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Tue 2nd November at 2:30pm |
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Join us for a relaxing and enjoyable concert by students from the Bath Spa university’s Music department.
Discover the talent of the rising stars emerging from Bath Spa as they expertly play music and songs from a varied repertoire. Full of cheer and delight, this is an afternoon not to be missed. |
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| Tickets: £4.00 | Music |
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Wed 3rd November at 8:00pm |
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Hailed by ‘Songlines’ Magazine as ‘another milestone in folk’s rebirth of cool moment’, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner continues to engage hearts and minds with emotionally loaded and life enriching takes on British traditional and world music. Steeleye Span’s legendary fiddle player is joined by Roger Flack (Guitar) and Vincent Salzfaas (Conga’s/Djembe) and the Trio recently celebrated having their Debut CD ‘Lipreading the Poet’ named as one of the Top 15 Global CD’s of 2009 by ‘The Wire’, a distinction that is indicative of the outstanding musicianship and commitment to originality that is the hallmark of their performances.
Expect to be captivated by an evening of music that is regarded with a completely fresh eye, with a sense of the familiar at its heart.
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Fri 5th November at 8:00pm |
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After seven years of marriage Lizzie realised she had turned into a bitch wife from hell. Not anymore. Lizzie has saved her marriage. She has discovered “the key to happy ever after”. Her life has changed… Now she hopes to change yours. Following the huge success of her self help bible ‘The Subservient Wife: A Practical Guide to Seeing Your Husband as a Glass Half Full rather than Half Empty’, Lizzie is on a quest to rekindle the lost flames of married couples throughout the country.
In this spoof comedy roadshow… Discover how to be happy with an imperfect man. Learn to be patient and respectful. Stop finding your husband so irritating.
“KILL TO GET A TICKET” ***** One4 Review.com
“Literally A Laugh A Minute” ***** Three Weeks
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| Tickets: £10.00, Concessions £8.00 | Comedy |
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Sat 6th November at 8:00pm |
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There can't be many songwriters who can draw inspiration from their love of ‘The Sound of Music’ and the legend of Robert Johnson. Lou Brown combines these influences and more in a blend of folk, country and pop that is gaining her fans across the world, including DJ Johnnie Walker, who recorded Lou live at Glastonbury Festival for BBC Radio 2. ‘Calm the Rising Waters’ is her new album. With a bigger, brighter sound and featuring the instrumental and production skills of Clive Gregson, it looks set to gain her even more admirers. “An artist to watch out for.” Acoustic Magazine. |
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| Billy Van Zandt & Jane Milmore | ||||
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Wed 10th November to Sat 13th November at 8:00pm Sat 13th November at 2:30pm |
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Inspired by Charlie Chaplin and the legends of pre-talky film, SILENT LAUGHTER brings silent movie mayhem live to the stage. So enjoy this gag-filled, water sloshing, bed crashing, pie throwing show. Performed in black and white with title cards, and a live musical accompaniment, this show stars a dashing hero who overcomes jail, poverty, World War I and a dastardly villain to win the girl of his dreams. More than a tribute to the slapstick antics of Chaplin, Keaton and Arbuckle - this is a reverential recreation of a bygone era. A show for all the family. |
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| Tickets: £9.00, Concessions £7.00 | Community |
Bath Film Festival 2010
BFF at the Rondo presents an unmissable selection of recent and current cine gems that have been just too quirky to find a screening space in
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Rachel Ward | |||||
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Sun 14th November at 4:00pm |
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Yes, this is the Rachel Ward who gamely played Steve Martin's foil in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. The '80s actress has now directed her first feature film and it's a very impressive debut. The story is that of a family tortured by the death of the daughter at age 16. Couched in terms of flashbacks and parallel narratives, the ghosts of the past are raised and finally put to rest when grown-up brother Ned returns to the family home with his new fiancée to attend his ailing father. It sounds like it could be a mawkish tv generational saga, but far from it - Ward does not hesitate to present sometimes devastating material, and the wonderful cinematography is complemented by first-rate performances, with newcomer Sophie Lowe as Kate making an indelible impression. Plus short: Love Does Grow on Trees / Bevan Walsh. |
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| Javier Fuentes-León | |||
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Sun 14th November at 6:30pm |
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A very moving film set on the Peruvian coast, in which a man who has concealed his gay love affair from his wife and fellow fishermen finds he has to come out following his lover Santiago's death by drowning. The Magic-Realist touch which lends Undertow the feel of a parable is Santiago's continued presence after his death - as a ghost. Initially Miguel has his cake and eats it, as nobody else can see the ghost, but he soon sees that to lay Santiago to rest in the time-hounoured village tradition the truth must out. A vibrant colour palette and the paradisiacal location lend the film a timeless feel, which adds to the lasting effect of this keen examination of Latin machismo.
Plus short: Sparks / Richard Higson. |
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| Tickets: £6.00, Concessions £4.00 | Film |
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Sun 14th November at 9:00pm |
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Dickinson, a name that might be more familiar to readers of film history than to cinema goers, deserves due recognition for this amazing film, an unaccountably forgotten gem until its restoration and re-release at the end of 2009. Anton Walbrook is magnetic as the icily determined and inferiority-wracked Captain Suvorin, driven by his desperation to possess the secret of infalibility at the gaming tables from the crabby Countess Ranevskaya, who, rumour has it, acquired the knowledge from the Devil. Everything begs superlatives - the camerawork, the atmospheric lighting, the magnificent sets conjured up on a post-war utility budget. And it's guaranteed to make you jump out of your skin at least once. |
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| Michael Madsen | |||
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Mon 15th November at 7:00pm |
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This mesmerising documentary has a sense of absurdity at its heart. Having 'solved' the problem of long-term stable storage for the country's entire stockpile of nuclear waste by sealing it in a 4km deep crypt at the end of a tunnel bored through 2 billion year-old rocks, the Finnish State faces a more challenging question: will generations 50,000 years hence have any understanding of what we mean whenwe ask them to ‘leave well alone'? Such is the staggering ambition of Onkalo - 'hiding place' - which is designed to house the waste for 100,000 years. How can 21st century humans guarantee effective communication about this deadly cache with generations of the far distant future which probably won't look anything like us, let alone speak Finnish. A beautiful, worrying and strangely funny film. Plus short: Atroz / Francisco Álvarez. |
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| Tickets: £6.00, Concessions £4.00 | Film |
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Pablo Trapero | |||||
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Mon 15th November at 9:00pm |
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Julia , a young student who is two weeks pregnant, is sent to prison for the murder of the father of her unborn child. She has no previous record, and is ill-equipped to face the hardships of jail, where she gives birth to and raises her child. It sounds like a recipe for a grim and unflinching look at the Argentine penal system, but instead it is a surprisingly tender and warm-hearted film about women's solidarity in the face of hardship. There is a special unit where the women with children live, and it's here that Julia (Martina Gusman - tremendous) finds a kindness she didn't expect. Pablo Trapero is one of Argentina's most successful directors and this one of his best films. |
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Tue 16th November at 7:00pm |
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An absurdist comedy in which Delia, a surly country girl, travels to Bucharest with her controlling parents to shoot a commercial to satisfy a condition of the competition, set by an orange juice company, that she has won. The prize is a car, which the family see as the answer (once sold) to all their troubles, but Delia just wants to drive it. As the familial row escalates, the put-upon commercials director tries to get his ad made, but the juice boss has his own 'creative' ideas about the content, and of course the light is fading... A deeply skeptical film, which dismisses any notions of glamour attached to film-making with withering irony as well as questioning materialist aspirations in post-Ceausescu Romania, but is also wryly amusing. CB Plus short: The Interview / Richard Higson. |
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George Ovashvili | |||||
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Tue 16th November at 9:00pm |
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Georgia's official bid for Foreign Language Oscar 2010 is a very powerful film about a 12 yr-old boy separated from his father by the early '90s Georgian-Abkhazian civil war. An ethnic Georgian living with his prostitute mother in Tbilisi, against all advice Tedo sets off for his hometown (reportedly in ruins) in Abkhazia, meeting plenty of casual brutality but sustained by acts of generosity from a gallery of strangers en route, and surviving largely on his wits. The film has an Odyssean quality which combined with the heart-wrenching performance of Tedo Bekhauri elevates The Other Bank into the exalted company of Klimov's Come and See and Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood. Winner of 24 festival awards, tonight is a very rare instance of a UK screening. CB Plus short: Echoes / Rob Brown. |
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| Mark Whitely | ||||
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Wed 17th November at 8:00pm |
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Thick as Thieves is a vibrant new comedy that takes the audience into the dark underbelly of the world of small-time criminals. |
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| Tickets: £10.00, Concessions £8.00 | Professional |
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Thu 18th November at 8:00pm |
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Personal interpretations of the music of Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen “It was around 40 years ago that I became drawn to these 3 wonderful songwriters, unaware at the time that each of them are Canadian.
I am still in awe of their profound contribution and of all the dots that they have joined up in the lives of millions of us across the world.
Their music forms the backdrop to all of the joy, hope and anxiety that we have lived through in recent times. Now somehow locked in time, these are songs that expose such personal and global fragility that they continue to embrace us as if they were our mother’s arms”.
“The concert also includes some rare and never transcribed poetry by both Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen that I have, with great pain and respect, set to music”
‘Some of the most atmospheric and emotive music you will ever hear’ The Independent
The evening begins with a bio-documentary on the life and music of Joni Mitchell
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| by M R James | ||||
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Fri 19th November at 8:00pm |
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M R James is acknowledged as the master of the English Ghost Story. He first performed his supernatural tales to friends at Christmas in King’s College, Cambridge. Now Nunkie Theatre Company have brought two of these unforgettable spinechillers back to life.
Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad – a tale of nocturnal horror on the Suffolk coast – is considered by many to be James’s masterpiece. It is beautifully complemented here by The Ash Tree, a story of witchcraft and vengeance down the generations.
**** Lloyd Parry catches the sense of dread that gives James his originality The Times |
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| Tickets: £10.00, Concessions £8.00 | Professional |
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Sat 20th November at 8:00pm |
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Off-script bring to the Rondo a carefully prepared improvised play. Working in an exciting and unconventional way the actors only know as much about each other’s characters as their characters would know in reality. In fact, in this cast of three, two of the actors will never have met until the moment they meet onstage in front A totally improvised play set on Annie Knight’s 50th birthday. It is 34 years since she has seen her only brother, John. Why has he been estranged and what would it be like for Annie to see him after all this time? The story will unfold before our eyes. A story of truth, lies, revelation and the passing of time. |
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| Christopher Marlowe | ||||
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Wed 24th November to Sat 27th November at 7:30pm |
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Based on the German Faustbuch, the Faust legend is about a scholar's dealing with the devil. Although written in the 16th Century, the play focuses on worthless greed and materialism. This reflects perfectly 21st Century Western societies. We live in a world that is self-serving and materialistic and, in the opinion of some, soulless – so many of us are willing to sell our souls for so little.
Using the A text of 1604, this highly visual production will utilise masks, physical theatre, dance and spectacular effects to dramatise one of the most powerful plays from the golden age of Elizabethan theatre. |
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| Tickets: £9.00, Concessions £7.00 | Community |
The Rondo Theatre is supported by Bath and North East Somerset Council.
