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§ Monday 1st March • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: Burma VJ (12A)
Anders Østergaard 2008 84 mins
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
“The top prizewinner at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, Burma VJ celebrates the courage of the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a group of underground journalists who risked their lives to document the 2007 uprising against the junta. Assembled mostly from footage shot by the anonymous reporters themselves, with scene-setting reconstructions spliced in, this film by Danish director Anders Østergaard (Tintin and Me) has style as well as compelling content.” (Variety)

§ Wednesday 3rd March • Hall
The Family
Rogue Theatre
7.30 p.m. £8 / £6
Rogue Theatre invites you to an evening of stories, dark secrets, music and intrigue.
An eccentric family live in an isolated mansion deep in the forest. As the evening erupts into a revelation of astonishing stories and secrets the party atmosphere is disturbed by a haunting, and a figure in the shadows. For the family, is this their greatest fear? Has truth finally come to dinner? With tales of piracy, voodoo and lost fame woven together with gothic poetry The Family promises a world of escape which mixes powerful narrative, vibrant spectacle, fantasy, the supernatural, horror and cabaret.

Rogue drew great responses from Edge audiences when they were with us in 2009 with Pathway to the Red Sun.

Thursday 4th March • Auditorium
Music Xpress
WBS Music
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
WBS students from WBS Music’s Xpress club take to the stage to perform original songs and popular covers.

§ Saturday 6th March
Jazz Notes at the Edge
Phronesis
8.00 p.m. £10/ £8
Jasper Høiby bass
Ivo Neame piano
Mark Guiliana drums
Phronesis was created by Copenhagen-born/London-based bassist Jasper Høiby in Denmark in autumn 2005. The debut album, Organic Warfare, was released in November 2007, and the highly-acclaimed follow-up, Green Delay, in June 2009. Phronesis features pianist Ivo Neame and US drummer Mark Guiliana. Neame and Hoiby appeared at The Edge in 2009 in Neame’s trio. “Høiby’s full-bodied double bass playing … the bass sounds rich in both melody and sensuous, dancey rhythms on some very fine original themes inspired by Mediterranean, Latin and East European folk music. It’s also the best and most comfortable I’ve heard the Chick Corea/Jarrett-influenced pianist Ivo Neame play… riding on the groove power of bass and drums without sacrificing the underlying melancholy in the themes. Fans of Avishai Cohen or EST would do well to check this one out.” Jazzwise. www.jasperhoiby.com

§ Monday 8th March • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: Creation (PG)
Jon Amiel 2009 108 mins
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
British director Jon Amiel’s film takes as its subject the character, rather than the career, of Charles Darwin, focusing on his domestic life, his response to the death of his daughter Annie and the crisis in faith brought about by this event and his work on natural selection. Screenwriter John Collee placed lead actor Paul Bettany in the Galapagos Islands in their earlier collaboration, Master and Commander, and Bettany gives a moving and intelligent performance here. Also starring Jennifer Connelly and Martha West as Annie.

§ Monday 15th March • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: The Soloist (12A)
Joe Wright 2009 117 mins
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Joe Wright (Atonement) leaves period drama for his first US film, this adaptation of LA Times journalist Steve Lopez’s columns about his relationship with a homeless musical prodigy. Robert Downey Jr. plays Lopez and Jamie Foxx the prodigy, Nathaniel Ayers. “The Soloist asks intelligent questions, but is honest enough to admit that there are no answers. It has a story, but it can’t find a solution … the two leads have taken standard showy roles — dogged-but-flawed journalist and schizophrenic hobo/musical prodigy respectively — and underpinned both with weight and warmth.” (Empire)

Wednesday 17th March • 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 22nd March • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: Adventureland (15)
Greg Mottola 2009 107 mins
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
This film about coming-of-age in the 1980s has earned rave reviews for its director/writer Greg Mottola. Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) and Kristen Stewart (Twilight) play two teenagers, spending the summer working at a down-at-heel amusement park. The writing is pitch-perfect, right down to its soundtrack (Wang Chung and Falco). “Adventureland understands the folly of youth but forgives it too, reminding us of how wonderful it is to live so intensely. So allow me a juvenile formulation of my own: I couldn't love anyone who didn't love this movie.” (Independent)

Wednesday 24th – Saturday 27th March • Hall
Kiss Me Kate by Cole Porter
WBS Musical Theatre Company
7.30 p.m. £7/ £5
Cole Porter’s celebrated musical version of The Taming of the Shrew has been delighting audiences since its first performance in 1948. It was a hugely popular musical film, and was revived on Broadway and in the West End in the last decade. Boasting fabulous songs like Too Darn Hot, Brush Up Your Shakespeare and So In Love, and a great ensemble cast, Kiss Me Kate is performed by WBS Musical Theatre Company, direct from last year’s triumph with Guys & Dolls. Book early to avoid disappointment!

§ Saturday 27th March • Auditorium
Jazz Notes at the Edge
African Drumming Workshop
2.00 p.m. £7
Appropriate for adults and children (aged 7+).
See notes for 30th January

§ Monday 29th March • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: Julie & Julia (12A)
Nora Ephron 2009 123 mins
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Julia Child is an American institution, a cookbook writer and TV chef who did much to popularise French cooking in the US. More recently, Julie Powell wrote a blog recounting her own efforts to conquer every recipe in Child's master work, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. This became the bestseller Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. Ephron adapted Powell’s book for this screenplay, and directs Amy Adams and Meryl Streep in the title roles. “There are few more civilised, civilising and generally delightful movies around at the moment.” (Observer)