Autumn September - December 2016 Welcome to our Autumn Season Programme!
There are two strong themes to this season’s programme, and the first is MUSIC! We start off in September with the brilliant Keith James with his take on the music of Cat Stevens; and the return of the brilliant Remi Harris. October brings a contrast of light classical from The Borders Trio and the jazz/folk fusion of The Rowan. Then in November The Budapest Café Orchestra is back, followed later in the month by some brilliant folk from The Gloucestershire Invasion. And it’s into December with the fantastic Moscow Drug Club with their hot renditions from 1930’s Berlin through nuevo tango to gypsy campfire! No Ledbury Christmas would be the same without the Ledbury Community Choir’s Christmas Concert; but this year you are spoilt because Ledbury Community Brass Band are also going to be performing a Christmas concert! And the second theme? Well that would be drama! LADS has three shows in the programme, a reprise, again in The Master’s House, of The Visit - which was sold out when performed in April; Emily Brontë’s great classic, Wuthering Heights; and of course in January the famous LADS’ panto which will be a fabulous Cinderella. Other companies visiting the Theatre are Suitcase Theatre’s Picasso’s Women, Frome Valley Community Players with A Christmas Carol, and at the beginning of September a showcase of new local writing in For One Night Only. We have two professional companies coming too: ajtc in conjunction with The Nottingham Playhouse present a superb play The Underground Man – some of you will remember being in the sell-out audience when ajtc toured On A Black Hill to Ledbury a few years ago. And finally, for the kids, Open Sky Theatre Company bring their Hairy Fairy Tails to delight you.
The Market Theatre - is situated in Market Street (off Bye Street). The Market Theatre is a trading name of Ledbury Amateur Dramatic Society (LADS) who own and run the Theatre for the benefit of the community. It provides a dedicated venue for amateur and professional performing arts. It has 128 seats, foyer, bar, wheelchair access, disabled toilet and a hearing loop. The Theatre or Foyer may be hired by phoning 01531 633760.
Ledbury Film Club Showings - for Autumn Season of 4 films starting September, send cheque for £15 (payable to LADS) to 2 Church House, Church Lane, Ledbury HR8 2DP, ring 01531 634138, or email [email protected]. Entrance on the door may be possible for the normal admission charge – book on-line or call 07967 517 125. LADS Youth Theatre Company - Places are limited to 40 and we are afraid that membership is currently full. OUR LIVE SHOWS ARE SPONSORED BY
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Natwest Bank Chambers Ledbury Herefordshire HR8 1AB Tel: 01531 632226 [email protected] www.ormeandslade.co.uk FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY Keith James presents music of YUSUF - CAT STEVENS
2nd Sept 10th Sept Friday 7.30pm // £7 Saturday 8pm // £12 (£8 Students)
For One Night Only is like a box of chocolates Keith James presents an honest and loving – some hard centres, some soft, some chewy reflection of the timeless and insightful music of and one or two bitter-sweet. YUSUF - CAT STEVENS 3CountiesAmDramTV offer an evening of novel dramatic variety from the pens of local authors Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the all performed by local actors. We will be Firecat were on everyone's shelves. Songs presenting three one-act plays, all with a such as Wild World, Father and Son, different and intriguing tale to tell. Moonshadow and Where do the Children Play have been covered by hundreds of artists This is definitely an evening for those interested worldwide. Some will be performed as all of us in the future of the theatre and the world beyond remember and some, carefully and intuitively the big box-office hits, and offers a chance to re-voiced - respectfully re-interpreted with rich, support and get to know some of Herefordshire’s balanced guitar arrangements and a more home-grown talent. personal vocal approach.
For more details go to Keith is one of the most active and inventive www.3CountiesAmDramTV.UK performers on this Country’s concert scene. All of his concerts are based on dedicated studies of poets and songwriters with whom both he Do not forget the GREASE himself and audiences identify as having a themed BIG SINGS on quality and integrity far above the norm. Some Saturday 3 September and Sunday 4 September of the most atmospheric and emotive music Full details on the website you will ever hear - The Independent or phone 07908 853 914 www.keith-james.com A Joint Master’s House/LADS production REMI HARRIS in Concert THE VISIT
14/15 & 17 Sept 24th Sept Wed/Thurs & Sat 8pm // £10 (£5 Students) Saturday 8pm // £12 (£8 Students)
If you missed it in the Spring, this unique and Regarded by many as one of the UK's top up hugely popular promenade performance, and coming young jazz guitarists, Remi has written especially for LADS, returns to The toured the UK, Australia, France, Norway and Master’s House Italy as well as performing at Buckingham Palace, The Royal Albert Hall, and live on BBC Master Cowper is expecting a very important Radio 2 and 3. His unique style blends elements visitor and the household, not least George from Gypsy Swing, Jazz, Blues, Rock'n'Roll, Hip Hodnett the cook, must do all it can to prepare Hop and World Music. for such a grand occasion. The pheasants are plump and plucked, the mead is yeasty and In the British Jazz Awards, Remi was awarded warm and the gingerbread is perfectly second place in the Rising Star Category in both peppered. Everything is as it should be. But 2014 and 2015, while his band came second in when a young boy is banished from the house, the 2015 Small Group Category. things start to go wrong for poor old George. Come and visit The Master’s House as it has This young guy is seriously good - 4**** never been seen before, as (the characters from www.thejazzmann.co.uk; astonishing stuff... the screens in The Master’s House) George, absolutely brilliant Cerys Matthews; Jim, Ann, Sybil, Robert, Master Cowper and astonishing... a recorded debut which places more walk the halls once more. Remi Harris securely in the front line of the world’s finest jazz guitarists Digby Fairweather
5 BORDERS TRIO THE ROWAN
1st October 8th October Saturday 8pm // £10 (£7 students) Saturday 8pm // £12.50 from www.pindropevents.co.uk Not your typical classical chamber ensemble! David Grubb (violin), Anna Perry (clarinet) and or by phoning 07979 542 449 Jess Ryan-Phillips (piano) specialise in non-traditional music, from Khachaturian to The Rowan are delighted to be making their first Klezmer, tangos to tarantellas, and Stravinsky to visit to Ledbury’s Market Theatre. Saint-Saëns. Combining the lyrical and melodic dynamism of All three met whilst studying at the Royal Welsh vocalist Gwyneth Keen (Celtish, Scarlett College of Music and since their debut at the Bazaar) who fROOTS describe as worth the Wales Millennium Centre in 2014, they have asking price alone, the jazz-inspired mellifluous performed in various settings (New Radnor, guitar of Ken Appleby (Appleby Kinsey) and the Newport Cathedral, Monmouth Festival, City dexterous musicianship of double bass player Hall, London and this year’s Ledbury Poetry Olly Blanchflower (alias Ron Kavana, Melanie Festival) to critical acclaim. Harrold, Chris Jagger) The Rowan embark on a new musical fusion of jazz and folk-inspired They will be presenting a concert of new music tales of dark debauchery. written especially for them: Karim Bedda's 'Cloud Forest', Rosie Kempson's 'Time and Motion', and Joined by some special guests to mark the a suite from Alison Chai amongst some trio release of their much anticipated EP, this is a classics. Absolutely sparkling, brilliant and great night not to be missed. energy! Outstanding empathy and creativity in music making!
6 LADS present ajtc and Nottingham Playhouse present WUTHERING HEIGHTS THE UNDERGROUND MAN
20th-22nd October 28th October
Thursday - Saturday 8pm Friday 8pm // £12 (£8 Students) £10 (£6 Students) The Underground Man adapted by Nick Wood from Mick Jackson's Booker Prize shortlisted Emily Brontë’s great classic, the immortal love novel (soaked through with originality and story, set amongst the bleak beauty of Haworth expertly written: tragi-comic fiction with the most Moor; the landscape over which towers the wild endearingly sympathetic of anti-heroes - The and terrible Heathcliff. Times) marks the brilliant ajtc’s first visit to Ledbury since the huge success of On The The tale of this searing passion for the beautiful Black Hill nine years ago! Catherine Earnshaw has the vividness of nightmare, the beauty and simplicity of an old A life of fascination, obsession and deep ballad, and depth and intensity of ancient scientific curiosity, William John Cavendish tragedy. A spell binding thriller and ghost story. Scott-Bentinck, the 5th Duke of Portland is an eccentric English aristocrat whose imagination and curiosity know no bounds. This deceptively simple man struggles to come to terms with a world that is teeming with new knowledge, ill-founded opinion and gossip. Why does he hide himself away? What is his fascination with tunnels? Will he ever unearth the secrets hidden in his memory? In a sequence of events that are often bizarre and frequently hilarious he reveals moments of surprising perception and wisdom.
7 BIG SING – HALLOWEEN THE BUDAPEST CAFE ORCHESTRA
29th October 5th November
Saturday 12 noon - 6pm // £25 Saturday 8pm // £15 (£11 Students) (£20 disabled/over 60/student 16+ Led by jazz violin superstar Christian Garrick, from www.ticketsource.co.uk/bigsinguk) the BCO evokes vivid images of Tzigane fiddle maestros, Budapest café life and gypsy campfires - plus a few surprises along the way: Spend a fun afternoon within a group, learning a good enough to make you want to book that medley of songs from various musicals holiday down the Danube! associated with HALLOWEEN, including ROCKY HORROR, THRILLER, LITTLE SHOP They are hard to describe, and as fantastically OF HORRORS, WICKED, and more: with West exciting as they are musically impressive, End Performers as your Singing Coaches. journeying far and wide across the Balkans and Russia, Klezmer, Romanian Doinas, Hungarian There are no Auditions, and you will not be Czardas. Expect surprises, diversions and required to sing on your own. Experience is adventures along the way. Hugely entertaining, immaterial and you do not need to be able to immense skill and profound musicianship. They read music. We will work towards an end of have won acclaim from fans, fellow musicians Workshop presentation that your family and and critics alike for their electrifying and friends are welcome to attend. entertaining shows. Full details are available on the website or They are a guaranteed sell out, so book early! phone 07908 853 914
8 Abergavenny’s Suitcase Theatre Company presents THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE INVASION PICASSO’S WOMEN by Brian McAvera with MAY THRILL and THE VOGWELLS
12th November 19th November
Saturday 7.30pm // £10 (£6 Students) Saturday 7.30pm // £10 (£8 Students)
To be forgotten is worse than to be dead - so Well-known Gloucestershire folk trio May Thrill says one of the characters in Picasso’s Women. (http://maythrill.wix.com/maythrill) are Brought back to life in order to ensure that their recognised for great songs, harmonies and stories are not forgotten, four women in humour presented in a relaxed and engaging Picasso’s life – Fernande Olivier, Olga style that is appreciated by all ages. Their Kokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, and material is drawn from mainly English folk, Jacqueline Rocque – used and often abused some from Gloucestershire, to which they add by the great artist, take to the stage with this their own flavour and arrangements. Now in touring amateur company’s new production. A their fifth year, they have played at folk festivals challenging work of theatre and an evening and clubs around the country. where the women deliver their devastating verdicts on Picasso in forthright and Also from Gloucestershire, The Vogwells are a uncompromising terms. duo who perform, write and arrange their own and other traditional British Folk music. With Provides a fascinating sideways look at the the natural honesty of Emma’s singing and painter…ingenious, poignant and absorbing.’ Martin’s guitar skills, their songs and (The Times). performance can make you laugh and cry with pleasure in equal measure. Unsuitable for children. Strength, presence & character, a definite thumbs up! Froots magazine.
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9 CHRISTMAS WITH FRIENDS HAIRY FAIRY TAILS
2nd December 3rd December
Friday 7.30pm // £10 including festive drink Saturday 2.30pm Tickets only by phoning 01531 635404 £6 Adults & Children
A fabulous Flower Arranging Demonstration £25 Family (2A 3C) for the festive season Open Sky, the company who brought you The Come and join Ledbury & District Floral Art Club Mighty Prince, proudly presents their new at their annual Christmas Open Meeting. Bob show…Hairy Fairy Tails! Get ready for classic Harris is a National Demonstrator who has fairy stories retold as never before through visited Ledbury several times during his rhyme, song, puppetry, mime, music and demonstrating career and the Ledbury Club is magical transformations. Rapunzel is sick of honoured that he has chosen The Market people going on about her hair so she takes Theatre for his final big demonstration before matters into her own hands. Snow White and retirement. This promises to be an entertaining Rose Red outwit a grumpy dwarf who’s planning evening, full of fun and inspirational ideas. to rob a lovable bear (who is really a prince). Jane rescues Tomlin from the wild woodland fairies by giving him a cuddle – even when he turns into a wolf, a bear, a snake and a burning stick! The stories offer simple life lessons for girls and boys; be yourself, be kind and be brave. Fabulous furry fun for all the family!
Aimed at families, and children from 3 years upwards
10 THE MOSCOW DRUG CLUB Frome Valley Community Players present A CHRISTMAS CAROL
3rd December 10th December Saturday 8pm // £12 (£8 Students) Saturday 7.30pm // £10 (£6 Students)
The Moscow Drug Club is a curious musical Marley was as dead as a doornail. There is place where certain elements of 1930’s Berlin no doubt whatever about that. This must be Cabaret, Hot Club de France, Nuevo Tango & distinctly understood or nothing wonderful Gypsy Campfire meet, have a few drinks and can come of the story. stagger arm in arm into the darkness of some eastern European cobbled street on a mission to The opening words of this musical adaptation of find the bar where Django Reinhardt & Tom Charles Dickens’ classic tale, sets the scene as Waits are having an afterhours jam with the local the magic and mystery of Christmas is brought Tziganes. to life. Scrooge, who is someone driven by miserliness and greed, is visited by three ghosts Combining their original material with songs by to look at his past, present and future. The the likes of Jaques Brel, Leonard Cohen, Tom visitations show him the warmth of Christmas Waits & Bertolt Brecht, Moscow Drug Club and the joy of caring for others. This all-time provide an intoxicating & intimate musical Christmas favourite is brought to the stage as a experience. You are cordially invited to share a feast of drama, music and dance. wry smile with us as you enter the darkly comic world of Moscow Drug Club…..this way please and mind the stairs!
11 LEDBURY COMMUNITY CHOIR Ledbury Community Brass Band presents CHARITY CHRISTMAS CONCERT A CHRISTMAS CONCERT
16th &17th Dec 18th December 7.30pm Fri and Sat // £10 Sunday 7.30pm // £8 (£4 Students)
Tickets: 01531 634630 or 634105 The band was formed in 2010 with the aim of providing Ledbury with a brass band to entertain The Charity Christmas Concert is one of the and represent the area in local events and Choir’s most popular annual events. There is further afield, and it is going from strength to always a Christmas party atmosphere, and this strength. Their Musical Director is Colin Herbert, year will be no exception, with a mix of a graduate from the renowned Royal Military traditional, sacred and secular. You can expect School of Music at Kneller Hall, who has a long some new additions in this year’s line-up history of brass band excellence and has together with well-loved items from previous compiled the Band’s first Christmas programme concerts, such as the Christmas sing-along and with entertainment in mind. the traditional Ledbury Kissing Bucket. Don’t wait to book as the concerts always sell out fast!
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8 National Theatre Live THE THREEPENNY OPERA
22nd Sept
Thursday 7pm £15 (over 60s & students £12.50)
Mack the Knife is back in town, with Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear as Macheath
London scrubs up for the coronation. The thieves are on the make, the whores on the pull, the police cutting deals to keep it all out of sight. Mr and Mrs Peachum are looking forward to a bumper day in the beggary business, but their daughter didn’t come home last night and it’s all about to kick off…
Contains scenes of a sexual nature, violence, and filthy language!
15 THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY DIARY DATES
Live Screening from The Royal Shakespeare Company CYMBELINE by William Shakespeare 28th Sept
Wednesday 7pm £15 (over 60s & students £12.50)
Shakespeare’s rarely performed romance is directed by Melly Still, who designed Tales from Ovid and Midnight’s Children for the RSC and whose directing credits include The Cunning Little Vixen for Glyndebourne Opera and Coram Boy for the National Theatre. Melly directs Gillian Bevan in the role of Cymbeline, the first woman to take on the role for the RSC and making her RSC debut in the role of Innogen is Bethan Cullinane (King Lear - 2013 Globe Theatre).
Encore Screening from The Royal Shakespeare Company KING LEAR by William Shakespeare
26th Oct Wednesday 7pm £14 (over 60s & students £12)
Following his performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s great 20th century American tragedy Death of a Salesman, Antony Sher returns to play King Lear, one of the greatest parts written by Shakespeare.
The production is directed by Artistic Director Gregory Doran.
16 National Theatre Live - encore THE DEEP BLUE SEA by Terence Rattigan 9th Nov
Wednesday 7pm £14 (over 60s & students £12)
Helen McCrory returns to the National Theatre, playing one of the greatest female roles in contemporary drama.
A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage begins to emerge. Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing.
Live Screening from The Royal Opera House LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN 15th Nov
Tuesday 6.15pm £15 (over 60s & students £12.50)
Offenbach's masterpiece is a favourite with audiences.
Created by Academy Award-winning film director John Schlesinger, this production brings alive a 19th-century world of romance, comedy, mystery and menace. At the centre of these extraordinary tales of clockwork dolls, magical glasses, ghostly voices and sensual courtesans is the vivid imagination of the drunken Romantic poet Hoffmann – compelled to tell the story of his lovers who, he believes, have all been stolen by a succession of arch villains. Live Screening from the Royal Ballet THE NUTCRACKER
8th Dec
Thursday 7.15pm £15 (over 60s & students £12.50)
It is Christmas Eve and Drosselmeyer the magician sweeps young Clara away on a fantasy adventure in which time is suspended, the family living-room becomes a great battlefield, and a magical journey takes them through the Land of Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets. Tchaikovsky's glittering score, the gorgeous festive stage designs and The Royal Ballet's captivating dancing – including an exquisite pas de deux between the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince – make this Nutcracker the quintessential Christmas experience.
18 Live Screening from the Royal Shakespeare Company THE TEMPEST
11th Jan
Wednesday 7pm £15 (over 60s & students £12.50)
On a distant island Prospero (Simon Russell Beale) waits. Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left him in isolation. But this is no ordinary man, and this no ordinary island. Prospero is a magician. When a sail appears on the horizon, he reaches out across the ocean to the ship that carries the men who wronged him, creates a vast magical storm and washes his enemies up on the shore. When they wake they find themselves lost on a fantastical island where nothing is as it seems.
19 Film prices £5 / Students £3 WHILE WE’RE YOUNG DAD’S ARMY – THE MOVIE
9th September 14th September Fri 8pm // 97mins // (15//US//2015) Wed 10.30am // 100min // (PG//UK//2016)
Fed up with their friends who pressure them into Set during 1944, Captain Mainwaring's Home Guard beginning a family of their own, documentary suffers from low morale. That is, until a glamorous film-maker Josh (Ben Stiller) and wife Cornelia journalist arrives to report on the platoon's exploits. (Naomi Watts) meet hipster couple Jamie (Adam Meanwhile, MI5 have discovered a radio signal Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried) and start to transmitted from Walmington-on-Sea towards Berlin, enjoy the new and refreshing experiences that come apparently the work of a spy, giving the Home Guard with the territory. However, are Jamie and Darby's a chance to make a real difference in the war. motivations for spending time with the older couple as harmless as they seem? Starring: Bill Nighy, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Toby Jones, Tom Courtenay and Michael Gambon.
IONA LEDBURY FILM CLUB
7th October Fri 8pm // 85mins // (15//UK//2016) Four Films (as marked) Iona takes her teenage son to the holy island where she was born so they can hide from a violent crime. As and discount off her son seeks forgiveness for what he has done Iona comes to terms with her loss of faith. Written and WEA Film Day directed by Scott Graham and starring Tom Brooke, Michelle Duncan, Ben Gallagher Just send a cheque for £15 to Ledbury Film Club, 2 Church House, 20 Ledbury HR8 1DT or phone 07967 517125 Rural Media presents GOLDEN FIRE: THE DANISH GIRL The Story of Herefordshire Cider since 1945
23rd September 30th September Friday 8pm Friday 8pm // 119mins // (15//UK/US//2015) “Never to be forgotten, that first long secret drink Based on the book by David Ebershoff, The Danish of golden fire…” Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives A Heritage Lottery funded project using archive film of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, portrayed by and new interviews to explore the rich history of cider Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The production in the county from 1945 until now. It tells Theory of Everything) and a Best Supporting Actress the contemporary and vivid story of the people, past Oscar performance from Alicia Vikander, and directed and present, who make and ferment the “golden fire”. by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Also featuring two short films from the Bulmer archive Speech, Les Misérables). Lili and Gerda’s marriage (1947 and 1973) and a chance to taste some ciders and work evolve as they navigate Lili’s ground from local producers. breaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
THE INTERN THE LADY IN THE VAN
12th October 4th November Wed 10:30am // 121min // (PG13//US//2015) Friday 8pm //104min // (PG13//UK//2015) 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered Written by Alan Bennett, the true story of the that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an relationship between himself (Alan Bennett) and the opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London run by Jules Ostin. Starring Robert de Niro and Anne driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years. Hathaway. Maggie Smith, James Corden, Jim Broadbent and Frances de la Tour star.
21 Film prices £5 / Students £3 FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS BARBARA
9th November 11th November Wed 10:30am // 110mins // (PG//UK//2016) Fri 8pm // 105mins // (PG13//Germ//2012)
Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) is an heiress In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor in New York who owns a music club and lives for banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an music. With the help of her husband St. Clair Bayfield exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and (Hugh Grant) and her pianist Cosmé McMoon (Simon fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Helberg), and notwithstanding her generally poor she stays aloof; and instead snatches moments with singing ability, she aspires to become an opera singer. her lover as she secretly prepares to defect. Despite her plans, Barbara learns more about her life that puts her desires and the people around her in a new light, and finds herself facing a painful moral dilemma that forces her to choose what she values.
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JOIN ‘LADS’ or Become a ‘Friend of the Theatre’ 25th November Fri 8pm // 90mins // (15//UK/US//2016)
LADS puts on productions throughout the year. Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, and The Theatre is staffed entirely by LADS living the high life; shopping, drinking and clubbing volunteers, who work front of house and their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. behind the scenes. New Members and Friends Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable are always welcome; if you would like to join launch party, they become entangled in a media storm us, either on or off stage please apply using and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. our application form on our website - Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the www.themarkettheatre.com super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and be able to live the high life forever more! or phone 07967 517125 FILM STUDY DAY - British Film from 1950s to 1970s LEDBURY MEMORIES ON FILM
19th November 23rd November Sat 10.30am -4.45pm // £20 Wed 8pm WEA Event in collaboration with The Bigger Picture Archive Project and Herefordshire Ledbury Film Club Life Through a Lens present an evening of The morning session will examine with tutor Michael recollections. What was life like in Ledbury and the Pyke extracts from Ice Cold in Alex (1955), The surrounding countryside in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s? Ladykillers (1955), Whistle Down the Wind (1961) What sorts of events took place and how have they and Far From the Madding Crowd (1967), key films changed over the years? Who were the stars of the that both illustrate the genres of the period while town and what were the main concerns? Join us for an offering something above and beyond them. There evening of film and photos collected from private and will be a screening of Nicolas Roeg’s 1967 film Don’t national collections. We hope you can bring with you Look Now in the afternoon followed by Q & As and the missing information! discussion. ALL ABOUT EVE LOVE & FRIENDSHIP
9th December 14th December Fri 8pm // 138min // (U//US//1950) Wed 10:30am // 92min // (PG//UK/US/Fr//2015)
Eve (Anne Baxter) is waiting backstage to meet her Beautiful young widow Lady Susan Vernon (Kate "idol" aging Broadway Star, Margo Channing (Bette Beckinsale), visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out Davis). It all seems innocent enough as Eve explains the colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating that she has seen Margo in EVERY performance of through polite society. Whilst ensconced there, she the current play she is in. Only playwright critic decides to secure a husband for herself and a future Addison DeWitt (George Sanders) sees through Eve's for her eligible but reluctant daughter, Frederica. In evil plan, and steps in. doing so she attracts the simultaneous attentions of the young, handsome Reginald DeCourcy, the rich and silly Sir James Martin and the divinely handsome, but married, Lord Manwaring. The Market Theatre Autumn Calendar 2016
December November October September LIVE SHOWS Saturday 19th//10.30amFILMSTUDY DAY Friday 25th//8pm ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS Wednesday 23rd//8pmLEDBURY MEMORIESON FILM Tuesday 15th//6.15pmLESCONTESD’HOFFMANN Saturday 12th//7.30pm//PICASSO’SWOMEN Friday 11th //8pmBARBARA Sat/Sun 3rd/4th//12noonGREASEthemedBIGSING Friday 2nd//7.30pmFORONENIGHT ONLY Saturday 19th//7.30pm THE GLOUCESTERSHIREINVASION Thurs-Sat 20th-22nd//8pmWUTHERINGHEIGHTS Friday 30th//8pm THE DANISHGIRL Wednesday 28th//7pmRSCCYMBELINE Saturday 24th//8pmREMIHARRISinConcert Wednesday 14th//10.30amDAD’S ARMY – THE MOVIE Saturday 10th//8pmCAT STEVENS Friday 9th//8pmWHILEWE’RE YOUNG Wed 14th/ Thurs 15th/Sat17th//8pm THE VISIT Wednesday 9th//7pm THE DEEP BLUESEA Wednesday 9th//10.30amFLORENCEFOSTERJENKINS Saturday 5th//8pmBUDAPEST CAFEORCHESTRA Friday 4th//8pm THE LADY IN THE VAN Saturday 29th//12noonHALLOWEENthemedBIGSING Friday 28th//8pm THE UNDERGROUNDMAN Friday 7th//8pmIONA Saturday 1st//8pmBORDERS TRIO Friday 23rd//8pmGOLDENFIRE Wednesday 12th//10.30am THE INTERN Saturday 8th//8pm// THE ROWAN Thursday 22nd//7pm THE THREEPENNY OPERA Saturday 10th//7.30pm A CHRISTMASCAROL Friday 9th//8pm ALL ABOUT EVE Thursday 8th//7.15pm THE NUTCRACKER Saturday 3rd//2.30pmHAIRY FAIRY TALES Friday 2nd//7.30pmFLORAL ART CLUB Wednesday 26th//7pmRSCKINGLEAR Wednesday 14th//10.30am //LOVE&FRIENDSHIP Sunday 18th //7.30pm LEDBURY COMMUNITY BRASSBAND Fri &Sat16th 17th //7.30pmLEDBURY COMMUNITY CHOIR Saturday 3rd//8pm THE MOSCOWDRUGCLUB PANTO TICKET DETAILS SEEPAGE 13 LIVE SCREENINGS FILMS