OUR FIRST screening of the Oscar Wilde Live season is just round the corner.
On Tuesday, November 28 at 7.15pm we look forward to seeing lots of you at the Picture House for a night of theatre streamed live from the Vaudeville Theatre in London.
With the success of our Royal Opera House seasons in the past we thought this year we would treat you all to something a little different!
A Woman of No Importance (12a) sees an earnest young American woman, a louche English lord, and an innocent young chap, join a house party of fin de siècle fools and grotesques.
Nearby a woman lives, cradling a long-buried secret. Wilde’s marriage of glittering wit and Ibsenite drama creates a vivid new theatrical voice.
A Woman of No Importance is directed by Dominic Dromgoole and stars Olivier Award winner Eve Best (A Moon for the Misbegotten and Hedda Gabler), Eleanor Bron (Help!, Alfie), William Gaunt (King Lear, The Crucible) and Anne Reid (Last Tango in Halifax).
We still have plenty of tickets available for this, and to avoid disappointment advance tickets are still available from our website.
The next big kids’ film to hit the big screens is Sony Pictures Animation’s The Star (U) – with its release on November 24 this will really get you in the Christmas spirit!
A small but brave donkey named Bo yearns for a life beyond his daily grind at the village mill. One day he finds the courage to break free, and finally goes on the adventure of his dreams.
On his journey, he teams up with Ruth, a loveable sheep who has lost her flock and Dave, a dove with lofty aspirations.
Along with three wisecracking camels and some eccentric stable animals, Bo and his new friends follow the Star and become accidental heroes in the greatest story ever told - the first Christmas.
November has seen some brilliant films but it’s not over yet! With some great films released on the same weekend (November 24) here’s a few to keep an eye out for.
Wonder (PG) is based on the New York Times bestseller of the same name, which tells the incredibly inspiring and heart-warming story of August Pullman (Jacob Tremblay), a young boy born with a facial deformity who has been in and out of hospitals for years.
With the help of his mother, Isabel (Julia Roberts), and his father, Nate (Owen Wilson), he tries to fit in at a new elementary school, and to show everyone he is just an ordinary kid and that beauty is not just on the outside.
Suburbicon (15), with Matt Damon, Oscar Isaac and Julianne Moore, is set in a peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns.
It’s the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that.
But the tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town’s dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit and violence.
The year-long Oscar Wilde Live easily is being produced by Classic Spring at the Vaudeville Theatre.
A Woman of No Importance will be followed by a screening of Lady Windermere’s Fan, directed by Kathy Burke, on March 20 next year.
The final two productions in the season, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, are planned to broadcast later in 2018.
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