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Live Film Take Part Support Exhibitions Festivals To Date and WIN! April - June 2016 It seems a long time since I wrote Don’t miss July - September 2016 Contents Michael Morpurgo Don’t miss my first introduction to The Roses’ Our Capital Appeal Patron Shakespeare Festival presents War Horse: A summer season of events, Help us to keep you up to date with Only Remembered films and activities brochure back in 2006, and it feels Omid Djalili Symphony To A More top stand up comedy Lost Generation Offers & Discounts 4 English String The world’sRegistered first fullyCharity No. 1051708 holographic production particularly poignant to now be all of the latest hot-off-the-press Orchestra OctoberGlorious - December strings to 2016 Only Fools hail the summer And Boycie Don’t missThe Big Chris An evening with writing my last. March Reminders 5 news and help us to reduce our John Challis Robin HoodBarber & The Band Babes InThe The Jazz Wood Legend Film The widest Our unmissable traditional January - March 2017 selection in family pantomime environmental impact by signing up the area I will be passing the baton of Registered Charity No. 1051708 Live Events 6 - 22 The Roses’ ShappiDiscover the magic of cinema Christmas Market Khorsandithis season at The Roses Quality local produce and gifts Plus more running this extraordinary venue to receive your brochure by email. Live Cinema top comedyPlus Screenings from the Met Opera, National Theatre and Royal Live Music Proudly supported by to my successor Sharon Casey, ShakespeareApril Company - June 2017 Comedy Registered Charity No. 1051708 Dance 16 To sign up simply ask us to add www.rosestheatre.orgDon’t miss Live Screenings who starts at The Roses in early Family Fun IBox AM BEAST Office: 01684 295074 www.rosestheatre.org 29/01/2016 13:17:26 TheSun Roses’ Street, first Tewkesbury, live broadcastBox Glos GL20Office: 5NX 01684 295074 Proudly supported by March. you to the brochure email list or Pasha Kovalev Sun Street, Tewkesbury, Glos GL20 5NX The StrictlyorPrint.indd star sashays 1 BrochureAprJunr16_Fonto our stage Mobile BrochureJulSep16_ForPrint.indd 1 follow the link on our homepage Intimate drama In my role as Director at The Roses and also as an assessor set in a caravan 14/04/2016 12:00:43 Proudly supported by Film The widest for The Arts Council of England, I see many theatre venues at www.rosestheatre.org www.rosestheatre.orgselection in the area Box Office: 01684 295074 Sun Street,The Tewkesbury,Roses Glos GL20 5NX 29/07/2016 09:40:59 and shows all over the country, and I can quite confidently Youth Theatre EDge Recruiting new www.rosestheatre.org BrochureOctDec16_forPrint.inddmembers now 1 Sign up by Wednesday 31 May to Box Office: 01684 295074 say The Roses stands out and is very special indeed. Sun Street, Tewkesbury, Glos GL20 5NX Proudly supported by

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15/11/2016 12:11:40 Proudly supported by a draw to win au unlimited 3 www.rosestheatre.org to show, the vast array of films from all over the world, the Box Office: 01684 295074 month film pass for 2 people! Sun Street, Tewkesbury, Glos GL20 5NX incredible work that we do in the community. Take Part 24 - 25 Special also because of how hard the staff, volunteers and Exhibitions 27 board work here to get things right, and special because of you, the audience, who have shown such loyalty and Live Screenings 28 - 30 support to your venue over the years. Film Programme 31 - 43 Thank you for that support and I know Sharon Booking would join me in hoping you will enjoy many Information 44 - 45 evenings of great entertainment at The Roses in the months and years ahead. Diary 46 - 47

Booking dates Deborah Rees, Director Patron & Benefactor booking opens: Thursday 16 February Whether you are a business or individual, A message from Sharon Casey: “I am extremely excited to be joining Friend & Seat Donor we are your local, trusted The Roses. I aim to continue to build booking opens: on the success that the organisation Monday 20 February has enjoyed under my predecessor and dedicated legal experts. Deborah Rees and very much look General Public forward to getting to know you all” booking opens: Tewkesbury Pershore Cheltenham Thursday 23 February tbsolicitors.co.uk 01684 299633 01386 562000 01242 235250 rosestheatre.org Box Office: 01684 295074 3 Offers & Discounts March Show Reminders See p. 32 for March film reminders

There are many ways you can save money at The Roses, whether you are a regular theatre-goer or someone who fancies trying something new. Roxy Magic Lee Nelson The UK’s best and longest Hugely popular stand up comic running tribute to Roxy Music Fri 17 Mar 7.30pm Season Multibuy Deal Schools & Groups Fri 10 Mar 7.30pm A B C £21 Book just 2 or more shows and We offer competitive discounts to group A £25 B £21.50 C £17 No concessions available start saving! With Season Multibuy bookers, which are available on most live shows Concessions available the more you see the more you S and all films. The Fureys save. All shows must be booked at the Buy 10 tickets, get 1 free. The Sooty Show The Irish legends play a St same time for discount to apply. In addition, schools can take advantage of I AM BEAST Izzy wizzy, let’s get busy! Patrick’s weekend concert 4+ Live Shows: £3.50 off per ticket our 16-25s price, see below for details. Please By Sparkle and Dark Sat 11 Mar 11am & 2.30pm Sun 19 Mar 7.30pm contact Box Office on 01684 295074 to make a Theatre Company - your 3 Live Shows: £3 off per ticket £15.50 £12.50 £7.50 £25 £21.50 £17 chance to be part of The A B C A B C group booking. Concessions available Concessions available 2 Live shows: £2.50 off per ticket Roses’ first live broadcast. We will make arranging your group visit as easy Available on all shows that have concessions as we can! Thur 2 Mar 7.30pm available. Not available on Band C seats. Not Think Floyd That’ll Be The Day available in conjunction with any other offer. A £15.50 B £12.50 C £7.50 A visually stunning experience SOLD OUT - next dates on sale Concessions available Sun 12 Mar 7.30pm Friday 24 March 10am 16-25s Tickets A B C £22.50 Wed 22 & Thur 23 Mar Bee Gees Fever No concessions available 7.30pm Family Offer A limited number of seats are available at £5 off the advertised price across any live event that A stunning live tribute A B C £26.50 £2 off the price of all child tickets and Cilla & The Shades No concessions available F offers concessions (excludes Price Band C). Sat 4 Mar 7.30pm up to 2 adult tickets for all parties of 3-9. Each party must include at least 1 person under All 16-25s tickets must be booked in the A £25 B £21.50 C £17 Of The 60s recipient’s name - this can be done even if the Concessions available Rediscover one of music’s most Chris Ramsey the age of 16 and 1 adult. We do not charge for A brand new stand up show children under the age of 3, provided they sit on a booker is not the 16-25 year old. defining eras parent or guardian’s lap. Please call Box Office to book. Cinderella Thur 16 Mar 7.30pm Fri 24 Mar 8pm Vienna Festival Ballet A £25 B £21.50 C £17 A B C £21 No concessions available Tues 7 Mar 7pm Concessions available A £22 B £19 C £16 Stop Press! Concessions available Meet Fred We are delighted to have received funding from Hijinx Theatre present hugely entertaining puppetry Arts Council England to support the pilot of our Mitch Benn: first ever live streaming event, which will allow us to Don’t Fear Thur 30 Mar 7.30pm A £15.50 B £12.50 C £7.50 broadcast into homes, schools and organisations The Reaper and through any mobile device or computer. Concessions available Mitch confronts mortality This pioneering mobile technology will be trialled for the with hilarious and tuneful Seven Drunken first time on Thursday 2 March at the performance of I consequences AM BEAST by Sparkle And Dark Theatre Company. We Nights hope that in time many of our productions will offer the Wed 8 Mar 8.30pm The story of The Dubliners opportunity to watch online for those that are unable to £15 (Comedy in the Bar) Fri 31 Mar 7.30pm come to the theatre for the live performance or the chance Concessions available to view a performance where tickets have sold out. A £25 B £21.50 C £17 Concessions available The live screening on 2nd March is absolutely free – please check our website for further details. We’d love your feedback.

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The Roses Youth Theatre Macbeth The Roses Youth Theatre presents a fresh perspective on Shakespeare’s classic tragedy about power and ambition. Within the big top tent of a circus freakshow, ring master Macbeth seeks control of the troupe after a chance encounter with three fortune tellers. With clowns, acrobats and freaks from the darkest reaches at his disposal, blood will have blood and a barrel of laughs. Friday 24 March 7.30pm Saturday 25 March 2pm & 7.30pm £7 Folk Music Popular Music Popular Music Family Drama Concessions available Venue: Tewkesbury School Steve Tilston Steve Steinman’s Some Guys Chicken Licken & Jez Lowe Iconic - Have All A baby chick is born and thinks the sky is falling down. On the way Steve Tilston and Jez Lowe are The Show The Luck to tell the King, she meets Henny two of the UK’s finest singers, Penny, Ducky Lucky & Turkey The creative force behind the Celebrate the career of one of songwriters and guitarists. Lurkey, but there’s a shocking hugely successful Vampires rocks greatest icons, Rod Stewart, They have performed together surprise! Chicken Licken grows up Rock, Steve Steinman, delivers from street busker through to successfully on previous to be the Little Red Hen and asks an all new hit show with the international superstar. occasions but this is the first time her friends to help her make bread, best of the best soundtracks they have written songs together, Paul Metcalfe delivers a but no one wants to play! Mixed from some of the coolest and a radical change for two such charismatic performance, into this recipe of food, puppets Iconic movies of all time. singular artists. assuming the persona of the and music is the story of Little Red The title of their upcoming album, Set in a magical cinema run by an legendary singer-songwriter and Hen and the sly Foxy Loxy. Will she The Janus Game, takes its name old usher, Benson does his best to performer Rod Stewart. From outwit him and save her stuffing? entice people to buy a ticket for his distinctive vocals, swaggering from the ancient Roman god, This one-person show is a trilogy the midnight screening and give showmanship, and sheer fun Janus, the god of beginnings, of classic tales from the Ladybird gates, transitions, time, doorways, them a night they will never forget. personality, Paul makes sure we all remember why Rod Stewart is books - Chicken Licken, The passages, and endings. He is A cast of amazing singers, dancers, one of the most loved performers Little Red Hen and The Fox and usually depicted as having two and musicians deliver some of the of all time. the Hen. Starting as a baking faces on the same body but most recognisable music ever! demonstration, the show rapidly pointing in opposite directions, The show includes all the massive Hits from movie greats such as becomes the adventures of a since he looks to the future and hits from Rod’s incredible career Kill Bill, Batman, Pulp Fiction, growing chick and her encounters to the past. Steve and Jez’s music and was a sell-out success last Purple Rain, Bond and Mad Max with a hungry fox. does that too, looking back at the time it appeared at The Roses - are featured including tracks from past to extract the best ideas but don’t miss out! Queen, AC/DC, Tina Turner and also to the future to let the music Prince to name but a few. develop anew. It’s a show that will blow you away, “They work so well together” so go ahead Punk, Make Your Day! Mike Harding S F S Tuesday 4 April 8.30pm Thursday 6 April 7.30pm Friday 7 April 7.30pm Tuesday 11 April 2.30pm £15 (Folk in the Bar) A £28.50 B £24.50 C £21 A £25 B £21.50 C £17 A £15.50 B £12.50 C £7.50 No concessions available No concessions available Concessions available Concessions available

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Ballet Theatre UK Alice In Wonderland Come with Alice on a magical adventure as she tumbles into Wonderland! Guided by the White Rabbit, Alice meets some astonishing characters, including the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, a studious caterpillar and those mischievous twins, Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Basing his ballet on Lewis Carroll’s much-loved children’s books, Alice in Wonderland and Through Popular Music Family Theatre Popular Music the Looking Glass, Ballet Theatre UK’s Artistic Family Theatre Director Christopher Moore has created Feast Of Fiddles Tweedy’s Lost Gerry Cross a captivating piece, brimming with wit, Hansel And humour and charm. With its whimsical Feast Of Fiddles embarks on its Property The Mersey flights of the imagination, eclectic Gretel 24th annual tour to coincide with music and joyful dance, Alice the release of their seventh CD. Not knowing who he is anymore, Be immersed in this musical Two children go on a journey Tweedy gets a job in a Lost journey through the life and in Wonderland is delightful of bravery and discovery to an The band that has been variously entertainment for all ages. likened to a “group of geography Property Office to try and find times of one of the greatest 60s enchanted forest, where all is not himself. icons - musician and television quite as it seems... Will Hansel and teachers” or “Bellowhead with Friday 21 April 7pm bus passes!” doesn’t seem to be The consequences of attempting personality Gerry Marsden. Gerry Gretel be able to use their wisdom, and the Pacemakers topped the A £25 B £21.50 C £17 love for their family and, above all, slowing down. It all started at a folk to run the office are hilarious - the Concessions available club but has become a folk-rock lost property in his possession UK and US charts for much of the courage, to fend off the Wicked institution. seems to develop lives of their 60s, working the same Liverpool Witch and find their way home? circuit as The Beatles. In this trip Will the Gingerbread Man get lost Typically, fiddlers Peter Knight own and allied with his own F S body rebelling against him he down memory lane, Gerry talks in the house made of sugar, spice (Steeleye Span), Chris Leslie about his early beginnings, through and all things nice? What secrets (Fairport Convention), Phil Beer is constantly prevented from answering the ringing telephone. the time he and the Pacemakers and surprises does the forest (Show of Hands), Brian McNeill burst on to the scene with three hide? Courtyard Productions bring (Battlefield Band), Ian Cutler (Bully In this one man, family show, consecutive number one hits - this classic tale of mystery, intrigue Wee), Tom Leary (Lindisfarne) Tweedy illustrates an impressive “How Do You Do It”, “I Like It” and and magic to life through a blend of and Garry Blakeley (Band of Two) repertoire of comedic talents “You’ll Never Walk Alone”- right interactive puppetry, original song add the large range of fiddle which have made him one of the up to the present day where they and humour. Directed by David playing styles to the rock back-line most respected and popular continue to be in great demand Durant, this show will delight and of guitars, keyboards, sax and clowns the country currently has all over the world. With stories, excite children over two years old accordion – all held together to offer. jokes, and anecdotes, and a very and will charm young and old alike. by legendary drummer Dave “The best clown I have ever seen” special guest appearance by top Mattacks. Courtyard Productions The Independent comedian Mike Lancaster, this is “Britain’s fiddling supergroup” a rollercoaster of fun, music and Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2 nostalgia. S F S F S Thursday 13 April 7.30pm Saturday 15 April 2.30pm Thursday 20 April 7.30pm Saturday 22 April 2.30pm A £28.50 B £24.50 C £21 A £15.50 B £12.50 C £7.50 A B C £22 A £15.50 B £12.50 C £7.50 Concessions available Concessions available No concessions available Concessions available

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Popular Music Musical Comedy Folk Music Folk Music That’s Life Noel & Gertie Corinne West Coope Boyes & This authentic show takes you Noel & Gertie is a warm and Californian songwriter Corinne Simpson from Frank’s early recordings to his witty musical comedy based on West is a poet, a tunesmith, a rise, fall, notorious connections, the legendary friendship and visionary and an utterly stellar In 1993, three blokes from South and collaborations that assured professional collaboration of performer. Her music evokes Yorkshire and Derbyshire, with his rise again to international actor, playwright and songwriter the eternal stories of mystic a name like a firm of solicitors, stardom, in a spectacular career Noel Coward and the alluring and troubadours, while speaking to released an album of a cappella spanning 70 years. charismatic actress Gertrude the sonic sensibilities of a modern songs full of social comment Lawrence. audience. A very well-established and (in the words of Folk Roots) Frank Cognoscenti assumes the ‘harmonies you could chew’. persona of Frank down to the A major revival of Sheridan figure on the acoustic roots finest detail. He’s a natural double Morley’s hit play that originally ran scene, West has recorded five They were, of course, Coope Opera with the uncanny ability to convey in the West End for nine years, critically-acclaimed albums Boyes and Simpson, and the the most subtle vocal nuance it is affectionately crafted from and has toured extensively album was Funny Old World. - all with a dry and mischievous diaries and letters between a throughout North America Opera Cocktail 24 years later, they have released what will be their final studio sense of fun honed from years of pair who epitomised an era of and Europe. Her distinctive Classics shaken with wit, stirred with drama and served with a album. Coda is a collection of performing worldwide. sophistication and elegance. style is marked by lush vocals, contemporary twist. pristine guitar, and bold lyricism songs, mainly self-penned or The concert includes a specially Featuring songs, sketches that reflects grit, discerning Olivier Award winning OperaUpClose present some of opera’s best loved drawn from the tradition, covering arranged collection of Sinatra’s and snippets of scenes, the optimism and a far-reaching arias, duets and ensembles in a fun, modern setting. Performed in witty issues such as refugees, Iraq and biggest hits including I’ve Got You production has the entrancing reverence for space and time. new English translations and beautifully acted in the company’s engaging, climate change. Under My Skin, Fly Me to the Moon, effect of accurately portraying the intimate style, this evening includes Musetta’s aria from La Bohème, With an anger undimmed and wry Come Fly with Me, My Way and relationship of this extraordinary Carmen’s sexy Habanera, and the drinking song from La Traviata. New York alongside stunning and duo, inseparable until Gertrude’s humour firmly intact, Coope Boyes These popular tunes are performed by a trio of some of the best opera and Simpson are returning to their captivating set piece recreations premature death, which left a large singers in the UK and accompanied by a virtuosic pianist. of other pivotal collaborations, void in ”the Master’s” life. roots and completing the circle tours, TV specials and landmark “OperaUpClose are leading an artistic revolution” The Sunday Times that started with Funny Old World. concerts rarely heard in The Times mainstream productions. “Madly brilliant” S S S S Saturday 29 April 7.30pm Sunday 30 April 3pm Tuesday 2 May 8.30pm Friday 5 May 7.30pm Wednesday 10 May 7.30pm A £25 B £21.50 C £17 A £19.50 B £16.50 C £14.50 £15 (Folk in the Bar) A £19.50 B £16.50 C £14.50 A £19.50 B £16.50 C £14.50 Concessions available Concessions available No concessions available Concessions available Concessions available

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Drama Comedy Triple Bill Presented by Baroque Theatre Company • UK Theatre Tour Directed by Adam Morley, Produced by Claire Bibby Enjoy three fast-paced, one act plays giving fun-seeking audiences a full and entertaining afternoon.

Last in Little Grimley (by David Tristram) Membership of the local amdram society has dwindled to four and the audiences aren’t much bigger. If they don’t come up with some rent money soon, they’re going to be thrown out. “There’s only one Popular Music Classical Music Folk Music Dance thing that sells tickets these days” argues the Chairwoman. “Sex!” But how will the locals react to the promise of a sizzling sex comedy? Raymond Orchestra Miranda Sykes Pasha Kovalev: A Jolly Sinister Jape (by Elliot Strange) Froggatt Pro Anima Miranda Sykes, the acclaimed Let’s Dance The This is Famous Five fun for adults as Stubby, Ophelia, Biffy and singer and bassist with ‘Show of Raymond Froggatt’s extraordinary And Michael Bochmann MBE Fatty find themselves trapped in a mysterious house during a Hands’ is returning to her roots. Night Away musical journey began in the most thunderstorm. Is this someone’s idea of a jape? Or is something far With Helen Roberts (viola) & After a career spanning over 20 unlikely of circumstances after an ’s Pasha more sinister going on? Tom Martin (double bass) years, during which time she illness forced him to rethink his Kovalev and his fantastic dancers Violinist Michael Bochmann and has played with many of the top are touring the UK again with Last Panto in Little Grimley (by David Tristram) lifestyle in his teens. After making musicians and singers within the a full recovery, Froggie, as he is his players, formerly known as their completely brand new Sequel to Last Tango in Little Grimley, Last Panto in Little Grimley folk world, she will be touring as affectionately known, decided to English String Orchestra, once show. Expect all of your favourite features the same incompetent characters. The society tackles the she started out: one woman, one form a band and devote his life again bring you the warm sound dances, stunning costumes, great Christmas Pantomime with predictably riotous results. of strings at The Roses. Enjoy the bass, and one guitar. Borrowed music, chat and fun for all the to music. It wasn’t long before Places is a project that draws its Sunday 7 May 3pm he was signed to the top record Baroque Masters, with Strauss and family. Pasha won Strictly Come Dvorak at their best, and exquisite inspiration primarily from the Dancing with in 2014 £19.50 £16.50 £14.50 companies of the time and his A B C works from the string repertoire. songs and landscapes of her and has scored more 10’s than Concessions available songs were being recorded by native Lincolnshire but seen any other professional dancer artists all over the country and Programme: through the eyes of someone who abroad. Froggie’s widespread since the series began. This is your S Mozart Divertimento in F K138 has lived away for many years. chance to watch him live! appeal lies in his ability to write Vivaldi Spring from the The themes are not specific; the Pasha will be joined by students songs that are both funny enough Four Seasons land changes, it grows, it shrinks, to make you laugh and emotive from Amy Bastin Dance School. Telemann Concerto for Viola it adapts and it resists but most enough to make you cry. The Bach Concerto for violin of all it lives and breathes. With intensity of his performance will her sensational voice, Miranda touch your heart - an evening with in A Minor Dvorak op 54 no 1 interprets the soul of the land and Raymond Froggatt is pure magic takes her audience on a journey Bottesini Elegy for Double Bass and not to be missed. that resonates with us all, and it is Strauss Pizzicato polka one you won’t want to miss. Warlock Capriol Suite Grainger Molly on the Shore S S Friday 12 May 7.30pm Sunday 14 May 3pm Tuesday 23 May 8.30pm Thursday 25 May 7.30pm A £25 B £21.50 C £17 A £25 B £21.50 C £17 £15 (Folk in the Bar) A B C £28.50 Concessions available Concessions available No concessions available No concessions available

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Family Theatre The Three Musketeers The seventeenth century has never been so silly! Chaos, mayhem and stupidity reign supreme as children’s comedy trio the Three Half Pints swish their swords, buff their boots and flourish their feathers in their most ridiculous adventure yet! Will they defeat the dastardly evil-doers? Will they save the damsel in distress? Will they actually read the book before writing the show? Fresh from Justin’s House and Spot Bots, join the CBeebies Popular Music favourites in a hilarious new slapstick adventure of chivalry, Folk Music Popular Music Popular Music swordplay and suddenly falling over. Dominic Kirwan Perfect for families with children aged 5 - 11. The Phil The Aces The Quo In Concert With “Exuberant slapstick silliness and Beer Band The UK’s Number One Experience great fun for the whole family” Mumsnet Band are renowned worldwide Lisa Stanley Supported by The Hawthornes for their high-energy music and The Quo Experience is a band with an impressively experienced Firmly established as one Tuesday 30 May 2.30pm The Phil Beer Band performs spectacular stage show. a unique blend of folk and roll line-up including Shaun Michaels of Ireland’s greatest ever This swinging sextet have A £15.50 B £12.50 C £7.50 trawled from Phil’s treasure trove (as Francis Rossi) and Dave Crawte entertainers, Dominic Kirwan hits Concessions available performed for The Queen, as well (as Rick Parfitt), who have both the road again with a brand new of traditional tunes and American as working with Van Morrison and country rock. featured in quality Quo tribute show. Impossible to pigeon hole John Travolta. They’ve played to acts in the past. since he broke on to the circuit The highly popular line up full crowds at the Royal Albert Hall, as a professional singer, Dominic comprises of Gareth Turner, Steve Buckingham Palace, Glastonbury Shaun and Dave have spent years from the County of Tyrone, where Crickett, Greg McDonald, Olivia Festival and The London Olympics studying every detail of Rossi and some of Ireland’s greatest names Dunn and of course Phil Beer, and and have graced stages in 40 Parfitt’s looks, playing styles and in music have come from, has promises to deliver a lively cocktail countries. stage performances to make sure been entertaining professionally of folk, rock, country and blues. they are both as close to the real Other TV appearances include thing on stage as is possible. since 1989. Accompanying Over time The Phil Beer Band has Strictly Come Dancing, Children in Dominic on the 2017 tour will be evolved into a ‘Folk ‘n’ Roll’ band Need, Good Day Los Angeles and The Quo Experience also features Lisa Stanley, one of Ireland’s top with country rock overtones. The Alan Titchmarsh Show. Graham Partridge, who captures female vocalists and star of TV’s Throw in Phil’s blistering guitar the magic of Andy Bown’s The Lisa Stanley Show. Dominic solos, a healthy seasoning of “Simply Sensational!” The Stage playing and vocals perfectly, Alex and Lisa bring their own inimitable Bayou, a brilliant ‘Matt Letley’ lively tunes, banter, and a pint or “Jive Aces rocked us, literally, and style to the vast and rich musical style drummer, and Brian ‘Brino’ three, and you know you’re in for a raised the roof!” Huffington Post heritage of their homeland, cracking night. Smith on bass, a well-known and mixed with their unique quality as respected ‘Rhino’-style player versatile entertainers, and perform and performer on the Quo tribute a selection of various musical circuit for over ten years. styles, including, pop, country and rock ‘n’ roll. F S S S S Saturday 27 May 7.30pm Wednesday 31 May 7.30pm Friday 2 June 7.30pm Sunday 4 June 7.30pm A B C £25 A £25 B £21.50 C £17 A £25 B £21.50 C £17 A £25 B £21.50 C £17 No concessions available Concessions available Concessions available Concessions available

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Contemporary Dance Contemporary Drama EDge Mobile Go beyond the expected and stimulate your mind with an evening A Paper Birds Production of bold performances. Immerse yourself in the energy and skill Co-commissioned by Live Theatre and The Marlowe Theatre of 14 exceptional dancers as they perform unusual work by a We are taught from a young age to aim high, to reach for the stars, collection of new and award-winning choreographers. Experience to want more, to climb the social ladder. But as we surge forward, three freshly created works as they explode on stage in front of grappling for university places and promotions, what are we you; Tony Adigun, Patricia Okenwa, and Karen and Allen Kaeja leaving behind? And from our ladder in the stars, if we look back, appear alongside Strange Blooms, a restaging of the Shobana what do ? Jeyasingh creation that explores the anatomy of plant cells under a microscope. Prepare to question your expectations and Mobile is The Paper Birds’ second show in a trilogy about class discover your love of dance. Popular Music in modern Britain. An intimate 40-minute theatre show set in a Choral Music caravan, based on interviews conducted in communities across EDge is the postgraduate performance company of London The Manfreds the UK, exploring our sense of home, belonging, aspiration, and London Welsh School. the realities of social mobility. The ‘60s group Manfred Mann is Discover what life is like as a dancer with a touring company by Male Choir now considered one of the finest Powerful true stories and dreams for the future are revealed attending the Q&A session after the performance. With Bredon School and most respected bands from through video projection, recorded interviews, original music and interactions with a performer. Thursday 8 June 7.30pm that era. Their numerous hits were Formed in 1902, The London R&B based with an undercurrent Welsh Male Choir have been proud £15.50 £12.50 £7.50 “Mobile neatly turns the caravan into a magic box where every A B C of jazz - a very unusual but Concessions available cupboard and drawer springs a surprise” The Guardian to perform their spine-tingling winning combination of style and four part harmonies in some of substance. the world’s best known concert S As a result, their records have a venues. timeless quality and, some 55 Highlights include performing years on with original front man at two Royal Variety Command Paul Jones, The Manfreds will be performances, the Prince of performing many of their hits Wales’ 50th birthday, and the including ‘Do Wah Diddy Diddy’, London 2012 Olympics closing one of the most popular and ceremony. instantly recognisable songs of the Their mission is to bring the 60’s, along with a mix of Jazz and power and passion of more than Blues covers from their new album a hundred men singing together ‘Makin’ Tracks’. to everyone’s ears, creating an Paul Jones, with his unique experience like no other. harmonica sound, will be joined This special charity performance by Mike Hugg on keyboards, will also feature performances by Tom McGuinness on guitar, Rob students of Bredon School, with Townsend on drums, Marcus Cliffe all proceeds from this show being on bass, and Simon Currie on donated to local charities. saxophone/ flute. Thursday 15 June 12noon, 12.45pm, 1.30pm, 2.30pm, 3.15pm, S 5pm, 5.45pm, 6.30pm. 7.30pm, 8.15pm S £10 Friday 9 June 7.30pm Concessions available Saturday 10 June 7pm A £25 B £21.50 C £17 Location: The Roses A £25 B £21.50 C £17 Concessions available Concessions available

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Ballet Magic A Midsummer Night’s Dream Morgan & West: Parlour Tricks A co-production between Ballet Cymru Join time travelling magic duo Morgan & West for an evening chock & The Riverfront Theatre full of jaw dropping, brain bursting, gasp eliciting feats of magic. Award-winning Ballet Cymru present a stunning, funny and Morgan & West have fooled Penn & Teller (Fool Us ITV 1), heart-warming version of Shakespeare’s most magical play. competed to be the Next Great Magician (ITV 1), and even Several stories intertwine as Titania, Puck and Bottom with attempted to escape The Slammer (CBBC). Join these his boot wearing Rude Mechanicals present their famous practitioners of prestidigitation for an unforgettable play ‘Pyramus And Thisbe’. Caught in a thrilling web of evening of magic, mystery, and the unexplainable. mistaken identity and confusion, the lovers find their way The dashing chaps offer up a plateful of illusion and impossibility, to an unforgettable and joyous reconciliation. With humour, Popular Music all served with wit, charm and no small amount of panache. Be Popular Music breathtaking choreography, Mendelssohn’s joyous music and sure to wear a hat – Morgan & West might just blow your mind! enchanting costumes, you’ll lose yourself in Shakespeare’s Roy Orbison & Rhinestone fairytale kingdom. “Spiffing!” Chortle Ballet Cymru are a young, vital group of dancers who are pushing The Travelling “Hugely talented” Cowboy back the barriers of classical ballet. Using powerful and timeless Wilbury’s “Charming and engaging” The Stage Enjoy a celebratory tribute to stories, the company challenges its dancers to interpret some of American rock and country the finest characters in literature. Tribute Show Friday 23 June 7.30pm music singer Glen Campbell, best The late 1980s saw the birth of A £19.50 B £16.50 C £14.50 known for his hits in the 60s and one of the most famous and Concessions available 70s. During his 50 years in show memorable super groups of all business he released more than time, The Travelling Wilburys. 70 albums and he was even picked S by John Wayne to play in True Grit, Featuring five individual icons in for which Campbell sang the title their own right, this formidable song and was nominated for an team created an album that Academy Award. The man himself completely rocked the music went on a final goodbye tour in industry. Pooling the considerable 2012 and sang Rhinestone Cowboy talents of George Harrison, as a farewell in his final televised Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne, Tom on stage performance. Featuring Petty, and Bob Dylan, The songs such as Wichita Lineman, Wilburys were a real force to be Galveston, By The Time I Get To reckoned with and created a Phoenix, and Southern Nights, sound and style so unique that as well as hits by Dolly Parton, even to this day there has never Kenny Rodgers, Linda Ronstadt, been anything quite like it. Neil Diamond, Bobby Gentry, The With The Wilburys never Beach Boys and Kris Kristofferson, actually going on tour, this is this will be a night you won’t want an unmissable chance to see to miss. the concert that never was. S S S Friday 16 June 7.30pm A £19.50 B £16.50 C £14.50 Saturday 17 June 7.30pm Saturday 24 June 7.30pm Concessions available A £25 B £21.50 C £17 A £25 B £21.50 C £17 Concessions available Concessions available

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Big Band Popular Music Popular Music Steve Ashley Opera Boys A Celebration Of The Nick Ross Kast Off Kinks Abba Forever One of the British folk scene’s Leading men from London’s Neil Diamond finest singer-songwriters West End display a power- Wayne Denton recreates Former members of the legendary ABBA Forever is one of the UK’s makes a welcome return visit house of vocal harmony to Orchestra: the songs, atmosphere and band are back together leading international tribute to The Roses with another deliver a stunning blend of memories of the Diamond era. Sounds Of The playing great music and re-living shows, and theatre audiences popular Folk in the Bar gig. music from opera to pop. the good times whilst keeping the have long enjoyed this superb Glenn Miller Era songs alive that made The Kinks recreation of one of the world‘s Tuesday 4 July 8.30pm Friday 21 July 7.30pm Sunday 23 July 7.30pm Recapture the sounds and a household name. This great greatest pop bands. £15 (Folk in the Bar) A £25 B £21.50 C £17 A £25 B £21.50 C £17 memories of times gone by as the line-up features (the The unique ABBA sound is No concessions available Concessions available S Concessions available S Nick Ross Orchestra present an original drummer on all the classic replicated with an incredible unmissable evening of the classic hits from 1964-84), attention to detail, using a six- Big Band Sound of the Glenn Miller (bass/vocals, Kinks 60’s & 70’s), piece band. Two outstanding Era. With a line-up of saxophones, Ian Gibbons (keyboards/vocals, ABBA girls complete the line-up, trumpets, trombones, a rhythm Kinks 80’s & 90’s and still with Ray adding the essential glitz and section and singers, the Nick Ross Davies) with Dave Clarke (guitar/ glamour to a well-polished and Orchestra faithfully recreate the vocals, formerly of the Beach humorous show. Big Band sound of the 1940s. Boys, Noel Redding & Tim Rose). The wonderful lyrics penned The NRO library features hits Expect all of the hits: You Really by Benny and Bjorn are sung in from Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Got Me, Dedicated Follower of magnificent harmony by all six Tommy Dorsey, Ted Heath, Artie Fashion, , Lola, performers on stage. Dynamic Shaw, Woody Herman, Les Brown, Days, , Come non-stop choreography, stunning Benny Goodman, Ray Noble, and Dancing, and many more for a visuals, top class musicianship Stan Kenton among others. Their great night out. repertoire would, of course, not be and a complete performance complete without reference to the “A full house, and a standing ensures that the ABBA Forever The Bob Ed Byrne: Talon - The Best songbook of Frank Sinatra. ovation. To anyone wondering Show captivates audiences from about going, do not hesitate” the opening refrain to the final Dylan Story Spoiler Alert Of Eagles The Stables, Milton Keynes sing-along chorus of this two-hour The definitive tribute to a The brand new stand up show The ever popular Talon spectacular. songwriting genius who spoke from the unrivalled master of present their twentieth S S S for a whole generation. observational comedy! anniversary tour. Saturday 29 July 7.30pm Monday 25 Sep 8pm Friday 29 Sep 7.30pm S Sunday 25 June 7.30pm Friday 30 June 7.30pm Saturday 1 July 7.30pm A £25 B £21.50 C £17 A B C £25 A £28.50 B £24.50 C £21 A £25 B £21.50 C £17 A £25 B £21.50 C £17 A £25 B £21.50 C £17 Concessions available S No concessions available Concessions available Concessions available Concessions available Concessions available

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A Fundraising Event In Your Own Words Cocktail & Casino Night This poetry writing group is all about encouraging you to improve your craft with Miki Byrne’s Try your luck at our glamorous Cocktail & Casino night! expertise as guidance. Miki has had her work Dress up in your finest party attire and bring your friends included in over 170 respected poetry magazines to a Casino Royale themed evening where you can have and anthologies, and was also a finalist for Poet a go at the roulette and blackjack tables, as well as many Laureate of Gloucestershire. more thrilling games. You’ll be given a voucher to get you started and whoever ends the night with the most fun money is rewarded with a bottle of bubbly. To sweeten the deal, we are mixing up some luscious cocktails with enticing flavours, including some you may not have heard of Tasting before. Do join us for a great night out. Quiz Nights Ginformation Join us for an evening of laughter and trivia in Thursday 4 May 7.30pm our popular monthly quiz. Win cash prizes, film Join us for an evening of tickets or a bottle of wine and enjoy testing your Entry: £20 Ginformation. This gin tasting knowledge in a light hearted contest. No concessions available • Strictly over 18’s only journey will take you through the aromatic and flavoursome world Last Wednesday of every month 7.45pm of gin and accompanying tonics. Last Wednesday of every month 5pm - 7pm Supported by 20% off Cost: £1 (pay on door) Workshop and open-mic: £3 at Kudos with We will taste six different gins Venue: The Roses’ Bar Open-mic only: £2, Concessions: £2 every ticket to test how good your taste purchased! buds are. We will also match the gin to a quality mixer to help you understand the different botanicals in each glass. Caroline’s This is the perfect night Crooners for not only gin lovers, but Enjoy the uplifting also for anyone who needs experience of singing convincing on the joys of gin. together. You don’t need to be able to read music, and it doesn’t matter if you’ve not sung before – this choir is all about having fun, and enjoying music from many different eras and genres. Open Mic Sessions Tues 25 Apr - Tues 5 July Re-launching of The Roses’ Open Mic Night - a regular monthly slot showcasing the best of Cost: £60 per term Gloucestershire’s up and coming talent. Sign up 9.30am - 10.30am sheet available from 3.30pm.

First Sunday of every month 4pm - 6pm Friday 19 May 7.45pm Free Entry £20 (In the Bar) Venue: The Roses’ Bar No concessions available

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Alley Cat Mosaic & Painting The Roses Youth Theatre With Jo Teague The Roses Youth Theatre is the perfect place for young Come along to one of two workshops (choose from Mosaic or people interested in drama and performance to enhance Painting) and create your own Tewkesbury cat to keep once it has their skills with industry professionals in an encouraging, been displayed as part of the exhibition supporting the Alleycats supportive environment. Alongside our team all Youth regeneration project for Tewkesbury. Theatre members develop confidence through drama, voice coaching and movement. The Roses hosts the youth theatre’s main performance each year, affording members the opportunity to experience first-hand the inner workings of a professionally run venue. We continue to offer nationally Tuesday 11 April recognised Arts Award qualifications and are regular Mosaic Workshop: 10am – 4pm Painting Workshop: 1pm - 3pm participants in the National Theatre’s Connections festival, Cost: £45 (age 12+) Cost: £20 (all ages) Strike A Light Theatre Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe. Beginners Age 5 – 8 Thursdays, 4.30pm - 5.30pm • £60 per term Juniors Age 8 – 11 Tuesdays, 4.30pm - 6pm • £70 per term Seniors Age 11 – 14 Tuesdays, 6.15pm - 7.45pm • £70 per term Young Company Age 14 – 16 Mondays, 5pm - 6.45pm • £80 per term Company Age 17+ Now Mondays, 7pm - 9pm • £80 per term recruiting All classes run weekly during term-time new For information see www.rosestheatre.org members! Cat Drawing Stand Up! Contemporary To book a free taster session contact [email protected] With Maxine Williams Or Sit Down... Vocals Learn the art of drawing cats. With Nancy Robb With Lindsay Martin Start with a few simple lines, a couple of circles, and soon you Come and play drama games, Join us for a workshop focusing on Make a Play in 3 Days: could have a fine example of make silly noises and laugh your contemporary vocal technique, haughty Persian, sleek Siamese, head off as you enjoy discovering performance and stagecraft. Fabulous Beasts tail-less Manx or domestic moggie. your ‘inner child’ in this family Learn vocal tips to help you Join us in the ministry of magic and make your Or maybe you’d prefer to turn a comedy workshop. This is a great develop your talents, sing healthily own magical show. Work with our brilliant simple pebble into a stone cat opportunity to try something a with control and confidence. team of professional practitioners to create with a few strokes of a pen. little different with your family. Microphone technique and a show to wow your friends and family. Bring No experience is required, just a stagecraft will also be covered in your own wand, cloak and imagination. Sponsored by Bookworm, willingness to have some fun with a this fun and supportive workshop. Tewkesbury great bunch of people. Monday 10 – Wednesday 12 April 10am – 3pm Tuesday 18 April 2pm - 4pm Thursday 20 April 2 - 3.30pm Thursday 13 April 2pm - 5pm Cost: £45 per child (age 5 – 14) Cost: FREE (early booking advised) Cost: £10 per family Cost: £20 (age 12+) Venue: Tewkesbury School Venue: The Roses Venue: The Roses Venue: The Roses

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Becoming a Friend or Patron is Secrets and Lies one of the most valuable ways This exhibition, timed to coincide with Mental Health Awareness that you can support us. week, showcases work created through personal experience of mental health. This will include work created by young people What you see in this brochure is from schools’ projects funded by both the Police Commissioner only part of what we do. Behind and the NHS Cultural Commissioning programme. Monday 8 - Sunday 14 May the scenes we lead the way with essential projects that enrich communities. Cheltenham Open Studio With memberships available from Taster Show just £2.50 per month, you really 9 days, 50+ venues, 200 artists can make a difference and shape COS17 is a major biennial visual arts event where over our future, whilst enjoying a range 200 artists, working in Cheltenham and its surrounds, of benefits too. will open their homes and studios to the public in order to engage them directly with the work they are making. This group show will give you a taster of the wider event, Become a Friend Partner with The Roses which lets you meet the artists, view their work and Contact Shirley Grant: Contact Cat Reese: learn about their practice. [email protected] [email protected] Thursday 1 - Friday 23 June 01684 853071 01684 853070

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YOUR FRONT ROW SEAT FOR THE WORLD’S GREATEST ART The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period reveals as much about America as a nation as it The conclusion of does about its art as a creative power-house. It’s a The Metropolitan story closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire Opera’s 2016 - 2017 to preserve nature in a rapidly urbanizing nation. Live In HD season Twelfth Night Rosencrantz And Peter Pan Travelling to studios, gardens and iconic locations Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new Guildenstern All children, except one, grow up… throughout the , UK and France, this twist on Shakespeare’s classic Captured live at the National mesmerising film is a feast for the eyes. La Traviata Are Dead (Verdi) comedy of mistaken identity. Theatre, this is a recorded Daniel Radcliffe stars in Tom performance of JM Barrie’s much- Tuesday 21 March 7.30pm (encore screening) Sat 11 Mar 5.55pm Stoppard’s brilliantly funny loved tale, ideal for families to comedy, broadcast live from enjoy together. I, Claude Monet Idomeneo The Old Vic theatre in London. (Mozart) From award-winning director Phil Grabsky comes Saturday 8 April 7pm Sunday 23 April 7pm Sunday 11 June 3pm this new look at arguably the world’s favourite Sat 25 Mar 4.55pm (pre-recorded) (pre-recorded) (pre-recorded) artist – through his own words. Based on over 2500 All tickets: £15 All tickets: £15 All tickets: £15 letters, I, Claude Monet reveals new insight into the Eugene Onegin man who not only painted the picture that gave (Tchaikovsky) birth to impressionism but who was perhaps the Sat 22 Apr 5.55pm most influential and successful painter of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Der Tuesday 9 May 7.30pm (encore screening) Rosenkavalier (R. Strauss) Michelangelo: Sat 13 May 5.30pm Love and Death Angels In America Michelangelo’s beautiful and diverse works still leave Prices Salomé Yerma us breathless today. Spanning his 89 years, this Tickets: £21.50 The story has been told before, (Parts 1 & 2) The incredible Billie Piper returns film takes a cinematic journey from the print and Concessions: £19 but never like this. An occupied A new staging of Tony Kushner’s in her award-winning role. A young drawing rooms of Europe, through the great chapels Multibuy 4+: £16.50 each desert nation. A radical from the multi-award winning two-part play. woman is driven to the unthinkable and museums of Florence, Rome and the Vatican to wilderness on hunger strike. A Part 1, Millennium Approaches, by her desperate desire to have explore his tempestuous life. girl whose mysterious dance will is followed a week later by Part 2, a child in Simon Stone’s radical Coming soon: The change the course of the world. Perestroika. production of Lorca’s achingly Tuesday 13 June 7.30pm (encore screening) powerful masterpiece. Met Opera’s Live in Part 1: Thursday 20 July 7pm Thursday 22 June 7pm Part 2: Thursday 27 July 7pm Thursday 31 August 7pm All tickets: £15 HD 2017-18 season All tickets: £17 All tickets: £17 All tickets: £17

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There are many different film series at The Roses. Look out for the symbols throughout the film pages and diary. Film Ticket Prices Daytime (10am - 5pm) Nappy Elevenses 2D 3D A series of Shakespeare’s iconic Roman histories. Full price £7 £9 Mondays N E Screenings Concessions £6 £8 Julius Caesar Nappy Mondays are film Elevenses are popular Under 26s £5 £7 screenings exclusively for Angus Jackson directs Shakespeare’s epic morning screenings mums, dads and carers with Saturday AM £2.50 - political tragedy, as the race to claim the empire programmed with our young children under 18 spirals out of control. Caesar returns from war, all- retired audience in mind. Evenings (after 5pm) conquering, but mutiny is rumbling through months old. With discounted Enjoy discounted tea and 2D 3D the corridors of power. The Rome season in the drinks and free refills, changing filter coffee and free refills Full price: £8 £10 The Bolshoi Ballet Royal Shakespeare Theatre opens with the mat and buggy park, as well as from Cotteswold Coffee. politics of spin and betrayal turning to violence. a free seat for your belongings. Concessions: £7 £9 Under 26s: £5 £7 A Hero Of Wednesday 26 April 7pm Films in this season are: Elevenses Our Time Loving (12A) Screenings are Banded pricing does not Antony & Cleopatra Mon 20 Mar 11.15am sponsored by apply to film screenings. Pechorin, a young officer, embarks Iqbal Khan directs Shakespeare’s tragedy of Hidden Figures (PG) DF Legal on a journey across the majestic love and duty, picking up the story where Julius Mon 27 Mar 11.15am mountains of the Caucasus, Caesar ends. Following Caesar’s assassination, La La Land (12A) on a path set by his passions. Mark Antony has reached the heights of Mon 3 Apr 11.15am Audio Disillusioned and careless, he power. Now he has neglected his empire Rules Don’t Apply (12A) Described inflicts pain upon himself and the A for a life of decadent seduction with his Mon 24 Apr 11.15am Relaxed women around him… mistress, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Screenings Audio Description headsets Their Finest (12A) R provide audio commentary “Give me everything, it is still Torn between love and duty, Antony’s Mon 8 May 11.15am Relaxed Screenings enable not enough.” This story based military brilliance deserts him, and his for the visually impaired. Sense Of An Ending (Ctbc) those living with Dementia, on the larger-than-life hero passion leads the lovers to their tragic end. Please reserve a headset by Mon 15 May 11.15am Autism or any other condition Pechorin is adapted from Mikhail calling Box Office on 01684 Wednesday 24 May 7pm that affects daily living, to Lermontov’s literary masterpiece, The Zookeeper’s Wife (Ctbc) 295074 prior to arrival. enjoy a social activity in a safe three separate tales recounting Mon 22 May 11.15am environment. The lights will Pechorin’s heartbreaking Titus Andronicus The Boss Baby (Cert tbc) be left on low and there may betrayals. Is he a real hero? Or Mon 5 June 11.15am The decay of Rome reaches violent depths in be the possibility of people is he just a man like any other? Shakespeare’s most bloody play. Titus is a ruler Nappy Mondays are talking or moving around. Subtitled This brand new production by exhausted by war and loss, who relinquishes power sponsored by Aquatots Screenings choreographer Yuri Possokhov is a but leaves Rome in disorder. Rape, cannibalism and Hidden Figures (PG) S tragic poetic journey that can only severed body parts fill the moral void at the heart Wed 29 March 2pm Films in this season are: be seen at the Bolshoi. of this corrupt society. Shakespeare’s gory revenge Lego Batman Movie (Ctbc) Hidden Figures (PG) tragedy presents us with murder as entertainment, Wed 12 Apr 2pm Wed 29 Mar 7.30pm and, as the body count piles up, poses questions about Beauty and the Beast (Ctbc) The Viceroy’s House (12A) the nature of sexuality, family, class and society. Sun 23 Apr 3pm Tues 18 Apr 7.30pm Blanche McIntyre returns to the RSC to direct Their Finest (12A) Their Finest (12A) Shakespeare’s brutal revenge tragedy after her debut Thurs 11 May 2pm Sun 7 May 7.30pm directing The Two Noble Kinsmen (2016). 3D The Zookeeper’s Wife (Ctbc) Sense Of An Ending (Ctbc) Wednesday 9 August 7pm 3 Screenings Wed 24 May 2pm Thur 18 May 2pm Sunday 9 April 3pm All screenings with a 3 next The Smurfs: The Lost Village The Zookeeper’s Wife (Ctbc) Tickets: £15 Tickets: £17 to them will be shown in 3D. Thur 1 June 2pm Sun 21 May 7.30pm Concessions available

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Loving (PG) A This heart-rending historical drama focuses on a real life interracial couple whose union is challenged by the authorities. Richard and Mildred Loving married in 1958, but on returning to their Virginia home were promptly arrested, thrown in jail and eventually banished under laws deriving from segregation and slavery. Their fight for the right to live as a family culminated in the landmark 1967 civil-rights case Loving v. Virginia. Jackie (15) Lion (PG) Moonlight (15) T2 Trainspotting Mon 20 Mar 7.30pm, Tues 21 Mar 11.15am E & 2pm Natalie Portman gains her This multi Oscar-nominated An intimate and deeply (18) A 2hrs 3mins third Oscar nomination for film charts the extraordinary affecting coming of age Dir: Jeff Nichols Cast: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, her portrayal of American journey home of a boy who story set against the Danny Boyle reunites with the Michael Shannon First Lady Jackie Kennedy. was lost aged just five. backdrop of a deprived original cast for the next chapter Miami neighbourhood. in the lives of a quartet of Mon 6 Mar 7.30pm, Mon 13 Mar 7.30pm Scottish junkies. 20 years after Wed 8 Mar 2pm & 6.15pm Tues 14 Mar 11.15am E Wed 15 Mar 7.30pm Trainspotting, Renton, Sick Boy, Thur 9 Mar 11.15am E Tues 14 Mar 7.30pm S Sun 26 Mar 7.30pm Spud and Begbie still haven’t lost 1hr 40mins Wed 15 Mar 4pm 1hr 50mins their lust for life and cross paths Dir: Pablo Larraín Cast: 1hr 58mins Dir: Barry Jenkins Cast: once more as they seek their Natalie Portman, Peter Dir: Garth Davis Cast: Dev Trevante Rhodes, André fortunes in the porn industry. Sarsgaard, John Hurt Patel, Nicole Kidman Holland, Naomie Harris Expect exhilarating direction, dark humour and sex, drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll aplenty!

Sat 18 Mar 7.30pm 1hr 57mins Dir: Danny Boyle Cast: Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner

(PG) Arrival (12A) The Eagle La La Land (12A) A Hidden Figures A When mysterious monolith- Huntress (U) The year’s most irresistibly A rousing Oscar-nominated true story of a group of brilliant like spacecraft touch down enjoyable, achingly romantic female Africa-American mathematicians who were the A tenacious Mongolian girl brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the at 12 sites around the world, aspires to break 2,000 years and gorgeously cinematic a linguistics professor and film is a love letter to the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Defying gender of tradition to become the and racial expectations, their achievements helped the USA a theoretical physicist are first female Eagle Hunter. golden age of the Hollywood recruited by the US military to musical. win the space race and inspired generations to dream big. decipher their language. Sun 26 Mar 4pm Tues 28 Mar 7.30pm Mon 27 Mar 7.30pm, Tue 28 Mar 11.15am E Sat 25 Mar 2pm 1hr 27mins Mon 3 Apr 2pm Wed 29 Mar 2pm R & 7.30pm S 1hr 56mins Dir: Otto Bell Cast: Daisy 2hrs 8mins 2hrs 7mins Dir: Denis Villeneuve Cast: Ridley (Narrator) Dir: Damien Chazelle Cast: Dir: Theodore Melfi Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner In English & Kazakh; subtitled Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst

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Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (12A) A J.K. Rowling’s blockbuster Harry Potter prequel The Space Fifty Shades Fences (12A) A (PG) (18) Sat 18 Mar 10am Between Us Darker A Denzel Washington and Viola Davis 2hrs 12mins The Lego In a teen romance with a Anastasia has broken off her reprise their Tony winning stage roles in this big screen adaptation (PG) Batman Movie (U) A difference, 16-year-old Gardener relationship with the troubled Moana strikes up an online friendship with Christian to pursue a new career of August Wilson’s acclaimed Moana is the daughter of a chief There are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if a girl from Colorado and sets out in a Seattle publishing house. Broadway production. Set in in a long line of navigators. When Batman wants to save the city from The Joker’s to meet her. One problem: he was But desire for Christian still 1950’s Pittsburgh, it focuses on a her family needs her help, she hostile takeover, he may have to drop the lone born on a scientific colony on Mars dominates her every waking once promising baseball player sets sail for a fabled island with vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, and has only ever met 14 people. thought, and when he proposes who missed out because of the her hero, the demi-god Maui. just maybe, learn to lighten up. Despite concerns that his bones a new arrangement, Anastasia colour ban in the major leagues. Sat 8 Apr 2pm 3, Wed 12 Apr 2pm R cannot stand Earth’s gravity, cannot resist. They rekindle their He tries to be a good husband and Sat 1 Apr 10am father, but his lost dream of glory 1hr 43mins 1hr 44mins he embarks on an adventure to searing sexual affair, and Anastasia experience the wonders of our learns more about the harrowing eats at him, and causes him to make a decision that threatens to (U) planet through fresh eyes and past of her damaged, driven and Ballerina The Smurfs: tear his family apart. (Cert TBC) discover how he came to be. demanding Fifty Shades. An orphan girl dreams of The Lost Village Tues 4 Apr 11.15am E becoming a ballerina and flees A mysterious map sets Smurfette and her Sat 1 Apr 2pm Sat 1 Apr 7.30pm Wed 5 Apr 7.30pm to Paris, where she passes for friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting 2hrs 1min 1hr 58mins 2hrs 19mins someone else and becomes a race through the Forbidden Forest leading to the Dir: Peter Chelson Dir: James Foley Dir: Denzel Washington pupil at the Grand Opera house. discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history. Cast: Asa Butterfield, Britt Cast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Cast: Denzel Washington, Viola Sat 6 May 10am Mon 29 May 2pm 3, Thur 1 June 2pm R Robertson, Janet Montgomery Dornan, Bella Heathcote Davis, Mykelti Williamson 1hr 29mins Length tbc Sing (PG) The Boss Baby (Cert TBC) A Denial (12A) A In a city of humanoid animals, Meet a most unusual baby. He wears a suit and History is put on trial in the riveting true story of Deborah a hustling theatre impresario’s speaks with the voice and wit of Alec Baldwin. Lipstadt’s legal battle with historian David Irving, who attempt to save his theatre with This is a hilariously universal story about how accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust a singing competition becomes a baby’s arrival impacts a family, told from the denier. Rachel Weisz is on top form as the tenacious grander than he anticipates point of view of a 7 year old. With a sly, heart- Lipstadt, who finds herself in a position where she even as its finalists find that their filled message about the importance of family, has to defend herself and prove beyond all doubt that lives will never be the same. The Boss Baby is an original comedy for all ages. the Holocaust happened, while Timothy Spall is the Sat 20 May 10am Mon 29 May 5pm, Sat 3 June 2pm 3 personification of evil as the scowling, gaunt faced Irving. 1hr 48mins Length tbc Mon 3 Apr 7.30pm, Wed 5 Apr 2pm 1hr 50mins All tickets just £2.50! Normal prices apply Dir: Mick Jackson Cast: Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall

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An American Easter Parade (U) The Fits (12A) The Founder (12A) Toni Erdmann (15) (U) In Paris Judy Garland and Fred Star in the making Royalty The renaissance of Michael Winifried is an eccentric piano This much loved MGM Astaire star as a chorus girl Hightower (now that’s a name!) Keaton continues apace with teacher who delights in silly musical culminates in a and a man who is determind plays Toni, an impressionistic this magnetic portrayal of Ray impressions and practical jokes. In to make a star of her, but Continuing our season spectacular 17 minute 11-year-old who becomes Kroc, a travelling salesman who an attempt to reconnect with his dream ballet sequence. only to get back at his former entranced by a dance team who chanced upon a successful burger career-minded daughter, he dons a of films inspired by partner. practice at her gym. Her desire to restaurant in California run by the tacky suit, fake teeth and comedy wig and infiltrates a conference La La Land, this time Sun 2 Apr 2pm Fri 14 Apr 5pm gain their acceptance becomes McDonald Brothers. Impressed even more complicated when by the brothers’ approach to food she is attending. One of the most 1hr 53mins 1hr 39mins looking at stardom and members start experiencing preparation, he puts himself into original and acclaimed comedies the lengths people will Dir: Vincente Minnelli Dir: Charles Walters mysterious fits. Unfolding a position to be able to pull the of the year, this constantly Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Cast: Judy Garland, Fred as a kinetic whirl of music, company from the brothers and surprising Oscar-nominated film go to make it big… and Caron, Oscar Levant Astaire, Peter Lawford colour and movement, this create a billion-dollar empire. combines brilliantly orchestrated keep it that way. spellbinding mystery is one of set pieces and screw-ball humour the most original coming of with a touching story of father age tales you will ever see. Mon 10 Apr 2pm daughter bonding. Tues 11 Apr 7.30pm Tues 4 Apr 7pm 1hr 55mins Wed 12 Apr 7.30pm 2hrs 42mins 1hr 12mins Dir: Michael Keaton Dir: Anna Rose Holmer Cast: Michael Keaton, Nick Dir: Maten Ade Cast: Sandra Cast: Royalty Hightower, Alexis Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Hüller, Peter Simonischek Neblett, Antonio A.B. Grant Jr. Laura Dern In German with subtitles

(15) All About Eve (U) The Young Girls Mulholland Gold Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, Filled with zinging (U) (15) Of Rochefort Drive teams up with an eager geologist and sets off on a dialogue and exhilarating The follow up to The David Lynch’s fiendishly journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia, performances, this biting Umbrellas Of Cherbourg adds cryptic journey through the sparking an adventure through the boardrooms of Wall satire of theatrical rivalry a French New Wave twist to dark side of Hollywood was Street. An almost unrecognisable Matthew McConaughey equals La La Land’s fourteen the Hollywood ‘putting on a voted the best film of the turns in a typically charismatic performance as Wells, Oscar nominations. show’ formula. millennium in a recent poll. unstoppable in his pursuit of the American dream. Mon 1 May 4pm Sat 6 May 2pm Sun 28 May 7.30pm 2hrs 13mins 2hrs 6mins 2hrs 27mins Mon 10 Apr 7.30pm, Wed 12 Apr 11.15am E Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Dir: Jacques Demy Cast: Dir: David Lynch Cast: Naomi 2hrs 1min Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Catherine Deneuve, George Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Dir: Stephen Gaghan Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Baxter, George Sanders Chakiris, Gene Kelly Theroux Edgar Ramírez, Bryce Dallas Howard

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Beauty And The Beast (PG) A The classic fairy tale takes on a new form, with a widened mythology and an all-star cast. A young prince, imprisoned in the form of a beast, can be freed only by true love. What may be his only opportunity arrives when he meets Belle, the only human girl to ever visit the castle since it was enchanted.

Fri 14 Apr 2pm, Mon 17 Apr 2pm, Tues 18 Apr 4pm 3 (18) (12A) Wed 19 Apr 5pm, Sun 23 Apr 3pm R Elle Rules Don’t Certain Women (12A) 2hrs 9mins Isabelle Huppert receives her Apply A The picturesque mountains and first Oscar nomination for her vast plains of Montana form the Dir: Bill Condon Cast: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Warren Beatty’s long gestating powerful and emotionally complex backdrop to this intimate and Luke Evans, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen Howard Hughes project is a performance in this provocative impeccably performed new fictionalised romantic comedy revenge thriller. Michele is the film from acclaimed director about two young Hollywood head of a successful video game Kelly Reichardt. We follow the hopefuls who are drawn into the company who is brutally raped in intersecting stories of three bizarre world of the reclusive her own home. She soon tracks women, each striving to forge producer. It’s easy to see why the man down, and they are both their own path amidst a myriad of Beatty was attracted to the role drawn into a dangerous game of personal and moral conundrums. of eccentric Lothario, and he has cat and mouse that threatens to An engrossing and deeply moving assembled a starry supporting spiral out of control. A deviously film of small moments, complex cast for a film that joins La La twisted, darkly comic blend of sex, emotions and dreams that seem Land in its celebration of classic mystery and violence that shocks just out of reach. and surprises in equal measure. Hollywood.

A Cure For Kong: Skull The Viceroy’s Wed 19 Apr 7.30pm Mon 24 Apr 7.30pm Thur 27 Apr 7.30pm Wellness (18) A Island (Cert TBC) A House (12A) A 2hrs 10mins Tues 25 Apr 11.15am E 1hr 47mins Dir: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Isabelle 2hrs 7mins Kelly Reichardt An ambitious young executive is A re-imaging of the origin of the Downton Abbey meets Ghandi Dir: Huppert, Laurent Lafitte Dir: Warren Beatty Cast: Warren Cast: Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, sent to retrieve his company’s mythic Kong in a compelling, in this this lavish period drama In French with subtitles Beatty, Annette Bening Michelle Williams CEO from an idyllic but mysterious original adventure. A diverse team set in the stately home of the “wellness center” at a remote of explorers is brought together to British rulers of India. In 1947, Lord location in the Swiss Alps, but soon venture deep into an uncharted Mountbatten assumes the post (12A) suspects that the spa’s miraculous island in the Pacific - as beautiful of Viceroy, charged with handing A Quiet Passion India back to its people. The family treatments are not what they as it is treacherous - unaware that lived upstairs, whilst 500 servants This lovingly crafted biopic tells the story of 19th-century American seem. With every scene steeped in they’re crossing into the domain of lived downstairs. 70 years after poet Emily Dickinson, from her early days as a rebellious schoolgirl mystery and striking imagery, this the mythic Kong. partition, the consequences of the to her reclusive later years, where she retreated into an inner world film is a welcome tonic for fans of decisions made in this house still to find inspiration. Sumptuous production design, elegant and grown up psychological horror in echo today. often witty dialogue and an ever changing soundtrack of her poems the mould of Shutter Island. immerse us in the life of an artist who was almost unknown in her Sat 15 Apr 7.30pm Mon 17 Apr 7.30pm lifetime, but is now considered one of America’s greatest poets. Mon 17 Apr 5pm Tues 18 Apr 11.15am E Fri 14 Apr 7.30pm Wed 19 Apr 2pm 3 Tues 18 Apr 7.30pm S Tues 25 Apr 7.30pm, Wed 26 Apr 2pm 2hrs 26mins 1hr 55mins 2hrs 42mins Thur 27 Apr 11.15am E Dir: Gore Verbinski Dir: Jordan Vogt-Roberts Dir: Gurinder Chadha Cast: Hugh 2hrs 5mins Cast: Jason Isaacs, Dane DeHaan, Cast: Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston, Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Dir: Terrence Davies Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle Mia Goth Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman Michael Gambon, Simon Callow

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The Sense Of An Ending (Cert TBC) Long buried secrets and suppressed memories are unearthed in this moving adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize winning novel. Jim Broadbent is on top form as the curmudgeonly owner of a second hand camera store whose world is rocked when he bequeaths a set of diaries belonging to an old school friend. The news turns him into a detective of his own past, as intriguing flashbacks take us back to the 1960’s, his first love and some uncomfortable truths. (15) (12A) Sun 14 May 7.30pm, Tues 16 May 11.15am E Lost City Of Z The Time Of The Salesman Wed 17 May 7.30pm, Thurs 18 May 2pm S R (Cert TBC) This ravishing adventure tells the Their Lives Arthur Miller’s Death Of A 1hr 48mins incredible true story of British Salesman forms the backdrop to Joan Collins and Pauline Collins Dir: Ritesh Batra Cast: Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, explorer Percy Fawcett, who this compelling domestic thriller. have the time of their lives in Michelle Dockery, Charlotte Rampling, Emily Mortimer journeys into the Amazon at the While rehearsing for a production the breezy British comedy. dawn of the 20th century and of the play, married couple Ranaa Determined to gatecrash her discovers evidence of a previously and Emad rent an apartment ex-lover’s funeral on glamorous unknown, advanced civilization. from a fellow cast member. When French hideaway, a former Despite being ridiculed, he returns Ranaa is attacked by an intruder Hollywood siren escapes her time and again to his beloved mistaking her for a previous London retirement home with the jungle in an attempt to prove his tenant, Emad is determined to find help of her friend and they embark case, culminating in his mysterious the culprit, causing a rift in their on an event filled journey. disappearance in 1925. relationship as obsession, moral complexities and social pressures Fri 28 Apr 7.30pm Tues 2 May 6.15pm and take hold. Mon 1 May 7.30pm Wed 3 May 7.30pm Tues 2 May 11.15am E Thur 4 May 11.15am E Thur 4 May 7.30pm (15) Wed 3 May 2pm 1hr 44mins 2hrs 23mins Ghost In The Shell Another Mother’s The Olive Tree (Cert TBC) (Cert TBC) 2hrs 21mins Dir: Roger Goldby Dir: Asghar Farhadi Son Alma’s grandfather stopped Dir: James Grey Cast: Charlie Cast: Joan Collins, Pauline Collins, Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Scarlett Johansson stars in Set on the island of Jersey during talking 12 years ago after her father Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Franco Nero, Ronald Pickup, Joely Hosseini, Babak Karimi this spectacular live action World War II, this powerful drama sold a 2000-year-old olive tree Pattinson, Tom Holland Richardson In Persian with subtitles adaptation of the acclaimed sci-fi tells the true story of Louisa in order to open a restaurant. He manga series. Major is a special Gould, who took in an escaped now spends his days visiting the operations, one-of-a-kind human- young Russian POW and hid place where the olive tree was Their Finest (12A) cyborg hybrid, who leads the elite him over the course of the war. planted, hoping for the day the task force Section 9. Devoted to As spirits begins to fray under tree returns. Unable to bear the Gemma Arterton leads an impressive British cast in this charming wartime stopping the most dangerous pressures of hunger, occupation situation, Alma sets out on an epic comedy drama. Welsh screenwriter Catrin is hired by the Ministry of criminals and extremists, Section and divided loyalty, Lou fights journey from their tranquil Spanish Information to add a “woman’s touch” to propaganda films to lift morale 9 is faced with an enemy whose to preserve her family’s sense village to Dusseldorf, to rescue the during the blitz, whilst fighting her own war against prejudice from her male singular goal is to wipe out Hanka of humanity and to protect the tree which is now decorating the colleagues. As bombs drop all around them, Catrin discovers there is as Robotic’s advancements in cyber Russian boy as if he was her own. reception of an energy company. much drama, comedy and passion behind the camera as there is on screen. technology. Mon 15 May 7.30pm Sat 6 May 7.30pm, Sun 7 May 7.30pm S, Mon 8 May 7.30pm Sat 13 May 11am & 2pm 3 Wed 17 May 2pm Tues 16 May 7.30pm Tues 9 May 11.15am E, Thur 11 May 2pm R Length TBC Thur 18 May 11.15am E Fri 19 May 2pm 1hr 40mins 1hr 57mins Dir: Rupert Sanders 1hr 42mins Dir: Lone ScherfigCast: Gemma Arterton, Bill Nighy, Sam Claflin, Jack Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Beat Dir: Christopher Menaul Cast: Dir: Iciar Bollain Cast: Anna Huston, Helen McCrory, Eddie Marsan, Richard E. Grant, Jeremy Irons Takeshi, Juliette Binoche, Pilou Jenny Seagrove, Ronan Keating, Castillo, Javier Gutiérrez Asbæk, Michael Pitt John Hannah, Susan Hampshire In Spanish with subtitles

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The Zookeeper’s Wife (Cert TBC) A The true story of a wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during WWII. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Żabińska and her husband are keepers of Warsaw Zoo. When their country is invaded by the Nazis, they covertly begin working with the Resistance and put into action plans to save hundreds of lives in what has become the Warsaw Ghetto.

Fri 19 May 7.30pm, Sat 20 May 2pm (15) Sun 21 May 7.30pm S, Tues 23 May 11.15am E Miss Sloane Wed 24 May 2pm R Jessica Chastain turns in an Length TBC electrifying performance in this Dir: Niki Caro Cast: Jessica Chastain, Daniel Brühl gripping political thriller set in the high-stakes world of political power-brokers. Elizabeth Sloane (Cert TBC) is the most sought after and Lady Macbeth formidable lobbyist in D.C., but Nikolai Leskov’s Novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk is relocated when taking on the most powerful to a country estate in 19th century England and features an opponent of her career, she finds astonishing performance from rising star Florence Pugh. winning may come at too high a Katherine is a young woman who is sold into an unhappy marriage price. A fast paced script serves up to a cruel and sadistic middle aged mine owner. When he is away razor sharp verbal sparring, fiery on business, she embarks on an affair with a young farm hand. Her monologues and plot twists to first taste of freedom and passion unleashes a force inside her so keep you guessing throughout. powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants. (Cert TBC) (Cert TBC) Tues 6 Jun 7.30pm Life Aquarius Guardians Of Wed 7 Jun 7.30pm Six astronauts aboard a space 65-year-old Clara is the last The Galaxy Tues 30 May 7.30pm, Thurs 1 Jun 11.15am E 1hr 40mins station study a sample collected resident of the Aquarius, a Vol 2 (Cert TBC) A 1hr 29mins Dir: John Madden Cast: Jessica from Mars that could provide Brazilian beachside apartment Dir: William Oldroyd Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu evidence for extraterrestrial where she has lived for most of Marvel’s latest release sees the Cast: Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis Mbatha-Raw, John Lithgow life on the Red Planet. The crew her life. Investors are keen to Guardians fight to keep their determines that the sample develop the area, but Clara has newfound family together as contains a large, single-celled pledged to leave only upon death, they unravel the mysteries of Mindhorn (Cert TBC) organism - the first example of life and will engage in a cold war to Peter Quill’s true parentage. beyond Earth. But things aren’t keep the home that has been a Old foes become new allies and Bergerac meets Alan Partridge in this enjoyable TV spoof. Richard always what they seem and the life silent witness to her entire life. fan-favorite characters from the Thorncroft is a has-been British actor, best known for the 1980’s form proves more intelligent than The resulting confrontation is classic comics will come to our Isle of Man set detective series Mindhorn, where his character had anyone ever expected. mysterious, frightening and nerve- heroes’ aid. a robotic eye that could “literally see the truth”. When a delusional wracking, tingeing even Clara’s criminal demands to speak to Mindhorn, it’s chance for him to dig most familiar routines with the out his eye patch and play Mindhorn for real. Well, sort of. tension of a thriller. Fri 26 May 7.30pm Sat 20 May 7.30pm 3 Sun 28 May 4pm 3 Sat 3 Jun 7.30pm, Mon 5 Jun 7.30pm Sun 21 May 4pm Mon 22 May 7.30pm Mon 29 May 7.30pm Tues 6 Jun 11.15am E, Wed 7 Jun 2pm Length TBC 2hrs 22mins Thur 1 Jun 4pm 1hr 29mins Dir: Daniel Espinosa Dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho Length TBC Dir: Sean Foley Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Kenneth Branagh, Simon Cast: Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Cast: Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings Dir: James Gunn Cast: Chris Pratt, Callow, Julian Barratt, Harriet Walter Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal In Portuguese with subtitles Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana

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Mon 10 Project Alleycat Exhibition Open Tue 23 The Zookeeper’s Wife (Cert TBC) A E 11.15am March Play In 3 Days Workshop 10am May Miranda Sykes (Folk in Bar) 8.30pm The Founder (12A) 2pm Sat 18 Fantastic Beast And Where Mon 1 All About Eve (U) 4pm Wed 24 The Zookeeper’s Wife (Cert TBC) A R 2pm Gold (15) 7.30pm To Find Them (12A) A 10am Lost City Of Z (15) 7.30pm RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra 7pm T2 Trainspotting (18) A 7.30pm Tue 11 Alley Cat Workshops 10am & 1pm Tue 2 Lost City Of Z (15) E 11.15am Thu 25 Pasha Kovalev 7.30pm DNA Puppetry: Chicken Licken 2.30pm Sun 19 The Paul Johnson Jazz Cafe 2pm The Time Of Their Lives (Cert TBC) 6.15pm The Founder (12A) 7.30pm Fri 26 Guardians Of The Galaxy (Cert TBC) A 7.30pm The Fureys 7.30pm Corinne West (Folk in Bar) 8.30pm Wed 12 Gold (15) E 11.15am Sat 27 Dominic Kirwan 7.30pm Mon 20 Loving (12A) A 7.30pm Wed 3 Lost City Of Z (15) 2pm The Lego Batman Movie (U) A R 2pm The Time Of Their Lives (Cert TBC) 7.30pm Sun 28 Guardians Of The Galaxy (Cert TBC) A 3 4pm Tues 21 Loving (12A) A 11.15am E & 2pm Toni Erdmann (15) 7.30pm Mulholland Drive (15) 7.30pm The Artist’s Garden 7.30pm Thu 4 The Time Of Their Lives (Cert TBC) E 11.15am Thu 13 Contemporary Vocals Workshop 2pm Cocktail & Casino Night 7.30pm Mon 29 The Smurfs (Cert TBC) 3 2pm Wed 22 That’ll Be The Day (SOLD OUT) 7.30pm Feast Of Fiddles 7.30pm The Salesman (12A) 7.30pm The Boss Baby (Cert TBC) A 5pm Guardians Of The Galaxy (Cert TBC) A 7.30pm Thu 23 That’ll Be The Day (SOLD OUT) 7.30pm Fri 14 Beauty and the Beast (PG) A 2pm Fri 5 Opera Cocktail 7.30pm Easter Parade (U) 5pm Tue 30 The Three Musketeers 2.30pm Fri 24 Macbeth (at Tewkesbury School) 7.30pm Sat 6 Ballerina (U) 10am A Cure for Wellness (18) A 7.30pm Lady Macbeth (Cert TBC) 7.30pm Chris Ramsey 8pm The Young Girls Of Rochefort (U) 2pm Sat 25 Macbeth (at Tewkesbury School) 2pm & 7.30pm Sat 15 Tweedy’s Lost Property 2.30pm Their Finest (12A) 7.30pm Wed 31 The Phil Beer Band 7.30pm (12A) 2pm Kong: Skull Island (Cert TBC) A 7.30pm Arrival Sun 7 Comedy Triple Bill 3pm June MET Live in HD: Idomeneo 4.55pm Mon 17 Beauty and the Beast (PG) A 2pm Their Finest (12A) S 7.30pm Kong: Skull Island (Cert TBC) A 5pm Sun 26 The Eagle Huntress (U) 4pm Mon 8 Secrets And Lies Exhibition Open Thu 1 Cheltenham Open Studio Exhibition Open The Viceroy’s House (12A) A 7.30pm Moonlight (15) 7.30pm Their Finest (12A) 7.30pm Lady Macbeth (Cert TBC) E 11.15am Tue 18 The Viceroy’s House (12A) A E 11.15am The Smurfs (Cert TBC) R 2pm Mon 27 Hidden Figures (PG) A 7.30pm Tue 9 Their Finest (12A) 11.15am Cat Drawing Workshop 2pm E Guardians Of The Galaxy (Cert TBC) A 4pm Tue 28 Hidden Figures (PG) A E 11.15am I, Claude Monet 7.30pm Beauty and the Beast (PG) A 3 4pm La La Land (12A) A 7.30pm Fri 2 The Jive Aces 7.30pm The Viceroy’s House (12A) A S 7.30pm Wed 10 Coope Boyes & Simpson 7.30pm Sat 3 The Boss Baby (Cert TBC) A 3 2pm Wed 29 Hidden Figures (PG) A 2pm R & 7.30pm S Thu 11 Their Finest (Cert TBC) 2pm Wed 19 Kong: Skull Island (Cert TBC) A 3 2pm R Mindhorn (15) 7.30pm Thu 30 Meet Fred 7.30pm Beauty and the Beast (PG) A 5pm Fri 12 Raymond Froggatt 7.30pm Elle (18) 7.30pm Sun 4 The Quo Experience 7.30pm Fri 31 Seven Drunken Nights 7.30pm Sat 13 Ghost In The Shell (Cert TBC) 11am & 2pm 3 Mon 5 Mindhorn (15) 7.30pm Thu 20 Stand up... 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Workshop 2pm Met Live in HD: Der Rosenkavalier 5.30pm April Gerry Cross The Mersey 7.30pm Tue 6 Mindhorn (15) E 11.15am Sun 14 Orchestra Pro Anima 3pm Fri 21 Alice In Wonderland 7pm Miss Sloane (15) 7.30pm Sat 1 Moana (PG) 10am Sense Of An Ending (15) 7.30pm Wed 7 Mindhorn (15) 2pm The Space Between Us (PG) 2pm Sat 22 Hansel and Gretel 2.30pm Mon 15 Another Mother’s Son (Cert TBC) 7.30pm MET Live in HD: Eugene Onegin 5.55pm Miss Sloane (15) 7.30pm Fifty Shades Darker (18) A 7.30pm Tue 16 Sense Of An Ending (15) 11.15am E Thu 8 EDge 7.30pm Sun 2 An American In Paris (U) 2pm Sun 23 Beauty and the Beast (PG) A R 3pm The Olive Tree (15) 7.30pm NT Live: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 7pm Fri 9 The Manfreds 7.30pm Mon 3 La La Land (12A) A 2pm Wed 17 Another Mother’s Son (Cert TBC) 2pm Denial (12A) A 7.30pm Mon 24 Rules Don’t Apply (12A) A 7.30pm Sense Of An Ending (15) 7.30pm Sat 10 London Welsh Choir 7.pm Tues 4 Fences (12A) A E 11.15am Tue 25 Rules Don’t Apply (12A) A E 11.15am Thu 18 Another Mother’s Son (Cert TBC) E 11.15am Sun 11 NT Live: Peter Pan 3pm The Fits (12A) 7pm A Quiet Passion (12A) 7.30pm Sense Of An Ending (15) R S 2pm Tue 13 Michaelangelo 7.30pm Steve Tilston & Jez Lowe (Folk in Bar) 8.30pm Wed 26 A Quiet Passion (12A) 2pm Fri 19 The Olive Tree (15) 2pm Thu 15 Mobile See p.17 Wed 5 Denial (12A) 2pm RSC Live: Julius Caesar 7pm The Zookeeper’s Wife (Cert TBC) 7.30pm A A Fri 16 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 7.30pm Fences (12A) A 7.30pm Thur 27 A Quiet Passion (12A) E 11.15am Gin Tasting 7.45pm Sat 17 Roy Orbison & The Travelling Wilburys 7.30pm Thu 6 Iconic: The Show 7.30pm Certain Women (Cert TBC) 7.30pm Sat 20 Sing (U) 10am Thu 22 NT Live: Salome 7pm Fri 7 Some Guys Have All The Luck 7.30pm Fri 28 Lost City Of Z (15) 7.30pm The Zookeeper’s Wife (Cert TBC) A 2pm Life (Cert TBC) 3 7.30pm Fri 23 Morgan & West 7.30pm Sat 8 The Lego Batman Movie (U) A 3 2pm Sat 29 That’s Life 7.30pm Sun 21 Life (Cert TBC) 4pm NT Live: Twelfth Night 7pm Sun 30 Noel & Gertie 3pm Sat 24 Rhinestone Cowboy 7.30pm The Zookeeper’s Wife (Cert TBC) A S 7.30pm Sun 9 Bolshoi: A Hero Of Our Time 3pm Sun 25 Sounds Of The Glenn Miller Era 7.30pm Mon 22 Aquarius (Cert TBC) 7.30pm Fri 30 Kast Off Kinks 7.30pm

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