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§ Monday 4th October • Cinema
Monday Cinema: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (18)
Neils Arden Oplev 2010 152 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
Adapted from the first of Stieg Larsson’s novels forming the Millennium Trilogy, the direct translation of the Swedish title is Men Who Hate Women. Noomi Rapace stars as the now-iconic Lisbeth Salander: rebel, outsider and computer hacker. When journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Niqvist) is called on to re-investigate the disappearance of a young girl, Salander’s expertise helps unlock a series of gruesome crimes. Larsson’s work has been a massive success but also criticised for contributing to the representation of sexual violence against women. The two other novels have been filmed and we hope to bring those to The Edge in the next few months.

§ Monday 11th October • Cinema
Monday Cinema: A Prophet (18)
Jacques Audiard 2009 148 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
Tahar Rahim plays Malik El Djebena, a teenage Arab man about to start a prison sentence prison for what appears to be violence against police officers. Here he encounters mobster César (Niels Arestrup, who starred in Audiard’s previous film, The Beat That My Heart Skipped) who presents Malik with a choice – carry out a hit on a fellow prisoner or be killed himself. “A blisteringly powerful prison-gangster picture from the French director Jacques Audiard. It comports itself like a modern classic from the very first frames, instantly hitting its massively confident stride. This is the work of the rarest kind of film-maker, the kind who knows precisely what he is doing and where he is going.” (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian)

Thursday 14th October • Performance Hall
Wenlock Poetry Festival, in association with The Poetry Society
SLAMbassadors Live Slam
7.00 p.m. £4/£2
Slam is live performance of poetry written by the slammer, and has particular appeal with youth, counter-culture and alternative comedy performers. After the Wenlock Poetry Festival’s successful live slam event this year, the Festival and The Edge are working with The Poetry Society’s SLAMBassadors UK project, an on-line slam competition for 12-18s. After workshops in school with slammer Joelle Taylor, students will perform their work in this cabaret-style event alongside professional slammer Spoz. Other guest slammers to be confirmed – please visit The Edge website.
www.slam.poetrysociety.org.uk

§ Monday 18th October • Cinema
Monday Cinema: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (15)
Mat Whitecross 2010 115 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
Formally resembling Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People, his sometime collaborator director Mat Whitecross here delves into pre-Brit popular culture with this biopic of 70s pop icon Ian Dury. Andy Serkis gives a startling performance as the cockney performance artist and front-man for The Blockheads, who was struck down with polio as a child. The film takes in relationships with his parents, his wife and his child (Son of Rambow’s Bill Milner). Serkis gives “a gale-force turn that gives the film the charge that it needs. While it feels slapdash rather than properly punk-collage ragged, this is an honest job, and it makes a good case for including Dury's work and personality in any Brit-culture list of Reasons to be Cheerful.” (Jonathan Romney, The Independent)
Blockhead musician Gilad Atzmon performs at The Edge on Saturday 23rd October.

§ Wednesday 20th October
• Performance Hall
The First Quarto of Hamlet
Two Gents Productions
7.30 p.m. £8 /£6
For audiences aged 12+
Two Gents Productions was established in Zimbabwe in 2007 with their first project, Vakomana Vaviri ve Zimbabwe, or Two Gentlemen of Verona, by William Shakespeare. Denton Chikura and Tonderai Munyevu play all roles in this, their second approach to Shakespeare. The actors perform in a Zimbabwean/ South African township-style utilising their own unique irreverence and energy, using only a few essential props to tell the story. The actors use Shakespeare's masterpiece to explore the themes of family dynamics and life in a transitional society.

§ Saturday 23rd October • Studio
Jazz at the Edge
Gilad With Strings
8.00 p.m. £13/ £11
Gilad Atzmon saxes
Frank Harrison piano
Yaron Stavi bass
Eddie Hick drums
The Sigamos String Quartet
Gilad Atzmon’s Orient House Ensemble have collaborated with the Sigamos String Quartet for this great creative project which features interpretations of Charlie Parker’s legendary strings recording, as well as new works by Gilad. The combination of Atzmon’s bebop virtuosity with lush strings arrangements was launched with the In Loving Memory of America CD in 2009. In 2010, Gilad and the OHE are celebrating their tenth anniversary. We are delighted to welcome Gilad back to The Edge with this project to open our new jazz season, and to celebrate Charlie Parker’s music as part of Black History Month.

§ Monday 25th October • Cinema
Monday Cinema:
Playing Away (15)
Horace Ové 1987 101 mins
7.30 p.m. £5/£4
Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts and came to Britain as a baby. He has written novels, plays for radio, stage and screen, and documentaries. Playing Away was written in 1986 and was directed for the screen by Trinidad-born Horace Ové, who has directed a number of feature films, documentaries and worked extensively in television. This wry comedy presents an area of common ground between urban West Indians and other black Britons with rural English folk: cricket. A Brixton cricket team is invited to a Suffolk village for a cricket match against the local team as part of the village’s ‘African Famine Week’. Divisions between the two groups seem to be not as significant in the end as those within each group. Norman Beaton stars.