Lebanese government has & western band, seven-piece summer and the approaching betrayals—only to learn that our Neoclassical Film triptych. implemented new laws for all Caius Martius Coriolanus is a ukelady band Simply Uke, grape harvest gives Jean the she herself has already been Syrians in the country – with fearless soldier but a reluctant Strode College’s Strode Live opportunity to reunite with his betrayed. “[Peter Greenaway] devastating consequences. The leader. His ambitious mother and solo artist Jake Nicholson sister Juliette and his brother gets fiercely intelligent four protagonists of this film attempts to carve him a path Lailey. Jérémie to agree on the future Sondra Radvanovsky as Norma performances here from Martin are Syrian refugees, including to political power, but he of the family vineyard. Over the and Joyce DiDonato as her Freeman and Eva Birthistle as a teacher, an architect and an struggles to change his nature David Atkins will compère course of one year, the three rival Adalgisa lead a cast of the artist and his wife Saskia.” artist, whose struggles exemplify and do what is required to what promises to be a fantastic siblings slowly rebuild their bel canto heavyweights, with Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian. the new frontline of the refugee achieve greatness. In this new evening not-to-be-missed for a relationship, bonded by their Joseph Calleja as Norma’s crisis. city state struggling to find its great cause! genuine and vital passion for unfaithful lover, Pollione, and BBFC Insight: Contains very strong language, feet, where the gap between the craft. British favourite Matthew Rose strong sex, sex references and nudity “… a moving, galvanising rich and poor is widening every returning to the Met as Norma’s work that tackles this horrific day, Coriolanus must decide This screening will be father, Oroveso. humanitarian crisis with a fresh who he really is and where his followed by a wine-tasting in Tickets £8.00 eye and ear.” The Guardian. allegiances lie. the theatre foyer. Full concessions £7.00

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Anna Karenina (12A) Metropolitan opera South west Heritage The limehouse golem (15) Forged line dance company presents a LIVE screening of Trust presents Sat 14 Oct 7.30pm THEATRE DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE presents Mon 16 Oct 7.30pm THEATRE LINA Saxons and Vikings Thu 19 Oct 7.45pm STUDIO Contemporary dance, with film introduction & post-show Q&A with choreographer Director: Joe Wright Sun 14 Oct 5.55pm STUDIO With Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Sun 15 Oct 9.30am - 5pm THEATRE Director:Juan Carlos Medina Fri 20 Oct 7.30pm THEATRE Taylor-Johnson By W. A. Mozart With Sam Reid, Olivia Cooke, Bill Nighy UK 2012 Director: Julie Taymor UK 2016 1hr 50mins Choreographed and performed by Emily Brown and Luke Antysz 2hrs 10mins Runtime tbc A fascinating one-day conference exploring the Following a series of gruesome Lina is a new duet by Forged Line Dance Company, exploring the As part of our Neoclassical Film Experience Mozart’s irresistible exciting period when Saxons murders in the back alleys of lives and obsessions of brother and sister William and Caroline triptych, see Tom Stoppard’s fantasy in all its glory! Will brave and Vikings fought for 1880s East London, Scotland Herschel. Both talented musicians and celebrated astronomers, adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic. Prince Tamino rescue Princess dominance, but also lived Yard detective John Kildare they studied the universe and mapped the stars from their garden Pamina from the clutches of the and traded together. The (Bill Nighy) is under pressure to in 18th Century Bath. In 1874 Russia, Anna evil Sarastro, and will Papageno archaeological evidence for produce a culprit. But the stakes Karenina has what any of her the foolish bird catcher learn the Saxons and Vikings in are raised high when one of his Lina delves into the caring yet complex relationship between contemporaries would aspire wisdom enough to help him? Devon and Somerset will be suspects turns up dead, and the William and Caroline, where family ties are tested by individual to; she is the wife of Karenin, The Queen of the Night’s aria, complemented by a broader man’s young wife, music hall star ambition. Music merges into science, art becomes mathematics, a high-ranking government with its stratospheric high notes, view of the intriguing issues of Elizabeth Cree (Olivia Cooke), is and a brother and sister, far from home, change how we see the official to whom she has borne is just one of the countless power, religion, ethnicity and accused of his murder. universe forever. a son, and her social standing highlights in this tale of love identity in Anglo-Scandinavian in St. Petersburg could scarcely and magic, mysterious secrets, England. Based on Peter Ackroyd’s Featuring an original soundtrack incorporating music by William be higher. When she meets the and whimsical fantasy. murder mystery Dan Leno & the Herschel, this intimate and emotionally charged yet playful duet dashing cavalry officer Vronsky Limehouse Golem, this gripping is inspired by themes of creativity, invention and frustration that a passionate affair ensues which Julie Taymor’s (The Lion King) drama conjures the atmosphere shaped their extraordinary story. scandalises St. Petersburg enchanting production captures of 1880s London and its theatres society. In attempting both the opera’s earthy comedy while “cleverly [unpicking] An introductory short film offers a happiness, the decisions Anna and its enlightened nobility. Met late-Victorian London’s social fascinating insight into the Herschels’ makes pierce the veneer of Music Director Emeritus James strictures”. The Guardian. lives, bringing their world of dedication an image-obsessed society, Levine conducts a cast of rising and discovery to life. Created specially reverberating with romantic young stars. to accompany the live performance, and tragic consequences that Tickets £8.00 the film was made in association with dramatically change her and the Full concessions £7.00 the Herschel Museum of Astronomy lives of all around her. Tickets £20.00 and the William Herschel Society. Full concessions £17.00 SWHT Supporters £15.00 Mon 16th Oct, 7.45 STUDIO Tickets £8.00 Tickets £15.00 Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode MONDAY SECRET CINEMA Tickets £11.00 Full concessions £7.00 Full concessions £13.00 Theatre Support Fund Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode Theatre Support Fund

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Open LIVE ON SCREEN LIVE ON SCREEN Evenings V V A Levels Victoria and Abdul Borg/McEnroe (Cert tbc) Bolshoi ballet Royal opera house THE Young Victoria (PG) Vocational courses (Cert tbc) presents a LIVE screening of cinema Apprenticeships Sat 21 Oct 7.45pm STUDIO le corsaire presents a LIVE screening of Thu 26 Oct 7.45pm STUDIO Sat 21, Tue 24, Thu 26 & Sun 29 Oct Wed 25 Oct 7.30pm THEATRE alice’s adventures in 7.30pm THEATRE Sun 22 Oct 4pm STUDIO wonderland Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Sun 22 Oct 5pm THEATRE Director: Janus Metz With Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Tuesday Fri 27 Oct 7.45pm STUDIO With Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky Mon 23 Oct 7.15pm THEATRE Paul Bettany David Bamber Music by: Adolphe Adam UK/USA 2009 17 October Director: Stephen Frears Sweden/Denmark/Finland 2017 Runtime tbc Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon 1hr 45mins With Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Ali Fazal 1hr 40mins Conductor: Koen Kessels 6-8.30pm UK/USA 2017 1hr 45mins Music by: Joby Talbot Amidst a bustling market, the 2hrs 50mins inluding two intervals As part of our Victoriana triptych In the first of two dramas this pirate Conrad falls in love at (see p. 4) in conjunction with Thursday Twenty years after playing season on major historic tennis first sight with the beautiful the newly released Victoria and Queen Victoria in John Madden’s matches (see also Battle of the Medora, the ward of the slave Follow Alice down the rabbit Abdul (p. 20), we are exhibiting 16 November Mrs Brown, Judi Dench returns Sexes, p.37), award-winning merchant Lankedem’s bazaar. hole in Christopher Wheeldon’s again this lush romantic to the character in this moving director Janus Metz tells a story Conrad kidnaps Medora when exuberant ballet, inspired by historical drama of Queen 6-8.30pm and uplifting dramatisation of of two men who changed the Lanquedem decides to sell her Lewis Carroll’s much-loved book. Victoria’s early reign and her the true story of an unexpected face of tennis, became legends to the Pasha. At a garden party on a sunny struggle for independence from Principal’s presentation at friendship, directed by Stephen ...and the price they had to pay. afternoon, Alice is surprised her scheming relations. 6.15pm and 7pm Frears (The Queen). When young Inspired by Lord Byron’s epic to see her parents’ friend clerk Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal) During the 1980 Wimbledon poem and reworked by Alexei Lewis Carroll transform into Scripted by Julian Fellowes, travels from India to participate tournament Swedish icon Björn Ratmansky from Petipa’s exotic a white rabbit. When she the film stars Emily Blunt as Pre-register online at in Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) and his 19th century classic, this follows him down a rabbit hole the young Queen and Rupert www.strode-college.ac.uk 1887, he commits a faux-pas biggest rival, the wild young miracle of the repertoire is one events become curiouser and Friend as Prince Albert, and also 01458 844400 which catches Her Majesty’s eye. American John McEnroe (Shia of the Bolshoi’s most lavish curiouser… features Paul Bettany, Miranda or turn up on the night Despite the constrictions of the LaBeouf) came head to head productions. Complete with Richardson, Jim Broadbent and Queen’s position, the two forge in a duel which has become a magnificent awe-inspring Please note: There are optical Mark Strong. an unlikely alliance. But there are legendary in tennis history. shipwreck and dramatic illusions throughout that could Maximise your potential those in her inner circle who see This beautifully shot tense scenery, this grand romance affect people with epilepsy. “Emily Blunt … makes an at Mendip and South this friendship as a threat... drama tells that story. Playing allows enough dancing for unusual but highly successful Somerset’s only Ofsted Borg’s trainer, Lennart Bergelin, nearly the entire company and choice for the young Victoria.” ‘Outstanding’ sixth form See Mrs Brown and The Young is Stellan Skarsgård in his first made especially for those who Tickets £15.00 Hollywood Reporter (2009) Victoria also as part of our major part in a Swedish film in seek miracles in theatre. Full concessions £13.00 Victoriana Triptych (p. 4). almost a decade. Children 16 and under £10.00

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MC Promotions Mrs Brown (PG) Goodbye christopher Kingsman: The golden National theatre Live Caron coldwell presents robin (Cert tbc) Circle (Cert tbc) presents an ENCORE screening of Nostalgic Stories Take on take that Sun 29 Oct 7.45pm STUDIO hamlet Mon 30 Oct 7.30pm THEATRE Tue 31 Oct 7.30pm THEATRE Thu 2 Nov - Wed 3 Jan Sat 28 Oct 7.30pm THEATRE Director: John Madden Thu 2 Nov 7.45pm STUDIO Thu 2 Nov 7.30pm THEATRE Tue 31 Oct 7.45pm STUDIO With Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Sat 4 Nov 5pm THEATRE 10am - 5pm Mon - Fri & 10am - 2pm Sat Geoffrey Palmer Director: Matthew Vaughn By William Shakespeare Plus performance evenings Due to popular demand after UK/Ireland/USA 1997 Director: Simon Curtis With Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Mark Strong Director: Lyndsey Turner last year’s show, Take on Take 1hr 40mins With Margot Robbie, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, UK/USA 2017 With Benedict Cumberbatch That are back direct from Kelly Macdonald Runtime tbc Aprox. 4hrs incl interval Caron Coldwell is a Somerset London’ s West End! Formed UK 2017 based fine artist who graduated in 2008, they have toured the As part of our Victoriana triptych Runtime tbc from the University of Plymouth. length and breadth of Europe (see p. 4) in conjunction with If you like your action with Academy Award nominee Following her graduation, paying tribute to one of the the newly released Victoria and the glamour and suave Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s she worked as a ‘Colourist’ greatest British boy bands. From Abdul (p. 20), here’s a chance to Director Simon Curtis (My Week sophistication of the early James Sherlock, The Imitation Game) painter, interested in capturing the early days of the nineties catch up with ‘what happened with Marilyn, Woman in Gold) Bond incarnations, as well as a takes on the title role of and conveying the memory and the fun and frolics of the before’. This star-studded, multi- returns with this biographical tongue-in-cheek sense of fun, Shakespeare’s great tragedy. of places. Over the past two naughties, right up to date, award-nominated 1997 film tells drama about the creation and the Kingsman series has both Now seen by over 750,000 years she has concentrated her every era of this legendary the story of Queen Victoria (Judi success of A. A. Milne’s Winnie in spades, combined with very people worldwide, the original creative efforts on making paper band is here. With authentic Dench) and Balmoral ghillie the Pooh. sharp production values. 2015 NT Live broadcast returns casts taken from kitchen utensils costumes, outstanding vocals John Brown (Billy Connolly), to cinemas. like spoons and cake slices then and iconic choreography Take who formed a close and Having served in World War I, Kingsman: The Secret Service decorating them with collage on Take That will whisk you away much speculated-upon bond, Milne (Domhnall Gleeson), introduced the world to As a country arms itself for and hand-painted details. on a whirl of nostalgia that you following the death of Prince already a noted novelist and Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and war, a family tears itself apart. will never forget. Prepare to Albert. playwright, finds inspiration in his recruitment to the super- Forced to avenge his father’s The works on show highlight have your mind blown, hearts the fantasy world of his little secret international intelligence death but paralysed by the task Caron’s painterly mark-making thumping and hips thrusting as “Judi Dench’s glacial, reserved son, Christopher Robin. The agency of the title, whose ahead, Hamlet rages against the abilities and blur the boundary Take on Take That bring you the demeanour contrasts enchanting tales which result ultimate goal is to keep the impossibility of his predicament, between fine art and craft. ultimate Take That tribute! beautifully with Billy Connolly’s capture the hearts of the whole world safe. In this new film their threatening both his sanity Caron said: “Thematically, my natural, rebellious exuberance, country, and the family is swept headquarters are destroyed and the security of the state. cast paper-works reference e.g. and their resultant spark of up in the international success and the world is held hostage, Directed by Lyndsey Turner religious icons, history, costume, Tickets £17.50 chemistry is undeniable. “Mrs of the books. But with the eyes leading to an adventure that (Posh, Chimerica) and produced style, TV, cinema etc... imagery Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode Brown” a hugely enjoyable film of the world on Christopher tests Eggsy’s and his fellow by Sonia Friedman Productions. that I hope provokes a kind of Theatre Support Fund …” BBC.co.uk/Films Robin, what will be the cost to agents’ strength and wits to the cultural nostalgia.” their relationship? limit … www.coldwellandcoldwell.co.uk Mon 30th Oct, 7.45 STUDIO MONDAY SECRET CINEMA Tickets £8.00 Tickets £8.00 Tickets £8.00 Tickets £17.00 Full concessions £7.00 Full concessions £7.00 Full concessions £7.00 Full concessions £15.00 Free entry

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Classical pieces, performed by acclaimed Contralto, Elizabeth Chivers and guests. Solo pieces range Tom of finland (18) Street theatre from Brahm’s Sapphische Ode and Wagner’s Schmerzen, to Vaughn William’s Silent Noon; and original presents arrangements by South African composer Rico Gerber. Duets with Guest Soprano Sarah Westwood Tue 7 Nov 7.45pm STUDIO one man two guvnors include Barcarolle from Offenbach’s Contes d’Hoffman and Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel. Director: Dome Karukoski By: Richard Bean Elizabeth Chivers studied with John Mitchinson and Pamela Cook MBE at Birmingham Conservatoire, With Pekka Strang, Jessica Grabowsky Director: Dennis Barwell and in London with Jennifer Dakin. She has performed internationally in Concert Halls, Cathedrals and Finland/Sweden/Denmark/Germany 2017 Producer: Peter Goater Theatres, including the Linbury Studio at the Royal Opera House. Elizabeth regularly guests as a Soloist In Finnish & German with English subtitles for celebrity Memorial Services, including Danny La Rue, Sir Alec Guiness, Michael Williams, and most 1hr 55mins Wed 8 Nov 7.30pm THEATRE recently Frank Finlay. Elizabeth is Musical Director of her own Ladies Septet, Kirklands Singers. Thu 9 Nov 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 10 Nov 7.30pm THEATRE Rico Gerber is a pianist, Sarah Westwood studied at Kicking-off our Coming Out Sat 11 Nov 7.30pm THEATRE composer and teacher; regularly Birmingham Conservatoire triptych (p. 4), is this biopic on performing as a soloist and and Royal Academy. She spent one of the leading figures of accompanist to vocalists and eleven years with Italian Baroque twentieth century gay culture, Richard Bean’s English version of The Servant of Two Masters is set choirs. His Rituals of Birds was music ensemable Borromini. from award-winning Finnish in Brighton in the 1960s and is centred on the bumbling Francis performed by Helston Chamber Her recordings include Bach’s film-maker Dome Karukoski. Henshall, a minder to both Roscoe Crabbe – a local gangster – and Choir and Autumn Concerto by Christmas Oratorio for Classic FM Stanley Stubbers – an upper class criminal. But Roscoe is dead, the St Mewan Sinfonia in 2014. and a collection of Haydn songs. Back from the war a decorated killed by Stanley Stubbers and being impersonated by his sister officer, Touko Laaksonen finds Rachel, who is also Stanley’s girlfriend, and in Brighton to collect peacetime Helsinky bleak, £6,000 from Roscoe’s fiancee’s dad. Chaos unfolds as Francis tries to Whether you already sing with a choir and wish to improve your with homosexuality illegal and stop the two ‘guvnors’ from meeting. technique, want to try singing for the first time, or wish to improve persecution rampant. Deep your self-confidence, this workshop is for you. in the ‘closet’, living with his Richard Bean’s award-winning play is a glorious celebration of sister, he seeks refuge in his British comedy: laugh out loud satire, songs, slapstick and glittering The Workshop is structured to embrace the wider realms of speech art: homoerotic drawings of one-liners. and drama, movement and dance so the singer experiences the muscular men. When his work joy of freedom in their voice and communication through song. signed ‘Tom of Finland’, reaches Afternoons offer a one to one Masterclass for solos and ensembles. the USA, it takes on a life of its INTRODUCTION TO own... CLASSICAL SINGING “As part of a group workshop, Liz encouraged me to sing solo, in TECHNIQUE front of some of my choir peers. I was terrified –but Liz created a with Elizabeth Chivers bubble around the two of us (don’t ask me how, it’s still a mystery Tickets £8.00 to me) and I felt and safe and secure…In those minutes I had an Full concessions £7.00 Sat 4 Nov 10 - 4pm THEATRE epiphany –I can actually sing!” Fiona Beaumont.

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LOVING VINCENT (Cert tbc) The Lego Ninjago Movie THe glass castle (12A) Blade runner 2049 The Mountain Between Bolshoi ballet (Cert tbc) (Cert tbc) us (Cert tbc) presents an AS LIVE screening of Thu 9 Nov 7.45pm STUDIO Fri 10 Nov 7.45pm STUDIO The Taming of the Tue 14 Nov 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 10 Nov 5.30pm STUDIO Tue 14 Nov 7.45pm STUDIO Sat 11 Nov 5.30pm STUDIO Sat 11 Nov 7.45pm STUDIO Shrew Sat 11 Nov 3pm STUDIO Sun 12 Nov 5pm THEATRE Mon 13 Nov 7.30pm THEATRE Directors: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman Sun 12 Nov 3pm STUDIO Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Sun 12 Nov 5.30pm STUDIO With Aidan Turner, Saoirse Ronan, With Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Director: Denis Villeneuve Director: Hany Abu-Assad Eleanor Tomlinson Director: Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher Naomi Watts With Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, With Kate Winslet, Idris Elba, Choreography: Jean-Christophe Maillot UK/Poland 2017 1hr 35mins With: Olivia Munn, Justin Theroux, USA 2017 Ana de Armas Dermot Mulroney Starring Ekaterina Krysanova, Vladislav Jackie Chan 2hrs 10mins UK/USA/Canada 2017 USA 2017 Lantratov, Olga Smirnova, Semyon Chudin, Denmark/USA 2017 Runtime tbc Runtime tbc 1hr 45mins Anna Tikhomirova, Igor Tsvirko, Vyacheslav In a labour of love, this first Lopatin, Artemy Belyakov ever fully-painted feature film Brie Larson, Naomi Watts and 2hrs 5mins animates the works of Vincent In this big-screen NINJAGO Woody Harrelson star in this Produced by Ridley Scott and Facing the prospect of being van Gogh to investigate the adventure, the battle for adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ directed by Denis Villeneuve stranded at the airport in a mystery of his last days. NINJAGO City calls to action best-selling memoir of her (Arrival), this sci-fi epic picks up gathering storm, two strangers, Baptista struggles to marry young Master Builder Lloyd, aka unconventional childhood in thirty years after the events of busy surgeon Ben (Idris Elba) off his tempestuous daughter On 29th July 1890 a gaunt figure the Green Ninja, along with his 1960s & 70s West Coast America. the original cult classic. and bride-to-be Alex (Kate Katharina, a ‘shrew’ who denies stumbled down a drowsy street friends, who are all secret ninja Winslet), decide to share a small that any man could possibly be in the small town of Auvers, his warriors. Growing up as one of four A new blade runner, LAPD charter plane. But in a freak her match. However when she hands clasped to a bullet wound children in an eccentric, Officer K (Ryan Gosling), accident their plane crashes, meets Petruchio, who is as ill- in his belly. How and why he Led by Master Wu, as wise- tight-knit family of bohemian unearths a long-buried secret leaving them both alive, but tempered as she, the two forces was shot remains a mystery. cracking as he is wise, they must nomads has its joys as well as its that has the potential to plunge injured and exposed to the of nature ignite an unexpected Loving Vincent follows young defeat evil warlord Garmadon, challenges. But as the years go what’s left of society into chaos. extreme elements on a remote and explosive encounter. Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth), The Worst Guy Ever, who also on with mom not selling her art K’s discovery leads him on a snow covered mountain. one of Vincent’s last models, as happens to be Lloyd’s dad. and dad unable to hold down quest to find Rick Deckard When they realise that help Acclaimed choreographer Jean- he searches for the people who Pitting mech against mech a job, poverty bites hard and (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD is not coming, they embark Christophe Maillot brings out knew Vincent, trying to piece and father against son, the Jeannette begins to realise that blade runner who has been on a terrifying journey across the wit, fast-paced athleticism together what happened. epic showdown will test this her beloved parents are really missing for 30 years. hundreds of miles of wilderness. and vibrancy from the Bolshoi fierce but undisciplined team of quite useless at keeping their As they push one another Ballet dancers in Shakespeare’s “…brings a poetic sense of modern-day ninjas who must brood safe and well…. to endure, their unexpected rowdy comedy. tragedy to the last act of van learn to check their egos and attraction to each other makes Gogh’s life, and fresh insight pull together to unleash their them re-evaluate their ‘old’ lives. Captured live on 24 Jan, 2016 into the kind of man he was.” inner power of Spinjitzu. Tickets £8.00 Variety. Full concessions £7.00

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God’s own country (15) Nt Live Metropolitan Opera The Party (Cert tbc) Exhibition on screen presents an AS LIVE screening of presents an AS LIVE screening of presents Wed 15 Nov 7.30pm THEATRE Follies The Exterminating Mon 20 Nov 7.30pm THEATRE DAVID HOCKNEY AT THE angel Tue 21 Nov 7.45pm STUDIO ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS: Director: Francis Lee Thu 16 Nov 7pm THEATRE A Bigger Picture 2012 & 82 With Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu, Sun 19 Nov 5.30pm STUDIO Directors: Sally Potter Portraits and One Still Life 2016 Support the Gemma Jones By Stephen Sondheim With Kristen Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Arts in Somerset UK 2017 1hr 45mins Director: David Cooke Composer/Conductor: Thomas Adès Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones Tue 21 Nov 7.30pm THEATRE by becoming a With Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee, Starring: Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Uk 2017 1hr 10mins Friend of Imelda Staunton Alice Coote, Christine Rice, Ieystn Davies Directed by Phil Grabsky and presented by Strode Theatre or Since his father suffered a Runtime tbc and John Tomlinson Runtime tbc Tim Marlow by making a donation. stroke, Johnny Saxby has been A tremendous ensemble cast working hard on his family’s including Kristen Scott Thomas, 1hr 15mins As a Friend you can enjoy remote West Yorkshire farm. New York, 1971. There’s a party Take a seat at the strangest Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson, a week of priority booking Weary after years of family on the stage of the Weismann dinner party of your life. The Bruno Ganz and Emily Mortimer. as well as weekly email tensions, he spends his little Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic servants have absconded; the Sally Potter’s razor-sharp, quick- Widely considered Britain’s most updates and seasonal free time with drinking binges building will be demolished. ragout is all over the floor; witted new comedy unfolds in popular artist, David Hockney newsletters. and casual sex, but refuses to Thirty years after their final there’s a bear in the garden; real time in a house in present- is a global sensation with let anyone get close. When his performance, the Follies girls your fellow guests are rapidly day London. Janet is hosting an exhibitions in London, New York, Single person membership father and grandmother hire gather to have a few drinks, descending into savagery; yet, intimate gathering of friends Paris and beyond, attracting is from £20 per year or £2 Romanian farm hand Gheorghe sing a few songs and lie about no one seems able to leave. to celebrate her promotion millions of visitors worldwide. per month to help with lambing, Johnny themselves. British composer Thomas Adès to Shadow Minister of Health. Now entering his 9th decade, is outraged, but as the two (The Tempest) conducts the Her husband, Bill, seems Hockney shows absolutely no Two people at the same men begin working together, Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee American premiere of his latest preoccupied. As their friends evidence of slowing down or address from £30 per year he suddenly has to deal with a and Imelda Staunton play opera. Co-commissioned by arrive, some of whom have their losing his trademark boldness. or £3 per month whole new set of emotions … the magnificent Follies in this the Met, this black comedy, own dramatic news to share, Featuring intimate and in-depth dazzling new production. with shades of JG Ballard/ the soirée gradually unravels interviews with Hockney, this Pick up a form from the Box Captivating and broodingly Featuring a cast of 37 and an Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, is and people’s illusions about revealing film focuses on two Office or visit beautiful, God’s Own Country orchestra of 21, it’s directed by based on the screenplay of Luis themselves and each other go blockbuster exhibitions held www.strodetheatre.org.uk/ is a bracingly open hearted, Dominic Cooke (The Comedy of Buñuel’s 1962 surrealist film. up in smoke, along with the at the Royal Academy of Art in support-us/friends/ thrillingly romantic story, with a Errors). canapés. London. Director Phil Grabsky host of standout performances. secured privileged access to Tickets £15.00 “…a short, sharp, funny shock craft this cinematic celebration This is the second in our Coming Full concessions £13.00 of a movie” Peter Bradshaw, The of a 21st century master of Out triptych (see p.4). Guardian. creativity.

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Call me by your name The Snowman (Cert tbc) The death of Stalin Mid somerset orchestra MC Promotions (Cert tbc) (Cert tbc) presents presents Fri 24 Nov 7.30pm THEATRE Chopin 2nd Piano Concerto Forever Jackson Thu 23 Nov 7.45pm STUDIO Fri 24 Nov 7.45pm STUDIO Directors: Tomas Alfredson Mon 27 Nov 7.30pm THEATRE Sat 25 Nov 7.30pm THEATRE Sun 26 Nov 6pm THEATRE Director: Luca Guadagnino With Rebecca Ferguson, James D’Arcy, With Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Fassbender Directors: Armando Iannucci Conductor: Tim Pithers Michael Stuhlbarg UK 2017 With Jason Isaacs, Olga Kurylenko, Solo Piano: Hannah Mitchell Things are about to get BAD, as Italy/France/Brazil/USA 2017 2hrs 10mins Runtime tbc Steve Buscemi Leader: Hywel Jenkins forever Jackson celebrates 30 France/UK 2017 years of the global smash hit Runtime tbc album BAD! Forever Jackson is Summer of 1983 in Northern Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Welcome to MSO’s 2017/18 concert season which commences the ultimate Michael Jackson Italy. American-Italian Perlman Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg with a wonderful programme of Rossini, Chopin and Brahms. tribute show, voted no. 1 in family receive a visitor: US and Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons Armando Iannucci (Alan Europe and no.2 in the world! graduate Oliver (Armie (Whiplash) star in this terrifying Partridge, The Thick of It) has Following the recent retirement of Steven Smith after seven years Robin Parsons pays homage to Hammer), who is joining Prof. Brit-Scandi-noir thriller, directed adapted Fabien Nury’s graphic as their Musical Director, the orchestra will be engaging different the King Of Pop, singing 100% Perlman as a research assistant by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right novel set during the Soviet guest conductors for each of our concerts this season. The first of live lead vocals, although you in Greco-Roman sculpture. One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), dictator’s last days and depicting these, Tim Pithers, who gained a double first in Music and French could be forgiven for believing Elio (Timothée Chalamet), the based on Jo Nesbø’s bestseller. the chaos of the regime at Exeter University, has a fine reputation and is currently working he mimes! His dancing mirrors Perlmans’ clever 17-year-old son, following his death. with a number of orchestras and ensembles based in the South the legend in every detail, is fascinated by Oliver, who, at When detective Harry Hole West. backed by all-girl dance team first, takes no notice of the lively investigates the disappearance Blessed with a star cast Hip Hop Pop! With visual youngster –or so it seems… of a woman with the first snow including Simon Russell Beale, The soloist in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2 is Hannah Mitchell extravagance throughout and a of winter, he fears an elusive Paddy Considine, Michael Palin who also studied at Exeter University and then at the Royal Welsh set list for all ages, this is truly a “This lush romance set in serial killer may be active again. and Steve Buscemi. College of Music and Drama. Hannah is now a very established show for everyone. Lombardy recalls the best of performer, teacher and examiner based in South Wales where she Merchant-Ivory ...It’s hard to The film was shot entirely on Iannucci says“The Death of is also half of the musical piano/flute duo “Tranquillo”. Kids moonwalking workshop in think of many movies that location in Oslo, Bergen and the Stalin has everything: comedy, the Studio at 4pm! (included) have so successfully appealed area of Rjukan, Norway. tragedy, truth, lies, life, death, The concert begins with arguably one of Rossini’s finest overtures to both the intellectual and the bravery and cowardice. So Semiramide, followed by the evening’s highlight, Chopin’s Piano erotic since...Patrice Chéreau I’m really pleased we have an Concerto No2, which was premiered in 1830 and has been a firm Tickets £17.50 and André Téchiné” BBC Culture amazingly multifaceted cast concert favourite ever since. After the interval, the orchestra plays Children 16 and under £12.50 who can give us all these things Brahms’ masterful, light and airy second symphony, which some Family ticket £50.00 The final film in our “Coming and more.” Chortle.co.uk. critics have likened in character to Beethoven’s Pastoral. Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode Out” triptych (p.4). Theatre Support Fund

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sinatra and me Bolshoi Ballet Royal opera house Wells cathedral school Richard shelton & the denmark street big band presents an AS LIVE screening of cinema presents a LIVE screening of presents The Nutcracker The Nutcracker Beauty and the beast Fri 1 Dec 7.30pm THEATRE Sun 3 Dec 6pm STUDIO Tue 5 Dec 7.15pm STUDIO Originally directed by Robert Jess Roth. Originally produced by Disney Theatrical Productions. Vocals: Richard Shelton Sun 10 Dec 5.30pm STUDIO Sun 10 Dec 2pm THEATRE This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International Musical Director: Paul Burch (Europe). All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe. Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich Choreography: Peter Wright after Lev Ivanov Music by: Pyotr Tchaikovsky Conductor: Barry Wordsworth Director: Damian Todres Join us for a night of true West End glitz, as Richard Shelton dons 2hrs 15mins Aprox. 2hrs 15mins Musical Director: Hilary Murphy Sinatra’s tuxedo and pulls out some of the best Rat-Pack numbers, Choreographer: Kirsty Lloyd backed by the brilliant Denmark Street Big Band. As the clock strikes midnight on A young girl’s enchanted Wed 6 Dec 7.30pm THEATRE Richard Shelton (Emmerdale, Rat Pack Confidential) has performed Christmas Eve, Marie’s wooden present leads her on a Thu 7 Dec 7.30pm THEATRE on the greatest international stages, including The Coliseum in nutcracker doll comes to life wonderful Christmas adventure Fri 8 Dec 7.30pm THEATRE London and Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club; and regularly features on and transforms into a prince! in this beautiful classical Sat 9 Dec 7.30pm THEATRE GALA PERFORMANCE BBC Radio. His latest album ‘An Englishman in Love, In L.A.’ was Soon joined by her other toys ballet, danced to Tchaikovsky’s recorded in Frank Sinatra’s studio B at Capitol Studios, L.A., with which have also come to life, magnificent score. some of Sinatra’s musicians, using Sinatra’s microphone. He even Marie and her prince embark The young Clara creeps Based on the smash hit 1991 Disney movie and dating back to a wears Sinatra’s tuxedo in performance, so this is no ‘cheap imitation’ on a dreamy unforgettable downstairs on Christmas Eve to late 18th-century classic French fairytale, Beauty and the Beast tells –Richard Shelton is Sinatra! adventure. play with her favourite present the story of Belle, a beautiful and intelligent young woman who – Nutcracker. But the mysterious feels out of place in her provincial French village. When her father The Denmark Street Big Band, founded by Musical Director A holiday tradition for the magician Drosselmeyer is is imprisoned in a mysterious castle, Belle’s attempt to rescue him and band leader Paul Burch, creates the same kind of energy, whole family, The Nutcracker waiting to sweep her off on a leads to her capture by the Beast, a grizzly and fearsome monster, excitement and style as the great big bands of the past. Paul has sweeps the Bolshoi stage for magical adventure... who was long ago trapped in his gruesome form by an enchantress. hand-picked musicians with impeccable reputations & experience, two hours of enchantment and With its festive period setting, Can she save him from his fate before the last petal falls? including friends from his time playing with The Coldstream Guards magic. Along with Tchaikovsky’s dancing snowflakes and and on-board luxury cruise-liners. The Denmark Street Big Band cherished score and and some enchanting stage magic, Following a triumphant and sold-out run of Les Miserables two have been the resident Big Band for the Royal Opera House’s New of the Bolshoi’s greatest artists, Lev Ivanov’s 1892 ballet years ago, Wells Cathedral School return to Strode Theatre with a Year Celebrations since 2013; and it’s members have performed The Nutcracker remains a has become the perfect feast for the eyes and ears. Featuring the classic songs If I Can’t Love with some of the biggest names in West End Musicals. treasure not to be missed! Christmas entertainment, with Her, Beauty and the Beast and Be Our Guest, this festive treat for all Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous, the family is a live spectacle not to be missed. “Shelton as Sinatra is astounding. Incredible vocals, a real class Captured live on 21 Dec, 2014 sugar-spun music the most act and fascinating to watch. And if you close your eyes ‘Ol Blue recognizable of all ballet scores. Eyes’ lives again in that moment. Truly remarkable.” Tickets £17.00, Full concessions £15.00, Children 16 and under £10.00 Catherine Françoise, MusicalTheatreReview.com. Tickets £15.00 Tickets £15.00 GALA PERFORMANCE Full concessions £13.00 Full concessions £13.00 Tickets £22.00, Full concessions £17.00, Children 16 and under £10.00 Tickets £19.50 Children 16 and under £10.00 Children 16 and under £10.00 Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode Theatre Support Fund

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Nt Live presents LIVE screening of Murder on the orient Muppet Christmas lance clark Strode college Young Marx express (Cert tbc) Carol (U) charity auction presents a christmas concert Thu 7 Dec 7pm STUDIO Fri 8, Sat 9 & Tue 12 Dec 7.45pm Sun 10 Dec 5pm THEATRE Sun 10 Dec 7.30pm THEATRE STUDIO Wed 13 Dec 7.30pm THEATRE MARTIN HARLEY & DANIEL By Richard Bean and Clive Coleman Sun 10 Dec 3pm STUDIO Director: Brian Henson Auction of the works of Lance KIMBRO, on tour Director: Nicholas Hytner Mon 11 & Tue 12 Dec 7.30pm With Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Clark in aid of Glastonbury Musical Director: Jamie Phippen With Rory Kinnear, Oliver Chris THEATRE Whitmire Abbey Rescue Our Ruins, Fri 9 Mar 2018, 7.30pm THEATRE Broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre, USA 1992 1hr 25mins Alexandra Residential Centre in London Director: Kenneth Branagh Romania; Victoria Tennis Club Celebrate the festive season “Quite simply a great live act” Runtime tbc With Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Daisy Ridley, and Friends of Strode Theatre. with the musicians from Strode – Time Out London Michelle Pfeiffer, Kenneth Branagh Special re-release screening of College. UK/USA/Canada 2017 Runtime tbc this festive season classic. Tickets £15.00 Booking now 1850, and Europe’s most feared A wonderful evening is terrorist is hiding in Dean Michael Caine is Ebenezer guaranteed with a broad Street, Soho. Broke, restless Kenneth Branagh directs and Scrooge and Kermit the Frog repertoire of rock, classical and and horny, the thirty-two-year- leads an all-star cast including his long-suffering assistant Bob jazz music. old revolutionary is a frothing Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Cratchit in this fun musical take combination of intellectual Olivia Colman, Derek Jacobi, on Charles Dickens’ seasonal The A Level and Extended brilliance, invective, satiric Willem Dafoe, Penelope Cruz fable. It’s all ‘Bah Humbug for Diploma courses are wit, and child-like emotional and Michelle Pfeiffer in Agatha Scrooge. But the night before represented as well as illiteracy. Creditors, spies, rival Christie’s stylish, suspenseful and Christmas he’s visited by ghosts Lance Clark is a family man, ensembles drawn from the LIVE ON STAGE revolutionary factions and thrilling Hercule Poirot mystery. of his late business partners, businessman, philanthropist whole college. prospective seducers of his urging him to mend his ways... and painter, based in Street; and beautiful wife all circle like Murder on the Orient Express tells founder of Soul of Africa charity A great way to get in the mood vultures. His writing blocked, his the tale of thirteen strangers “Muppet Christmas Carol’s helping support children in for Christmas! marriage dying, his friend Engels stranded on a train, where warmth, wit and obvious need in Africa, which has so far in despair at his wasted genius, everyone’s a suspect when an affection for Dickens make contributed nearly £500,000. his only hope is a job on the American tycoon is murdered. it one of the greatest Lance developed a passion railway. But there’s still no one What starts out as a lavish ride Christmas films – and literary and talent for watercolours KATHERYN ROBERTS & in the capital who can show you through Europe quickly turns adaptations – of all time. … and shows his work widely. He SEAN LAKEMAN a better night on the piss than into a race against time before just a wonderful festive story, has created a huge catalogue Karl Heinrich Marx. the murderer strikes again - enchantingly told.” Charlotte of work that he is keen to sell. Sun 6 May 2018, 7.30pm and only one man can solve the Runcie, The Telegraph. Every penny from the sale of his THEATRE puzzle. paintings goes to charity. Tickets £7.00 Full concessions £6.00 Tickets £15.00 Tickets £8.00 Strode Students & Staff £4.00 Booking now Tickets £17.00 Tickets £8.00 Children 16 and under £5.00 Tickets £2.00, includes entry into a Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode SEASON Full concessions £15.00 Full concessions £7.00 Full concessions £7.00 raffle for one watercolour painting Theatre Support Fund COMINGTHEATRE TO STRODE NEXT

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Mc Promotions the killing of a sacred Happy End (Cert tbc) Battle of the Sexes Glastonbury & Street musical comedy society presents deer (Cert tbc) (PG) presents A TRADITIONAL FAMILY PANTOMIME Sensation: Abba tribute Fri 15 Dec 7.45pm STUDIO jack and the beanstalk Fri 15 Dec 7.30pm THEATRE Mon 18 Dec 7.30pm THEATRE Sat 16 Dec 7.45pm STUDIO Thu 14 Dec 7.30pm THEATRE Sat 16 Dec 5.30pm STUDIO Tue 19 Dec 7.30pm THEATRE Director: Matthew Maisey Director: Michael Haneke Thu 21 Dec 7.30pm STUDIO Musical Director: Tom Billing Director: Yorgos Lanthimos With Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Choreographer: Anna Gifford Returning for the fifith year With Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Toby Jones Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris Producer: Mary Parker running Sensation are back Keoghan, France/Austria/Germany 2017 With Emma Stone, Elisabeth Shue, Sponsor: Jeanes Holland Burnell for a great night out before Alicia Silverstone 1hr 50mins Steve Carell Christmas! One of the UK’s UK/Ireland 2017 In French with English subtitles UK/USA 2017 2hrs Wed 27 Dec 2.30pm & 7pm THEATRE premier ABBA tribute bands, 1hr 50mins Thu 28 Dec 2.30pm & 7pm THEATRE Sensation bring the authentic Fri 29 Dec 2.30pm & 7pm THEATRE sound of ABBA back to life! Isabelle Huppert stars as the Emma Stone and Steve Carell Sat 30 Dec 2.30pm & 7pm THEATRE Steven (Colin Farrell), an eminent business head of a wealthy star in this classic piece of Sun 31 Dec 2.30pm THEATRE Immerse yourself with your surgeon, is married to Anna Calais family in Michael sporting history. Mon 1 Jan 2.30pm THEATRE very own ABBA costumes with (Nicole Kidman), a respected Haneke’s latest film. With the the band who will transport ophthalmologist. They live a the migrant crisis playing out In the wake of the sexual you back to the golden years happy, prosperous family life unnoticed in their ‘back yard’, revolution and the rise of the The ever popular Glastonbury & Street Musical Comedy Society of the legendary Swedish with their two children. Steven the bourgeois Laurent clan live women’s movement, the 1973 provide high quality family entertainment and this year is no group. With strong attention has formed a friendship with their privileged lives in sheltered tennis match between women’s exception. to detail, Sensation combine Martin (Barry Keoghan), a dysfunction, overshadowed by World No.1 Billie Jean King and high quality musicianship, fatherless 16-year-old boy whom a fatal accident on one of their former men’s champion, arch Suitable for all ages and rooted in local authentic replica costumes, he has taken under his wing. construction sites, the family’s chauvinist and gambler Bobby humour and traditions it is definitely not to exciting choreography, sizzling Things take a sinister turn when aged patriarch’s apparent death Riggs was billed as the ‘Battle be missed - early booking recommended! performances and a sprinkling Steven introduces Martin to his wish, and the awkward presence of the Sexes’ and became one of lighthearted humour to family, gradually throwing their of his disturbed 13-year-old of the most watched sporting produce a jaw-dropping show world into turmoil and forcing granddaughter -skulking around, events of all time. As the rivalry with universal appeal. The band Steven to make a shocking plotting murder! between King and Riggs kicked even speak Swedish on stage! sacrifice or run the risk of losing “... a stark, unforgiving and into high gear, off-court each Sponsored by everything. gripping satire on bourgeois were fighting more personal £50 prize for best dressed Europeans and the people who and complex battles. Together, ABBA couple!... “… a wildly uncomfortable, serve them. … This is a black Billie and Bobby served up a Tickets £15.00 venomously funny Greek comedy of pure sociopathy.” cultural spectacle that resonated Full Concessions £14.00 tragedy” The Telegraph. Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian. far beyond the tennis court. Children 16 & under: £10.00 Tickets £16.50 Family evening special: Children 16 & under £12.50 2 adults & 2 children £46.00 Ticket price includes a £1 or 50p contribution to the Tickets £8.00 Tickets £8.00 Tickets £8.00 Party Booking: 1 free seat in 10 Strode Theatre Support Fund Full concessions £7.00 Full concessions £7.00 Full concessions £7.00 Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode Theatre Support Fund

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STALLS STALLS STALLS A 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16A A7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 A A 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 A 3 4 5 6 B 7 8 9 10 11 123 134 145 156 16 B17 7B 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 B 3 4 5 6 B 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 B 3 4 5 6 C 7 8 9 10 11 312 413 514 615 16C C7 8189191020112112 13 14 15 16 C 18 19 20 21 3 4 5 6 C 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 C 18 19 20 21 2 3 4 5 6 D 7 8 9 10 112 123 134 145 156 16 D17 7D 8 189 1019 1120 1221 1322 14 15 16 17 D 18 19 20 21 22 2 3 4 5 6 D 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 D 18 19 20 21 22 2 3 4 5 6 E 7 8 9 10 211 312 413 514 615 16E E7 81891910201121122213 14 15 16 E 18 19 20 21 22 2 3 4 5 6 E 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 E 18 19 20 21 22 1 2 3 4 5 6 F 7 8 9 101 112 123 134 145 156 16 F17 7 F 8 189 1019 1120 1221 1322 1423 15 16 17 F 18 19 20 21 22 23 1 2 3 4 5 6 F 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 F 18 19 202 213 224 235 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1 2 3 4 5 6 G 7 8 9 101 11 12 13 14 615 16G G 18 19 20 21 22 23 G 18 19 20 21 22 23 1 2 3 4 5 6 G 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 G 18 19 20 213 224 235 6 H 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 H 18 19 20 21 3 4 5 6 H 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 H 18 19 20 21 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 202 213 4 5 6 I 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 I 18 19 20 21 22 H 2 3 4 5 6 I H7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 I 18 19 20 21 22 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 2 3 4 5 6 J J 18 19 20 21 22 6 I 2 3 4 5 6 J I 18 19 20 21 22 J 18 19 20 21 22 2 3 4 5 6 K K 18 19 20 21 22 2 3 4 5 6 J 2 3 4 5 6 K J 18 19 20 21 22 K 18 19 20 21 22 L 20 21 22 2 3 4 5 6 K K 18 19 20 21 22 L 20 21 22 SEATINGSOUND PLANS M 20 21 22 SOUND L 20 21 22 M 20 21 22 SOUND M 20 21 22 LOWER BALCONY (CIRCLE) LOWER BALCONY (CIRCLE) OMAIN3 HOUSE4 STAGE5 / SCREEN6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 O LOWER BALCONYO 3 4 (CIRCLE)5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 O P 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 P O 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10P 113 124 13 14 15 165 176 187 198 9 10 11 1220 1321 14O 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 P Q 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Q P 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 STALLSP Q 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10R113 124 13 14 15 165 176 187 198 9 10 11 1220 1321 14Q 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 R A 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 A Q 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10R 113 124 13 14 15 165 176 187 3198 4 95 610 B11 7 12208 1392110 14Q11 121513 1614 151716 1718 B19 20 21 R R 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 3194 5 6 C 7208 219 10R11 12 13 14 15 16 C 18 19 20 21 2 3 4 5 6 D 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 D 18UPPER19 20 21 22 BALCONY 2 3 4 UPPER5 6 E BALCONY7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 E 18 19 20 21 22 1 2 3 4 5 6 F 7 8S 9 10 115 12 613 147 15 816 17 F 18 19 1020 211122 1223 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 S UPPER BALCONYS 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 610 G11 127 T8 139 1014511 15126 13 714 158 16 G16 181719 101820 21111922 12S23 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 T 3 4 5 6 H 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 H 18 19 20 21 S 5 6 7 8 10 11 12T 13 145 156 7 8 2 3164 175 61018 I 1119 12S7 U8 139 1014511 15126 13 714 158 16 16I 181719 101820 21111922 12T 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 U 2 3 4 5 6 J J 18 19 20 21 22 5 6 7 8 10 11 12U 13 145 156 7 8 16 17 1018 1119 12V13 145 156 7 8 16 17 1018 1119 12U 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 V T 2 3 4 5 6 K T K 18 19 20 21 22 U 5 6 7 8 10 11 12V 13 145 156 7 8 16 17 1018 1119 12UW134 145 156 7 8 9 16 17L 101820 21111922 12V 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 W SOUND M 20 21 22 V 5 6 7 8 10 11 12W134 145 156 7 8 9 16 17 1018 1119 12V 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 W

W 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20LOWERW BALCONY (CIRCLE)

O 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 O P 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 P Q 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Q R 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 R

UPPER BALCONY STUDIO STAGE / SCREEN S 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 S STUDIOT 5 6 7STAGE8 10 /11 SCREEN12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 T SEATING PLANS U 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 U V 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 V STUDIO STAGE / SCREEN W 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 W SEATING PLANS A 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 A 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 Realise your potential B 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 MAIN HOUSEA STAGE / SCREEN 1 2 3 4 5 STUDIO STAGE7 / SCREEN8 9 10 B C 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 B C 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ STALLS A 1 2 3 4 5D 1 72 8 39 104 5 7 8 9 10 A 7 8 9 10111 12213 143 15 164 A5 7 8 9 10 C 1 2 3 B4 1 52 3 4 5 7 78 8 99 1010 3 4 5 6 B 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 B D E 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 sixth form education 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 3 4 5 6 C 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 C 18 19 20 21 C D 1 2 3 4 5 71 82 93 104 5 7 8 9 10 2 3 4 5 6 D 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 D 18 19 20 E21 22 D 1 2 3 4 5F 1 72 8 39 104 5 7 8 9 10 • The only Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ sixth form 2 3 4 5 6 E 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 E 18 19 20 21 22 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 111 12 213 14 315 16 417 5 7 8 9 10E 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 in Mendip and South Somerset. 1 6 F E F 18 19 20 F21 22123 2 3 4 5 71 82 93 104 5 6 7 8 9 10 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 G 1 2 3 4 5 6 G G 18 19 20 21 22 23 F 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 3 4 5 6 H 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 H 18 19 20 21 • Wide range of A Levels, vocational courses 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 10 2 3 4 5 6 I 7 8 F9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 I 18 19 20 G21 221 2 3 G4 1 52 3 46 5 76 78 8 99 10 and Apprenticeships. 2 3 4 5 6 J J 18 19 20 21 22 2 3 4 5 6 K G 1 2 3 4 K5 18 19620 21 227 8 9 10 • Specialist sixth-form education. L 20 21 22 SOUND 20 21 22 • Outstanding teaching and support leads to M

outstanding student progress and achievements LOWER BALCONY (CIRCLE) O 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 O P 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 P Q 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Q University level education R 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 R STRODE THEATRE • Career-focused Degrees, HNDs and UPPER BALCONY is a part of and maintained by STRODE COLLEGE HNCs, relevant to growth industries in S 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 S We gratefully acknowledge financial support from T 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 T Street Parish Council & Friends of Strode Theatre the south west. U 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 U V 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 V • Highly qualified, specialist teachers W 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 W and personalised support. • Lower fees than universities. ACCESS Strode Theatre has a level entrance, four disabled parking bays, toilets for disabled people, three • Study full-time (two days a week) or wheelchair spaces in the Theatre and two in the Studio which should be booked in advance. The part-time (one day a week), leaving Theatre has an inductionSTUDIO loop STAGE which / SCREEN can be used by switching a hearing aid to the “T” position time for paid work. Headphones are also available for film screenings in the Theatre and Studio. A large printA 1 2 version3 4 5 of this7 brochure8 9 10 is available from the box office. Courses for adults DIARY B 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 • Learn a new skill SEPTEMBER C 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 10, 12 & 15 Hotel Salvation (PG) p.7 • Gain a new qualification Wed 6 MoishD Sokal1 exhibition2 3 4 5 7 8 p.39 10 Tu e 12 Monseur Hulot’s Holiday (U) p.8 • Develop your career 5 & 7 BabyE Driver1 (15)2 3 4 5 7 8 p.59 10 12 & 14 Land of Mine (15) p.8 • Enjoy a leisure interest 5 & 10 NormanF 1 (15)2 3 4 5 7 8 p.59 10 Wed 13 David Gilmour - Live in Pompeii p.8 Thu 7 The Seasons in Quincy (12A) p.5 14 & 19 Kedi (U) p.9 G 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 & 10 The Beguiled (15) p.6 15, 19 & 21 The Big Sick (15) p.9 For more information 9 & 15 An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (PG) p.6 Sat 16 Final Portrait (15) p.9 Visit: www.strode-college.ac.uk 9 & 10 The Midwife (12A) p.6 16 & 18 Williams (15) p.10 Call: 01458 844400 Sun 10 Despicable Me 3 (U) p.7 Wed 20 ROH Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) p.10 Email: [email protected] Sun 10 The Red Turtle (PG) p.7 Thu 21 Jizz p.10

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SEPTEMBER (continued from previous page) NOVEMBER 22, 25 & 28 The Odyssey (PG) p.11 Thu 2 Kingsman: The Golden Circle (cert tbc) p.23 Fri 22 David Lynch: The Art Life (15) p.11 Thu 2 Caron Caldwell - Nolstalgic Stories p.23 Sat 23 Quiz Night in the Bar p.11 2 & 4 Goodbye Christopher Robin (Cert tbc) p.22 Tue 26 Canaletto: Art of Venice p.12 Fri 3 Elizabeth Chivers Recital p.24 Thu 28 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (PG) p.13 Sat 4 Elizabeth Chivers Workshop p.24 29 & 30 Detroit (15) p.12 Tue 7 Tom of Finland (18) p.25 Fri 29 The Short Films of David Lynch (15) p.13 8 - 11 Street Theatre - One Man Two Guvnors p.25 Fri 29 Somerset Art Works - All The People p.13 9 & 14 Loving Vincent (cert tbc) p.26 Sat 30 The Death of Louis XIV (12A) p.14 10 - 12 The Lego Ninjago Movie (cert tbc) p.26 OCTOBER 10 & 14 The Glass Castle (12A) p.26 Sun 1 Union Gap & Edison Lighthouse p.14 11 & 12 Blade Runner 2049 (cert tbc) p.27 2 & 5 Detroit (15) p.12 11 & 13 The Mountain Between Us (cert tbc) p.27 Tue 3 ROH La Bohème p.14 Sun 12 Bolshoi Ballet The Taming of the Shrew p.27 Tue 3 A Journey Through French Cinema (cert tbc) p.15 Wed 15 God’s Own Country p.28 Thu 5 Mulholland Drive (15) p.15 Thu 16 NT Live Follies p.28 6 & 10 Insyriated (15) p.15 Sun 19 MET The Exterminating Angel p.28 Sat 7 Holy Trinity Church Fundraiser p.16 20 & 21 The Party (cert tbc) p.29 Sun 8 Back to Burgundy (15) p.16 Tue 21 David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts p.29 Sun 8 MET Norma p.16 Thu 23 Call Me By Your Name (cert tbc) p.30 Sun 8 Nightwatching (18) p.17 Fri 24 The Snowman (cert tbc) p.30 Tue 10 Lost in Lebanon (cert tbc) p.17 24 & 27 The Death of Stalin (cert tbc) p.30 Wed 11 RSC Coriolanus p.17 Sat 25 MSO Chopin 2nd Piano Concerto p.31 Sat 14 Anna Karenina (12A) p.18 Sun 26 Forever Jackson p.31 Sun 14 MET Die Zauberflöte p.18 DECEMBER Sun 15 SWHT Saxons and Vikings p.18 Fri 1 Richard Shelton & Denmark Street Big Band p.32 16 & 19 The Limehouse Golem (15) p.19 3 & 10 Bolshoi Ballet The Nutcracker p.32 Fri 20 Forged Line Dance Company - Lina p.19 5 & 10 ROH The Nutcracker p.33 21- 29 Victoria and Abdul (cert tbc) p.20 6 - 9 Wells Cathedral School Beauty & The Beast p.33 21 & 25 Borg/Mcenroe (cert tbc) p.20 Thu 7 NT Live Young Marx p.34 Sun 22 Bolshoi Ballet: Le Coraire p.21 8 - 12 Murder On The Orient Express (cert tbc) p.34 Mon 23 ROH Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland p.21 Sun 10 Muppet Christmas Carol (U) p.34 Thu 26 The Young Victoria (PG) p.21 Sun 10 Lance Clark Charity Auction p.35 Sat 28 Take on Take That p.22 Wed 13 Strode College A Christmas Concert p.35 Sun 29 Mrs Brown (PG) p.22 Thu 14 Sensation: Abba Tribute p.36 Mon 30 Goodbye Christopher Robin (cert tbc) p.22 15 & 16 The Killing of a Sacred Deer (cert tbc) p.36 Tue 31 Kingsman: The Golden Circle (cert tbc) p.23 15 & 18 Happy End (cert tbc) p.36 Tue 31 NT LIve Hamlet p.23 16, 19 & 21 Battle of the Sexes (cert tbc) p.37 27 - 31 G&SMCS Jack and the Beanstalk p.37