SpArC Theatre

RESCHEDULED Afternoon Film: Past Lives (12A)
2024-11-26 14:00 - 15:45 (Europe/London) | SpArC Theatre
Rescheduled date after cancellation on 19/11/24 due to snow and Ice.
7.8 IMDB
Two deeply connected childhood friends, Parted when a family emigrates ,are reunited decades later for one fateful week as they confront destiny, love and the choices that make a life.
★★★★★ “A must-see story of lost loves, childhood crushes and changing identities. This article is more than 1 year old. Celine Song’s feature debut about two people whose lives intertwine again after years apart is delicate and sophisticated, but also simple and direct.” The Guardian
★★★★ “A wry, moving debut from director Celine Song. Three lives are interwoven in this beautifully acted movie” Financial Times
★★★★ “A gentle drama about first love and thirty something melancholy. Childhood sweethearts reunite, then reunite again, in Celine Song’s vaguely autobiographical time-hopping romance, which nicely avoids easy answers.” The Independent
Part of Winter Warmers Season so you can get a FREE Cuppa and a snack as well what’s not to like !
Open to All !
Tickets £4 Carers FREE
Supported by Arts Alive and Friends of Bishop’s Castle Community, Care Home and Hospital
Accessible Cabaret seating/no steps/ hearing loop/ tea and biscuits £1/local Free Bus available
Free Dial–a-ride bus service from Bishops Castle and Lydbury North please phone 01588 638350All Tickets £4 Accompanying Carers FREE

LIVE THEATRE: Make Good- PENTABUS
2024-11-28 19:30 - 21:20 | SpArC Theatre
Post-office. Scandal. Musical.

A Pentabus and New Perspectives co-production
Make Good: The Post Office Scandal
A new musical by Jeanie O’Hare (book) & Jim Fortune (music & lyrics)
Directed by Elle While
A vibrant & compassionate new musical, inspired by the Post Office Scandal which tore communities apart & jailed innocent people.
Maxine Peake on Instagram  – ’It’s chuffin’ marvellous!! Go and see it you won’t be disappointed!… ♥️‘
“If we knew that this was going to happen to us, that we were going to become criminals by buying a Post Office, we would never, ever have done it.” Subpostmaster
For twenty years Subpostmasters all over the UK were jailed for stealing money that never existed. Directly informed by conversations with affected Subpostmasters, Make Good dives into these most local of stories, capturing the raw emotion, the betrayals, and the collective disbelief that this could be happening to innocent people.
A new musical, three years in the making, tells the story of the resilience of the Sub-Postmasters and their families, in what is now recognised as the gravest miscarriage of justice in British history. Can the Post Office ever make good the damage they have done?
“The musical is full of feeling. And that’s what we need to portray to people now, so that they can feel and understand what we felt, all the heartache that we went through. The songs bring so much to the story, they’re heartfelt and there’s humour in it too, it’s funny. It made me smile as well as being touching.” Subpostmaster
Touring Autumn 2024 – Celebrating 100 years of rural touring, and marking the 50th anniversary of leading rural theatre companies Pentabus and New Perspectives.
Make Good is accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences, with Audio Description integrated into every performance.
Suitable for ages 11+
90 minutes (approx.), plus interval

Produced by two of Rural Touring’s leading theatre companies, with a team of notable theatre makers. Directly informed by conversations with affected sub-postmasters, Make Good dives into this most local of stories, capturing the raw emotions, the bewilderment and the unbreakable bond of faith and family that were put to the test.

Ludlow Assembly Rooms – Preview Performance
‘Full of energy and vitality – fantastic performance’
‘Heart rending – lost for words’
‘Enthralled, Outraged, Entertained – Always love Pentabus’
‘Fantastic, Emotional, Memorable – a really brilliant production from start to finish’
‘Exciting, moving, full of community – the additional of the community choirs is lush – more of this!’
‘Masterpiece, best thing we’ve seen this year.’
CONTENT WARNINGS
The following is a list of specific content that may impact audience members. This may include actions and themes as well as technical triggers. The content warnings are updated as a production evolves through the rehearsal process. Make Good includes the following:
Thematic Triggers

Suicide
Some strong language

Technical triggers

Haze (at some venues)

Pentabus are champions of rural touring and are ‘one of British theatre’s unsung treasures.’ The Guardian

YOUTH SAMBA BAND XMAS SESSIONS
2024-12-06 17:45 - 2024-12-13 18:45 | Sparc Theatre, Bishop's Castle, United Kingdom
FRI 6 DEC SESSION
FRI 13 DEC XMAS SESSION

Youth Samba Band
Last sessions of 2024 including a Christmas Party come and join us
No experience necessary
Come and have fun!
Drumming is a fun physical and creative outlet.
With opportunity to perform at community events or just come and make some beautiful noise
Learn a skill , try something new, socialise and building confidence.
Come and join experienced Samba leader Peter Piper in a new Samba band for 9-14 year olds. Take thew chance to be part of building this new band- Play a groove, Make a break, play a call, hear the response. Create your own fill.
5.45pm- 6.45pm Sparc Bishop’s Castle
sparctheatre.co.uk 01588 638038
Suitable for all levels
Supported by The Dylan Price Foundation and the Ashley Foundation

LIVE MUSIC: GREY WOLF
2024-12-06 19:30 - 21:30 | SpArC Theatre
LIVE MUSIC : Grey Wolf

Old Time American from Welsh Marches banjo, fiddle, guitar, and double bass alongside fine vocal and harmony singing.
These boys never fail to get your feet tapping and spirits lifted!

Grey Wolf is an acoustic Americana/old-time folk band from the Welsh Marches playing traditional instruments such as banjo, fiddle, guitar, dulcimer, mandolin and double bass alongside fine vocal and harmony singing. The band has headlined several of the prestigious UK’s Old Time American Music and Dance Festivals; has appeared on radio, at folk clubs, festivals, and music and literary venues throughout the UK.

Grey Wolf was born in 2010 when Jim Allen and Martin Thomas began playing as a duo blending their shared love of American old time music with British folk music. These two gifted multi instrumentalists were joined by a third some years later – the immensely talented Ben Walsh. The fourth member of the band, widely experienced and versatile bass player Andy Offer joined them in 2021.

The Birmingham News said of Grey Wolf’s performance at the Kitchen Garden Cafe in Birmingham “There’s an equality to the group’s spread of sound, but each player is continually soloing-in-motion, rising up in turn, according to where the ears of the audience might alight at any one moment”.

Adults £15 Students / Child £5

ROB: Cinderella
2024-12-15 14:00 - 17:15 | SpArC Theatre
The Royal Ballet CINDERELLA [Revival]
Screening Via Satellite
Family Ticket Available : £35 ( 2 ADULTS AND UP TO 3 CHILDREN)
This Christmas, The Royal Ballet invites you to the ball with Frederick Ashton’s spectacular Cinderella. A fairytale like no other, this magical ballet boasts astonishing stagecraft, enchanting design and exquisite dance. This much-loved ballet is a masterpiece for all the family to enjoy this festive period .
Ashton’s adaptation of Cinderella received its premiere on 23rd December 1948 with Royal Ballet dancers Moira Shearer and Michael Somes in the lead roles. The production was received rapturously with Ashton’s reworking of Charles Perrault’s famous rags-to-riches story proving a compelling showcase for the choreographer’s musicality and the beauty of Sergey Prokofiev’s transcendent score.
Cinderella made a welcome return to the stage in 2023 after an absence of over 10 years in a new production with an award-winning creative team steeped in the magic of theatre, film, dance and opera, bringing new atmosphere to Cinderella’s ethereal world of fairy godmothers and pumpkin carriages. Set design is by Tom Pye (My Neighbour Totoro, Olivier award for Best Set Design), costume designs by Alexandra Byrne (Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Academy Award for Best Costume Design), lighting design by David Finn (Brokeback Mountain), video design by Finn Ross (Les Miserables, Frozen) and illusions by Chris Fisher (Harry Potter and The Cursed Child).
This Christmas, be transported into an ethereal world where a sprinkling of fairy dust makes dreams come true.
Stuck at home and put to work by her spoiled Step-Sisters, Cinderella’s life is dreary and dull. Everything changes when she helps a mysterious woman out…With a little bit of magic, she is transported into an ethereal new world – one where fairies bring the gifts of the seasons, where pumpkins turn into carriages, and where true love awaits.
Creatives: CHOREOGRAPHY Frederick Ashton; MUSIC Sergey Prokofiev; SET DESIGNER Tom Pye; COSTUME DESIGNER Alexandra Byrne; LIGHTING DESIGNER David Finn; VIDEO DESIGNER Finn Ross; ILLUSIONS Chris Fisher; CONDUCTOR Jonathan Lo
Sunday 15 December 2024, 14.00 GMT
Running time: 195 minutes, Two intervals

Afternoon Film: Last Christmas (12A)
2024-12-17 14:00 - 15:40 | SpArC Theatre
Yuletide Romance
6.5IMDB
Nothing goes right for Kate. Working as an elf in a Christmas shop is not good for the wannabe singer. Then she meets Tom and life takes a new turn- Staring Emelia Clarke, Henry Golding With Emma Thompson and Michelle Yeoh
Andrew Ridgely from Wham even makes an appearance !
Tickets £4 Carers FREE
Accessible Cabaret seating/no steps/ Subtitles/ hearing loop/ tea and biscuits £1
local Free Dial-a-ride Bus available: 01588 638350

Stickman Family Christmas Workshop
2024-12-23 10:30 - 12:30 | SpArC Theatre
THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT BUT WE ARE GOING TO RUN A DROP IN SESSION FROM 12.30-1.30 WHEN YOU CAN COME ALONG AND JOIN IN WITH OUT XMAS NATURE MAKES AND MAKE A DONATION TO SPARC.
Feel Festive Together.
Watch the animation of classic Julia Donaldson story followed by making our own Christmassy Stick people and other festive making with Bishop’s Castle Going Wild .
Accompanying Adults FREE but please book a place so we know for seating and we would j grateful of a donation on the day if you want to make things to.
All ages welcome. Under 7’s must be accompanied.
10.30-10.40- arrive
10.40-11.10- watch Stickman on the big SpArC Cinema Screen
11.10-12.30 Making session- Christmas Stick people and Other festive nature makes with Bishop’s Castle Going Wild

ROB / Little Bulb Theatre :Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy
2025-01-05 14:00 - 15:10 | SpArC Theatre
Do not miss this ‘enchantingly staged’ family folk opera, following the triumphant, Olivier Award-winning run in 2021.
Red Riding Hood is tasked with delivering bread to her Grandmother, deep in the heart of the fairy-tale forest. But en route, Red meets a cunning Wolf who tricks her into taking a different path. Along the way, Red stumbles into a colourful cast of characters, including a scary witch, a talking cat and a rather persuasive Peddler. Join our ragtag band of wild musicians as they guide all the family through this famous tale with new twists, turns, magic and song.

FILM: Perfect Days (PG)
2025-01-16 19:00 - 21:00 | SpArC Theatre
IMDB: 7.9
★★★★ “A beautiful portrait of everyday life in Tokyo. This Oscar-nominated drama from Wim Wenders about a toilet cleaner’s daily life is a lovingly detailed character study. ” The Telegraph
Hirayama feels content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, reads books and takes photos. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
★★★★ “Wim Wenders’s zen Japanese drama is his best feature film in years. The German director makes a strong case for simple living with this achingly lovely tale starring Kōji Yakusho as a Tokyo public toilet cleaner who finds quiet joy in the world around him.” The Guardian

★★★★ “Wim Wenders finds joy in Tokyo toilet attendant tale. The veteran filmmaker brings moments of real beauty to the gentle routine of one man’s life.” The FT

ROB: THE TALES OF HOFFMANN (Offenbach)
2025-01-19 14:00 - 18:00 | SpArC Theatre
The Royal Opera THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
[New Production]
Four women: four curious love stories. Juan Diego Flórez leads a fantastic cast in Offenbach’s dream-like opera.
Through the haze of the years, a poet remembers the women he loved. But when it comes to matters of the heart, nothing is as it seems. Particularly when the devil himself is involved…

Journeying back to his school days, Hoffmann relives his childhood romance with Olympia, a model student in every sense. Doomed love follows him into adulthood, where the dancer, Antonia, is taken from him too soon. Meanwhile, the sensual courtesan Giulietta has her own secret agenda. As memory and fantasy becomes increasingly blurred, will Hoffmann find the enigmatic Stella before it is too late?

Running time: 245 minutes, Two intervals
Sung in French with subtitles
Captured live November 2024

Cast:

HOFFMANN Juan Diego Flórez
LINDORF/COPPÉLIUS/DR MIRACLE/DAPERTUTTO Alex Esposito
OLYMPIA Olga Pudova
ANTONIA Ermonela Jaho
GIULIETTA Marina Costa-Jackson
NICKLAUSSE Julie Boulianne
ANDRÈS/COCHENILLE/FRANTZ/PITICHINACCIO Christophe Mortagne
SPALANZANI Vincent Ordonneau
CRESPEL Alastair Miles
MUSE OF POETRY/SPIRIT OF ANTONIA’S MOTHER Christine Rice
LUTHER Jeremy White
HERMANN/SCHLEMIL Grisha Martirosyan
NATHANAEL Ryan Vaughan Davies
ORCHESTRA Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
CONCERT MASTER Sergey Levitin
CHORUS DIRECTOR William Spaulding
CHORUS Royal Opera Chorus

Creatives:

DIRECTOR Damiano Michieletto
CONDUCTOR Antonello Manacorda
MUSIC Jacques Offenbach
LIBRETTO Jules Barbier
SET DESIGNER Paolo Fantin
COSTUME DESIGNER Carla Teti
LIGHTING DESIGNER Alessandro Carletti
CHOREOGRAPHER Chiara Vecchi

AFTERNOON FILM: Bright Star (PG)
2025-01-21 14:00 - 16:00 | SpArC Theatre
2009 period film film about Nineteenth-century English poet, John Keats and his dressmaking neighbor, Fanny Brawne, have total disregard for each other. An unlikely romance develops and they fall deeply in love near the end of his life.
“Jane Campion’s marvellous ode to Keats is that rare thing – a biopic about a poet that does full justice to its subject” The Guardian
6.9 IMDB

★★★★★” Jane Campion’s subtle and measured film about Keats. Jane Campion’s film starring Ben Whishaw as the poet and Abbie Cornish as his lover Fanny Brawne is the best of her career. “The Guardian
★★★★“A thing of beauty in itself “The Telegraph

Tickets £4 Carers FREE
Supported by the Friends of Bishop’s Castle Community, Care Home and Hospital.
Accessible Cabaret seating/no steps/ hearing loop/ tea and biscuits £1/local Free Bus available
Free Dial–a-ride bus service from Bishops Castle and Lydbury North please phone 01588 638350All Tickets £4 Accompanying Carers FREE

FILM: The Outrun (15)
2025-01-30 19:00 - 21:00
★★★★ “Saoirse Ronan is mesmerising ” The Guardian
adaptation of the 2016 acclaimed memoir by Amy Liptrot
After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands where she grew up, hoping to heal.

★★★★★” a stunningly filmed and incredibly powerful look at how addiction can tear you apart from the inside, and the difficulties involved in overcoming it. It is also a deeply respectful and moving portrait of rediscovering home. Ronan is utterly astonishing in the best role of her career, throughout a film that more than lives up to her talent, and which puts Orkney on the map in a way few other films have done before. ” Outtake mag

6.9 IMDB
“Saoirse Ronan brings a quiet defiance to this elegant study of addiction” The BFI

WILLOW DAY -
2025-02-01 10:00 - 15:00 | SpArC Theatre
Pay what-you-can for activities on the day
With Bishop’s Castle Going Wild and SpArC Theatre
Drop-in day of willow-inspired activities:
10-3 – Willow Hearts– Make a willow Heart Decoration
10-3 – Bio Char– Make your own charcoal and draw with it !
10-3 – Bug Hotels and Bird feeder—Make & Take Home
10-3 – Chat to Clarion the Bear and his creator Bamber Hawes
10-2 – Lantern Making— make small willow frame lantern
11-1 – Willow Hurdle —Demo and Have –a-go

FILM:The Wild Robot (U)
2025-02-01 16:30 - 18:10 | SpArC Theatre
8.2 IMDB ‘Emotional Connection and Cinematic Craftsmanship’
After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island’s animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.

LIVE : The Castle Players Panto: The Wicked Witches of Oz
2025-02-14 19:00 - 2025-02-15 20:30 | SpArC Theatre
Friday 14th Feb 7pm

Saturday 15th Feb 2pm

Saturday 15th Feb 7pm

Castle Players’ award winning* pantomime “The Wicked Witches of Oz” will be hitting the SPARC theatre on 14th and 15th February 2025 in what can only be described as a “once in a lifetime performance”.
Watch in awe as the Wicked witches of Wales, ‘Oop North, Craven Arms and Stoke wreak havoc amongst the good folks of Oz, revel in the excitement of Drip’s multi-sausage and puzzle why anyone would eat ten thousand Brussel sprouts.

NTLIVE: The Importance of Being Earnest
2025-02-20 19:00 - 21:50 | SpArC Theatre
National Theatre Live 2025
The Importance of being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
directed by Max Webster
Screening

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.
While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy adopts a similar facade. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.
Max Webster (Life of Pi) directs this hilarious story of identity, impersonation and romance, filmed live from the National Theatre in London.

LIVE MUSIC: John Kirkpatrick -200 Years Of The Squeezebox
2025-02-22 19:30 - 21:30 | SpArC Theatre
John Kirkpatrick presents
TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF THE SQUEEZEBOX
John Kirkpatrick romps through two hundred years of popular tunes to showcase the range and versatility of these cheerful little instruments, with a programme that reaches way beyond his usual folk roots. You’ll hear themes from the classics, light music, well-loved songs, nostalgic signature tunes, dance music of all kinds, and the occasional lugubrious hymn by way of contrast. With a life-time’s experience of running up and down the push-pull scale of the Anglo Concertina, the Melodeon, and the Button Accordion, John keeps it bright and breezy in a selection that highlights the hits of the day, from the 1820s, when squeezeboxes first appeared, right up to the present day.
www.johnkirkpatrick.co.uk

Afternoon Film: Freud's Last Session (12A)
2025-02-25 14:00 - 15:50 | SpArC Theatre
6.1 IMDB
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud invites professor C.S. Lewis to debate the existence of God, Freud’s unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis’ unconventional relationship with his best friend’s mother.
“Director Matthew Brown indulges an intellectual fantasy… imagining a meeting between C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud at the dying neurologist’s London home”. Variety
“Anthony Hopkins is impeccable. The 86-year-old star is sublime as the father of psychoanalysis in this fictional story of an existential conversation between Freud and CS Lewis” The Times
‘Freud’s Last Session’ Review: Anthony Hopkins Slips Easily Into Sigmund’s Skin in Talky Two-Hander
Starring Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries

FILM: The Critic (15)
2025-02-27 19:00 - 20:40 | SpArC Theatre
” A deliciously waspish Ian McKellen ” The Guardian
6.0 IMDB

Deliciously dark and sharp-witted thriller set in 1930s London ‘theatreland’ featuring an all-star cast including Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Ben Barnes, Alfred Enoch, Romola Garai and Lesley Manville.
When the most feared and vicious theatre critic in town Jimmy Erskine (McKellen), finds himself suddenly in the crosshairs of the Daily Chronicle’s new owner David Brooke (Strong), he strikes a sinister Faustian pact with struggling actress Nina Land (Arterton) who is desperate to win his favour.

Starring Romola Garai, Alfred Enoch, Ben Barnes, Lesley Manville, Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong

Pool at 50 Fundraising Grand Finale
2025-03-07 18:30 - 20:00 | SpArC Theatre
Pool at 50 Fundraising Grand Finale
Presentation by our own Olympian Oliver Morgan.
Celebration and Thank, Music and Magic!
Silent Auction and Raffle .
Drinks and nibbles
Please book your free seat
More info to come.

Clun Valley Jazz
2025-03-08 20:00 - 2025-12-06 22:00 | SpArC Theatre
Clun Valley Jazz is taking a break all events have been cancelled-
For details VISIT WEBSITE CLICK HERE

FILM: Paddington in Peru (PG)
2025-03-09 14:00 - 15:45 | SpArC Theatre
NEW DATE

Paddington returns to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey.

★★★★”Non-stop fun with surprises aplenty. This time, it’s not the bear out of place, but the family, as Paddington travels back to his ancestral home. The Radio Times

FILM: Small Things like These (12A)
2025-03-13 19:00 - 20:40 | SpArC Theatre
7.2 IMDB

Oscar winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as devoted father Bill Furlong in this film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan.

1958 While working as a coal merchant to support his family, he discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent — and uncovers truths of his own — forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

★★★★”Cillian Murphy shines as quiet hero in powerful 80s Ireland morality tale. Claire Keegan’s acclaimed Magdalene laundries novella reaches the big screen in director Tim Mielant’s atmospheric adaptation.” The Guardian

Cillian Murphy, Ciarán Hinds, Helen Behan, Emily Watson, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley, Clare Dunne

LIVE COMEDY: GEORGE EGG- SET MENU: The Best of George Egg
2025-03-15 19:30 - 21:00 | SpArC Theatre
Comedy. With. Cooking.
George offers a unique performance experience combining a mixture of comedy, theatre, live cookery demonstration, and an educational and inspiring lecture (in the most fun and interesting sense!).
“I cook three genuinely tasty plates of food which the audience has the opportunity to try at the end if they like, but I do it all without kitchen appliances instead using power tools, irons, a laptop and other non-culinary equipment.
“It’s a multi-sensory experience involving the expected sight and sound but also smell and taste. It’s absurd, interesting and above all funny.”
“A culinary Bill Bailey with chopping boards
SET MENU The Best of George Egg Showreel 2024

Afternoon Film: Thelma (12A)
2025-03-18 14:00 - 15:40 | SpArC Theatre
7.1 IMDB

★★★★”June Squibb is a delight in sweet action-comedy. The Oscar nominee plays her first lead, at 94, in a tender and well-observed story of a grandmother refusing to accept the limitations of age. ” The Guardian

Thelma Post is a 93-year-old grandmother who loses $10,000 to a con artist on the phone. With help from a friend and his motorized scooter, she soon embarks on a treacherous journey across Los Angeles to reclaim what was taken from her.
Tickets £4 Carers FREE
Supported by the Friends of Bishop’s Castle Community, Care Home and Hospital.
Tickets £4 Carers FREE
Accessible Cabaret seating/no steps/ Subtitles/ hearing loop/ tea and biscuits £1
local Free Dial-a-ride Bus available: 01588 638350

The Royal Ballet: Romeo & Juliet
2025-03-23 14:00 - 17:30 | SpArC Theatre
Satellite Screening
The greatest love story ever told – through ballet all set to the incredible Prokofiev score
The Capulets and Montagues are sworn enemies. Yet it is love at first sight for Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet when they meet each other at the Capulet ball, into which Romeo has snuck. The two fall in love and they profess their devotion to each other at Juliet’s balcony. They secretly get married. The stakes are raised for the young couple when Romeo avenges the death of his friend Mercutio who has been killed by Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin. For this, Romeo is exiled from Verona. Meanwhile, Juliet’s parents are forcing her to marry another suitor. In order to be together, Romeo and Juliet must risk it all.
Running time 210 minutes, Two intervals
CHOREOGRAPHY Kenneth MacMillan
MUSIC Sergey Prokofiev
DESIGNER Nicholas Georgiadis
LIGHTING DESIGNER John B. Rea

NTLIVE: DR STRANGELOVE
2025-03-27 19:00 - 21:30 | SpArC Theatre
Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove.
This explosively funny satire, about a rogue U.S General who triggers a nuclear attack, is led by a world-renowned creative team including Emmy Award-winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award-winner Sean Foley.

ROB: Turandot ( Puccini)
2025-04-06 14:00 - 17:25 | SpArC Theatre
The Royal Opera TURANDOT [Revival]
ENCORE: Sunday 6 April 2025, 14:00 BST
Puccini’s captivating opera of a cold-hearted princess and her mysterious suitor. Featuring the ever-popular ‘Nessun dorma’, this opera of love and revenge is brought to life in a dazzling production.
The beautiful but icy Princess Turandot will only marry a man who can correctly answer three riddles. Those who fail are brutally beheaded. But when an unknown prince arrives, the balance of power in Turandot’s court is forever shaken, as the mysterious stranger does what no other has been able to.
Running time: 205 minutes, Two intervals
Sung in Italian with subtitles
Cast: PRINCESS TURANDOT Sondra Radvanovsky, CALAF SeokJong Baek, LIÙ Anna Princeva, TIMUR Adam Palka, PING Hansung Yoo, PANG Aled Hall, PONG Michael Gibson, EMPEROR ALTOUM Paul Hopwood, MANDARIN Ossian Huskinson
ORCHESTRA Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
CONCERT MASTER Sergey Levitin, CHORUS DIRECTOR William Spaulding
CHORUS Royal Opera Chorus
DIRECTOR Andrei Șerban, CONDUCTOR Rafael Payare
LIBRETTO Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni,
MUSIC Giacomo Puccini
DESIGNER Sally Jacobs, LIGHTING DESIGNER F. Mitchell Dana, CHOREOGRAPHER Kate Flatt, CHOREOLOGIST Tatiana Novaes Coelho

LIVE THEATRE: Stories in Dust
2025-04-16 15:00 - 16:00 | SpArC Theatre
‘Elegant, engaging eco-fable.’– The Reviews Hub –
‘What a captivating and heart warming production, every detail, every lyric, every word used was simply wonderful.’ Audience feedback
The sun beats down on two travellers, journeying across a mysterious land in a contraption they’ve built themselves. They sing, play games, and tell stories inspired by a collection of precious things they’ve gathered from a time gone by. With live music and puppetry, Stories in the Dust is a funny, heartfelt and hopeful eco-fable that takes you to another world. A world where an ancient book guides your way, a drop of rain changes everything and a mighty lion holds its secrets in an old clay pot. Will our intrepid explorers make it? They’re full of ideas and full of hope but dangerously low on baked beans.Stories in the Dust was originally created with support from MAST Mayflower Studios and shared at their Emergency Festival. It was developed thanks to public funding from National Lottery through Arts Council England in partnership with Pound Arts and Wiltshire Creative.The storyline and accompanying education pack were developed with support from Ian Williams, Professor of Applied Environmental Science at Southampton University.
Led by Wiltshire based performers and theatre makers Iona Johnson and Anna Harriott,
Stories in the Dust is a play made with and for young people with the climate emergency at its core.
Ideal for ages 5-12 but suitable for all the family.

The Tiger Who Came to Tea- Film & Spring Making Workshop
2025-04-24 10:30 - 12:30 | SpArC Theatre
Family Easter Holidays Film/ Workshop – watch the charming animation The Tiger Who Came To Tea followed by Spring animal crafts.
£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
10.40-11.10- Watch The Tiger Who Came To Tea on the big SpArC Cinema Screen
11.10-12.30 – Spring animal craft session
