Godalming Operatic Society presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s whimsical & witty satire on the aesthetic movement of the 19th Century, ‘Patience’. Two poets, Bunthorne and Grosvenor, are rivals for the affections of the innocent milkmaid, Patience. A phalanx of fashionably love-sick maidens and their former paramours; a Duke, a Colonel and a Major, with a regiment of officers of the Dragoon Guards, completes the picture and sets the stage for the ensuing topsy-turvy action.

Godalming Operatic Society is widely regarded as one of the country’s leading G&S societies and has performed in several international festivals. They will be accompanied by a full 23 piece professional orchestra and the production will be fully staged and costumed.
Our performances often sell out, so book early to avoid disappointment.

Rating: 15

Running Time: 110 mins TBC

adapted by Simon Stephens, after Anton Chekhov
directed by Sam Yates

designed by Rosanna Vize

Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions.

Filmed live during its sold-out run in London’s West End, Vanya will be playing exclusively in cinema.

Based on the sell-out show at the Royal Academy of Arts, London

Filmed and Directed by David Bickerstaff

Produced by Phil Grabsky

Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists like Van Gogh, Bonnard, Sorolla, Sargent, Pissarro and Matisse all saw the garden as a powerful subject for their art. These great artists, along with many other famous names, feature in an innovative and extensive exhibition from the Royal Academy of Art, London.

From the exhibition walls to the wonder and beauty of artists’ gardens like Giverny and Seebüll, the film takes a magical and widely travelled journey to discover how different contemporaries of Monet built and cultivated modern gardens to explore expressive motifs, abstract color, decorative design and utopian ideas. Guided by passionate curators, artists and garden enthusiasts, this remarkable collection of Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century will reveal the rise of the modern garden in popular culture and the public’s enduring facination with gardens today. Long considered spaces for expressing colour, light and atmosphere, the garden has occupied the creative minds of some of the worlds greatest artists. As Monet said, ‘Apart from painting and gardening, I’m no good at anything’.  For lovers of art or lovers of gardens, this is an ideal film.

A new play by Jack Thorne
directed by Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play.

1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.

Written by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and designed by Es Devlin (The Crucible), the Evening Standard award-winning best new play was filmed live during a sold-out run at the National Theatre.

Cert: 12A

Running Time: 3hrs including one interval