Cinema
Clockwise (U)
Monday 29 April 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
Partially shot in and around Much Wenlock in 1986.
Brian Stimpson (John Cleese) is the headmaster of a comprehensive (high) school in England. He sets himself, his staff, and pupils very high standards. On the way to a conference at which he is to talk, all manner of disasters strike.
Starring John Cleese, Alison Steadman, Penelope Wilton
Tickets £5 (Concessions £4)
Driving Madeleine (15)
Thursday 2 May 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
Madeleine, 92 years old, calls a taxi to take her to the retirement home where she will be living. Charles, a disillusioned driver with a tender heart, agrees to drive by the places that affected Madeleine’s life. Through the streets of Paris, her extraordinary past is revealed. They don’t know it yet, but they will forge a friendship during this drive that will change their lives forever.
Starring Line Renaud, Dany Boon, Alice Isaaz
Tickets £5 (Concessions £4)
National Theatre Live: Nye (12a)
Thursday 9 May 2024
7.00pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
A new play by Tim Price
Directed by Rufus Norris
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state and created the NHS.
Confronted with death, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill.
Written by Tim Price and directed by Rufus Norris (Small Island), this epic new Welsh fantasia will be broadcast live from the National Theatre.
Tickets £10 (Concessions £8)
Living (12a)
Monday 13 May 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
An English-language adaptation of the script of “Ikiru” (1952), set in London in the 1950s. A veteran civil servant receives a medical diagnosis that inspires him to move to the south coast and cram some fun into his remaining days. He meets a sunny young female colleague who seems to have the pep that had previously escaped him.
Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp
Tickets £5 (Concessions £4)
Close (12)
Thursday 16 May 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
Thirteen-year-olds Léo and Rémi are inseparable; they spend every waking moment together, playing in the flower fields and sleeping at each other’s houses. However as they start a new school year, the pressures of early adolescence challenge their bond with unexpected and far-reaching consequences.
Starring Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Émilie Dequenne
Tickets £5 (Concessions £4)
Wonka (U)
Monday 20 May 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
Focusing on a young Willy Wonka, prior to the events of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today.
Starring Timothée Chalamet, Olivia Colman, Hugh Grant