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§ Monday 1st December • Auditorium
Monday Cinema:
Four Months, Three Weeks, Two Days (15)
Christian Mungiu 2007 113 minutes
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Christian Mungiu’s film took the 2007 Palme D’Or from the Coen’s No Country for Old Men at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Laura Vasiliu and Anamaria Marinca star as two young women negotiating the cruelty and injustice of Ceausescu’s Romania in the 1980s where abortion is outlawed for the purposes of boosting population figures. “The camera doesn’t follow the action, it expresses consciousness itself. This consciousness is alert to the world and insistently alive … It’s a pitiless, violent story that in its telling becomes a haunting and haunted intellectual and aesthetic achievement.” (New York Times)

§ Saturday 6th December • Auditorium
Jazz Notes at The Edge
The Lighthouse Trio
8.00 p.m. £10 / £8
Tim Garland saxes, bass clarinet
Gwilym Simcock piano
Asaf Sirkis percussion
Tim Garland is widely known as one of the UK’s most successful musicians working in jazz. Much of his output reflects interests beyond conventional jazz boundaries … His most popular touring ensembles are The Lighthouse Project, Acoustic Triangle (with Simcock and bass player Malcolm Creese) and his thirteen-piece Northern Underground Orchestra. We are delighted to welcome back pianist Gwilym Simcock, (who sold out here last December) and exciting percussionist Asaf Sirkis, playing a custom built percussion set of frame drums, bass udu, hang drum and more.
“One of my favourite saxophone players and composers” Chick Corea
“Formidable” John Fordham, The Guardian
www.timgarland.com

§ Monday 8th December • Auditorium
Introduced by Tim Lathe
Monday Cinema:
Inherit the Wind (U)
Stanley Kramer 1960 128 minutes
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Stanley Kramer’s stirring drama stars Spencer Tracy and Fredric March as antagonists in this great courtroom confrontation. Based on the Broadway play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, the film tells the story of the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial. “When a young Tennessee teacher is prosecuted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, he receives unwanted public attention as well as the legal advice of a giant. Tracy plays the role based on Clarence Darrow, the eloquent defence attorney, and March storms his way through a part based on Williams Jennings Bryan, the failed presidential candidate (and famed orator) who prosecuted the case. Gene Kelly plays a character based on the acid-penned H.L. Mencken, reporting on the trial and caustically commenting on the absurdity of the human animal.” (amazon.com)

§ Monday 15th December • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: Shine a Light (12A)
Martin Scorsese 2008 122 minutes
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
This Rolling Stones concert film is in the great tradition of American rock concert documentaries, and many seasoned veterans of the genre are here. Scorsese himself directed the great The Last Waltz in 1978, and his long-time editor and collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker edited Woodstock. “The result is one of the most engaged documentaries you could imagine. The cameras do not simply regard the performances; in a sense, the cameras are performers too, in the way shots are cut together by Scorsese and his editor, David Tedeschi (who also edited The Last Waltz). Even in their 60s, the Stones are the most physical and exuberant of bands. Compared to them, watching the movements of many new young bands is like watching jerky marionettes.” (Roger Ebert)

Wednesday 17th - Thursday 18th December • Hall
Aladdin
WBS Sixth Form Panto
7.30 p.m. £7 / £5
For those who enjoyed last year’s Sixth Form Panto, you may be wondering if there are any taboos left to be broken, but we can guarantee that gentle public humiliation remains a staple of this production, written and performed entirely by students. Aladdin promises to be a sumptuous extravaganza of song, dance and never-understated drama.