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September - December 2017 EXHIBITION FILM LIVE on STAGE LIVE on SCREEN September - December 2017 EXHIBITION FILM LIVE ON STAGE LIVE ON SCREEN Church Road • Street • Somerset • BA16 0AB Theatre www.strodetheatre.org.uk Box Office Telephone 01458 442846 & Cinema -we are hosting Secret Cinema HOW TO BOOK screenings (see below). Book ONLINE at any time at our website: www.strodetheatre.org.uk. Online booking is available Among the excellent live shows until one hour before the show or film. from ‘resident’ companies, there WELCOME Book by PHONE on 01458 442846 during the Box Office opening hours 10am - 2pm, Monday - is Street Theatre’s One Man Two EXHIBITION Saturday. Guvnors (p.25), MSO’s Chopin 2nd Piano Concerto (p.31) & Jack and Book IN PERSON during the Box Office opening hours or by POST, Strode Theatre, Strode the Beanstalk from GSMCS (p.37). College, Church Road, STREET, Somerset BA16 0AB. CHEQUES should be made payable to Among our other live highlights, ‘STRODE COLLEGE’. 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). If you like a THE SMALL PRINT surprise or have a penchant for Farès K Moussa RETURNED TICKETS - Strode Theatre conforms to standard theatre practice and is unable to exchange or give the unknown, then on Mondays Theatre Manager Free entry refunds on paid-for tickets. Tickets may be left at the Box Office for resale in the event of a sell-out at a charge of £1 per ticket and any refund will be credited to your Strode Theatre account, valid for up to 24 months. NEW NEW Mondays from 25 Sep CONCESSIONS - Full concessions apply to people over the age of sixty, children and students in full-time SECRET CINEMA, STRODE education and people in receipt of state benefits. Please be prepared to provide proof of concession. CAFÉ-BAR Every Monday, 7.45pm, let us A selection of not-to-be DATA PROTECTION - We do not divulge personal information from our mailing list to third parties and do not surprise you with a fanastic film. missed films, this series will Café-Bar now open sell or pass mailing information to other organisations. We will ask you if you wish to join our mailing list when enchant, amuse and provoke! for lunch, pre-show booking for the first time. Each film is kept entirely secret food and snacks. CHILDREN AND BABIES - We regret that we cannot admit babes in arms (under one year old) other than for family ...except for one or two clues! £6.50 per film. Buy five tickets shows. In all cases tickets must be purchased for children in order to comply with our licensed numbers. Guess a film correctly and get a and get £5 off. Contact Box Order food before 2pm at Box ticket for free! Office for more information. office and save 20%. THEATRE MANAGER - Farès K Moussa 2 www.strodetheatre.org.uk Box Office: 01458 442846 Box Office: 01458 442846 www.strodetheatre.org.uk 3 Mon - Sat 10am - 2pm Mon - Sat 10am - 2pm “WHY LOOK AT ANIMALS?” FILM FILM TRIPTYCHS FILM FILM Book all three films in any set and save £3! 7 Sep The Seasons in Quincy p.5 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.
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