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‘I am a Camera’ is set in Berlin, just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin. Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born. As Sally feeds her extravagant tastes, Chris goes along for the ride, until their Jewish pal, Fritz, encounters trouble.
The play, by John Van Druten, is based on the memoirs of writer Christopher Isherwood and the story served as the inspiration for the acclaimed musical ‘Cabaret’.
Servants Figaro and Susanna are filled with excitement on their wedding day, but there’s a hitch: their employer, the Count Almaviva, has dishonourable intentions of his own towards the bride-to-be.
With more twists than a page boy’s stockings, the story of Mozart’s comic opera will surprise and delight you at every turn. Come for the music and stay for the cross-dressing hilarity, all unfolding over the course of one crazy, topsy-turvy day in the Almaviva household. Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts a truly international cast in David McVicar’s timeless production.
OPERA
Company – The Royal Opera
Music – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Sleeping Beauty holds a very special place in The Royal Ballet’s heart and history. It was the first performance given by the Company when the Royal Opera House reopened at Covent Garden in 1946 after World War II. In 2006, this original staging was revived and has been delighting audiences ever since. Frederick Ashton famously cited the pure classicism of Marius Petipa’s 19th-century ballet as a private lesson in the atmospheric art and craft of choreography. Be swept away by Tchaikovsky’s ravishing music and Oliver Messel’s sumptuous fairy-tale designs with this true gem from the classical ballet repertory.
BALLET
Choreography – Marius Petipa
Company – The Royal Ballet
Music – Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Join some of Nottingham’s best entertainers as they present more than 2 hours of top variety. Including the Bonington Beatles Tribute Band, top class A-Cappella vocals, up-and-coming dance stars, comedy, piano, keyboards, flute, saxophone and even a Christmas sing along to finish.
Add in a comprehensive half time buffet and a few surprises.
Not to be missed!
*The bar will be open from 6pm
Jazz in the Bar is back! Featuring supreme jazz vocalist Joanna Hudson with swinging and sensitive accompaniment from the Bob Hudson Trio.
Toe tapping finger snapping jazz with some of the best standard songs and jazz classics.
“What’s a bad miracle?”
Oscar-winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and then Us. Now, he reimagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic, Nope. The film reunites Peele with Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Oscar-nominee Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.
Empire ★★★★★ Little White Lies ★★★★★ Telegraph ★★★★★
Directed by Jordan Peele
With Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun
2hrs 10 mins // US 2022
Elizabeth Harrison born December 1976 just outside Preston, Lancashire. She has established herself on the concert circuit not only as a musician but also as an entertainer. Her varied musical repertoire along with her cheerful Lancashire humour has made her one of the country’s favourite performers. Elizabeth is at home on both electronic and cinema organs and she is part of the Blackpool Tower Wurlitzer Organist team. Elizabeth is also organist for The Blackpool Dance Festival held in The Winter Gardens in October annually.
Fleeing from his father, Irish 12-year-old Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. Joy has decided to give her child away to a friend, and Mully needs to get some distance from his debt-ridden dad, who’s after the cash Mully has with him. And so two lovable rogues, a complicated middle aged mother and a troubled adolescent, go on a journey across Ireland, gradually finding the friendship, love and learning they never knew they needed in each other.
Guardian ★★★ Times ★★★
Directed by Emer Reynolds
With Olivia Colman
1hr 34 mins // IRE/UK 2022
Pianist Zoe Rahman is something very special. Born of a Bengali father and English mother, she marries two cultures through the medium of jazz to produce sounds that are highly original, taking the listener on magical journeys. Her unique musical vocabulary explores new landscapes. Steeped in the jazz story, she tells it in her own evocative way in this eloquent trio line-up. As Leonard Cohen said, “You’re sure to want to travel with her”. Don’t miss this trip! Your Christmas delights start here.
Zoe Rahman (piano)
Andrea Di Biase (bass)
Gene Calderazo (drums)
Another musician who played in our very first season, Loz Speyer returns with Inner Space. The band features Xhosa Cole – BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2018 – and Dee Byrne, a strong and fiery alto player, who brings a distinctive new sound as she steps into the role Chris Biscoe held since 2003.
Inner Space plays jazz with a rare warmth and immediacy. Speyer’s compositions combine references from New Orleans, through Bebop to Free Jazz, with audible echoes of Mingus, Monk, Ornette and more.
Loz Speyer (trumpet, flugelhorn)
Dee Byrne (alto sax)
Xhosa Cole (tenor sax)
Olie Brice (double bass)
Gary Willcox (drums)