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Meryl Streep stars as
The Iron Lady
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power. Jim Broadbent plays DenisThatcher.
Tickets: Adults £6 Under-15s £4
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The 2011 Royal Command Performance Film
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Hugo
A live action film (not an animation !) set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
Tickets: Adults £6 Under-15s £4
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Meryl Streep stars as
The Iron Lady
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power. Jim Broadbent plays DenisThatcher.
Tickets: Adults £6 Under-15s £4
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An essential experience for anyone working in the field of
safeguarding children and young people
Mockingbird High
This original play is followed by an interval after which there
is a question and answer discussion.
Ticket price includes the play and the discussion session afterwards.
Further information can be obtained from:
Parents And Children Together
Wallingford Children's Centre
8a Castle Street Wallingford Oxon OX10 8DL
Tel 01491 835179 Fax: 01491 835179, Mobile : 07825621505
nikki.littleworth@pactcharity.org
Not suitable for young children
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Meryl Streep stars as
The Iron Lady
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power. Jim Broadbent plays DenisThatcher.
Tickets: Adults £6 Under-15s £4
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Directed by Stephen Spielberg
War Horse
Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
Tickets: Adults £6 Under-15s £4
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Another Earth
On the night of the discovery of a duplicate planet in the solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.
Contains moderate sex and one scene of bloody accident injury
Tickets: Adults £6 Under-15s £4
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Sunday 19 Feb 7.30pm
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Monday 20 Feb 7.30pm
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Starring James Howson & Kaya Scodelario
Wuthering Heights
This timeless story is told in breathtaking visual style. It is unlikely you will ever see Yorkshire's wild and windy moors so bleakly and beautifully captured.
Contains strong language, once very strong, racist terms & animal killings
Tickets: Adults £6
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Tuesday 21 Feb 7.30pm
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Wednesday 22 Feb 7.30pm
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Thursday 23 Feb 7.30pm
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The Lady
Michelle Yeoh & David Thewlis portray Aung Saan Suu Kyi and Michael Aris' whose enduring love story survived despite separation, distance and a hostile regime.
It is also the story of a woman's peaceful quest for democracy in Burma and her on-going championing of human rights in that country.
Tickets: Adults £6 Under-15s £4
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The Deep Blue Sea
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Contains one use of strong language and suicide theme
Tickets: Adults £6 Under-15s £4
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Dr Phil Hammond's Rude Health Show
Dr Phil Hammond, from Radio 4 and Private Eye, offers a consistently funny show that mixes wry political analysis of the NHS with saucy stuff "between the femurs and the coccyx". His stageside manner is thoughtful and witty, but a quiet exterior barely masks his deep anger about how a revered national institution has been reduced to targets and profits rather than decent patient care. He has anecdotes aplenty from his doctoring, and also some from his Australian relatives, who sound a blast. His Auntie Queenie's best sex advice was "Keep it in your trousers."
Tickets: £14
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The Deep Blue Sea
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Contains one use of strong language and suicide theme
Tickets: Adults £6 Under-15s £4
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Sunday 26 Feb 7.30pm
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Monday 27 Feb 7.30pm
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Tuesday 28 Feb 7.30pm
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Wednesday 29 Feb 7.30pm
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Thursday 1 Mar 7.30pm
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Starring Naomi Watts, Annie Hammer and with Dame Judi Dench
J Edgar
As the face of law enforcement in america for almost 50 years J Edgar Hoover
the FBI director waged war on homosexuals, black people and communists.
Now, a controversial film by Clint Eastwood is set to reveal some of the explosive truth about the man who was admired and feared, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
Tickets: Adults £6
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The Artist
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
This modern incarnation of a black& white (almost silent) film has knocked the critics for six !
Contains scene of mild threat
Tickets: Adults £6 Under-15s £4
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Sunday 4 Mar 7.30pm
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Monday 5 Mar 7.30pm
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Tuesday 6 Mar 7.30pm
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Wednesday 7 Mar 7.30pm
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Thursday 8 Mar 7.30pm
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Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's play God of Carnage
Carnage
Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly respectively play Penelope and Michael, a pair of bohemian Brooklynites whose 11-year-old son was attacked in the local park. Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz (sporting a passable American accent) are Nancy and Alan, the parents of the culprit, supposedly visiting to make the peace. But with the battle lines drawn across the coffee table (replete with vase of tulips and Oskar Kokoschka art book) we swiftly realise that there are to be no heroes in this war: no one to rally behind and urge on to victory.
The film barely puts a foot wrong. The acting comes at full throttle while the pacing cranks up the tension in agonising, incremental degrees. At one point this is all too much for Nancy, ..... it is an astonishing scene, an icebreaker like no other. And at the Venice screening, the viewers greeted it with a wild abandon, howling with delight and applauding like thunder, perhaps relieved that someone had cracked before they did themselves.
Contains strong language
Tickets: Adults £6
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For one night only
Coriolanus
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
Directed by Ralph Feinnes he reprises the role he played on the London Stage
in this contemporary take on the Bard's tale of waring factions.
Contains strong bloody violence
Tickets: Adults £6
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Monday 12 Mar 7.30pm
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Science Exchange presents
Doping in the Olympics
Tickets: No charge
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Wednesday 21 Mar 7.45pm
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Thursday 22 Mar 7.45pm
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Friday 23 Mar 7.45pm
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Saturday 24 Mar 7.45pm
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The Sinodun Players present Harold Pinter's
No Man's Land
No Man's Land is an immensely funny and entertaining play that has become a modern classic. Hirst and Spooner, two ageing poets, meet on Hampstead Heath and return home for an alcohol-fuelled night of witty interchanges. Spooner attempts to ingratiate himself into the household that Hirst shares with two menacing servants, Briggs and Foster, by offering to help revive Hirst's successful literary career in return for employment, but the outsider is defeated as Hirst is beyond help, living in a no-man's land somewhere between life and death 'which remains forever icy and silent'.
Tickets: £8 (first night) & £10
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Sunday 25 Mar 7.30pm
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Monday 26 Mar 7.30pm
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Tuesday 27 Mar 7.30pm
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The Descendants
A Comedy Drama in which a land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a boating accident.
Contains strong language
Tickets: Adults £6
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Wednesday 28 Mar 7.30pm
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Thursday 29 Mar 7.30pm
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A Dangerous Method
Keira Knightly gives a highly praised performance as Sabina Spielrein
a Russian diagnosed with hysteria who has a pivotal role in the birth of psychoanalysis.
Directed by David Cronenberg from a script by Christopher Hampton the film charts the development of psychoanalysis with Viggo Mortensen as Freud and Michael Fassbender as Jung
Contains strong sex
Tickets: Adults £6
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Friday 30 Mar 7.30pm
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Saturday 31 Mar 7.30pm
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Sunday 1 Apr 7.30pm
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Monday 2 Apr 7.30pm
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Tuesday 3 Apr 7.30pm
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Starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith and Tom Wilkinson
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
A group of British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.
Tickets: Adults £6 Under-15s £4
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The Diaries of Adam & Eve
Adapted from Mark Twain by Elton Townend Jones
Performed by Rebecca Vaughan (Austen's Women, I, Elizabeth) and Elton Townend Jones
Directed by Guy Masterson
Relationships: whose idea was that?
One of you wants to get things done, the other wants to chill out in the garden. One of you wants a minute's peace, the other wants to talk (and talk and talk). One of you likes things the way they are, the other wants a project. One of you knows that eating that apple is the wrong thing to do, but the other is going to eat it anyway.
Relationships shouldn't work, but somehow they do - so who did the groundwork?
In this witty and modern adaptation of Mark Twain's affectionate satire, Adam and Eve - the world's first couple - confront their many differences to find successful ways of living and loving together. What they learn about each other on the way will be familiar and funny to anyone who has ever experienced a close relationship.
Tempted?
Tickets: £10 Under 18s: £8
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Saturday 28 Apr 7.45pm
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Salena Jones in concert
In aid of the Kenya Children Homes
Over the last five decades, Salena Jones has been a central figure on the British jazz scene, where she also had her own London jazz club, and from her base here she has conquered the world. Salena has played everywhere, from Canada, throughout Europe, South Africa, South America, to the US and Asia, where she has appeared in Japan at least annually since 1978, and where she is a well loved artiste.
Salena's recording career has reflected her ability to both choose exciting repertoire and also to move beyond jazz boundaries. She has recorded collections of Porter, Lennon and McCartney and Carlos Jobim as well as Hollywood and Broadway musical numbers, making thirty-eight solo albums and twenty-two singles to date.
Salena has sung with Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, Sarah Vaughan, Maynard Ferguson, Mark Murphy, Kenny Burrell, Dudley Moore, Roy Budd, and Toots Thielemans, Tom Jones, Antonio Carlos Jobim, the BBC Big Band and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, amongst many well-known names.
With her charismatic stage presence and wide repertoire ranging from latin to the blues, and from classic standards to the best of contemporary songs.
Tickets: £35 (including Champagne reception)
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Wednesday 23 May 7.45pm
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Thursday 24 May 7.45pm
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Friday 25 May 7.45pm
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Saturday 26 May 7.45pm
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The Sinodun Players present
Billy Liar
Running from an unsympathetic working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancees and an insecure job at an undertakers, Billy Fisher escapes, Walter Mitty-like, into a world of fantasy where he can realise his dream ambitions. As work and family pressures build to new intolerable levels, Liz enters his drab life and offers Billy the one real chance he'll ever get to leave the past behind.
Billy Liar was written by Keith Waterhouse (from his novel) and Willis Hall. It was turned into one of the most memorable and universally acclaimed films of the 1960s, starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie. We hope that our production will also be universally acclaimed!
Directed by Marilyn Johnstone
Tickets: £8 (first night) & £10
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Monday 11 Jun 7.30pm
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Tuesday 12 Jun 7.30pm
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Wednesday 13 Jun 7.30pm
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Thursday 14 Jun 7.30pm
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Friday 15 Jun 7.30pm
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The 2012 Corn Exchange Drama Festival
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Saturday 16 Jun 10.00am
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The Merry Opera Company presents
La Traviata
Verdi's heart-rending story of passion, regret and enduring love.
In the cultural melting-pot of East London's galleries, clubs and cafés, burlesque artiste Violetta is the reigning queen, adored by everyone from barristers to baristas. But she's hiding a fearful secret. When she unexpectedly and unconditionally falls for young city trader Al, neither has any idea where it might lead - especially as Al harbours a secret, too...
Tickets: £15
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Tuesday 17 Jul 7.45pm
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Wednesday 18 Jul 7.45pm
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Thursday 19 Jul 7.45pm
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Friday 20 Jul 7.45pm
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Saturday 21 Jul 7.45pm
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The Sinodun Players present William Shakespeare's
As You Like It
As You Like It, Shakespeare's pastoral comedy, has been one of his most popular plays since the mid-eighteenth century. It contains two of his most memorable creations in Rosalind - surely everyone's favourite Shakespearean heroine? - and the 'melancholy Jaques'; and plenty of other rich characters to savour Then there is that great set-piece speech 'The Seven Ages of Man', perhaps, after 'To be or not to be', the best-known lines in all the canon.
The play has been compared to a pantomime. This is misleading on the whole - boisterousness is absent - but there are common elements Cross-dressing; good triumphing over evil in the happiest of endings; and frequent songs. 'Blow, blow thou winter wind/Thou at not so unkind/As man's ingratitude' .How very true. And here, Sinodun Players are fortunate indeed: the songs in this production are in the hands of legendary local musician and entertainer, Pete Orton.
We probably all dream of chucking everything up and going off to live the good life in our own 'Forest of Arden'. How this works out for the courtly exiles of 'As You Like It' and the 'country copulatives' they encounter is a great part of the charm of this most charming of comedies. Those who think Shakespeare is "not for them" should take a chance and join those of us who love him dearly for an evening to lift the spirit.
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Wednesday 12 Sep 7.45pm
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Thursday 13 Sep 7.45pm
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Friday 14 Sep 7.45pm
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Saturday 15 Sep 7.45pm
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The Sinodun Players present Tom Stoppard's translation of Gerald Sibleyras's
Heroes
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The Corn Exchange
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