The Bonington Players return with a stage play by Ian Gower and Paul Carpenter based on the much-loved original television series by Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer.
With kind permission of Tiger Aspect Productions
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Passions run high as Manrico and the Count di Luna compete for the affections of Leonora. Little do they know, Manrico’s mother Azucena has been keeping a terrible secret for decades. Soon a curse from the past will rise up from the ashes with devastating implications for them all.
Starring Ludovic Tézier and Jamie Barton, Adele Thomas’s energetic staging sets Verdi’s tale in a Hieronymus Bosch-inspired universe of medieval superstition. Antonio Pappano conducts Verdi’s dramatic score, which features the famous ‘Anvil’ chorus.
OPERA
Company – The Royal Opera
Music – Giuseppe Verdi
England, 1988 – Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government are about to pass a law stigmatising gays and lesbians, forcing Jean, a PE teacher, to live a double life. As pressure mounts from all sides, the arrival of a new girl at school catalyses a crisis that will challenge Jean to her core.
“A masterpiece” Telegraph ★★★★★
Directed by Georgia Oakley
With Rosie McEwan
1hr 37 mins // UK 2022
Jazz in the Bar’s guest this month is jazz vocalist Mandy Tatton who sings beautiful swinging jazz steeped in the influences of Blossom Dearie and Diana Krall.
A regular vocalist with the Nottingham Jazz Orchestra she performs with a number of bands and has worked with famed British jazz singer Lee Gibson.
She will be backed up by the superb Bob Hudson trio who will also perform their own feature numbers to deliver a night of toe tapping finger snapping jazz.
Based on the best-selling book and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Women Talking is the powerful story of the women of an isolated religious community and their attempt to reconcile a brutal reality with their faith.
“At once timely and timeless.” Observer ★★★★★
We’ve teamed up with Arnold’s newest bookshop Bük, to offer 10 free copies of the book ‘Women Talking’ by Miriam Toews.
Book tickets for this screening for your chance to win a copy!
Or keep hold of your ticket/digital ticket and you can get 10% off the book when you buy from Bük.
- Bük
18a Calverton Road
Arnold, Nottingham
NG5 8FH
Terms and conditions of prize draw
Every person booking seats for the 7.15pm on Monday 27 February 2023 screening of Women Talking at The Bonington Theatre will be entered into the prize draw.
Entries close at 7.15pm 23 February 2023.
Winners will be drawn at random, and books will be handed out on the night, shortly before the film.
The prize is one of 10 copies of the book ‘Women Talking’ by Miriam Toews.
Also screening, Fri 24 Feb – Thu 9 March
Based on the best-selling book and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Women Talking is the powerful story of the women of an isolated religious community and their attempt to reconcile a brutal reality with their faith.
Stay and fight, or leave. They will not do nothing.
“At once timely and timeless.” Observer ★★★★★
“This meditation on abuse and survival deserves the Best Picture Oscar” Independent ★★★★★
“A remarkable ensemble of performers unite for this timely chamber-piece” Empire ★★★★
“A gripping film” Telegraph ★★★★
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Original Screenplay
*Also screening, Monday 27 February at 7.30pm in partnership with BÜK. Win a copy of Miriam Toews’ ‘Women Talking’ or keep hold of your ticket/digital ticket and you can get 10% off the book when you buy from Bük
Directed by Sarah Polley
With Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara
1hr 44 mins | US 2022
Rural Ireland, 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the Summer. In their care, she blossoms, until she discovers one painful truth…
“Deeply moving” Guardian ★★★★★ “Exquisite Irish drama” Observer ★★★★★
Little White Lies ★★★★★ Empire ★★★★
No.2- Guardian’s Best Films of 2022
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature
In Scottish Gaelic with Subtitles
Directed by Colm Bairead
With Catherine Clunch
1hr 34 mins // IRE 2022
Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
“An epic portrait of an American artist” The Indiependent ★★★★★
“Essential viewing” Little White Lies ★★★★★
Empire ★★★★★ Metro ★★★★★ Guardian ★★★★
Nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Documentary
Directed by Laura Poitras
With Nan Goldin
2hrs // US 2022
All Quiet on the Western Front tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
“Extraordinarily potent German first world war drama” Guardian ★★★★★
Times ★★★★ Telegraph ★★★★ Empire ★★★★
Nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best International Feature
In German with English subtitles
Directed by Edward Berger
With Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Moritz Klaus, Aaron Hilmer
2hrs 20 mins // GER 2022
Many regard the late Stan Tracey as part of the UK’s ‘jazz royalty’, a jazz pianist and composer whose career spanned decades as soloist, band leader and pianist for the house band at Ronnie Scott’s backing a galaxy of international jazz stars.
Stan struck up a lasting friendship with fellow pianist / composer Maltese national Sammy Galea, starting in the 1950s. A generation on, their musician sons – drummer Clark Tracey and pianist Dominic Galea – are good friends and work together, latterly producing their Legacy Quintet album.
We’re delighted to welcome the Tracey/Galea Legacy Quintet in a musical tribute to their late fathers. Great melodies, of course, with lots of swing and passion from a taut line-up. In addition to piano and drums, the Quintet features two horns – alto & baritone saxes from maestro Alan Barnes and trumpet and flugelhorn from Mark Armstrong, as well as the vibrant double bass of Arnie Somogyi. Sadly, Dominic is not available for this gig and his place is ably ‘depped’ by pianist Gareth Williams.
Expect an uplifting tribute to the music of their late fathers and the rich legacy they handed down to their sons.
Watch a video of the Tracey/Galea Legacy Quintet perform at the 2022 Malta Jazz Festival
The compositions [written by Galea and Tracey Snr] are all exceptional and delivered with an authority that is immediately attention grabbing and does not let up until the last note fades. – Jazz Views
Clark Tracey…one of the most impressive jazz drummers in Britain today – The Times
PS – It’s worth mentioning that many in our Jazz Steps audience hold a special fondness for Stan Tracey who performed with his band de jour at our inaugural gig at the Bonington in 1997. We chose to feature Stan on the cover of our book The Jazz Steps Story, available to buy at our gigs!
Clark Tracey – drums | Alan Barnes – alto & baritone saxes | Gareth Williams – piano | Mark Armstrong – trumpet & flugelhorn | Arnie Somogyi – bass