SUMMER 2018 MAY - SEPTEMBER
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in town (not films) The Master’s House, St Katherine’s Opening Hours Whichever way Mon, Thurs, Fri 9.30am-4.30pm you book your tickets... Tuesday 9.30am-6pm we don’t charge a booking fee! Saturday 9.30am-12.30pm Welcome to The Market Theatre’s Summer Programme! LIVE SHOWS & SCREENINGS
We have some great shows on stage for you, including the returns of Hotbuckle with their interpretation of Wuthering Heights and Our Star with Tapley House; and, new to our stage, Something for the Weekend Theatre Company with their hit from the Edinburgh Fringe The Man on the Moor. LADS will be reviving the 1950s musical Salad Days and later in the summer will be staging The Ladykillers by Graham Lineham. In July, and in conjunction with Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts and The Arts Council, we are one of the few venues in the country to be hosting a special free performance of The Storm Officer by Matt Black. And then later in the season, we bring you the return of the hugely popular Pantaloons with As You Like It, the talented annual summer youth production of The Wind in the Willows and Worcester Rep’s Where is Mrs Christie?
Musical offerings include theFilm Orchestra Concert Band, Budapest Café Orchestra, Remi Harris Trio and later in the season the Ledbury Community Brass Band’s popular Last Night of the Proms.
Add to this our usual array of live screenings including An American in Paris, Swan Lake The Film and Romeo and Juliet, some exciting stuff fromLedbury Poetry Festival and a brilliant selection of films, and we think that you will agree that we have a pretty full programme Orchestra for you select from. MANON Live Screening from The Royal Ballet Concert Band Conductor Edward Roberts-Malpass Event Key Live Satellite Film Thurs 3 May I 7.15pm I £15* Sat 5 May I 7.30pm I £12 Kenneth MacMillan’s source for Manon Market_Theatre MarketTheatre Information was the 18th-century French novel The Film Orchestra, founded by Jane already adapted for opera by Massenet Whittle and Edward Roberts-Malpass in Buy Tickets See front cover for details of how to book. Tickets may also be bought on and Puccini. The premiere was given on 2013, is the UK’s first amateur orchestra the door, subject to availability. Please note that we are unable to take returns – even if 7 March 1974, with the lead roles danced performing only original music from film, you are picking up your tickets on the door. However, if there is a full house we are happy by Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell. television and video games. The success to try to resell them for you. The ballet quickly became a staple of The of the project has seen numerous TfO Royal Ballet’s repertory, and a touchstone ensembles formed, including wind The Market Theatre is situated in Market Street (off Bye Street, for satnavs the postcode of adult, dramatic dance. bands, brass bands, choir and jazz is HR8 2AQ). The Market Theatre is a trading name of Ledbury Amateur Dramatic bands, all performing in the same genre. Society Ltd (LADS) (Charity No: 1174743) which owns and runs the Theatre for the MacMillan found new sympathy with The TfO Concert Band is the leading benefit of the community. It provides a dedicated venue for amateur and professional the capricious Manon and her struggle TfO wind band and is very much looking performing arts. It has 128 seats, foyer, bar, wheelchair access, disabled toilet and hearing to escape poverty. Designs by his forward to performing at The Market loop. The Theatre or Foyer may be hired by emailing [email protected] regular collaborator Nicholas Georgiadis Theatre with a programme to include music from War Horse, Captain America, The foyer and bar are open 45 minutes before each show or film. reflect this, depicting a world of lavish splendour polluted by miserable The Good The Bad and The Ugly and The Parking Two public car parks (HR8 1EA) are off the top of Bye Street (with the clock tower at destitution. MacMillan’s spectacular Witches of Eastwick. the top). ensemble scenes for the whole Company create vivid, complex portraits of the *Students £8 Market Theatre Film Club For just £10 you are able to get in for half price to the 20 or distinct societies of Paris and New so films that we will be showing between June and December. See Page 22 for details Orleans. But it is Manon and Des Grieux’s of how to join. Of course if you do not want to join the Film Club, you can book in the impassioned pas de deux – recalling the normal way (see front cover) or buy tickets on the door (subject to availability). intensity of MacMillan’s earlier Romeo and Juliet – that drive this tragic story, LADS Youth Theatre Company We are afraid that membership is currently full. and make Manon one of MacMillan’s most powerful dramas.
*Students and over 60s £12.50
Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 3 THE BUDAPEST TAPLEY HOUSE Presented by Our Star Theatre Company CAFÉ ORCHESTRA REMI HARRIS TRIO Sat 12 May I 7.30pm I £12* Fri 11 May I 8pm I £15* Sat 19 May I 8pm I £12* Donnie and Sid are a couple of lazy Back by popular demand, the fiery twenty-somethings, thrown together The Remi Harris Trio take Gypsy Swing vivacity and awe-inspiring musicianship by fate under the roof of Tapley AN AMERICAN characteristics and infuse them with of the finest purveyors of Eastern House. Landlady Mrs Tapley keeps an influences from Jazz, Blues, Rock’n’Roll, European gypsy music this side of a IN PARIS unnervingly close eye on them as they Funk, World Music and more. They play Lada scrap heap will leave you with Encore Screening from stumble through life, dreaming of an an eclectic mix of original compositions, a grin on your face and rhythm in The Dominion Theatre extraordinary business plan that will get jazz standards and new arrangements your feet. them rich quick without ever having to Thurs 17 May I 7pm I £14* of music from Django Reinhardt, Jimi get off the sofa. When a new tenant Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, Charlie The BCO plays traditional folk and arrives, a dark secret is revealed and Parker, Peter Green and more. The show gypsy-flavoured music from across the The Tony Award winning Broadway things will never be the same again features Remi on a variety of acoustic world. Raucous, toe-tapping Balkan musical about love, hope and loving for the unsuspecting lodgers of Tapley and electric guitars accompanied by a and Russian numbers are combined your dreams, has taken the West End by House. Jealousy, love, and a mysterious hot club rhythm section of acoustic guitar with jazz and swing inflections, Klezmer, storm, with standing ovations from the old lady all entwine and entangle until it and double bass, and it includes solo, Romanian Doinas and Hungarian Czardas public and a record-setting 28 five-star becomes clear that Donnie and Sid are duet and trio playing interspersed with are awarded fresh treatments before reviews from UK critics. the only two idiots that can save the day. Remi’s commentary about the history of they give way to a disarmingly beautiful the music and the guitars he plays. Remi arsenal of ballads such as the Schindler’s With gorgeous Gershwin tunes *Students £8 and his trio have toured worldwide as List theme or Andy Statman’s (including the classic hits ‘S Wonderful well as performing at Buckingham Palace, bitter-sweet The Flatbush Waltz. and I Got Rhythm), stunning designs Montreal Jazz Festival, BBC Proms at the and show stopping choreography, this Royal Albert Hall with Jamie Cullum, on breathtakingly beautiful new musical is BBC 4 Television and live on BBC Radio 2 inspired by the Oscar winning MGM film Last night we went, with friends, and BBC Radio 3. to see The Budapest Cafe and tells the impassioned story of an Orchestra. It was the most exciting, American GI discovering art, friendship inspiring and uplifting evening. The and love in the “City of Light” in 1945. An extraordinary musician whole event was a delight and everybody Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2 in the audience were stamping and *Students and over 60s £12 Astonishing stuff shouting for more. Thank you for Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 6 Music bringing such class entertainment to our area - audience member Proceeds from this showing will go to *Students £8 *Students £12
4 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 5 THE MAN ON THE MOOR Something for the Weekend Theatre Company
Sat 26 May I 8pm I £12* WUTHERING A huge hit from The Edinburgh Fringe! HEIGHTS Presented by Hotbuckle On 12th December 2015, an elderly looking Theatre Company gentleman was found dead on Saddleworth Moor. He was carrying no ID. In his pockets Sat 2 June I 8pm I £12* were just £130 in cash and return train tickets from London from the previous day. Hotbuckle are back in Ledbury to portray another classic, with Emily Jane Brontë’s Despite a national campaign, he remained only novel, widely considered one of the unidentified. He appeared to have no family, greatest works of fiction ever written. no friends, and no home. He didn’t even have a name. Who was this man? Why did Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate he seemingly travel 200 miles to die? And story of the intense and almost demonic why did nobody seem to miss him? love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by SALAD DAYS Forty different people reached out to Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s Presented by LADS claim ‘the man on the moor’ as their death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated missing husband, father or brother. These by Catherine’s brother Hindley and people are ‘the left behind’. Those who wrongly believing that his love for Wed 13 - Sat 16 June I 7.30pm I £10* pick up the pieces when someone they Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves love leaves and simply never comes home Wuthering Heights, only to return years Written by Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds in 1954 as a summer musical for The again. This is their story. later to exact a terrible revenge for his Bristol Old Vic: it transferred to the West End, running for 2,283 performances to become former miseries. the longest-running musical theatre show of its day.
Beautifully written and incredibly With live music, multiple characterisation, Jane and Timothy meet in a park after their graduation to plan their lives. They agree to poetic… His words and his message humour and inventiveness this story is as get married secretly and decide that Timothy must take the first job that he is offered. A will stay with you long after the enjoyably engaging as it should be in the passing tramp offers them £7 a week to look after his mobile piano for a month and they show ends - Voice Magazine reliable hands of Hotbuckle! discover that it gives everyone within earshot an irresistible desire to dance.
A deeply mature piece of storytelling... *Students £10 Timothy’s parents, however, want him to find a proper job with one of his influential makes you think, makes you feel, makes uncles and Jane’s mother wants her to marry a wealthy Lord! Infused with post-war you want to find the answers optimism and filled with foot-tapping, catchy musical numbers – Oh look at me, Out Broadway Baby of Breath, and It’s Easy to Sing, Salad Days is a charming, happy musical which will guarantee that you come out smiling.
*Students £6 Students *£6
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SWAN LAKE An encore performance from The Royal Ballet Sun 17 June I 2pm I £14*
Swan Lake has had a special role in the repertory of The Royal Ballet since 1934. This Season The Royal Ballet creates a new production with additional choreography by Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett. While remaining faithful to the Petipa-Ivanov text, Scarlett will bring fresh eyes to the staging of this classic ballet, in collaboration with his long- term designer John Macfarlane.
Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans while out hunting. When one of the swans turns into a beautiful woman, Odette, he is enraptured. But she is under a spell that holds her captive, allowing her to regain her human form only at night.
The evil spirit Von Rothbart, arbiter of Odette’s curse, disguises his daughter Odile as Odette to trick Siegfried into breaking his vow of love. Fooled, Siegfried declares his love for Odile, and so dooms Odette to suffer under the curse forever.
*Students and over 60s £12
Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 9 LEDBURY DOCTOR ZEEMAN’S POETRY SLAM CATASTROPHE MACHINE MIXTAPE Written and performed by Martin Figura Sat 7 July I 8pm I £9
WILLIAM HERBERT Mon 2 July I 8.30pm I £9 Thur 5 July I 8.30pm I £9 Brace yourselves for a knockout night AND THE MARCH OF of poetry as worldly wordsmiths take the page onto the stage to compete Rising stars of poetry Nick Makoha and What can be retrieved from life’s for points that lead to prizes! In this WALES: POLITICS AND Roger Robinson present a unique new catastrophes and wounds? popular contest, brave bards parade POETRY IN THE WARS show of poetry and music mosaics, their poems in a bid to reach the hearts Mixtape. With enduring friendship at Doctor Zeeman’s Catastrophe Machine and hearing parts of the public. Random OF THE ROSES its centre, hear poems which leap back is the new stage production from Mortimer History Society presents a judges award points for style, content and forth in time, giving voice to the award-winning poet Martin Figura. Lecture by Helen Fulton, Professor of and warmth of the applaudience, so who universal struggle to carve out personal In this standalone show, Martin tells the Medieval Literature University of Bristol will fire on all syllables into the final and and political identities. Poems about story of his adulthood, using poetry, become Ledbury’s Slam Luminary? Join music, poems about love, poems of sound, images and a mathematical heavenly hosts and Thur 21 June I 7.30pm protest and of exile, monologues and machine to journey through marriage Sara-Jane Arbury for an energetic evening Members £5 Non-Members £8 duet poems … all tied together through guidance, a father/son road trip and his Elvis McGonagall of good verbal vibrations and lend your an unforgettable soundtrack of songs, Down’s Syndrome daughter’s leaving Tickets only available on-line support for those taking a stanza on from Afrobeats to hip-hop, from reggae home for college. Directed by Hannah stage. For further details or to enter the to soul. Through a heartfelt, humorous Jane Walker, funded by Arts Council The central topic of this talk is the Slam, please contact Sara-Jane on 07814 and honest exploration of two individual England, and produced by Tilt, with poetic image of William Herbert, Earl 830031 or email [email protected] of Pembroke (c. 1423–1469), who died lives, Mixtape will inspire audiences to support from Norwich Arts Centre fighting for Edward IV against the Earl of compile the definitive track list of their and Writers’ Centre Norwich - www. own experiences. martinfigura.co.uk. Warwick and his rebel forces during the Sponsored Wars of the Roses. This lecture traces the by growing enmity between Herbert and Co-produced by Speaking Volumes, Age guidance: 14+. Warwick, both of whom were Marcher funded by Arts Council England lords, and touches on the significance of the Mortimer estates on the March of Wales which were vital to Edward’s success. Welsh poets positioned Herbert Part of Ledbury as a Welshman in opposition to the forces Poetry Festival of English treachery, but the politics of For full Festival Part of Ledbury Poetry Festival his rise and fall were regional rather than programme see For full Festival programme see www.poetry-festival.co.uk national, reflecting the importance of the www.poetry-festival.co.uk March in putting first Edward IV and then Henry VII on the throne.
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THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Big Sing UK
Sat 14 July I 12 noon - 6pm
Spend a fun afternoon within a group, learning a medley of songs from the smash hit film The Greatest Showman, with West End Performers as your ROMEO AND JULIET singing coaches. Live Screening from the RSC
There are no auditions, and you will not Wed 18 July I 7pm I £15* be required to sing on your own. We will work towards an End of Workshop What if your first true love was someone Sing, which your family and friends are you had been told to hate? welcome to attend to see what you have achieved during the workshop. Set in a world very like our own, this Romeo and Juliet is about a generation OPEN TO ANYONE AGED 12 and OVER, of young people born into violence. HOWEVER UNDER 18’s MUST BE Ripped apart by the bitter divisions of ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT. their parents, two young people will risk everything to be together. Ticket Prices for this 6 hour workshop have been held for the 5th year running! The most famous story of love at first sight explodes with intense passion and Individual bookings £25pp an irresistible desire for change, but Fantastic rates also available for groups: leads all too quickly to heartbreaking Groups of 10+ = £20.00 per person consequences. Will this spark a Groups of 20+ = £17.50 per person revolution or will division continue Groups of 30+ = £15.00 per person to tear through generations? We can keep group bookings on hold for you until you have had time to get *Students and over 60s £12.50 final numbers.
Tickets only available from Big Sing: 07908 853914 or online
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THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS THE STORM OFFICER Presented by The Big Sing UK by Matt Black Summer Youth Project
Wed 25 July I 8pm Thur 9 / Fri 10 Aug I 7pm As a result of generous support Sat 11 / Sun 12 Aug I 2pm & 7pm ADMISSION is FREE but you will need £13* / £40 Family ticket (2 adults 2 children) to reserve your tickets in the usual way. After the last 3 successful years (Wizard So when sun shines, we watch the planes of Oz, Addams Family and Annie), Big And finest grapes hang off the vine, Sing UK Summer Youth Project returns So let’s drink on, and when it rains to Ledbury with the Smash Hit Musical, We’ll measure rain as pints of wine… The Wind In the Willows. THE LADYKILLERS Wild storms, hurricanes and extreme Kenneth Grahame’s wild tale about the Presented by LADS flooding, The Storm Officer tells the tale thrill-seeking, lovable menace Mr. Toad of one town’s struggle when faced with comes to life in a brand new West End the realities of extreme weather and musical with a book by Oscar-winning Thurs 13 - Sat 15 Sept I 7.30pm I £10* the impact of climate change. Inspired screenwriter and Downton Abbey by real-life stories of Storm Desmond creator Julian Fellowes and Olivier By Graham Lineham (from the motion picture screenplay by William Rose). (2015), and tales of bizarre and dramatic Award-winning composers and lyricists weather events from the last thousand George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. A classic black comedy: a sweet old lady, alone in her house, is pitted against a gang of years, this funny, touching and bold play criminal misfits who will stop at nothing…. is brilliantly interwoven with live music This riotous comedy follows the and song. impulsive Mr. Toad whose insatiable need Posing as amateur musicians, Professor Marcus and his gang rent rooms in the lopsided for speed lands him in serious trouble. house of a sweet but strict Mrs Wilberforce. The Storm Officer explores what it means With his beloved home under threat to still call somewhere home in the face from the notorious Chief Weasel and The villains plot to involve her, unwittingly, in Marcus’ brilliantly conceived heist job. of adversity. his gang of sinister Wild Wooders, Toad The police are left stumped but Mrs Wilberforce becomes wise to their ruse and Marcus must attempt a daring escape leading to concludes that there is only one way to keep the old lady quiet. With only her parrot, Created in association with Nottingham a series of misadventures and an heroic General Gordon, to help her, Mrs Wilberforce is alone with five desperate men. But who Lakeside Arts. Supported by the battle to recapture Toad Hall. will be forced to face the music? University of Liverpool, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Arts *Students £9 *Students £6 Council England.
14 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 15 AUTUMN DIARY DATES
RSC screening Merry Wives of Windsor Tues 2 October Dorothy starring Sunny Ormonde Sat 6 October The Florida Project Film Fri 12 October LADS presents Blithe Spirit LAST NIGHT OF Thur 18 - Sat 20 October THE PROMS Presented by Ledbury Pontnewedd Male Choir WHERE IS Community Brass Band Sat 27 October MRS CHRISTIE? BIG SING - HALLOWEEN Sat 29 Sept I 8pm I £8* starring Liz Grand Sun 28 October Presented by Worcester Join Ledbury Community Brass Band Michael Lunts presents Repertory Company for their Last Night of the Proms Tickling the Ivories AS YOU LIKE IT concert. This tribute to the last night of Sat 3 November Sat 22 Sept I 8pm I £14* Presented by The Pantaloons the world’s greatest music festival will LADS re-presents feature all the traditional flag-waving Agatha Christie was one of the greatest Wed 26 Sept I 8pm I £13* tunes, as well as favourites from the Between the Lines thriller writers of all time and certainly brass band repertoire. An evening of at The Master’s House the most prolific. In 1926, she was at the Yes, The Pantaloons are back in Ledbury music, singing and fun with opportunities Fri 9 - Sat 10 November centre of a mystery as perplexing as any again! After past Ledbury successes with for audience participation under the Royal Ballet Screening of her fiction, a series of events which Pride and Prejudice, The Importance baton of Colin Herbert. Celebrate the sparked one of the biggest and most of Being Earnest and The War of the best of British traditions with Ledbury’s La Bayadere Tues 13 November extensive police hunts in history. Her Worlds they are now having a crack at very own band. crashed car was discovered in Surrey Shakespeare. RSC screening and the famous author was missing, *Students £4 Troilus and Cresida presumed dead by many, for eleven days. All the world’s a stage, and all the men Wed 14 November However, she was eventually found at a and women merely players... Welcome luxury hotel in Harrogate. She claimed to the Forest of Arden, a world of Dario Napoli then, and for the rest of the life, that clowns, lovers, runaways and rebels, as Sat 17 November she was suffering from amnesia and The Pantaloons present their innovative remembered nothing. Neither the press and hilarious version of Shakespeare’s GIGSPANNER nor the police believed her. timeless comedy, with folky, foot- Sat 24 November stomping live music and their own Did Agatha Christie lie, and if so why? inimitable brand of buffoonery. Allan Yn Y Fan Sat 1 December Did she suffer from amnesia? Was it a publicity stunt? Or was there a darker *Students £10 The Book Shop Film secret involved in this disappearance Fri 14 December which was to affect her for the rest of her life? The answer to all these Ledbury Community Brass Band questions will, as in all good thrillers, Christmas Concert be revealed! Sat 15 December (matinee) & Sun 16 December (evening) *Students £8
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STORIES FROM THE HOP YARDS Fri 4 May I SOLD OUT Keep an eye out for The Poetry Festival programme for a re-run date.
VICTORIA AND ABDUL 112mins I 2017 I PG I UK Wed 9 May I 10.30am
Abdul Karim arrives from India to participate in Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee. The young clerk is surprised to find favour with the Queen herself. As Victoria questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance that her household and inner circle try to destroy. As their friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes, joyfully reclaiming her humanity. Stars Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Olivia Williams.
MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE 70mins I 2016 I PG I Swiss I Subs Fri 18 May I 8pm
Courgette (Zucchini) is an intriguing nickname for a 9-year-old boy, although his unique story is surprisingly universal. After his mother’s disappearance, Courgette is befriended by a police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his own age. At first he struggles to find his place in this strange, at times, hostile environment. Yet with Raymond’s help and his new-found friends, Courgette eventually learns to trust and find true love.
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS 114mins I 2017 I 12A I US Fri 25 May I 8pm
A lavish trip through Europe quickly unfolds into a race against time to solve a murder aboard a train. Everyone’s a suspect when Detective Hercule Poirot arrives to interrogate all passengers and search for clues before the killer can strike again. Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 19 FILM STARS DON’T DIE A QUIET PASSION IN LIVERPOOL 125mins I 2016 I 12A I UK / Belg 105mins I 2017 I 15 I UK Sun 1 July I 7pm I £6 Fri 8 June I 8pm (Showing for Ledbury Poetry Festival. Film Club membership does not apply). Real life proves just as dramatic off-screen as The story of 19th century American poet Emily it does on it for these two actors, the ageing Dickinson is brought to vivid life, in a remarkably Hollywood superstar Gloria Grahame and her sensitive biopic by director Terence Davies, younger lover, Peter Turner. As their mismatched exploring her early days as a young schoolgirl romance waxes and wanes over time, events through to her later years as a recluse. Now conspire to keep them in each other’s lives recognised as a genius that penned some of the even when it proves difficult and demanding. most important verses in American literature, the Ultimately, they find that they must each come to terms with whatever fate they face in the poet was virtually unknown in her lifetime. Featuring a curated selection of her poems in future whether they are together or apart. Directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Jamie voiceover, A Quiet Passion details every facet of Dickinson’s character: her wit, her humour Bell, Stephen Graham, Annette Bening, Vanessa Redgrave and Julie Walters. and the intimate, close-knit relationship she had with her family.
BREATHE 118mins I 2017 I 12A I UK JOURNEY’S END 107mins I 2017 I 12A I UK Wed 20 June I 10.30am Wed 11 July I 10.30am When Robin is struck down by polio at the March 1918. C Company arrives to take its turn in age of 28, he is confined to a hospital bed and the front-line trenches of northern France. With given only a few months to live. With the help a German offensive imminent, the officers and of Diana’s twin brothers (Tom Hollander) and their cook use food, drink, and the memories of the groundbreaking ideas of inventor Teddy their lives before the war, to distract themselves. Hall (Hugh Bonneville), Robin and Diana dare to A young officer arrives fresh out of training escape the hospital ward to seek out a full and abuzz with the excitement of his first posting - passionate life together - raising their young not least because he is to serve under his former son, travelling and devoting their lives to helping school house monitor and the object of his sister’s affections. Each man is trapped, the other polio patients. Directed by Andy Serkis. tension rising and the attack drawing ever closer. Directed by Saul Dibb.
THE SHAPE OF WATER HIDDEN FIGURES 123mins I 2017 I 15 I US 127mins I 2017 I PG I US Fri 29 June I 8pm Fri 20 July I 8pm
Guillermo del Toro directs this Oscar winning As the USA raced against the USSR to put otherworldly fable set against the backdrop of a man in space, NASA found untapped Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden talent in a group of African-American female high-security government laboratory where she mathematicians, who served as the brains works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in behind one of the greatest operations in US a life of isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever history. Based on the unbelievably true life when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) stories of three of these women, known as discover a secret classified experiment. Rounding “human computers”, we follow the women as out the cast are Michael Shannon, Richard they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Doug Jones. many of history’s greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Directed by Theodore Melfi.
20 All Films £6 I Students / Film Club Members £3 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 21 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN I, TONYA 105mins I 2017 I PG I US 120mins I 2018 I 15 I US Fri 27 July I 8pm Wed 19 September I 10.30am
A bold and original musical celebrating the birth Based on unbelievable but true events this is a of show business and the sense of wonder we darkly comedic tale of American figure skater feel when dreams come to life. Inspired by the Tonya Harding and one of the most sensational ambition and imagination of P.T. Barnum, The scandals in sports history. Though Harding was Greatest Showman tells the story of a visionary the first American woman to complete a triple who rose from nothing to create a mesmerising axel in competition, her legacy was forever spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. defined by her association with an infamous, Directed by exciting new filmmaker Michael ill-conceived, and even more poorly executed Gracey, with songs by Academy Award winners attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land) and starring Academy Award nominee Hugh Kerrigan. Craig Gillespie’s film is an absurd, Jackman as Barnum and Academy Award nominee Rebecca Ferguson as Jenny Lind. irreverent, and piercing portrayal of Harding’s life and career in all of its unchecked - and checkered - glory. PADDINGTON 2 103mins I 2018 I PG I UK / Fr / US Wed 27 August I 10.30am CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 132mins I 2018 I 15 I Fr / It / Braz / US Paddington is happily settled with the Brown Fri 21 September I 8pm family in Windsor Gardens, where he has become a popular member of the community, spreading joy Directed by Luca Guadagnino, a sensual and and marmalade wherever he goes. While searching transcendent tale of first love, based on the for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy’s acclaimed novel by André Aciman. In early- 100th birthday, Paddington spots a unique pop-up 1980s northern Italy, amid lush Mediterranean book in Mr. Gruber’s antique shop, and embarks landscapes, 17-year-old Elio visits the family’s upon a series of odd jobs to buy it. But when summer villa to spend his holiday with his the book is stolen, it’s up to Paddington and the parents and the American student, Oliver, who Browns to unmask the thief. Director: Paul King. works there as an intern. Little by little, a timid friendship between Elio and Oliver will prepare the ground for an unexpected bond, as the unexplored emotions of first love start boiling over. Could this sun-kissed romance in Lombardy be the prelude to maturity?
JOIN THE MARKET THEATRE FILM CLUB FOR HALF PRICE ADMISSION EASY RIDER 95mins I 1969 I 15 I US For £10, Film Club membership will grant you Fri 28 September I 8pm FILM admission for £3 to every one of the 18 or so films that we will be showing between June and December. Two hippie bikers drive motorcycles across the Send a cheque for £10 (payable to LADS Ltd) with American Southwest in search of the American CLUB your name, address, and email address (if you have Dream. Filled to the brim with groundbreaking one) to The Market Theatre Film Club, Tivoli, aesthetics, style, and one of the most killer 5 Elmsdale Road, Ledbury HR8 2EG. soundtracks ever. A genuine classic, and one of the best/most important/most influential of all NB: does not include live time. Truly is mandatory viewing! Enough said. screenings and encores
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