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Fri 3-9 June
RECLAIMING THEIR
HUMANITY
HOLDING THE MAN Directed by Neil Armfield, with Ryan Corr, Craig
Stott, Geoffrey Rush, Guy Pearce. Australia 2015. 127mins.
Australia is in the news for all the wrong reasons - the Federal
Government removing references to the Great Barrier Reef,
Tasmanian old growth forests and Kakadu National Park from
a UN climate change report, and two asylum seekers selfimmolating in one or other of the holding facilities (jails) on
Manus Island and Nauru. One of these was a 21 year old Somali
girl. The desperation that would drive such a person to this
kind of act cannot be imagined. Are these things linked, and
what does this have to do with an Australian film set in the
1970s and 80s?
The film is about two young men, lovers, who
have AIDS. One, Tim Conigrave, writes about their
experience, which becomes a best selling book.
This film is based on the book, and both film and
book are fairly explicit.
It’s perhaps hard for anyone who wasn’t there to imagine the
hysteria that surrounded the AIDS epidemic in the early 80s, and
that hysteria didn’t just affect Australia. To be dying of an incurable
disease is bad enough, but to be de-humanised, ostracised, made
into some kind of symbol of retribution for the sins of humankind,
to be rendered ‘other’, literally untouchable, and that all this actually
occurred, beggars belief. If Tim Conigrave could have looked a
mere 20 years into his future and seen that he and his lover could
have got married, that their illness could have been managed, that
they could have led productive lives, he may not have been able to
believe it.
Apart from being a writer, Tim Conigrave was also an actor, who
attended the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art, alumni
including Mel Gibson, Cate Blancett and other internationally
famous film stars. (Interestingly, Antony LaPaglia, Guy Pearce and
Geoffrey Rush, who play supporting roles here, didn’t attend NIDA.)
This period, the 70s and 80s, was the great flowering of the arts in
Australia (don’t laugh). This was the time of Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi,
the first Mad Max films, Neighbours…
OK, some good, some not so, but the hope, the expectation was sky
high. After a fairly brief interregnum when the Labor Government
of Gough Whitlam, a regime of lovable galahs, was dismissed,
effectively in a coup in all but name, by the Governor General, the
that we can see him thinking through his experience. What could
be seen as weak, and it’s not really the performance, the apparent
weakness is in the book too, is that he doesn’t go beyond that
experience to something larger, more universal.
And yet the film achieves something universal, almost against its
best intentions, in spite of itself.
Queen’s representative (if you sense this is still a pretty raw wound,
you’d be right) in 1975, normal service was resumed with Bob
Hawke and Labor in 1983 and Australia found its voice.
WHAT WAS THAT VOICE SAYING?
America was founded on the basis of a principle - religious freedom.
What was the principle on which Australia was founded? A giant,
continent sized prison settlement - it’s hard to be proud of that. And
hard to make that the basis of a national artistic expression which
we can export to the rest of the world. What to do?
When looking outside doesn’t yield anything promising what’s left
but to look inside. And this is what Australia did.
Australia created an artistic tradition based on how you feel. Soap
Opera as imagined by Americans is a species of melodrama,
everything is larger than life. Soap as imagined by Australians is a
unique beast, everything internal is made explicit. Feelings usually
hidden are revealed. In a way, it’s less than life and remarkably
consoling for all that.
Australia has given the world an art form that has nothing to say
beyond itself. It is expression as self-obsession.
You might be Australian, you twit, but that’s harsh. Uncalled for.
Let me finish. This film seems to encapsulate precisely this argument
in microcosm. The success of Holding the Man really depends on
the performance of Ryan Corr as Tim Conigrave. His character wrote
the book so, given the book’s frame of reference, it’s inevitable it
will be from his point of view. What’s strong in his performance is
THIS WEEK
The art critic, Robert Hughes, from a slightly older generation than
Conigrave, was moved to write, in a break from his usual speciality,
an influential, in Australia at least, and entertaining history of the
Australian convict experience, The Fatal Shore. The colourful horrors
he elucidates, in places like Port Arthur and Norfolk Island, were
news to most of the population of Australia when it was published
in 1986.
To me, the experience of the two young men mirrors that of the
convicts. The horror of their sentence, their de-humanisation,
their ostracism, their being made a symbol of some kind of divine
retribution, is a modern re-creation of the founding of Australia.
And Australia seems just as adept at sweeping all this under the
carpet, of only looking inside, at how they personally feel, now as
they were in the 1980s, as they were in the Nineteenth Century.
An artistic tradition based on feeling isn’t enough to confront a
country with the true extent of what they’ve done in the past. And
what they are doing right now.
This is a very honest film, based on a very
honest book, which was written when its author
felt he had little left but honesty. He sets out
to reclaim his humanity, and he succeeds in
reclaiming something important for us all.
He transcends the artistic tradition in which
he writes in a way that is quite breathtaking.
Paul Corcoran
HOLDING THE MAN is screening Mon 27 Jun
8.45pm DUKE OF YORK’S PICTUREHOUSE Preston
Road Brighton BN1 4NA picturehouses.com
a delicate balance
Departure (15) Written and Directed by Andrew Steggall, with Juliet Stephenson, Alex Lawther and Phénix Brossard. UK/FR 2015 109mins.
and digital held out the possibility of transforming the cinema
experience into something utterly new and different from what
went before. Except it didn’t.
Before digital, films came and went from the cinema with dizzying
speed; after digital, the films still come and go from the cinema
with dizzying speed. That’s if they come at all.
In the old days there were only so many prints of a film, hundreds
for a big Hollywood extravaganza, down to only a couple for an
arthouse flick. Cinemas were in a queue for a print and the print
had to move on to the next cinema no matter what.
I think it was Glenda Jackson, the actor and MP, who said,
‘you watch a play with other people but you watch a film
alone’, or something like that. (If it wasn’t Glenda Jackson, I
apologise, but I’m only quoting her so I can disagree. I’m not
sure what the context was. Perhaps she was making a case
for the primacy of theatre. Whatever.)
The whole point of watching a film in a cinema is to watch it with
other people, people who you don’t necessarily know. It’s not just
the big screen and the big sound, it’s the getting ready and going
out, the occasion of it all, that makes the experience special. You
can have a coffee, or a drink, eat a meal at home, but people go
out for all these things.
Everyone knows this of course. Except there’s something about
the cinema experience that seems not to be social, that seems,
well, the only word I can think of is industrial. The film industry.
Making a film is expensive. Even a cheap film is expensive.
Building a cinema is expensive. The projector is designed to run
day and night, industrial. But you know, kitting out a restaurant is
expensive. The kitchen is filled with industrial stuff, churning out
meals day and night. So what’s your point?
It’s almost exactly 10 years since digital projection became widely
available in cinemas. Yes, the yellows were deeper in the old
analogue film, yadda, yadda (I love vinyl, too) but the essential
experience of cinema is social, not the character of the colour,
Digital means that there are an infinite number of prints, as many
as you like, and cinemas can hold onto the print for as long as
they like, or as long as they have storage on their servers. And we
all know that digital storage these days is cheap as chips.
So what’s the story? The story is you, the audience. Cinemas don’t
know who you are. Or what you want.
You’re joking!
The film industry has a number of layers: financial (they fund the
film), production (they make the film), distribution (they market
the film) and exhibition (they show the film).
Which of these layers listens to the audience? The short answer
is none or them. They each listen to the layer immediately above
themselves. (Financial doesn’t listen to anybody.)
But don’t they all listen to the box office? That’s the voice of the
audience. Ah, yes, the box office. That binary interaction, either I
buy a ticket or I don’t. Yes or no. A one or a zero. A concept which
negates the essential character of cinema as social. A film is both
product and social experience. Just like any art work, its dual
nature is, or should be, in everlasting conflict.
That’s it in a nutshell for the film industrial complex. Trying to
make sense of it all are filmmakers.
products, they are much more than that, but they are in danger of
being ignored, lost, discarded.
In the case of Departure, Andrew Steggall, who wrote and
directed, and Brian Fawcett, cinematographer, have both done a
number of short films, but this is a feature debut for both of them.
It’s your first feature film. Which way do you go? Horror, zombies,
sci-fi, a combination of all three? What do you have in the way of
resources? A picturesque house in the south of France, a few really
good actors; that’s about it really. A truly risky thing to do is to film
a domestic drama using a series of metaphors and motifs, some
so subtle they are easy to miss, like the plastered up crack in the
wall behind the boy’s bed. Others are more overt, like the bridges,
one from which the local boy dives into the reservoir, another,
larger, in Grasse. There is the bonfire of the furniture, the motor
bike which won’t start, the truck which will never move again, the
dresser with the crockery, I could go on.
Mother and son have come to France to pack up their holiday
house which is being sold. Elliot, the son, strikes up a friendship
with Clément, from Paris but staying in the local village with
his aunt. The Mother, Juliet Stevenson, is barely holding on to a
disintegrating marriage. Such a story could be told with dialogue,
as a play.
But rather than giving the story a subPinteresque, or melodramatic bent, Director and
Cinematographer have, to an extent, created a
new style, a genuinely visual kind of storytelling
that adds layers to a film which is deceptively
simple, satisfyingly natural, delicately balanced.
Film is an art form. Every now and again something comes along
which transcends the arms race of more money, more effects,
more roller coaster. This film is gentle, subtle, visual and, in its way,
devastating.
At last we might get to the film review. I don’t care about any of
this. I just want to see good films.
See it - in the cinema!
OK, fine. This film, along with the other two films reviewed
here, needs to be seen, and seen in a cinema. These films aren’t
DEPARTURE commences Fri 3 Jun DUKES AT KOMEDIA 44–47 Gardner
Street Brighton BN1 1UN picturehouses.com
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Paul Corcoran
June. Tickets available on a first-comefirst-served basis from the box office
on the day. DUKES AT KOMEDIA 44–47
Gardner Street Brighton BN1 1UN
picturehouses.com
play is an epic drama which reveals
the unusual and deeply conflicted
Englishman behind the heroic legend:
Lawrence of Arabia. Former RSC Artistic
Director Adrian Noble directs this new
production. Previews from Fri 3 Jun.
Tickets from £10. FESTIVAL THEATRE
Oaklands Park Chichester PO19 6AP
cft.org.uk
THE HOT TOPIC:
A life-changing
look at the
Change
of Life
by Christa D’Souza is
published by Short Books
and AVAILABLE NOW
for £8.99 from all good
bookshops.
Friday 3rd June
FILM
Fri 3 & Sat 4 Jun 6.30pm:
DEPARTURE (15) UK/Fr 2016
109mins. Directed by Andrew Steggall.
Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply)
and Alex Lawther (The Imitation Game)
star in this new British drama about a
mother and son - both of whom are
coming of age in their own ways. They
have come to their holiday home in
the French countryside where they are
getting ready to pack up and sell the
house. Whilst on the trip, Elliot meets
the handsome French bad boy, Clement
(Phénix Brossard)... ’sensitive, sensual’
Empire. DUKES AT KOMEDIA 44–47
Gardner Street Brighton BN1 1UN
picturehouses.com
THE ART OF
BABY-MAKING:
THE HOLISTIC
APPROACH TO
FERTILITY
Monday 6th June
MUSIC
Mon 6 Jun 8pm: STEVE VAI - Passion
and Warfare 25th Anniversary. Highly
regarded as one of the greatest
instrumental rock guitar recordings
of all time. Voted the 10th Greatest
Guitarist by Guitar World magazine the
three-time Grammy Award winner, will
be performing the entire Passion and
Warfare record for the first time in
this world tour celebrating the
groundbreaking recording. Tickets from
£24.50. BRIGHTON DOME CONCERT
HALL Church Street Brighton BN1 1UE
brightondome.org
Saturday 4th June
Thursday 9th June
EXHIBITION
Thu 9 Jun 10am-6pm: WILLEM
SANDBERG FROM TYPE TO IMAGE.
Curated by Carolien Glazenburg,
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in
collaboration with Fraser Muggeridge
and De La Warr Pavilion. The first UK
survey of an internationally renowned
icon of graphic design. Sandberg was
director of the Stedelijk Museum in
Amsterdam from 1945 to 1963 where he
championed new artists and developed
one of the most important collections
of modern art in Europe. Until Sun 4
Sep. Free entry. Gallery 1 DE LA WARR
PAVILION Marina Bexhill On Sea TN40
1DP dlwp.com
by Gerad Kite is published
by Short Books and
AVAILABLE NOW for £8.99
from all good bookshops.
THEATRE
Sat 4 & Sun 5 Jun 3.30pm:
NORTHANGER ABBEY. With just two
performers and seven puppets, Box
Tale Soup’s unique version of the book
ignites the imagination and brings
out every last drop of Austen’s wit,
playfulness and humour. “We have tried
to remain as faithful to the original work
as possible, taking the vast majority
of the dialogue verbatim from the
novel. This, combined with the use of
puppetry, has made the production
a favourite of Austen lovers.” ‘They are
wonderful.’ The Times. Tickets £10/8.50.
THE WARREN: THEATRE BOX St Peter’s
Church North, York Place Brighton
BN1 4GU brightonfringe.org
Tuesday 7th June
THEATRE
Tue 7 Jun 7.45pm: BRIDESHEAD
REVISITED. English Touring Theatre and
York Theatre Royal present the world
premiere of Evelyn Waugh’s classic
novel reimagined for the stage by Tony
Award nominee Bryony Lavery and
Olivier Award winning director
Damian Cruden. During the midst of
World War II, Captain Charles Ryder
finds his past and present blur as he
confronts memories of his first youthful
encounter with the Marchmain family
at Brideshead Castle. Until Sat 11 Jun.
THEATRE ROYAL New Road Brighton
BN1 1SD atgtickets.com
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT
(15) Academy Award nominee
2016, Best Foreign Language
Film, Colombia. picturehouses.com
DIRECTOR EVENT
Sunday 5th June
PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN
Sun 5 Jun 3pm: VERSUS: THE LIFE
AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH (12A).
Director Louise Osmond enjoyed
unprecedented access to the making
of legendary auteur Ken Loach’s new
and final film, I, Daniel Blake (Palme
d’Or Cannes 2016). The result is this
biography ‘an insightful, surprising and
moving portrait of a quiet man with
a will of steel.’ Time Out. To celebrate
the release of Versus: The Life and Films
of Ken Loach, cinema-goers are invited
to pay-what-they-can for matinee
screenings of the film on Sunday 5
Coming Soon!
Wednesday 8th June
THEATRE Wed 8 Jun 7.30pm: ROSS starring
Joseph Fiennes. Arrogant, flippant,
withdrawn and with a talent for
self-concealment, the mysterious
Aircraftman Ross seems an odd recruit
for the Royal Air Force. In fact the truth
is even stranger than the man himself.
Firstly, he’s not officially part of the
military at all, and secondly he’s certainly
not called Ross. Terence Rattigan’s 1960
Fri 3 Jun 3pm-9pm: ANDREA ARNOLD: IN
CONVERSATION. An afternoon of presentations
on Arnold’s award-winning films, including Red
Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009) and Wuthering
Heights (2011). The presentations will be followed
by an exclusive on-stage conversation with the
director who will be discussing her career and
her forthcoming film AMERICAN HONEY, which
recently premiered at Cannes 2016, winning the
Jury Prize. The British film director was appointed
Associate Fellow of the School of Media, Film and
Music at the University of Sussex in 2015. Free but
email to book. ACCA: Attenborough Centre for
the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Gardner
Centre Road, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RA
onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk
HISTORY EVENT
Tue 7 Jun 7.30pm: AN AUDIENCE WITH KATE
WILLIAMS. Professor of Modern History at
Reading University specialising in modern history,
royal and constitutional affairs, the historian,
broadcaster and best-selling author examines the
reign of Queen Elizabeth II in the year of her 90th
birthday, 2016. Her books include biographies of
some of history’s most influential women: Young
Elizabeth, her account of Queen Elizabeth’s early
life and Becoming Queen, her biography of Queen
Victoria’s ascension to the throne. Her biography of
Josephine Bonaparte is being made into a major
TV series and her biography of Emma Hamilton
is being made into a film. Tickets £20/18 conc.
CONNAUGHT THEATRE 3 Union Place Worthing,
West Sussex BN11 1LG
worthingtheatres.co.uk
Fri 3-9 June
CONCERT Fri 3 & Sat 4 Jun 7.30pm: MOZART IN
Time Out of Mind
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (15) Directed by Ciro
Guerra, with Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar. Colombia/Venezuela/Argentina 2015. 124 mins.
Spanish with English subtitles.
The recent commemorations in Dublin of the centenary of
the Easter Rising are a reminder of the involvement of Roger
Casement, whose activities in attempting to encourage
Germany to allow those prisoners of war who were Irish to join
in the uprising against British rule were unsuccessful, and who
was arrested on an Irish beach where he was deposited by a
German submarine apparently on his way to try to stop the
uprising as it would, in his opinion, fail.
Sounds complicated? He was tried for treason and, ultimately,
executed in London.
Roger Casement was very famous in the pre-war years for
exposing the activities of the companies which ran the rubber
plantations, first in Belgian controlled Congo and then in
the Amazon. The treatment of those who worked for these
companies was beyond cruel, beyond inhuman, beyond
imagination really. Failure to deliver the sap from the rubber
trees would result in having hands, feet, limbs cut off. They were
beaten, their families were beaten and killed. It was horrific.
The exploitation of the local population for the rubber trade is
confronted directly in this film. Deep in the rainforest we meet
a man who has had an arm cut off. When he discovers that his
containers of sap have been emptied onto the ground, he begs
to be shot as he knows he will be tortured and killed by those
for whom he works.
Further along, on the journey up river, we arrive at a Christian
mission, the lone priest attempting to look after a large number
of children, orphans whose parents have been murdered by the
rubber traders.
Embrace of the Serpent concerns two journeys by canoe, both
in search of the same elusive plant, Yakruna. Unlike Conrad’s
Heart of Darkness, where the journey is towards something
more horrific than can be imagined, Yakruna is a source of
healing, of salvation. The first journey, set roughly in Roger
Casement’s time, concerns a European who is dying and
Yakruna is his only hope of a cure. The journey in the indefinite
present also involves a European, also in search of Yakruna,
about which he has learnt from the journals of the earlier
explorer.
Sounds complicated? It isn’t and it is. The sting in the tail is the
way the film plays with time. Some of these characters seem
impossibly old. The two journeys seem to cross over in strange
ways.
Intrigued?
Two weeks ago I wrote about Complicité’s theatre production,
Encounter, an individual take on a European’s experiences in
the Amazon jungle. That production used sound to take the
audience out of their comfort zone, to make them experience
the story in a new way, to take them out of time.
RUSSIA & OTHER TALL TALES. Soprano Sophie Pullen, Mezzo
soprano Amanda Martikainen and pianist Helen Ridout explore
the stranger-than-fiction characters that propel opera’s most
fantastical tales. Featuring the music of Tchaikovsky, Mozart,
Donizetti, Bernstein, Bizet and Bellini. A mischievous musical
romp through history in the magical setting of Kino Teatr. Tickets
£15/14/13. KINO-TEATR Norman Road St Leonards-on-Sea TN38
0EQ kino-teatr.co.uk
MUSIC Fri 3 Jun 7.30pm: MOVIN’ MELVIN BROWN
presents ‘Me and Otis’. An extravaganza of song, tap-dance
and soulful funk! ‘A singing, tapping, tail-feather-shaking
entertainment machine.’ Time Out. Brown was featured at Oprah’s
party for Maya Angelou and has opened for Harry Connick JR,
appeared with BB King, Stevie Wonder, James Brown and in
movies with Willie Nelson. Also Sat 4 Jun 6pm & Sun 5 Jun 4pm.
Tickets £14/12.50. THE WARREN: MAIN HOUSE St Peter’s Church
North, York Place Brighton BN1 4GU
CONCERT Sat 4 Jun 7pm: FROM PALESTINE TO
BRIGHTON: Brighton and Palestinian Artists Together. An unique
opportunity to hear some of the best young musicians from the
Gaza Music School, part of the Edward Said National Conservatory
of Music. They will perform classical and contemporary Middle
Eastern music with the support of the Oriental Music Ensemble.
Tickets £10/8. ST MICHAEL AND ALL THE ANGELS CHURCH
Victoria Road Brighton BN1 3FU brightonfringe.org
EXHIBITION Sat 4 & Sun 5 Jun 1030am - 5pm:
CONTEMPORARY CRAFT SHOW WITH THE SUSSEX GUILD
at Parham House. The Sussex Guild Contemporary Craft Show is
sited in a large marquee in the Pleasure Grounds adjacent to the
house in the ancient deer park. Here members of the Sussex Guild
plus a few selected guest exhibitors, will be exhibiting and selling
their fine crafts. Four of the exhibitors will be demonstrating
their craft, in the marquee, at various times throughout the
day. PARHAM HOUSE Pulborough West Sussex RH20 4HS
thesussexguild.co.uk
SHOW Sat 4 - Sun 12 Jun: ARTS AND HUMANITIES
GRADUATE SHOW 2016. Art, Design, Architecture and Media
exhibition at the University of Brighton will, this year, take place
over nine days when the entire Grand Parade campus will be
open to the public - a huge gallery showing a wide range of
work by students from art, design, architecture, media and critical
historical courses. BRIGHTON UNIVERSITY Grand Parade BN2 0JY
arts.brighton.ac.uk
EXHIBITION Sat 4 - Tue 14 Jun: RACHAEL PLUMMER:
LOCUS. After the success of Incident in 2013 Rachael reoccupies the gallery with Locus: a series of small studies, large
format landscapes and discovered materials that explore the line
between domestic and wild. Gallery open Mon to Sat 11am–6pm.
HOP GALLERY Star Brewery, Castle Ditch Lane Lewes
BN7 1YJ hopgallery.com
LITERARY Sun 5 Jun 10am-12pm: SHORT STORY
READING CLUB - The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
(Argentina, 1941), The Fifth Story by Clarice Lispector (Brazil, 1964),
Invierbo by Junot Diaz (USA/Dominican Republic, 2012). Free and
informal Short Story Reading Club Every first Sunday 10 -12am
Lewes Waterstones. No need to book or read in advance, just turn
up on a Sunday morning, drink coffee and listen to a selection of
This film does something similar in a different way. It doesn’t
retreat from the horror, or from the fact that so much that was
the Amazon, the jungle, people, the world of that place and
time is now lost. It takes that time and our time and melds them
together, that what is lost is still there in some way, that it isn’t
too late, that there is some kind of hope.
This is a film which you need to see more than once. And the
black and white cinematography is a joy to behold. See it on the
big screen - before it’s too late!
Paul Corcoran
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT is screening from Fri 10 Jun
DUKES AT KOMEDIA
three stories. Enjoy well-loved classics and discover little-known
gems, with time for discussion and thoughts between readings.
Open to all. WATERSTONES LEWES 220/221 High Street, Lewes,
BN7 2AF lewesshortstory.co.uk
BOOK EVENT Tue 7 Jun 6.30pm: ‘THIS IS WHO
I AM’ tour presented by MyKindaBookClub. The stellar lineup
of writers of young adult literature includes Steve Camden
(It’s About Love), Alice Oseman (Radio Silence), Harriet Reuter
Hapgood (The Square Root Of Summer) and Leila Sales (Tonight
The Streets Are Ours). Tickets £2. WATERSTONES BRIGHTON 71-74
North Street, Brighton, BN1 1ZA waterstones.com/events
LIVE SCREENING Wed 8 Jun 7pm: RSC Live:
HAMLET (12A) Simon Godwin directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet
in Shakespeare’s searing tragedy. ★★★★ ‘Paapa Essiedu is
in thrillingly unforced command of the role … radiates the
impudent charisma, energy and wounded idealism of youth’
Independent. ‘The percussive music of Sola Akingbola makes a
vital contribution to a production that makes you feel, even if you
are seeing Hamlet for the 50th time, that you are experiencing it
anew.’ Guardian. DUKES AT KOMEDIA BRIGHTON
picturehouses.com
CONNAUGHT THEATRE WORTHING worthingtheatres.co.uk
COMEDY Tue 7 Jun 8pm: JOANNA NEARY: FACEFUL
OF ISSUES. Nominated for Best Show at Dave’s Leicester Comedy
Festival! The much-loved Celia, housewife and host, returns on
tour with her Toxborough Village Hall Chat Show in aid of the
Animal Hospital for a kitten who needs an iron lung. Topical talks,
showbiz exclusives, celebrity interviews plus a local locksmith’s
bawdy confessions, a recipe for air soup and a photograph of a
conker. Live music from Centre-Parting Martin. ‘A smart, fun and
exquisitely crafted show.’ The List. Tickets £6. TOM’s BAR 11a Upper
Market Street Hove BN3 1AS theoldmarket.com
ENCORE SCREENING
Thu 9 Jun 7pm: NT Live: THE AUDIENCE. For sixty years, Queen
Elizabeth II has met with each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a
private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as The Audience.
No one knows what they discuss, not even their spouses.
Written by Peter Morgan (The Queen) and directed by Stephen
Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours). Encore screenings feature a live
performance recorded during the original run of the production
in London’s West End in 2013, and feature the original West End
cast as well as an exclusive Q&A with Stephen Daldry and Helen
Mirren.
SEAFORD COMMUNITY CINEMA seafordcinema.org
HURST VILLAGE CINEMA hurstfilms.com
EXHIBITION Until Wed 6 Jul: JERWOOD COLLECTION:
COAST. The current Jerwood Collection display in Room 2
revisits Coast, Jerwood Gallery’s exhibition at the London Art
Fair in January 2016. Works featured in this exhibition including
paintings by Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, John Piper, John
Tunnard and Christopher Wood, were chosen for their particular
connection with the British coastline. Jerwood Gallery was the
Museum Partner for London Art Fair 2016. JERWOOD GALLERY
Rock-a-Nore Road Hastings Old Town TN34 3DW
jerwoodgallery.org
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