We will be Screening the ( Feb 20th ) live performance from London’s West End   Cyrano de Bergerac, starring James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) in the title role On March 5th. This inventive new adaptation by Martin Crimp tells the story our hero. ★★★★★ "Edmond Rostand’s play, written in 1897 but set in 1640, is rapped into the 21st century. Yet every fibre vibrates to Edmond Rostand’s ideas about outward illusion, inner voices – and the spellbinding power of speech. It…

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…

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…

Filmed at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London in August 2020   Please read Covid 19 audience info. Here ★★★★★ ‘Toby Jones is superb in Chekhov’s great tragicomedy.’  FINANCIAL TIMES ★★★★★ ‘An exquisite production. Perfection.’ THE GUARDIAN Sonya (Aimee Lou Wood) and her Uncle Vanya (Toby Jones) while away their time on an isolated estate, visited occasionally only by the local doctor Astrov (Richard Armitage). However, when Sonya’s father Professor Serebryakov (Roger Allam) suddenly returns with his restless, alluring, new wife…