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Cinema listings for June & July at The Dukes Cinema Lancaster. www.dukes-lancaster.org
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Index New Releases 3-9
Special Events 10
DukesDocs 10-11
Orson Welles 12
Theatre on Screen 13
Opera on Screen 14
How to Get Here 15
Calendar 16
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Welcome to The Dukes June and July Cinema Guide
MOVIE MORNINGS
11am screenings with free tea or coffee and a pastry included with your ticket. The screenings in this brochure are Woman in Gold (Thursday 11 June), Queen and Country (Wednesday 1 July) and Mr. Holmes (Thursday 16 July) After the Movie Morning screening why not stay in the cafe-bar and get 10% off selected items with your ticket? Look out for the logo throughout the guide for more information on the films.
Mr. Holmes
2
Monday 1 to Thursday 4 June, Monday 13 & Tuesday 14 July
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (12A)
Dir: Thomas Vinterberg
2015 UK 120mins
With: Carey Mulligan, Matthias
Schoenaerts
A sweeping adaptation of Thomas
Hardy’s classic Victorian novel. Carey
Mulligan stars as the headstrong
Bathsheba Everdene who runs the
family farm left to her by her uncle. She
comes to the attention of three very
different suitors: Gabriel Oak a sheep
farmer captivated by her wilful spirit;
Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless
sergeant; and William Boldwood, a
prosperous and mature bachelor.
Monday 1 June 8.30pm
A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE (12A) (En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron) Dir: Roy Andersson
2015 Sweden 100mins Subtitles
With: Holger Andersson
A pitch black comedy comprised
of 37 absurdist and surreal shorts.
Pigeon is structured around two
hapless novelty toy salesmen who
wander around town trying to sell
their inventory of vampire fangs and
rubber masks. Elsewhere, Sweden’s
Charles XII appears in modern times to
carry on a series of disastrous wars.
Tuesday 2 June & Wednesday 3 June
THE FALLING (15) Dir: Carol Morley
2015 UK 102mins
With: Maisie Williams, Maxine Peake
Reminiscent of Peter Weir’s haunting
classic The Picnic at Hanging Rock,
The Falling follows two best friends at
an all-girls school in 1969. Lydia, the
neglected daughter of an agoraphobic,
becomes fixated on her close friend
Abbie. When the friendship comes to
an end though, Lydia suffers from a
fainting spell which quickly spreads
amongst the school’s pupils.
“Morley has come up with another
brilliant and very distinctive feature”
- The Guardian
New Releases Another Chance to Catch
Thursday 4 June 6pm
WILD (15) Dir: Jean-Marc Vallée
2015 USA 115mins
With: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern
Cheryl Strayed sets out alone on a 1100 mile
hike along America’s Pacific Crest Trail.
Monday 15 & Tuesday 16 June
STILL ALICE (12A) Dir: Richard Glatzer
& Wash Westmoreland
2015 USA 100mins
With: Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore delivers an Oscar-winning
performance as a successful university
professor diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
Tuesday 7 & Wednesday 8 July
THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Dir: John Madden
2015 UK 122mins
With: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy
The sequel to the much-loved 2011 hit.
3
Friday 5, Monday 8 & Wednesday 10 June
GIRLHOOD (15) (Bande de filles)
Dir: Céline Sciamma
2015 France 113mins Subtitles
With: Karidja Touré
A powerful coming of age drama
following 16-year old Marieme who
lives in the high rise suburbs of Paris.
Marieme is a frustrated teenage
girl bent on exploring her identity
and the world around her. Tired of
an oppressive home life, her lack of
prospects and the male-dominated
neighbourhood, Marieme quits school
and reinvents herself by joining a gang
of three free-spirited girls.
Monday 8 & Thursday 11 June
PHOENIX (12A) Dir: Christian Petzold
2015 Germany 98mins Subtitles
With: Nina Hoss
The director and star of the critically
acclaimed Barbara reunite for this noir
thriller set in post-war Berlin. Former
singer Nelly manages to survive the
concentration camps but she is left
with traumatic injuries which require
facial reconstruction surgery. Barely
recognisable she searches through a
ravaged post-war Berlin, looking for the
husband who may have informed on her
to the Nazis, with hopes to rebuild her
shattered life. But when she does find
him, will he even recognise her?
Tuesday 9 June (With satellite Q&A) Friday 3, Saturday 4 & Thursday 9 July
LONDON ROAD (15)
The National Theatre release their first
film with an adaptation of the acclaimed
musical London Road. The film
documents the events that shook Suffolk
in 2006, when the quiet rural town of
Ipswich was shattered by the discovery
of the bodies of five women.
The Tuesday 9 June screening will
be followed by a live premiere event
broadcast live by satellite from London
featuring an exclusive Q&A with the key
cast and crew.
Tickets:
£8 (Full) £7 (Concs) £5 (Friends)
Wednesday 10 & Thursday 11 June
WOMAN IN GOLD (12A)
Dir: Simon Curtis
2015 UK USA 109mins
With: Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren stars in this remarkable
true story about one woman’s
journey to reclaim her family
possessions which were seized by
the Nazis. Sixty years after she fled
Vienna during World War II, Maria
Altmann begins her attempt to
retrieve the objects lost during the
War, among them paintings by Klimt.
Together with her inexperienced
lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she
embarks upon a major battle which
forces her to confront difficult truths
about the past along the way.
New Releases
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Friday 12, Saturday 13, Monday 15 & Wednesday 17 June
A ROYAL NIGHT OUT (12A)
Dir: Julian Jarrold
2015 UK 97mins
With: Sarah Gadon, Bel Powley
A carefree fictionalised account of
the little-known true story of Queen
Elizabeth and Princess Margaret being
allowed out of the palace on VE Day
to celebrate victory with the country.
Serious and dependable Elizabeth and
fun-loving Margaret are delighted by
the opportunity and quickly find a way
to ditch their chaperones to experience
London’s nightlife uninterrupted.
Friday 12 & Thursday 18 June
ROSEWATER (15) Dir: Jon Stewart
2015 USA 103mins
With: Gael García Bernal
US comedian and The Daily Show
host Jon Stewart makes his directorial
debut telling the Kafka-esque true
story of journalist Maziar Bahari’s
imprisonment in Iran. Iranian born
journalist Bahari returns home to
cover the 2009 general elections. But
when anti- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
protests begin Bahari extends his
stay, leading to his imprisonment. For
the next 118 days he is tortured and
interrogated, facing unanswerable
questions.
Saturday 13 & Tuesday 16 June
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (15) Dir: Oliver Assayas
2015 France 124mins Subtitles
With: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart
Along with her younger personal
assistant, respected actor Maria Enders
reluctantly agrees to revisit the play
which made her name at the age of
18. Now she is being asked to step
into an older, more embittered role.
In her former role she faces a young
Hollywood starlet with a penchant
for scandal and Maria finds herself on
the other side of the mirror, face to
face with an ambiguously charming
woman who is, in essence, an unsettling
reflection of herself.
Friday 19, Saturday 20 & Monday 22 June
THE NEW GIRLFRIEND (15) (Une nouvelle amie)
Dir: François Ozon
2015 France 108mins Subtitles
With: Romain Duris
Potiche filmmaker François Ozon
returns with another elegant but edgy
melodrama. Laura and Claire have been
best friends since childhood. When
Laura becomes terminally ill, Claire
assures her dying friend that she will
always look after her baby daughter and
husband David. But when she discovers
that David in his grief has been dressing
up in Laura’s clothes at home, Claire is
left appalled. Reluctantly though she
agrees to help him explore a new life.
New Releases
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Monday 22, Tuesday 23 & Wednesday 24 June
TIMBUKTU (12A) Dir: Abderrahmane Sissako
2015 France Mauritania 97mins
Subtitles
With: Ibrahim Ahmed dit Pin
A moving Oscar-nominated drama
exploring life in the titular town after
jihadists took control of Northern Mali in
2012. The film weaves together several
stories of the town’s inhabitants as each
day the new regime introduce new rules
determined to control their faith with
music, laughter, cigarettes and even
football being banned.
“Full of life, irony, poetry and bitter
unfairness. It demands respect, but it
also earns it”
AAAA- The Daily Telegraph
Tuesday 23 & Wednesday 24 June
THE TRIBE (18) (Plemya)
Dir: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
2015 Ukraine 132mins
With: Grigoriy Fesenko
Featuring a cast of young deaf
actors, The Tribe is set in a boarding
school for the deaf, where new arrival
Sergey is quickly drawn into a brutal
world of institutionalised theft and
prostitution. But, assigned to Anna
as her pimp, he falls in love with her;
a grievous mistake in a world with
exceptionally unforgiving rules. With
no dialogue and no subtitles, The
Tribe is an audacious, bruising and
fiercely original piece of cinema.
Friday 26 June to Thursday 2 July
QUEEN AND COUNTRY (12A) Dir: John Boorman
2015 UK 114mins
With: Caleb Landry Jones, Pat Shortt
The long-awaited follow up to 1987
wartime drama Hope and Glory.
Beginning in the 1950s, Queen and
Country follows young Bill as he
begins basic army training. As the
Korean War begins Bill is joined by a
trouble-making army mate, Percy. They
never get near Korea, but engage in a
constant battle of wits with his Catch-
22-worthy, Sergeant Major.
Friday 26 & Monday 29 June
A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (15) Dir: Ana Lily Amirpour
2015 USA Iran 101mins Subtitles
With: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City,
a place that reeks of death and
loneliness, the townspeople are
unaware they are being stalked
by a lonesome vampire.
“By turns funny, vaguely creepy and
too cool for school, A Girl Walks Home
Alone At Night is certainly unusual — but
also seductive and strange enough to
stick in the memory like a fever dream.”
AAAA - Empire
New Releases
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Saturday 27 & Tuesday 30 June
MOOMINS ON THE RIVIERA (U)
Dir: Xavier Picard & Hanna Hemilä
2015 Finland 80mins
A big screen adventure based on
the iconic creations of Tove Jansson.
Moomins On The Riviera, features the
entire Moomin clan as they embark
on a glamorous trip to the Riviera.
After a journey fraught with menacing
storms and desert island dangers,
Snorkmaiden is dazzled by the
attentions of a playboy and Moomin
learns that jealousy’s sting is the most
painful of all.
Friday 3 to Monday 6 & Thursday 9 July
THE CONNECTION (15) Dir: Cédric Jimenez
2015 France 135mins Subtitles
With: Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche
An all-star French cast heads this
stylish crime thriller which acts as
the flipside to William Friedkin’s The
French Connection. The film tells the
story of real-life Marseilles magistrate
Pierre Michel and his relentless
crusade to dismantle the most
notorious drug smuggling operation
in French history. In his crosshairs
is charismatic and wealthy kingpin,
Gatean “Tany” Zampa who runs the
largest underground heroin trade into
the United States.
Tuesday 7 & Wednesday 8 July
DANNY COLLINS (15)
Dir: Dan Fogelman
2015 USA 106mins
With: Al Pacino, Annette Benning
An in-form Al Pacino stars as aging
1970s rocker Danny Collins who can’t
give up his hard-living ways. But when
his manager uncovers a 40 year-old
undelivered letter written to him by
John Lennon, he decides to change
course and embarks on a heartfelt
journey to rediscover his family and
a lost love.
Friday 10 to Thursday 16, Friday 24 to Wednesday 29 July (not including Sunday 26)
MR. HOLMES (Cert TBC)
Dir: Bill Condon
2015 UK 103mins
With: Ian McKellan, Laura Linney
A twist on the world’s most famous
detective starring Ian McKellan as
Holmes in his 90s. It is 1947 and an
ageing Sherlock Holmes returns home
from a journey to Japan where he has
witnessed the devastation of nuclear
warfare. Now, in his remote seaside
farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of
his days tending to his bees. Grappling
with the diminishing powers of his mind,
Holmes returns to the circumstances of
the unsolved case that forced him into
retirement, while he still can.
New Releases
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Wednesday 15 July 8.30pm
LISTEN UP PHILIP (15) Dir: Alex Ross Perry
2015 USA 109mins
With: Jason Schwartzman,
Elisabeth Moss
A caustic comedy, with shades of
Woody Allen and Wes Anderson, which
stars Jason Schwartzman as an author
struggling to follow his acclaimed
debut novel. Author Philip Friedman is
a quarrelsome, angry man incapable of
holding down a relationship. Tiring of
New York he finds the perfect excuse
to leave both the city and his current
girlfriend when his hero invites him to
his country retreat. But even with the
change of scenery, Philip fails to find
contentment.
Friday 10 & Saturday 11 July
SPY (15)
Dir: Paul Feig
2015 USA 120mins
With: Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne
Susan Cooper is an unassuming,
deskbound CIA analyst, and the
unsung hero behind the Agency’s
most dangerous missions. But when
her partner falls off the grid and
another top agent is compromised,
she volunteers to go deep undercover
to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms
dealer, and prevent a global disaster.
“Smart, endearing and hilarious”
AAAA - The Guardian
Friday 17 to Thursday 23 July (Not Including Sunday 19)
SLOW WEST (15) Dir: John Maclean
2015 UK New Zealand 85mins
With: Michael Fassbender,
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Jay is a naïve young Scotsman who
travels to 1800s America in search of
his sweetheart. After a scrape with
some soldiers, he is offered protection
across the dangerous terrain by
mysterious bounty Hunter Silas. But
Jay’s new companion has secret
intentions. Reminiscent of The Coen
Brothers remake of True Grit and Jim
Jarmusch’s Dead Man, Slow West is
a beautifully shot Western with a wry
sense of humour.
Monday 20 & Thursday 23 July
WEST (15) Dir: Christian Schwochow
2015 Germany 102mins Subtitles
With: Jördis Triebel
East Germany. Summer, late 70s.
Three years after her boyfriend
Wassilij’s apparent death, Nelly Senff
decides to escape from behind the
Berlin Wall with her son Alexej. Stuck
in a West Berlin Emergency Refugee
Centre, Nelly quickly discovers her
attempts to leave behind the past will
not be so easy. Especially when Allied
Secret Service begin questioning
her about Wassilij’s mysterious
disappearance.
New Releases
8
Friday 24 & Saturday 25 July
JURASSIC WORLD (Cert-TBC)
Dir: Colin Trevorrow
2015 USA 130mins
With: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard
Twenty-two years after the events of
Jurassic Park, the island has now been
brought under control and features a
fully functioning dinosaur theme park,
Jurassic World, as originally envisioned
by John Hammond. After a decade
in operation however interest drops
along with visitor numbers, leading to
the creation of a new attraction which
inevitably backfires horribly.
Friday 31 July to Wednesday 5 August
THE CHOIR (Cert-TBC) Dir: François Girard
2015 USA 103mins
With: Dustin Hoffman, Eddie Izzard
Dustin Hoffman stars as an exacting
choirmaster in this heart-warming
drama. Left an orphan after his
mother’s death in a car crash, eleven-
year-old Stet journeys from a small
Texas town to a new life in an East
Coast boarding school. He is unruly
and angry but also has a wonderful
singing voice. He comes to the
attention of the school’s demanding
choirmaster who attempts to
introduce Stet into his choir.
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Monday 29 June 2pm
JOURNEY CAFÉ: FUNNY FACE (U)
Dir: Stanley Donen
1957 USA 103mins
With: Audrey Hepburn
Journey Cafe is our series of arts events
presented in association with Age UK
Lancashire for people with memory
problems and their families – though
everyone is welcome. Funny Face sees
Audrey Hepburn cast as Jo Stockton, a
bookshop clerk who is whisked off to
Paris by a modelling agency hoping to
turn her into the next big thing.
All Tickets: £4
Includes tea or coffee and a pastry
Wednesday 17 June, 6.10pm
THIS IS NOT A CARTOON (15)
Dir: Various
60mins
This programme of shorts brings you
the very best that the animation festival
circuit has to offer. The programme
includes the Oscar nominated A Simple
Life and Don Hertzfeld’s acclaimed
World of Tomorrow. Also the heart
pounding action of Danny Madden’s
Confusion Through The Sand, the
reflective poignancy presented in Alan
Holly’s Coda, the eerie tragedy of Zepo,
the nostalgic love story in Mr. Plastimime.
The screening will be followed by
a Q&A with one of the filmmakers.
Sunday 21 June & Sunday 19 July 8pm
FILM QUIZKnow your Truffaut from your
Tarantino? If you’re mad about film,
come and test your knowledge
against our questions, ranging from
the plainly obvious to the devilishly
difficult.
Quiz entry is £1 per person with a
maximum team size of 6 people.
Friday 5 June, 8.30pm
LAMBERT & STAMP (15)
Dir: James D. Cooper
2014 UK 117mins
With: Roger Daltry
A definitive account of the rise of rock
legends The Who, told through the story
of the unlikely men who discovered
them. In Post-war London, Chris Stamp
and Kit Lambert, aspiring New Wave
film directors from opposite sides of the
tracks, form an unlikely partnership to
find a rock band for their underground
movie, leading them to discover, mentor
and manage the iconic band that would
become known as The Who.
DukesDocsSpecial Events
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Sunday 14 June
THE LOOK OF SILENCE (15) Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer
2015 UK Indonesia 99mins
Joshua Oppenheimer’s follow-up to his
extraordinary documentary The Act of
Killing focuses on a village optometrist
who confronts the former right-wing
paramilitaries who murdered his brother
during Indonesia’s anti-communist
purges of the 1960s.
The screening will be followed with
a live by satellite Q&A with director
Joshua Oppenheimer hosted by Louis
Theroux.
Thursday 18 June & Thursday 2 July
HEAVEN ADORES YOU (15) Dir: Nickolas Dylan Rossi
2015 USA 104mins
Heaven Adores You is an intimate,
documentary that explores the life and
music of acclaimed singer-songwriter
Elliott Smith. By threading the music
of Elliott Smith through the dense,
yet often isolating landscapes of the
three major cities he lived in - Portland,
New York City, Los Angeles – the
film presents an engrossing journey
through the singer’s prolific career.
Friday 19 & Saturday 20 June
THE DAMNED: DON’T YOU WISH THAT WE WERE DEAD (Cert-TBC) Dir: Wes Orshoski
2015 UK 110mins
With: Jello Biafra, Steve Diggle
A documentary on The Damned, the
first English punk artist to release a
single and album. Having gone through
many line-up changes, break ups and
reformations, The Damned is now one
of the longest surviving groups of their
genre, influencing many artists who have
come after them.
Join us in the Bar after the Friday 19
screening when we’ll have a DJ playing
punk classics.
Friday 31 July, Saturday 1, Monday 3 & Tuesday 5 August
AMY (Cert-TBC) Dir: Asif Kapadia
2015 UK 129mins
Senna director Asif Kapadia turns his
attention on to the tragic life of singer
Amy Winehouse. The film charts
Winehouse’s story from her childhood
in North London, to her death from
alcohol poisoning in 2011. Similar in
style to Senna, the film mixes audio
from new interviews with archive
footage from the singer’s life.
DukesDocs
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Monday 6 July 6.10pm
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (PG) Dir: Orson Welles
1965 USA 116mins
With: Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau
A hugely ambitious project which
weaves together five Shakespeare
plays. The film tells the story of
legendary character Sir John Falstaff,
the notoriously drunken, obese, and
yet charming companion of the young
Henry V. Borrowing scenes from
Shakespeare’s work the film focuses on
the shifting relationship between Falstaff
and Prince Hal.
“Behind the camera [Welles] conjures a dark masterpiece, shot through with slapstick and sorrow.” - Time Out
Tuesday 21 July 8.30pm
TOUCH OF EVIL (12A)
Dir: Orson Welles
1957 USA 104mins
With: Orson Welles, Janet Leigh
Beginning with one of the most
brilliant sequences in the history
of cinema, and ending with one of
the most brilliant final scenes ever
committed to celluloid, Touch of Evil
finds Welles on top form. The film stars
Welles as a corrupt cop who runs up
against a Mexican official investigating
drug trafficking.
Monday 27 & Tuesday 28 July
THE THIRD MAN (PG) Dir: Carol Reed
1949 UK 93mins
With: Joseph Cotton, Orson Welles
Once voted the greatest British film
ever made, Carol Reed’s atmospheric
film noir features one of the great
Orson Welles performances, especially
his self-penned Cuckoo-Clock speech.
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to
post-war Vienna to investigate the
death of his old friend Harry Lime, a
black market racketeer. But the fate of
Lime might not be so clear cut.
Wednesday 29 July 8.30pm
MAGICIAN: THE ASTONISHING LIFE AND WORKS OF ORSON WELLES (Cert-TBC) Dir: Chuck Workman
2015 USA 94mins
With: Steven Spielberg,
Richard Linklater
A documentary exploring the life and
troubled career of genius filmmaker
Orson Welles. Featuring interviews
with the likes of Spielberg and
Scorsese, Magician charts Welles’
rise through theatre and film and his
collision with the Hollywood studio
system. With the toll that it took
on his career which forced him to
do television commercials to raise
money for his features.
Orson Welles Centenary
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Sunday 7 June 6.30pm
TITUS ANDRONICUS (15) (Recorded) Dir: Lucy Bailey
186mins
With: Samuel Edward-Cook
Returning to Rome from a war against
the Goths, the general Titus Andronicus
brings with him the queen Tamora
and her three sons as prisoners of war.
Titus’ sacrifice of Tamora’s eldest son to
appease the ghosts of his dead sons,
and his decision to refuse to accept the
title of emperor, initiates a terrible cycle
of mutilation, rape and murder.
Thursday 25 June 7pm
JULIUS CAESAR (12A) (Recorded) Dir: Dominic Dromgoole
166min
With: Catherine Bailey, Sam Cox
When Caesar returns to Rome from
the wars a virtual dictator, Brutus and
his republican friends resolve that his
ambition must be curbed – which in
Rome can mean only one thing: the
great general must be assassinated.
But once the deed is done, the
idealistic conspirators must reckon
with the forces of a new power bloc,
led by Mark Antony and Caesar’s
nephew Octavius.
Thursday 16 July 7pm (Live) Sunday 26 July 7pm (Encore)
EVERYMAN (15) Dir: Rufus Norris
100mins
With: Chiwetel Ejiofor
The Oscar nominated Chiewetel Ejifor
stars in this startling production with
words by Poet Laureate, Carol Ann
Duffy. Everyman is successful, popular
and riding high when Death comes
calling. He is forced to abandon the
life he has built and embark on a
last, frantic search to recruit a friend,
anyone, to speak in his defence. But
Death is close behind, and time is
running out.
Wednesday 22 July 7pm (Live)Thursday 30 July 7pm (Encore)
THE MERCHANT OF
VENICE
Dir: Polly Findlay
With: Makram J Khoury
In the melting pot of Venice, trade is
God. With its ships plying the globe,
the city opens its arms to all, as long
as they come prepared to do business
and there is profit to be made.
With the gold flowing all is well, but
when a contract between Bassanio
and Shylock is broken, simmering racial
tensions boil over. A despised outsider,
Shylock looks to exact the ultimate
price for a deal sealed in blood.
Theatre on screen Shakespeare’s Globe
National Theatre Live RSC Live
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Wednesday 1 July 7.30pm
CARMEN Dir: Calixto Bieito
With: Justina Gringyte
A passionate tale of lust, seduction
and betrayal, no other opera boasts as
popular a following as Bizet’s Carmen.
Set during the dying days of Franco’s
Spain, Calixto Bieito’s acclaimed
production of this must-see opera has
been enjoyed by audiences across
Europe. Bizet’s dazzling score evokes all
the atmosphere of Spain through some
of the opera’s most famous melodies,
from Carmen’s seductive ‘Habanera’ to
the Toreadors’ stirring parade.
Sunday 21 June 6.30pm
RAVEL DOUBLE BILL (Recorded) Dir: Laurent Pelly
2013 135mins
With: Danielle de Niese
Two sparkling miniatures. Hailed by the
Financial Times as ‘pure magic’, Laurent
Pelly’s unique interpretation of Ravel’s
two short operas is a true spectacle.
L’heure espagnole is a sassy and funny
sex farce; while L’enfant et les sortilèges
is a touching morality tale in which
fantastical fairy tale characters, animals,
furniture and crockery all come to life to
teach a small boy about kindness.
Sunday 19 July 5pm
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG Dir: David McVicar
210mins
With: Sally Matthews
Mozart’s take on the glittering Orient:
a stirring tale of abduction, escape and
forgiveness. Both a popular comedy
and a compassionate Enlightenment
drama, Entführung tells the story
of one man’s attempt to rescue his
beloved from the harem of a Turkish
despot and his fall to the mercy of his
nemesis. The opera’s East-West clash
and its surprising resolution defies all
stereotypes and strikes a startlingly
contemporary chord.
Image: (Anonymous) Odalisques in a Harem, Constantinople, Lithograph with clay plate, C. 1880. akg-images
Sunday 9 August 6pm
THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA Dir: Fiona Shaw
155mins
With: Christine Rice
Fiona Shaw’s award-winning
production of a dark British
masterpiece. Britten’s extraordinarily
tense and chilling treatment of this
historic tale is explored in a brilliant
production by Fiona Shaw. Lucretia
is a model of fidelity among Roman
wives until the Etruscan prince
Tarquinius, provoked by his Roman
army comrades, gallops back to Rome
to ruin her virtue.
Opera On Screen
English National Opera Glyndebourne
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FROM THE SOUTHLeave the M6 motorway at junction 33 and take the A6 to Lancaster. Follow
directions to the city centre and on joining the one way system, keep in the
right hand lane. You will see brown information signs for ‘Dukes Playhouse’.
FROM THE NORTHLeave the M6 motorway at junction 34 and follows signs to Lancaster.
On joining the one way system, keep in the left-hand lane and you will
see brown information signs for ‘Dukes Playhouse’.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTThe Dukes is just a few minutes walk from both Lancaster Train Station
and Bus Station.
PARKINGAmple pay and display parking is available within two minutes walk of The Dukes
– a flat evening rate applies after 6pm. Bike racks are located on Moor Lane, close
to The Dukes.
CAR PARKING SPACES for blue badge holders can usually be reserved in
advance by contacting our Box Office.
ACCESSWheelchair spaces are available and access to the auditorium, Box Office and bar
is via the alley to the left of the main entrance. Please note that the surface of the
alley is cobbled. There is a doorbell by the ramp if the door is not open.
FACILITIES FOR DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING PATRONS Infra red sound systems are available to amplify sound via a personal headset.
Headsets can be booked in advance from Box Office. Guide dogs and Hearing
Dogs are welcome.
THIS PUBLICATION IS AVAILABLE IN LARGE PRINT BY REQUESTThe Dukes Is Supported By:
Getting Here
Registered Charity: 50193515
June
Date Time Showing Cert. Pg.
Mon 1 6.00pm Far From the Madding… (12A) 3Mon 1 8.30pm A Pigeon Sat on a Branch (12A) 3Tue 2 6.00pm Far From the Madding… (12A) 3Tue 2 8.30pm The Falling (15) 3Wed 3 6.00pm The Falling (15) 3Wed 3 8.30pm Far From the Madding… (12A) 3Thu 4 6.00pm Wild (15) 3Thu 4 8.30pm Far From the Madding… (12A) 3Fri 5 6.00pm Girlhood (15) 4Fri 5 8.30pm Lambert and Stamp (15) 10Sun 7 6.30pm Globe: Titus Andronicus (15) 13Mon 8 6.10pm Girlhood (15) 4Mon 8 8.35pm Phoenix (12A) 4Tue 9 6.45pm London Road and Q&A (15) 4Wed 10 6.10pm Woman in Gold (12A) 4Wed 10 8.30pm Girlhood (15) 4Thu 11 11.00am Woman in Gold (12A) 4Thu 11 6.20pm Phoenix (12A) 4Thu 11 8.30pm Woman in Gold (12A) 4Fri 12 6.20pm A Royal Night Out (12A) 5Fri 12 8.30pm Rosewater (15) 5Sat 13 6.20pm A Royal Night Out (12A) 5Sat 13 8.30pm Clouds of Sils Maria (15) 5Sun 14 6.00pm Look of Silence and Q&A (15) 11Mon 15 6.20pm Still Alice (12A) 3Mon 15 8.30pm A Royal Night Out (12A) 5Tue 16 6.00pm Clouds of Sils Maria (15) 5Tue 16 8.35pm Still Alice (12A) 3Wed 17 6.10pm This is Not a Cartoon (15) 5Wed 17 8.30pm A Royal Night Out (12A) 10Thu 18 6.15pm Rosewater (15) 5Thu 18 8.30pm Heaven Adores You (15) 11Fri 19 6.00pm The New Girlfriend (15) 5Fri 19 8.15pm The Damned (TBC) 11Sat 20 5.45pm The Damned (TBC) 11Sat 20 8.30pm The New Girlfriend (15) 5Sun 21 6.30pm Glyndebourne: Ravel Double Bill 14Sun 21 8.00pm Film Quiz in the Bar 10Mon 22 6.15pm The New Girlfriend (15) 5Mon 22 8.30pm Timbuktu (12A) 6Tue 23 6.20pm Timbuktu (12A) 6Tue 23 8.30pm The Tribe (18) 6Wed 24 6.20pm Timbuktu (12A) 6Wed 24 8.30pm The Tribe (18) 6Thu 25 7.00pm Globe: Julius Caesar (12A) 13Fri 26 6.10pm Queen & Country (12A) 6Fri 26 8.35pm A Girl Walks Home Alone (15) 6Sat 27 2.00pm The Moomins (U) 7Sat 27 6.00pm Queen & Country (12A) 6Sat 27 8.30pm Queen & Country (12A) 6Sun 28 7.30pm Queen & Country (12A) 6Mon 29 2.00pm Journey Café: Funny Face (U) 10 Mon 29 6.20pm A Girl Walks Home Alone (15) 6Mon 29 8.30pm Queen & Country (12A) 6Tue 30 6.00pm The Moomins (U) 7Tue 30 8.00pm Queen & Country (12A) 6
July
Date Time Showing Cert. Pg.
Wed 1 11.00am Queen & Country (12A) 6Wed 1 7.30pm ENO: Carmen 14Thu 2 6.10pm Queen & Country (12A) 6Thu 2 8.35pm Heaven Adores You (15) 11Fri 3 6.20pm London Road (15) 4Fri 3 8.20pm The Connection (15) 7Sat 4 5.45pm The Connection (15) 7Sat 4 8.30pm London Road (15) 4Sun 5 7.30pm The Connection (15) 7Mon 6 6.10pm Chimes at Midnight (PG) 12Mon 6 8.35pm The Connection (15) 7Tue 7 6.00pm Second Best Exotic... (PG) 3Tue 7 8.30pm Danny Collins (15) 7Wed 8 6.15pm Danny Collins (15) 7Wed 8 8.30pm Second Best Exotic... (PG) 3Thu 9 6.30pm London Road (15) 4Thu 9 8.30pm The Connection (15) 7Fri 10 6.15pm Mr. Holmes (TBC) 7Fri 10 8.30pm Spy (15) 8Sat 11 6.20pm Spy (15) 8Sat 11 8.30pm Mr. Holmes (TBC) 7Sun 12 7.30pm Mr. Holmes (TBC) 7Mon 13 6.00pm Far From the Madding… (12A) 3Mon 13 8.30pm Mr. Holmes (TBC) 7Tue 14 6.15pm Mr. Holmes (TBC) 7Tue 14 8.30pm Far from the Madding… (12A) 3Wed 15 6.15pm Mr. Holmes (TBC) 7Wed 15 8.30pm Listen Up Phillip (15) 8Thu 16 11.00am Mr. Holmes (TBC) 7Thu 16 7.00pm NT Live: Everyman (15) 13Fri 17 8.30pm Slow West (15) 8Sat 18 8.30pm Slow West (15) 8Sun 19 5.00pm Glyndebourne: Die Entfurfung 15Sun 19 8.00pm Film Quiz in the Bar 10Mon 20 6.30pm Slow West (15) 8Mon 20 8.30pm West (15) 8Tue 21 6.30pm Slow West (15) 8Tue 21 8.30pm Touch of Evil (12A) 12Wed 22 7.00pm RSC Live: Merchant of Venice 13Thu 23 6.15pm West (15) 8Thu 23 8.30pm Slow West (15) 8Fri 24 6.15pm Mr. Holmes (TBC) 7Fri 24 8.30pm Jurassic World (TBC) 9Sat 25 5.45pm Jurassic World (TBC) 9Sat 25 8.30pm Mr. Holmes (TBC) 7Sun 26 7.00pm NT Encore: Everyman (15) 13Mon 27 6.15pm Mr. Holmes (TBC) 7Mon 27 8.30pm The Third Man (PG) 13Tue 28 6.30pm The Third Man (PG) 13Tue 28 8.35pm Mr. Holmes (TBC) 7Wed 29 6.15pm Mr. Holmes (TBC) 7Wed 29 8.30pm Magician (TBC) 13Thu 30 7.00pm RSC Encore: Merchant of Venice (12A) 13Fri 31 6.15pm The Choir (TBC) 9Fri 31 8.30pm Amy (TBC) 11
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The Dukes, Moor Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1QE
Film Ticket Prices
£6.50 Full Price£5.50 Concessions £4.50 Under 18’s (Unless otherwise stated)
Live By Satellite Ticket Prices
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