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 SPECIAL SCREENINGS/EVENTS

As part of our daily programme of special screenings & events, we bring guest speakers to the city to celebrate their work and new film releases. In recent months, we have been pleased to welcome Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine, John Shuttleworth and Noah and the Whale.

Upcoming Films & Events

This House
National Theatre Live: This House
A new play by James Graham It’s 1974 and the corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backbiting as Britain’s political parties battle to change the future of the nation, whatever it takes.
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The Stone Roses: Made of Stone - PREVIEW & SATELLITE Q&A
Shane Meadows’ highly anticipated documentary about the legendary Manchester band.
Globe on Screen - Henry V
Globe on Screen: Henry V
Shakespeare’s masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of Henry’s campaign to recapture the English possessions in France.
Glyndebourne - Ariadne auf Naxos
Glyndebourne Opera - Ariadne auf Naxos
In German with English surtitles
Ariadne, who has been abandoned by Theseus, laments her lost love and yearns for death.
Piercing Brightness
Piercing Brightness(18)
Two youths land in a spaceship outside Preston. Their mission: to re-establish contact and effect the retrieval of the ‘Glorious 100’ sent to earth millennia ago in human form to study and observe the development of another race.
The Audience
National Theatre Live: The Audience - Encore
Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the highly-anticipated West End production of The Audience, broadcast as part of National Theatre Live.
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Glyndebourne - Falstaff
In Sung in Italian with English supertitles
Captured live in June 2009. Glyndebourne Festival 2013 celebrates world-class music and theatre at its best.
Globe on Screen - Twelfth Night
Globe on Screen: Twelfth Night
Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters, Twelfth Night is a moving comedy of loss and misplaced love and includes some of the most exquisite songs Shakespeare ever wrote.
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Glyndebourne Opera - Le nozze di Figaro
In Sung in Italian with English supertitles
A new production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. For Mozart, constantly chafing at the restrictions imposed by his aristocratic patrons, the story of servants outwitting their master had immediate appeal.
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Glyndebourne - Hippolyte et Aricie
Rameau drew on ancient Greek tragedy and 17th-century classical French drama to create a version of the story of Theseus, Phaedra and Hippolytus that is his own unique construct.
Globe on Screen - The Taming of the Shrew
Globe on Screen: The Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare’s most outrageous comedy, introduces one of theatre’s great screwball double-acts.
Glyndebourne - Don Pasquale
Glyndebourne - Don Pasquale
In Sung in Italian with English surtitles.
Donizetti was an enormously prolific composer. Don Pasquale is the 64th of his 66 operas, and was written only a year before the onset of the syphilis-induced dementia that was eventually to overwhelm him.
Glyndebourne Opera: Billy Budd
Glyndebourne Opera - Billy Budd
This year marks the centenary of Benjamin Britten. His powerfully dramatic Billy Budd returns to Glyndebourne, with Jacques Imbrailo in the title role and Sir Mark Elder conducting.

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