SPRiNG 2018 FEBRUARY-MAY - The Market Theatre

Box office

Book live shows, satellite screenings and films online at www.themarkettheatre.comor call 07967 517125 anytime

in-town box office (not films)The Master’s House, St Katherine’s

Whichever way you book your tickets...we don’t charge a booking fee!

oPeNiNG HoURSMon, Thurs, Fri 9.30am-4.30pmTuesday 9.30am-6pmSaturday 9.30am-12.30pm

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3Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125

ToScALive Screening from the Royal Opera House

Wed 7 Feb I 7.15pm I £15*

Tosca is one of the great evenings of opera, and from its strident opening chords conjures up a world of political instability and menace.

Jonathan Kent’s production for The Royal Opera captures the dangerous political turbulence of Rome in 1800. The Chief of Police, Scarpia – one of the most malevolent villains in opera – ruthlessly pursues and tortures enemies of the state. His dark, demonic music contrasts with the expansive melodies of the idealistic lovers, Tosca and Cavaradossi, who express their passion in sublime arias, including Vissi d’arte and E lucevan le stelle. Giacomo Puccini’s dramatic work was a hit with audiences on its 1900 premiere and it remains one of the most performed of all operas – with its gripping plot and glorious music, it’s easy to see why.

*Students and over 60s £12.50

YoUNG MARxNational Theatre Live - Encore

Wed 31 Jan I 7pm I £14*

Rory Kinnear is Marx, in this new comedy that reunites the creative team behind Broadway and West End hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors.

1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary is a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy. His writing blocked, his marriage dying, his only hope is a job on the railway. But there’s still no one in the capital who can show you a better night on the booze than Karl Heinrich Marx.

*Students and over 60s £12

LiVe SHoWS & ScReeNiNGS

Another sparkling season of professional drama is ahead with two big hits from the Edinburgh Fringe – The Drive from our old friends Angel exit theatre company, and The Man on the Moor from Something for the weekend theatre company. Also coming, and making their third visit to Ledbury, are the hilarious Pantaloons with H G Wells’ War of the Worlds, Sunny ormonde (Linda Snell from The Archers) in Dorothy, and local company our Star with Tapley House. And do not forget LADS’ own Spring production of Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced!

You are spoiled too, with the music that we are bringing to you, with return visits from the budapest café orchestra, Remi Harris trio, the Moscow Drug club, the Roving crows, Red Hot boogie, and Keith James with a celebration of the music of Nick Drake.

And then there is the season of screenings from the Royal Opera House, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and The National Theatre, which is probably the best ever with familiar names like tosca, twelfth night, Macbeth, cat on a Hot tin Roof, the winter’s tale, carmen, Julius caesar, bernstein, Manon, and An American in Paris.

If after all that you have some time left, why not come and see one of the sixteen films we will be showing? You can even see them for half price – see page 15!

iNfoRMATioNbuy tickets See front cover for details of how to book. Tickets may also be bought on the door, subject to availability. Please note that we are unable to take returns – even if you are picking up your tickets on the door. However, if there is a full house we are happy to try to resell them for you.

the Market theatre is situated in Market Street (off Bye Street, for satnavs the postcode is HR8 2AQ). The Market Theatre is a trading name of Ledbury Amateur Dramatic Society Ltd (LADS) which owns and runs 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 hearing loop. The Theatre or Foyer may be hired by emailing [email protected]

the foyer and bar are open 45 minutes before each show or film.

Parking Two public car parks (HR8 2AB) are off the top of Bye Street (with the clock tower at the top).

Market theatre film club For just £20 you are able to get in for half price to the 30 or so films that we show a year at the Theatre. This represents amazing value – see all our films and you save around £70! See page 15 for details of how to join. 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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TWeLfTH NiGHTRSC Live Screening

Wed 14 Feb I 7pm I £15*

Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love – hilarious and heartbreaking. Two twins are separated in a shipwreck, and forced to fend for themselves in a strange land. The first twin, Viola, falls in love with Orsino, who dotes on OIivia, who falls for Viola but is idolised by Malvolio. Enter Sebastian, who is the spitting image of his twin sister...

Christopher Luscombe, Director of the glorious Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing (2014 and 2016), returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company to tackle Shakespeare’s greatest comedy, a brilliantly bittersweet account of “the whirligig of time”.


ReD HoT BooGie

Sat 17 Feb I 8pm I £12

Songs from the 1960s by artists such as The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elvis, Credence Clearwater Revival, The Animals, Chuck Berry and many more.

One of the most popular rock’n’roll bands in the area, Red Hot Boogie have long been delighting audiences with their up-tempo versions of fifties and sixties hits.

Over 100 years experience between them means the boys guarantee you will be on your feet and rocking in the aisles to the wonderful sounds of the golden period of rock’n’roll. An evening not to be missed!

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cAT oN A HoT TiN RoofNational Theatre Live – Encore

Thur 22 Feb I 7pm I £14*

By Tennessee WilliamsDirected by Benedict Andrews

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney.

On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gather at their cotton plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and Maggie dance round the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. With the future of the family at stake, which version of the truth is real – and which will win out?

“A bold reimagining…innovative and powerfully acted” Sunday Times


ceLeBRATiNG THe SoNGS of NicK DRAKeA haunting and immaculately crafted concert from Keith James

Sat 10 Feb I 8pm I £14

After his tragic death in 1974, aged only 26, Nick Drake’s music almost disappeared into obscurity; but now, thanks to a re-evaluation of his genius, he has become a National Treasure.

Keith James is the first artist to have brought Nick’s music to theatres across the UK and Europe. Now, 1500 shows later, Keith continues to bring us some of the finest songs to bless that catalogue of English song-writing that includes Nick Drake’s three cherished albums Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter and Pink Moon.

Beginning with an introductory set of timeless songs by brilliant songwriters contemporary with Nick, including Roy Harper, Sandy Denny and Bert Jansch, and poems by William Blake which Keith has set to Nick’s guitar arrangements, the concert moves to Nick’s own fragile and intriguing music including River Man, Fruit Tree, Day is Done, Northern Sky and Pink Moon.

Some of the most atmospheric and emotive music you will ever hear The Independent

THe WiNTeR’S TALeLive Screening from the Royal Ballet

Wed 28 Feb I 7.15pm I £15*

Christopher Wheeldon, Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet, created his adaptation of Shakespeare’s late great romance The Winter’s Tale for The Royal Ballet in 2014. Building on the success of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Winter’s Tale received ecstatic praise at its premiere, acclaimed by critics and audiences alike for its intelligent, distinctive and emotionally powerful story, told through exquisite dance. It is now widely judged to be a modern ballet classic.

The story follows the destruction of a marriage through consuming jealousy, the abandonment of a child and a seemingly hopeless love. Yet, through remorse and regret – and after a seemingly miraculous return to life – the ending is one of forgiveness and reconciliation. With powerful designs by Bob Crowley and atmospheric music by Joby Talbot, The Winter’s Tale is a masterful modern narrative ballet.


DoRoTHY (The Airings of an Archers Actor’s Aunt)Sunny Ormonde (Lilian Bellamy in The Archers) stars

Sat 3 March I 8pm I £14*

The indomitable Dorothy is the mainstay of Neighbourhood Watch and scourge of litter louts. After losing her slot on hospital radio, due to an unfortunate incident with a golf ball and a pair of tights, she has seized control of a new microphone. So she is now broadcasting to the residents of her retirement home: Barmy Frank, Mad Alice, One-Armed Annie and the rest.

Of course, she has Media Connections, what with her niece Sunny being in The Archers – something she manages to slip into every conversation. Several times. And she takes advantage of her new show to air her views about everything, from Desert Island Discs to doctors; from net curtains to corsets. The multi-talented Sunny Ormonde (Lilian Bellamy in The Archers) gives a virtuoso performance as the unstoppable Dorothy in this hilarious play by Jane James.

A Standing Ovation greeted the first performance of Sunny’s new One Woman Show – echoes of some of Victoria Wood’s best comic creations, together with the poignancy of Alan Bennett’s “Talking Heads”.

*Students £9


RoViNG cRoWSPowerful Celtic undertones and intoxicating tribal rhythms

Sat 24 Feb I 8pm I £13*

Roving Crows push the boundaries of the Celtic Folk genre and play with genuine passion, energy and soul – a must see live act.

A vibrant mix of Celtic-inspired fiddle alongside original and intelligent lyrics backed by pounding, tribal and electronica infused dance grooves; the band comprises fiddle, electric and acoustic guitar, electric 5 and 6 string bass, pumping bongo percussion rhythms and vocals.

As well as almost constant national touring, the band has released 3 albums and 2 EPs since their launch in 2009. The most recent album Deliberate Distractions received 4* reviews in the Financial Times and R2 Magazine amongst many more.

International Artist of the Year – Australian Celtic Music Awards 2017; Band of the Year - FATEA Music Awards 2014

Great party music...I love that band - Paul O’Grady, BBCReally individual Celtic folk rock group - Mike Harding, BBCThe next folk super group in waiting - Nancy Dunham, folking.com

*Students £10

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cARMeNEncore Screening from the Royal Opera

Sun 11 March I 6.45pm I £14*

Carmen is the best-known work by French composer Georges Bizet, and one of the most famous operas in the entire art form – numbers such as the Habanera and the Toreador Song have permeated the popular consciousness as little else has. The opera’s heady combination of passion, sensuality and violence initially proved too much for the stage, and it was a critical failure on its 1875 premiere. Bizet died shortly after, and never learned of the spectacular success his Carmen would achieve.

This ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s highly physical production, originally created for Frankfurt Opera. The Australian director is one of the world’s most sought-after opera directors, whose Royal Opera debut with Shostakovich’s The Nose in 2016 was greeted with delight. For Carmen he has devised a far-from-traditional version, incorporating music written by Bizet for the score but not usually heard.


HeRefoRD oNe AcT PLAY feSTiVAL

Thur 8 - Sat 10 March Thur & Fri 7pm, Sat 2pm & 7pm £8 per session / £12 both Sat sessions / £20 all four sessions

The Market Theatre has been chosen to host this year’s Festival. Come and see some of the best in amateur drama with teams from Ledbury, Ross on Wye, Hereford, Eardisley, Orleton, Monmouth and Norbury competing to, hopefully, proceed in the All-England Theatre Festival. The companies will be providing a mixture of drama, comedy and music performed by actors of all ages. There are well known one act plays along with some original offerings. Who knows, we may see a future West End star performing this week!


JULiUS cAeSARNational Theatre Live Screening

Thurs 22 March I 7pm I £15*

By William Shakespeare

Nicholas Hytner directs a new take on the Shakespeare classic.

Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital.

Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.

Ben Whishaw (The Danish Girl, Skyfall, Hamlet) and Michelle Fairley (Fortitude, Game of Thrones) play Brutus and Cassius, David Calder (The Lost City of Z, The Hatton Garden Job) plays Caesar and David Morrissey (The Missing, Hangmen, The Walking Dead) is Mark Antony.



TeRRY WALToN: ALLoTMeNT TiPS fRoM THe JeReMY ViNe ALLoTMeNTPresented by Ledbury Allotment Association

Wed 21 March I 7.30pm I £5

Terry Walton can regularly be heard on Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio 2 show providing gardening tips to listeners. Since the age of four, when Terry’s dad first took him to his allotment, he’s had a ‘growing’ desire to garden. Terry took his first allotment aged 11, and has been on the same allotment site for over 50 years.

Terry combined a busy life in industry, a happy family life with his wife Anthea and two sons with (at one stage) keeping ten allotment plots on the go.

He’s a born again organic gardener having seen the error of his ways in the late 1960s and dispensed with using chemicals, now growing all his produce using all-natural means of nourishing them.

Terry retired in 2001 and by some very fortunate means started broadcasting from his allotments on the, then new, Jeremy Vine show.

THe DRiVePresented by Angel Exit Theatre Company


Memory is everything. The truth of who we are, what shapes us. There were four of us. Now we are two.

One of the best physical theatre companies around, the lovely Angel Exit, are back in Ledbury: you may remember their Moonfleet and The Secret Garden.

The Drive recounts an unexpected Nordic road trip which sees two estranged friends thrown together on a tense journey from London to Oslo. The further Nat and Becky get from home the closer they come to confronting the demons of their shared past.

Spliced through with humour, slick physicality, an original contemporary soundtrack and video projection, The Drive is a show about memory, friendship, grief, and turning 40. It also looks at who owns the truth when something cannot be proven.

Visually stunning and thought provoking - Fringe Biscuit ****Fast and neat, dramatic, moving and humorous! Recommended - Fringe ReviewSaw this show in Edinburgh last year and had to bring it to Ledbury - paul@themarkettheatre

Students *£8

12 Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125

THe WAR of THe WoRLDSPresented by Pantaloons Theatre Company


Yes: after massive public demand following their hugely successful versions of Pride and Prejudice and The Importance of Being Earnest, they are back in Ledbury again!

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s…”

And fewer would have believed in the first years of the twenty-first century that H. G. Wells’ science fiction classic would be performed live by just four actors with intelligences lesser than average…

The brilliant Pantaloons invade the stage in this funny yet faithful new adaptation, as they use musical instruments, puppetry and, um, enthusiasm to recreate deadly heat-rays, giant fighting-machines, squidgy tentacled Martians and interplanetary warfare on an epic scale.

The chances of success? A million to one…

*Students £8

BeRNSTeiN ceNTeNARYLive Screening from The Royal Ballet

THREE BALLETS, TWO NEW PRODUCTIONS

Tues 27 March I 7.15pm I £15*

Leonard Bernstein was one of the first classical composers in America to achieve both popular and critical acclaim. He was eclectic in his sources – drawing on jazz and modernism, the traditions of Jewish music and the Broadway musical – and many of Bernstein’s scores are remarkably well suited to dance. He was particularly associated with Jerome Robbins, their credits together including Fancy Free and West Side Story. To celebrate the centenary year of the composer’s birth, The Royal Ballet has united all three of its associate choreographers to celebrate the dynamic range and danceability of Bernstein’s music.

The programme includes two world premieres by Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor and Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon, marking each artist’s first foray into Bernstein. At the heart of the programme is the first revival of Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett’s The Age of Anxiety, created in 2014 to Bernstein’s soul-searching Second Symphony.


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ALL-eNGLAND THeATRe feSTiVAL QUARTeR fiNAL

Sat 14 April 2pm & 7pm£12 both sessions – 6 plays£8 one session – 3 plays

The All-England Theatre Festival (AETF) now in its 8th decade, is the only countrywide, competitive festival of one-act drama in England.

The 6 month long competition is organised regionally, and, after a series of preliminary, quarter and semi-final rounds across the country, culminates in a Grand Final in which the four ‘Area’ champions compete for the title of ‘English Champion.’

For the Quarter Final, 6 one-act plays performed by 6 different groups, will be competing for a place in the Semi-Final of the All-England Theatre Festival that will be taking place at the Swan Theatre, Worcester on 12th May. The audience has the unique opportunity to see the plays and listen to the public reviews of those plays from an independent professional expert.

All groups including the Herefordshire winner will already have won a drama festival, so a high standard of performance is guaranteed.

MAcBeTHRSC Live Screening

Wed 11 April I 7pm I £15*

‘Something wicked this way comes’

Returning home from battle, the victorious Macbeth meets three witches on the heath. Driven by their disturbing prophecies, he sets out on the path to murder.

The RSC’s contemporary production of Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller marks both Christopher Eccleston’s RSC debut and the return of Niamh Cusack to the Company.


MoScoW DRUG cLUB

Sat 7 April I 8pm I £13*

The Moscow Drug Club is a curious musical place where certain elements of 1930’s Berlin Cabaret, Hot Club de France, Nuevo Tango and Gypsy Campfire meet, have a few to drink and stagger arm in arm into the darkness of some eastern European cobbled street on a mission to find the bar where Django Reinhardt and Tom Waits are having an after-hours jam with the local Tziganes. Combining their original material with songs by the likes of Jaques Brel, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Bertolt Brecht, Moscow Drug Club provide an intoxicating and intimate musical experience. You are cordially invited to share a wry smile with us as you enter the darkly comic world of Moscow Drug Club...

This way please - and mind the stairs!

*Students £8

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forHALf PRice fiLMSFor £20, Film Club membership will grant you admission for £3 to every one of the 30 or so films that we show every year.

Send a cheque for £20 (payable to LADS Ltd) with your name, address, and email address (if you have one) to The Market Theatre Film Club, Tivoli, 5 Elmsdale Road, Ledbury HR8 2EG.

NB: does not include live screenings and encores


MANoNLive Screening from The Royal Ballet

Thurs 3 May I 7.15pm I £15*

Kenneth MacMillan’s source for Manon was the 18th-century French novel already adapted for opera by Massenet and Puccini. The premiere was given on 7 March 1974, with the lead roles danced by Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell. The ballet quickly became a staple of The Royal Ballet’s repertory, and a touchstone of adult, dramatic dance.

MacMillan found new sympathy with the capricious Manon and her struggle to escape poverty. Designs by his regular collaborator Nicholas Georgiadis reflect this, depicting a world of lavish splendour polluted by miserable destitution. MacMillan’s spectacular ensemble scenes for the whole Company create vivid, complex portraits of the distinct societies of Paris and New Orleans. But it is Manon and Des Grieux’s impassioned pas de deux – recalling the intensity of MacMillan’s earlier Romeo and Juliet – that drive this tragic story, and make Manon one of MacMillan’s most powerful dramas.


THe fiLM oRcHeSTRA coNceRT BAND Conductor Edward Roberts-Malpass

Sat 5 May I 7.30pm I £12

The Film Orchestra, founded by Jane Whittle and Edward Roberts-Malpass in 2013, is the UK’s first amateur orchestra performing only original music from film, television and video games. The success of the project has seen numerous TfO ensembles formed, including wind bands, brass bands, choir and jazz bands, all performing in the same genre. The TfO Concert Band is the leading TfO wind band and is very much looking forward to performing at The Market Theatre with a programme to include music from War Horse, Captain America, The Good The Bad and The Ugly and The Witches of Eastwick.

*Students £8

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone Miss Marple

A MURDeR iS ANNoUNceD LADS presents a classic Miss Marple Mystery by Agatha Christie

Thurs 26 - Sat 28 April I 8pm I £10*

Would you advertise a murder? Someone did! The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are astounded to read an advert in the local gazette stating that a murder that will take place at Little Paddocks, the home of Letitia Blacklock on Friday, the thirteenth. Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out…

*Students £6


ReMi HARRiS TRio

Sat 19 May I 8pm I £12*

The Remi Harris Trio take Gypsy Swing characteristics and infuse them with influences from Jazz, Blues, Rock’n’Roll, Funk, World Music and more. They play an eclectic mix of original compositions, jazz standards and new arrangements of music from Django Reinhardt, Jimi Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Parker, Peter Green and more. The show features Remi on a variety of acoustic and electric guitars accompanied by a hot club rhythm section of acoustic guitar and double bass, and it includes solo, duet and trio playing interspersed with Remi’s commentary about the history of the music and the guitars he plays. Remi and his trio have toured worldwide as well as performing at Buckingham Palace, Montreal Jazz Festival, BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall with Jamie Cullum, on BBC 4 Television and live on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 3.

An extraordinary musicianJamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2Astonishing stuffCerys Matthews, BBC Radio 6 Music

*Students £8

AN AMeRicAN iN PARiSEncore Screening from The Dominion Theatre

Thurs 17 May I 7pm I £14*

The Tony Award winning Broadway musical about love, hope and loving your dreams, has taken the West End by storm, with standing ovations from the public and a record-setting 28 five-star reviews from UK critics.

With gorgeous Gershwin tunes (including the classic hits ‘S Wonderful and I Got Rhythm), stunning designs and show stopping choreography, this breathtakingly beautiful new musical is inspired by the Oscar winning MGM film and tells the impassioned story of an American GI discovering art, friendship and love in the “City of Light” in 1945.


Proceeds from this showing will go to


TAPLeY HoUSePresented by Our Star Theatre Company

Sat 12 May I 7.30pm I £12

Donnie and Sid are a couple of lazy twenty-somethings, thrown together by fate under the roof of Tapley House. Landlady Mrs Tapley keeps an unnervingly close eye on them as they stumble through life, dreaming of an extraordinary business plan that will get them rich quick without ever having to get off the sofa. When a new tenant arrives, a dark secret is revealed and things will never be the same again for the unsuspecting lodgers of Tapley House. Jealousy, love, and a mysterious old lady all entwine and entangle until it becomes clear that Donnie and Sid are the only two idiots that can save the day.

THe BUDAPeST cAfÉ oRcHeSTRA

Fri 11 May I 8pm I £15*

Back by popular demand, the fiery vivacity and awe-inspiring musicianship of the finest purveyors of Eastern European gypsy music this side of a Lada scrap heap will leave you with a grin on your face and rhythm in your feet.

The BCO plays traditional folk and gypsy-flavoured music from across the world. Raucous, toe-tapping Balkan and Russian numbers are combined with jazz and swing inflections, Klezmer, Romanian Doinas and Hungarian Czardas are awarded fresh treatments before they give way to a disarmingly beautiful arsenal of ballads such as the Schindler’s List theme or Andy Statman’s bitter-sweet The Flatbush Waltz.

Last night we went, with friends, to see The Budapest Cafe Orchestra. It was the most exciting, inspiring and uplifting evening. The whole event was a delight and everybody in the audience were stamping and shouting for more. Thank you for bringing such class entertainment to our area - audience member

*Students £12

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THe MAN oN THe MooRSomething for the Weekend Theatre Company

Sat 26 May I 8pm I £12*

A huge hit from The Edinburgh Fringe!

On 12th December 2015, an elderly looking gentleman was found dead on Saddleworth Moor. He was carrying no ID. In his pockets were just £130 in cash and return train tickets from London from the previous day.

Despite a national campaign, he remained unidentified. He appeared to have no family, no friends, and no home. He didn’t even have a name. Who was this man? Why did he seemingly travel 200 miles to die? And why did nobody seem to miss him?

Forty different people reached out to claim ‘the man on the moor’ as their missing husband, father or brother. These people are ‘the left behind’. Those who pick up the pieces when someone they love leaves and simply never comes home again. This is their story.

Beautifully written and incredibly poetic… His words and his message will stay with you long after the show ends - Voice Magazine

A deeply mature piece of storytelling... makes you think, makes you feel, makes you want to find the answersBroadway Baby

*Students £6

WUTHeRiNG HeiGHTS Hotbuckle Theatre CompanySat 2 June I 8pm With live music, multiple characterisation, humour and inventiveness this story is as enjoyably engaging as should be in the reliable hands of Hotbuckle!

SALAD DAYSLADS presentsWed-Sat 13-16 June I 7.30pmA summer musical, originally written for the Bristol Old Vic’s resident company, featuring a strong LADS cast and a live supporting band.

SWAN LAKeEncore Screening from The Royal Ballet Sun 17 June I 7.15pm A new production of Tchaikovsky’s magnificent classical ballet.

RoMeo AND JULieT Live Screening from The Royal Shakespeare Company Wed 18 July I 7pm Shakespeare’s most famous story of love at first sight explodes with intense passion in this contemporary production with heartbreaking consequences.


22 All Films £6 I Students / Film Club Members £3 23Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125

DUNKiRK 106mins i 2017 i 12A i US/UK/Fr/NedFri 23 Feb I 8pm

The evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, between May 26th and June 4th 1940, during the Battle of France in World War II.

LoViNG ViNceNT 95mins i 2017 i 12A i UK/PolandThurs 1 March I 8pm

The world’s first fully-painted feature film takes its story from the life and miraculous, glowing canvases of master artist Vincent Van Gogh. Animated from 65,000 oil painted frames produced by 115 professional artists, it explores Van Gogh’s death, delving into the ambiguities of his last days via the stories of his paintings and the people who inhabit them. A truly stunning cinematic achievement, it’s not to be missed.

THe DeATH of STALiN 107mins i 2017 i 15 i France/UKFri 2 March I 8pm

Armando Iannucci’s (In the Loop, Veep) hilarious new political satire – depicting the last days of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and the chaos of the regime after his death in 1953 – is stuffed with acting talent, including Steve Buscemi (as Nikita Khrushchev), Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Andrea Riseborough and even Paul Whitehouse. Like Iannucci’s other work, it promises to be

relentlessly funny, acerbic and intelligent (it’s co-scripted with his former Alan Partridge collaborator David Schneider) and to offer a commentary on contemporary as well as historical strongman politics.

NoToRioUS101mins i 1946 i U i USFri 9 Feb I 8pm

Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece. Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father’s Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work.

MY coUSiN RAcHeL 116mins i 2017 i 12A i US/UKWed 14 Feb I 10.30am

A young Englishman plots revenge against his late cousin’s mysterious, beautiful wife, believing her responsible for his death. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms. Stars Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin.

ToMoRRoW/DeMAiN 118mins i 2015 i PG i Fr i SubsFri 16 Feb I 8pm

Our climate is changing and moved by predictions of dire consequences by the end of the 21st Century. Film-makers Cyril Dion and Melanie Laurent undertake a journey around the world, to investigate the causes of our ecological crisis and any possible solutions. A feel-good movie, lively and bright in its delivery, showing solutions that are accessible to everyone and firmly putting power in our hands. Demain has taken France by storm and asks “will this be tomorrow’s world?”.

In aid of tHe SiZe of HeRefoRDSHiRe, a locally based response to climate change, aiming to sustain an area of Amazonian Rainforest the size of our county. www.sizeofherefordshire.org

fiLMS All Films £6 i Students / Film Club Members £3

24 All Films £6 I Students / Film Club Members £3

THe SeNSe of AN eNDiNG 108mins i 2017 i 15 i UKWed 14 March I 10.30am

Divorced and retired, Tony Webster, an ageing Londoner and vintage camera shop owner, whittles down the solitude of his isolated existence by keeping an affectionate relationship with his ex-wife, and by accompanying his daughter to antenatal courses. However, the unexpected arrival of an unsettling letter will disrupt the fine balance of things in Tony’s orderly life, reconnecting him with his first love from college, and the nostalgic, yet clouded memories of a distant past. Is he ready to face the truth?

VicToRiA AND ABDUL 112mins i 2017 i PG i UKFri 30 March I 8pm

Abdul Karim arrives from India to participate in Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee. The young clerk is surprised to find favour with the Queen herself. As Victoria questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance that her household and inner circle try to destroy. As their friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes, joyfully reclaiming her humanity. Stars Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Olivia Williams.

DeTRoiT 143mins i 2017 i 15 i USFri 6 April I 8pm

A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest race riots in United States history. The story is centred around the Algiers Motel incident, which occurred in Detroit, Michigan on July 25, 1967, during the racially charged 12th Street Riot. It involves the death of three black men and the brutal beatings of nine other people: seven black men and two white women.


WeA fiLM STUDY DAYA DAY WiTH DieTRicHSat 3 March Tickets from 01531 63433310.30am-4.30pm I £20

Marlene Dietrich was one of the most famous film stars of the 1930s. She made the transition from Germany to Hollywood along with her long-time collaborator, the director Josef von Sternberg. Paramount Studios marketed Dietrich as a rival to MGM’s Greta Garbo.

The day will start with a talk about her star persona and distinctive style and the special lighting system developed for her by Lee Garmes. This will be followed by a double bill of film screenings, beginning with Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg 1932) and ending with the comedy Western Destry Rides Again (George Marshall 1939).

Tutor: Catherine Constable (Professor of Film Studies at Warwick University)Refreshments and sandwiches are available at the theatre.In collaboration with Market Theatre Film Club.

BUeNA ViSTA SociAL cLUB: ADioS 106mins i 2017 i 12A i UK i SubsMon 5 March I 8pm

The musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club exposed the world to Cuba’s vibrant culture. Reunited by band leader Ry Cooder, their surge to international fame with their 1997 album was

captured in Wim Wender’s, Oscar nominated, documentary. Now British film maker Lucy Walker has made a sequel, not only chronicling the late-life careers of the Buena Vista stars (many now dead) but also telling their often painful back-stories.

A MAN cALLeD oVe 116mins i 2017 i 15 i Sweden i SubsWed 7 March I 8pm

A Swedish smash hit, Hannes Holm’s A Man Called Ove is an irresistible adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s bestselling novel. Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse. But when pregnant Parvaneh and her family move

next door, his solitary, regimented world is shaken in ways he would never have imagined, and from inauspicious beginnings an unlikely friendship forms, resulting in a tale of unreliable first impressions and a reminder that life is sweeter when shared.

MY Life AS A coURGeTTe 70mins i 2016 i PG i Swiss i SubsFri 18 May I 8pm

Courgette (Zucchini) is an intriguing nickname for a 9-year-old boy, although his unique story is surprisingly universal. After his mother’s disappearance, Courgette is befriended by a police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his own age. At first he struggles to find his place in this strange, at times, hostile environment. Yet with Raymond’s help and his new-found friends, Courgette eventually learns to trust and find true love.

MURDeR oN THe oRieNT exPReSS 114mins i 2017 i 12A i USFri 25 May I 8pm

A lavish trip through Europe quickly unfolds into a race against time to solve a murder aboard a train. Everyone’s a suspect when Detective Hercule Poirot arrives to interrogate all passengers and search for clues before the killer can strike again. Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer.

26 All Films £6 I Students / Film Club Members £3 27Tickets online at www.themarkettheatre.com or call 07967 517125

GooDBYe cHRiSToPHeR RoBiN107mins i 2017 i PG i UKWed 11 April I 10.30am

A rare glimpse into the relationship between beloved children’s author A A Milne and his son Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne, and his nanny Olive, Christopher Robin and his family are swept up in the international success of the books; the enchanting tales bringing hope and comfort to England after WWI. But with the eyes of the world on Christopher Robin, what will the cost be to the family?

SToRieS fRoM THe HoP YARDS 90mins i 2018 i U i UKFri 4 May I 8pm

From the makers of Chewing The Cud: Memories from Hereford’s old livestock market comes a brand-new heritage film about the glorious traditions of Herefordshire hop picking. With their distinctive aroma and connections to beer, the film mixes archive photographs, films and newly recorded oral-history interviews from farmers, traders, pickers and brewers. We listen to stories of days past and present from Herefordians, people from South Wales, the Black Country, Polish migrant workers and Gypsy Roma travellers. Part of the Herefordshire Life Through A Lens project.

VicToRiA AND ABDUL 112mins i 2017 i PG i UKWed 9 May I 10.30am

Abdul Karim arrives from India to participate in Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee. The young clerk is surprised to find favour with the Queen herself. As Victoria questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance that her household and inner circle try to destroy. As their friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes, joyfully reclaiming her humanity. Stars Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Olivia Williams.

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