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Monday 6th February • Cinema
Monday Cinema: Jane Eyre (PG)
Cary Joji Fukunaga 2011 115 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
Cary Joji Fukunaga (director of Mexican drama, Sin Nombre) delivers a highly-accomplished version of Charlotte Brontë’s classic story of the romance between plain orphan, Jane, and moody, dangerous Rochester, starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. “Fassbender’s performance is one of tragic Wellesian grandeur. But it’s Wasikowska’s vigorous, unflappable presence that supplies the film with its soul. Fukunaga’s movie is heavy on dialogue, but he adds visual texture in the framing of characters, dusty, naturalistic lighting and elegant shots of the decaying country stack.” Time Out

Tuesday 7th – Friday 10th February
Oliver! Music, lyrics and book by Lionel Bart
WBS Musical Theatre Company
Produced for the Broadway stage by David Merrick and Donald Albery
By arrangement with MusicScope and Stage Musicals Limited of New York
7.30 p.m. £7/£5 Family rates available
Lionel Bart’s enduring musical favourite is adapted from Charles Dickens’ classic novel Oliver Twist, and tells the story of a young orphan boy who is taken up by a gang of pick-pockets under the tutelage of Fagin. When he is apprehended, he is taken in by a kindly gentleman, but Fagin’s former pupil, the violent Bill Sikes, has other ideas. Great songs include I'd Do Anything, Where is Love?, Consider Yourself, As Long As He Needs Me, Who Will Buy? and Reviewing the Situation. Talented William Brookes School students form the cast and orchestra for this highlight in the performance calendar.

Monday 13th February • Cinema
Monday Cinema: Melancholia (15)
Lars von Trier 2011 135 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
Lars von Trier’s career has produced films that have deeply shocked and moved audiences. His latest is an apocalyptic drama about a threat to survival on earth, centred on a wedding day. Kirsten Dunst plays the bride, and the cast includes Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling. “Melancholia, like everything von Trier does, is an event. More than that, it’s his finest film for nearly a decade. A crazily bold, visually enthralling, and emotionally seismic drama about the meaning of existence.” Telegraph

Monday 20th February • Cinema
Monday Cinema: Beginners (15)
Mike Mills 2010 105 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
“Mills's comedy-drama touches on some very dark themes (cancer, death, family rupture, sexual repression) in a delicate and very playful way. Its narrative structure, flitting back and forth in time and making frequent use of montage sequences, voice-overs and drawings, is ingenious. Ewan McGregor plays Oliver, a graphic designer whose father Hal (Christopher Plummer) has just died. In flashbacks, we learn how Hal came out as gay in his mid-70s and found happiness with a much younger boyfriend. At the same time, we also follow Oliver's burgeoning romance with French actress Anna (Mélanie Laurent.)... McGregor, in one of his most assured performances, helps anchor a film that could have seemed very fey and far-fetched indeed. He underplays beautifully.” Telegraph

Monday 27th February • Cinema
Monday Cinema: The Skin I Live In (15)
Pedro Almodóvar 2011 120 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
Spanish director Almodóvar directs the year’s classiest horror film, with this macabre tale of a Dr. Frankenstein-like plastic surgeon (Antonio Banderas) and his experimental subject (Elena Anaya). “Though based on a French novel, this brew of obsession, plastic surgery and Gothic back story is rooted in a clutch of key films from the late 1950s: Hitchcock’s Vertigo (in which James Stewart tries to reshape Kim Novak into the image of herself), Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (in which a detached psychological experiment creates a serial killer) and, most of all, Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face.” Empire

Wednesday 29th February
Much Ado About Wenlock
Vamos Theatre
7.30 p.m. £10/£8
As the preparations for the 2012 Games advance, Much Wenlock’s own unique role in the story is celebrated with a winning twist by Vamos Theatre Company, which is touring this show to sixty UK venues this spring. Vamos is a full mask, physical theatre company, with three actors taking the roles of Wenlock’s professional and plebeian classes. This comic production dramatises William Penny Brookes’ determination to improve the health of all. A story of health, sports, a reforming doctor and a runaway chicken! Written and directed by company founder Rachael Savage. www.vamostheatre.co.uk