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NT Live: Dear England (15)

a new play by James Grahamdirected by Rupert Goold Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of nation and game. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game? With the worst track […]

NT Live: Vanya (15)

adapted by Simon Stephens, after Anton Chekhovdirected by Sam Yatesdesigned by Rosanna Vize Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores […]

Mostly Comedy – December

Hitchin’s popular comedy club presents its final show of the year at the QUEEN MOTHER THEATRE. Join host JENNY COLLIER for a mixed bill of the best names in comedy. 21st December’s Hitchin line-up features: Stand-up from ARTHUR SMITH (Olivier Award Nominee. Featured on BBC’s ‘Grumpy Old Men’, ‘QI’, ‘Have I Got News For You’ and […]

Vagina Monologues

The Vagina Monologues has been heralded by The New York Times as one of the most important plays of the past 25 years. It’s a show that has rocked audiences all around the world – ground-breaking, poignant and hilarious all at once! Written in 1996 the play in an episodic one which explores consensual and […]

Cairo Conspiracy (12A)

Cairo Conspiracy (12A), Norway, Denmark, Finland, 2022 – Arabic with sub-titles A fisherman’s son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, dies and the young student becomes a pawn […]

Old Oak (15)

The Old Oak (15), UK, 2023 Local tensions arise in a small town following the arrival of Syrian refugees in this gritty UK drama in which anti-immigrant discrimination and scenes of threatening behaviour are balanced by criticism and challenge. A northern pub landlord confronts locals’ hostility towards Syrian immigrants in Ken Loach’s latest – and […]

Plan 75 (15)

Plan 75 (15), Japan, Philippines, 2022, Japanese with sub-titles PLAN 75 is a Japanese dystopian drama in which three individuals grapple with hard decisions about life and death in the wake of government legislation allowing senior citizens the right to assisted death. Japan’s submission for this year’s Oscars, is set in a near future in […]

Unlikely Pilgrimage

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (12A), UK, 2023 Harold is an ordinary man who has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day When Harold learns his friend Queenie is dying, he is moved to act. He leaves home, walking to the post box to […]

Blue Caftan (12)

The Blue Caftan (12), Morocco, 2022, sub-titles Writer-director Maryam Touzani’s follow-up to her acclaimed 2019 debut with The Blue Caftan – a rich, complex, slow-burn drama that screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes. Halim (Saleh Bakri) and Mina (Lubna Azabal) run a caftan shop in the historic Salé medina, producing exquisitely finished hand-sewn garments. […]

Fabelmans (12)

The Fabelmans (12), USA, 2022 Dedicated to the memory of his parents, this is a semi-autobiographical story about a young aspiring filmmaker. Steven Spielberg. Set in post-World War II Arizona, it sees Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle) fall in love with the movies after his parents, talented pianist Mitzi (an Oscar-tipped Michelle Williams) and successful computer […]