May - August 2019 + Select Autumn Live Dates
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May - August 2019 + select Autumn live dates Church Road • Street • Theatre Somerset • BA16 0AB & Cinema Box Office 01458 442846 www.strodetheatre.org.uk Public booking opens Thursday 25 April Welcome to our brochure for Summer season ...with some treats from the autumn season too... WELCOME Summer is almost upon us already. Last year, the weather was so hot that - together with the World Cup - it turned out that not too many folk wanted to came out and play at the theatre or cinema! I know we were not alone -many theatres and visitor attractions really ‘took a hit’ last year. The summer before, on the other hand, we had a ‘bumper’ summer season; such is the nature of the game! Without knowing how the Look out for the Family weather is going to turn out, it is difficult to programme appropriately Friendly logo. –so we have to hedge our bets! This season, I hope you are able to enjoy something from our wide programme of films, live broadcasts and live This indicates films, shows shows. So that you can enjoy the warm evenings as well as top qulaity films, I’m very pleased that we have partnered once again with Alfred and live transmissions that Gillett Trust and now also with Clarks Village to give you yet another are appropriate for all ages Outdoor Cinema season! (see page 40) and fun for all the family. I’m also very glad to be able to tell you that we have just received a small award from Film Hub South West - a regional division of the British Film Institute (BFI) - for our British, international and independent film programme in 2018. We are all delighted to receive such recognition and FAMILY FILM OFFER support for the diverse programme which we always strive to bring you. With support from the BFI we are also launching a new ticket price for Purchase 3 child tickets to under-25-year-old cinema goers. This demographic remains nationally the most ‘unengaged’ with the big screen (which has not always been a family friendly film and the case), and are now also the most financially challenged. So I’m glad receive an adult ticket to try in whatever ways we can to encourage and facilitate the potential future generation of cinema goers to be able to take the opportunity of free. the very wide programme of films we have available on the big-screen. To take advantage of this Thank you, as ever, for your continued support –I hope you have a lovely summer, in the garden, on the beach …or at Strode Theatre! offer online simply put at least 3 children and 1 adult in your basket and the discount will be added at the checkout. Farès K Moussa, Theatre Manager Alternatively you can pop PS. Are you interested in hearing more about the delicate balance in or call the box office between the programme and finances, and how things may look in the on 01458 442846. near future at the theatre? My talk last season sold out and we have a waiting list, so I will be delivering the talk again on Wed 22nd May (see page 18). (Applies to qualifying films only) 2 www.strodetheatre.org.uk Box Office: 01458 442846 Mon - Sat 10am - 2pm TRIPTYCHS Book a triptych together and save £3.00! NUREYEV / ACOSTA: DANCE ON FILM EXHIBITION Mon 13 May & Fri 17 May The White Crow p. 12 Sun 19 May Nureyev p. 16 Mon 3 Jun & Sun 9 Jun Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story p. 20 Three excellent films - two biopics and one documentary - on two of the most brilliant male ballet dancers of all time: Rudolf “DOUBLE VISION I & II” Nureyev and Carlos Acosta. Essential viewing for any lovers TWO EXHIBITIONS OF WORKS BY of dance and ballet. DANCE SUE DURANT & LIN HAWKINS COMING OF AGE Wed 3 April - Tue 14 May Wed 22 May Mid90s p. 18 & Wed 26 Jun - Tue 6 Aug Tue 2 Jul Too Late to Die Young p. 30 Sue Durant and Lin Hawkins Wed 17 Jul Beats p. 35 have worked together for a long time and have shown their These three recent release indie films couldn’t be more different paintings for the last three years. in their cinematographic style, narrative pace and the cultures they depict. But all of them, in their own very distinctive and Lin paints an eclectic mix of brilliant ways separately tackle ‘coming of age’ for three groups mountains, trees, buildings and of people growing through the trials of childhood or into birds. adulthood. Indulge yourself in three beautifully nuanced films. Sue paints and photographs COA land and seascapes. NEW! DISCOUNTED CINEMA TICKETS FOR 16-25’S! Are you 16 - 25? We’re discounting the prices of all our film tickets to only £5.50 for young adults. From blockbuster releases to cult classics, Strode Theatre brings the best of independent and mainstream films from the UK and beyond right to your doorstep. Supported by the Southwest Film Hub, the BFI and the Audience Agency FREE ENTRY Box Office: 01458 442846 www.strodetheatre.org.uk 3 Mon - Sat 10am - 2pm Already Already Already open for open for open for booking booking booking FILM FILM LIVE ON SCREEN NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE ALL IS TRUE (12A) FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS presents an AS LIVE screening of (12A) ALL ABOUT EVE Thu 25 April 7.45pm STUDIO Fri 26 April 7.30pm THEATRE Fri 26 April 5.00pm THEATRE Thu 25 Apr 7pm THEATRE Sat 27 April 7.30pm THEATRE Director: Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Mon 29 April 7.45PM STUDIO Director: Ivo van Hove Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Sam Ellis Thu 2 May 7.45pm STUDIO With Gillian Anderson & Lily James UK 2018 | 2hrs 1min Wed 8 May 7.30pm THEATRE 2hrs with no interval Thu 9 May 7.45pm STUDIO England 1613: when a misfiring Director: Chris Foggin. With Daniel Mays, Gillian Anderson (X-Files, NT Live cannon causes London’s Globe Tuppence Middleton, James Purefoy, David A Streetcar Named Desire) and Lily Theatre to burn to the ground, Hayman, Dave Johns. UK 2019 | 1hr 52mins James (Mamma Mia! Here We Go William Shakespeare (Kenneth Again) lead in All About Eve, the Branagh) returns to Stratford- story of Margo Channing. Legend. upon-Avon, hoping to enjoy his Inspired by the rise-to-fame of True star of the theatre. The well-earned retirement in peace. the eponymous real-life Cornish spotlight is hers, always has been. But while William was away, his men’s choir, this is the story But now there’s Eve, her biggest wife Anne (Judi Dench) never of fast-living London music fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The got over the death of their son executive Danny (Daniel Mays) golden girl, the girl next door. Hamnet many years before. Can on a stag weekend in a Cornish he still bridge the distance to village, where he’s pranked by his Lifting the curtain on a world her and his troubled daughters, boss into trying to sign a group of jealousy and ambition, this and finally face up to his own of shanty-singing fishermen. new production from one of the feelings over Hamnet’s death? As Danny struggles to gain the world's most innovative theatre respect of the unlikely boy band, directors, Ivo van Hove (NT Live: “A boldly fanciful but nuanced he starts to feel the draw of the A View from the Bridge), asks why portrait…” Independent.co.uk traditional way of life - not least our fascination with celebrity, due to the charms of local girl youth and identity never seems “Ben Elton has written a Alwyn (Tuppence Middleton). to get old. sweet-natured, melancholy film about the retirement “There’s ... death, tears, All About Eve is adapted from the years of someone he’s lately betrayal, plenty of belly laughs 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film been turning into his specialist and the unassailable urge by Joseph LMankiewicz and the subject: William Shakespeare.” to join in on the choruses.” play The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr. Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian FolkRadio.co.uk Tickets £17 Conc. £15.00 incl. 50p cmsn. Full £8.50 Conc £7.50 Under 25s £5.50 Full £8.50 Conc £7.50 Under 25s £5.50 4 www.strodetheatre.org.uk Box Office: 01458 442846 Mon - Sat 10am - 2pm Already Already Already open for open for open for booking booking booking FILM LIVE ON STAGE LIVE ON STAGE DUMBO (PG) STRODE THEATRE presents THE JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET Fri 26 April 5.15pm & 7.45pm STUDIO Sat 27 April 2.30pm THEATRE Sun 28 April 7pm THEATRE Tickets £20.00 Mon 29 April 5.15pm STUDIO Led by Hammond Organ guru, James Taylor, and reportedly the Director: Tim Burton. With Danny DeVito, Colin band for which the term ‘Acid Jazz’ was originally coined, JTQ stands Farrell, Michael Keaton. USA 2019 | 1hrs 52mins with one foot planted firmly in 2019 - and the other, just as firmly, somewhere south of the 1970s! Visionary director Tim Burton In addition to his work with JTQ, James Taylor has collaborated with the brings the classic story of likes of U2, The Wonderstuff, Manic Street Preachers and The Pogues, as Dumbo to a new generation in well as with Tom Jones on his multi-platinum album Reload. this live-action reimagining. JTQ are perhaps best-known and loved for their unrivalled live Circus owner Max Medici performances. JTQ jam out with sly rhythms and kitschy-cool melodies. (Danny DeVito) enlists former Their live favourites include their debut single Blow Up, Green Onions, star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) Time is Tight, JTQ Theme and of course, the inimitable Starsky and Hutch.