SUMMER May 2017 - September 2017 Welcome to our Summer Season Programme!

As you will probably have seen, our theatre seats have now been refurbished, and a big thank you to all those of you that sponsored one. By the time this is published we should also have redecorated the auditorium, and the new rehearsal studio and costume store backstage should be nearing completion.

And then we have the busiest programme of events ever for you this summer! We have no less than fifteen Ledbury Poetry Festival events, including two brilliant joint promotions with The Market Theatre - Duende and Chopping Chillies. The Poetry SLAM which the Theatre sponsors is also a must, as is Rob Gee’s brilliant Forget Me Not which we have seen and thoroughly recommend.

LADS has two comedies in the frame with the award winning The Last Bread Pudding and Breath of Spring. There is also a Market Theatre showcase in September called The Yelllow Box. And do not miss Ledbury Community Brass Band’s Last Night at the Proms! Add to this, eight satellite screenings and fourteen films and you have a huge variety of evenings out at The Market Theatre!

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 just £10 you will be able to get in for half price to all The Market Theatre promoted films (about 20) from now until the end of the year. All you need to do is to either pay on line via the theatre’s website (www.themarkettheatre.com), or by sending a cheque (payable to “LADS”) to Ledbury Film Club, 2 Church House, Church Lane, Ledbury HR8 2DP. Of course if you do not want to join the Film Club, you can book in the normal way (see front cover) or buy tickets on the door (subject to availability). LADS Youth Theatre Company - We are afraid that membership is currently full. OUR LIVE SHOWS ARE SPONSORED BY

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6th May 13th May Saturday 8pm // £11 (£7 Students) Saturday 8pm // Pay what you feel

In their new show, storyteller Malcolm Green and Coming from their recent success as winners of musician Joshua Green follow the trail of the the Hereford County Drama Festival at The Cuckoo to explore the fascinating world of this Courtyard (and now through to the Regional extraordinary creature through stories, music Semi Finals!), LADS presents its award winning and song. one-act comedy, The Last Bread Pudding; a hilariously melodramatic bird’s eye view on an It’s shortly after dawn at RAF Fylingdales on the AmDram committee’s decision on what their North York Moors and a male Cuckoo is having a next play should be. The meeting soon goes off tiny 4.5g radio transmitter strapped to his back. A agenda and secrets are revealed! Written by few weeks later he will have flown thousands of Nick Warburton, the play showcases the talent miles south and 5km up over the Sahara Desert, of two of the Hereford County Drama Festival’s sending signals back to England as he travels individual award winners – Toby Burchell who through Libya and Chad to the Congo. won Best Actor for his portrayal of Chairman Ken, and Best Director Ben Mowbray. For thousands of years the Cuckoo has been part of folklore and its call present in songs, LADS will be supported by the Eardisley Little poems and stories. But now this bird is Theatre Youth Club’s self-devised Playback disappearing in England and we may soon stop Time. The play focuses on innocence versus hearing that iconic ‘cuck-coo’. cruelty in tackling the issues of mental health. A strong and mature performance by this young and talented group was rewarded by their award for their ensemble work in the recent HCDF.

4 Worcester Gilbert & Sullivan Society presents Hotbuckle Theatre Company presents THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS OF MUSIC HALL FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

19th-20th May 26th May

Fri - Sat 7.30pm // £12 (£5 Students) Friday 8pm // £12 (£8 Students)

Come and join the Worcester Gilbert & Sullivan I shall do one thing in this life – one thing certain Society for an entertaining and fun-filled – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep evening in the traditional style of the music hall. wanting you till I die. An evening packed with well-loved songs, close harmony singing and comedy all under the As three very different suitors compete for her watchful eye of our worthy chairman, a veritable heart, spirited, independent Bathsheba virtuoso of vocabulary. Everdene must choose between them. Will she choose to marry for passion, for obligation or for Our special guest is the ever-popular and very true love and companionship? Or will she value talented Barry North. her independence and not marry at all?

You will be transported back to Those Good Old Celebrating their tenth anniversary, their fifth Days of Music Hall, so, dress up (only if you visit to The Market Theatre, and following on want to), turn up and sing up. You'll be glad you from Emma, perfect theatre with seemingly did. no effort at all BBC Radio, Persuasion - pure theatre magic **** The Stage and David Copperfield – Brimming with wit and charm Remotegoat, Hardy’s romance is brought to life with live music and Hotbuckle’s trademark ensemble style.

5 HIS WAY – the Frank Sinatra Show LADS presents BREATH OF SPRING

27th May 15th-17th June

Saturday 8pm // £12 (£8 Students) Thurs-Sat 8pm // £10 (£5 students)

The remarkable story of Francis Albert Sinatra – When Dame Beatrice is given a mink shawl by from band singer to 1940s 'pop idol'; from his her maid, the resident lodgers – a fall from popularity to swinging his way through pension-minded brigadier, a vivid vocal coach, the 1950s; recording his most famous songs and a dithery chins restorer – band together with and albums; and building his own record label Dame “Bee” and her friend, to return the filched Reprise. fur. That successful mission is quite an invigorating experience, prompting the eclectic Award winning singer Robert Habermann tells group to form a Robin Hood like crime the Chairman of The Board’s ‘whole' story, and syndicate, which steals furs and gives the sings the great Sinatra classics : Come Fly With proceeds to charity. But when Scotland Yard Me, Fly Me To The Moon, Witchcraft, You Make gets wind of those high-minded thefts, things get Me Feel So Young, Strangers In The Night, My even more interesting. Way, New York New York and many more.

6 LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL To buy tickets see next page MOTOWN - BIG SING FIRST ACTS Spoken word on film

Ben Norris 24th June 1st July

12 noon to 6pm // £25 (group discounts available) Saturday 5 - 6pm // Free but ticketed

For tickets: 07908 853 914 Rural Media presents a screening and live or https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bigsinguk performance of some bold and innovative micro-short spoken word films made by West If you are new to Big Sing, here is a brief Midlands based Spoken Word Artists for the description of what your afternoon will involve. Channel 4 Random Acts strand. The artists We will start with some fun vocal warm up include 1990s Chris, Paul Stringer (Beatfreeks), exercises within groups, and then we teach a Aliyah Hasinah, Sipho Dube, Dion Kitson and medley of songs from a West End Musical. With Tom Chimiak. The event and Q&A with artists West End Performers as your Singing Coaches, will be hosted by Ben Norris (2013 UK All-Star the tuition is delivered in an enjoyable fun Poetry Slam Champion). method. There are no Auditions, and you will not be required to sing on your own. We will work towards an end of Workshop presentation which your family and friends are welcome to attend at no extra charge.

(Do not miss the Rogers & Hammerstein Big Sing on Sat 2 September – see later in brochure)

7 @ THE MARKET THEATRE tickets available from Festival Box Office phone 01531 636232 or www.poetry-festival.co.uk from 18 May LEDBURY POETRY SLAM FORGET ME NOT – THE ALZHEIMER’S WHODUNNIT

1st July 3rd July

Saturday 8pm -10.30pm // £9 Monday 7 - 8pm // £9

Brace yourselves for a knockout night of Comic, poet and ex-psychiatric nurse Rob Gee performance poetry as worldly wordsmiths take presents a murder mystery set on an the page onto the stage to compete for points Alzheimer’s ward. that lead to prizes! It's a cut-and-thrust contest where do-or-die versifiers parade their poems in Jim’s wife, a patient on a dementia ward, has a bid to reach the hearts and hearing parts of died from what appears to be natural causes. the public. Random judges award points for Jim is a retired police detective and he smells a style, content and warmth of the applaudience, rat. He’s determined to solve this one last so who will fire on all syllables into the final and murder. The problem is he also has dementia. become Ledbury’s Slam Luminary? Join Narrated partly by Jim, partly by a heavenly hosts Elvis McGonagall and happy-go-lucky nurse and partly by the baffling Sara-Jane Arbury for an energetic evening of Detective Inspector Rae, Forget Me Not charts good verbal vibrations and lend your support for the course of Jim’s investigation. those taking a stanza on stage. For further details or to enter the Slam, please contact Sara-Jane on 07814 830031 or email [email protected]

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8 @ THE MARKET THEATRE tickets available from Festival Box Office phone 01531 636232 or www.poetry-festival.co.uk from 18 May Inua Ellams and Fuel present Keith James presents DUENDE A unique and breath-taking concert of Spanish Poetry set AN EVENING WITH AN IMMIGRANT to music.

4th July 5th July

Tuesday 8 - 9.30pm // £9 Wednesday 8.30 – 10.30pm // £11

Written and performed by Inua Ellams The haunting and exotic poetry of the most celebrated writers in the Spanish Language: Littered with poems, stories and anecdotes, Federico Garcia Lorca, Isabel Allende, Gabriel award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams Garcia Marquez and Pablo Neruda. Their will tell his ridiculous, fantastic, poignant dramatic and sensual poetry, performed as immigrant story. Tales of escaping songs and meticulously set to Keith's rich, fundamentalist Islam in Nigeria, performing solo daring and fiery classical guitar, in a way that shows at the National Theatre, and drinking wine embraces the very fabric of these beautiful with the Queen of England, all the while without words, both surreal and romantic, until every a country to belong to or a place to call home. tear is shed, every picture caught. Keith James is well known for his ability to bring depth and vibrancy to his interpretations. This concert is sung both in English and Spanish and mostly features the Classical and Flamenco guitar. All the tears of time are shed in a few brief lines TLS; some of the most atmospheric and emotive music you will ever hear The Independent; Keith James has become a pillar of trust. A sublimely intimate and engaging voice Sunday Times A joint production between

and 9 @ THE MARKET THEATRE tickets available from Festival Box Office phone 01531 636232 or www.poetry-festival.co.uk from 18 May

Theatre Tours International presents Midland Creative Projects in association with the Belgrade CHOPPING CHILLIES Theatre Coventry present a mystical tale of love, loss & soul-food BEYOND THE WATER’S EDGE - poetry from our world

6th July 7th July Thursday 8.30-9.30pm // £9 Friday 8.45-10.15pm // £9

Written and Performed by Clair Whitefield Hear voices from around the world, distilled into Directed by Oliver Award winning poetry in this unique performance. Midland (Morecambe) Guy Masterson. Creative Projects take the words of the world’s poets and present them on stage with live music A big Fringe hit at Edinburgh 2016: From Kerala to create a celebration of our lives in all their to Camden, a cobbler and a cook concoct a forms. delicious transcontinental enchantment as tragedy and chance entwine. Katie dreams of Drawing from every continent we are given curries and chapattis; Ajna, of holy souls and stories that move and inspire – from Sweden to reincarnation... A delightful, poetic, magical yarn Chile and all points between. The drama of love, that conjoins the spirit of India with the heart of loss and re-birth mingle with the comedy of daily London life, resulting in a captivating series of portraits presented through the words of some of the An extraordinary, humbling story of world’s best poets. love, family, loss, grief, new beginnings and unexpected friendships. A delicious, appetising, Directed by Steve Byrne from Interplay Theatre, spicy feast of a show! Edinburgh Guide, 2016 Beyond The Water’s Edge uses poems published by Bloodaxe Books with music and The imprint lasts long after the original set design by Talking Birds. performance ends - Three Weeks, 2016

A joint production between

and @ THE MARKET THEATRE tickets available from Festival Box Office phone 01531 636232 or www.poetry-festival.co.uk from 18 May

AIR POEMS IN THE KEY OF VOICE EPIC YOUTH / TWO KIDS LOST

8th July 8th July Saturday 12 noon – 1pm // £9 Saturday 3-5pm // Free but ticketed

A work of translation by Kyra Pollitt featuring the The culmination of the Festival’s outreach British Sign Language poetry of Paul Scott and project with young people from Close House the vocal gestures of Victoria Punch, with and Shypp housing project in Hereford. In the supporting film-poetry by Helen Dewbery and first half, Jonny Fluffypunk will compere Chaucer Cameron. performances of the young people’s poetry, accompanied with film. For Britain’s native sign language community, poetry is a linguistic, visual, kinesthetic and The second half is a showing of Two Kids Lost, visceral experience. Form in sign language a short action film recently nominated for the poetry is created through play with language, prestigious intofilm awards in March 2017. The space, image and movement. For this work, film is a modern day re-telling of the Hansel and Kyra analysed the image-rhyming in Paul’s Gretel fairytale where two sisters find their home poems to create a basic score onto which life with their dad and stepmother intolerable. Victoria mapped a series of vocal gestures Young people were involved in all stages of the inspired by the Estill method. film from coming up with the concept, writing the script, location scouting, acting, shooting and Paul and Victoria will give a live performance of directing with mediaShypp. For this showing the piece. For those who don’t sign, access to they have specially created live poetry and the content of the poems is offered through music to perform alongside. The film features film-poetry simultaneously superimposed onto poetry created with spoken word impresario Paul and Victoria’s live performance. Joelle Taylor in sessions provided by Ledbury We hope the piece will offer hearing audiences Poetry Festival, and is jam-packed with visual something of the rich, immersive, spine-tingling and emotional impact enhanced by live experience conjured by sign language poetry. performances. 11 @ THE MARKET THEATRE tickets available from Festival Box Office phone 01531 636232 or www.poetry-festival.co.uk from 18 May MALIKA’S POETRY KITCHEN STABLEMATES

8th July 9th July Saturday 8 July 9-11pm // £9 Sunday 2.30 - 3.30pm // £9

Malika’s Poetry Kitchen is a community of poets Jill Abram presents Stablemates, a poetry salon dedicated to developing their craft. Founded in with Roger Robinson, Nick Makoha and Seni 2001 and based in London, the collective's Seneviratne from Peepal Tree Press. influence on the contemporary poetry and Roger Robinson is a dub poet writing songs spoken word scene has reached far beyond the about common people and their plight. He capital. This is a unique opportunity to hear the co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen and King work of two Kitchen founders, Malika Booker Midas Sound. Decibel chose him as one of 50 and Jacob Sam La Rose, plus Jill Abram, Rishi writers who have influenced the black-British Dastidar, Seraphima Kennedy and Peter writing canon over the past 50 years. Raynard. Nick Makoha is director of the Youth Poetry Network. He won the 2016 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize and the Brunel African Poetry Prize in 2015. He toured the UK with his solo show My Father & Other Superheroes.

Seni Seneviratne’s performances are a delicate mix of spoken word and folk/jazz song. She likes to change hearts as well as minds through the medium of poetry. Peepal Tree aims to bring you the very best of international writing from the Caribbean, its

12 diasporas and the UK. @ THE MARKET THEATRE tickets available from Festival Box Office phone 01531 636232 or www.poetry-festival.co.uk from 18 May VERSOPOLIS: A Celebration of ENEMIES: LEDBURY Contemporary Emerging European Poets Poetry in Collaboration

9th July 9th July Sunday 4.15-5.30pm // £7 Sunday 6.15-7.15pm // £9

Versopolis is a platform that unites 13 European The Enemies project, led by S.J. Fowler, has Festivals to promote and translate their most created over 200 events, in 18 countries, with exciting new poets. Tiziano Fratus (Italy), over 500 poets. Enemies: Ledbury will premiere Charlotte Van den Broeck (Belgium), Nikolina collaborations written by poets both attending Andova (Macedonia), Veronika Dintinjana and participating in the Festival. Expect original, (Slovenia), Yekta (France) will share the stage dynamic new poetry, evidencing the open, with two of their UK counterparts, Kayo inventive power of collaborative poetry in the Chingonyi and Helen Mort. This event is now an 21st century. established Festival highlight. Come and enjoy strong performers, writing vivid and original Poetry lends itself to collaboration as language poetry that opens windows and transcends does conversation. The poet comes up against borders. something other than themselves in the writing of every poem, and in the shaping of every fragment of language there is a response taking place. When the other in question is the equally avid mind of another poet then expect the extraordinary!

13 A LADS Youth Theatre production Hand to Mouth Theatre Company presents FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGE BILLY LIAR

14th - 15th July 21st July Fri - Sat 7.30pm // £5 Fri 7.30pm // £10 (£5 students)

Ledbury Amateur Dramatic Society’s Youth Billy Fisher has got a bit of a problem – three Theatre Company performs three diverse short girlfriends, two fiancées and only one plays - bringing them from The Page to the engagement ring. And then the truth seems to Stage. be having an inconvenient way of getting in the way of fiction – Billy’s fiction. Our youngest members will be staging a musical play, Pirates versus Mermaids by Gaynor Boddy Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall’s story of a and Rebecca Kincaid. As well as pirates and young man who prefers to mask mundane mermaids you can also expect to see an reality with a web of hilarious fantasy provided a assortment of mad professors, a crocodile and a breakthrough role for Albert Finney and Tom crazy parrot. Courtney. Now a talented and enthusiastic young amateur cast bring Hand to Mouth Our middle group of performers will be Theatre’s version of this modern comedy presenting Ernie's Incredible Illucinations by classic to the 21st century stage. Alan Ayckbourn. The play focuses on Ernie Fraser, a young boy with a vivid imagination whose thoughts have the disconcerting habit of turning into reality.

Our oldest members will be performing The Turnip Winter by Paul King. This is a documentary drama which tells the story of the effects of the British naval blockade of Germany during World War 1, the aim of which was to starve Germany into submission. ANNIE RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN - BIG SING

11th -13th August 2nd September

Fri 7pm // £12 (Students £8) 12 noon to 6pm // £25 (group discounts available) Sat 2pm/7pm For tickets: 07908 853 914 Sun 2pm or https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bigsinguk

After the success of The Wizard of Oz and The If you are new to Big Sing, here is a brief Addams Family, the BIG SING Youth Summer description of what your afternoon will involve. Project is back with the classic family favourite We start the afternoon with some fun vocal warm musical ANNIE, the extraordinary story of a little up exercises within groups, and then we teach a orphan who ends up in the lap of luxury with medley of songs from a West End Musical. With depression-era billionaire Oliver Warbucks. West End Performers as your Singing Coaches, Unlike most of the other children at Miss the tuition is delivered in an enjoyable fun Hannigan's orphanage, spunky Annie believes method. There are no Auditions, and you will not that her parents are still alive and will one day be required to sing on your own. We will work return to claim her. Warbucks agrees to help her towards an end of Workshop presentation which find them and offers a whopping reward which your family and friends are welcome to attend at attracts the attention of con artists Rooster, Lily no extra charge. and the wicked Miss Hannigan, who hatch a plot to kidnap Annie and take the $50,000 reward. But don't fret: this classic family musical, which includes such great numbers as Tomorrow and Hard Knock Life, has a happy ending for Annie, Daddy Warbucks and the whole gang.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Musical Theatre International (Europe) 15 ALIVE AND BREL A Market Theatre Showcase Production THE YELLOW BOX .. a wicked trip through Eurocracy

9th September 15th -16th Sept Saturday 8pm // £12 (£8 Students) Fri - Sat 7.30pm // £8 (£4 students)

The finest songs from the iconic master of the An original satire by Paul Costello. In a modern chanson, Jacques Brel, come to life backstreet bar in the city of Aroma, following when this trio of singers perform their cabaret much strife on Planet Earth, six bigwigs consider revue, ‘Alive and Brel’. Brel’s songs, famed for how to achieve lasting peace in Eurocratica: their emotional power and ironic wit, have been their brainchild – a beast called the Eurocratic recorded by international stars ranging from Club. The engine room of the Club is a Frank Sinatra and Dusty Springfield to Marc basement office in Bristles, where an army of Almond and David Bowie. ‘Alive and Brel’ will Greys dream up ideas and resolve vital matters present such classics as If You Go Away/Ne Me such as the curve of a cucumber and whether Quitte Pas, Jacky and Amsterdam. The stories you can eat your pet pony. they tell have been likened to miniature films, Over many years, the ponderous beast spreads laced with dark and passionate observations its hold through Eurocratica. But when the Angel which paint a tableau of imperfect humanity. of Mercy – Leader of Germolena and Brel’s songs are guaranteed to bring a smile to prospective Head of Planet Earth – starts your lips or a tear to your eye. pushing eastwards, the commitment of the Greys is tested. The Yellow Box is pure fiction. ‘A pleasant surprise package…very capable of Any apparent likeness to, say, present-day depicting Brel’s catalogue. The blending of the Europe is entirely coincidental. three voices was particularly pleasing and gave the performance originality.’-- Stage Talk The Market Theatre Showcase programme Magazine provides an opportunity for new amateur writers, actors and directors to showcase their talents to the public at affordable prices.

16 Our Star Theatre Company presents LEDBURY COMMUNITY BRASS BAND – NOBBO and TOP BANANA LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS

22nd September 23rd September Fri 7.30pm // £10 (Students £8) Saturday 7.30pm // £8 (£4 Students)

A double bill of one-act comedies written by This tribute to the last night of the world’s Herefordshire based playwright, David Pollard. greatest music festival will feature all the traditional flag-waving tunes from the Albert Hall, Top Banana - the Boycie Brothers are down on as well as favourites from the brass band their luck. After playing the circuit for years, the repertoire. An evening of music, singing and fun pubs and clubs just aren’t paying out what they with opportunities for audience participation used to… Cash-Strapped are the musical duo under the baton of Colin Herbert. Celebrate the facing their last curtain call? Tommy is sick of best of British traditions with Ledbury’s very own Bernie always playing Top Banana – it just goes band. to show you, cracks form far quicker than built bridges!

Nobbo - the reliable and trusty steed of the pantomime world. Behind the joviality - could the front and back legs be dancing off in opposing directions? Meet Ben and Jerry: the men behind the mule. Their lasting partnership has seen Nobbo reach moderate stardom amongst children every festive season, but is all of this about to come crashing down? Follow the motivations and revelations to Ben and Jerry's reservations on ‘keeping up the act’. Feel the frustration and heartache of both men through this hilarious fly-on-the-wall comedy. 17 OUR LIVE SCREENINGS ARE SPONSORED BY

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8 JULIUS CAESAR RSC Encore National Theatre Live OBSESSION

4th May Thursday 7pm £14 (over 60s & students £12)

Angus Jackson directs Shakespeare’s epic political tragedy, as the race to claim the empire spirals out of control. Caesar returns from war, all-conquering, but mutiny is rumbling through the corridors of power.

The Rome season in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre opens with the politics of spin and betrayal turning to violence. Following his sell-out productions of Tom 11th May Morton-Smith’s Oppenheimer (2014) and James Thursday 7pm £15 (over 60s and students £12.50) Fenton’s adaptation of Don Quixote (2016), Season Director Angus Jackson steers the thrilling action. Jude Law stars, live from the Barbican Theatre in London. ANTONY & CLEOPATRA LIVE FROM THE RSC Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a roadside restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Giuseppe and Giovanna.

Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Giovanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the 24th May crime only serves to tear them apart. Wednesday 7pm £15 (over 60s & students £12.50)

Following his critically acclaimed productions of Othello (2015) and Much Ado About Nothing (2012), Iqbal Khan directs Shakespeare’s tragedy of love and duty, picking up the story where Julius Caesar ends. Following Caesar’s assassination, Mark Antony has reached the heights of power. Now he has neglected his empire for a life of decadent seduction with his mistress, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Torn between love and duty, Antony’s military brilliance deserts him, 19 and his passion leads the lovers to their tragic end. National Theatre Live - encore ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD 3rd June

Saturday 7pm £14 (over 60s and students £12)

Daniel Radcliffe, Joshua McGuire and David Haig star in David Leveaux’s new production to mark the 50th anniversary of Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly funny situation comedy, from The Old Vic Theatre in London. Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre stage. As the young double act stumble their way in and out of the action of Shakespeare’s iconic drama, they become increasingly out of their depth as their version of the story unfolds.

National Theatre Live – encore WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF 24th June

Saturday 7pm £14 (over 60s & students £12)

Sonia Friedman Productions present Imelda Staunton (Gypsy, Vera Drake), Conleth Hill (Game Of Thrones, The Producers), Luke Treadaway (A Street Cat Named Bob, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and Imogen Poots (A Long Way Down, Jane Eyre) in James Macdonald’s critically acclaimed, Edward Albee’s landmark play from the Harold Pinter Theatre, London. Imelda Staunton is at her magnificent best. A first-rate revival of an astonishing play. The Guardian Conleth Hill is superb. Exquisite. Evening Standard

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Live Screening from The Royal Opera House OTELLO

28th June Wed 7.15pm £15 (over 60s & students £12.50)

World-famous tenor Jonas Kaufmann makes his role debut as Otello in Verdi's passionate retelling of Shakespeare's great tragedy of jealousy, deception and murder. Soprano Maria Agresta will be his Desdemona and baritone Ludovic Tézier his nemesis Iago in a new production by Olivier Award-winning director Keith Warner

National Theatre Live – encore SALOMÉ

20th July Thursday 7pm £14 (over 60s & students £12)

The story has been told before, but never like this. An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious dance will change the course of the world. This charged retelling turns the infamous biblical tale on its head, placing the girl we call Salomé at the centre of a revolution. Internationally acclaimed theatre director Yaël Farber draws on multiple accounts to create her urgent, hypnotic production on the stage of the National Theatre. Encore Screening from the Royal Shakespeare Company TITUS ANDRONICUS 23rd August

Wednesday 7pm £14 (over 60s and students £12)

Blanche McIntyre returns to direct Shakespeare’s brutal revenge tragedy. The decay of Rome reaches violent depths in Shakespeare’s most bloody play. Titus is a ruler exhausted by war and loss, who relinquishes power but leaves Rome in disorder. Rape, cannibalism and severed body parts fill the moral void at the heart of this corrupt society. Shakespeare’s gory revenge tragedy presents us with murder as entertainment, and, as the body count piles up, poses questions about the nature of sexuality, family, class and society.

National Theatre Live YERMA 31st August

Thursday 7pm £15 (over 60s & students £12.50)

Billie Piper returns as the young woman driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child, in Simon Stone’s radical production set in contemporary London of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece. The theatrical phenomenon sold out at the Young Vic: Critics call it an extraordinary theatrical triumph (The Times) and stunning, searing, unmissable (Mail on Sunday). Billie Piper’s lead performance is described as spellbinding (The Evening Standard) and astonishing (iNews).

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NB: does not include live screenings and encores VICTORIA THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

12th May 25th May Friday 8pm // 140mins // (2015//15//Ger/SUBS) Thurs 8pm // 112mins // (2016//15//US)

A movie shot in a single take about Victoria, a Rachel, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her runaway party girl, who is asked by three friendly men daily commute fantasising about the seemingly to join them as they hit the town. Their wild night of perfect couple who live in a house that her train partying turns into a bank robbery. The single-take passes every day – until one morning she sees production is undeniably impressive, but it's also an something shocking happen there and becomes effective drama in its own right – and one that juggles entangled in the mystery that unfolds. The Girl on the its tonal shifts as deftly as its technical complexities. Train is a darkly addictive thriller based on the interna- tional publishing phenomenon.

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5th May 10th May Friday 8pm // 133mins // (2016//12A//UK/US) Wed 10.30am // 103mins // (2016//12A//UK) We return to Harry Potter’s world long before he was A fact-based feel-good tale inspires this moving and born, to witness the adventures of Newt Scamander, life-affirming true story of the unlikely friendship the future author of Fantastic Beasts And Where To between a young homeless busker, James Bowen, Find Them. Seventy years before Newt’s book and the stray ginger cat named Bob who changed his became required reading at Hogwarts, he travels to a life. An unapologetically heartwarming movie that land that even wizards find bizarre: America. Things should move all but the most cynical of viewers. quickly go wrong when the magical creatures he has brought with him escape, forcing him to race across New York in the hope of recovering them.

THINGS TO COME SALAAM BOMBAY!

2nd June 30th June Friday 8pm // 102mins // (2016//12A//Fr/Ger/SUBS) Fri 8pm // 112mins // (1988//UK/15//Ind/Fr//SUBS)

Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) teaches philosophy at a Krishna can only return home when he has earned high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job enough to pay for his brother’s bike that he had and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of trashed, but ends up in the Bombay’s (Mumbai’s) thinking. Married with two children, she divides her red-light district, hustling and stealing. Shot entirely time between her family, former students and her very on location with its child actors recruited from the possessive mother. One day, Nathalie's husband streets, this beautifully filmed, gritty, unsentimental announces he is leaving her for another woman. With but surprisingly cheerful portrait of street life is full of freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her incident and colourful characters. life. Part of Flicks in the Sticks World Cinema Season. Free Indian snacks will be served before the film. All Films £6 Students / Film Club Members £3 PATERSON NERUDA

2nd July 3rd July Sun 3pm // 118mins // (2016//15//US) Mon 8.30pm // 107mins // (2016//15//Chile//subs)

Adam Driver gives a beautiful performance as Neruda is an inventive as well as playful film about the Paterson, a bus driver and aspiring poet who lives in great Chilean poet and senator during his years of Paterson, New Jersey, the town which inspired the flight and exile in the 1940s. Beautifully filmed, epic of the same name by American poet Williams Neruda transcends the traditional biopic structure Carlos William. Quiet, thoughtful and deeply human, interweaving fiction with a surreal form of truth. this is one of Jarmusch’s finest works. Empire. Director Pablo Larraín. Director and screenplay: Jim Jarmusch The Film will be preceded by 10 minute introduction Poetry Festival Film – Tickets from Festival. Film Club by Adam Feinstein, who wrote the biography of membership does not apply Neruda. Poetry Festival Film – Tickets from Festival. Film Club membership does not apply MOONLIGHT MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

25th August 8th September Fri 8pm // 111mins // (2016//15//US) Friday 8pm // 137mins // (2016//15//US)

2017 Oscar winner for Best Picture. A vital portrait of Oscar-nominee Casey Affleck stars as Lee, a man personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, whose sparse existence is suddenly ruptured when friendship, and love, MOONLIGHT is a ground the death of his brother Joe forces him to return to the breaking piece of cinema that reverberates with deep hometown he abandoned years before. Rocked by compassion and universal truths. Anchored by contact with his estranged ex-wife and the revelation extraordinary performances from a tremendous that Joe has made him guardian of his teenage son, ensemble cast, Barry Jenkins's staggering, singular Lee is forced to face up to painful memories and vision is profoundly moving in its portrayal of the new-found levels of responsibility as he reconnects moments, people, and unknowable forces that shape with his family. our lives and make us who we are. Choose your seats on-line or phone 07967 517125 THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS LA LA LAND

12th July 28th July Wed 10.30am // 132min // (2016//12A//UK/NZ/US) Fri 8pm // 121mins // (2006//12A//US) Tom takes a job as lighthouse keeper on a remote Written and directed by Academy Award nominee island off the Australian coast. He becomes captivated Damien Chazelle, La La Land tells the story of Mia by Isabel, a girl from the mainland; and they are soon (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, and Sebastian married and living on the island. Their happiness is [Ryan Gosling], a dedicated jazz musician, who are only marred by their inability to start a family, so when struggling to make ends meet in a city known for a boat with a dead man and infant girl washes ashore, crushing hopes and breaking hearts. Set in modern Isabel believes their prayers have been answered. day Los Angeles, this original musical about everyday Tom is torn between reporting the lost child and life explores the joy and pain of pursuing your dreams. pleasing the woman he loves, leading to devastating consequences.

LA LA LAND BLOW-UP

13th September 29th September Wed 10.30am // 121mins // (2006//12A//US) Fri 8pm // 111mins // (1966//15/UK/It/US)

Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Michelangelo Antonioni's, some would say flawed, Damien Chazelle, La La Land tells the story of Mia cult masterpiece. A successful London mod (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, and Sebastian photographer (David Hemmings), whose world is [Ryan Gosling], a dedicated jazz musician, who are bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy struggling to make ends meet in a city known for sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. Then he crushing hopes and breaking hearts. Set in modern meets a mysterious beauty (Vanessa Redgrave), and day Los Angeles, this original musical about everyday also notices something frightfully suspicious on one life explores the joy and pain of pursuing your dreams. of his photographs of her taken in a park. The fact that he may have photographed a murder does not occur to him until he blows up his negatives. The Market Theatre Summer Calendar 2016

September Aug July June May LIVE SHOWS Friday 12th//8pmVictoria Friday 29th //8pm // Blow-Up Saturday 23rd//7:30pm // LedburyBrass Band-LastNight Of The Proms Friday 22nd//7:30pm //Nobboand Top Banana Fri -Sat15th16th //7:30pm The Yellow Box-awicked tripthroughEurocracy Wednesday 13th//10:30am //LaLand Saturday 9th//8pm Alive And Brel Friday 8th//8pmManchesterby theSea Saturday 2nd//12noonto6pm RodgersandHammerstein-BigSing Thursday 31st//7pm Yerma Friday 25th//8pmMoonlight Wednesday 23rd//7pm Titus Andronicus Fri -Sun11th -13th//2pmand7pm Annie Friday 28th//8pmLaLand Friday 21st//7:30pmBillyLiar Thursday 20th//7pmSalomé Fri -Sat14th15th//7:30pmFromthePagetoStage Wednesday 12th//10:30 The LightbetweenOceans Saturday 1st//LedburyPoetryFestivalstartsandincludes: Friday 30th//8pmSalaamBombay! Wednesday 28th//7:15pmOtello Saturday 24th//7pmWho’s Afraid ofVirginia Woolf? Saturday 24th//12noonto6pmMotown-BigSing Thu -Sat15th17th//8pmBreathOfSpring Saturday 3rd//7pmRosencrantz&Guildenstern Are Dead Friday 2nd//8pm Things toCome Saturday 27th//8pmHisWay - The FrankSinatra Show Friday 26th//8pmFarFrom The MaddingCrowd Thursday 25th//8pm The Girlonthe Train Wednesday 24th//7pm Antony andCleopatra Fri -Sat19th20th//7:30pm Those GoodOldDays OfMusicHall Saturday 13th//8pm The LastBreadPudding Thursday 11th //7pmObsession Wednesday 10th//10:30am A StreetCatnamedBob Saturday 6th//8pmGoneCuckoo Friday 5th//8pmFantasticBeastsandWheretoFind Them Thursday 4th//7pmJuliusCaesar Thursday 6th//8.30pm//ChoppingChillies Wednesday 5th//8.30pmKeithJamespresentsDuende Saturday 1st//8pm//LedburyPoetrySlam LIVE SCREENINGS FILMS