AUTUMN 2018 SEPT - DECEMBER

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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 AUTUMN Programme! LIVE SHOWS & SCREENINGS

It is LADS’ 80th Birthday this year and they open the season with the comedy Ladykillers in September, and close it with their brilliant panto Alice in Wonderland in January, but will also be performing in October with Noel Coward’s Blithe Spririt and then in November with a re-run of the hugely successful Between the Lines at The Master’s House. The feast of drama this season also includes the Pantaloons’ hilarious version of As You Like It, Worcester Rep’s Mrs Christie, The Archer’s favourite Sunny Ormonde performing in Dorothy, and for our younger audience A Frog Called Woânda. Our musical programme is wide and varied with the Season bracketed by Ledbury’s Community Brass Band (Last Night of the Proms in September and their Christmas Concert in December). And in between we have two exciting newcomers to The Market Theatre with folk stars Gigspanner, and Allan Yn Y Fan; plus favourite Michael Lunts, from South Wales The Pontnewydd Male Choir, and Ledbury’s own Community Choir’s Christmas Concert. Add to this award winning movies and a sparking programme of screenings from The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, The National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company plus The King and I from the West End, and we think you will agree that it is a pretty good season!

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Information Market_Theatre MarketTheatre Buy Tickets See front cover for details of how to book. Tickets may also be bought on the door, subject to availability. Please note that we are unable to take returns – even if you are picking up your tickets on the door. However, if there is a full house we are happy to try to resell them for you. In the interests of ensuring a prompt start for the benefit of all our patrons and the cast, we reserve the right to re-sell any booked seat that has not been occupied by the scheduled start time. LADS presents The Market Theatre is situated in Market Street (off Bye Street, for satnavs the postcode is HR8 2AQ). The Market Theatre is a trading name of Ledbury Amateur Dramatic Society Ltd (LADS) (Charity No: 1174743) which owns and runs the Theatre for the THE LADYKILLERS benefit of the community. It provides a dedicated venue for amateur and professional performing arts. It has 128 seats, foyer, bar, wheelchair access, disabled toilet and hearing Thurs 13 - Sat 15 Sept I 7.30pm I £10* loop. The Theatre or Foyer may be hired by emailing [email protected] The foyer and bar are open 45 minutes before each show or film. By Graham Linehan (from the motion picture screenplay by William Rose). Parking Two public car parks (HR8 1EA) are off the top of Bye Street (with the clock tower at A classic black comedy: a sweet old lady, alone in her house, is pitted against a gang of the top). criminal misfits who will stop at nothing…. Market Theatre Film Club For just £25 you are able to get in for half price to all the Posing as amateur musicians, Professor Marcus and his gang rent rooms in the lopsided films that we will be showing up to the end ofnext year – 2019. Just drop a cheque plus house of a sweet but strict Mrs Wilberforce. your name, postal and email addresses, and marked for the attention of The Film Club Secretary, into the theatre post box and we will send you a membership card. Of course if The villains plot to involve her, unwittingly, in Marcus’ brilliantly conceived heist job. you do not want to join the Film Club, you can book in the normal way (see front cover) or buy tickets on the door (subject to availability). The police are left stumped but Mrs Wilberforce becomes wise to their ruse and Marcus concludes that there is only one way to keep the old lady quiet. With only her parrot, LADS Youth Theatre Company We are afraid that membership is currently full. General Gordon, to help her, Mrs Wilberforce is alone with five desperate men. But who will be forced to face the music?

*Students £6

Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 3 WHERE IS MRS CHRISTIE? King Lear By William Shakespeare JULIE starring Liz Grand National Theatre Live National Theatre Live encore Presented by Worcester Repertory Company AS YOU LIKE IT Thurs 27 Sept I 7pm I £15* Thurs 20 Sept I 7pm I £14* Presented by The Pantaloons Sat 22 Sept I 8pm I £14* Broadcast live from London’s West End, Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, NT Live: A Chichester Festival Theatre’s production Streetcar Named Desire) and Eric Kofi Agatha Christie was one of the greatest Wed 26 Sept I 8pm I £13* which received five-star reviews for its Abrefa (The Amen Corner) feature in thriller writers of all time and certainly sell-out run. Jonathan Munby directs and Yes, The Pantaloons are back in Ledbury the cast of this brand new production, the most prolific. In 1926, she was at the Ian McKellan plays Lear in this ‘nuanced again! After past Ledbury successes with directed by Carrie Cracknell (NT Live: centre of a mystery as perplexing as any and powerful’ (The Times) contemporary Pride and Prejudice, The Importance The Deep Blue Sea). of her fiction, a series of events which retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, of Being Earnest and The War of the sparked one of the biggest and most moving and shocking play. Wild and newly single, Julie throws a extensive police hunts in history. Her Worlds they are now having a crack at Shakespeare. late night party. In the kitchen, Jean crashed car was discovered in Surrey Considered by many to be the greatest and Kristina clean up as the celebration and the famous author was missing, tragedy ever written, King Lear sees All the world’s a stage, and all the men heaves above them. Crossing the presumed dead by many, for eleven days. two ageing fathers – one a King, and women merely players... Welcome threshold, Julie initiates a power game However, she was eventually found at a one his courtier – reject the children to the Forest of Arden, a world of with Jean – which rapidly descends into luxury hotel in Harrogate. She claimed who truly love them. Their blindness clowns, lovers, runaways and rebels, as a savage fight for survival. then, and for the rest of the life, that unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition The Pantaloons present their innovative she was suffering from amnesia and and treachery, as family and state are and hilarious version of Shakespeare’s This new version of August Strindberg’s remembered nothing. Neither the press plunged into a violent power struggle timeless comedy, with folky, foot- play Miss Julie, written by Polly Stenham, nor the police believed her. with bitter ends. remains shocking and fiercely relevant in stomping live music and their own inimitable brand of buffoonery. its new setting of contemporary London. Did Agatha Christie lie, and if so why? Includes strobe lighting. Did she suffer from amnesia? Was it a Includes strobe lighting. publicity stunt? Or was there a darker *Students £10 secret involved in this disappearance Ian McKellen reigns supreme in which was to affect her for the rest *Students and over 60s £12 this triumphant production. of her life? The answer to all these Daily Telegraph questions will, as in all good thrillers, be revealed! *Students and over 60s £12.50 *Students £8

4 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 5 LAST NIGHT OF DOROTHY (The Airings of an Archers Actor’s Aunt) THE PROMS Sunny Ormonde (Lilian Bellamy Presented by Ledbury in The Archers) stars Community Brass Band THE MERRY WIVES A Frog OF WINDSOR Called Woânda Sat 6 Oct I 8pm I £14* Sat 29 Sept I 7.30pm I £8* By William Shakespeare Presented by Théâtre sans Frontières (UK) RSC encore screening and Théâtre à l’Envers (Canada) The indomitable Dorothy is the mainstay Join Ledbury Community Brass Band of Neighbourhood Watch and scourge for their Last Night of the Proms Sat 6 Oct I 2.30pm of litter louts. After losing her slot on concert. This tribute to the last night of Tues 2 Oct I 7pm I £14* hospital radio, due to an unfortunate the world’s greatest music festival will Adults and Children £6 incident with a golf ball and a pair of Down on his luck in the suburbs, John feature all the traditional flag-waving (£25 family of 5 people) tights, she has seized control of a new Falstaff plans to hustle his way to a tunes, as well as favourites from the microphone. So she is now broadcasting comfortable retirement by seducing the brass band repertoire. An evening of Laura’s mother is ill and she is being to the residents of her retirement home: wives of two wealthy men. Unknown music, singing and fun with opportunities looked after by her grandfather. Whilst Barmy Frank, Mad Alice, One-Armed to him, it’s the women of Windsor who for audience participation under the washing her paintbrushes in the Annie and the rest. baton of Colin Herbert. Celebrate the really pull the strings, orchestrating bathroom, Laura drops her mother’s ring Falstaff’s comeuppance amidst a best of British traditions with Ledbury’s down the sink. Up pops Woânda the Of course, she has Media Connections, theatrical smorgasbord of petty rivalries, very own band. frog and a series of adventures ensue as what with her niece Sunny being in The jealousies and over-inflated egos. For Laura and Woânda try to find the ring. Archers – something she manages to slip a fat Englishman, a Welshman and a *Students £4 Told through live action, puppetry, music into every conversation. Several times. Frenchman, the only way is Windsor... and shadows this is a funny and touching And she takes advantage of her new story of love, loss and friendship. show to air her views about everything, David Troughton returns to the Company from Desert Island Discs to doctors; from as John Falstaff, following his recent title An exciting new international net curtains to corsets. role in Titus Andronicus and Gloucester in collaboration between the UK and King Lear. Montreal, Canada. The multi-talented Sunny Ormonde (Lilian Bellamy in The Archers) gives a virtuoso *Students and over 60s £12 Age guide - 4-10 year olds. performance as the unstoppable Dorothy in this hilarious play by Jane James.

A Standing Ovation greeted the first performance of Sunny’s new One Woman Show – echoes of some of Victoria Wood’s best comic creations, together with the poignancy of Alan Bennett’s “Talking Heads”.

*Students £9

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LADS presents Blithe Spirit Thurs 18 - Sat 20 Oct I 7.30pm I £10*

The smash comedy hit of the West End and Broadway stages, this Noël Coward classic brings us fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting “happy medium”, one Madame Arcati.

*Students £6

Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 9 PONTNEWYDD MALE CHOIR

Sat 27 Oct I 7.30pm I £10 Allelujah! by Alan Bennett Tickling Pontnewydd Male Choir was founded 114 years ago by men working in local Thurs 1 November I 7pm I £14* the Ivories a musical romp through a industry and has been in continuous hundred years of comedy song existence since then, even throughout Halloween Alan Bennett’s sharp and hilarious new Presented by Michael Lunts the years of two world wars and the BIG SING play is just what the doctor ordered (Daily depression. The community spirit of Big Sing UK Telegraph). Filmed live at London’s Bridge the choir prospers and the love of Theatre during its limited run, don’t Sat 3 Nov I 7.30pm I £15 singing perpetuates. Sun 28 Oct I 12 noon - 6pm I £25 miss this rousing chorus line for the NHS (includes a glass of wine) (Observer) in your local cinema. As a registered charity (509867), Returning to Ledbury after his successful Spend a fun afternoon within a group, Pontnewydd Male Choir has raised many The Beth, an old fashioned Flanders and Swann Revisited show learning a medley of songs from various thousands of pounds for worthy causes cradle-to-grave hospital serving a of last year, actor, pianist, singer and musicals associated with HALLOWEEN, by performing concerts throughout town on the edge of the Pennines, is general one-man band Michael Lunts including ROCKY HORROR, THRILLER, the UK. threatened with closure as part of an presents this potted history of the LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, WICKED, efficiency drive. A documentary crew, comedy song, mining the archives from and more; and with West End Performers The choir has also performed in many eager to capture its fight for survival, the 1870s to the 1970s, from Gilbert and as your Singing Coaches. There are no foreign prestigious venues and has follows the daily struggle to find beds on Sullivan to Tom Lehrer, from Music Hall to Auditions, and you will not be required to toured The Netherlands, Germany, the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and Monty Python. sing on your own. You will work towards France, Canada, Spain, Poland, Czech the triumphs of the old people’s choir. an End of Workshop presentation which Republic and Belgium. While offering a fascinating overview your family and friends are welcome Alan Bennett’s celebrated plays include of the comedy song, in all its variety, to attend. The History Boys, The Lady in the Van and Tickling the Ivories is, as its name The Madness of George III. Allelujah! is his suggests, first and foremost a musical tenth collaboration with award-winning entertainment, a smile-inducing, director Nicholas Hytner. laughter-engendering entertainment, as Michael works his way, and his fingers, through ten decades of musical wit. Leaves you bobbing on a wave Alongside songs by Noël Coward, of happiness - Independent Flanders and Swann, Cole Porter and the Gershwins, Michael offers up some less familiar gems from the genre. One *Students and over 60s £12 man, a white jacket, 88 piano keys and a treasure trove of musical mirth, Tickling the Ivories is a show that is guaranteed to tickle anyone’s sense of humour.

In Aid of Ledbury Community Transport.

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LADS presents Between the Lines Fri 9 - Sat 10 Nov I 8pm I £12* (includes refreshments) To be performed at The Master’s House

Between the Lines tells the story of some of the people who lived and worked at The Master’s House in Ledbury during World War 1, the joys and the sorrows they had to deal with every day and the difficult decisions they had to make as the war raged on with devastating consequences.

Come and meet the colourful characters who will bring this story to life; the Master and his wife who are visiting from Hereford with their temperamental cook; the fiercely proud housekeeper and her timid scullery maids and many others including the Doctor who has angered many locals by not enlisting.

Written by Rachel Lambert who wrote The Visit, this highly acclaimed play was performed last year to sell out audiences. This production is sensitive, innovative and creative, so come and be part of the audience and move from scene to scene with the characters as their tale unfolds.

*Students £6

12 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 La Bayadère Live Screening from The Royal Ballet Troilus and Tues 13 Nov I 7.15pm I £15* Cressida Live screening from the RSC Nikiya, a temple dancer, is in love with the warrior Solor. The High Brahmin Wed 14 Nov I 7pm I £15* pursues Nikiya, and when she rejects him, he plans to take revenge on Solor. Virtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie The High Brahmin tells the Princess collaborates with RSC Artistic Director Gamzatti, Solor’s fiancée, about Solor’s Gregory Doran to create a satirical The Dario Napoli Trio secret affair with Nikiya. But Gamzatti futuristic vision of a world resounding does not want revenge on Solor, and with the rhythm of battle. presents The Modern instead arranges for Nikiya to be killed. As he celebrates his wedding to The Greek army is encamped under Manouche Project Gamzatti, Solor is haunted by Nikiya’s the walls of Troy and the war has shade. The gods are angered, and reached stalemate. Achilles, their destroy the temple, killing everyone at greatest champion, refuses to fight Sat 17 Nov I 8pm I £13 the wedding. Finally, Solor and Nikiya and has withdrawn to his tent with his are united in death. lover, Patroclus. Equally at odds with Although Sinti guitarist Django Reinhardt is the main inspiration behind the Modern themselves, the Trojans are debating the Manouche Project, Dario Napoli (Sicilian-born and Milan-based band leader, guitarist and La Bayadère was originally performed value of continuing the war merely for good friend of Herefordshire’s own Remi Harris) and the other two members of his trio, at the Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg the sake of keeping Helen. Tommaso Papini (rhythm guitar) and Alex Carreri (bass), include elements of more modern in 1877. It was regularly performed musical styles. Notably, bebop, funk and modern jazz, in their version of gypsy swing that throughout the 20th century, but Troilus is much distracted from these has been featured at some of the most prestigious gypsy jazz festivals (Django in June, remained unknown in the West until the military concerns by his love for Cressida. Cloughtoberfest, Django sur Lennon, March Manouche) as well as Eddie Lang Jazzfest, Pisa Kirov Ballet toured with the Kingdom The young lovers are eagerly assisted by Jazz, Valdarno Jazz, and Trasimeno Blues. The result is an unpredictable and exuberant of the Shades scene in 1961. Natalia Cressida’s uncle Pandarus, who acts as sound, which steals from various musical eras, leading you through a rich and vibrant sonic Makarova created this production in 1980 their go-between. However, after only experience, without ever totally abandoning the gypsy imprint of Django. and it was first performed by The Royal one night together they are parted when Ballet in 1989. Cressida is sent to join her father in the Greek camp. Almost immediately she Dario combines sound, elegance, virtuosity without excess and losing the fun *Students and over 60s £12.50 betrays Troilus with the Greek Diomedes of playing - Francis Couvreaux, djangostation.com (France) and, discovering this, Troilus is plunged into despair. With the fall of Troy certain, Napoli… can hold his own with Stochelo Rosenberg, Fapy Lafertin and other Troilus vows revenge on Achilles. contemporary gypsy jazz masters - Patrick Ragains, minor7th.com (US)

*Students and over 60s £12.50

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Sat 24 Nov I 8pm I £12*

Since departing Steeleye Span, multi award winning fiddle playerPeter Knight has turned his full attention to his trio Gigspanner, and in the process Allan Yn Y Fan National Theatre Live presents established their reputation as one of the From The London Palladium from Nottingham Playhouse most genuinely ground-breaking forces The King and I Sat 1 Dec I 8pm I £12* The Madness of on the British folk scene. By Rodgers and Hammerstein Multi-instrumental and vocal sextet King George III Described as one of the most quietly Thurs 29 Nov I 7pm I £15* Allan Yn Y Fan have been recording brilliant sets of musicians in the folk and touring internationally since 2003. world and beyond, they take self-penned Tues 20 Nov I 7pm I £15* Set in 1860s Bangkok, the musical tells Now they make their debut in Ledbury. material along with music rooted in the story of the unconventional and Renowned for blending traditional Welsh Written by one of Britain’s best-loved the British Isles and with the flick of tempestuous relationship that develops music with their own compositions, playwrights Alan Bennett, this epic play a bow, a finely chosen chord or slip between the King of Siam and Anna, Allan Yn Y Fan are sure to capture your was also adapted into a BAFTA Award- of a beat, produce richly atmospheric a British schoolteacher whom the heart and stir emotions deep inside you. winning film following its premiere on arrangements with notes seemingly modernist King, in an imperialistic world, Harnessing all the power and mystery stage in 1991. plucked from the stars and rhythms from brings to Siam to teach his many wives of Celtic tradition, this show will delight the equator! and children. audiences young and old. The cast of this new production includes Their November 2017 release, The Wife Olivier Award-winners Mark Gatiss With one of the finest scores ever written (Sherlock, Wolf Hall, NT Live Coriolanus) of Urban Law received several ‘Best Of’ including; Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting “Allan Yn Y Fan wear their hearts in the title role, and Adrian Scarborough end of year accolades, including making to Know You, and Shall We Dance, on their sleeves, an undeniable (Gavin and Stacey, Upstairs Downstairs, it on to Mojo’s The 10 Best Folk Albums and featuring a company of over 50 force in Welsh music, “NEWiD” their After the Dance). of 2017 list. world-class performers, The King and I compelling calling card and convincing is a testament to the lavish heritage of new face. Bright, brave and dazzling It is 1786 and King George III is the gloriously romantic musical theatre. stuff.” fRoots most powerful man in the world. But If you get a quarter of a chance to his behaviour is becoming increasingly see them, go - there were people “All in all, an album of strikingly erratic as he succumbs to fits of lunacy. there last night who had travelled Book now - it’s a Hit ***** beautiful music – played by accomplished With the King’s mind unravelling at a many miles to be there. It was well The Times musicians and capable of touching your dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and worth every mile - Mike Harding soul, making you dance with joy – or the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to Broadcaster/Musician/Writer both.” Folkwords undermine the power of the Crown, and By the way the stage manager for expose the fine line between a King and Magnificent....a feast of imaginative the show, Patrick Stanier, is a former a man. music – 5***** The Telegraph LADS Member! *Students £8

*Students and over 60s £12.50 *Students and over 60s £12.50 *Students £8

16 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 17 The Nutcracker Royal Ballet encore screening

Sun 9 Dec I 7.15pm I £14*

Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker CHRISTMAS doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight UNWRAPPED strikes, she creeps downstairs to find a A Fabulous Flower Arranging magical adventure awaiting her and her Demonstration for the Festive Season Nutcracker. by Andrew Lloyd The magician Drosselmeyer transforms Fri 7 Dec I 7.30pm I £10 the drawing room for a battle between which includes festive drink mice and toy soldiers. During the battle, (tickets only available through the usual Clara saves the Nutcracker’s life - so outlets listed on the front cover) breaking a magical spell that turned him from a boy to a toy - and the Mouse King Come and join Ledbury & District Floral is defeated. In celebration, Drosselmeyer Antony and Cleopatra Art Club at their annual Christmas Open sweeps Clara and the Nutcracker off to National Theatre Live Meeting. The ever-popular demonstrator the Kingdom of Sweets, where they meet Andrew Lloyd is making a welcome the Sugar Plum Fairy and take part in a return to Ledbury for what promises to wonderful display of dances. The next Thurs 6 Dec I 7pm I £15* be a brilliant evening of fun and flowers. morning, Clara’s adventures seem to have been more than just a dream. Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play For further information, contact Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power. 01531 635404 Peter Wright’s interpretation of The Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his Nutcracker has been enchanting children fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen and adults alike since its first performance Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion by The Royal Ballet in 1984. Lev Ivanov’s and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war. 1892 ballet combined with Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous, iconic score are presented in Director Simon Godwin returns to National Theatre Live screens with this hotly a festive period setting with vivid designs anticipated production, following previous broadcasts of Twelfth Night, Man and to make this a charming and magical Superman and The Beaux’ Stratagem. production.

*Students and over 60s £12 *Students and over 60s £12.50

18 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 19 Ledbury Community Brass Band Christmas Concert

Sat 15 Dec I 3pm I £8* Sun 16 Dec I 7.30pm I £10* Ledbury Ledbury’s very own Brass Band is proud to be hosting its Christmas Concert, Community Choir featuring a mix of carols and other Christmas Concert Christmas favourites. On its way to becoming a Ledbury Christmas tradition, the programme has been compiled by Thurs 20 - Fri 21 Dec I 7.30pm their Musical Director Colin Herbert with £10 (tickets only available through the entertainment in mind. usual outlets listed on the front cover) Ledbury Amateur Dramatic Society presents its famous annual pantomime Clap your hands, stamp your feet and Get your Ledbury Christmas going with sing your heart out as they lead you a joyous and uplifting mixture of music through a fun-filled jamboree of from Ledbury Community Choir. The Alice in Wonderland most-loved carols and all-time selection of traditional and modern Christmas hits. music will reflect the theme of The Gift 17-20 and 23-26 Jan I 7.30pm of Christmas and as usual there will Matinees 19, 20 & 26 January I 2.30pm The Band looks forward to seeing be opportunities to join in the festive you there and joining them in the spirit atmosphere of these popular concerts. No evening performance 20 January of Christmas. £11 / Children £6 / Family £37 (2 adults + 3 children) *Students Sat £4, Sun £6 We come every year and it always Alice in Wonderland……..…. a Pantomime? Oh Yes it is! LADS presents its famous annual feels like the start of Christmas Pantomime and transports you to Wonderland where Alice and her Mother – Dame Audience member Millicent – chase the hurrying White Rabbit and meet up with the usual Wonderland characters; The Joker, The Cheshire Cat and Tweedledum & Tweedle Dee to defeat the exceedingly bad Knave of Spades before he ruins Wonderland forever!

On the way through Muddleup Wood, they encounter spaced-out hippies trying to find their way to Glastonbury and join the Mad Hatter and March Hare, for an outrageously funny tea-party! Come and join Alice on her colourful Pantomime adventures with all the sort of madcap antics that you would expect in Wonderland.

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I, TONYA 120mins I 2018 I 15 I US Wed 19 September I 10.30am

Based on unbelievable but true events this is a darkly comedic tale of American figure skater Tonya Harding and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous, ill- conceived, and even more poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan. Craig Gillespie’s film is an absurd, irreverent, and piercing portrayal of Harding’s life and career in all of its unchecked - and checkered - glory.

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 132mins I 2018 I 15 I Fr / It / Braz / US Fri 21 September I 8pm

Directed by Luca Guadagnino, a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. In early- 1980s northern Italy, amid lush Mediterranean landscapes, 17-year-old Elio visits the family’s summer villa to spend his holiday with his parents and the American student, Oliver, who 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?

EASY RIDER 95mins I 1969 I 15 I US Fri 28 September I 8pm

Two hippie bikers drive motorcycles across the American Southwest in search of the American Dream. Filled to the brim with groundbreaking aesthetics, style, and one of the most killer soundtracks ever. A genuine classic, and one of the best/most important/most influential of all time. Truly is mandatory viewing! Starring Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper, who also directs.”

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On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgemental snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate. Stars Timothy Spall, Joanna Lumley, Imelda Staunton, Celia Imrie and directed by Richard Loncraine.

STORIES FROM THE HOP YARDS Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 90mins I 2018 I U I UK 115mins I 2017 I 15 I US Fri 5 Oct I 8pm Fri 2 Nov I 8pm

From the makers of Chewing The Cud: Memories A darkly comic drama from Academy Award nominee Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). from Hereford’s old livestock market comes After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes a brand-new heritage film about the glorious (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs traditions of Herefordshire hop picking. With their leading into her town with a controversial message directed at the town’s revered chief distinctive aroma and connections to beer, the of police. When his second-in-command (an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for film mixes archive photographs, films and newly violence), gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing’s law enforcement is only recorded oral-history interviews from farmers, exacerbated. BAFTA Best Film 2018. traders, pickers and brewers. We listen to stories of days past and present from Herefordians, people from South Wales, the Black Country, Polish migrant workers and Gypsy Roma travellers. Part of the Herefordshire Life Through A Lens project. The Guernsey Literary AND Potato Peel PIE Society 124mins I 2018 I 12A I UK The Florida Project Wed 14 Nov I 10.30am 111mins I 2017 I 15 I US Fri 26 Oct I 8pm A correspondence begins between Juliet Ashton and members of The Guernsey Literary and In the shadow of Walt Disney World’s Magic Potato Peel Pie Society, with them sharing their Kingdom, the Magic Castle, a garishly experiences of Nazi Occupied Guernsey. Juliet has painted rundown motel crammed with the the idea for a book and goes to visit the island, imperceptible homeless who can’t afford proper making lifelong friends and taking life changing accommodation, is the unenchanting world the steps along the way. This tale is told by way of struggling ex-stripper single mother, Halley, and letters and as the reader, you become enchanted her fearless six-year-old daughter, Moonee, call by the writers of them and the love Juliet comes to feel for each of the Islanders; Dawsey, home. For the mischievous Moonee and her Amelia, Isola, Eben, Kit and Elizabeth. A beautiful story of love, friendship and the sadness of riotous gang of best friends, this place is also a magical playground of endless adventure friends lost. Directed by Mike Newell. and a blissful Utopia nestled inside innocence’s protective bubble. But, do shadows exist in the realm of fantasy? Directed by Sean Baker.

24 All Films £6 I Students / Film Club Members £3 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125 25 WEA Film Study Day Stanley, A Man CASABLANCA’S of Variety MICHAEL CURTIZ 83mins I 2018 I 15 I UK The Man Who Knew Too Much Fri 30 Nov I 8pm Sat 17 Nov I 10.30am to 4.45pm I £20 In this psychological thriller Timothy Spall plays To book or for more information 01531 634333 Stanley, a middle-aged man imprisoned in a nightmarish Victorian-era psychiatric hospital, Tutor: Adam Feinstein. tormented by garbled memories of his family If ever there was a cinematic victim of his own and what he did to get incarcerated, and pitifully success, Michael Curtiz was your man. He made more than 170 films and because he could obsessed with being granted leave to visit his produce magnificent movies in so many genres, he earned the totally false reputation of a daughter’s grave. But Stanley is also a superfan journeyman director. Wrong, wrong, wrong! Our tutor Adam Feinstein will take us through of comedy icons from the 40s to the 70s and starts hallucinating visitations from these his fascinating life with copious film clips and focus both on his well-known successes – theatrical and showbiz icons of yesteryear, including Noël Coward, Max Wall, Max Miller, Captain Blood (1935), Casablanca (1942) and Mildred Pearce (1945) – but also some of his Tony Hancock and George Formby. Directed by Stephen Cookson. later, neglected movies, which deserve reassessment, among them The Proud Rebel (1958) and The Hangman (1959). Casablanca will be shown in its entirety during the afternoon.

Refreshments and sandwiches are available at the theatre. In collaboration with Ledbury Film Club. Edie 102mins I 2018 I 12A I UK Wed 12 Dec I 10.30am British Independent Double Bill Fri 23 Nov I 8pm 83 year old Edie (Sheila Hancock) believes that it is never too late – packing an old camping bag, leaving her life behind and embarking on an adventure she never got to have – climbing THE Silent Child the imposing Mount Suilven in Scotland, Sheila 20mins I 2018 I U I UK Hancock delivers the performance of her lifetime. She is an absolute legend, who at 84 offers a The 2018 Best Live Action Short Film Oscar winner. strong reminder that age is but a number! Set in rural England and inspired by real life events, The Silent Child centres around a profoundly deaf four year old girl named Libby who is born into a middle class family and lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her the gift of The Bookshop communication. Director Chris Overton. 113mins I 2018 I PG I UK / Ger / Sp Fri 14 Dec I 8pm

It is 1959 and Florence Green (Emily Mortimer), The Party opens a bookshop - the first ever in the sleepy 71mins I 2017 I 15 I UK seaside town of Hardborough. She struggles to establish herself, and by exposing the narrow To celebrate her long-awaited prestigious post minded local townsfolk to the best literature of as a Shadow Minister for Health and, hopefully, the day, she causes a cultural awakening in a the stepping stone to party leadership, Janet town unchanged for centuries. She finds an ally is throwing a party for friends at her London in the figure of Mr Brundish (Bill Nighy), himself flat. Of course, in this select and intimate soirée, sick of the town’s stale atmosphere. But this mini apart from Bill, Janet’s self-denying academic social revolution soon brings her fierce enemies husband, a motley crew of elite hand-picked guests have been invited. Inevitably, before including the town’s less prosperous shopkeepers and Mrs. Gamart (Patricia Clarkson), dinner is served, the upbeat ambience will shatter to pieces, as festering secrets will start Hardborough’s vengeful, embittered alpha female, herself a wannabe doyenne of the local surfacing in this perfect domestic war-zone. After this night, things will never be the same arts scene. Directed by Isabel Coixet. again. Directed by Sally Potter.

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