News 1–10 Playing the Changes 1–2 Dec 2017 Barbican Maker: Emma Johnson 3–4 Transpose 5–6 The Caretaker 7–8 Ho Ho Homeware 9–10 Listings 11–44 Art 11–14 Film 15–19 Classical Music 28–36 Contemporary Music 37–38 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Hand Anatomy) (1982) © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York..tif Theatre & 39–42 Dance Christian Campbell, an influence. Housing Learning 43–44 Trinidadian Akomfrah and Basquiat Bahamian poet, at the same institution Information 22–27 changes the conversation. essayist and cultural Explore 22 critic, considers This is a crucial time to look at the importance of Basquiat again given major Calendar 23–25 global cultural shifts including Basquiat’s work for Booking 27 the rise of more African- today’s audience. American, Caribbean, Latin American and other diaspora Some questions for Boom artists and writers; the rise for Real: what tools, what of ’First World’ discourses language, what new ways on diaspora; the rise of of being together do we intersectional black theories have now that we didn’t (such as black feminist have then with which to read theory, black queer theory, the work of Jean-Michel etc) and new histories of Basquiat? How has the work black expressive cultures; changed (which is also to the rise of critical theory; the ask, how have we changed)? rise of alternative histories And how does the work of conceptualism; the rise read us now? Fortuitously a and increasing visibility of
News new commission, Purple, is black immigrants in North currently on show in the Curve America and Europe; the by the ferociously brilliant development of institutional artist John Akomfrah, support for the arts outside of
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Playing the Changes
2 News Dec 2017 3 News Dec 2017 Barbican Maker: Emma Johnson ‘Something which ‘build’ through‘build’ stacking. When Although I like surface surface Ilike Although That’s partly why I became Ibecame why partly That’s Barbican until January 2018. the at exclusive on display designs, playful Brutalist architecture, creating minimal and celebrates the once called ‘monstrous’ work her beech, and porcelain Through talent. emerging for call open an initiative, Makers Barbican of our part as Shop new the Barbican maker to in showcased be latest the is Johnson Emma Ceramicist design notions which lie in notions liedesign which in typical between a balance range,designing the Atro-city can users which architecture, miniature interchangeable an decoration on other people’s people’s other on decoration and I was drawn to ceramics ceramics to drawn Iwas and composites, and ceramics) to achance had we course practical enjoyed always strong and sculptural forms the Brutalism; in interested so slipcasting and mould making. mould and slipcasting away;straight particularly exploring form in my work. replicate these in ceramics. ceramics. in these replicate work, it’s not my strength; my strength; not it’s work, I wanted the pieces to convey convey to pieces the I wanted being as my work of I think I’m a lot more interested in in interested I’m more alot I’m automatically drawn to to drawn I’m automatically Brutalist aesthetics andBrutalist aesthetics the Before university I didn’t Ididn’t university Before fit my interests perfectly. my interests fit forms, and really love love really and forms, have many opportunities (wood, metal, polymers/ good design is is design good the challenge to of trying architectural of precision the materials different using try I’d clay, but with work to lack of adornment along with lessons atlessons school. In our timelessness’ I think makes ‘Ceramics can have a can ‘Ceramics whether a form will will aform whether a much softer way. Rather way. Rather softer a much in architecture the captures what how on apun of a bit years the over architecture changing opinions around London. aesthetic elements, I’ve taken coloured glaze, and the rivets rivets the and glaze, coloured the allow materials these of simplicity clean the Ifelt as and fashions and come trends surpass can object an good design is timelessness. If If timelessness. is design good My work looks at the the at looks work My Something which I think makes I think makes which Something surrounding Brutalist Brutalist surrounding sharp and rigid forms to be be to forms rigid and sharp was once seen as ‘atrocious’ ‘atrocious’ as seen once was rather than hidden away. hidden than rather a with covered than rather used to attach the beech to to beech the attach to used beech, and porcelain in work Brutalist buildings, mainly mainly buildings, Brutalist in a new light), so I prefer Iprefer so light), anew in into a new era still looking looking still era anew into by many is now being seen seen being now is by many has been stained throughout, stained has been (hence the name ‘Atro-city’, as than trying to recreate the the recreate to trying than it as camera my film use to the To study architecture. the the porcelain are celebrated celebrated are porcelain the porcelain The focus. main the lots of trips to photograph photograph to trips of lots look of concrete, I chose to to Ichose concrete, of look can’t always predict alwayscan’t predict be successful’ of own, its soI mind as well as other elements functional my own with along of piece, each and which good design. When designing Pottery: Form and Aesthetic Aesthetic and Form Pottery: exactly which design details details design which exactly my pieces, I referred to Robin Robin to Ireferred my pieces, a is it Ithink then modern, requirements, (such as as (such requirements, wanting all of the pieces to to pieces the of all wanting were unnecessary. I balanced Ibalanced unnecessary. were function the enhance would Functional Functional book Hopper’s from aesthetics. Brutalist in Pots ofPurpos in Pots be able to stack together), together), stack to able be the advice from this book book this from advice the e to research research e to on barbican.org.uk/shop colour palette I’ve chosen to to I’ve chosen palette colour inspired and mid-century Browse Emma Johnson’s range range Johnson’s Emma Browse Read the full interview on on interview full the Read work with will age well – I’ll –I’ll well age will with work I’m hoping that the simple simple the that I’m hoping forms, use honest of materials, blog.barbican.org.uk blog.barbican.org.uk how the pieces have fared! have pieces the how years afew in see to have
4 News Dec 2017 5 News Dec 2017 Transpose Following its successful debut at the Barbican last autumn, Transpose guides this year’s audience on an illuminating theatrical journey. Actor, author and singer-songwriter CN Lester
takes a brief look at the history of transgender performance. Dec 2017
For nearly six years, Transpose And yet there is still something concert hall, to strip audiences – a cross-genre event intensely powerful about of their identity. In that showcasing trans and queer this association – something moment – safe in anonymity, artists – has focused on film, deep in our history as gender overwhelmed with pleasure spoken word, classical music, outsiders. Sometimes that – we are transformed poetry, comedy and visual history is one of private beyond our sense of self: age, art. But it was only after our performance: the mollies nationality, mode of living. first show at the Barbican in of 18th-century Europe – a Crucially, we are transported 2016 that we realised we’d unique gendered category of outside of our accustomed never really thought about the time – performed secret genders and desires. the theatre of it all – what staged rituals of marriage and happens when a trans person childbirth. There are cases of When trans people take to takes the stage, and what odd mirroring: Victorian music the stage we take with us, by magic that space allows. necessity, all the good and ‘We have the the bad that comes with our A strange oversight? Maybe. chance to share experience of performance, Some of our most visible and performativity and fantasy. But enduring cultural moments lives too often the most extraordinary thing of gender subversion and derided or seen as is that we have the power to queer desire materialise in too complicated to take the audience there with front of an audience: drag us. The power shifts. Empathy stars, pantomime dames, understand’ shifts. In that combination Shakespearean boys, and of experiences, we have the mezzos in trousers making halls, with their drag comedy chance to share lives too love to the soprano; costume, acts and principal boys, were often derided or seen as too make-up and that carnival also home to cross-dressed complicated to understand. atmosphere where ordinary sex workers plying their trade. As an artist, for me theatre is rules of behaviour and identity Most meaningful of all are always a magical space; as a are suspended. those points where exploration human being, that exchange is on the stage went hand in the most precious. But in our day-to-day lives we hand with increased personal suffer from this association. and political freedom. Weimar Transpose: Barbican Most, if not all, trans people Berlin was broadly famous CN Lester will know the pain of being for its cabaret scene, although 8–9 Dec called a fake and a pretense. those cabarets functioned Worse than fakes: deliberate not just as entertainment, but See page 41 for details deceptions. If how we present also as meeting places and ourselves is accepted as community centres for a trans truthful in the dark of a theatre, population newly recognised it’s too often derided as and fighting for their right to trickery in the light of everyday exist and thrive.
experience. People want to News know what’s underneath, Michel Poizat, writing on before, ‘original’, as though the ecstatic power of opera, who we are is a costume they described the ability of the
Image © Robin Conway © Robin Image have the right to remove. human voice, in a darkened 6 Dec 2017
Leyland Kirby’s V/VM Project
John Doran looks The Stockport-born musician, music producer, who first forward to a rare who now lives in Poland, has made his name as V/VM (a suggested that the end is in caustic, dislocating and often live performance sight for the project, which hilarious noise/outsider rave by The Caretaker, deals with memory, melancholy project) to undertake one of aka experimental and decay; he is currently part his rare live appearances (it musician Leyland way through what could well is six years since his last UK be his grand closing statement. show). Speaking about the Kirby, which marks Everywhere at the End of event – a collaboration with the Krakow-based Time is a series of six albums the visual artists and Ivan artist’s first gig released at intervals over a Seal – he emphasises the word three-year period that sees the performance. ‘Shows for me in his homeland entire project slip mercilessly are specific moments. The for six years. into dementia. (Parts one, two process won’t necessarily be and three are already out, important here; what will be
News Leyland James Kirby is The and he is currently working on important is representation Caretaker. He has always been four and five in the series.) of the concept and project.’ The Caretaker, but for how much longer will this be So there couldn’t be a The Caretaker was born with
7 the case? better time for the Electronic Selected Memories from the direction –taking 1930s Big and You’ by Ray Nobleand of Jack Torrance (Jack one-point perspective –that a hotel corridor–filmed in a longtracking shot along Haunted Ballroom in1999. The gradually honesinona Stanley Kubrick’s trademark, project was initially inspired Nicholson) ataFourth of July in 1921. Thecombinationof his Orchestra becamethe horror movie TheShining: basis for ahauntingnew ball attheOverlook Hotel black and white photograph by theclosingsceneof 1980 track ‘Midnight,theStars these chillingvisualsandthe Alzheimer’s Disease in which Alzheimer’s Diseaseinwhich The Caretaker. Speaking Then, lastyear, after a & MFO, The Caretaker Caretaker The & MFO, An apogee of ambitionwithAn conceptually complex, the a switch hedescribesas as ameansof investigating dislocating styleof music. and thenprocessing themto done ontheEverywhere announced thathewas aware they have dementia. of aspecific late stage of axis whosemethodologywas on thehauntology/ambient are endless possibilities.’ are endlesspossibilities.’ as Ihave noideawhichway Empty BlissBeyond thisWorld Pure Anterograde Amnesia. and Felicita and See page 38 for details for 38 page See extra layers of meaningwith series, however. ‘Itexcites me music gained structural and music gainedstructural and moving from ‘thesublime music recorded from old78s process’. Asitbecamemore produce avery spectral and NIVHEK (Liz Harris/Grouper) (Liz NIVHEK recently theproject reached an Fri 8Dec Fri period of relative quiet,Kirby In 2005theproject took on working ontheselatter parts Kirby beganusingtheproject Band, SwingandChoral Unsound Dislocation is stillalot of work to be influenced by andreflective in 2011, adeeplymoving album is stillanadventure asthere it willallgo.Each day Iwork textural depthby turn.Until to theextreme interms of the various effects of dementia, the release of Theoretically today headds thatthere thinking of callingtimeon the sufferer isnolonger
‘Kirby began began ‘Kirby various effects of effects various as a means of ameans as dementia’ using the projectusing Introducing the investigating The Caretaker
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Events Free, bookingessentialviatheAceHotel website music, fashion andstreet artculture. in whichBasquiatcontinuesto influence A specialevening focusing ontheways Culture Club and Basquiat Thu 7Dec7pm,Ace Hotel London official hotel partnerisAceHotel London. fund of theLondonCommunityFoundation. The by Cockayne Grants for theArts,adonor-advised from Momart.Thepublicprogramme issupported tp bennettandPHILLIPS,withadditional support The exhibition issponsored by NET-A-PORTER, the SchirnKunsthalle Frankfurt. and organised incollaboration with Nairne, curator, BarbicanArtGallery, by DrDieter BuchhartandEleanor Basquiat: Boomfor Real isco-curated his deathat27in1988, beenenormous. artist whoseimpact andinfluence has,since material, theexhibition captures thespiritof an rare photography, film footage andarchive literature, film and television. Incorporating focus onBasquiat’srelationship withmusic, in theUK.Thisisalsofirst exhibition to private collections,many never before seen works from international museumsand an outstanding selectionof more than100 This unprecedented exhibition bringstogether Keith HaringandBlondie,amongothers. musician, whoworked withAndyWarhol, creativity of thisself-taught artist,poet,DJ and New York artscene.Engage intheexplosive a pioneeringprodigy of the1980s downtown Discover thework of Jean-MichelBasquiat, Real for Boom Basquiat: Until 28Jan2018, ArtGallery
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Pablo Picasso), 1984. Private collection, Italy. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.
Sat 9 Dec 1–4pm, Art Gallery Thu 14 Dec 7pm, Art Gallery Family Drop-in Animation Exhibition Tour: Dieter Buchhart Workshop Guest curator Dieter Buchhart explores Join visual artist and animator Reza Ben Basquiat’s pioneering artistic practice. Gajra to make your own Basquiat-esque Tickets £16, concessions available, includes characters and then bring them to life using same-day entry to the exhibition stop-motion animation. Drawing inspiration from Basquiat’s playful, expressive and enigmatic paintings, participants will 21 Sep–28 Jan, Across the Centre explore and experiment with a variety of Basquiat: Boom for Real animation techniques, including drawing, collage, pixilation and cut-out animation. Creative Learning Free, no booking required An activity sheet is available, alongside a full programme of tours and workshops Art suitable for schools and family visits. See website for more details 12 Dec 2017
John Akomfrah, still from Purple, 2017. Six-screen film installation. © John Akomfrah and Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy of Lisson Gallery
The Curve Until 7 Jan 2018 John Akomfrah: Purple British artist and film-maker and winner of the Opening Times 2017 Artes Mundi prize, John Akomfrah, Sat–Wed 11am–8pm presents an immersive, multi-channel video Thu–Fri 11am–9pm installation in The Curve. His most ambitious project to date, Purple is an enveloping, Free admission six-channel video installation addressing climate change and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and the wilderness. At a time when, according to the UN, greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are at their highest levels in history, with people experiencing the significant impacts
Listings of climate change, including shifting weather 13 Tue 12 Dec, Cinema 2 Memories of Underdevelopment 15
John Akomfrah Presents … Dec 2017 Chosen for its inspiration, the third film picked by John Akomfrah in this series looks at post- revolutionary Cuba through the eyes of an ordinary man, who becomes unsure of his place in a new world order. See page 19 for further details
Architecture on Stage
Thu Dec 2017, Frobisher Auditorium 1 Job Floris, Monadnock Job Floris has run Rotterdam-based studio Monadnock with Sandor Naus since 2006 and is post-graduate course leader at the city’s Academie Van Bouwkunst. Monadnock’s projects have included a number of temporary structures including a portable partition on the banks of the River Strand in 2008 and, more recently, a public tower in the Dutch tour of Nieuw-Bergen in 2015. Tickets £15 The Architecture Foundation, in association with the Barbican, presents Architecture on Stage – a programme of talks and debates patterns, rising sea levels, and more extreme weather events, Akomfrah’s Purple brings a multitude of ideas into conversation, including animal extinctions, the memory of ice, the plastic ocean and global warming. Akomfrah has combined hundreds of hours of archival footage with newly shot film and a hypnotic sound score to produce the video installation. The exhibition has been commissioned by the Barbican, London and co-commissioned by Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden, TBA21-Academy, The Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston and Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon. Projections by Christie Digital Art
Atlas House courtesy of Monadnock 14 Dec 2017 Film
A Matter of Life and Death New Releases Release dates are correct at the time of going to press but are subject to change at short Tickets notice. Please check online closer to the time. New releases Standard £12 From Fri 1 Dec Barbican Members £9.60 # Concessions £11 Happy End Business Members receive 25% off Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Tritignant standard price tickets and Mathieu Kassovitz star in this pitch- Under 18s £6 black family drama from Michael Haneke, Monday Madness £6 about a rich family poised to suffer from Student Tuesdays £5 some fraught bourgeois problems. Parent and Baby Screenings £6 France/Austria/Germany 2017 Dir For 3D titles add £2 Michael Haneke 107 min plus booking fee* Events See individual events online for details From Fri 8 Dec and prices A Matter of Life & DeathU Young Barbican When Captain Peter Carter (David Niven) 14–25? Join our discount scheme for free and is caught between this world and the next, he get cinema tickets to new release films for just £5 must make his case to a celestial jury to stay on (Mon–Thu) earth with his love June (Kim Hunter). Powell *Booking fee per online transaction 60p; 70p and Pressberger’s innovative use of colour telephone booking fee per transaction. No and black-and-white ciinematography was Listings fee when tickets are booked in person or for unlike anything audiences had seen before. Members and Young Barbican Members US UK 1946 Dir Michel Powell, * Local classification Emeric Pressburger 102 min
15 # Certificate to be confirmed From Fri 29 Dec Molly’s Game# Prolific writer Aaron Sorkin directs this
incredible story, about an Olympic-class skier Dec 2017 who ran a poker game for the global elite, and was arrested by the FBI in the middle of the night. Starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba and Chris O’Dowd.
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Parent and Baby Screenings Enjoy the best new films every Monday morning with your little ones of twelve months and under, including Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Our specially tailored screenings have gentle lighting and From Fri 8 Dec sound, creating a comfortable environment. # Stronger For full details, and to sign up to our Parent Jake Gyllenhaal gives a great performance and Baby mailing list visit barbican.org.uk as Jeff Bauman; a real-life survivor of the 2013 £6 plus booking fee* Boston Marathon bombings, and his difficult road to recovery. With excellent support from Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black). Relaxed Screenings US 2017 Dir David Gordon Green One Friday afternoon each month we screen a new release film or a performance cinema encore, in a specially tailored environment for From Thu 14 Dec # adults who may be on the autistic spectrum, Star Wars: The Last Jedi have Tourette Syndrome, anxiety, sensory Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega) difficulties or other learning disabilities. are back in the eighth episode of the world- Friends and carers are welcome, too. beating galactic saga, directed by Rian To find out more about the screenings Johnson (Brick, Looper). The force is strong and to download your visual story in this one. before visiting, please go to www. US 2017 Dir Rian Johnson barbican.org.uk/relaxedscreenings
From Fri 15 Dec Mountains May Depart# A beautiful documentary exploring our fascination with mountains. Directed by Jennifer Peedom and narrated by Willem Film Defoe, this breathtaking film is a collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. 16 Dec 2017
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Events and Seasons From Fri 8 Dec Brigsy Bear# 1–10 Dec, Cinemas 1 & 3 This indie offering about a twenty-something London International guy’s obsession with a children’s television show bear is a fantastically offbeat black comedy. Animation Festival 2017 Starring SNL’s Kyle Mooney, Mark Hamill, The UK’s largest animation festival returns for Jane Adams and Claire Danes, it tracks one its 14th year with the best shorts and features man’s quest to finish his favourite kids TV show. from around the world, including international US 2017 Dir Dave McCary 97 min showcases, special children’s screenings and the ever-popular Best of the Fest. Tickets £11.50–15 plus booking fee* 8 & 9 Dec, Cinemas 1, 2 & 3 Global Health Film Festival 2017 Until 3 Dec, Cinema 2 This annual , two-day festival brings together health advocates, film-makers, industry experts, Finland: Independence Day journalists and the general public to experience We mark the centenary of Finnish a mix of features and short films (including independence with a season of films curated premieres), VR installations, expert Q&A sessions by the Midnight Sun Film Festival, founded and workshops for global health advocacy. by Finnish filmmakers Mika and Aki Presented in partnership with the Global Health Kaurismäki. Titles include contemporary Film Initiative coming-of-age tale Little Wing and a beautiful
Listings 4k restoration of the visual poem film, People in the Summer Night, shown on 35mm. Presented in partnership with the Finnish Film Foundation and National Audiovisual Institute 17 Until 17 Dec, Cinema 3 Tue 12 Dec 8.45pm, Cinema 2 Time Memory Dream Memories of 15 Cinema Matters Underdevelopment
This final section in our series about cinema’s John Akomfrah Presents… Dec 2017 impact on the world considers film’s complex One of the films that has inspired the work relationship with time, including the new and world view of artist John Akomfrah, ways cinema represents our dreamscapes, this classic work of Cuban cinema charts the memory processes, and experience of complex emotional voyage of a rich writer who time. We conclude with arthouse classics struggles to adapt to life after Fidel Castro and Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and The the revolutionaries come to power in 1959. Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). Cuba 1968 Dir Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 104 min £9.50–10.50 plus booking fee* £9.50–10.50 plus booking fee* Complementing John Akomfrah: Purple, 6 Sat 9 Dec 4pm, Cinema 3 Oct–7 Jan, see page 13 for details Free CeCe # Some of the realities of trans lives and the Wed 13 Dec 6.45pm, Cinema 2 effects of structural oppression are presented in this powerful documentary, which tells the Adrian Wootton’s Hollywood story of Chrishaun Reed ‘CeCe’ McDonald, Legends: Judy Garland who was imprisoned after a man was killed Members’ event while she defended herself on a routine trip to the shops. Actress Laverne Cox Continuing his Hollywood Legends talk series, (Orange is the New Black) narrates. Adrian Wootton – CEO of Film London looks at Garland’s extraordinary life and US 2016 Dir Jacqueline Gares 100 min distinguished career, illustrated with clips Free Cece is screened alongside Transpose, and slides from every facet of her work. showing in the Barbican Pit Theatre 8 £9 & 9 Dec. See page 41 for details £9.50–10.50 plus booking fee
Tue 12 Dec 6.30pm, Cinema 3 La Jetee + The Blood of a Poet 15 + Presentation by Nicky Clayton and Clive Wilkins Science on Screen Nicky Clayton and Clive Wilkins explore the shifting nature of memory, questioning our assumptions about how time unfolds. Followed by a screening of Blood of a Poet, Jean Cocteau’s enigmatic first feature, and Chris Marker’s La Jeteé, which brings to life the post-apocalyptic story of a man obsessed with an image from his past. France 1930 Dir Jean Cocteau 53 min France 1962 Dir Chris Marker 28 min
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The booking fee may be reduced on certain events 18 Framed Film Club Every Saturday at 11am we screen fantastic children’s films. This month includes a fantabulous animated Dec 2017 shorts programme from the London International Animation Festival. On Saturday 16 December, we hold our annual Christmas Party in association with BAFTA Kids. The party includes a special workshop, live entertainment, exciting films and perhaps even a visit from a special festive guest … See website for full programme. £2.50–5 plus booking fee* Special events vary No unaccompanied adults or children
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Tue 5 Dec 7.15pm, Cinema 2 ROH: The Nutcracker# A young girl’s enchanted present leads her on a wonderful Christmas adventure in this beautiful Meet Me In St Louis classic ballet from the Royal Opera House, danced to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score. £21 plus booking fee* Wed 13 Dec 8.30pm, Cinema 3 Meet Me in St Louis U Thu 7 Dec 7pm, Cinema 2 + Introduction by 12A Adrian Wootton NT Live: Young Marx Rory Kinnear Oliver Chris One of the most joyful and exuberant of the plays Marx and classic MGM musicals, this period family is Engels, in this new comedy. It’s 1850, and story was shot in glorious technicolour Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean as a tonic to the grim reality of World Street, Soho. Enemies from all sides circle like War II. This is Judy Garland at her best, vultures, but there’s no-one better in the capital with performances including ‘Have at putting on a show than Karl Heinrich Marx. Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’. £19–20 plus booking fee* US 1944 Dir Vincente Minnelli 113 min £8.50–9.50 plus booking fee* Thu 28 Dec 6pm, Cinema 2 Andrea Chénier# Teatro alla Scala Set in the French Revolution and loosely based on the turbulent real life events of the poet Andrea Chénier. Umberto Giordano’s opera tells the story of a poet Listings who falls in love with a young aristocrat * Booking fees and will do anything to win her heart. Booking fee per online transaction 60p; 70p by phone. No fee when tickets are booked in person. £21 plus booking fee*
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