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§ Monday 1st February • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: District 9 (15)
Neill Blomkamp 2009 112 mins
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Produced by Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) and directed by South African Neill Blomkamp, District 9 is a smart thriller which utilises a documentary style in its depiction of an internment camp for aliens in Johannesburg. Featuring Sharlto Copley and Jason Cope. “The South African setting hones the allegory of District 9 to a sharp topical point. That country’s history of apartheid and its continuing social problems are never mentioned, but they hardly need to be. And the film’s implications extend far beyond the boundaries of a particular nation, which is taken as more or less representative of the planet as a whole.”(New York Times)

Wednesday 3rd – Thursday 4th February • Auditorium
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
WBS Year 11 AS Theatre Studies
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Shakespeare’s play dramatizing gender politics has been given numerous theatrical and cinematic interpretations, accommodating the contentious subject matter to the contemporary mood. In this production, young Theatre Studies students offer their perspective on Petruchio’s attempts to break the spirit of the willful Katherina.

Friday 5th February • Auditorium
Bears in Caves / The Valentines / The Colour Green
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
A night of rock music with some of our most exciting local young bands.

§ Saturday 6th February • Auditorium
Jazz Notes at the Edge
Jazz Singing Masterclass with Sara Colman
10.00 a.m. £15
Before the afternoon Workshop, Sara Colman is offering a Masterclass to a small number of singers who wish to further develop their skills in a more focused setting. You are asked to have prepared a song to work on, and to bring the chord chart with you. Places are limited and will be offered on a first come first served basis. For further information, call The Edge or contact Sara through her website at www.saracolman.com

§ Jazz Singing Workshop with Sara Colman
2.00 p.m. £10
Talented singer and composer Sara Colman leads this three-hour workshop in jazz-style singing. The workshop will focus on group harmony singing and will enable singers to develop their improvisation skills. Suitable for singers of all abilities. www.saracolman.com

§ Monday 8th February • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: The Cove (12A)
Louis Psihoyos 2009 92 mins
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
This environmental documentary uses some of the techniques of feature film making to expose the needless annual slaughter of thousands of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. Film-maker Louis Psihoyos collaborated with legendary dolphin trainer and animal advocate Richard O’Barry, the latter making amends for being responsible for bringing Flipper to American screens in the 1960s. Assisted by some daring free-divers and technical experts, the crew literally infiltrate the enemies’ territory to capture their devastating footage. "The Cove is much more than a social-issue documentary, combining investigative reporting, educational filmmaking and eco-thriller elements that inspired repeat standing ovations at Sundance Film Festival screenings.” (Hollywood Reporter)

Tuesday 9th – Wednesday 10th February • Hall
Stepping Up
Students from WBS Partner Primaries
6.30 p.m. All tickets £3.
Over two evenings, students from our partner primary schools present work they have been preparing in their own dance clubs throughout the autumn. These evenings provide a valuable opportunity for young dancers to perform in a professional theatre setting, and to present a variety of work, from the traditional to the contemporary. Tickets are being sold by the participating schools. Any unsold tickets will then be available from the box office. Please check our website or call the box office to find out when each school is performing.

§ Monday 15th February • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: Hurt Locker (15)
Kathryn Bigelow 2008 131 mins
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Action director Bigelow (Point Break) has earned outstanding reviews for this coruscating war film. Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Owen Eldridge play three differently-motivated members of a bomb disposal squad in Iraq. Breaking with the recent spate of Iraq war movies, this film is concerned with the soldiers’ reality, not the wider political context, and its style places the viewer into the centre of the tense and violent action for its two hours. “The movie — uniquely perhaps in recently Hollywood history — is defined by the actions of its characters and not by the political bias of its creators. In short, in its gutsy, bare-bones beauty, it is not simply a war movie. It is war poetry.” (The Times)

SOLD OUT
§ Saturday 20th February
Jazz Notes at the Edge
Gwilym Simcock Trio
8.00 p.m. £12/ £10
Gwilym Simcock piano
James Maddren drums
Yuri Goloubev bass
SOLD OUT
This is Gwilym’s third visit to The Edge – he has previously appeared with an earlier trio, and with Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio. At just 28 years old, Gwilym has been described as one of the most gifted pianists and imaginative composers on the British scene. Able to move effortlessly between jazz and classical music he can, at times, inhabit both worlds and has been described as stylistically reminiscent of Keith Jarrett. This trio features Russian bass player Yuri Goloubev, himself with a classical background, and gifted young drummer James Maddren.
www.gwiymsimcock.com

§ Monday 22nd February • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: Fish Tank (15)
Andrea Arnold 2009 123 mins
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Andrea Arnold’s Oscar-winning short film, Wasp, and her debut feature Red Road have already established her as one of the most watchable and critically-acclaimed contemporary British directors. Fish Tank is set in Essex and chronicles the life of Mia (a debut performance from Katie Jarvis), her mother (Kierston Wareing) and her mother’s new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender). The young girl’s need for attention and the presence of the older man lead to unsettling sexual tensions. “A quietly intense, strikingly shot coming-of-age drama, Fish Tank establishes Andrea Arnold as a lyrical chronicler of marginalised Britain.” (channel4.com)

Wednesday 24th – Thursday 25th February • Auditorium
The Trial by Steven Berkoff
WBS A2 Theatre Studies
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Based on the Kafka novel, Steven Berkoff’s dramatisation of The Trial is set in an absurd social landscape, where human existence is compromised by bureaucracy and ridiculous procedure. Staged and developed with Theatre Studies students, the play has resonances for contemporary political and social injustices.