Events marked with this symbol indicate a Student Show Card may be used.

Online booking is now available for events marked with this symbol at WeGotTickets.com. Clicking on the symbol will take you directly to the event page on their website.

Clicking on an image will open a larger version in a new window.

Thursday 1st March 7.00 p.m.
£10 / £9 Friends of The Edge
NT Live light supper £5.95

The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
Director: Dominic Cooke
Running time: 180 mins
Starring: Lenny Henry, Chris Jarman, Lucian Msamati, Joseph Mydell, Pamela Nomvete, Daniel Poyser, Amit Shah, Michelle Terry

“Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking? mad or well advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!”
Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time.

Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home. A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound.

Consistently recognised by strangers, the visitors question their very selves as the turmoil escalates. Meanwhile, Aegeon, father to the Antipholus twins, has been captured searching for his sons and, as an illegal immigrant, is sentenced to death at sunset.

Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse.

Saturday 3rd March • Studio
Jazz at The Edge
Partikel
8.00 p.m. £10/£8
Duncan Eagles tenor and soprano saxophones
Max Luthert bass
Eric Ford drums
This contemporary take on the saxophone trio, as pioneered by Sonny Rollins, has earned this young band plaudits for their live performances and their debut self-titled CD. Whilst honoring the tradition of deep harmony and creative improvisation, Partikel draw influence from African and Latin American music combined with the style of the contemporary New York jazz scene. They are now about to release their second album, Cohesion, on Mike Janisch’s Whirlwind Recordings label.
“A highly auspicious debut from a freewheeling, fiercely interactive band.” londonjazz.blogspot.com CD review www.partikel.co.uk

Monday 5th March • Cinema
Monday Cinema:
Wuthering Heights (15)
Andrea Arnold 2011 128 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4

Jan 3oth: The release of Wuthering Heights has been delayed. The film will now appear in our summer programme.

The replacement film is:
Potiche (15)
Francois Ozon 2010 103 mins
Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu star in this 1970s-set comedy about the trophy wife of an industrialist who takes over the business when he has a heart attack.

Thursday 8th March
Luna
Pretty Good Girl Dance Theatre
7.30 p.m. £8/£6 students £4 - Suitable for age 14+
Pretty Good Girl Dance Theatre use their unique blend of storytelling, dance, film and physical theatre to unfold a brave story imbued with beauty, intensity and acceptance. Offering an insight into the life of a transsexual teen, Luna takes the audience on a delicate theatre and dance journey with Liam/Luna and his sister Regan as they come to understand Liam’s true identity. Written by Julie Anne Peters, Luna is a National Book Award Finalist, a Lambda Literary Award finalist and a Stonewall Honor book.
Pretty Good Girl Dance Theatre have been touring dance theatre productions since 2003. This is their 5th national tour. www.prettygoodgirl.com

Monday 12th March • Cinema
Monday Cinema:
Midnight in Paris (12A)
Woody Allen 2011 94 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
Woody Allen returns to glittering form in this delightful comedy about a Hollywood screenwriter, Gil (Owen Wilson), in Paris with his fiancée and her neo-con parents. In trying to avoid their reactionary politics and Michael Sheen as a pseudo-intellectual bore, Gil finds himself transported back to the Paris of the 1920s and joins the company of Cole Porter, Gertrude Stein, the Fitzgeralds, Picasso, Hemingway and a fantastically bonkers Dali, played by Adrien Brody. “...a cinematic soufflé that rises to perfection, a wry, funny, touching picture, pursuing some of Allen’s favourite tropes and themes but with sufficient asperity to give a sting to the nostalgia it embraces.” Guardian

Monday 19th March • Cinema
Monday Cinema: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (15)
Tomas Alfredson 2010 127 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
“This is a skin-crawlingly atmospheric, uncompromisingly cerebral and austere account of John le Carré's cold war espionage novel. Gary Oldman plays the melancholy agent George Smiley, brought out of his humiliating retirement and charged with rooting out a Soviet mole in the upper reaches of the secret service... This Tinker Tailor is a weightless, slo-mo nightmare: I found it more gripping and involving than any crash-bang action picture, and it is anchored by Gary Oldman's tragic mandarin, a variation on Alec Guinness which transfers the emphasis away from George Smiley's wounded feelings to his cool capacity for unconcern in the face of violence, a hint of a daredevil past, long mummified by bureaucratic self-control and a schoolmasterly scorn for his victim's weakness and disloyalty, while seeing how easily any agent could give the wretched Judas kiss. What a treat this film is, and what an unexpected thrill.” Guardian

Tuesday 20th March
Jazz at The Edge
Tord Gustavsen Ensemble
8.00 p.m. £18/£16
Tord Gustavsen piano
Mats Eilertson bass
Tore Brunborg saxophones
Jarle Vespestad drums
Tickets are selling quickly for Tord Gustavsen's return to The Edge.This tour coincides with the release of the new CD, The Well.

A very welcome return to The Edge for Tord Gustavsen, who was here previously in 2007 with his trio. This included this evening’s drummer, Jarle Vespestad, but the trio’s bass player Harald Johnsen is here replaced by Mats Eilertson. The ensemble is completed by reed player Tore Brunberg who has been drawing audiences recently with the trio, Meadow. The Ensemble is currently touring with a new album. Tord has released four critically-acclaimed albums to date, on the ECM label, and has earned rave reviews for his unique style of composition and performance – described as “whispery, reverential north-European gospel music” by John Fordham in The Guardian, and “spellbinding” by Stuart Nicholson in The Observer. www.tordgustavsen.com

Monday 26th March • Cinema
Monday Cinema: We Need to Talk About Kevin (15)
Lynne Ramsay 2011 112 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
Tilda Swinton stars in Lynne Ramsay’s screen version of Lionel Shriver’s acclaimed novel, dealing with a mother’s anguished struggle to deal with a son who perpetrates a dreadful series of crimes. Also starring John C. Reilly, and Ezra Miller as Kevin. The boldness of writing and direction respects the novel’s epistolary structure without ever feeling contrived. “...a sublime, uncompromising tale of the torment that can stand in the place of love. We Need to Talk About Kevin is made with the singular vision that links great directors across all the traditions of cinema." London Film Festival awards jury citation.

Thursday 29th March 7.00 p.m.
£10 / £9 Friends of The Edge
NT Live light supper £5.95

She Stoops to Conquer
by Oliver Goldsmith
Director: Jamie Lloyd
Running time: 180 mins
Starring: Stavros Demetraki, David Fynn, Harry Hadden, John Heffernan, Cush Jumbo, Katherine Kelly, Steve Pemberton, Matthew Seadon, Timothy Speyer, Gavin Spokes, Sophie Thompson

“To come to my house, to call for what he likes, to turn me out of my own chair, to insult the family, to order his servants to get drunk, and then to tell me, “This house is mine, sir”. By all that’s impudent it makes me laugh.”

Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal’s son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he’s mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he’s a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle’s indignation intensifies, Miss
Hardcastle’s appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.

One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.