SP Social - Summer Garden Party

Sunday 17th August 2025

Caroline Malnick's Garden: 14 Queens Avenue, Wallingford

• Afternoon Tea
• Garden opens at 2.30pm and Afternoon Tea served at 3.30pm
• Live music
• Cost £15 per person
• 1 free drink per person, then cash bar available

Buy individual tickets or get a group together for a table of six.

Ticket numbers limited to 60, so book early!

In this drama, based on the 2016 novel by Deborah Levy, a mother with a strange illness, travels with her daughter to the Spanish coast to find a cure. Along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother.

When Papa Smurf (John Goodman) is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette (Rihanna) leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save the universe.

A couple lose their home and later discover the husband has been diagnosed with a terminal illness as they embark on a year long coastal trek.

Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned.

Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel.

Back at work and on the apps, she's pursued by a younger man and maybe - just maybe - her son's science teacher.

Set in the influential New York City music scene of the early 1960s, "A Complete Unknown" follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan's meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts as his songs and his mystique become a worldwide sensation that culminates in his groundbreaking electric rock-and-roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favorite musicians to perform at his home.  British comedy starring Tom Basden, Tim Key and Carey Mulligan.  

World-renowned journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya went from being a local print journalist to braving the Chechen killing fields and exposing Russian state corruption under Vladimir Putin. She refused to give up reporting on the war in Chechnya despite numerous acts of intimidation and violence, including being poisoned. She was ultimately murdered in the elevator of her block of flats and it remains unclear who paid for the contract killing.

A Swedish TV presenter's well-ordered life unravels when she finally confronts her domineering husband about an accusation against him. Her subsequent flight precipitates a chain of lies and paranoia in this taut psychological thriller, exploring the nuance of guilt, complicity and self-deception.

NT Live: Inter Alia

Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to overthrow her life completely off balance, can she hold ger family upright?

Writer Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, with this searing examination of modern motherhood and masculinity.

A celebratory look at Ireland's incredible contribution to the culinary and drinks world.

This documentary is directed by Frank Mannion with contributions from Oz Clarke, Deirdre O'Carroll, Rory Guinness, Pat Shortt, Laura Whitmore and others.  

A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.

Directed by Celine Song (Past Lives, 2023)

Jessica Swale - Olivier Award Winner Talk

Jessica Swale, as Patron of the Little Theatre Guild, is visiting the Corn Exchange.

As part of this event she will give a talk and answer questions.The Sinodun Players staged her play Nell Gwynn in 2022.

Jessica spent most of 2024 in the USA, directing a film that will be released later this year. Much of 2025 has been taken up with Paddington the Musical, where she has written the book, which opens in London this November.

SP members may obtain complimentary tickets via the box office from Friday 25 July - Saturday 9 August. All remaining tickets will go on general sale on Sunday 10 August at £5 each.

We encourage you to get tickets to hear her incredible story at this unique opportunity in Wallingford.

Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems - nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.

Only one man has the particular set of skills - to lead Police Squad and save the world!  Action comedy, starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson.

Join us as we welcome Sophie Hannah to Wallingford. Sophie is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author. In 2023, she won the Crime Writers Association’s Dagger in the Library Award for her body of work.

Sophie will be in conversation with Alison Gomm, discussing her experiences writing the new Poirot series at the request of Agatha Christie’s family and estate; how Agatha has influenced her writing, and how her latest psychological thriller No One Would Do What The Lambert's Have Done, has both Agatha Christie and her pseudonym Mary Westmacott at its very heart.

The event will also include a question and answer session and a book signing.

In 1926, Agatha Christie was at the centre of a mystery when she disappeared for twelve days, sparking one of the biggest hunts in history. She was found in a hotel in Harrogate and said she couldn't remember anything. Did Agatha Christie lie? Did she suffer from amnesia? Was it a publicity stunt? Or was there a darker secret involved in this disappearance which was to affect her for the rest of her life?

A one-woman show, starring Liz Grand.  

A year after the funeral of their founder, nine members of a high society club gather for their annual dinner. Arriving at her grand mansion, not one of them can envisage how the evening will unravel. As past discretions return to haunt them, witness the downfall of the most abhorrent people humanity has to offer.

Entity Ensemble was formed by twelve drama school students in 2024 during their final year at East 15 Acting School. Drawing inspiration from their various backgrounds, and BA in World Performance, Entity Ensemble create thought provoking theatre, that is both visually engaging and imaginatively staged.

Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was Formula 1’s most promising driver of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling F1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to F1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team's hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace.  But as the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him and he finds that in F1, your teammate is your fiercest competition - and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.

F1 also stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia, and Javier Bardem, and has been shot during actual Grand Prix weekends as the team competes against the titans of the sport.

Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.

One apartment. Four sisters. A lifetime of baggage.

After years apart, four women return to the family flat in Copacabana — not just to divide what’s been left behind, but to confront what they’ve each become. One is fiercely intellectual, another a romantic who fled to Paris. One seeks peace in spirituality, the other clings to structure and tradition. What starts as a practical discussion about inheritance quickly spirals into a riotous reckoning with old rivalries, forgotten dreams, and uncomfortable truths.

The Inheritance is a smart, spiky, and deeply heartfelt comedy about the minefield of family, full of sarcasm, tenderness and moments that are almost too real. There are arguments. There are revelations. And somewhere in all the chaos, there’s the fragile, unspoken bond of sisterhood that refuses to fade.