The Merry Wives of Windsor from The Globe Theatre, London
Running time 156 minutes including a 15 minute interval
Double-meanings, disguises and dirty laundry abound in this timeless comedy. Sir John Falstaff, staying in Windsor and down on his luck, decides to restore his fortunes by seducing the wives of two wealthy citizens. But the ‘Merry Wives’ quickly cotton on to his tricks and decide to have a bit of fun of their own at Falstaff’s expense…
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
La Boheme from Sydney Harbourside
Running time 136 minutes including a 15 minute interval
Recorded at Sydney Harbourside. Experience the love, laughter and loss of La Bohème performed alongside the magnificent Sydney Harbour. Puccini’s beloved classic – the original bohemian love story – has long captivated audiences around the world. His music swells with love, soars in ecstasy, crackles with jealousy and cries with heartache. With lavish sets and costumes transforming the harbour-top stage into a romantic Paris winter, Opera Australia's glittering production will be an unforgettable delight.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
The Winters Tale from The Globe Theatre, London
Starring: Will Keen (The Crown, Wolf Hall) as Leontes, Priyanga Burford (W1A, Marcella) as Hermione and Annette Badland (EastEnders, Father Brown) as Old Shepherd.
Running time 170 minutes including a 15 min interval
Recorded at The Globe Theatre, london. In a fit of groundless jealousy, Leontes wrecks his marriage, defies the gods, destroys his family and ruins himself. As the years roll around, a new generation flee their own country and take refuge in Sicilia. Unknowingly they bring with them the key to the past, present and future…
The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare’s great play of the irrational and inexplicable. The play’s uncontrollable emotions – rage, love, grief and forgiveness – range across gender, country, class and age. Its universe is full of monsters, gods and natural disasters, and its colossal sweep takes us from stifling courts to unbuttoned festivals.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
Measure for Measure – Globe on Screen
Running time 160 minutes including one 15 minute interval.
Vincentio, Duke of Vienna, disgusted by the immorality in his city, announces his withdrawal from public life and leaves his deputy, the puritanical Angelo, in charge. Angelo, in his zeal for observing the letter of the law, begins a ruthless programme to stamp out sexual licence, in the course of which he condemns one Claudio to death. Surely Claudio’s virginal sister Isabella, a novice nun seeking mercy for her brother, could not awake the lust of this cold, censorious man?
Injustice, hypocrisy and the challenge of inflexible virtue combine in Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s most searching exploration of sexual politics and social justice.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
Richard II – Globe on Screen
Running time 175 minutes including an interval.
Ruling by divine right, but himself ruled by caprice, King Richard exiles Henry Bolingbroke and seizes his father’s vast estates. While Richard is distracted by a rebellion in Ireland, Bolingbroke returns to England, intent on recovering his rightful property and, with the support of his disgruntled peers, perhaps seizing the crown itself.
Dazzlingly eloquent and ceremonious, Richard II invests a weak and self-dramatising man with tragic status and represents Shakespeare’s most searching exploration of the meaning of kingship and the rising powers that can destroy it.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
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The Merchant of Venice – Globe on Screen
Running time 180 minutes including an interval.
Portia, a wealthy heiress of Belmont, is forced to set her suitors a challenge. The winner will win her hand in marriage; the losers will lose her hand and much more. In Venice, the epicentre of consumption, speculation and debt, Bassanio borrows money from his friend Antonio to finance his attempt. Antonio, in turn, takes out a loan from the moneylender Shylock. The loan will be repaid when Antonio’s ships return to the city. But if the ships fail to return, and the money cannot be repaid, Antonio will give to Shylock a pound of his own flesh. And they do fail. And Shylock will have his ‘bond’.
In some of his most highly-charged scenes, Shakespeare dramatises the competing claims of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy; while in the character of Shylock he created one of the most memorable outsiders in all theatre.
Double Olivier and Tony award winner Jonathan Pryce plays Shylock in his first appearance at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
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The Importance of Being Earnest from The Vaudeville Theatre, London
Starring: David Suchet, Michael Benz, Emily Barber, Philip Cumbus, Imogen Doel, Michele Dotrice, Richard O’Callaghan.
Running time 148 minutes including an interval.
Oscar Wilde’s superb satire on Victorian manners is one of the funniest plays in the English language – the delightful repartee and hilarious piercing of hypocrisy and pomposity will make you laugh out loud! Two bachelor friends, the adorable dandy Algernon Moncrieff and the utterly reliable John Worthing J.P., lead double lives to court the attentions of the exquisitely desirable Gwendolyn Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. The gallants must then grapple with the riotous consequences of their deceptions – and with the formidable Lady Bracknell.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
Turandot performed by Opera Australia on Sydney Harbour
Running time 135 minutes, including a 15-minute interval.
Puccini’s Turandot is one of the greatest operas ever written: brilliant melodies for music-lovers, a gripping story for those that like action and drama, an exotic setting and plenty of movement for lovers of stagecraft and visual splendour. Not forgetting an incredible version of Nessun Dorma. Expect a set that will take your breath away. Performed in Italian with English subtitles.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
Globe on Screen – The Comedy of Errors
Starring: Hattie Ladbury • Simon Harrison • Stefan Adegbola
Andy Apollo • Paul Brendan • Linda Broughton • Gershwyn Eustache Jr • Becci Gemmell • Peter Hamilton Dyer • Emma Jerrold • James Laurenson • Matthew Needham • Anne
Odeke • Brodie Ross • Jamie Wilkes
WRITTEN BY: William Shakespeare
DIRECTED BY: Blanche McIntyre
DESIGNER: James Cotterill COMPOSER: Olly Fox
Running time 147minutes (including 15min interval)
Take one pair of estranged twin brothers (both called Antipholus), and one pair of estranged twin servants (both called Dromio), keep them in ignorance of each other and throw them into a city with a reputation for sorcery, and you have all the ingredients for theatrical chaos. One Antipholus is astonished by his foreign hospitality; the other enraged by the hostility of his home town. The Dromios, caught between the two, are soundly beaten for obeying all the wrong orders.
A hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, furious slapstick and social nightmare.
‘As enchanting as it is hilarious’ – The Independent.
147mins (including 15min interval)
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
Globe on Screen – Julius Caesar
Running time 167 minutes
When Caesar returns to Rome from the wars a virtual dictator, Brutus and his republican friends resolve that his ambition must be curbed – which in Rome can mean only one thing: the great general must be assassinated. But once the deed is done, the idealistic conspirators must reckon with the forces of a new power bloc, led by Mark Antony and Caesar’s nephew Octavius. When their armies close at Philippi, will Caesar’s ghost be avenged?
167mins (including a 15min interval)
WRITTEN BY: William Shakespeare
DIRECTED BY: Dominic Dromgoole
DESIGNER: Jonathan Fensom
COMPOSER: Clare van Kampen
CAST: Tom Mckay • Luke Thompson • Catherine Bailey
Sam Cox • Patrick Driver • Anthony Howell • George Irving
Joe Jameson • Christopher Logan • Tom Kanji • Will Mannering Keith Ramsey • Paul Rider • Katy Stevens • Dickon Tyrell
‘Dromgoole’s taut, thriller-ish production’ – Time Out
“a rapport between the performers and the audience that feels genuinely magical” – Daily Telegraph
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
Globe on Screen – Antony & Cleopatra
Running time 179 minutes (including a 15 minute interval).
Cleopatra, the alluring and fascinatingly ambiguous Queen of Egypt, has bewitched the great Mark Antony, soldier, campaigner and now one of the three rulers of the Roman Empire. When Antony quarrels with his fellow leaders and throws in his lot with Cleopatra, his infatuation threatens to split the Empire in two. Virtue, vice and transcendent love combine in Shakespeare’s greatest exploration of the conflicting claims of sex and power, all expressed in a tragic poetry of breath-taking beauty and magnificence.
WRITTEN BY: William Shakespeare
DIRECTED BY: Jonathan Munby
DESIGNER: Colin Richmond
COMPOSER: Jules Maxwell
CAST: Clive Wood • Eve Best • Ignatius Anthony • Peter Bankolé • Jonathan Bonnici • Phillip Correia • Jolyon Coy
Phil Daniels • Paul Hamilton • Rosie Hilal • James Hayes
Sean Jackson • Daniel Rabin • Sirine Saba • Obioma Ugoala
Eve Best…superb’ ‘Clive Wood…on vigorous form’ – Evening Standard
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
Madam Butterfly presented by Opera Australia
Running time 140 minutes including a 15 minute interval.
One of the world’s most spectacular events, Opera on Sydney Harbour, is returning to Cinema by the Sea with Opera Australia’s performance of Puccini’s tale of love and honour. Madam Butterfly is one of opera’s most enduring tales of unrequited love. Day after day, week after week, month after month, she waits for him. She knows that a love as perfect as hers, as pure and powerful, could never fail to bring him back. He will return. She is sure he will. One fine day.
Playing to Puccini’s heart-rending score, this stunning performance is led by Japanese soprano Hiromi Omura who portrays tragic Cio-Cio San with her co-star Georgy Vasiliev as Pinkerton.
Performed in Italian with English subtitles.
Music Giacomo Puccini
Conductor Brian Castles-Onion
Director Alex Ollé
Cio Cio San Hiromi Omura
Pinkerton Georgy Vasiliev
Suzuki Anna Yun
Sharpless Michael Honeyman
Goro Graeme Macfarlane
Bonze Gennadi Dubinsky
Kate Pinkerton Celeste Lazarenko
Yamidori Sitiveni Talei
Commissioner Simon Meadows
Registrar Adam Player
Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra
Opera Australia Chorus
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
Aida presented by Opera Australia on Sydney Harbour
Running time 145 minutes with 15 minute interval
In Aida, Verdi masterfully puts the intimate affairs of the heart against the grandeur of the universe: where
kingdoms rise and fall and the sands of time grind onwards. There could be no better setting for such an opera than Sydney Harbour itself, awash with the light of the city and the Sydney Opera House silhouetted against the setting sun. But amid all of the spectacle, the famous ‘Triumphal March’, battle scenes and ancient temples, there’s an emotional heart.Long after the fireworks have faded from the sky and Amneris sings her quiet, concluding prayer, you’ll see the true mastery of this opera: it is at once an historic epic and an utterly relatable human tragedy.
Performed in Italian with English subtitles.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
Globe on Screen – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Running time 182 minutes, including a 15 minute interval.
Hermia loves Lysander and Helena loves Demetrius – but Demetrius is supposed to be marrying Hermia… When the Duke of Athens tries to enforce the marriage, the lovers take refuge in the woods and wander into the midst of a dispute between the king and queen of the fairies. Shakespeare put some of his most dazzling dramatic poetry in this teasing, glittering, hilarious and amazingly inventive play, whose seriousness is only fleetingly glimpsed beneath its dreamlike surface. “A hearty and hilarious night” – Time Out.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
Globe on Screen – Macbeth
Running time 155 minutes including 15 minute interval.
When three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and to kill the first man standing in their path, the virtuous King Duncan. But to maintain his position, Macbeth must keep on killing – first Banquo, his old comrade-in-arms; then, as the atmosphere of guilt and paranoia thickens, anyone who seems to threaten his tyrant’s crown.
From its mesmerising first moments to the last fulfilment of the witches’ prophecy, Shakespeare’s gripping account of the profoundest engagement with the forces of evil enthrals the imagination. “Marvellous” – The Observer.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
Globe on Screen – The Tempest
Running time 169 minutes including a 15 minute interval
Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island.He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and the deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this perfidious brother and his confederates on the island, his long contemplated revenge at last seems within reach.
Imbued with a spirit of magic and the supernatural, The Tempest is Shakespeare’s late great masterpiece of forgiveness, generosity and enlightenment. “Spellbinding” – The Telegragh.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
Starts at 7.00pm – Sorry no late admittance.
Bar & food.
Adults £7.50.
Students and Under 18’s £5.00.
Members £5.00.
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