January - April 2018 EXHIBITION FILM LIVE ON SCREEN LIVE ON STAGE

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THEATRE MANAGER - Farès K Moussa

2 www.strodetheatre.org.uk Box Office: 01458 442846 Mon - Sat 10am - 2pm Welcome to our Spring 2018 brochure! The arrival of the new season has taken us all here at the Strode ‘nerve- centre’ a little bit by surprise! But we have a great team here to pull it all together and I’m very excited with what we have lined up for the spring. WELCOME To celebrate the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, we’ve teamed up with Street Theatre to produce an evening of short Suffragette plays, Knickerbocker Glories directed by Lois Harbinson (27- 29 Apr, pg 37); and on the 10th February we present a screening of the BFI archive programme Make More Noise (10 Feb, pg 16).

Our new folk music programme features Martin Harley & Daniel Kimbro (9 Mar, pg 24), Katheryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman (6 May, pg 39), The Leylines (11 May, pg 39) and an evening of Appalachian folk (18 May, pg 41). We’re bringing yet more original 60s and 70s chart-toppers this season, including The Fortunes (25 Mar, pg 31), Dave Berry (22 Apr, pg 36) and Kast Off Kinks (13 May, pg 40). I’m also very pleased to re-introduce regular comedy to the Strode ‘diet’. We start with a stand-up comedy night with musical satirist Mitch Benn, compered by Tom Glover (16 Feb, pg 19); and the multi-award winning Pretend Men bring us their Edinburgh Fringe sell-out physical comedy Police Cops in Space (19 Mar, pg 28). Finally, but not least I’m delighted to be able to host an audience with Adam Henson on our stage on 12 April (pg 35).

Uniquely, we receive no Arts Council or Lottery funding, and - besides from a much valued small grant from Street Parish Council - we remain dependent on your support, via our Box Office and Freinds of Strode Theatre. So, as ever, thank you for your continued support, and I hope to see you at our much loved theatre one day soon. Farès K Moussa, Theatre Manager FILM SERIES DANIEL DAY LEWIS 14 Feb A Room with a View p.18 Series of films based on a theme, genre, director or actor, including at least one recent-release. 1 Mar My Left Foot p.22

13 & 14 Mar Phantom Thread p.26

FILM-MAKERS ON THE FRINGES With Daniel Day-Lewis’ shock announcement 2 Feb The Prince of Nothingwood p.13 that Phantom Thread will be his last film, now is a good time to celebrate the master of 12 Feb American Movie p.17 “The Method”. We start on Valentine’s Day with the Merchant Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster’s These two brilliant documentaries - both novel A Room With a View (1985). Although not fascinating and funny - chart the endeavours a leading role, Day-Lewis’ part as the snobbish of two unlikely film-makers, each struggling bumbling aristocrat, Cecil, very much brought against all the odds to make their mark. Prince of him to the fore. His Oscar-winning performance Nothingwood (2017) is a heart-warming story of as Cerebral Palsy afflicted artist Christy Brown prolific Afghan film-maker Salim Shaheen; while in My Left Foot (1989) was, for many, one of American Movie (1999) - at times both hilarious his best performances. Finally, in his latest and, and tragic - follows aspiring film-maker Mark apparently, last role on screen, Day-Lewis plays Borchardt in his apparently hopeless plight to the 1950s dress-maker Reynolds Woodcock in complete the flop horror b-movie Coven. Phantom Thread (2018) – a romantic Two highly recommended films! drama tipped for this year’s Oscars... Book both films together and save £4 Book all three films together and save £6. F D

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JOSEPH HUNWICK PADDINGTON 2 (PG) LOST IN PARIS (12A) GRANDMOTHERS. Sun 7 Jan 5pm THEATRE Sun 7 Jan 5.30pm STUDIO TIMBUKTU. FASHION. Mon 8 Jan 7.45pm STUDIO Fri 12 Jan 5.30pm STUDIO Directors: Dominique Abel, From 28 Feb 2018 Sun 14 Jan 2pm THEATRE Fiona Gordon With Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Director: Paul King Emmanuelle Riva We are thrilled to be able to With Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville 1hr 25mins France/Belgium 2016 host this exhibition by the Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters internationally acclaimed 1hr 35mins photographer Joseph Hunwick. UK/France 2017 Small-town librarian Fiona’s Specialising in portrait, fashion orderly Canadian life is and travel/documentary, his disrupted by a letter of distress images have appeared in many In this sequel to the charming from her 88-year-old Aunt leading publications - from 2014 adaptation of Michael Martha, who lives in Paris. Fiona the New York Times to Fashion Bond’s classic children’s hops on the first plane, only for Peace (FAFA). He currently stories, Paddington has settled to discover that Martha has spends his time between into life in London with the disappeared. In an avalanche Glastonbury and Barcelona. Brown family. In order to buy of spectacular disasters, she the perfect present for Aunt encounters Dom, an affable but This exhibition includes Lucy’s 100th birthday, he annoying tramp who just won’t pieces from a current project has decided to earn a bit of leave her alone. documenting grandmothers money with odd jobs around from indigenous groups on five the neighbourhood… The Replete with intricately continents, in particular women star-studded cast of Hugh choreographed slapstick, this living on Black Mesa, Arizona. Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie is a wondrously fun tale of Also included are pictures for Walters, Jim Broadbent and peculiar people finding love Thames and Hudson’s “The Peter Capaldi returns; and is while lost in the City of Lights. Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu: joined by Hugh Grant and Rediscovering Africa’s Literary Brendan Gleeson, with Ben “Paris... has seldom been Culture”, a book celebrating Whishaw and Imelda Staunton funnier or more charming...“ the work of Joseph’s father, as the voices of Paddington and Variety. renowned academic Professor Aunt Lucy. John Hunwick, and pieces from his fashion-work portfolio. Tickets £8.00 Full concessions £7.00 Tickets £8.00 Free entry Children 16 & under £5.00 Full concessions £7.00

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GAUGUIN (15) PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE DINNER (15) THE WONDER WOMEN (15) Mon 8 Jan 7.30pm THEATRE Thu 11 Jan 7.30pm THEATRE Sat 13 Jan 5.30pm STUDIO Wed 10 Jan 7.30pm THEATRE Sat 13 Jan 7.45pm STUDIO Thu 11 Jan 7.45pm STUDIO Director: Edouard Deluc Director: Oren Moverman With Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi Director: Angela Robinson With Richard Gere, Steve Coogan, France 2017 With Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Laura Linney, Rebecca Hall 1hr 40mins Bella Heathcote USA 2017 In French & Polynesian with subtitles USA 2017 2hrs 1hr 50mins

In 1891 Paris, painter Paul Steve Coogan, Richard Gere, Gauguin (Vincent Cassel) feels This story of a Harvard professor, Laura Linney and Rebecca Hall misunderstood and artistically his wife, their lover and the star in this dark psychological stifled. creation of a cult comic is an drama based on Herman Koch’s interesting part of 20th century bestselling novel. Leaving his wife and their five U.S. cultural history. In 1928, children behind, Gauguin sets academics William and Elizabeth Paul (Coogan) is not in the habit out in search of fresh inspiration Marston are busy developing of socialising with his older in Tahiti, where he hopes to the first lie detector, when brother Stan (Gere), a popular find a new authenticity for his William hires a new assistant, congressman running for art and his life. In a remote a young woman named Olive, governor. Resenting their dinner village, far away from colonial and starts an affair with her. With date, with wives, in a swanky society, he immerses himself both women also drawn to each restaurant, Paul holds back from in the colourful life of humans other, they decide to live in an discussing his most pressing and nature. The company of unconventional menage-a-trois. worry – a shocking discovery a beautiful local girl seems to Years later, a casual discovery of involving both couples’ teenage complete his new paradise. But fetish-themed comics plants in sons, who are friends. When the life doesn’t turn out quite as William an idea of publicising his subject is finally broached, the perfect as it first seems... psychological theories through two families find themselves the most populist of literary art embroiled in a savage dispute “Cassel is magnetic in the forms... “A sly and thoroughly as to how to deal with their leading role...“ HeyUGuys.com. charming Trojan horse of a children’s crime. movie...” The New York Times.

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STAR WARS - THE LAST JEDI THE FLORIDA PROJECT (15) STRONGER (15) (12A) Fri 12 Jan 7.45pm STUDIO Sat 13 Jan 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 12 Jan 7.30pm THEATRE Sun 14 Jan 4.30pm THEATRE Sun 14 Jan 5.15pm STUDIO Sun 14 Jan 2.15pm STUDIO Director: Sean Baker Director: David Gordon Green Director: Rian Johnson With Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, With Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, With Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, Valeria Cotto Miranda Richardson Carrie Fisher, Andy Serkis USA 2017 USA 2017 2hrs USA 2017 1hr 50mins 2hrs 30mins Trying to win back his Six-year-old Moonee and her ex-girlfriend Erin, Jeff Bauman The New Republic’s rise reduced rebellious mother Halley live (Jake Gyllenhaal) is waiting the once-mighty Empire to week to week at “The Magic for her at the finish line of the a rump state hemmed in by Castle,” a budget motel near 2013 Boston Marathon, when strict disarmament treaties and (but not near enough) to Disney a bomb blast rips through the punishing reparations. But in World, managed by Bobby crowd. 27-year-old Jeff loses secret, former Imperial officers, (a career-best Willem Dafoe), both his legs in the attack. Able nobles and technologists plotted, whose stern exterior hides a to help police identify one of building fleets and armies, and deep reservoir of kindness and the bombers, he is hailed a hero, forming the First Order. Led by compassion. The precocious but despite Erin’s and his family’s Supreme Leader Snoke, they and ebullient Moonee has no support, his own struggle has are now ready to reclaim the trouble making each day a only just begun... Imperial legacy. celebration of life, overflowing with mischief and grand Stronger is based on a real-life In Episode VIII of the cult sci-fi adventure with her ragtag story – Bauman’s own deeply saga, former Jakku scavenger Rey playmates. In the meantime, her personal account of his journey develops her newly discovered struggling mother is forced to to overcome devastating abilities with the guidance of explore increasingly dangerous adversity, told with raw emotion, Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled possibilities in order to provide humanity and humour. by the strength of her powers. for her daughter. Meanwhile, Leia Organa’s Resistance prepares to do battle “...beautiful, vibrant, heartfelt Tickets £8.00 with the First Order. and hilarious ” Little White Lies. Full concessions £7.00

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6 www.strodetheatre.org.uk Box Office: 01458 442846 Mon - Sat 10am - 2pm FILM FILM Open Evening MENASHE (U) I AM NOT A WITCH (12A) Mon 15 Jan 7.30pm THEATRE Mon 15 Jan 7.45pm STUDIO Tuesday Thu 18 Jan 7.45pm STUDIO Director: Rungano Nyoni 16 January Director: Joshua Z Weinstein With Maggie Mulubwa, Travers Merrill, With Menashe Lustig, Yoel Falkowitz, Henry BJ Phiri 6-8pm Ruben Niborski UK/France/Germany 2017 USA 2017 1hr 35mins Principal’s presentation 1hr 20mins at 6.15pm In Yiddish with English subtitles Sharply satirical and boldly provocative, this is the moving, Filmed almost entirely in Yiddish funny and surreal first feature by A Levels in the Hasidic community of Zambian-born Welsh director Vocational courses Brooklyn, New York, this is the Rungano Nyoni. endearingly moving tale of Apprenticeships modestly-situated widower When 8-year-old village girl Menashe, who decides to fight Shula is accused of witchcraft, University Level his rabbi and his well-to-do she is sent to live in a travelling courses relatives for the custody of his witch camp, where she is 10-year-old son Rieven. With his tethered with a ribbon and told Pre-register online at cavalier attitude to traditional that, should she attempt to attire, his reluctance to re-marry escape, she will turn into a goat. www.strode-college.ac.uk and his hap-hazard bachelor- Touted around as something of 01458 844400 style approach to housekeeping, a miniature wise-woman, Shula or turn up on the night he has his work cut out to prove soon begins to long for freedom his suitability as a single father... and has to decide whether to accept her fate as a witch. “Menashe is a quiet triumph, Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ … delivering an engaging “... comic, tragic – and Education and Training drama of intimate detail captivatingly beautiful” The and considerable humanity.” Guardian, Mark Kermode’s Film Benjamin Lee, The Guardian. of the Week.

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ROYAL OPERA HOUSE CINEMA LE JOUR SE LÈVE (PG) MOUNTAIN (PG) presents a LIVE screening and ENCORE of RIGOLETTO Wed 17 Jan 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 19 Jan 7.45pm STUDIO Mon 22 Jan 7.30pm THEATRE Tue 16 Jan 7.15pm STUDIO Director: Marcel Carné Fri 19 Jan 7.15pm THEATRE With Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Director: Jennifer Peedom Jacqueline Laurent Words by Robert Macfarlane By Giuseppe Verdi France 1939 Narrated by Willem Dafoe Conductor: Alexander Joel 1hr 30mins Australia 2017 With Duke of Mantua: Michael Fabiano, In French with English subtitles 1hr 15mins Rigoletto: Dimitri Platanias, Gilda: Lucy Crowe, Sparafucile: Andrea Mastroni 2hrs 45mins including one interval As the police close in on his “Mountains humble the human apartment, holed-up factory instinct … restore our wonder worker François (Jean Gabin) and challenge our arrogance. Rigoletto, court jester to the reviews the events which led More than ever we need their libertine Duke of Mantua, is to the killing of his rival in love, wildness.” (Robert Macfarlane) cursed by the father of one seedy night-club performer of the Duke’s victims for his Valentin. When François first falls Only three centuries ago, peaks irreverent laughter. When in love with florist Françoise, he were places of peril, not beauty. the Duke seduces Rigoletto’s finds her under the spell of the Why, then, are we now drawn to daughter Gilda, it seems the sinister Valentin, who has just mountains in our millions? curse is taking effect… lost his assistant Clara. François This spectacular cinematic gets to know Clara to find out and musical collaboration Giuseppe Verdi wrote in 1855 more about his rival... between the Australian that Rigoletto, based on Victor Chamber Orchestra and the Hugo’s play Le Roi s’amuse, This classic ‘noir’ drama, considered by director of Sherpa is a thrilling was his ‘best opera’. He had to some among the best films of all time, exploration of our obsession overcome state censorship to was first shown on the Strode screen 50 with mountains. stage it, but he was vindicated years ago today! by the premiere’s huge success “Mountain is a 70-minute rush in 1851. “Exciting, beautiful and of adrenaline; a safari into the tragic, this remains essential sublime; a vertiginous voyage cinema, French or otherwise.” to the top of the world.” EmpireOnline.com. Janine Israel, The Guardian.

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8 www.strodetheatre.org.uk Box Office: 01458 442846 Mon - Sat 10am - 2pm FILM LIVE ON SCREEN Quiz Night In The Bar BOLSHOI BALLET FERDINAND (U) presents a LIVE screening of Sat 20 Jan 7.30pm ROMEO AND JULIET Sun 21 Jan 3.30pm STUDIO Sun 21 Jan 3pm THEATRE Director: Carlos Saldanha With (voices of) John Cena, David Tennant, Quiz Night is a Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky Kate McKinnon, Bobby Cannavale favourite at Strode Music by: Sergei Prokofiev USA 2017 Runtime tbc 1hr 45mins Theatre and raises considerable funds In Verona, Romeo and Juliet This heart-warming animated for the Friends of fall madly in love while comedy adventure, inspired by Strode Theatre. their respective families, the the much-loved children’s book Montagues and the Capulets, The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Test your knowledge are caught in a bitter rivalry Leaf, tells the story of a giant bull ending in heart-wrenching with a big heart. in this sociable tragedy… setting as you After being mistaken for a Alexei Ratmansky, former artistic dangerous beast, Ferdinand is support the future director of the Bolshoi Ballet, captured and taken from his of your local theatre stages the company’s premiere home. Determined to return and cinema. of his production with dramatic to his family, he rallies a team urgency and a fresh re-telling of misfits for the ultimate of Shakespeare’s beloved adventure. classic. His brilliant and detailed adaptation set to Prokofiev’s Ferdinand proves you can’t romantic and cinematic score, judge a bull by its cover! reignites the story of literature’s most celebrated star-crossed lovers like no other classical ballet choreographer today.

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EXHIBITION ON SCREEN 78/52 (15) PSYCHO (15) presents CEZANNE - PORTRAITS OF Fri 26 Jan 5.45pm STUDIO Fri 26 Jan 7.45pm STUDIO A LIFE Director: Alexandre O. Philippe Director: Alfred Hitchcock Tue 23 Jan 7.30pm THEATRE Documentrary With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, USA 2018 Vera Miles Director: Phil Grabsky 1hr 30mins USA 1960 1hr 50mins 1hr 15mins

In 78 setups and 52 cuts, the A Phoenix secretary embezzles EXHIBITION ON SCREEN is thrilled deliriously choreographed two- $40,000 from her employer’s to present one of the most talked- minute shower sequence in client, goes on the run, and about exhibitions of the year. Psycho ripped apart cinema’s checks into a remote motel Dedicated to the portrait work definition of horror. With a run by a young man under the of Paul Cézanne, the exhibition shocking combination of domination of his mother... opens in Paris before travelling to exploitation and high art, Alfred London and Washington. Hitchcock upended his own Alfred Hitchcock’s classic acclaimed narrative structure genre-defining film remains One can’t appreciate 20th century by violently killing off a heroine one of the most celebrated art without understanding the a third of the way through films of all times. While tackling significance and genius of Paul his film, without explanation, numerous social taboos, the Cézanne. Featuring interviews justification, or higher purpose. film still shocks and mesmerises with curators and experts Psycho played out like a horrific audiences with it’s stirling cast from the National Portrait prank, forcing audiences to performances and Hitchcock’s Gallery London, MoMA New recognise that even the most characteristic crisp and clean, York, National Gallery of Art banal domestic spaces were yet somehow unnerving Washington, and Musée d’Orsay now fair game for unspeakable cinematographic style. Not to be Paris, and correspondence from mayhem. With black-and-white missed on the big screen! the artist himself, the film takes film-geek reverence, director audiences to the places where Alexandre O. Philippe breaks “After half a century of terror, Cézanne lived and worked, and down this most notorious and Psycho is still ensuring that no sheds light on an artist who is essential scene shot for shot, one feels safe in the shower.” perhaps the least-known of all the enlisting the help of film buffs Mark Kermode, The Guardian Impressionists – until now. and filmmakers alike.

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MID SOMERSET ORCHESTRA presents METROPOLITAN OPERA MOZART 3RD HORN CONCERTO presents an AS LIVE screening of TOSCA Sat 27 Jan 7.30pm THEATRE Sun 28 Jan 5.30pm STUDIO Conductor: Richard Jones Soloist: Jonathan Benger By Giacomo Puccini Leader: Hywel Jenkins Conductor: Andris Nelsons Director: Sir David McVicar With Kristine Opolais, Vittorio Grigolo, Our guest conductor is Richard Jones who gained his MA from Bryn Terfel the University of York, specialising in youth music. Always a keen Runtime tbc advocate for youth and community music, Richard currently works as the Music and Arts Strategy Manager for South Gloucestershire. He is involved with orchestras and ensembles around the South West. Puccini’s thrilling Tosca is a story of love, terror, the abuse of MSO’s Principal Horn, Jonathan Benger, who has been with the power, and the unquenchable orchestra since 2012, is tonight’s soloist. Jonathan also plays in Frome longing for freedom. When Symphony Orchestra and gives regular recitals as a solo player and in an escaped political prisoner chamber ensembles. takes refuge in a church, an opera singer and a painter are The concert begins with Beethoven’s Overture “Coriolan”, composed drawn into a twisting plot that in 1807 for Heinrich Joseph von Collin’s play. The overture remains a puts them at the mercy of the firm concert favourite, but the play languishes in obscurity. secret police and its network of torturers and spies. Rivalling the Mozart’s Horn Concerto No 3 was written in the 1780’s for his life- splendour of Franco Zeffirelli’s long friend Joseph Leutgeb. Napoleonic-era sets and costumes, Sir David McVicar’s Mozart’s Comic Opera “Cosi Fan Tutte”, premiered in Vienna in 1790, ravishing new production opens the second half. It includes two appearances of a very offers a splendid backdrop for significant musical reference to the ensuing opera. extraordinary singing. Kristine Opolais stars as the titular prima Haydn’s Symphony No 99 is one of his 12 London Symphonies, donna, alongside Vittorio Grigolo written in Vienna during 1793 when he was anticipating a second as her artist lover and Bryn Terfel trip to London. as the villainous police chief.

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BRAD’S STATUS (CERT TBC) BEN RIVERS: THREE FILMS HOSTILES (CERT TBC) plus Q&A with Ben Rivers Mon 29 Jan 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 2 Feb 7.30pm THEATRE Mon 29 Jan 7.45pm STUDIO Mon 5 Feb 7.45pm STUDIO Director: Mike White With Ben Stiller, Austin Abrams, I Know Where I’m Going. 2009, 30mins. Director: Scott Cooper Michael Sheen There is a Happy Land Further Awaay. 2015, With Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, USA 2017 20mins. Urth. 2016, 20mins. Wes Studi, Timothée Chalamet 1hr 40mins tbc USA 2017 2hrs 10mins tbc

A trip to Boston with his college- Ben Rivers’ films are rich, bound son triggers a crisis of cinematic portraits that explore 1892, New Mexico - legendary confidence for Brad Sloan (Ben landscape as a fictional utopia Army captain Joseph J. Blocker Stiller) as he re-assesses his own or dystopia. This programme (Christian Bale) agrees to life in this bittersweet comedy. starts with I Know Where I’m undertake one final mission Going, a foreboding, futuristic before retirement: to escort Brad has a satisfying job and a road trip through Britain. There dying Cheyenne war chief comfortable suburban life with is a Happy Land Further Awaay, Yellow Hawk and his family his sweet-natured wife and is shot in the Republic of back to sacred tribal lands, an their musical prodigy son, Troy. Vanuatu and utilises a poem by almost unthinkable gesture of But showing Troy around his Henri Michaux to point to the peace after 20 years of violent old university town, Brad can’t difficulties of describing an alien combat. As they struggle against help comparing himself to his place. We end with a science the unforgiving land and the old college friends – all big- fiction log of the last living brutality of men, the two great shots in the arts and finance. woman, set in a biosphere, the warriors, once rivals across the Then circumstances force him film Urth, was commissioned battlefield, must learn to trust to reconnect with his former by The Renaissance Society, each other. friends, and Brad begins to Chicago. question whether their lives are “Contemplative and more flawed than they appear… Curated by Josephine Lanyon for absorbing …” The Hollywood Somerset Art Works working in Reporter. partnership with Somerset Film. Supported by Arts Council England.

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THE PRINCE OF MC PROMOTIONS NOTHINGWOOD (15) presents A FUNDRAISING CONCERT FOR HEADS-UP AND FRIENDS Fri 2 Feb 7.45pm STUDIO OF STRODE THEATRE Director: Sonia Kronlund Sat 3 Feb 7pm THEATRE Documentary France/Germany 2016 1hr 25mins A fabulous fund-raising night of live music and comedy in aid of In Farsi & French with English subtitles mental health charity Heads Up and The Friends of Strode Theatre.

Compere is comedian Stewart Masters, who excels in a mixture of The first of two fascinating and gags, audience interaction (front two rows: beware!) and amusing funny films from our Movies- life observations. makers on the Fringes diptych. Fab 60s tunes, originals and covers, are provided by Tracks (local Salim Shaheen, the most popular covers band), Old Dogz New Trix (local group with a wide repertoire and prolific actor-director- from 60s rock and pop - they have supported The Rolling Stones, The producer in Afghanistan, is Tremeloes and The Searchers) and, concluding the show, The Salvos, shooting his 111th film. He has the best and most popular 1960s group to come out of Somerset (as brought with him his regular Eddy Dark and the Salvos), whose Nik Ponsillo, Mike Argent and John troupe of actors, each more Lacey will reunite especially for this evening! eccentric and out of control than the next.

Nothingwood is the portrait of a man who spends his life making his childhood dreams come true, captured by French journalist Sonia Kronlund, who breaks a life-time habit of reporting on calamities with this “affectionate, amusing documentary about an outsized figure” (Variety) Sponsored by The Swan Hotel, Wells, MC Promotions, Bill Knight, Bill Watts, Terry Napper and Adrian Sparks. Tickets £8.00 Full concessions £7.00 Book with American Movie & save £4 Tickets £10.00

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THE FINAL YEAR (CERT TBC) ROYAL OPERA HOUSE CINEMA THE COMING WAR ON presents a LIVE screening of CHINA (12A) Mon 5 Feb 7.30pm THEATRE TOSCA Thu 8 Feb 7.45pm STUDIO Director: Greg Barker Wed 7 Feb 7.15pm THEATRE Documentary Director: John Pilger USA 2017 By Giacomo Puccini Documentary 1hr 30mins tbc Conductor: Dan Ettinger UK 2016 Director: Jonathan Kent 1hr 55 mins With Adrianne Pieczonka, Joseph Calleja The Final Year tracks the foreign and Gerald Finley policy team assembled by 3hrs including 2 intervals In this recent documentary, Barack Obama over the course Sung in Italian with English subtitles journalist, film-maker and author of 2016, as they travel the John Pilger powerfully argues world attempting to solidify that the world’s greatest military and “lock-in” policies that Drama, passion and fabulous power, the United States, and they believe will define their music – Tosca is one of the great the world’s second economic legacy, promote diplomacy evenings of opera. Jonathan power, China, both nuclear- over large-scale military action, Kent’s production draws on the armed, are on the road to and fundamentally alter how dangerous turbulence of Rome war. From post-Second World the US government confronts in 1800. War nuclear experiments in questions of war and peace. the South Pacific to a massive The painter Mario Cavaradossi build-up of US military bases President Obama and his staff helps a fugitive escape – and so and Donald Trump’s belligerent tackle the unfolding crisis in attracts the attention of Scarpia, election rhetoric, the USA Syria (and Russia’s role), visiting the sadistic Chief of Police. seems set on stoking China’s families during the Boko Scarpia captures Cavaradossi insecurities. A dangerous game Haram kidnapping, the Iran and has him tortured within ...or is it? nuclear deal, the resurgence of earshot of his lover, the singer nationalism, and the results of Tosca. “… where The Coming War the US election that challenge on China … stands out is the this legacy in unexpected and range of voices and faces fundamental ways. Please note: there are gunshots with which Pilger shares the during Act III of this production. spotlight.” HollywoodReporter. com.

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Café-Bar now open ALL THE MONEY IN THE MAKALA (CERT TBC) WORLD (CERT TBC) for lunch Fri 9 Feb 7.45pm STUDIO Fri 9 Feb 7.30pm THEATRE (12pm-2pm Director: Emmanuel Gras Director: Ridley Scott Documentary Mon - Fri), With Charlie Plummer, Michelle Williams, France 2017 Mark Wahlberg, Christopher Plummer 1hr 35mins and pre-show USA 2017 In Swahili & French with English subtitles Runtime tbc

Offering a selection This documentary from the of cakes, sanwiches, Based on real events in 1973 Democratic Republic of Congo Italy, this drama follows the follows a young village man soups, ice cream & kidnapping of 16-year-old hoping to offer his family a milkshakes John Paul Getty III (Charlie better future. His only resources Plummer) and the desperate are his own two hands, the attempt by his mother Gail surrounding bush, and an iron (Michelle Williams) to convince will. his billionaire grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay The charcoal maker’s work is the ransom. an ancient craft: he cuts down an enormous tree, builds a kiln When Getty Sr. refuses, the boy’s from the soil, then piles his captors become increasingly wares onto his most precious volatile and brutal. With her son’s possession, his bicycle, for the life in the balance, Gail finds exhausting, perilous 30-mile an unlikely ally in old Getty’s journey to the city to sell the advisor Fletcher (Mark Wahlberg) fruits of his labours. in the race against time. “Simplicity is the key to the somber beauty of “Makala” ...“ Variety.

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MAKE MORE NOISE: METROPOLITAN OPERA THE GREATEST SHOWMAN SUFFRAGETTES IN SILENT presents a LIVE screening of (CERT TBC) FILM (PG) L’ELISIR D’AMORE Sun 11 Feb 2.30pm STUDIO Sat 10 Feb 2.30pm STUDIO Sat 10 Feb 5pm STUDIO Mon 12 Feb 7.30pm THEATRE BFI archival footage collection By Gaetano Donizetti Director: Michael Gracey Music composed by Lillian Henley Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan With Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, UK 1899-1917 Director: Bartlett Sher Michelle Williams, Zac Efron 1hr 10 mins Starring: Matthew Polenzani, USA 2017 Pretty Yende Runtime tbc

We start our celebration of the centenary of the Representation The poor country boy Nemorino The Greatest Showman is a new of the People Act, which received is in love with Adina, a confident musical that celebrates the birth royal assent on 6th February landowner, but she is way out of show business and the sense 1918, with this archive collection, of his league—financially and of wonder we feel when dreams as a prelude to Street Theatre otherwise. But when he buys a come to life. and Strode Theatre’s partnership “love potion” from a travelling production of Knickerbocker Glories quack, the results are rather Inspired by the ambition and (27th - 29th April, pg 37). more than he bargained for. imagination of P.T. Barnum, it tells the story of a visionary who This selection of silent films from Charmingly staged by Bartlett rose from nothing to create a the BFI National Archive shows Sher, Donizetti’s beloved mesmerizing spectacle that how suffragettes were portrayed masterpiece combines deft became a worldwide sensation. on the cinema screen while their comic timing with touching battles were still being waged emotional depth. The Greatest Showman features on the streets outside. The film songs by Oscar winners Benj includes newsreel footage of Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Emily Davison’s suicidal storming Tickets £15.00 Land) and stars Academy Award of the 1913 Derby and her Full concessions £13.00 nominee Hugh Jackman as the subsequent funeral, films of great impresario. suffragette protest, along with JOIN US EVERY 2nd SUNDAY AT larksome female comedies and STRODE FOR SUPER SUNDAYS. A knockabout anti-suffragette satire. VARIED PROGRAMME OF MATINEES AND EVENING SHOWS/SCREENINGS WITH FREE LIVE JAZZ IN THE BAR, Tickets £8.00 WINE TASTINGS, STALLS AND OTHER Tickets £8.00 Full concessions £7.00 EVENTS. Please ask for details. Full concessions £7.00

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WALK WITH ME (PG) BOLSHOI BALLET AMERICAN MOVIE (15) presents an AS LIVE screening of Sun 11 Feb 5pm THEATRE THE LADY OF THE Mon 12 Feb 7.45pm STUDIO CAMELLIAS Directors: Marc J. Francis, Max Pugh Director: Chris Smith Documentary Sun 11 Feb 5.30pm STUDIO Documentary USA 1999 1hr 45mins UK 2017 1hr 35mins Choreography: John Neumeier Music by Frédéric Chopin There was a time in America when the punk ethic of do-it- This contemplative journey in yourself spilt into film-making, the steps of Zen master Thich As he arrives in Paris for the with some astonishing talents Nhat Hanh is a fascinating first time, the young and naive ‘making it big’ in the indie exploration of what it means to Armand is utterly captivated scene, and a lot of other valiant devote one’s life to mindfulness, after meeting the ravishing obsessives who didn’t. This and gives rare insight into life and most desirable courtesan funny and moving documentary within his community, the Marguerite Gautier. Their is a tribute to the latter. secluded monastery of Plum encounter gives birth to a Village in the South West of passionate yet doomed love… North of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, France. Mark Borchardt is enlisting his Alexandre Dumas fils’ novel friends, dysfunctional family With Benedict Cumberbatch comes to life on the Bolshoi and $3000 from aged uncle narrating and reading extracts stage, with prima Svetlana Bill to shoot his first full-length from Thich Nhat Hanh’s early Zakharova as the ailing feature, or – failing that – he journals, Walk With Me captures Marguerite seeking love and may complete his old project, the daily routine and rituals of redemption from her life as a the horror short ‘Coven’… monks and nuns on a quest for courtesan. The Bolshoi brings a deep sense of presence. choreographer John Neumeier’s “What’s amazing about work of rare beauty and tragic ‘American Movie’ is its heart “… an insightful rumination on depth to new emotional heights, and tact...a film that’s warm, the pursuit of happiness … and accompanied by Chopin’s funny and brave all at once” our attachment to material romantic piano score. San Francisco Chronicle. things.” London Film Festival. BBFC Insight: frequent strong language, Captured live on 6th Dec 2015 moderate horror and moderate drug references

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Day Valentine’s A ROOM WITH A VIEW (PG) JOUR DE FETE (U) MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (12A) Wed 14 Feb 7.30pm THEATRE Thu 15 Feb 7.30pm THEATRE Thu 15 Feb 7.45pm STUDIO Director: James Ivory Director: Jacques Tati With Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, With Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Director: Zhangke Jia Daniel Day-Lewis, Denholm Elliott, Julian Paul Frankeur With Tao Zhao, Yi Zhang, Jing Dong Liang Sands, Simon Callow, Judi Dench France 1949 China/France/Japan 2015 2hrs 5mins UK 1985 1hr 50mins 1hr 10mins Mainly in Mandarin with English subtitles In French with English subtitles

The first in our Daniel Day-Lewis In celebration of the Chinese triptych (see pg. 3). After the great success of our New Year we’re showing this recent screening of Monsieur moving Chinese drama, set in What better for a Valentine’s Day Hulot’s Holiday, we’re delighted Shanxi Province and Australia. treat than this classic E.M. Forster to be able to show this early In 1999, Tao is a lively young adaptation from the hey-day of Jacques Tati comedy gem. woman with two suitors – of Merchant-Ivory. which she fatefully chooses the Bumbling postman François ‘good prospect’, entrepreneur When young Lucy (Bonham (Tati) is a bit of a laughing stock Zhang, over poor mine worker Carter) and her chaperone Miss in his village, Sainte-Sévère-sur- Liangzi. In 2014, the divorced Bartlett (Maggie Smith) arrive Indre. On the day of the annual Tao is trying to install a love in Florence and find their hotel fair, a few of the townsfolk want of simpler things in her spoilt room devoid of the expected to have their fun at his expense 8-year-old son Dollar. In 2025 inspiring outlook, fellow guests and, after copious amounts Dollar is a young man adrift in Mr Emerson (Denholm Elliott) of alcohol, show him a film Melbourne – long estranged and his son George are happy about the latest techniques from his mother, he looks for to swap. Despite Miss Bartlett of modern United States mail a connection with his college considering the Emersons not delivery. Although equipped professor, fellow emigrant Mia. being quite the right sort of with nothing more sophisticated “... its generation-spanning story people to accept favours from, than an old bicycle, François has serious power, and, in its young George (Julian Sands) is inspired to reform his own masterful opening chapter and makes an impression on Lucy... working methods forthwith... final sequence, brushes against greatness. “ Robbie Collin, The Telegraph. Tickets £8.00 Full concessions £7.00 Book with My Left Foot & Phantom Tickets £8.00 Tickets £8.00 Thread and save £6 Full concessions £7.00 Full concessions £7.00

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Strode Comedy MOLLY’S GAME (15) STRODE COMEDY STAND DARKEST HOUR (PG) Fri 16 Feb 5pm STUDIO Fri 16 Feb 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 16 Feb 7.45pm STUDIO Sun 18 Feb 5.30pm STUDIO Director: Aaron Sorkin Sun 25 Feb 5pm THEATRE With Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, An evening of stand-up comedy Mon 26 Feb 7.45pm STUDIO Kevin Costner, Chris O’Dowd with nationally renowned comics USA 2017 straight from Edinburgh Fringe. Director: Joe Wright 2hrs 20mins With Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, HEADLINE - MITCH BENN Samuel West, Ronald Pickup One of the best performers of UK 2017 This biopic tells the story of comic songs in the UK, Mitch is 2hrs 5mins Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a a regular writer and performer young Olympic-class skier, who on TV and for BBC Radio 4 and ran the world’s most exclusive Radio 2. “The country’s leading A thrilling dramatisation of historic high-stakes poker game for a musical satirist” The Times events on the eve of World War II. decade before being arrested Within days of becoming Prime in the middle of the night by COMPERE - TOM GLOVER Minister of Great Britain, Winston seventeen FBI agents wielding South-west’s home-grown Churchill (Gary Oldman) faces one automatic weapons. stand-up, winning over crowds of his most turbulent and defining with his observations on the trials: exploring a negotiated Her players included Hollywood minutiae of the everyday. “There peace treaty with Nazi Germany, royalty, sports stars, business is a strong future for this fresh- or standing firm to fight for the titans, and unbeknownst to her, faced comic.” - Ed Fringe Review. ideals, liberty and freedom of a the Russian mob. Her only ally nation. was her criminal defense lawyer SUPPORT - CATHERINE BOHART Charlie Jaffey (Idris Elba), who Catherine was a finalist in the Faced with the seemingly learned that there was much BBC New Comedy Awards and unstoppable Nazi war machine, more to Molly than the tabloids Funny Women 2016 and BBC’s imminent threat of invasion, an led us to believe. New Talent Hotlist 2017. unprepared public, a sceptical King, and his own party plotting “... a snappy, smart thriller, SUPPORT - PAUL F TAYLOR against him, Churchill must anchored by a masterful Offbeat surreal/observational withstand his darkest hour, rally Chastain“ Vanity Fair. flights of fancy to fantastical a nation, and attempt to change effect. “...enticing, dizzying...Harry the course of world history. Hill-like ideas.” The Independent

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THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE STRODE COLLEGE CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS presents EBBING MISSOURI (15) MADE IN DAGENHAM Sat 17 Feb 7.45pm STUDIO Thu 22 Feb 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 23 Feb 5.30pm STUDIO Fri 23 Feb 7.30pm THEATRE Sat 24 Feb 7.30pm THEATRE Director: Martin McDonagh With Frances McDormand, Book by Richard Bean Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell Music by David Arnold UK/USA 2017 1hr 55mins Lyrics by Richard Thomas Based on the Woolley/Karlsen/Number 9 Motion Picture

Comic drama from Oscar- Director: Charmaine Bray winning director Martin Musical Director: Matt Holman-Holmes McDonagh (In Bruges). Choreographer: Sophie Luke

After months without any progress in her daughter’s Essex 1968. Like millions of other working women, each morning murder case, Mildred Rita O’Grady is just trying to get her husband out of bed, get the Hayes makes a bold move, kids off to school and get to work at the factory on time. But life is commissioning three signs about to change forever when it’s announced that the girls in the leading into her town with a stitching room of Ford’s Dagenham car plant will have their pay controversial message directed grade dropped to ‘unskilled’. Quickly drawing on a strength she at William Willoughby (Woody never knew she had, Rita leads her friends in a battle against the Harrelson), the town’s revered might of Ford and the corruption of the Union supposed to protect chief of police. When his them. As the girls’ inspiring journey gets bigger than anyone could second-in-command Officer have imagined, the pressure is too much for some, but can Rita Dixon (Sam Rockwell), a keep up the fight and the happy home she’s worked so hard for? mummy’s boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the Funny, touching and timeless, Made in Dagenham shows how battle between Mildred and ordinary people can do extraordinary things when they stand Ebbing’s law enforcement really together. kicks off… BBFCINSIGHT: very strong language, strong This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe) All violence, sex references authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI (Europe)

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A WOMAN’S LIFE (PG) METROPOLITAN OPERA THE POST (CERT TBC) presents an AS LIVE screening of Sat 24 Feb 5.30pm STUDIO LA BOHÈME Mon 26 Feb 7.30pm THEATRE Tue 27 Feb 7.30pm THEATRE Director: Stéphane Brizé Sun 25 Feb 5.30pm STUDIO Thu 1 Mar 7.45pm STUDIO With Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau By Giacomo Puccini Director: Steven Spielberg France/Belgium 2016 Starring: Sonya Yoncheva and With Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Alison Brie 2hrs Michael Fabiano USA 2017 In French with English subtitles Runtime tbc Runtime TBC

Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a The world’s most popular Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks star young woman full of childish opera returns with an exciting in this gripping dramatisation of dreams and innocence young cast in Franco Zeffirelli’s real events in 1971 Washington when she returns home after legendary production. DC. finishing her schooling in a convent. She marries a local Poverty-stricken poet Rodolfo When the Pentagon Papers viscount, Julien de Lamare, and his artist friends eke out (damning, long-classified who soon reveals himself to be a precarious existence in documents about the Vietnam a miserly and unfaithful man. bohemian Paris, alternately war) are leaked, the U.S. Little by little Jeanne’s illusions practising their art, laughing, government moves fast to are stripped away. quarrelling, dodging the threaten legal action on any landlord, and living it up in newspaper that dares to publish “A moving, beautifully their local cafe. When Rodolfo the details. At the Washington modulated adaptation of Guy meets the delicate Mimì, the pair Post the country’s first female de Maupassant’s novel … instantly fall in love. But Mimì is newspaper publisher, Kay one of the rare visualizations ill, Rodolfo is jealous, and their Graham, is acutely aware that of a 19th-century novel romance is doomed from the the repercussions of publishing that doesn’t merely follow start. could be very serious for her a plot but captures depth and her paper. On the other of character” Jay Weissberg, hand, she is facing a boardroom variety.com of men who doubt that she’s tough enough for the job...

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ROYAL OPERA HOUSE CINEMA MY LEFT FOOT (15) JOURNEY’S END (12A) presents a LIVE screening of THE WINTER’S TALE Thu 1 Mar 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 2 Mar 7.45pm STUDIO Mon 5 Mar 7.30pm THEATRE Wed 28 Feb 7.15pm THEATRE Director: Jim Sheridan With Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Director: Saul Dibb Conductor: Alondra de la Parra Fiona Shaw, Ray McAnally With Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Asa Choreographer: Christopher Wheeldon Ireland/UK 1989 1hr 45mins Butterfield, Toby Jones, Robert Glenister Music by Joby Talbot UK 2017 Runtime tbc 1hr 50mins The second feature in our Daniel Day-Lewis ‘triptych’ (see pg. 3). Shakespeare’s tale of love and 18th March 1918. 18-year- loss becomes compelling Winning the Best Actor Oscar in old Jimmy Raleigh has left dance drama in Christopher 1990, Daniel Day-Lewis became school, enlisted and can’t Wheeldon’s ballet adaptation, a household name in this wait to join his childhood with music by Joby Talbot. portrayal of Irish artist Christy friend and hero Stanhope’s ‘C’ Brown, adapted from Brown’s Company, not realising that The story follows the autobiography. Born with severe they are directly in the path of destruction of a marriage Cerebral Palsy into a large family the impending and massive through consuming jealousy, in 1930s Dublin, Christy has German attack. Meanwhile, the abandonment of a child the unwavering support of his Stanhope, holed-up in the and a seemingly hopeless mother. But, virtually trapped in trenches at Aisne with his unit, love. Yet, through remorse and his body, it takes a near-tragedy has been struggling with the regret – and after a seemingly before he can prove to the senselessness of war, relying miraculous return to life – the world that he is an intelligent, increasingly on alcohol to ending is one of forgiveness creative person - by way of his cope. When the fresh-faced and reconciliation. left foot, the only part of his young recruit arrives at the body over which he has control. front, he finds his friend much changed… “... one of the great stories of human courage and “A genuinely moving and determination.“ Roger Ebert. thoroughly affecting piece of filmmaking ...“ HeyUGuys.com.

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WELLS CATHEDRAL SCHOOL LAST FLAG FLYING (15) BOLSHOI BALLET JAZZ ORCHESTRA presents a LIVE screening of Sat 3 Mar 7.45pm STUDIO THE FLAMES OF PARIS Sat 3 Mar 7.30pm THEATRE Sun 4 Mar 2.30pm THEATRE Sun 4 Mar 3pm STUDIO Director: Richard Linklater Wells Cathedral School’s Jazz With Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky Orchestra, along with special Steve Carell Music by Boris Asafiev guests, return to Strode Theatre USA 2017 Runtime tbc for a swinging night of jazz 2hrs 5mins standards that is guaranteed to blow you away. In the era of the French In 2003, 30 years after they Revolution, Jeanne and her The band includes some of the served together in the Vietnam brother Jérôme leave Marseille finest young jazz players in the War, former Navy Corps medic for Paris in support of the country so expect superlative Richard “Doc” Shepherd (Steve revolutionary effort that is standards of musicianship and Carell) re-unites with ex-Marines taking over the capital. While virtuosity. Book early - this Sal (Bryan Cranston) and Mueller fighting for freedom, they both concert will sell out. (Laurence Fishburne) on a encounter love along the way… different type of mission: to bury Doc’s son, a young Marine killed Very few ballets can properly in the Iraq War. showcase the Bolshoi’s overflowing energy and Doc decides to forgo burial at fiery passion as can Alexei Arlington Cemetery and, with Ratmansky’s captivating revival the help of his old buddies, of Vasily Vainonen’s The Flames takes the casket on a bittersweet of Paris. With powerful virtuosity trip up the East Coast to and some of the most stunning his home in suburban New pas de deux, the Bolshoi Ballet Hampshire. Along the way, Doc, displays an exuberance almost Sal and Mueller reminisce and too enormous for the Moscow come to terms with shared stage. experiences of the war that Tickets £15.00 continue to shape their lives. Wells Cathedral School Friends of Music £13.50 Students £12.00 Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode Tickets £8.00 Tickets £15.00 Theatre Support Fund Full concessions £7.00 Full concessions £13.00

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ROYAL OPERA HOUSE CINEMA STRODE THEATRE presents a LIVE screening of presents CARMEN MARTIN HARLEY & DANIEL KIMBRO Tue 6 Mar 6.45pm THEATRE Fri 9 Mar 7.30pm THEATRE By Georges Bizet Choreographer: Otto Pichler On the heels of the largely sold out ‘Static in the Wires’ tour, this Conductor: Jakub Hruša dynamic transatlantic duo take to the road again for their ‘Feet Director: Barrie Kosky don’t fail me’ tour. 3hrs 20 mins including one interval Sung in French with English subtitles Always engaging and far from predictable these “Two musicians at the top of their game”(Music Riot) seek to push the boundaries of blues, folk and American roots music. Original compositions on Bizet’s classic French opera slide guitar, double bass, harmony vocals and good humoured stars Anna Goryachova in Barrie banter are cornerstones of their live shows. Between them they are Kosky’s intense production. very much on the world stage and have performed at Glastonbury Festival, The Royal Albert Hall, the Ryman Auditorium, Grand Ole The young soldier Don José Opry, Bonnaroo, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, MerleFest, Bottle intends to marry Micaëla, a Rock,The Edmonton Folk Festival, New Orleans Jazz Fest, The Blue girl from his home village. But Note Tokyo, Cognac Blues Festival, Cayamo and many more. Most when he meets the sensual and recently Daniel toured the US with the Transatlantic Sessions. fiercely independent Carmen, he sacrifices everything to be The two musicians met through a mutual friend, Sam Lewis, at with her. Hippie Jack’s music festival in Crawford, Tennessee. After a brief backstage rehearsal, they took to the stage for an hour of largely This ever-popular opera is improvised music. A few weeks later they were cutting a record at given a fresh point of view in Zac Brown’s iconic Southern Ground. Martin plays a 100-year-old Barrie Kosky’s highly physical Weissenborn (Hawaiian acoustic lap guitar), Daniel plucks beats, production, originally created for scratches and bows his upright bass to create and unexpected Frankfurt Opera. array of sounds.

“Awesome” – Johnnie Walker, BBC Radio 2

“Quite simply a great live act” – Time Out London

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EARLY MAN (CERT TBC) METROPLITAN OPERA NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE presents a LIVE screening of presents an AS LIVE screening of Fri 9 Mar 5.30pm STUDIO SEMIRAMIDE CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Sun 11 Mar 4pm STUDIO Sat 10 Mar 5.55pm STUDIO Sun 11 Mar 7pm THEATRE Director: Nick Park With (the voices of) Eddie Redmayne, By Gioachino Rossini By: Tennessee Williams Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, With Angela Meade Director: Benedict Andrews Timothy Spall Runtime tbc With Sienna Miller, Jack O’Connell, UK/France 2018 Colm Meaney Runtime tbc Runtime tbc Against the backdrop of the Hanging Gardens, Semiramide, Aardman Animations, the Queen of Babylon, defies bad On a steamy night in Mississippi, creators of Shaun the Sheep and omens and supernatural threats a Southern family gather at Wallace & Gromit, return to the in her quest to find a worthy their cotton plantation to big screen with this endearing successor to her late husband. celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. adventure of a caveman and his But she harbours more than one The scorching heat is almost as boar-ish sidekick. dark secret, and whoever gains oppressive as the lies they tell. the throne may find that he has Brick and Maggie dance round Set at the dawn of time, when lost more than he has won. the secrets and sexual tensions prehistoric creatures roamed that threaten to destroy their the earth, Early Man tells the Based on a story by Voltaire, this marriage. With the future of the story of courageous caveman rarely performed tragic opera family at stake, which version of hero Dug (Eddie Redmayne) reveals The Barber of Seville the truth is real – and which will and his best friend Hognob as composer Gioachino Rossini in a win out? they unite his tribe of lovable whole new light. The title role— misfits under Chief Bobnar composed for Rossini’s wife, “A bold reimagining… (Timothy Spall) against a mighty Isabella Colbran—features some innovative and powerfully enemy Lord Nooth (Tom of the most demanding vocal acted” Sunday Times Hiddleston) and his Bronze Age music he ever wrote. Angela City to save their home. Meade takes on the challenging vocal fireworks in this revival of a production last seen at the Met 25 years ago.

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D GUITAR MUSIC OF LATIN AMERICA PHANTOM THREAD (15) James Rippingale Tue 13 Mar 7.45pm STUDIO Sun 11 Mar 2pm STUDIO Wed 14 Mar 7.30pm THEATRE Director: Paul Thomas Anderson A solo afternoon recital in the intimate surroundings of Strode Studio. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville Join award winning classical guitarist James Rippingale for a sonic journey USA 2017 2hrs 10mins through the guitar music of Latin America, with pieces by Villa-Lobos, Brouwer, Barrios and more. James will explore the lush harmonies, vibrant rhythms and beautiful melodies of this rich musical culture. The third in our Daniel Day- Lewis triptych (see pg.3). Known among musicians and audiences for his innovative, exciting programs and sensitive musical playing James Rippingale graduated 1950’s London. Dressmaker from Leeds College of Music. James studied with some of the UK’s finest Reynolds Woodcock (Day- guitarists; Luigi Palumbo, Nicola Hall, Mark Ashford and Simon Dinnigan, Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley and the renowned pianist, conductor and musical philosopher George Manville), at the centre of British Hadjinikos. He has since established himself as a sought-after performer fashion, dress royalty, movie playing across the UK and abroad. He has 17 years of teaching experience stars, socialites, debutantes and is a classical guitar tutor at Wells Cathedral School. and dames in The House of Woodcock. Women come and Tickets £8.00 Students £5.00 go through the confirmed Ticket price includes a 50p contribution to the Strode Theatre Support Fund bachelor’s life, until young, strong-willed Alma (Vicky Krieps) appears. Soon his carefully THE CLASSICAL GUITAR EXPERIENCE tailored life is disrupted by love. Afternoon workshop with James Rippingale Director Paul Thomas Anderson Sun 11 Mar 4pm - 6pm, £15.00 per person paints an illuminating portrait of an obsessive artist on a creative Bring your guitar and join in the fun! Develop your guitar skills whatever journey, and the women your current ability in this interactive workshop. Professional guitarist keeping his world alive. James Rippingale will help you to develop your technique, tone production and guitar skills in this introductory workshop. Whether you are an aspiring classical guitarist or just curious about the instrument Tickets £8.00 you can come along and enjoy! Full concessions £7.00 Book with A Room With a View & My Participants bring their own instruments. Left Foot & save £6

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MARK YOUTH THEATRE THE SHAPE OF WATER (15) presents HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL JR Sat 17 Mar 5pm STUDIO Fri 23 Mar 7.45pm STUDIO Thu 15 Mar 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 16 Mar 7.30pm THEATRE Director: Guillermo del Toro Sat 17 Mar 2.30pm THEATRE With Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Sat 17 Mar 7.30pm THEATRE Michael Shannon USA 2017 2hrs 5mins Book by David Simpatico Based on a Disney Channel Original Movie Written by Peter Barsocchini Songs by Matthew Gerrard & Robbie Nevil, Ray Cham, Greg Cham & Andrew Seeley, Randy This latest fantasy from the Petersen & Kevin Quinn, Andy Dodd & Adam Watts, Bryan Louiselle director of Crimson Peak and David N. Lawrence & Faye Greenberg, Jamie Houston Pan’s Labyrinth is an other- worldly fairy tale, set against Music Adapted, Arranged and Produced by Bryan Louiselle the backdrop of 1960s Cold War America. In the secret military This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International research laboratory where she (Europe) works as a cleaner, mute Elisa (Sally Hawkins) has few friends. But her life changes when Mark Youth Theatre are an established group of 8 to 18 years olds she and her colleague Zelda based in the nearby village of Mark. Working through the medium (Octavia Spencer) discover a of drama they aim to help children gain confidence and learn to highly classified experiment. express themselves, and this year they are bringing their always popular production to Strode Theatre for the first time. “... one of the most delightful films of the year. … a romantic An entertaining event for children and adults alike, this year’s comedy, a melodrama, a production brings together Troy, Gabriella and the students of East spy thriller, a heist caper, a High as they sing and dance their way through all of the hits from superhero blockbuster and the original film. a monster movie all at once. What more do you want? ” Nicholas Barber, BBC Culture BBFC Insight: contains strong violence, language, sex, nudity

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Strode Comedy THE PRETEND MEN present POLICE COPS IN SPACE Mon 19 Mar 7.45pm STUDIO Support the Created and performed by The Pretend Men Arts in Somerset Producer: Nathan Parkinson by becoming a Co-produced by The New Diorama Theatre and funded by Arts Council England. Friend of Strode Theatre or by making a donation. Following a total sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017, multi award-winning comedy trio The Pretend Men tour their critically As a Friend you can enjoy acclaimed lo-fi physical comedy parody blockbuster Police Cops in a week of priority booking Space internationally and across the UK. as well as weekly email updates and seasonal After his father is killed by an evil robot, Sammy Johnson, the last Police newsletters. Cop in the universe, blasts off in an unmanned escape pod. Now on a distant planet, Sammy must team up with Alien fighter pilot Ranger Single person membership and his trusty Cyborg C9 as they embark on an intergalactic adventure is from £20 per year or £2 across the galaxy to find Earth, avenge his father and become the best per month damn Police Cop in space. Two people at the same Pretend Men take every cop show and sci-fi cliché in the book and address from £30 per year leave you laughing without stop! or £3 per month

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“Farce at its most intelligent” GQ Magazine

Suitable for ages 12+ Mild infrequent swearing, Sexual references, partial male nudity.

Registered Charity no. 1112942 Tickets £13.00

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FROM THE VAUDEVILLE THEATRE THE CABINET OF DR. NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE A LIVE screening of CALIGARI (U) presents a LIVE screening of LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN JULIUS CAESAR Wed 21 Mar 7.45pm STUDIO Tue 20 Mar 7.15pm STUDIO Thu 22 Mar 7pm STUDIO Director: Robert Wiene By: Oscar Wilde With Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil By: William Shakespeare Director: Kathy Burke Dagover, Freidrich Feher Director: Nicholas Hytner With Samantha Spiro, Kevin Bishop, Jennifer Germany 1920 1hr 10mins With Ben Whishaw, Michelle Fairley, Saunders Silent with live music accompaniment David Calder, David Morrissey 2hrs 30mins tbc Runtime tbc

This silent masterpiece of The day of Lady Windermere’s German expressionist cinema Caesar returns in triumph to birthday party, and all is uses distorted sets to create a Rome and the people pour out perfectly in order. Until her weird world where nightmares of their homes to celebrate. friend Lord Darlington plants and reality mingle, with a Alarmed by the autocrat’s a seed of suspicion. Is her surprising final twist. Fairground popularity, the educated élite husband having an affair? And hypnotist Dr Caligari displays conspire to bring him down. will the other woman really a somnambulist called Cesare After his assassination, civil war attend the party? as a circus attraction. But when erupts on the streets of the Caligari and his sleepwalker capital. First performed in 1892, Lady are suspected of murder, their Windermere’s Fan explores novelty act is surrounded by Nicholas Hytner’s production the ambiguity of upper class more supernatural implications. will thrust the audience into the morality and the fragile position street party that greets Caesar’s of women in society in the late Musicians and producers return, the congress that Victorian era in one of Wilde’s studying BTEC Music Production witnesses his murder, the rally most popular and witty plays. at Strode College will that assembles for his funeral accompany this eerie classic and the chaos that explodes in with an improvised acoustic and its wake. electronic audio feast reflecting the sharp angles, twisted architecture and distorted Tickets £15.00 perspectives of the film. Full concessions £13.00 School/College groups £10.50 (Educational groups please contact Tickets £8.00 Tickets £17.00 the box office) Full concessions £7.00 Full concessions £15.00

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STREET THEATRE FINDING YOUR FEET (12A) presents NEVILLE’S ISLAND Fri 23 Mar 5.15pm STUDIO Sat 24 Mar 7.45pm STUDIO Thu 22 Mar 7.30pm THEATRE Mon 26 Mar 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 23 Mar 7.30pm THEATRE Tue 27 Mar 4pm STUDIO Sat 24 Mar 7.30pm THEATRE Thu 29 Mar 5.15pm STUDIO By Tim Frith Director: Richard Loncraine Director: Mike Linham With Imelda Staunton, Joanna Lumley, Producers: James Linham & Paul Townsend Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie UK 2017 1hr 51mins

The award winning company Street Theatre bring you the hilarious comedy “ Neville’s Island” by Tim Firth, also the author of “Calendar When Lady Sandra Abbott Girls” (Imelda Staunton) discovers that her husband of forty years Four out of condition middle aged businessmen sent off on a is having an affair with her team-building exercise in the Lake District get shipwrecked on an best friend, she seeks refuge island on Derwentwater. Bound in by fog, menaced by the wild life with her estranged, bohemian and cut off from the world, this perfunctory middle-class exercise sister Bif (Celia Imrie). Sandra turns into a carnival of recrimination, French cricket and sausages. couldn’t be more different to her What should have been a bonding process for Gordon,Angus,Roy outspoken, free spirited sibling. and Neville turns into a muddy, bloody fight for survival. But, as it turns out, ‘different’ is just what Sandra needs and she You can expect plenty of laughs and water, yet moments of pathos reluctantly lets Bif drag her along too. A theatrical experience not to be missed. to her community dance class. Gradually she starts finding her This in an amateur production by special arrangement with Samuel feet... and romance. French Ltd. Featuring a star-studded cast including Timothy Spall, Joanna Lumley and David Hayman, this life-affirming comedy proves it’s never too late to start again.

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MC PROMOTIONS in partnership LADY BIRD (15) ROYAL OPERA HOUSE CINEMA with STRODE THEATRE A LIVE screening of presents Mon 26 Mar 5.15pm STUDIO BERNSTEIN CENTENARY THE FORTUNES with special Thu 29 Mar 7.45pm STUDIO BALLET PROGRAMME guests EDISON LIGHTHOUSE & GLEN LEON Director: Greta Gerwig Tue 27 Mar 7.15pm THEATRE With Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Sun 25 Mar 7pm THEATRE Tracy Letts Choreography: Wayne McGregor, Liam USA 2017 1hr 35mins Scarlett and Christopher Wheeldon Music by: Leonard Bernstein The Fortunes made it big in Three ballets approx 3hrs including two the charts in the 1960s with In this affecting coming-of- intervals million-selling hits like ‘You’ve age story, set amidst a rapidly Got Your Troubles’ and ‘Here it shifting economic landscape in Comes Again’, with chart success 2002 California, first-time solo The Royal Ballet celebrates the continuing into the 70s. Recently director Greta Gerwig reveals centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s they have toured the world and both humour and pathos in birth with an all-Bernstein built up a reputation as one the turbulent bond between programme from Wayne of the finest harmony bands a mother and her teenage McGregor, Liam Scarlett and throughout Europe. daughter. Christopher Wheeldon.

They are joined tonight by Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson Leonard Bernstein was one of Edison Lighthouse, back at (Saoirse Ronan) fights against the first classical composers Strode by popular demand after her loving, opinionated and in America to achieve both an electric first appearance last strong-willed mum Marion popular and critical acclaim. He October, and Glen Leon, the (Laurie Metcalf), a hard-working was eclectic in his sources – fabulous lead singer of one of nurse trying to keep her family drawing on jazz and modernism, the greatest live groups touring afloat after Lady Bird’s father the traditions of Jewish music the UK and Europe, New Amen loses his job. But deep down, and the Broadway musical – and Corner. Glen will perform on the two are really quite alike… many of Bernstein’s scores are his own recreating a fantastic remarkably well suited to dance. tribute to Tom Jones. “A good-hearted film, … in a way that’s alert and intelligent about people’s feelings.” San Tickets £20.00 Francisco Chronicle. Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode Theatre Support Fund Book with Dave Berry (pg. 36) & Tickets £8.00 Tickets £15.00 Kast Off Kinks (pg. 40) for £52.50 Full concessions £7.00 Full concessions £13.00

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FROM BRISTOL OLD VIC METROPLITAN OPERA ROYAL OPERA HOUSE CINEMA An AS LIVE screening of A LIVE screening of A LIVE screening of MESSIAH COSÌ FAN TUTTE MACBETH Sat 31 Mar 7pm THEATRE Sat 31 Mar 5.55pm STUDIO Wed 4 Apr 7.15pm THEATRE Director: Tom Morris By W. A. Mozart By Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Harry Bicket Conductor: David Robertson Conductor: Antonio Pappano With Jamie Beddard, Catherine Wyn- With Amanda Majeski and Serena Malfi, Director: Phyllida Lloyd Rogers, Joshua Ellicott, Brindley Sherratt, Ben Bliss, Adam Plachetka With Anna Netrebko, Željko Lučić and Julia Doyle Ildebrando D’Arcangelo 2hrs 15mins including one interval 3hrs 20mins including one interval From The Bristol Old Vic Goaded by their cynical friend Sung in Italian with English subtitles Don Alfonso, soldiers Ferrando and Guglielmo decide to test Inspired by Handel’s profound their fiancées’ fidelity. Pretending The warrior Macbeth fights on religious masterpiece, this to leave with their regiment, the side of the King of Scotland acclaimed Bristol Old Vic they return in disguise and pay – but when a coven of witches production provides a rare court to each other’s lover. Will prophesy that he shall become chance to experience a the young women succumb king himself, a ruthless ambition powerfully dramatic account of to the charms of these two drives Macbeth and his wife to Messiah and to rediscover the handsome ‘foreigners’? horrific acts. intense spirituality of its many well-known arias and choruses. A co-production with English Verdi’s life-long love affair with National Opera, this clever vision Shakespeare’s works began Described by the critics as an of the battle of the sexes is set with Macbeth, a play he ‘astonishingly beautiful’ (The in a carnivalesque environment considered to be ‘one of the Stage), ‘direct and impactful inspired by 1950s Coney Island. greatest creations of man’. With interpretation’ (The Times), this his librettist Francesco Maria dramatised concert is a rare treat Piave Verdi set out to create for connoisseurs and enthusiasts ‘something out of the ordinary’. alike. Their success is borne out in every bar of a score that sees Verdi at his most theatrical: it bristles with demonic energy.

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WINCHESTER: THE HOUSE TOPAZ DANCE STUDIOS THE MERCY (12A) THAT GHOSTS BUILT (CERT presents TBC) THOROUGHLY MODERN Sun 8 Apr 3pm STUDIO MILLIE JR Wed 11 Apr 7.30pm THEATRE Wed 4 Apr 7.45pm STUDIO Thu 5 Apr 7.30pm THEATRE Director: James Marsh Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig Fri 6 Apr 7.30pm THEATRE With Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, With Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Sat 7 Apr 2pm THEATRE David Thewlis Sarah Snook Sat 7 Apr 7.30pm THEATRE UK 2017 1hr 40mins Australia/USA 2018 Runtime tbc Topaz Dance Studios present This gripping drama from Thoroughly Modern Millie Jr’. the director of The Theory of Late 19th century California: on Set in New York in the 1920’s Everything stars Colin Firth in the an isolated stretch of land near this show is packed with quick true story of Donald Crowhurst San Jose sits the most haunted tapping, fast singing and and his attempt to win the first house in the world. Built by an array of colourful flapper non-stop single-handed round- Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), dresses! the-world yacht race in 1968 the widow of the rifle magnate, - one of the most physically the house has been under Come and join us as we tell and psychologically testing constant construction for years. you the story of how Miss Millie endeavours any adventurer Dillmount moves to New York to could contemplate. To the outsider it looks like a achieve her life goal of marrying monstrous monument to a rich and becoming a Modern. A keen amateur sailor and disturbed woman’s madness. But businessman, Crowhurst sees it Sarah is not building for herself. as a chance to promote his new She is building a prison, an nautical navigation and stability asylum for hundreds of vengeful systems. Not surprisingly, ghosts, and the most terrifying barely out of domestic waters among them have a score to his inexperience and untried settle with the Winchesters… technology start to let him down. But having staked everything on the success in this race, he knows he can’t turn Tickets £12.50 back… Limited Concessions (Children under 16 and Seniors) £9.50 Tickets £8.00 Ticket price includes a £1 or 50p contribution to the Tickets £8.00 Full concessions £7.00 Strode Theatre Support Fund Full concessions £7.00

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BOLSHOI BALLET WESTWOOD (CERT TBC) SWEET COUNTRY (CERT TBC) A LIVE screening of GISELLE Sun 8 Apr 5.30pm STUDIO Mon 9 Apr 7.30pm THEATRE Sun 8 Apr 5pm THEATRE Director: Lorna Tucker Director: Warwick Thornton Documentary With Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich UK 2017 Tremayne Doolan, Hamilton Morris Music by: Adolphe Adam 1hr 30mins tbc Australia 2017 Runtime tbc

When Giselle learns that her Since igniting the punk Inspired by real events, this is beloved Albrecht is promised movement with Malcolm a period western set in 1929 to another woman, she dies McLaren over 40 years ago, in the outback of the Northern of a broken heart in his arms. Vivienne Westwood has been Territory, Australia. When While Albrecht grieves, she redefining British fashion. Aboriginal stockman Sam kills returns from the dead as a Wili, a white station owner in self- a vengeful spirit meant to make With unprecedented access, defence, he and his wife Lizzie unfaithful men dance until this documentary tells the go on the run. They are pursued death… remarkable story of her life, through the desert by Sergeant her fashion, her activism Fletcher and his posse. Sam is Prima ballerina Svetlana and her cultural importance, an expert bushman and he has Zakharova personifies this from a childhood in post-war little difficulty outlasting his ultimate ballerina role in the Derbyshire to the runways pursuers, but for the health of classical repertoire, alongside of Paris and Milan, blending his pregnant wife, he decides the sensational Sergei Polunin archive, reconstruction and to give himself up and face the as Albrecht, in this chilling, yet interviews into a poignant court. But will justice be served? luminous ballet that continues portrait of one of the true to captivate audiences for over cultural icons of our time, as she “The spare, classical chase 150 years at the Bolshoi. fights to maintain her principles drama … is seeded with and her legacy in a business barbed observations driven by consumerism, profit on colonialism, cultural and global expansion. erasure and rough justice, kept poetically succinct by Thornton’s lithe, soaring visual storytelling.” Variety.

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STRODE THEATRE presents METROPLITAN OPERA AN AUDIENCE WITH ADAM HENSON presents a LIVE screening of LOUISA MILLER Thu 12 Apr 7.30pm THEATRE Sat 14 Apr 5.30pm STUDIO

Adam Henson is perhaps the best-known farmer in the UK, presenting By: Giuseppe Verdi his own section on BBC TV’s Countryfile to around 7 million viewers Plácido Domingo, Sonya Yoncheva, every Sunday evening. Piotr Beczała Join Adam as he shares stories about his farming life, his TV career, Runtime tbc and the running of the Costwold Farm Park, together with his thoughts on British Agriculture, plus a chance to ask your own questions. There will also be a book signing after the show. This rarely performed Verdi gem, is a heart-wrenching tragedy Tickets £20.00 based on Friedrich Schiller’s novel Intrigue and Love.

BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER The young maiden Luisa loves presents a LIVE screening of Rodolfo, unaware that he is KIRILL PETRENKO & YUJA actually the son of the local WANG lord. An unscrupulous rival for her affections tells her father Fri 13 Apr 6.30pm THEATRE of Rodolfo’s true identity, turning the old man against

LIVE ON SCREEN Conductor: Kirill Petrenko him. Jealousy, suspicion, and Piano: Yuja Wang betrayal tear the lovers apart, 2hrs 30mins including one interval but Luisa remains loyal to her father to the last. In the first Met performances of the The second live broadcast from opera in more than ten years, the Berliner Philharmoniker is Sonya Yoncheva sings the title led by Kirill Petrenko, chief conductor designate of the orchestra, and role opposite Piotr Beczała as features the exciting young pianist Yuja Wang performing Prokofiev’s Rodolfo, with Domingo as Luisa’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The concert also includes Paul Dukas’s stern-yet-loving father. iridescent tone poem La Péri and Franz Schmidt’s Symphony No. 4 in C Major. Featuring exclusive interviews and programme insights.

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GLASTONBURY AND STREET MUSICAL COMEDY SOCIETY MC PROMOTIONS in partnership presents with STRODE THEATRE COPACABANA present DAVE BERRY with special guests Tue 17 Apr 7.30pm THEATRE VANITY FARE & UNION GAP Wed 18 Apr 7.30pm THEATRE Thu 19 Apr 7.30pm THEATRE Sun 22 Apr 7pm THEATRE Fri 20 Apr 7.30pm THEATRE Sat 21 Apr 7.30pm THEATRE Dave Berry was once described Directors: Laura Grace James & Will Taylor as the most original performer in Musical Director: Luke Holman British rock and was a major icon Choreographer: Sarah Neale during the swinging 60s, charting Producer: Mary Parker with legendary hits like ’Memphis Tennessee’, ‘My Baby Left Me’, ‘Little Things’, ‘Mama’ and, his most Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl… iconic, ‘The Crying Game’. in recent years, Dave has been the special The story follows aspiring songwriter, Stephen, as he composes guest on prestigious shows with what he hopes will become a hit musical. His imagination takes the cream of British musicians him back to the 1940s as he creates a story surrounding an including Van Morrison and Roger ambitious young singer Lola who arrives in New York City from Taylor of Queen. Tulsa hoping to become a star. She lands a position at the famous Copacabana Nightclub, “the hottest club north of Havana”, and Opening tonight’s show will strives to become a ‘Copa Girl’ dancer with be Vanity Fare who remain the help of the bartender, Tony. favourites on the 60s tours around the country. Their set, including Featuring original songs created by Barry their great hits ‘Hitchin a Ride’, Manilow, dazzling costumes, and toe ‘Early in the Morning’ and ‘I Live tapping songs and choreography – all for the Sun’, will be followed by the right ingredients for a thoroughly a return to Strode - by popular entertaining evening of musical theatre. demand - of Union Gap!

Tickets Tickets £20.00 Tuesday Evening £14.50 - Special offer 3 for 2 Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode Wednesday - Saturday Evening £17.50 Theatre Support Fund Party booking: 1 free seat in 10 Book with The Fortunes (pg. 31) & Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode Theatre Support Fund Kast Off Kinks (pg. 40) for £52.50

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A century ago there were over 200 female playwrights writing to support the THE SQUARE (CERT TBC) suffrage cause…come and see four of their very best one-act comedies! Tue 24 Apr 7.45pm STUDIO STREET THEATRE in partnership with STRODE THEATRE Wed 25 Apr 7.45pm STUDIO present KNICKERBOCKER GLORIES Director: Ruben Östland With Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Fri 27 Apr 7.45pm STUDIO Dominic West Sat 28 Apr 2pm STUDIO Swed/Ger/Fr/Den 2017 Sun 29 Apr 7pm STUDIO 2hrs 20mins tbc Partly in Swedish and Danish with subtitles Creative Director: Lois Harbinson Co-producers: Paul Townsend & Farès K Moussa

Christian is the respected curator of a contemporary art museum Marking the centenary of the Representation of the People Act in Stockholm. He’s gearing up to 1918, four short Suffragist/Suffragette plays come to Strode Studio. launch the next show, ‘The Square’, Selected from works created for and by the Actresses Franchise a daring installation examining League 1908–1913, they were revived by Naomi Paxton in 2010 altruism and our duty to help as Knickerbocker Glories. These plays provide a glimpse into the others. But when he becomes period’s theatre styles and reveal the complexity of opinions during the victim of a scam, Christian is the struggle for equal representation. forced to question his own views on social responsibility. Meanwhile, How The Vote Was Won (45 mins) a shocking viral stunt cooked up Chaos ensues when Horace’s female relations arrive at Horace and by the museum’s PR agency sends Ethel’s London home on the day of a general women’s strike. Christian – and the museum – into an existential crisis. Pot and Kettle (15 mins) With pitch-perfect performances A young lady returns home in great distress having assaulted a and a cutting deadpan wit, this suffragette who was sitting near her at an anti-suffragist meeting. winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2017 is a knife-sharp satire Miss Appleyard’s Awakening (15 mins) on art, culture and communication An anti-suffragist campaigner collecting signatures for a petition in the digital age. finds herself in the home of a sympathiser... “…daringly surreal” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian. The Mother’s Meeting (monologue, 5 mins)

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METROPLITAN OPERA ROYAL OPERA HOUSE CINEMA presents a LIVE screening of presents a LIVE screening of Look out for CENDRILLON MANON our mid-season Sat 28 Apr 5.55pm STUDIO Thu 3 May 7.15pm THEATRE Update for By Jules Massenet Music by Jules Massenet details of the Director: Laurent Pelly Choreographer: Kenneth MacMillan following titles With Joyce DiDonato Runtime tbc Runtime tbc and more... A welcome return of this highly A fairy godmother, a glass dramatic, heart-breaking Royal slipper, an opulent ball, an Ballet production of Manon, Coco enchanted forest, and a Prince choreographed by Kenneth Charming who loves her—did MacMillan to a score of music Isle of Dogs all that really happen, or was by Jules Massenet (1842-1912) it just a dream? Long-suffering and based on the 18th-century Wonder Wheel Cendrillon lives a life of drudgery French novel by Abbé Prévost. with her good-natured father Peter Rabbit and his imperious wife, until Manon’s brother Lescaut is fate, romance, and a touch offering her to the highest Roman Israel Esq. of fairy magic intervene. For bidder when she meets Des the first time ever, Massenet’s Grieux and falls in love. They sumptuous version of the elope to Paris, but when another Cinderella story comes to suitor, Monsieur G.M., offers the Met in this imaginative Manon a life of luxury as his We do not send updates storybook production directed mistress she can’t resist. With in the post. To receive by Laurent Pelly. Superstar Joyce the Lescauts’ encouragement notification when these DiDonato sings the title role, Des Grieux cheats at cards in an and other titles are alongside British mezzo-soprano attempt to win Monsieur G.M.’s added, please provide us Alice Coote in the trouser role fortune... with your email address of Prince Charming, Kathleen at the box office or sign Kim as the Fairy Godmother, up for our newsletter and Stephanie Blythe as the online. - We do not share archetypal wicked stepmother. your details with anyone else and promise to not Tickets £15.00 email too often! Tickets £15.00 Full concessions £13.00 Full concessions £13.00

38 www.strodetheatre.org.uk Box Office: 01458 442846 Mon - Sat 10am - 2pm STRODE THEATRE presents KATHRYN ROBERTS & SEAN LAKEMAN Sun 6 May 7.30pm THEATRE LIVE ON STAGE

Strode Tickets £15.00 Folk

With their landmark 5th album, ‘Personae’, husband and wife duo Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman introduce us to a host of new characters and stories from their fertile and energetic musical imaginations. Drawing upon the British folk tradition’s natural backdrops whilst weaving in their own distinct and eclectic flavours, self-penned songs sit comfortably alongside traditional ballads to provide a hugely entertaining and varied evening of music and song.Listen out for stories of Knights, grizzly murder, giants and even an ancient tortoise!

Twice winners of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for ‘Best Duo’, an evening in the company of this much- loved and highly respected couple is intimate, inclusive, warm and inspiring.

‘English folk at it’s best’ - The Sun “It’s folk music for the modern age.” - The Telegraph ‘These guys are something very special’ -Acoustic Magazine

STRODE LIVE in partnership with STRODE THEATRE present THE LEYLINES Fri 11 May 7.30pm THEATRE LIVE ON STAGE

Tickets £11.00 Full concessions £10.00 Strode Children 18 and under £5.00 Folk

The Leylines are a British folk-punk forged in festivals and bonfires, with fiddle-driven rabble rousers and songs that stir the soul, started by a group of West Country musicians driving home from a session at the legendary Sawmills studios. They have created a style that combines the acerbic social commentary of Paul Weller with a folk-rock vibe that will send you right back to those long, hazy, festival days.

This evening is presented by and supported with performances from Strode College Music Studies students, including bands such as Moonwalker.

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MID SOMERSET ORCHESTRA presents MC PROMOTIONS in partnership BEETHOVEN 4TH PIANO CONCERTO TCHAIKOVSKY ROMEO with STRODE THEATRE AND JULIET presents KAST OFF KINKS Sat 12 May 7.30pm THEATRE Sun 13 May 7pm THEATRE Conductor: Hitoshi Suzuki Soloist: Hilary Suckling Leader: Hywell Jenkins Kast Off Kinks consists solely of original members of The Kinks, including Ian Gibbons, The Mid Somerset Orchestra’s third guest conductor this season is the Jim Rodford, Mick Avory, John highly accomplished Hitoshi Suzuki, who has studied all over the world Dalton and John Gosling. including the University of the Arts Tokyo, Royal Northern College of Music, Royal College of Music and is currently at the Conservatoire Royal One of the greatest ever rock de Bruxelles. A prizewinner in many orchestral conducting competitions, bands to have come out of Hitoshi will bring a unique international perspective to the evening. England, The Kinks had 24 hit records during the 60s, 70s, Their soloist, Hilary Suckling, graduated from the Royal Academy of 80s and 90s, including three Music and the University of Cambridge. A previous favourite with MSO No.1s - ‘You Really Got Me’, ‘Tired (Schumann Piano Concerto 2013), Hilary returns to perform Beethoven’s of Waiting For You’ and ‘Sunny 4th Piano Concerto. She has worked as an Accompanist at Chetham’s Afternoon’, and further massive School of Music; for BBC Young Musician and Yehudi Menuhin soloists, and hits like ‘Waterloo Sunset’, ‘All has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, St James’ Piccadilly and BBC Radio 3. Day and All of the Night’ and, of course, ‘Lola’, all in all spending The programme opens with the overture to “The Merry Wives of Windsor” 215 weeks in the charts! by Nicolai, before the evening’s main highlight of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 4. Kast Off Kinks really are the ‘real thing’ and will bring back the The Festive Overture by Shostakovich provides a good work out for the memories of four decades of brass section and is contrasted by “Le Tombeau de Couperin”, a piece some of the best-loved pop written by Ravel as homage to the Baroque French Keyboard Style. music of all time!

The concert concludes with Tchaikovsky’s ever popular Overture Fantasy “Romeo and Juliet”. Tickets £20.00 Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode Theatre Support Fund Tickets £12.00 Full concessions £11.00 Children 18 and under £3.00 Book with The Fortunes (pg. 31) & Ticket price includes a £1 contribution to the Strode Theatre Support Fund Dave Berry (pg. 36) for £52.50

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STRODE THEATRE VIENNA FESTIVAL BALLET presents presents FROM THE VERANDA THE SLEEPING BEAUTY DAN LANDRUM AND AARON O’ROURKE Sun 20 May 5pm THEATRE Fri 18 May 7.45pm STUDIO Music by Tchaikovsky

Strode Theatre welcomes two A classic fairytale set to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score, stunning world class musicians from choreography, beautiful costumes all combine to portray the Appalachia USA. struggle between good and evil.

To celebrate the centenary of The wicked Carabosse casts a spell on Princess Aurora proclaiming Cecil Sharp’s song collecting that she will one day prick her finger - and die. The Lilac Fairy in the Appalachians, they have changes the spell, and instead on the fateful day the Princess and teamed up with Somerset folk the entire Palace fall into a deep sleep. A century later Prince Désiré singer Amanda Boyd to perform revives the Princess with a kiss, the Palace awakes and a parade of songs from Sharp’s Appalachian fairytale characters attend the wedding. and Somerset collection. Dan and Aaron are in the UK to Following the traditional tale of Sleeping Beauty, this classical tutor at Halsway Manor and ballet brought to Strode stage by highly respected touring ballet will be sharing their expertise company Vienna Festival Ballet is sure to enchant audiences of all with music students at Strode ages. College. “The entire show was captivating from start to finish” - WELWYN HATFIELD TIMES

‘’A truly spellbinding performance’’ BURNLEY EXPRESS

‘’The whole evening was a delight’’ - LICHFIELD LIVE

Tickets £10.00 Ticket price includes a 50p contribution to the Tickets £20.00 Strode Theatre Support Fund Children 16 and under £15.00

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University level education • Career-focused Degrees, HNDs and HNCs, relevant to growth industries in the south west. • Highly qualified, specialist teachers and personalised support. • Lower fees than universities. • Study full-time (two days a week) or part-time (one day a week), leaving time for paid work. Courses for adults • Learn a new skill • Gain a new qualification • Develop your career • Enjoy a leisure interest For more information Visit: www.strode-college.ac.uk Call: 01458 844400 Email: [email protected]

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JANUARY (continued from previous page) 3 & 4 Last Flag Flying (15) p.23 Fri 26 78/52 (15) p.10 Sun 4 Bolshoi Ballet: The Flames of Paris p.23 Fri 26 Psycho (15) p.10 Tue 6 ROH: Carmen p.24 Sat 27 MSO Mozart 3rd Horn Concerto p.11 Fri 9 Martin Harley & Daniel Kimbro p.24 Sun 28 Met Opera: Tosca p.11 9 & 11 Early Man (cert tbc) p.25 Mon 29 Brad’s Status (cert tbc) p.12 Sat 10 Met Opera: Semiramide p.25 Mon 29 Ben Rivers: Three Films p.12 Sun 11 NT Live: Cat On a Hot Tin Roof p.25 FEBRUARY Sun 11 Guitar Music of Latin America p.26 2 & 5 Hostiles (cert tbc) p.12 13 & 14 Phantom Thread (15) p.26 Fri 2 The Prince of Nothingwood (15) p.13 15 - 17 Mark YT High School Musical JR p.27 Sat 3 Fundraising concert p.13 17 & 23 The Shape of Water (15) p.27 Mon 5 The Final Year (cert tbc) p.14 Mon 19 Police Cops in Space p.28 Wed 7 ROH: Tosca p.14 Tue 20 Lady Windermere’s Fan p.29 Thu 8 The Coming War on China (12A) p.14 Wed 21 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (U) p.29 Fri 9 All the Money in the World (cert tbc) p.15 Thu 22 NT Live: Julius Caesar p.29 Fri 9 Makala (cert tbc) p.15 22 - 24 Street Theatre Neville’s Island p.30 Sat 10 Make More Noise p.16 23-29 Finding Your Feet (12A) p.30 Sat 10 Met Opera: L’elisir d’amore p.16 Sun 25 The Fortunes with special guests p.31 11 & 12 The Greatest Showman (cert tbc) p.16 26 & 29 Lady Bird (15) p.31 Sun 11 Walk With Me (PG) p.17 Tue 27 ROH Bernstein Centenary p.31 Sun 11 Bolshoi Ballet: The Lady of the Camellias p.17 Sat 31 Messiah from the Bristol Old Vic p.32 Mon 12 American Movie (15) p.17 Sat 31 Met Opera: Così Fan Tutte p.32 Wed 14 A Room With a View (PG) p.18 APRIL Thu 15 Jour De Fete (U) p.18 Wed 4 ROH: Macbeth p.32 Thu 15 Mountains May Depart (12A) p.18 Wed 4 Winchester: The House ... (cert tbc) p.33 Fri 16 Molly’s Game (15) p.19 5 - 7 Topaz Dance Studios Thoroughly Modern Millie p.33 Fri 16 Strode Comedy Stand p.19 8 & 11 The Mercy (12A) p.33 16 - 26 Darkest Hour (PG) p.19 Sun 8 Bolshoi Ballet: Giselle p.34 17 & 23 Three Billboards ... (15) p.20 Sun 8 Westwood (cert tbc) p.34 22 - 24 Strode College Made in Dagenham p.20 Mon 9 Sweet Country (cert tbc) p.34 Sat 24 A Woman’s Life (PG) p.21 Thu 12 An Audience With Adam Henson p.35 Sun 25 Met Opera: La Bohème p.21 Fri 13 Berlin Phil: Kirill Petrenko & Yuja Wang p.35 26 & 27 The Post (cert tbc) p.21 Sat 14 Met Opera: Louisa Miller p.35 Wed 28 ROH: The Winter’s Tale p.22 17 - 21 G&SMCS Copacabana p.36 MARCH Sun 22 Dave Berry with special guests p.36 Thu 1 The Post (cert tbc) p.21 24 & 25 The Square (cert tbc) p.37 Thu 1 My Left Foot (15) p.22 27 - 29 Street Theate Knickerbocker Glories p.37 2 & 5 Journey’s End (12A) p.22 Sat 28 Met Opera: Cendrillon p.38 Sat 3 Wells Cathedral School Jazz Orchestra p.23