Welcome to our Spring 2025 season


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Touch
Thursday 20th March - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
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Oh My Goodness!
Thursday 27th March - 7:30pm  |  Cert 12
John Clare Theatre
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The Critic
Thursday 3rd April - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
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The Room Next Door
Thursday 10th April - 7:30pm  |  Cert 12
John Clare Theatre

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Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Thursday 24th April - 7:30pm  |  Cert PG
John Clare Theatre
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I’m Still Here
Thursday 1st May - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre

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All We Imagine As Light
Thursday 8th May - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
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La Chimera
Thursday 15th May - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
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Only The River Flows
Thursday 22nd May - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
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A Real Pain
Thursday 29th May - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre

Full programme details:


  Touch   

Showing:  Thursday 20th March - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Baltasar Kormákur   

Stars: Egill Ólafsson, Kôki, Palmi Kormákur

Certificate: 15    Duration: 121mins     Country: Iceland    Year: 2024

A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; TOUCH follows one widower’s emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out.

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  Oh My Goodness!   

Showing:  Thursday 27th March - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Laurent Tirard   

Stars: Valérie Bonneton, Camille Chamoux, Claire Nadeau

Certificate: 12A    Duration: 87mins     Country: France    Year: 2022

Five nuns set their sights on winning the cash prize in a major cycling race to raise money to renovate a dilapidated hospice. The only hitch is that none of them can ride a bicycle.

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  The Critic   

Showing:  Thursday 3rd April - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Anand Tucker   

Stars: Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong

Certificate: 15    Duration: 101mins     Country: UK    Year: 2024

Academy Award Nominee Sir Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings, The Good Liar) stars as a powerful London theatre critic who lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences. A suspenseful thriller co-starring Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace), Mark Strong (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Lesley Manville (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris).

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  The Room Next Door   

Showing:  Thursday 10th April - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Pedro Almodóvar   

Stars: Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, John Turturro

Certificate: 12    Duration: 106mins     Country: Spain    Year: 2024

Directed by Pedro Almodovar. Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

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  Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment   

Showing:  Thursday 24th April - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Karel Reisz   

Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, David Warner, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl, Newton Blick, Nan Muro

Certificate: PG    Duration: 93mins     Country: UK    Year: 1966

Morgan Delt is a failed, irresponsible left-wing artist whose Communist parents own a fish-and-chips shop in downmarket London. He is also an aggressive, self-admitted dreamer obsessed with Karl Marx, gorillas, and stopping his beautiful wife from marrying his former best friend. He uses his rich fantasy world as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behaviour lands him in a divorce from his wife, trouble with the police, and, ultimately, incarceration in a mental institution.

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  I’m Still Here   

Showing:  Thursday 1st May - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Walter Salles   

Stars: Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Selton Mello

Certificate: 15    Duration: 138mins     Country: Brazil    Year: 2024

As Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship, Eunice Paiva, a mother of five, must reinvent herself and her family when authorities abduct her husband.

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  All We Imagine As Light   

Showing:  Thursday 8th May - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Payal Kapadia   

Stars: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam

Certificate: 15    Duration: 118mins     Country: India    Year: 2024

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.

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  La Chimera   

Showing:  Thursday 15th May - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Alice Rohrwacher   

Stars: Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato

Certificate: 15    Duration: 132mins     Country:     Year: 2023

Just out of jail, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of accomplices - a happy-go-lucky collective of grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.

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  Only The River Flows   

Showing:  Thursday 22nd May - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Wei Shujun   

Stars: Yilong Zhu, Chloe Maayan, Tianlai Hou

Certificate: 15    Duration: 102mins     Country: China    Year: 2023

A chief of police investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. An arrest is made quickly; clues push the policeman to dive deeper into the hidden behaviour of the locals.

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  A Real Pain   

Showing:  Thursday 29th May - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Jesse Eisenberg   

Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe

Certificate: 15    Duration: 90mins     Country: USA    Year: 2024

The film follows mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) as they reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother, but their adventure takes a dark turn when the odd couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

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