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February 2024
Clun Valley Jazz Session @ SpArC
World Class Jazz Performance on Your Shropshire Doorstep. For details and to book your reservations visit the website CLICK HERE OR Text 07768 504322 or Email clunvalleyjazz@gmail.com Saturday 17th February: Wako ( Nordic) Saturday 16th March: Andrew Baker Thursday 2nd-Saturday 4th May UNESCO & CV Jazz World Jazz Celebration 2024 - (£69.00 for 3 evenings ) Join us for the second annual World Jazz Celebration. This ticket will grant you entry to the full three day event, but you…
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Afternoon Film: The Miracle Club (12A)
Comedy Drama starring, Maggie Smith, Laura Linney and Kathy Bates There's just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. With a little benevolent interference from their local priest, a group of close friends get their ticket of a lifetime. 6.3IMDB Supported by the Friends of Bishop’s Castle Community, Care Home and Hospital and The Barchester Tea and biscuits £1, No stairs, tables & chairs, Hearing loop,…
Find out more »Live Theatre: Learning to Fly
A new show from James Rowland featuring his captivating mix of theatre, comedy and music. LEARNING TO FLY sees James tell the story of a remarkable friendship he made when he was a lonely, unhappy teenager with the scary old lady who lived in the spooky house on his street. It's about connection, no matter what the obstacles; about love’s eternal struggle with time; about music and its ability to heal. It's also about her last wish: to get…
Find out more »NTLIVE: The Motive and the Cue
The Motive and the Cue a new play by Jack Thorne directed by Sam Mendes ★★★★★ ‘A witty, deft, touching evocation of a fascinating, fraught encounter’ Telegraph ★★★★★ ‘Mark Gatiss is superb as Sir John Gielgud’ Financial Times ★★★★ ‘Will give you goosebumps’ Independent Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play. 1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the…
Find out more »LIVE MUSIC : Sam & the Hot Rods
FUNDRAISER FOR THE SpArC SWIMMING POOL CAMPAIGN Welding hot rock and cowboy pop onto a 6 piece band held together by duct tape and glory, Sam and the Hot Rods are a cheeky and introspective dive into songs that go exactly where you want them to. For Fans of Eels, Lou Reed, Ezra Furman, The Rolling Stones + Support to be announced and more fun fundraising things! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiVhz-u_f4E
Find out more »April 2024
FILM: Anatomy of a Fall (15)
Bishop's Castle Film Society Choice A woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness. 7.8 IMDB ★★★★★ "a sparkling intellectual thriller that lingers for day. Justine Triet’s breathtaking new film unpicks the aftermath of a fatal accident in the Alps. Did the victim fall – or were they pushed?" ★★★★ "Sandra Hüller compels as an author accused of her husband’s murderThere’s a bracing and chilly high-mindedness about Justine Triet’s…
Find out more »THE ROYAL BALLET: MACMILLAN CELEBRATED
MACMILLAN CELEBRATED via Satellite The Royal Ballet celebrates the breadth of Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s one-act ballets. Choreography Kenneth Macmillan Danses Concertantes, commissioned by Ninette de Valois in 1955, was MacMillan’s first major work. An early sign of the incredible artistic output that would follow, the work’s critical success spurred MacMillan to abandon performing in favour of choreography. It is followed by Different Drummer, MacMillan’s complex and haunting balletic interpretation of Woyzeck, Georg Büchner's play about a soldier’s descent…
Find out more »Afternoon Film: Typist Artist Pirate King (12A)
TYPIST ARTIST PIRATE KING puts forgotten artist Audrey Amiss on the map. Inspired by her extensive archive of diaries, letters and art, the film weaves real events into an imagined journey as Audrey goes on a road trip with her psychiatric nurse. From acclaimed British filmmaker, Carol Morley, this dark and funny exploration of the growing friendship between two women as they hit the road in an electric car looking for reconciliation, is filled with adventure, humour and compassion. 6.0…
Find out more »May 2024
THE ROYAL OPERA: CARMEN (Bizet)
New production from The Royal Opera of Bizet's CARMEN Aigul Akmetshina performs the title role in Damiano Michieletto's sizzling new production of Bizet’s ever-popular opera Live in cinemas: Wednesday 1 May 2024, 6.45pm BST Damiano Michieletto's sizzling new production evokes all the passion and heat of Bizet's score, which features Carmen’s sultry Habanera and the rousing Toreador song. Antonello Manacorda conducts an exciting international cast, with Aigul Akhmetshina performing the title role. Running time 220 minutes (including one interval)…
Find out more »NTLIVE: NYE
National Theatre Live Nye A new play by Tim Price Directed by Rufus Norris Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state and created the NHS. Confronted with death, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill. Written by Tim Price and directed by Rufus Norris (Small…
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