The Sinodun Players annual pantomime

Two young children, alone in a dark, scary wood, with just the woodland birds and animals for company. Will they find their way home? Will they escape the clutches of the Wicked Witch? Who can save them?

★★★★ The two stars are knockouts in Chloé Zhao’s poignant adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel with a stirring tearjerker ending - The Guardian

After losing their son Hamnet to plague, Agnes and William Shakespeare grapple with grief in 16th-century England. A healer, Agnes must find strength to care for her surviving children while processing her devastating loss.

Based on the award winning novel by Maggie O'Farrell and starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal.

★★★★ Fiennes is unassumingly tremendous”: The Telegraph

Set in 1916, during World War I, in the fictional town of Ramsden, Yorkshire, The Choral is a historical comedy drama film. It follows the members of the local choral society which recruits a group of teenage boys and girls to replace all the men who have enlisted to help the war effort. They work towards a performance of Edward Elgar's 'The Dream of Gerontius' under the direction of the demanding Dr Guthrie.

Starring Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Mark Addy, Alun Armstrong, Robert Emms, and Simon Russell Beale. Directed by Nicholas Hytner and written by Alan Bennett.

To celebrate the birthday of the President of the Sinodun Players, you are invited to a free screening of Wallingford: the story of an ancient town. This fascinating film looks at the colour, drama and excitement of Wallingford's long history, from its beginnings as one of Alfred the Great's most important fortified towns to its more recent roles as a home for artists and writers such as Dame Agatha Christie.

As an additional treat, free refreshments will also be served (tea/coffee for the matinee, glass of wine in the evening) so we look forward to seeing you at our beautiful theatre to celebrate this special occasion.

In this Norwegian film, Stellan Skarsgård plays acclaimed film director Gustav Borg who returns to the family home after the death of his ex-wife. The film is about his difficult relationship with his estranged daughters, which becomes even more complicated when he decides to make a very personal film about their family history. 

An intimate exploration of family, memories and the reconciliatory power of art, starring Stellan Skarsgard, Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, and Elle Fanning. Directed by Joachim Trier.

★★★★★ Timothée Chalamet a smash in spectacular screwball ping-pong nightmare - The Guardian

★★★★ Chalamet in a thrillingly adrenalised performance… could win an Oscar. Paltrow is on scene-stealing form - The Telegraph

Loosely based on the life of Marty Reisman and set in 1950s New York, Timothee Chalamet stars in this comedy-drama as up-and-coming table tennis star Marty Mauser, who goes to hell and back in pursuit of ping-pong greatness.

Directed by Josh Safdie, with Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara and Fran Drescher in supporting roles.

Spoof period drama about the Davenport family who have lived at Fackham Hall for generations. Patriarch Lord Davenport has no surviving male heir but his older daughter is due to marry cousin Archibald which will keep the Hall in the family. Meanwhile thief and orphan Eric Noone arrives at Fackham Hall and takes a job as a lowly servant. He and younger daughter Rose fall in love but the plot thickens when when Lord Davenport is murdered and a bumbling detective arrives to solve the crime.

This parody of dramas such as Downton Abbey and Gosford Park stars Damien Lewis, Sue Johnston, Anna Maxwell Martin, Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Radcliffe, Katherine Waterston and Tom Felton. Directed by Jim O'Hanlon and co-written by Jimmy Carr.

A struggling young woman is relieved by the chance for a fresh start as a maid for a wealthy couple. Soon, she discovers that the family's secrets are far more dangerous than her own.

Thriller based on the best selling novel by Freida McFadden, starring Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried & Brandon Sklenar.

On the eve of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the Irish captain Roy Keane forfeits his place in the squad at the team's preparation base in Saipan, following a heated disagreement with the Irish manager Mick McCarthy.

Starring Eanna Hardwicke as Roy Keane and Steve Coogan as Mick McCarthy.

Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late to find love and follow your dreams.

Starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson.

From Disney to Bond and beyond, Jazz had been a part of all our cinema going lives. Hear some of your favourite movie songs performed by one of Britain's finest jazz singers and guitarists, Denny Ilett, and an all star band of his friends.

Chris Cobbson is from Ghanian heritage and his wonderful show has songs from Ethiopia, South African, Senegal and all across Africa. The quintet includes Chris on guitar and the wonderful 21 stringed Kora instrument which originates in West Africa.

Building on her passion for the Empress of the Blues, Julia Titus performs as Ma Bessie, sharing the music of Bessie Smith and her contemporaries with a new generation of listeners. Julia’s rich, warm vocal sound brings classic blues and jazz tunes from the inter-war years to life, alongside original songs and hand-picked covers.

Comedy drama, directed by Richard Linklater, following the shooting of Breathless (1960), one of the first feature films of the French New Wave of cinema.

Starring Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard, Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg, and Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo.  

When Mary finds herself in a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.

The third Downton Abbey film - the grand finale - starring Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern and many more.    

One of the most-watched NT Live productions of all time. Academy Award winner Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the much-anticipated return of the Olivier Award-winning hit production that inspired Netflix’s The Crown.

For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II met with each of her 12 prime ministers in a private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as The Audience. From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron, the Queen advised her prime ministers on matters both public and personal. Through these private audiences, we see glimpses of the woman behind the crown and witness the moments that shaped a monarch.

As their marriage unravels, Alex faces middle age and divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene. Meanwhile, his wife Tess confronts sacrifices made for their family, forcing them to navigate co-parenting and identities.

The peasant girl Giselle has fallen in love with Albrecht. When she discovers that he is actually a nobleman promised to another, she kills herself in despair. Her spirit joins the Wilis: the vengeful ghosts of women hell-bent on killing any man who crosses their path in a dance to the death. Wracked with guilt, Albrecht visits Giselle’s grave, where he must face the Wilis – and Giselle’s ghost.

Peter Wright’s 1985 production of this quintessential Romantic ballet is a classic of The Royal Ballet repertory. Set to Adolphe Adam’s evocative score and with atmospheric designs by John Macfarlane, Giselle conjures up the earthly and otherworldly realms in a tale of love, betrayal and redemption. 

Cast:  

To be confirmed

Creatives:

Choreography MARIUS PETIPA after JEAN CORALLI and JULES PERROT

Music ADOLPHE ADAM Edited by LARS PAYNE

Conductor VELLO PAHN

Scenario THÉOPHILE GAUTIER after HEINRICH HEINE

Production and Additional Choreography PETER WRIGHT

Designer JOHN MACFARLANE

Original Lighting JENNIFER TIPTON Re-created by DAVID FINN

Shakespeare’s Othello rages to life like never before in a ‘compelling’ (★★★★ Telegraph) new production starring David Harewood OBE (Homeland, Best of Enemies), Toby Jones OBE (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Detectorists), Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession, Masters of Sex), Vinette Robinson (Boiling Point) and Luke Treadaway (A Street Cat Named Bob).

Directed by Tony Award-winner Tom Morris OBE (War Horse, Dr Semmelweis, The Grinning Man) with music by PJ Harvey, this epic story of manipulation, jealousy and toxic masculinity explores the darker side of power, rage and desire. Filmed live at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London especially for the big screen, this is ‘an electrifying star-studded Othello.’ (★★★★ Mail on Sunday)

A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.

Starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.

While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa, a lusty widow from Denver, USA. She’s not very woke but sort of wonderful. When Elsa invites herself to stay a few months later, they decide to Google her and what they find puts them in a terrible dilemma. “We’re dying of manners. We’re under siege from personal embarrassment. This is not sane. This is not rational. That woman is a monster! Isn’t she?”

While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa, a lusty widow from Denver, USA. She’s not very woke but sort of wonderful. They agree to stay in touch – because no one ever does, do they? When Elsa invites herself to stay a few months later, they decide to Google her. What they find puts them in a terrible dilemma. They don’t want to seem impolite, but how do they stop Elsa from arriving on their doorstep?

The Sinodun Players present this amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.

Not suitable for those under 14 years of age.

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition.

Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing world around them. Now, these two greats are reuniting. Tate Britain is bringing these two greats together for a groundbreaking exhibition in London from November 2025 to April 2026, and Exhibition on Screen once again has exclusive and privileged access to bring their extraordinary art and remarkable stories to the big screen. Discover unexpected sides to both artists with intimate views of sketchbooks and personal items and insights from leading experts.

A new production, sung in German with English subtitles

Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber...

Moments of transcendent beauty and heroic triumph sparkle in the third chapter of Wagner’s Ring cycle, brought to life under Barrie Kosky’s inspired eye following his spectacular Das Rheingold (2023) and Die Walküre (2025). Andreas Schager, in his much-anticipated debut with The Royal Opera, stars as Siegfried’s titular hero, alongside Christopher Maltman’s towering Wanderer, Peter Hoare’s

treacherous Mime and Elisabet Strid’s radiant Brünnhilde. Antonio Pappano conducts, drawing out the unspoken tensions and ethereal mysticism of Wagner’s dynamic score.

Cast:

Siegfried ANDREAS SCHAGER

Mime PETER HOARE

Der Wanderer CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN

Brünnhilde ELISABET STRID

Alberich CHRISTOPHER PURVES

Fafner SOLOMAN HOWARD

Erda WIEBKE LEHMKUHL

Woodbird SARAH DUFRESNE

Creatives:

Music RICHARD WAGNER

Conductor ANTONIO PAPPANO

Director BARRIE KOSKY

Set Designer RUFUS DIDWISZUS

Costume Designer VICTORIA BEHR

Lighting Designer ALESSANDRO CARLETTI

Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge).

One family, the heart of the American dream. When wartime delivers profits for Joe, it comes at a price when his partner is charged with criminal manufacturing deals, and his eldest son goes missing in action. Will peacetime bring peace of mind, or will he be confronted by the consequence of his actions?

The Royal Opera - The Magic Flute

Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter’s rescue. But when Tamino and his friendly sidekick, Papageno, embark on their adventure, they soon learn that when it comes to the quest for love, nothing is as it really seems. Guided by a magic flute, they encounter monsters, villains, and a mysterious brotherhood of men – but help, it turns out, comes when you least expect it.

Mozart’s fantastical opera glitters in David McVicar’s enchanting production. A star cast including Julia Bullock as Pamina, Amitai Pati as Tamino, Huw Montague Rendall as Papageno, Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, and Soloman Howard as Sarastro, led by French conductor Marie Jacquot in her Covent Garden debut.

Cast:

Pamina JULIA BULLOCK

Tamino AMITAI PATI

Papageno HUW MONTAGUE RENDALL

Queen of the Night KATHRYN LEWEK

Sarastro SOLOMAN HOWARD

Monostatos GERHARD SIEGEL

Creatives:

Music WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Conductor MARIE JACQUOT

Director DAVID MCVICAR

Designer JOHN MACFARLANE

Lighting Designer PAULE CONSTABLE

Movement Director LEAH HAUSMAN

Beatles Complete present a night of Beatlemania packed with massive hits from the most influential band of all time. Having now performed over 250 shows at the world famous Cavern Club in Liverpool, this Liverpool based ‘beat combo’ are the youngest ever Beatles band to gain a residency at the Cavern Club where they still perform every Thursday and some Saturdays, packing the club out and creating a unique Beatles vibe. Aged between 18 and 22 Beatles Complete are the closest thing you will get to the unbridled joy of seeing the young Beatles when they first lit up the world.

Whilst they can’t promise all the screaming and tears from the 60’s, they can give you a host of classic songs brilliantly performed by a band of accomplished multi-instrumentalists, spanning right across The Beatles’ recording history, from Please Please Me right through to Let It Be.

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance”

(The Telegraph).

Cast:

Tatiana ASMIK GRIGORIAN

Olga MARIA BARAKOVA

Filippyevna STEPHANIE BLYTHE

Lenski STANISLAS DE BARBEYRAC

Eugene Onegin IGOR GOLOVATENKO

Prince Gremin ALEXANDER TSYMBALYUK

Creatives:

Music PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

Conductor TIMUR ZANGIEV

Director DEBORAH WARNER

Set Designer TOM PYE

Costume Designer CHLOE OBOLENSKY

Lighting Designer JEAN KALMAN

Projection Designer IAN WILLIAM GALLOWAY and FINN ROSS

Choreographer KIM BRANDSTRUP

Agatha Christie and Margaret Rutherford should never have been friends. But they were. Their paths crossed when they found themselves at the heart of one of British cinema's most successful franchises. However, the Miss Marple films almost didn't get made…

Our production of Murder, Margaret and Me is one of the events being staged to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Agatha Christie. It is a story of friendship, identity and the achievement of women in the long-lost world of the silver screen.

This amateur production of Murder, Margaret and Me is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd, on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.

Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favourite female artist – beloved by young and old. Exhibition on Screen’s award-winning film – first released during covid to a restricted audience – is back by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the curators of the blockbuster transatlantic exhibition from Tate Modern and MFA Houston ‘Frida Kahlo: the Making of an Icon’.  Back in the cinemas in May 2026, one month before the Tate exhibition opens, allowing audiences to watch both the film and see the show.

Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other one became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that one. The other, other one ... Anne.

This is not a story about well-behaved women. This is a story about the power of  words. It’s about sisters and sisterhood, love and jealousy, support and competition.

Sarah Gordon’s new play is an irreverent retelling of the life and legend of the Brontë sisters, and the story of sibling power dynamics that shaped their uneven rise to  fame.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd, on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.

In an isolated rural community, a group of needlewomen introduce Maggie, a troubled newcomer, to their simple way of life. But in spite of everyone's best efforts it becomes clear that the visit is not going as planned and tensions build to explosive levels.

Crowe crafts a layered and thought–provoking piece that blurs the lines between past and present, reality and simulation while asking whether returning to ‘a simpler time’ – even if we had a time machine – would solve anything.

By agreement with Independent Talent Group Ltd.

Oliver Lansley’s Immaculate, our late Autumn production, is a laugh-a-minute collision of dark, sparkly and risqué wit.  

It tells the story of Mia, a vulnerable young woman who has not had sex for eleven months yet discovers she is inexplicably pregnant.

Visited by the Angel Gabriel, Mia is led to believe she is carrying a divine child. Or is there a more sinister force at play, with the Devil’s hand behind her pregnancy?

Crackling with audacious jokes, uncomfortable truths and gleeful provocation, Immaculate dares its audience to laugh even as the ground shifts beneath them.

An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.