Seriously Playful — A Clowning and Improvisation Workshop Led by Marina Sossi About the Workshop: Seriously Playful is a clowning and improvisation process that returns us to a natural state of play, happiness and freedom. Through physical exploration and laughter, we challenge habitual and restrictive patterns — rediscovering the wonder of being alive and the […]
What are men for? Most heavy things can be lifted by machines and most problems can be solved by computers and most puddles can be crossed without us gallantly draping our capes over them – so are we fellas of any use at all? Award winning MAN Marcus Brigstocke thinks we might still serve some […]
Relationships can be fraught with pitfalls and misunderstandings – whether between friends, partners or relatives, or strangers negotiating matters of life and death. ‘Balancing Acts’ is a selection of short monologues and two-handers by Frome scriptwriters, all food for thought, simply staged and brought to life in script-in-hand performances by local actors.
Recently widowed Santosh takes on her husband’s job as a police officer and, working with a more experienced colleague, investigates the death of a local Dalit girl. This gritty film, exploring the murkier aspects of modern India, is the feature film debut from documentary maker Sandhya Suri. It was the UK’s entry for Best International […]
Blue Beard the Magician makes hearts flutter and pupils dilate. With a wink, a stroke and a flick – things just seem to vanish. Cards, coins, scarves… and women. Puff! Gone. Without a trace. He meets his match when his young bride discovers his dark and murderous secret. She summons all her rage, all her […]
The peasant girl Giselle has fallen in love with Albrecht. When she discovers that he is actually a nobleman promised to another, she kills herself in despair. Her spirit joins the Wilis: the vengeful ghosts of women hell-bent on killing any man who crosses their path in a dance to the death. Wracked with guilt, […]
POWER STATION is a bold, funny and heartwarming documentary about what happens when neighbours come together to take power – quite literally – into their own hands. Set in Walthamstow, the film follows artists Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn as they attempt to turn their street into a solar-powered energy station, kickstarting a grassroots energy revolution […]
ABK is the crumbliest comedian in the game: a multi-award-winning stand-up comic and (occasionally) an internet sensation. Come vagabonds, come mountebanks, come coney-catchers and cutpurses and meet the King of Crumbs! As seen on Mock the Week and 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Olivier and Tony Award®-winning hit production, directed by Stephen Daldry. For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II met with each of her 12 prime ministers in a private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as The Audience. […]
