SpArC Theatre

Afternoon Film : Oceans With David Attenborough (PG)
2025-09-16 14:00 - 15:45 (Europe/London) | SpArC Theatre
Stunning, immersive cinematography showcases the wonder of life under the seas and exposes the realities and challenges facing our ocean as never-before-seen, …
Tickets £4 Carers FREE
Supported by Arts alive & the Friends of Bishop’s Castle Community, Care Home and Hospital.
Tea & Biscuits £1 Accessible Cabaret seating/no steps/ hearing loop/ /local Free Bus available

FILM: The Salt Path (12A)
2025-09-25 19:00 - 21:00 | SpArC Theatre
THE SALT PATH is the story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn’s 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline.

After losing their home, they make the decision to walk in the hope that, in nature, they will find solace and a sense of acceptance. With depleted resources, only a tent and some essentials between them, every step along the path is a testament to their growing strength and determination.
THE SALT PATH is a journey that is exhilarating, challenging, and liberating in equal measure – a portrayal of home, how it can be lost and rediscovered in the most unexpected ways.

“Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs Lead a Sentimental Story of a Married Couple Removed From Their Home. A husband and wife rediscover nature’s beauty and a renewed sense of vitality in this predictably heartstring-pulling adaptation of a true-life tale.” Variety

FILM: The Marching Band (15)
2025-10-09 19:00 - 20:45 | SpArC Theatre
7.4 IMDB
When acclaimed conductor Thibaut needs a bone marrow donor he learns he was adopted, and has an older brother. Their reunion sparks a fraternal, musical journey in this tender french comedy drama. With English Subtitles

FILM: How to Train Your Dragon (PG)
2025-10-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Sparc Theatre, Bishop's Castle, United Kingdom
7.8 IMDB
On the rugged isle of Berk, a Viking boy named Hiccup defies centuries of tradition by befriending a dragon named Toothless. However, when an ancient threat emerges that endangers both species, Hiccup’s friendship with Toothless becomes the key to forging a new future. Together, they must navigate the delicate path toward peace, soaring beyond the boundaries of their worlds and redefining what it means to be a hero and a leader.

The Ballad of Wallis Island (12A)
2025-10-16 19:00 - 20:40 | SpArC Theatre
7.4 IMDB
British comedy drama about a strange lottery winner who lives alone on a secluded island, tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favorite singer to perform
★★★★ Empire
“James Griffiths’ Soulful and Winsome Crowd-Pleaser Makes the Heart Sing. Tim Key, Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan are a disarmingly delightful trio in a quirky and music-filled comedy set on picturesque Welsh shores. “ Variety
★★★★”Whimsical, low-budget British comedies can be a recipe for irritation — but this is perfectly judged.
The wordplay is fun. What you also don’t anticipate is how poignant it all gets — a melancholy farce with an oddly pure soul.” The Financial Times
★★★★ “funny, melancholy yarn of a folk duo reunited by oddball superfan. Tim Key bring his trademark pleasant awkwardness to the island-owner who pays Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan to come and play for him” The Guardian

Afternoon Film: The Last Journey (PG)
2025-11-18 14:00 - 15:30 | SpArC Theatre
7.8 IMDB
An emotional and hilarious story with a life-affirming message, The Last Journey is a cinematic experience that explores a loving son’s attempts to coax his aging father into reengaging with life by embarking on a joyous, heartfelt road trip through the South of France.
In Swedish with Subtitles
Tickets £4 Carers FREE
Supported by Arts alive & the Friends of Bishop’s Castle Community, Care Home and Hospital.
Tea & Biscuits £1 Accessible Cabaret seating/no steps/ hearing loop/ /local Free Bus available

The Roses (15)
2025-12-04 19:00 - 21:00 | SpArC Theatre
Dark comedy – Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo and Ivy: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. However, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentments soon emerge when Theo’s career nosedives and Ivy’s own ambitions take off.
” Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch unite for a marriage most foul. Two British national treasures play an increasingly unhappy couple who descend into slapstick loathing.” The FT
6.8 IMDB
Based on the 1989 film The war of the Roses

Afternoon Film: Four Letters of Love ( 12A)
2025-12-16 14:00 - 15:50 | SpArC Theatre
6.1 IMDB
Based on Niall Williams’ best-selling novel. Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart.
Starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, Gabriel Byrne.
Tickets £4 Carers FREE
Supported by Arts alive & the Friends of Bishop’s Castle Community, Care Home and Hospital.
Tea & Biscuits £1 Accessible Cabaret seating/no steps/ hearing loop/ /local Free Bus available

Mog's Christmas Film & Crafty Making Workshop
2025-12-22 10:30 - 12:30 | SpArC Theatre
Join us at SpArC to feel festive together
Watch Mog’s Christmas
Wonderful 2023 animated short film based on the Judith Kerr book.
Then stay and make some Christmas crafts with Liz and team at SpArC theatre and Catherine Murphy
All materials and ideas provided with plenty of freedom to be creative !
£3.50 per child or £6 for 2 children.
Accompanying Adults FREE but please book a place so we know for seating and we would be grateful of a donation on the day if you want to make things too.
All ages welcome. Under 7’s must be accompanied.
10.30-10.40- Arrive
10.40-11.05- Watch Animation on the big SpArC Cinema Screen
11.05-12.30 – Making Workshop- – All materials provided
This work shop is a collaboration with FLICKS IN THE STICKS

FILM: Downton Abbey- The Grand Finale (PG)
2026-01-15 19:00 - 21:00 | SpArC Theatre
7.4 IMDB
We know you love Downton so we are screening it twice – This is the page for the evening screening Thursday 15th January 7pm
The cinematic return of the global phenomenon, follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s.
In the summer of 1930, the Crawleys grapple with the threat of social disgrace when Mary finds herself at the centre of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble

Afternoon Film: Downton Abbey- The Grande Finale (PG)
2026-01-20 14:00 - 16:00 | SpArC Theatre
7.4 IMDB
We know you love Downton so we are screening it twice – This is the page for the afternoon screening Tuesday 20th January .
The cinematic return of the global phenomenon, follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s.
In the summer of 1930, the Crawleys grapple with the threat of social disgrace when Mary finds herself at the centre of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble.
Tickets £4 Carers FREE
Supported by Arts alive & the Friends of Bishop’s Castle Community, Care Home and Hospital.
Tea & Biscuits £1 Accessible Cabaret seating/no steps/ hearing loop/ /Local Dial- a -Ride Free Bus available 01588 638 350

An Evening of Film, Words and Music in Appreciation of the Apple
2026-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | SpArC Theatre
An evening in appreciation of the apple :
Join us ,with Long Mynd Cider and the Poetry Pharmacy to celebrate this much loved fruit.
Live readings , Poems, song and cider drinking followed by a screening of:
The orchard of England: This heritage film brings together a wide-ranging and eccentric cast – farmers, Travellers, former apple-pickers, clergymen, wassailers, cider makers, fruit sellers – to explore the deep relationship between the people of Herefordshire its historic crop.

FILM: Deliver Me From Nowhere (12A)
2026-03-15 14:00 - 16:00 | SpArC Theatre
The booking link above will take you to The Courtyard to book tickets for SpArC as we are thrilled that this screening is part of the Borderlines Film Festival this year .

Bruce Springsteen’s journey : On the cusp of global superstardom, crafting his 1982 album Nebraska, which emerged as he recorded Born in the USA with the E Street Band as he struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.

Afternoon Film: Save the Cinema (12A)
2026-03-17 14:00 - 15:50 | SpArC Theatre
Based on true story: A Welsh hairdresser starts a campaign With the help of a local politician, they approach Steven Spielberg with the idea to premiere Jurassic Park in a bid to save the cinema.
” 6.5 a moving story of hairdresser and theatre lover, Liz Evans, who campaigns in 1993 to save the ‘Lyric’ from closing down.” IMDB
Tickets £4 Carers FREE
Supported by Arts alive & the Friends of Bishop’s Castle Community, Care Home and Hospital.
Tea & Biscuits £1 Accessible Cabaret seating/no steps/ hearing loop/ /local Free Bus available

FILM: Souleymane’s Story (12A)
2026-03-19 19:00 - 20:30 | SpArC Theatre
The booking link above will take you to The Courtyard to book tickets for SpArC as we are thrilled that this screening is part of the Borderlines Film Festival this year .

7.6 IMDB
A Paris food delivery cyclist and asylum seeker named Souleymane has two days to prepare his story for a make-or-break interview to secure legal residency.
★★★★ “Abou Sangaré is magnificent in a story that shines light on the enforced invisibility of economic migrants.” The Guardian
French with English Subtitles

Film: The Choral (15)
2026-03-26 19:00 - 21:00 | SpArC Theatre
Please Note the screening dates has changed to Thursday 26th March from the date advertised in the programme due to availability
Ralph Fiennes leads an excellent ensemble in this funny and moving First World War drama about a Yorkshire choral society that finds its ranks depleted by beloved writer Alan Bennett.

ROB: Siegfried ( Wagner) (15)
2026-03-31 17:15 - 22:45 | SpArC Theatre
Live Screening via Satellite
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Yes on a Tuesday evening!
Antonio Pappano conducts, drawing out the unspoken tensions and ethereal mysticism of Wagner’s dynamic score.
Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber…
Moments of transcendent beauty and heroic triumph sparkle in the third chapter of Wagner’s Ring cycle, brought to life under Barrie Kosky’s inspired eye following his spectacular Das Rheingold (2023) and Die Walküre (2025). Andreas Schager, in his much-anticipated debut with The Royal Opera, stars as Siegfried’s titular hero, alongside Christopher Maltman’s towering Wanderer, Peter Hoare’s treacherous Mime and Elisabet Strid’s radiant Brünnhilde.
Duration 5hrs 45 approx 2 intervals

Afternoon Film: White Bird -a Wonder Story (12A)
2026-04-21 14:00 - 16:00 | SpArC Theatre
7.4 IMDB
Struggling to fit in at his new school after being expelled for his treatment of Auggie Pullman, Julian is visited by his grandmother and is transformed by the story of her attempts to escape Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
“White Bird” is both a prequel and sequel to the 2017 film Wonder, based on R.J. Palacio’s 2019 graphic novel of the same name. The story follows Julian Albans, a former school bully from Wonder, who struggles to fit in at his new school. His grandmother, Sara, visits him and recounts her childhood as a Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis in France during World War II.
Starring Gillian Anderson, Helen Mirren

White Bird (2024) Final Trailer – Gillian Anderson, Helen Mirren – YouTube

FILM: Hamnet(12A)
2026-04-23 19:00 - 21:00 | SpArC Theatre
7.9 IMDB
Multi award winning Hamnet is coming to SpArC.
After losing their son Hamnet to plague, Agnes and William Shakespeare grapple with grief in 16th-century England. A healer, Agnes must find strength to care for her surviving children while processing her devastating loss.

★★★★★”Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley beguile and captivate in audacious Shakespearean tragedChloé Zhao’s film version of Maggie O’Farrell’s myth-making novel powerfully reimagines the agonising loss of a child as the source of Hamlet’s grand stage drama” The Guardian

ROB: THE MAGIC FLUTE ( Mozart)
2026-04-26 14:00 - 17:00 | Sparc Theatre, Bishop's Castle, United Kingdom
The Royal Opera
THE MAGIC FLUTE

Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter’s rescue. But when Tamino and his friendly sidekick, Papageno, embark on their adventure, they soon learn that when it comes to the quest for love, nothing is as it really seems. Guided by a magic flute, they encounter monsters, villains, and a mysterious brotherhood of men – but help, it turns out, comes when you least expect it.
Mozart’s fantastical opera glitters in David McVicar’s enchanting production. A star cast including Julia Bullock as Pamina, Amitai Pati as Tamino, Huw Montague Rendall as Papageno, Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, and Soloman Howard as Sarastro, led by French conductor Marie Jacquot in her Covent Garden debut.

Exhibition On Screen: Frida Kahlo
2026-05-21 19:00 - 20:30 | SpArC Theatre
Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favourite female artist – beloved by young and old. Exhibition on Screen’s award-winning film – first released during covid to a restricted audience – is back by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the blockbuster transatlantic exhibition from Tate Britain and MFA Houston ‘Frida Kahlo: the Making of an Icon’. Back in the cinemas in May 2026, one month before the Tate exhibition opens, allowing audiences to watch both the film and see the show.

Who was Frida Kahlo? Everyone knows her face but who was the woman behind the bright colours, the big brows and the floral crowns? Take a journey through the life of a true icon, discover her art, and uncover the true story of her rebellious, passionate and turbulent life.

Making use of the latest technology to deliver previously unimaginable quality, we take an in-depth look at key works throughout her career. Using letters Kahlo wrote to guide us, this definitive film reveals her deepest emotions and unlocks the secrets and symbolism contained within her art.

Exhibition on Screen’s trademark combination of interviews with those who knew her and world experts, commentary and a detailed exploration of her art, combined with new special bonus footage from the 2026 Tate exhibition, delivers a treasure trove of colour and emotion. This personal and intimate film offers privileged access to her works, her home, her studio and highlights the source of her feverish creativity, her resilience and her unmatched lust for life, beauty and revolution.

Created in close collaboration with world experts and those who knew her.

Additional new material from the curators of the groundbreaking new Tate Britain and MFA Houston exhibition.
OFFICIAL TRAILER | Frida Kahlo (2020)

NTLIVE: The Playboy of the Western World
2026-05-28 19:00 - 21:30 | SpArC Theatre
The Playboy of the Western World
by John Millington Synge
Directed by Caitríona McLaughlin
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.
Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene…
‘A sumptuous production, rich in detail, craft and spectacle’ Guardian
‘Two of Ireland’s best-loved comic actors go head-to-head’ Independent
‘A twisty treat’ The i
‘Nicola Coughlan and Siobhán McSweeney reunite for an Irish classic’ Broadway World
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.
The Playboy of the Western World | Official Trailer | National Theatre
