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.

★★★★ 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.

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 lonely Frankenstein ( Christian Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (five-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride (Jessie Buckley) is born. What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined. 

Murder! Possession! A wild and radical cultural movement! And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!

A grieving family who own a failing pub have their lives changed by brewing real ale and entering the Great British Beer Awards.

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

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)

Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, was proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. This film depicts her establishment of a utopian society and the Shakers' worship through song and dance, based on real events.

Starring Amanda Seyfried and directed by Mona Fastvold.

★★★★ 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.

In 1977, a technology expert flees from a mysterious past and returns to his hometown of Recife in search of peace. He soon realizes that the city is far from being the refuge he seeks.

In Portuguese with English subtitles.

After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel.

Based on the best selling memoir by Helen MacDonald and starring Claire Foy.

Soul To Soul: a vibrant and historically significant 1971 concert film featuring performances by Ike & Tina Turner, Santana, Wilson Pickett, the Staples Singers, Les McCann & Eddie Harris, and The Voices of East Harlem.

The concert was a celebration of 14 years of Ghana’s independence from British rule. For most of these artists, it would be their first trip to Africa. For the African American musicians, this was a journey about personal roots, the ancestral homeland, history, discovery, loss, pain and joy.

Based on Bernard MacLaverty’s novel, the film is a quiet, character-driven drama focusing on a homely retired couple (Ciarán Hinds and Lesley Manville) facing marital decline, who take a trip to Amsterdam trip to rediscover themselves.

Prepare to be enthralled by the brilliance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Così fan tutte, a masterful exploration of love, fidelity, and human folly, recorded on the illustrious stage of Teatro alla Scala in Milan. This timeless opera will come to life under the baton of the exceptional Alexander Soddy, with visionary direction by Robert Carsen.

Re-released for its 25th anniversary, Amelie has lost none of its original charm.

Despite being caught in her imaginative world, young waitress Amelie decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey during which she finds true love.

Starring Audrey Tautou and Mattieu Kassovitz.

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?

Posting Letters to the Moon is a romantic, funny and very touching portrait of life during the second World War, featuring readings of letters between Oscar nominated actress Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter) and her explorer and writer husband Peter Fleming (brother of James Bond creator Ian Fleming) posted to India and the Far East during the war working for Military Intelligence.

The letters are read by their daughter Lucy Fleming (Love Sarah, The Archers) and her husband Simon Williams (Upstairs Downstairs, The Archers, EastEnders), and give an insight into a young mother’s life coping during the war and tell of Celia Johnson’s experience of filming with Noël Coward, David Lean and her thoughts while making the classic film Brief Encounter in 1945.