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Wednesday 2nd December • Auditorium
Acoustic Concert : WBS Music
6.30 p.m. Admission free, with ticket.
William Brookes School present an early evening music concert featuring students performing in the Orchestra, String Group, Sax Group, Choir and Guitar Club.

§ Monday 7th December • Auditorium
Monday Cinema:
Synecdoche, New York (15)
Charlie Kaufman 2009 115 mins
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
The writer of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, directs his first feature and has won massive acclaim for it. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a theatre director whose life is unravelling. When he wins a genius grant, he sets about creating a new performance piece, a massive recreation of his own life, layer by layer, inside a warehouse. “Despite its slippery way with time and space and narrative, and Mr. Kaufman’s controlled grasp of the medium, this film is as much a cry from the heart as it is an assertion of creative consciousness. It’s extravagantly conceptual but also tethered to the here and now.” New York Times.

§ Monday 14th December • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: The Last Waltz (PG)
Martin Scorsese 1978 117 mins
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Possibly the greatest concert movie ever made, Martin Scorsese’s elegiac testament to The Band’s final performance features performances as well as interviews with The Band. Guest artists include Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison and the Staples Singers. The Last Waltz, including footage from the concert on Thanksgiving Day 1976, features a signature Scorsese style – the intense close-ups on faces - that give the film its emotional pull.

Wednesday 16th – Thursday 17th December • Hall
Jack and the Beanstalk
WBS Sixth Form Panto
7.30 p.m. £6 / £4
Written and performed entirely by William Brookes School Sixth Form students, Jack and the Beanstalk promises to honour the hallowed panto traditions of public humiliation and innuendo, as well as lavish song and dance spectacle. Always outrageous and never subtle, this event is sure to sell-out, so please book early!