13/01/2010
Coming soon at the Drill Hall
January/February events at a glance
Category: Coming soon at the Drill Hall
Posted by: nikki
Friday 8th January 7.30pm Tickets £4 & £3
Film - Creation CertPG
CREATION is the powerful and true-life tale of Charles Darwin and the most explosive idea in history.
A world-renowned scientist, and a dedicated family man struggling to accept his daughter’s death, Darwin is torn between his love for his deeply religious wife and his own growing belief in a world where God has no place. He finds himself caught in a battle between faith and reason, love and truth. This is the extraordinary story of Charles Darwin and how his master-work “The Origin of Species” came to light. It tells of a global revolution played out in the confines of a small English village; a passionate marriage torn apart by the most provocative idea in history – evolution; and a theory saved from extinction by the logic of a child.
Saturday 16th January 4pm Tickets £4 & £3
Film - Morris: A Life with Bells On cert 12A
Morris might be one of England's core folk traditions, but it's frequently a subject of ridicule. So it's quite an achievement that mockumentary Morris: A Life With Bells On is remarkably un-mocking. Charles Thomas Oldham, star and writer, and Lucy Akhurst, director and supporting actor, have made a film that's humorous but also affectionate and can be enjoyed by morris aficionados and cynics alike. It's also a film that built up an impressive head of steam without even being picked up for conventional distribution - instead, it got into cinemas due to online campaigns and people power. It's a true cult.
This film is being shown, unusually, on a Saturday afternoon, to coincide with the Mari Lwyd which is being staged with several Morris teams performing on the day on the day. The merriment starts at 2 p.m. with Morris dancing at the Bridge Inn. Followed by a children's Mari Lwyd and folk play "The Poor Old 'Oss" . The film will be shown next in the proceedings, cider and snacks will be available at the Drill Hall during the showing. The live-action restarts on the old river bridge which will be closed from 6 p.m. for the meeting of Morris on the bridge. The Mari Lwyd procession visits the Bridge Inn at 7 p.m. and the Chepstow Museum at 7:30 p.m. there is a to be a ceilidh in the Drill Hall from 8 p.m.
Friday, 22nd January 7.30pm, Saturday, 23rd January, 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Sunday, 24th January, 2.30pm
NEVER FOREVER – a Peter Pan Pantomime
All tickets - £6 available from chaosinchepstow@live.co.uk,
at the Stroud & Swindon Building Society or on the door
ChAOS (Chepstows own musical and dramatic society) celebrates over 100 years of entertaining the people of the Chepstow area with their festive pantomime offering.
Never Forever, written and produced by Rick Hallett, a Chepstow local, is a show based on the story of Peter Pan with a few twists on the way.....
Apart from the regular characters of Peter, Tinkerbell and Wendy who are pitting their wits against the evil Captain Hook, there are many surprises and laughs in this topical extravaganza.
There is something in this show for everyone as anyone who has attended some of ChAOS’s previous offerings over the years will testify
So, banish those New Year blues and bring the family down to the Drill Hall for a January treat
Book Talk - Jasper Fforde
Monday 25th January 7.30pm
Tickets £2 redeemable against the price
book “Shades of Grey.”
The legendary and very funny author discusses his new book “Shades of Grey.”
Saturday Feb 6th 7.30pm
Poetry on the Border
Glyn Maxwell & Stephen Knight.
Friday 29th January 7.30pm Tickets £4 & £3
Film - Moon Cert 15
Winner - Best British Independent Film Award 2009
It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. Finally, he will leave the isolation of “Sarang,” the moon base that has been his home for so long, and he will finally have someone to talk to beyond “Gerty,” the base’s well-intentioned, but rather uncomplicated computer.
Suddenly, Sam’s health starts to deteriorate. Painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident on a routine drive on the moon in a lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base (with no memory of how he got there), Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three year contract Sam started all those years ago.
Confined with what appears to be a clone of his earlier self, and with a “support crew” on its way to help put the base back into productive order, Sam is fighting the clock to discover what’s going on and where he fits into company plan
Monday 8th February 7.30pm Tickets £4 & £3
Film - "Broken Embraces" Cert 15
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Lluis Homar, Lola Dueñas, Ángela Molina
A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life.
This man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, stories and scripts, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the film he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. If he can’t direct films he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his beloved Lena.
In the present day, Harry Caine lives thanks to the scripts he writes and to the help he gets from his faithful former production manager, Judit García, and from Diego, her son, his secretary, typist and guide.
Since he decided to live and tell stories, Harry is an active, attractive blind man who has developed all his other senses in order to enjoy life, on a basis of irony and self‐induced amnesia. He has erased from his biography any trace of his first identity, Mateo Blanco. One night Diego has an accident and Harry takes care of him (his mother, Judit, is out of Madrid and they decide not to tell her anything so as not to alarm her). During the first nights of his convalescence, Diego asks him about the time when he answered to the name of Mateo Blanco, after a moment of astonishment Harry can’t refuse and tells Diego what happened fourteen years before with the idea of entertaining him, just as a father tells his littlechild a story so that he’ll fall asleep. The story of Mateo, Lena, Judit and Ernesto Martel is a story of “amour fou,dominated by fatality, jealously, the abuse of power, treachery and a guilt complex. A moving and terrible story, the most expressive image of which is the photo of two lovers embracing, torn into a thousand pieces.
Film - Creation CertPG
CREATION is the powerful and true-life tale of Charles Darwin and the most explosive idea in history.
A world-renowned scientist, and a dedicated family man struggling to accept his daughter’s death, Darwin is torn between his love for his deeply religious wife and his own growing belief in a world where God has no place. He finds himself caught in a battle between faith and reason, love and truth. This is the extraordinary story of Charles Darwin and how his master-work “The Origin of Species” came to light. It tells of a global revolution played out in the confines of a small English village; a passionate marriage torn apart by the most provocative idea in history – evolution; and a theory saved from extinction by the logic of a child.
Saturday 16th January 4pm Tickets £4 & £3
Film - Morris: A Life with Bells On cert 12A
Morris might be one of England's core folk traditions, but it's frequently a subject of ridicule. So it's quite an achievement that mockumentary Morris: A Life With Bells On is remarkably un-mocking. Charles Thomas Oldham, star and writer, and Lucy Akhurst, director and supporting actor, have made a film that's humorous but also affectionate and can be enjoyed by morris aficionados and cynics alike. It's also a film that built up an impressive head of steam without even being picked up for conventional distribution - instead, it got into cinemas due to online campaigns and people power. It's a true cult.
This film is being shown, unusually, on a Saturday afternoon, to coincide with the Mari Lwyd which is being staged with several Morris teams performing on the day on the day. The merriment starts at 2 p.m. with Morris dancing at the Bridge Inn. Followed by a children's Mari Lwyd and folk play "The Poor Old 'Oss" . The film will be shown next in the proceedings, cider and snacks will be available at the Drill Hall during the showing. The live-action restarts on the old river bridge which will be closed from 6 p.m. for the meeting of Morris on the bridge. The Mari Lwyd procession visits the Bridge Inn at 7 p.m. and the Chepstow Museum at 7:30 p.m. there is a to be a ceilidh in the Drill Hall from 8 p.m.
Friday, 22nd January 7.30pm, Saturday, 23rd January, 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Sunday, 24th January, 2.30pm
NEVER FOREVER – a Peter Pan Pantomime
All tickets - £6 available from chaosinchepstow@live.co.uk,
at the Stroud & Swindon Building Society or on the door
ChAOS (Chepstows own musical and dramatic society) celebrates over 100 years of entertaining the people of the Chepstow area with their festive pantomime offering.
Never Forever, written and produced by Rick Hallett, a Chepstow local, is a show based on the story of Peter Pan with a few twists on the way.....
Apart from the regular characters of Peter, Tinkerbell and Wendy who are pitting their wits against the evil Captain Hook, there are many surprises and laughs in this topical extravaganza.
There is something in this show for everyone as anyone who has attended some of ChAOS’s previous offerings over the years will testify
So, banish those New Year blues and bring the family down to the Drill Hall for a January treat
Book Talk - Jasper Fforde
Monday 25th January 7.30pm
Tickets £2 redeemable against the price
book “Shades of Grey.”
The legendary and very funny author discusses his new book “Shades of Grey.”
Saturday Feb 6th 7.30pm
Poetry on the Border
Glyn Maxwell & Stephen Knight.
Friday 29th January 7.30pm Tickets £4 & £3
Film - Moon Cert 15
Winner - Best British Independent Film Award 2009
It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. Finally, he will leave the isolation of “Sarang,” the moon base that has been his home for so long, and he will finally have someone to talk to beyond “Gerty,” the base’s well-intentioned, but rather uncomplicated computer.
Suddenly, Sam’s health starts to deteriorate. Painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident on a routine drive on the moon in a lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base (with no memory of how he got there), Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three year contract Sam started all those years ago.
Confined with what appears to be a clone of his earlier self, and with a “support crew” on its way to help put the base back into productive order, Sam is fighting the clock to discover what’s going on and where he fits into company plan
Monday 8th February 7.30pm Tickets £4 & £3
Film - "Broken Embraces" Cert 15
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Lluis Homar, Lola Dueñas, Ángela Molina
A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life.
This man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, stories and scripts, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the film he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. If he can’t direct films he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his beloved Lena.
In the present day, Harry Caine lives thanks to the scripts he writes and to the help he gets from his faithful former production manager, Judit García, and from Diego, her son, his secretary, typist and guide.
Since he decided to live and tell stories, Harry is an active, attractive blind man who has developed all his other senses in order to enjoy life, on a basis of irony and self‐induced amnesia. He has erased from his biography any trace of his first identity, Mateo Blanco. One night Diego has an accident and Harry takes care of him (his mother, Judit, is out of Madrid and they decide not to tell her anything so as not to alarm her). During the first nights of his convalescence, Diego asks him about the time when he answered to the name of Mateo Blanco, after a moment of astonishment Harry can’t refuse and tells Diego what happened fourteen years before with the idea of entertaining him, just as a father tells his littlechild a story so that he’ll fall asleep. The story of Mateo, Lena, Judit and Ernesto Martel is a story of “amour fou,dominated by fatality, jealously, the abuse of power, treachery and a guilt complex. A moving and terrible story, the most expressive image of which is the photo of two lovers embracing, torn into a thousand pieces.
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