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April 2020
CANCELLED: Live Music: Alex Rex
17th March 2020 Corona Virus : We are stopping all SpArC Theatre events from today . We will keep you informed as to when we will recommence. CANCELLED ★★★★“Alex Rex’s Otterburn sees extraordinary folk drummer Alex Neilson push his solo singer-songwriter work even further, with an album stimulated and suffused by the sudden death of his younger brother.” The Guardian Songs of love, loss and loathing... Alex Rex is the nom de guerre of Alex Neilson - drummer to some of the most…
Find out more »CANCELLED Afternoon Film: Mrs Lowry and Son ( PG)
17th March 2020 Corona Virus : We are stopping all SpArC Theatre events from today . We will keep you informed as to when we will recommence. CANCELLED Beloved British artist L.S. Lowry (Timothy Spall) lived all his life with his mother Elizabeth (Vanessa Redgrave). Bed-ridden and bitter, she actively tried to dissuade her son from pursuing his artistic ambitions, whilst never failing to voice her opinion at what a disappointment he was. Accessible Cabaret seating/no steps/ hearing loop/ tea…
Find out more »CANCELLED: FILM: Knives Out (12A)
17th March 2020 Corona Virus : We are stopping all SpArC Theatre events from today . We will keep you informed as to when we will recommence. CANCELLED ★★★★"The whodunit "Knives Out" is an A-list-turned-slay-list party starring Daniel Craig, Toni Collette, Chris Evans and Jamie Lee Curtis. It's fun to watch super-serious actors get to misbehave." New York Times When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey dies just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc arrives at…
Find out more »CANCELLED:The Royal Opera House : CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA/PAGLIACCI (Via Satellite)
17th March 2020 Corona Virus : We are stopping all SpArC Theatre events from today . We will keep you informed as to when we will recommence. CANCELLED CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA/PAGLIACCI Cinema encore Via Satellite Sunday 26 April 2020 Two opera classics are drawn together in this wonderfully observed re-creation of life in a south Italian village as a travelling theatre visits and emotions erupt. The award-winning production by Damiano Michieletto presents vividly the fast-moving, shocking events brought about by…
Find out more »May 2020
NTLIVE: The Welkin
We are broadcasting live a brand new play The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood from the National Theatre in London. One life in the hands of 12 women. Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she’s telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose. With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the…
Find out more »Royal Ballet: THE DANTE PROJECT (WORLD PREMIERE)
17th March 2020 Corona Virus : We are stopping all SpArC Theatre events from today . We will keep you informed as to when we will recommence. THE DANTE PROJECT (WORLD PREMIERE) Live cinema relay Thursday 28 May 2020 Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic journey through the afterlife: it encompasses the horrifying drama of Inferno and its damned, the lyrical mysticism of pilgrims on mount Purgatorio and the dazzling spheres of Paradiso with their endless configurations of light.…
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CANCELLED Live Flying Bridge Theatre: Horse Country- By C J Hopkins
17th March 2020 Corona Virus : We are stopping all SpArC Theatre events from today . We will keep you informed as to when we will recommence. CANCELLED HORSE COUNTRY - Written By C J Hopkins Directed by Mark Bell HORSE COUNTRY (The Play that Goes Wrong), Sam and Bob are trying to play cards but have lost the nine of diamonds. Downing shots of bourbon and talking nonsense, about commerce, California, redemption, the good ol’ US of A, genocide,…
Find out more »Royal Opera House: Elektra ( Strauss) New Production
17th March 2020 Corona Virus : We are stopping all SpArC Theatre events from today . We will keep you informed as to when we will recommence. ELEKTRA (NEW PRODUCTION) Live cinema relay via SAtellite Thursday 18 June 2020 Strauss’s thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award-winning director Christof Loy. This uncompromising opera, about a daughter intent on bloody revenge and a mother driven to madness, has provoked critics to lively…
Find out more »July 2020
LIVE MUSIC: Violet Bell
17th March 2020 Corona Virus : We are stopping all SpArC Theatre events from today . We will keep you informed as to when we will recommence. Evocative Americana & roots from North Carolina Violet Bell’s brand of original Americana is woven from the varied threads of folk, soul, bluegrass and a touch of classical music. With soaring violin, driving guitar, clawhammer banjo and atmospheric vocals, the duo makes a full and riveting sound. Talented songwriter Lizzy Ross and superlative…
Find out more »August 2020
NTLIVE: Jack Absolute Flies Again
17th March 2020 Corona Virus : We are stopping all SpArC Theatre events from today . We will keep you informed as to when we will recommence. We’re delighted to announce details for a new National Theatre broadcast Jack Absolute Flies Again. . Richard Bean, the writer of One Man, Two Guvnors, returns to the National Theatre in collaboration with Oliver Chris (A Midsummer Night's Dream) with this new comedy, set in 1940s Britain. The play, based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals will be directed by Thea Sharrock (Me…
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