<img src='' title='Archives: What's On Events' alt='' id='templ_icon_' width='' height='' /> Archives: What's On Events

Description.

Cilla & The Swinging 60s

Cilla & The Swinging 60s is a highly entertaining show, stylishly celebrating the life and music of the legendary Cilla Black as well as a handpicked selection of her well-known contemporaries, including Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Petula Clark, The Beatles and many more.

Starring the unforgettable voice as seen on ITV and previous West End Singer, Sandy Smith as Cilla, the show will take you on a rollercoaster journey through many of the greatest pop songs of the 60s including Cilla’s own chart toppers ‘Anyone Who Had A Heart’, ‘Alfie’ and ‘You’re My World’.

This show is selling out theatres around the country and the reviews speak for themselves.

Other great songs of the decade are featured including‘Dancing in the Street’ ‘Shout’ and ‘Do You Love Me’ ‘Proud Mary’ and more… leaving you all with that feel-good vibe. Hit after hit brings you to your feet ‘Cilla & The Swinging 60s’ has everything – smash hit songs, great music, dancing, singing and a huge smiling memory with the unforgettable Cilla Black.

Summers in Time- Summer 2023 Show

The Summers in Time Dance Studio returns to the Bonington for its Summer showcase!

Loving Highsmith (12A)

Loving Highsmith is a unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith based on her diaries and notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family. Focusing on Highsmith’s quest for love and her troubled identity, the film sheds new light on her life and writing.

Most of Highsmith’s novels were adapted for the big screen; the best known of these are Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Carol, a partly autobiographic novel, was the first lesbian story with a happy end in 1950s America. But Highsmith herself was forced to lead a double life and had to hide her vibrant love affairs from her family and the public. Only in her unpublished writings she reflected on the ever-present subject for her.

Excerpts from these notes voiced by Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), beautifully interwoven with archive material of her and her most famous novel adaptions, create a vivid, touching portrait of one of the most fascinating female writers.

Directed by Eva Vitija
1hr 26 mins // UK 2023

Tony Stockwell

Remarkably compelling, amazingly detailed and always humorous

The popular star of TV’s Street Psychic, Psychic Private Eyes and Psychic Academy, Tony Stockwell has a long established credibility as one of the top Intuitive Mediums and has shared the stage all round the world with international mediums such as Colin Fry, James van Praagh and Lisa Williams. Tony demonstrates his belief that those who have passed can communicate with their loved ones with detailed messages frequently including names, dates and locations and all delivered with emotion, sensitivity and empathy. The evening may include psychometry, photographs readings and psychic prediction.

Tony certainly uses his natural wit, showmanship and Cockney charisma to entertain but more important, Mediumship has the potential to change someone’s life and instil in them a sense of peace, comfort and purpose. We hope that nobody can fail to come away untouched by the experience.

An evening of mediumship for entertainment purposes.

 

Mummies (U)

A fun family animated adventure that follows three Egyptian mummies who accidentally enter the modern world. The film is packed with humour, adventure, and heart — showing the true value of friendship, teamwork and believing in yourself.

Directed by Juan Jesus Garcia Galocha
Voiced by Joe Thomas, Eleanor Tomlinson
1hr 28 mins

Jazz Steps: Tom Ollendorff Trio

Tom Ollendorff has a distinctive guitar sound, blending virtuosic playing with sophisticated harmonic and melodic ideas. With long-standing trio partners, drummer Marc Michel and bassist Conor Chaplin, they form a “…very classy” (The Guardian) outfit. Tom’s music elegantly mixes graceful grooving songlike themes, baroque-style etudes and headlong fast-bop swing.

Following on from their critically acclaimed (**4 Stars**) debut album A Song For You, their latest release Passing Ships – out in May – features New York Saxophonist Ben Wendel.

“…Ollendorff presents sophisticated, melodic music of seraphic beauty ” -All About Jazz

Don’t miss the Tom Ollendorff Trio at Jazz Steps performing sophisticated melodic tunes taken from both albums.

Tom Ollendorff – Guitar | Marc Michel – Drums |
Conor Chaplin – Bass

Presented by Jazz Steps

The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry (12A)

Starring Academy Award® Winner Jim Broadbent as Harold and Penelope Wilton as his wife Maureen, The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry tells the story of a man who leaves his seaside town in South Devon to deliver a message to an old friend.

Harold Fry was never meant to be a hero. He’s an unremarkable man who has failed at all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. Now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. But when Harold learns his friend Queenie is dying, he is moved to act. He leaves home, walking to the post box to send her a letter, until he realises a letter is not enough.

In that moment Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice, some 500 miles away in Berwick-upon-Tweed: as long as he walks, Queenie must live. Surprising himself as much as his wife Maureen, Harold embarks on a walk of hope, determined to travel the length of England to save his friend.

Directed by Hettie Macdonald
With Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton
1hr 48 mins // UK 2023

Oscar Best Picture Winner- Everything Everywhere All At Once (15)

Winner of a whopping 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, EEAAO will be back on our big screen for one night only. Don’t miss this truly original Oscar winner!

Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can’t seem to finish her taxes.

Winner of 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director (Daniels)

Directed by Daniels
With Michelle Yeoh
2hrs 20 mins // US 2022

Allelujah (12A)

Based on the play by Alan Bennett, Allelujah is a warm and deeply moving story about old age. When the geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital is threatened with closure, the hospital decides to fight back by galvanizing the local community: they invite a news crew to film their preparations for a concert in honour of the hospital’s most distinguished nurse. What could go wrong?

Allelujah celebrates the spirit of the elderly patients whilst paying tribute to the deep humanity of the medical staff battling with limited resources and ever-growing demand.

“Alan Bennett’s NHS drama is a pot-banging success” Telegraph ★★★★

Directed by Richard Eyre
With Jennifer Saunders, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench
1hr 39 mins // UK 2023

Magic Mike’s Last Dance (15)

The third instalment of the blockbuster Magic Mike film franchise sees Channing Tatum reprise his role as Mike Lane, starring alongside Salma Hayek Pinault.

‘Magic’ Mike Lane takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can’t refuse…

Directed by Steven Soderbegh
With Channing Tatum
1hr 52 mins // US 2023