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§ Saturday 1st November • Auditorium
Jazz Notes at The Edge
Singing Workshop with Sara Colman
2.00 p.m. £7
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. Places are limited, so please book early.
www.saracolman.com

§ Monday 3rd November • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: All The President’s Men (15)
Alan J. Pakula 1976 138 minutes
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
The day before the US goes to the polls to choose their next president, we join in the mood with a screening of Alan J. Pakula’s riveting and ever-relevant analysis of the Watergate affair and political corruption. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star as Woodward and Bernstein, the Washington Post journalists who broke the story and pursued it until Nixon resigned. Also starring Jason Robards and Hal Holbrook. With writer William Goldman and cinematographer Gordon Willis, All The President’s Men is also a reminder of how great 70s Hollywood was.

§ Thursday 6th November • Hall
Dances of India
Chitraleka Dance Company
7.30 p.m. £8 / 6.00
(special rates for families of students taking part in educational workshops. Please call the Box Office for details)
Chitraleka Dance Company presents a celebration of Classical and Folk Dances from India. The evening unveils mythology and culture through diverse dance-forms, including Bharatanatyam (South India), Kathak (North India), Odissi (Orrissa), Mohini Attam (Kerala), folk theatre from Karnataka, Yakshagana, and Ghumar (Rajasthan), a joyous folk dance.
Chitraleka’s acclaimed company have visited The Edge previously with The Story of C and Tears of Fire.
www.chitraleka.co.uk

Saturday 8th November • Auditorium
Jazz Notes at The Edge
African Drumming Workshop
2.00 p.m. £6
Appropriate for adults and children (aged 7+).
Percussionist Andy Richards leads this enjoyable and stimulating djembe drumming workshop, exploring the roots of Western popular music through African drumming rhythms and techniques. Our African Drumming Workshops are now a regular part of our programming, allowing developing drummers to extend their range whilst still being welcoming to newcomers. Places are limited, so book early!

§ Monday 10th November • Auditorium
Monday Cinema:
The Counterfeiters (15)
Stefan Ruzowitzky 2007 98 minutes
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
2008 Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Film. Karl Markovics and August Diehl star as Jewish concentration camp inmates recruited to work the Nazi’s Operation Bernhard, a scheme to sabotage the UK and US economies with counterfeit money. “Fight for what you believe in and face certain death – or co-operate with the enemy to save your own skin? Such is the dilemma at the heart of Stefan Ruzowitzky’s compelling WWII drama… That Ruzowitzky’s film is so gripping is partly due to his decision to create a tense thriller rather than get bogged down in grim drama. Yet the director highlights the horrors of war with remarkable subtlety; although the workers are sheltered from seeing the brutality and torture. Challenging and thought-provoking.” (bbc.co.uk)

Thursday 13th –Saturday 15th November • Auditorium
Oh What a Lovely War
WBS AS Theatre Studies
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Originally directed by Joan Littlewood for Theatre Workshop
“Lions lead by Donkeys!” – First produced in 1963, this play has been seminal in shaping public attitudes to World War I. Entertaining and thought-provoking, it’s still as powerful as it was: not just a show, but a revelation!

§ Monday 17th November • Auditorium
Monday Cinema: There Will Be Blood (15)
Paul Thomas Anderson 2007 158 minutes
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic and magnificent drama stars Daniel Day Lewis in an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’ 1927 novel, Oil! Also starring Paul Dano, the film spans decades in the life of an ambitious oilman in his quest for greater gain. “The film was shot in the same part of Texas as No Country For Old Men. Where the Coen brothers take blood-letting and violence for granted, preconditions for the Cinema:tic chess games they like to construct, Anderson conducts a deeper archaeology of the frontier psyche. He probes and illuminates Plainview’s isolationist mentality, illustrates the dynamic but dangerous purity that undergirds it, is alert to and honours the comic theatricality in which it sometimes finds physical form.” (Daily Telegraph) Academy Awards for Daniel Day Lewis and for Best Cinematography.

Thursday 20th November • Auditorium
WBS Music presents
Acoustic Concert
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
A Music Xpress spin-off, this evening gives talented music students the chance to take the stage for an all-acoustic session.

§ Monday 24th November • Auditorium
Monday Cinema:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (12)
Julian Schabel 2007 112 minutes
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Jean-Dominique Bauby was a fashion magazine editor until he was struck down with ‘locked-in’ syndrome. Julian Schnabel’s remarkable film is based on Bauby’s 1997 memoir. Bauby was incapacitated to the extent that he could only move his eyelid but still managed to construct a method of communication. The film’s title refers to the physical extremes between his shut-down body and his expressive, butterfly, eye. “Mathieu Amalric (as Bauby) is a tremendous screen actor… This is a wonderful performance. As for Schnabel, it is an exhilarating breakthrough, and for screenwriter Ronald Harwood the movie is another triumph of responsive, creative intelligence.” (The Guardian)

Wednesday 26th – Thursday 27th November • Auditorium
Wenlock Plays by David Calcutt
WBS Year 8 Drama
7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
Originally commissioned for the millennium, these plays tell stories from Wenlock’s history.
Granny Fagan was a witch.
Wife for sale.
We’re putting you in these ‘ere stocks to try and tame some of that barbarous savagery of yours.
Full of action and rude humour, these plays uncover the side of Wenlock that lurks beneath its current more affluent surface. Come and see these spirits from the past brought to life.

Saturday 29th November • Hall
Battle of the Bands
Auditions from 10.00 a.m.  £1 day ticket for audience
Evening performance 7.30 p.m. £5 / £4
After last year’s successful event, in which Descend From Above won, The Edge presents this fantastic day for young musicians playing in local rock bands.
Entry fee for bands, £5. For entry information call 01952 728509.