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THIS MONTH — EXHIBITION: NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED Explore the conflict between copyright and culture in the digital age New films — ELLE ACTING FOR THEIR FINEST FILM BASICS Learn what it takes PERSONAL SHOPPER to be on the big screen 2 – 3 Available as Silver Screenings – see p12 Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk Box Office — 0116 242 2800 art / alien: co venant film /THEIRFINEST LEARN / No CopyrightInfrngementIntendd COMING nextmonth APRIL HIGHLIGHTS

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March segues into April, heralding the glories of spring – busy birds, beautiful blossom, and tiddly tadpoles make even the hardest heart feel joyful. GET MORE OUT Now the evenings are lighter, we all feel more like getting out and about, and what better place to OF PHOENIX WITH go than Phoenix? MEMBERSHIP & Our new exhibition, No Copyright Infringement LOYALTY Intended, is a fascinating – and immensely relevant – look at how copyright is being affected by data sharing in the digital age. Join us for the launch on Fri 7 Apr (p4).

We’ve got more short courses coming up, including Acting for Film Basics and Hardy on Screen (p5); all our tutors are experienced film industry professionals. Book your place online or at Box Office now.

With films from 11 countries, there’s plenty to delight fans of world cinema. Look out for French Member Card £40 star in the intensely provocative Elle (p6); stark Russian satire The Student (p10); and The Handmaiden, an erotic thriller from South Korea (p11).

Homegrown movies include WWII comedy-drama Their Finest, starring Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy (p10); The Sense of an Ending, with a magnificent performance from (p7); and everybody’s favourite doctor David Tennant is psychiatric pioneer RD Laing in Mad to be Normal (p11).

Plus we’re bringing back some of the biggest Friend Card £65 movies of the past few months so if you missed them first time round, or want to see them again, now’s your chance (p13).

Whatever you’re into, you’ll find it at Phoenix.

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THIS MONTH

ACTING FOR FILM BASICS Wednesdays, 5 Apr – 26 Apr (4 sessions) 7pm – 8.30pm Price: £48 / £40 conc.

A practical guide to the skills and techniques specific to film acting. No experience necessary! FILM SCHOOL HARDY ON SCREEN Tuesdays, 2 May – 20 Jun Thursdays, 6 Apr – 27 Apr (8 sessions) (4 sessions) 7pm – 9pm 7pm – 8.30pm Price: £96 / £80 conc. Price: £50 / £42 conc. (£48 / £40 conc. for MyPhoenix A practical introduction to Members & Friends) filmmaking, taking you step by step from pre-production planning Thomas Hardy’s works continue to through to the final edit of your film. resonate with modern audiences. Join us for a visual tour through his life and work, on screen and FILM FESTIVALS FOR beyond. INDIE FILMMAKERS BOOK TO FILM 2: Sat 26 Aug THE SEQUEL 10.30am – 4pm Fridays, 8 Sep – 13 Oct Price: £16 (6 sessions) Sat 8 Apr 2pm – 3.30pm 10.30am – 4pm We dive into the world of film Price: £75 / £63 conc. Price: £16 festivals, and take a look at how (£72 / £60 conc. for MyPhoenix to find the right ones to enter, Members & Friends) We take a closer look at Loach’s how to build relationships and career, spanning 50 years. The reputation, and how to deal with Join us as we consider six more director of Cathy Come Home the word ‘no’. An essential overview subjects of big screen adaptation, and I, Daniel Blake, he’s known for filmmakers, with industry tips including Graham Greene, graphic for his hard hitting politics. for getting your film selected. novels and diaries. 6 – 7 Available as Silver Screenings – see p12 Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk Box Office — 0116 242 2800 CONTINUED FROMLASTONTH to stophimfrom leaving. out, butColbywilldoanything ideas ofgettinghisyoungfamily eldest sonChad(Fassbender)has joyriding androbbery. Colby’s revel inoutlawpursuitsof a fieldoutsideGloucesterand of theCutlerbrood, wholivein tracksuit-clad bullyingpatriarch Colby Cutler(Gleeson)isthe UK 2016,1hr49mins Brendan Gleeson Cast: MichaelFassbender, Dir: AdamSmith from Ben Wheatley(High-Rise). OTT anddarklycomic actionfilm insane shoot-out. A gloriously intoan simple transactionturns handover, whatshouldbe a abandoned warehouse forthe their henchmenmeetinan the IRA.Whenpartiesand has brokered dealwith an arms Boston, 1978andJustine(Larson) France/UK 2016,1hr30mins Cast: BrieLarson,CillianMurphy Dir: BenWheatley O F AGA TR an ancientcivilisation. that hebelieveswashometo Amazon insearch ofalostcity (Hunnam) voyagesintothe British explorer Percy Fawcett At thedawnof20thcentury, best-selling bookbyDavidGrant. obsession, basedonthe An enthrallingtruestoryof USA 2016,2hrs21mins Cast: CharlieHunnam Dir: JamesGray F TH F F ri 31 M ri M 24 ri ri 31 M ri R F Z ES FI EE E L I 15 PA N O ar – Thu 6Apr –Thu ar ar – Thu 13 Apr –Thu ar ar – Thu 6Apr –Thu ar S S R SS T U T CI E

15 S TY TY 15 confrontational, withajet-black rape-revenge story. Elleiscomplex, But thisisfarfrom asimple and spendstimeatagunrange. instead Michèlepurchases ahatchet her. Refusingtoinvolvethepolice, trail oftheunknownmanwhoraped successful businesswomanonthe asMichèle,a performance Isabelle Huppert’s stunning BAFTA andOscarnominationsfor for ahostofawards, including provocation hasbeennominated Verhoeven’s latestart-house 2hrs 10mins,subtitled 2016, France/Germany Cast: IsabelleHuppert Dir: PaulVerhoeven F ELLE and dangerous? waiting for, orsomething darker number, isitthesignshe’s been text messagesfrom anunknown city. When shebeginstoreceive at peacefollowinghisdeathinthe her twinbrother’s spiritthatheis a medium,waitingforsignfrom ghastly celebrity. Butshe isalso shopper inParis,workingfora woman employedasapersonal Maureen isayoungAmerican of ghoststoryandmysterythriller. Maria) newfilmisaheadyblend Olivier Assayas’s (CloudsofSils 1hr 45mins,subtitled(parts) 2016, France/Germany Cast: KristenStewart Dir: OlivierAssayas F P ri 7 – Thu 13 Apr 7–Thu ri ri 7 – Thu 13 Apr 7–Thu ri E R S 18 ONA L S HOPP E R 15 the credits haverolled. demands tobedebatedlongafter for uncomfortableviewingand sense ofhumourwhichmakes Goodfellas 18 AQUARIUS 18 Fri 7 Apr, 8.20pm Fri 14 – Thu 20 Apr Dir: Dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho Cast: Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci Cast: Sonia Braga USA 1990, 2hrs 25mins Brazil 2016, 2hrs 26mins, subtitled

“As far back as I can remember, 65 year-old widow Clara is the last I always wanted to be a gangster.” remaining occupant of her old A bonafide classic, Scorsese’s crime seaside apartment building, the epic is based on the true-story of ‘Aquarius’. All her neighbours have Henry Hill – a small-time gangster accepted offers from an ambitious who with his two friends Jimmy development firm, but Clara refuses (Robert De Niro) and Tommy (an to move despite the increasingly electric Joe Pesci) works his way up aggressive actions of the company through the Mob’s hierarchy. Back – including renting a room next door on the big screen where it belongs, to host an orgy! A parable of Goodfellas has been newly reissued tradition versus modernity, of human in 4K by the BFI as part of their happiness versus the relentless Scorsese season. march of progress, with a terrific central performance from Sonia Braga as the determined Clara.

THE SENSE OF GET OUT 15 AN ENDING 15 Fri 14 – Tue 18 Apr Fri 14 – Thu 27 Apr Dir: Jordan Peele Dir: Ritesh Batra Cast: Daniel Kaluuya Cast: Jim Broadbent USA 2017, 1hr 44mins UK 2017, 1hr 48mins Jordan Peele’s impressive feature Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) returns debut is set to become this year’s with this adaptation of ’ must-see art-house horror, following Man Booker Prize winning novel of in the footsteps of The Babadook the same name. Jim Broadbent and It Follows. Young African plays Tony, an aging divorcee who American photographer Chris travels receives a letter stating that an to his girlfriend Rose’s family estate. ex-girlfriend’s mother has left him Although nervous about meeting a diary in her will. While waiting to her upper class white family, Chris get the diary Tony recounts his past is welcomed with open arms. But to his ex-wife; forced to relive an there’s something rotten in suburbia ill-fated love triangle from his youth, – the servants too creepy, the family Tony begins to question his influence friends too friendly – and Chris on the events and people involved. needs to get out before it’s too late. Broadbent is characteristically includes Charlotte Rampling, Harriet superb as Tony and the all-star cast Walter and . THURSDAY 06 TUESDAY 11 APRIL 13:50 The Lost City of Z 10:40 Beauty and the Beast 14:50 Free Fire 13:00 Personal Shopper 16:45 Free Fire 13:30 Elle 2017 17:30 Trespass Against Us 15:20 Beauty and the Beast 19:00 NT Live: Twelfth Night 17:00 Free Fire 19:00 Hardy on Screen 18:10 Free Fire – Descriptive Subtitles 20:00 Free Fire 19:30 Lion 20:15 Elle

SATURDAY 01 FRIDAY 07 WEDNESDAY 12 13:00 Beauty and the Beast 10:45 Zip and Zap and the Marble Gang 10:30 Life is Beautiful 13:00 Elle 12:45 Irreplaceable 11:15 Beauty and the Beast 15:40 Beauty and the Beast 13:00 Free Fire 13:15 Beauty and the Beast 15:50 Free Fire 15:00 The Lost City of Z 14:15 Elle 18:10 Sully 15:15 Free Fire 16:00 Free Fire 18:20 Personal Shopper 17:45 Free Fire 17:45 Elle 20:20 Goodfellas 18:00 Irreplaceable 18:10 Lion 20:40 Free Fire 20:00 Free Fire 20:30 Personal Shopper 20:15 Trespass Against Us 20:45 Free Fire SATURDAY 08

SUNDAY 02 10:30 Beauty and the Beast THURSDAY 13 – Autism Friendly 10:30 Zip and Zap and the Marble Gang 10:30 Ken Loach 11:00 Beauty and the Beast 12:00 Lazy Sunday: Free Fire 11:30 Sully 13:00 Elle 12:45 Irreplaceable 13:20 Beauty and the Beast 14:15 Lion 14:30 EOS: The Artist’s Garden 13:45 La La Land 15:45 Free Fire – American Impressionism 16:20 Elle 18:00 Beauty and the Beast 15:00 Free Fire 16:30 Free Fire 18:10 Personal Shopper 16:45 The Lost City of Z 18:30 Personal Shopper 20:30 Elle 17:15 Free Fire 19:30 NT Live: Twelfth Night 20:40 Free Fire 19:20 Trespass Against Us 20:50 Free Fire 19:45 Free Fire FRIDAY 14 MONDAy 03 SUNDAY 09 10:30 Beauty and the Beast 12:00 The Sense of an Ending 10:30 Talking Pictures 10:30 Beauty and the Beast 13:15 Get Out – Audio Described 13:00 Irreplaceable 12:00 Lazy Sunday: Beauty and the Beast 14:30 Aquarius 13:30 Free Fire 13:10 La La Land 15:40 The Sense of an Ending 15:40 Trespass Against Us 14:40 Free Fire 17:30 The Sense of an Ending 15:45 Free Fire 16:00 Bolshoi Ballet: A Hero of Our Time 18:00 Manchester by the Sea 18:10 Free Fire 16:45 Personal Shopper 20:00 The Sense of an Ending 18:15 Irreplaceable 18:50 Sully 20:50 Get Out 20:15 The Lost City of Z 19:30 Elle 20:30 Free Fire 20:45 Free Fire SATURDAY 15 TUESDAY 04 MONDAY 10 10:30 Beauty and the Beast 10:30 Talking Pictures 12:10 The Sense of an Ending 10:45 Beauty and the Beast 13:00 Free Fire 13:20 Get Out 13:00 Elle 13:30 Irreplaceable 14:40 Manchester by the Sea 13:30 Sully 15:15 The Lost City of Z 15:50 The Sense of an Ending 15:45 Free Fire 17:15 Free Fire 17:30 Aquarius 15:45 Beauty and the Beast 18:10 Trespass Against Us 18:10 The Sense of an Ending 18:00 Personal Shopper 19:30 Free Fire 20:30 Get Out 18:30 Sully 20:30 Irreplaceable 20:30 The Sense of an Ending 20:20 Lion 20:40 Free Fire WEDNESDAY 05

11:00 Trespass Against Us 13:45 Free Fire 15:15 Trespass Against Us 16:30 Free Fire 18:00 Free Fire 19:00 Acting for Film Basics 20:15 The Lost City of Z 20:30 Free Fire SUNDAY 16 FRIDAY 21 Thursday 27 11:30 Beauty and the Beast 12:15 Power Rangers 14:30 Their Finest 12:00 Lazy Sunday: 12:45 Their Finest 15:30 The Sense of an Ending The Sense of an Ending 15:20 Mad to be Normal 17:15 Their Finest 14:20 Aquarius 15:30 Their Finest 18:10 The Sense of an Ending 14:30 The Sense of an Ending 18:10 Their Finest 19:45 Their Finest 17:00 Get Out 18:15 Mystery Film 20:30 Graduation 17:20 The Sense of an Ending 20:30 The Sense of an Ending 19:30 Manchester by the Sea 20:40 Their Finest 19:45 The Sense of an Ending FRIDAY 28 WEDNESDAY 12 SATURDAY 22 15:00 Their Finest MONDAY 17 15:20 A Quiet Passion 18:00 Their Finest 11:30 Power Rangers 10:45 Beauty and the Beast 18:10 A Quiet Passion 12:15 Their Finest 13:00 Aquarius 20:30 The Handmaiden 14:45 Mad to be Normal 13:30 The Sense of an Ending 20:45 Cinema Bizarre: Straight to Hell 15:00 Their Finest 16:00 Get Out 17:40 Their Finest 17:15 The Sense of an Ending 18:00 The Elephant Man 18:20 The Student SATURDAY 29 20:15 Their Finest 19:45 The Sense of an Ending 20:30 The Sense of an Ending 13:00 Zip and Zap and the Marble Gang 20:50 Get Out 14:15 A Quiet Passion 15:10 Their Finest TUESDAY 18 SUNDAY 23 17:30 The Handmaiden 17:45 Their Finest 10:45 Beauty and the Beast 10:30 Power Rangers 20:15 A Quiet Passion 13:00 The Sense of an Ending 12:00 Lazy Sunday: Their Finest 20:30 Moonlight 13:30 The Student 14:30 Aviation Archive 15:30 Get Out 14:40 Their Finest 17:15 The Sense of an Ending 17:15 Their Finest SUNDAY 30 18:10 Get Out 18:00 Mad to be Normal 19:45 Aquarius 19:45 The Sense of an Ending 11:15 Zip and Zap and the Marble Gang 20:30 The Sense of an Ending 20:30 Their Finest 12:00 Lazy Sunday: A Quiet Passion 13:45 The Handmaiden WEDNESDAY 19 MONDAY 24 14:40 Moonlight 17:00 Moonlight 11:00 The Sense of an Ending 13:00 Mad to be Normal 17:10 Their Finest 11:45 Beauty and the Beast 13:30 Their Finest 19:30 A Quiet Passion 14:00 The Sense of an Ending 15:30 The Sense of an Ending 19:45 The Handmaiden 15:00 Aquarius 17:15 Their Finest 17:15 The Sense of an Ending 18:10 The Sense of an Ending 18:15 35mm Club: Citizen Kane 19:45 Their Finest 19:45 The Sense of an Ending 20:30 Graduation 20:30 The Student Key Access Cinema THURSDAY 20 TUESDAY 25 Silver Screening 13:00 Their Finest Stage on Screen 11:10 Beauty and the Beast 13:30 The Sense of an Ending Course 12:00 Aquarius 16:30 Their Finest 14:00 The Sense of an Ending 17:45 Graduation 15:00 The Student 19:30 NT Live: Rosencrantz 16:30 The Sense of an Ending and Guildenstern Are Dead 17:30 Beauty and the Beast 20:30 Their Finest – Descriptive Subtitles 19:00 NT Live: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead WEDNESDAY 26 MY PHOENIX 20:15 The Sense of an Ending 11:00 Their Finest 12:40 The Sense of an Ending MONDAYS 13:30 Their Finest 15:10 Graduation ‘2 for £10’ film ticket offer 16:15 Their Finest for all MyPhoenix cardholders 17:50 The Sense of an Ending 19:00 RSC: Julius Caesar on Mondays 20:15 Their Finest 10 – 11 Available as Silver Screenings – see p12 Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk Box Office — 0116 242 2800 begin to thaw whentheyare tasked relations between ColeandBuckley woman’s presence. 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Since starting our Mystery Film nights in Based on the life of controversial Screening in tribute to legendary 2015 we’ve shown a huge variety Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing British actor John Hurt, who passed of brilliant cinema, including (Tennant), a chain-smoking, away in January. David Lynch’s Christophe Barratier’s The Chorus, hard-drinking maverick doctor stunning film stars Hurt as John Scorsese’s Mean Streets on 35mm, associated with the anti-psychiatry Merrick (Leicester’s Joseph Merrick) and New Zealand comedy Eagle movement. The film focuses on a heavily disfigured man who is Vs Shark. No-one − and we mean the 1960s when Laing set up a rescued from a Victorian freak show no-one − knows what we’re commune in East London where by London surgeon Frederick Treves screening until the film begins, patients and therapists lived (Hopkins). Showing his humanity but you can trust that it’ll be great. together; passionately committed and warmth, John proves to people to his patients, problems with his he is a human being not the The Mystery Film may be any classification up own family threaten Laing’s mental monster they assume. to an 18 certificate. As such, these screenings are for over-18s only. health. Tennant brings a manic energy to the role of Laing. MyPhoenix Members and Friends − tickets just £3 for this screening.

AVIATION ARCHIVE: THE HANDMAIDEN 18 COMBAT AIRCRAFT OF Fri 28 Apr – Thu 4 May WORLD WAR II Dir: Park Chan-wook Sun 23 Apr, 2.30pm Cast: Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim Tickets £7.50 South Korea 2016, 2hrs 24mins, subtitled This new programme of rare archive films unlocks a collection that has Provocateur Park Chan-wook lain dormant for the past 50 years, (Stoker, Oldboy) returns with this and brings to life genuine WWII gorgeous erotic thriller – an footage showing the work of the intoxicating mix of operatic RAF and the aviation industry during melodrama and lush visuals, our country’s greatest time of need. suffused with Chan-wook’s Explore the world of aircraft continuing exploration of the darker, production, operation,recovery and predatory side of human nature. much more, on film which has been 1930s Korea and young pickpocket re-discovered, restored and is now Sook-hee is hired by a con-artist to being screened mostly for the first help him rob Japanese heiress Lady time. Introduced by Rob Foxon of Hideko of her fortune. But when the Leicestershire Film Archive. Sook-hee begins work as a handmaiden a powerful attraction Everyone has secrets, and who is develops between the two women. really conning who? 12 – 13 Available as Silver Screenings – see p12 Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk Box Office — 0116 242 2800 Access S th Be F t Ge Apr, 5.30pm 20 Thu th Be Tue 11 Apr, 6.10pm Fr AUTISM AUDIO D DES W T W an T of theThird Age(U3A) partnership withTheUniversity Open toall,screening in W L W T £5.50 includingrefreshments. Matinee screenings forjust Aga Scr Silve at 8Apr, 10.30am at ri 14ri Apr, 1.15pm ife Be is h h r ed 26 Apr, 11am 26 ed 19ed Apr, 11am 12ed Apr, 10.30am 5Apr, 11amed ee Fi ee and auty and auty e Be e Be es r ei e S CR Endi O ee i pa I n IVE PT e F F r ut ES s a a ni n r R

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SULLY 12A LA LA LAND 12A Fri 7 – Mon 10 Apr Sat 8 – Sun 9 Apr Dir: Dir: Damien Chazelle Cast: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart Cast: Ryan Gosling, USA 2016, 1hr 36mins USA 2017, 2hrs 8mins

Based on the real life ‘Miracle on Chazelle picked up the Oscar for the Hudson’ in 2009; Clint Best Director in February for this Eastwood’s film stars Tom Hanks as gorgeous musical. Aspiring actress airline pilot Captain Chesley “Sully” Mia (Stone) meets aspiring jazz club Sullenberger. A few minutes into owner Sebastian (Gosling). Thrown take off from New York’s LaGuardia River. Switching between the together in the artificial world of Airport, US Airways flight 1549 ran nail-biting incident itself and the modern day LA, the couple try to into a flock of geese. Faced with resultant enquiry into the crash by stay together, pursuing their dreams multiple engine failure and with the National Transportation Safety in a city notorious for crushing them. only seconds to act, Sully decided Board, Sully is a gripping tale of Joyful, swooningly melancholy and to ditch the plane into the Hudson quiet heroism. very funny, La La Land is a delight.

LION PG MANCHESTER BY MOONLIGHT Mon 10 – Thu 13 Apr THE SEA 15 Sat 29 Apr – Mon 1 May Dir: Garth Davis Fri 14 – Sun 16 Apr Dir: Barry Jenkins Cast: Dev Patel, Dir: Kenneth Lonergan Cast: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris Australia 2016, 1hr 58mins, Cast: Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler USA 2016, 1hr 51mins subtitled (parts) USA/UK 2017, 2hrs 17mins Winner of Best Picture at the 2017 A powerful film based on the ‘««««« – An emotional Oscars, Barry Jenkins’ second remarkable true story of Saroo powerhouse with the weave of great feature is a universal story of Brierly. Dev Patel (Slumdog literature.’ – Time Out self-discovery that beautifully Millionaire) stars as an Indian-born After the death of his brother Joe, explores the joy and sorrow of life Australian searching for his long janitor Lee Chandler (Affleck) is and love. Split into three chapters, lost family. Accidently abandoned surprised to find that Joe has Moonlight follows the life of Chiron on the train when he’s just 5 years appointed him sole guardian of his – a young black man growing up in old, Saroo arrives in Calcutta – over teenage nephew. Reluctantly Miami – through childhood, 930 miles from his home. Adopted returning to his small Massachusetts adolescence and adulthood; as he by an Australian family, 25 years home town to look after the boy, grapples with his sexuality and later Saroo sets out to find out Lee is forced to confront an awful struggles to find his own place in what became of his biological family, event in his past, a tragedy that the world. A truly special film. painstakingly retracing his rail drove him away from his friends and journey on the internet. ex-wife Randi (Michelle Williams). 14 – 15 Available as Silver Screenings – see p12 Book Online — www.phoenix.org.uk Box Office — 0116 242 2800 TH B wanting more. Secondsanyone? delight ofamoviethat’llleaveyou the originalscore, it’s agorgeous 3newsongsaddedto classic. With remake ofDisney’s animatedmusical lead anall-starcastinthisliveaction Emma Watson andDanStevens USA 2017,2hrs9mins F ‡ Available forfamily filmsatweekends andschoolholidays, notavailable online. *

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Beauty and the Beast STAGE ON SCREEN

See some of the world’s greatest stage shows and exhibitions come alive on our cinema screens. Check our website for full listings.

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THE ARTIST’S GARDEN – AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM Twelfth Night, NT Live Twelfth (Exhibition on Screen) Sun 2 Apr, 2.30pm

NATIONAL A mesmerising feast BOLSHOI THEATRE for the eyes. BALLET LIVE TWELFTH NIGHT (NT Live) Twelfth night A Hero Of Our Time Thu 6 Apr, 7pm Thu 6 Apr, 7pm Sun 9 Apr, 4pm Sat 8 Apr, 7.30pm Sat 8 Apr, 7.30pm ROYAL Tamsin Grieg stars as Malvolia in Rosencrantz and SHAKESPEARE this new twist on Shakespeare’s Guildenstern are Dead COMPANY classic comedy. Tue 25 Apr, 7.30pm

A HERO OF OUR TIME Obsession Julius Caesar (Bolshoi Ballet) Thu 11 May, 7pm Wed 26 Apr, 7pm Sun 9 Apr, 4pm Peter Pan Antony and Cleopatra A brand new production by Sat 10 Jun, 2pm Wed 24 May, 7pm choreographer Yuri Possokhov. Salomé Titus Andronicus ROSENCRANTZ AND Thu 22 Jun, 7pm Wed 9 Aug, 7pm GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (NT Live) Angels in America: Part 1 Tue 25 Apr, 7.30pm Thu 20 Jul, 7pm

A new production to mark Angels in America: Part 2 the 50th anniversary of Thu 27 Jul, 7pm SUNDAY Tom Stoppard’s play. Yerma SUPPER JULIUS CAESAR Thu 31 Aug, 7pm (RSC) Our kitchen is open until 9pm Wed 26 Apr, 7pm Exhibition on Screen on Sundays – perfect for a relaxing meal to round off Angus Jackson directs your weekend. Shakespeare’s epic political The Artist’s Garden – tragedy. AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM Sun 2 Apr, 2.30pm Meeting Rooms for HIRe Ideal for training, presentations and events – hire space at Phoenix from £15 per hour + VAT

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