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§ Monday 7th June • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: Romeo+Juliet (12A)
Baz Luhrmann 1996 120 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
This year, the play at the centre of the Much Wenlock Festival is Romeo and Juliet, so during the Festival period, we are presenting two films that have adapted the story in very different ways. Here, Baz Luhrman’s first film in the U.S. after the massive success of the kitschy Strictly Ballroom, moves the action to the affluent Verona Beach. Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio are the lovers speaking Shakespeare’s words in a contemporary setting. “Luhrmann's flamboyant direction pumps new life into a well-known, much-adapted tale. With the Oscar nominated 'pop-promo' design of the film, Shakespeare became fashionable and cool once again.” bbc.co.uk

Tuesday 8th June • Auditorium
Stand-up at The Fringe
Hiya and Higher
Mrs. Barbara Nice
8.00 p.m. £10/£8
The comedy creation of Janice Connolly, Mrs. Barbara Nice (“Barbra as in Streisand, Nice as in the biscuit”) has been described by The Times as a hybrid of Victoria Wood and Mrs. Merton, and is headlining her own show after supporting Johnny Vegas and Peter Kay.

Thursday 10th June • Auditorium
Royal Days and Royal Ways
Shirley Tart in Conversation
7.30pm £8
Shirley Tart is probably Shropshire’s most famous columnist who has attended the weddings of every one of The Queen’s children since Princess Ann married Captain Mark Philips in 1973. Shirley will take a nostalgic look back at her time as royal correspondent for the Express and Star with the highs and lows of thirty seven years of Royal life.

§ Monday 14th June • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: Departures (12A)
Yôjirô Takita 2008 130 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
A redundant cellist (Masahiro Motoki) returns to his hometown to find employment and accepts a job in “departures”. Rather than working at a travel agency, as he believes, he finds his new work is with an undertaker. The film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film in 2009, beating out The Class and Waltz with Bashir. “The film is sometimes humorous, but not in a way to break the mood. The plot involves some developments we can see coming, but they seem natural, inevitable. The music is lush and sentimental in a subdued way, the cinematography is perfectly framed and evocative, and the movie is uncommonly absorbing.” Roger Ebert.

Saturday 19th June • Auditorium
Jazz at The Fringe
Jazz Singing Workshop with Sara Colman
2.00 p.m. £10
Learn some jazz singing techniques and two classic songs to be performed as part of Sara’s evening performance. Workshop ticket also allows admission to the evening event.

Saturday 19th June • Auditorium
Jazz at The Fringe
Sara Colman & Friends
8.00 p.m. £10/£8
Talented jazz singer Sara Colman performs songs from the Great American Songbook to contemporary standards. She’ll be joined by some of her favourite singers and musicians, and singers from the afternoon workshop session will join her on two songs. Check back on this page for her line-up.

§ Monday 21st June • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: West Side Story (PG)
Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise 1961 152 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
Choreographer Jerome Robbins earned co-director credit alongside Robert Wise for this New York gang-set adaptation of the Romeo and Juliet story. Puerto Rican Sharks conflict with white working class Jets in the tenements of New York City. Against this backdrop, Maria and Tony (Natalie and Wood and Richard Beymer) fall in love. Great performances from Rita Moreno and George Chakiris who both won Academy Awards, among the film’s total crop of ten Oscars. The score was written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim and includes such enduring songs as Maria, Tonight, and Somewhere.

Tuesday 22nd June • Auditorium
Stand-up at The Fringe
Delete the Banjax
8.00 p.m. £8/£6
Samuel Champion, Daniel Cook, Gareth Cooper and Caroline May-Jones are the writer-performers who make up Delete the Banjax, a sketch, character, and cabaret act who have recently joined the comedy club circuit. In 2008 they made their Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut and returned in 2009 to four and five star reviews.
“One to watch in 2010.” The Guardian

Thursday 24th June • Auditorium
Tim Bentinck
7.30pm £15
See festival website for details about this intimate evening with the actor who has played David Archer on BBC Radio 4’s long-running drama The Archers since 1982.

§ Monday 28th June • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: The Last Station  (15)
Michael Hoffman 2009 112 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer and James McAvoy star in Michael Hoffman’s drama about the last days of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. McAvoy plays Tolstoy’s secretary Valentin, a young man who finds himself caught in the middle of a power struggle between Tolstoy's wife, (Mirren), and Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), the leader of the utopian movement that Tolstoy founded. “Valentin is startled by the tempestuous nature of the Tolstoys' 48-year marriage, and he finds his loyalties tested more than once as he tries to navigate the passions -- financial as well as emotional -- that swirl around Tolstoy. The Last Station will be remembered as one of the most riveting cinematic portraits of what George Eliot called the "murder" of marriage.” The Hollywood Reporter.

Wednesday 30th June • Hall
WBS Music Concert
7.30 p.m. £2
A celebration of all the musical styles and ensembles within William Brookes School’s music department: soloists, the choir, instrumentalists, rock bands – all take the stage for an end of year concert.