SUMMERMay 2017 - September 2017

Welcome to our Summer Season Programme!

As you will probably have seen, our theatre seats have now been refurbished, and a big thank you to all those of you that sponsored one. By the time this is published we should also have redecorated the auditorium, and the new rehearsal studio and costume store backstage should be nearing completion.

And then we have the busiest programme of events ever for you this summer! We have no less than fifteen Ledbury Poetry Festival events, including two brilliant joint promotions with The Market Theatre - Duende and Chopping Chillies. The Poetry SLAM which the Theatre sponsors is also a must, as is Rob Gee’s brilliant Forget Me Not which we have seen and thoroughly recommend.

LADS has two comedies in the frame with the award winning The Last Bread Pudding and Breath of Spring. There is also a Market Theatre showcase in September called The Yelllow Box. And do not miss Ledbury Community Brass Band’s Last Night at the Proms! Add to this, eight satellite screenings and fourteen films and you have a huge variety of evenings out at The Market Theatre!

The Market Theatre - is situated in Market Street (off Bye Street). The Market Theatre, is a trading name of Ledbury Amateur Dramatic Society (LADS) who own and run the Theatre for the benefit of the community. It provides a dedicated venue for amateur and professional performing arts. It has 128 seats, foyer, bar, wheelchair access, disabled toilet and a hearing loop. The Theatre or Foyer may be hired by phoning 01531 633760.

Ledbury Film Club Showings - For just £10 you will be able to get in for half price to all The Market Theatre promoted films (about 20) from now until the end of the year. All you need to do is to either pay on line via the theatre’s website (www.themarkettheatre.com), or by sending a cheque (payable to “LADS”) to Ledbury Film Club, 2 Church House, Church Lane, Ledbury HR8 2DP. Of course if you do not want to join the Film Club, you can book in the normal way (see front cover) or buy tickets on the door (subject to availability).LADS Youth Theatre Company - We are afraid that membership is currently full.

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In their new show, storyteller Malcolm Green and musician Joshua Green follow the trail of the Cuckoo to explore the fascinating world of this extraordinary creature through stories, music and song. It’s shortly after dawn at RAF Fylingdales on the North York Moors and a male Cuckoo is having a tiny 4.5g radio transmitter strapped to his back. A few weeks later he will have flown thousands of miles south and 5km up over the Sahara Desert, sending signals back to England as he travels through Libya and Chad to the Congo. For thousands of years the Cuckoo has been part of folklore and its call present in songs, poems and stories. But now this bird is disappearing in England and we may soon stop hearing that iconic ‘cuck-coo’.

GONE CUCKOO LADS presents

THE LAST BREAD PUDDING

6th May 13th May

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Saturday 8pm // £11 (£7 Students) Saturday 8pm // Pay what you feel

Coming from their recent success as winners of the Hereford County Drama Festival at The Courtyard (and now through to the Regional Semi Finals!), LADS presents its award winning one-act comedy, The Last Bread Pudding; a hilariously melodramatic bird’s eye view on an AmDram committee’s decision on what their next play should be. The meeting soon goes off agenda and secrets are revealed! Written by Nick Warburton, the play showcases the talent of two of the Hereford County Drama Festival’s individual award winners – Toby Burchell who won Best Actor for his portrayal of Chairman Ken, and Best Director Ben Mowbray.

LADS will be supported by the Eardisley Little Theatre Youth Club’s self-devised Playback Time. The play focuses on innocence versus cruelty in tackling the issues of mental health. A strong and mature performance by this young and talented group was rewarded by their award for their ensemble work in the recent HCDF.

I shall do one thing in this life – one thing certain – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.

As three very different suitors compete for her heart, spirited, independent Bathsheba Everdene must choose between them. Will she choose to marry for passion, for obligation or for true love and companionship? Or will she value her independence and not marry at all?

Celebrating their tenth anniversary, their fifth visit to The Market Theatre, and following on from Emma, perfect theatre with seemingly no effort at all BBC Radio, Persuasion - pure theatre magic **** The Stage and David Copperfield – Brimming with wit and charm Remotegoat, Hardy’s romance is brought to life with live music and Hotbuckle’s trademark ensemble style.

Fri - Sat 7.30pm // £12 (£5 Students)

Hotbuckle Theatre Company presents

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

Friday 8pm // £12 (£8 Students)

Worcester Gilbert & Sullivan Society presents

THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS OF MUSIC HALL

19th-20th May 26th May

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Come and join the Worcester Gilbert & Sullivan Society for an entertaining and fun-filled evening in the traditional style of the music hall. An evening packed with well-loved songs, close harmony singing and comedy all under the watchful eye of our worthy chairman, a veritable virtuoso of vocabulary. Our special guest is the ever-popular and very talented Barry North. You will be transported back to Those Good Old Days of Music Hall, so, dress up (only if you want to), turn up and sing up. You'll be glad you did.

The remarkable story of Francis Albert Sinatra – from band singer to 1940s 'pop idol'; from his fall from popularity to swinging his way through the 1950s; recording his most famous songs and albums; and building his own record label Reprise.

Award winning singer Robert Habermann tells the Chairman of The Board’s ‘whole' story, and sings the great Sinatra classics : Come Fly With Me, Fly Me To The Moon, Witchcraft, You Make Me Feel So Young, Strangers In The Night, My Way, New York New York and many more.

When Dame Beatrice is given a mink shawl by her maid, the resident lodgers – a pension-minded brigadier, a vivid vocal coach, and a dithery chins restorer – band together with Dame “Bee” and her friend, to return the filched fur. That successful mission is quite an invigorating experience, prompting the eclectic group to form a Robin Hood like crime syndicate, which steals furs and gives the proceeds to charity. But when Scotland Yard gets wind of those high-minded thefts, things get even more interesting.

HIS WAY – the Frank Sinatra Show

Saturday 8pm // £12 (£8 Students)

LADS presents

BREATH OF SPRING

27th May 15th-17th June

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Thurs-Sat 8pm // £10 (£5 students)

Rural Media presents a screening and live performance of some bold and innovative micro-short spoken word films made by West Midlands based Spoken Word Artists for the Channel 4 Random Acts strand. The artists include 1990s Chris, Paul Stringer (Beatfreeks), Aliyah Hasinah, Sipho Dube, Dion Kitson and Tom Chimiak. The event and Q&A with artists will be hosted by Ben Norris (2013 UK All-Star Poetry Slam Champion).

FIRST ACTSSpoken word on film

Saturday 5 - 6pm // Free but ticketed

MOTOWN - BIG SING

24th June 1st July

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If you are new to Big Sing, here is a brief description of what your afternoon will involve.We will start with some fun vocal warm up exercises within groups, and then we teach a medley of songs from a West End Musical. With West End Performers as your Singing Coaches, the tuition is delivered in an enjoyable fun method. There are no Auditions, and you will not be required to sing on your own. We will work towards an end of Workshop presentation which your family and friends are welcome to attend at no extra charge.

(Do not miss the Rogers & Hammerstein Big Sing on Sat 2 September – see later in brochure)

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LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVALTo buy tickets see next page

12 noon to 6pm // £25 (group discounts available)

For tickets: 07908 853 914

or https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bigsinguk

Comic, poet and ex-psychiatric nurse Rob Gee presents a murder mystery set on an Alzheimer’s ward.

Jim’s wife, a patient on a dementia ward, has died from what appears to be natural causes. Jim is a retired police detective and he smells a rat. He’s determined to solve this one last murder. The problem is he also has dementia. Narrated partly by Jim, partly by a happy-go-lucky nurse and partly by the baffling Detective Inspector Rae, Forget Me Not charts the course of Jim’s investigation.

LEDBURY POETRY SLAM FORGET ME NOT – THE ALZHEIMER’S WHODUNNIT

Monday 7 - 8pm // £9

1st July 3rd July

Brace yourselves for a knockout night of performance poetry as worldly wordsmiths take the page onto the stage to compete for points that lead to prizes! It's a cut-and-thrust contest where do-or-die versifiers parade their poems in a bid to reach the hearts and hearing parts of the public. Random judges award points for style, content and warmth of the applaudience, so who will fire on all syllables into the final and become Ledbury’s Slam Luminary? Join heavenly hosts Elvis McGonagall and Sara-Jane Arbury for an energetic evening of good verbal vibrations and lend your support for those taking a stanza on stage. For further details or to enter the Slam, please contact Sara-Jane on 07814 830031 or email sjarbury@gmail.com

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Saturday 8pm -10.30pm // £9

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@ THE MARKET THEATREtickets available from Festival Box Office phone 01531 636232 or www.poetry-festival.co.uk from 18 May

@ THE MARKET THEATREtickets available from Festival Box Office phone 01531 636232 or www.poetry-festival.co.uk from 18 May

Written and performed by Inua Ellams

Littered with poems, stories and anecdotes, award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams will tell his ridiculous, fantastic, poignant immigrant story. Tales of escaping fundamentalist Islam in Nigeria, performing solo shows at the National Theatre, and drinking wine with the Queen of England, all the while without a country to belong to or a place to call home.

The haunting and exotic poetry of the most celebrated writers in the Spanish Language: Federico Garcia Lorca, Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Pablo Neruda. Their dramatic and sensual poetry, performed as songs and meticulously set to Keith's rich, daring and fiery classical guitar, in a way that embraces the very fabric of these beautiful words, both surreal and romantic, until every tear is shed, every picture caught. Keith James is well known for his ability to bring depth and vibrancy to his interpretations. This concert is sung both in English and Spanish and mostly features the Classical and Flamenco guitar. All the tears of time are shed in a few brief lines TLS; some of the most atmospheric and emotive music you will ever hear The Independent; Keith James has become a pillar of trust. A sublimely intimate and engaging voice Sunday Times A joint production between

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Tuesday 8 - 9.30pm // £9

Keith James presents DUENDEA unique and breath-taking concert of Spanish Poetry set

to music.

Wednesday 8.30 – 10.30pm // £11

Inua Ellams and Fuel present AN EVENING WITH AN IMMIGRANT

4th July 5th July

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@ THE MARKET THEATREtickets available from Festival Box Office phone 01531 636232 or www.poetry-festival.co.uk from 18 May

Written and Performed by Clair WhitefieldDirected by Oliver Award winning (Morecambe) Guy Masterson.

A big Fringe hit at Edinburgh 2016: From Kerala to Camden, a cobbler and a cook concoct a delicious transcontinental enchantment as tragedy and chance entwine. Katie dreams of curries and chapattis; Ajna, of holy souls and reincarnation... A delightful, poetic, magical yarn that conjoins the spirit of India with the heart of London

An extraordinary, humbling story of love, family, loss, grief, new beginnings and unexpected friendships. A delicious, appetising, spicy feast of a show! Edinburgh Guide, 2016

The imprint lasts long after the performance ends - Three Weeks, 2016

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Hear voices from around the world, distilled into poetry in this unique performance. Midland Creative Projects take the words of the world’s poets and present them on stage with live music to create a celebration of our lives in all their forms.

Drawing from every continent we are given stories that move and inspire – from Sweden to Chile and all points between. The drama of love, loss and re-birth mingle with the comedy of daily life, resulting in a captivating series of portraits presented through the words of some of the world’s best poets.

Directed by Steve Byrne from Interplay Theatre, Beyond The Water’s Edge uses poems published by Bloodaxe Books with music and original set design by Talking Birds.

Theatre Tours International presentsCHOPPING CHILLIES a mystical tale of love, loss & soul-food

Thursday 8.30-9.30pm // £9

Midland Creative Projects in association with the Belgrade

Theatre Coventry present

BEYOND THE WATER’S EDGE - poetry from our world

Friday 8.45-10.15pm // £9

6th July 7th July

@ THE MARKET THEATREtickets available from Festival Box Office phone 01531 636232 or www.poetry-festival.co.uk from 18 May

A work of translation by Kyra Pollitt featuring the British Sign Language poetry of Paul Scott and the vocal gestures of Victoria Punch, with supporting film-poetry by Helen Dewbery and Chaucer Cameron.

For Britain’s native sign language community, poetry is a linguistic, visual, kinesthetic and visceral experience. Form in sign language poetry is created through play with language, space, image and movement. For this work, Kyra analysed the image-rhyming in Paul’s poems to create a basic score onto which Victoria mapped a series of vocal gestures inspired by the Estill method.

Paul and Victoria will give a live performance of the piece. For those who don’t sign, access to the content of the poems is offered through film-poetry simultaneously superimposed onto Paul and Victoria’s live performance. We hope the piece will offer hearing audiences something of the rich, immersive, spine-tingling experience conjured by sign language poetry.

Saturday 12 noon – 1pm // £9

AIR POEMS IN THE KEY OF VOICE

The culmination of the Festival’s outreach project with young people from Close House and Shypp housing project in Hereford. In the first half, Jonny Fluffypunk will compere performances of the young people’s poetry, accompanied with film.

The second half is a showing of Two Kids Lost, a short action film recently nominated for the prestigious intofilm awards in March 2017. The film is a modern day re-telling of the Hansel and Gretel fairytale where two sisters find their home life with their dad and stepmother intolerable. Young people were involved in all stages of the film from coming up with the concept, writing the script, location scouting, acting, shooting and directing with mediaShypp. For this showing they have specially created live poetry and music to perform alongside. The film features poetry created with spoken word impresario Joelle Taylor in sessions provided by Ledbury Poetry Festival, and is jam-packed with visual and emotional impact enhanced by live performances.

Saturday 3-5pm // Free but ticketed

8th July 8th July

EPIC YOUTH / TWO KIDS LOST

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@ THE MARKET THEATREtickets available from Festival Box Office phone 01531 636232 or www.poetry-festival.co.uk from 18 May

MALIKA’S POETRY KITCHEN STABLEMATES

Sunday 2.30 - 3.30pm // £9

8th July 9th July

Jill Abram presents Stablemates, a poetry salon with Roger Robinson, Nick Makoha and Seni Seneviratne from Peepal Tree Press. Roger Robinson is a dub poet writing songs about common people and their plight. He co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen and King Midas Sound. Decibel chose him as one of 50 writers who have influenced the black-British writing canon over the past 50 years.

Nick Makoha is director of the Youth Poetry Network. He won the 2016 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize and the Brunel African Poetry Prize in 2015. He toured the UK with his solo show My Father & Other Superheroes.

Seni Seneviratne’s performances are a delicate mix of spoken word and folk/jazz song. She likes to change hearts as well as minds through the medium of poetry.Peepal Tree aims to bring you the very best of international writing from the Caribbean, its diasporas and the UK.

Malika’s Poetry Kitchen is a community of poets dedicated to developing their craft. Founded in 2001 and based in London, the collective's influence on the contemporary poetry and spoken word scene has reached far beyond the capital. This is a unique opportunity to hear the work of two Kitchen founders, Malika Booker and Jacob Sam La Rose, plus Jill Abram, Rishi Dastidar, Seraphima Kennedy and Peter Raynard.

Saturday 8 July 9-11pm // £9

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Versopolis is a platform that unites 13 European Festivals to promote and translate their most exciting new poets. Tiziano Fratus (Italy), Charlotte Van den Broeck (Belgium), Nikolina Andova (Macedonia), Veronika Dintinjana (Slovenia), Yekta (France) will share the stage with two of their UK counterparts, Kayo Chingonyi and Helen Mort. This event is now an established Festival highlight. Come and enjoy strong performers, writing vivid and original poetry that opens windows and transcends borders.

Sunday 4.15-5.30pm // £7

VERSOPOLIS: A Celebration of Emerging European Poets

The Enemies project, led by S.J. Fowler, has created over 200 events, in 18 countries, with over 500 poets. Enemies: Ledbury will premiere collaborations written by poets both attending and participating in the Festival. Expect original, dynamic new poetry, evidencing the open, inventive power of collaborative poetry in the 21st century.

Poetry lends itself to collaboration as language does conversation. The poet comes up against something other than themselves in the writing of every poem, and in the shaping of every fragment of language there is a response taking place. When the other in question is the equally avid mind of another poet then expect the extraordinary!

Sunday 6.15-7.15pm // £9

ENEMIES: LEDBURY Contemporary

Poetry in Collaboration

9th July 9th July

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A LADS Youth Theatre production

FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGEHand to Mouth Theatre Company presents

BILLY LIAR

Fri 7.30pm // £10 (£5 students)

14th - 15th July 21st July

Billy Fisher has got a bit of a problem – three girlfriends, two fiancées and only one engagement ring. And then the truth seems to be having an inconvenient way of getting in the way of fiction – Billy’s fiction.

Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall’s story of a young man who prefers to mask mundane reality with a web of hilarious fantasy provided a breakthrough role for Albert Finney and Tom Courtney. Now a talented and enthusiastic young amateur cast bring Hand to Mouth Theatre’s version of this modern comedy classic to the 21st century stage.

Ledbury Amateur Dramatic Society’s Youth Theatre Company performs three diverse short plays - bringing them from The Page to the Stage.

Our youngest members will be staging a musical play, Pirates versus Mermaids by Gaynor Boddy and Rebecca Kincaid. As well as pirates and mermaids you can also expect to see an assortment of mad professors, a crocodile and a crazy parrot.

Our middle group of performers will be presenting Ernie's Incredible Illucinations by Alan Ayckbourn. The play focuses on Ernie Fraser, a young boy with a vivid imagination whose thoughts have the disconcerting habit of turning into reality.

Our oldest members will be performing The Turnip Winter by Paul King. This is a documentary drama which tells the story of the effects of the British naval blockade of Germany during World War 1, the aim of which was to starve Germany into submission.

Fri - Sat 7.30pm // £5

After the success of The Wizard of Oz and The Addams Family, the BIG SING Youth Summer Project is back with the classic family favourite musical ANNIE, the extraordinary story of a little orphan who ends up in the lap of luxury with depression-era billionaire Oliver Warbucks. Unlike most of the other children at Miss Hannigan's orphanage, spunky Annie believes that her parents are still alive and will one day return to claim her. Warbucks agrees to help her find them and offers a whopping reward which attracts the attention of con artists Rooster, Lily and the wicked Miss Hannigan, who hatch a plot to kidnap Annie and take the $50,000 reward. But don't fret: this classic family musical, which includes such great numbers as Tomorrow and Hard Knock Life, has a happy ending for Annie, Daddy Warbucks and the whole gang.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Musical Theatre International (Europe)

Fri 7pm // £12 (Students £8)

ANNIE

If you are new to Big Sing, here is a brief description of what your afternoon will involve.We start the afternoon with some fun vocal warm up exercises within groups, and then we teach a medley of songs from a West End Musical. With West End Performers as your Singing Coaches, the tuition is delivered in an enjoyable fun method. There are no Auditions, and you will not be required to sing on your own. We will work towards an end of Workshop presentation which your family and friends are welcome to attend at no extra charge.

RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN -

BIG SING

11th -13th August 2nd September

Sat 2pm/7pm

Sun 2pm

12 noon to 6pm // £25 (group discounts available)

For tickets: 07908 853 914

or https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bigsinguk

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ALIVE AND BREL A Market Theatre Showcase Production

THE YELLOW BOX

.. a wicked trip through Eurocracy

Fri - Sat 7.30pm // £8 (£4 students)

9th September 15th -16th Sept

An original satire by Paul Costello. In a backstreet bar in the city of Aroma, following much strife on Planet Earth, six bigwigs consider how to achieve lasting peace in Eurocratica: their brainchild – a beast called the Eurocratic Club. The engine room of the Club is a basement office in Bristles, where an army of Greys dream up ideas and resolve vital matters such as the curve of a cucumber and whether you can eat your pet pony. Over many years, the ponderous beast spreads its hold through Eurocratica. But when the Angel of Mercy – Leader of Germolena and prospective Head of Planet Earth – starts pushing eastwards, the commitment of the Greys is tested. The Yellow Box is pure fiction. Any apparent likeness to, say, present-day Europe is entirely coincidental.

The Market Theatre Showcase programme provides an opportunity for new amateur writers, actors and directors to showcase their talents to the public at affordable prices.

The finest songs from the iconic master of the modern chanson, Jacques Brel, come to life when this trio of singers perform their cabaret revue, ‘Alive and Brel’. Brel’s songs, famed for their emotional power and ironic wit, have been recorded by international stars ranging from Frank Sinatra and Dusty Springfield to Marc Almond and David Bowie. ‘Alive and Brel’ will present such classics as If You Go Away/Ne Me Quitte Pas, Jacky and Amsterdam. The stories they tell have been likened to miniature films, laced with dark and passionate observations which paint a tableau of imperfect humanity. Brel’s songs are guaranteed to bring a smile to your lips or a tear to your eye.

‘A pleasant surprise package…very capable of depicting Brel’s catalogue. The blending of the three voices was particularly pleasing and gave the performance originality.’-- Stage Talk Magazine

Saturday 8pm // £12 (£8 Students)

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A double bill of one-act comedies written by Herefordshire based playwright, David Pollard.

Top Banana - the Boycie Brothers are down on their luck. After playing the circuit for years, the pubs and clubs just aren’t paying out what they used to… Cash-Strapped are the musical duo facing their last curtain call? Tommy is sick of Bernie always playing Top Banana – it just goes to show you, cracks form far quicker than built bridges!

Nobbo - the reliable and trusty steed of the pantomime world. Behind the joviality - could the front and back legs be dancing off in opposing directions? Meet Ben and Jerry: the men behind the mule. Their lasting partnership has seen Nobbo reach moderate stardom amongst children every festive season, but is all of this about to come crashing down? Follow the motivations and revelations to Ben and Jerry's reservations on ‘keeping up the act’. Feel the frustration and heartache of both men through this hilarious fly-on-the-wall comedy.

Fri 7.30pm // £10 (Students £8)

Our Star Theatre Company presents

NOBBO and TOP BANANA

This tribute to the last night of the world’s greatest music festival will feature all the traditional flag-waving tunes from the Albert Hall, as well as favourites from the brass band repertoire. An evening of music, singing and fun with opportunities for audience participation under the baton of Colin Herbert. Celebrate the best of British traditions with Ledbury’s very own band.

Saturday 7.30pm // £8 (£4 Students)

LEDBURY COMMUNITY BRASS BAND –

LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS

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Thursday 7pm £14 (over 60s & students £12)

Angus Jackson directs Shakespeare’s epic political tragedy, as the race to claim the empire spirals out of control. Caesar returns from war, all-conquering, but mutiny is rumbling through the corridors of power.

The Rome season in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre opens with the politics of spin and betrayal turning to violence. Following his sell-out productions of Tom Morton-Smith’s Oppenheimer (2014) and James Fenton’s adaptation of Don Quixote (2016), Season Director Angus Jackson steers the thrilling action.

ANTONY & CLEOPATRA LIVE FROM THE RSC

24th MayWednesday 7pm £15 (over 60s & students £12.50)

Following his critically acclaimed productions of Othello (2015) and Much Ado About Nothing (2012), Iqbal Khan directs Shakespeare’s tragedy of love and duty, picking up the story where Julius Caesar ends.Following Caesar’s assassination, Mark Antony has reached the heights of power. Now he has neglected his empire for a life of decadent seduction with his mistress, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Torn between love and duty, Antony’s military brilliance deserts him, and his passion leads the lovers to their tragic end.

JULIUS CAESAR RSC Encore

Jude Law stars, live from the Barbican Theatre in London.

Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a roadside restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Giuseppe and Giovanna.

Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Giovanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.

Thursday 7pm £15 (over 60s and students £12.50)

National Theatre Live

OBSESSION

4th May

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Daniel Radcliffe, Joshua McGuire and David Haig star in David Leveaux’s new production to mark the 50th anniversary of Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly funny situation comedy, from The Old Vic Theatre in London.Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre stage. As the young double act stumble their way in and out of the action of Shakespeare’s iconic drama, they become increasingly out of their depth as their version of the story unfolds.

3rd June

National Theatre Live - encore

ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

Saturday 7pm £14 (over 60s and students £12)

24th JuneSaturday 7pm £14 (over 60s & students £12)

National Theatre Live – encore

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF

Sonia Friedman Productions present Imelda Staunton (Gypsy, Vera Drake), Conleth Hill (Game Of Thrones, The Producers), Luke Treadaway (A Street Cat Named Bob, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and Imogen Poots (A Long Way Down, Jane Eyre) in James Macdonald’s critically acclaimed, Edward Albee’s landmark play from the Harold Pinter Theatre, London. Imelda Staunton is at her magnificent best. A first-rate revival of an astonishing play. The Guardian Conleth Hill is superb. Exquisite. Evening Standard

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National Theatre Live – encore

SALOMÉ

World-famous tenor Jonas Kaufmann makes his role debut as Otello in Verdi's passionate retelling of Shakespeare's great tragedy of jealousy, deception and murder. Soprano Maria Agresta will be his Desdemona and baritone Ludovic Tézier his nemesis Iago in a new production by Olivier Award-winning director Keith Warner

LIVE SCREENINGS

28th JuneWed 7.15pm £15 (over 60s & students £12.50)

20th JulyThursday 7pm £14 (over 60s & students £12)

The story has been told before, but never like this. An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious dance will change the course of the world.This charged retelling turns the infamous biblical tale on its head, placing the girl we call Salomé at the centre of a revolution.Internationally acclaimed theatre director Yaël Farber draws on multiple accounts to create her urgent, hypnotic production on the stage of the National Theatre.

Live Screening from The Royal Opera House

OTELLO

Blanche McIntyre returns to direct Shakespeare’s brutal revenge tragedy. The decay of Rome reaches violent depths in Shakespeare’s most bloody play. Titus is a ruler exhausted by war and loss, who relinquishes power but leaves Rome in disorder. Rape, cannibalism and severed body parts fill the moral void at the heart of this corrupt society.Shakespeare’s gory revenge tragedy presents us with murder as entertainment, and, as the body count piles up, poses questions about the nature of sexuality, family, class and society.

23rd August

Encore Screening from the Royal Shakespeare Company

TITUS ANDRONICUS

Wednesday 7pm £14 (over 60s and students £12)

31st AugustThursday 7pm £15 (over 60s & students £12.50)

National Theatre Live

YERMA

Billie Piper returns as the young woman driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child, in Simon Stone’s radical production set in contemporary London of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece. The theatrical phenomenon sold out at the Young Vic: Critics call it an extraordinary theatrical triumph (The Times) and stunning, searing, unmissable (Mail on Sunday). Billie Piper’s lead performance is described as spellbinding (The Evening Standard) and astonishing (iNews).

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25th MayThurs 8pm // 112mins // (2016//15//US)

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

Rachel, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasising about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day – until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds. The Girl on the Train is a darkly addictive thriller based on the interna-tional publishing phenomenon.

VICTORIA

12th MayFriday 8pm // 140mins // (2015//15//Ger/SUBS)

A movie shot in a single take about Victoria, a runaway party girl, who is asked by three friendly men to join them as they hit the town. Their wild night of partying turns into a bank robbery. The single-take production is undeniably impressive, but it's also an effective drama in its own right – and one that juggles its tonal shifts as deftly as its technical complexities.

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JOIN THE NEW LEDBURY FILM

Send a cheque for £10 (payable to LADS) with your name, address and email address (if you have one) to Ledbury Film Club, 2 Church House, Church Lane, Ledbury HR8 1DP

NB: does not include live screenings and encores

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the rest of the year and get half price admission to all the Theatre promoted films (about 20)

Bookable Seats // Surround Sound // Large Screen

All Films £6Students / Film Club Members £3

5th May

A fact-based feel-good tale inspires this moving and life-affirming true story of the unlikely friendship between a young homeless busker, James Bowen, and the stray ginger cat named Bob who changed his life. An unapologetically heartwarming movie that should move all but the most cynical of viewers.

2nd JuneFriday 8pm // 102mins // (2016//12A//Fr/Ger/SUBS)

30th June

Friday 8pm // 133mins // (2016//12A//UK/US)

THINGS TO COME SALAAM BOMBAY!

Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie's husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.

Fri 8pm // 112mins // (1988//UK/15//Ind/Fr//SUBS) Krishna can only return home when he has earned enough to pay for his brother’s bike that he had trashed, but ends up in the Bombay’s (Mumbai’s) red-light district, hustling and stealing. Shot entirely on location with its child actors recruited from the streets, this beautifully filmed, gritty, unsentimental but surprisingly cheerful portrait of street life is full of incident and colourful characters. Part of Flicks in the Sticks World Cinema Season. Free Indian snacks will be served before the film.

We return to Harry Potter’s world long before he was born, to witness the adventures of Newt Scamander, the future author of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them. Seventy years before Newt’s book became required reading at Hogwarts, he travels to a land that even wizards find bizarre: America. Things quickly go wrong when the magical creatures he has brought with him escape, forcing him to race across New York in the hope of recovering them.

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM STREET CAT NAMED BOB

10th MayWed 10.30am // 103mins // (2016//12A//UK)

or phone 07967 517125Choose your seats on-line

8th SeptemberFriday 8pm // 137mins // (2016//15//US)

Sun 3pm // 118mins // (2016//15//US)

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

Oscar-nominee Casey Affleck stars as Lee, a man whose sparse existence is suddenly ruptured when the death of his brother Joe forces him to return to the hometown he abandoned years before. Rocked by contact with his estranged ex-wife and the revelation that Joe has made him guardian of his teenage son, Lee is forced to face up to painful memories and new-found levels of responsibility as he reconnects with his family.

Mon 8.30pm // 107mins // (2016//15//Chile//subs)

Neruda is an inventive as well as playful film about the great Chilean poet and senator during his years of flight and exile in the 1940s. Beautifully filmed, Neruda transcends the traditional biopic structure interweaving fiction with a surreal form of truth. Director Pablo Larraín.The Film will be preceded by 10 minute introduction by Adam Feinstein, who wrote the biography of Neruda.Poetry Festival Film – Tickets from Festival. Film Club membership does not apply

2nd July 3rd July

Adam Driver gives a beautiful performance as Paterson, a bus driver and aspiring poet who lives in Paterson, New Jersey, the town which inspired the epic of the same name by American poet Williams Carlos William. Quiet, thoughtful and deeply human, this is one of Jarmusch’s finest works. Empire. Director and screenplay: Jim JarmuschPoetry Festival Film – Tickets from Festival. Film Club membership does not apply

MOONLIGHT

25th AugustFri 8pm // 111mins // (2016//15//US)

2017 Oscar winner for Best Picture. A vital portrait of personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, friendship, and love, MOONLIGHT is a ground breaking piece of cinema that reverberates with deep compassion and universal truths. Anchored by extraordinary performances from a tremendous ensemble cast, Barry Jenkins's staggering, singular vision is profoundly moving in its portrayal of the moments, people, and unknowable forces that shape our lives and make us who we are.

PATERSON NERUDA

All Films £6Students / Film Club Members £3

12th July

Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Damien Chazelle, La La Land tells the story of Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, and Sebastian [Ryan Gosling], a dedicated jazz musician, who are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes and breaking hearts. Set in modern day Los Angeles, this original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing your dreams.

13th SeptemberWed 10.30am // 121mins // (2006//12A//US)

29th September

Wed 10.30am // 132min // (2016//12A//UK/NZ/US)

LA LA LAND BLOW-UP

Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Damien Chazelle, La La Land tells the story of Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, and Sebastian [Ryan Gosling], a dedicated jazz musician, who are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes and breaking hearts. Set in modern day Los Angeles, this original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing your dreams.

Fri 8pm // 111mins // (1966//15/UK/It/US)

Michelangelo Antonioni's, some would say flawed, cult masterpiece. A successful London mod photographer (David Hemmings), whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. Then he meets a mysterious beauty (Vanessa Redgrave), and also notices something frightfully suspicious on one of his photographs of her taken in a park. The fact that he may have photographed a murder does not occur to him until he blows up his negatives.

Tom takes a job as lighthouse keeper on a remote island off the Australian coast. He becomes captivated by Isabel, a girl from the mainland; and they are soon married and living on the island. Their happiness is only marred by their inability to start a family, so when a boat with a dead man and infant girl washes ashore, Isabel believes their prayers have been answered. Tom is torn between reporting the lost child and pleasing the woman he loves, leading to devastating consequences.

THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS LA LA LAND

28th JulyFri 8pm // 121mins // (2006//12A//US)

or phone 07967 517125Choose your seats on-line

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Thursday 4th // 7pm // Julius CaesarJu

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Saturday 6th // 8pm // Gone Cuckoo

Saturday 13th // 8pm // The Last Bread Pudding

Wednesday 10th // 10:30am // A Street Cat named Bob

Thursday 11th // 7pm // Obsession

Saturday 3rd // 7pm // Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Friday 2nd // 8pm // Things to Come

Thu - Sat 15th - 17th // 8pm // Breath Of Spring

Saturday 24th // 7pm // Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

July

Friday 30th // 8pm // Salaam Bombay!

Thursday 6th//8.30pm//Chopping Chillies

Saturday 1st //8pm // Ledbury Poetry Slam

Saturday 1st // Ledbury Poetry Festival starts and includes:

Fri - Sat 19th - 20th // 7:30pm // Those Good Old Days Of Music Hall

Wednesday 24th // 7pm // Antony and Cleopatra

Thursday 25th // 8pm // The Girl on the Train

Friday 26th // 8pm // Far From The Madding Crowd

Saturday 27th // 8pm // His Way - The Frank Sinatra Show

Wednesday 28th // 7:15pm // Otello

LIVE SHOWS LIVE SCREENINGS FILMS

Saturday 24th // 12 noon to 6pm // Motown - Big Sing

Wednesday 12th // 10:30 // The Light between Oceans

Friday 28th // 8pm // La La Land

Fri - Sat 14th - 15th // 7:30pm // From the Page to the Stage

Friday 21st // 7:30pm // Billy Liar

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Thursday 31st // 7pm // Yerma

Fri - Sun 11th - 13th // 2pm and 7pm // Annie

Friday 25th // 8pm // Moonlight

Wednesday 23rd // 7pm // Titus Andronicus

Fri - Sat 15th - 16th // 7:30pm // The Yellow Box - a wicked trip through Eurocracy

Wednesday 13th // 10:30am // La La Land

Saturday 2nd // 12 noon to 6pm // Rodgers and Hammerstein - Big Sing

Saturday 9th // 8pm // Alive And Brel

Friday 8th // 8pm // Manchester by the Sea

Friday 22nd // 7:30pm // Nobbo and Top Banana

Friday 29th // 8pm // Blow-Up

Saturday 23rd // 7:30pm // Ledbury Brass Band - Last Night Of The Proms

Wednesday 5th//8.30pm Keith James presents Duende

Friday 12th // 8pm // Victoria