New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded “splurge gun”. As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone, an all-round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, a singer at Fat Sam’s speakeasy. His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah who wants Bugsy for herself.
Event District: Norwich
Withnail and I
Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail – a pair of out of work actors – spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday “by mistake” at the country house of Withnail’s uncle Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.
Cinema Paradiso
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village’s theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater’s projectionist.
Sideways
Miles, an unsuccessful novelist, and Jack, an equally unsuccessful actor who is about to get married. They decide to take a trip to California in an attempt to sow their wild oats. There they explore the nature of their failures and question their relationships. Jack has an affair and wonders whether he should call off the marriage. Miles, recently divorced himself, questions whether or not he made the right decision.
Join The Bowling House for a tasting of the wines from the film Sideways followed by a screening of the film itself!
Wine tasting to be hosted by Sara of Berkman wines accompanied by some flavoursome canapes to pair each wine. The event will be hosted in our large upstairs function room with the film projected onto a large cinema screen, taking the space back to its original purpose. It promises to be a wonderful evening and we look forward to seeing you there.
National Theatre Live: Vanya
National Theatre Live
Vanya
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.
Find out more at www.ntlive.com
Olive Branch
Olive Branch is a feel-good, funny and dynamic dance duet that intertwines contemporary dance with martial arts. It is an impressive and uplifting piece that will suit audiences of all ages, dance-lovers or those new to dance.
Following the new and unusual friendship between two strangers, they quickly learn to overcome differences, despite miscommunications, by developing trust and acceptance, an alliance is formed to defend mother nature.
Performed by Vanhulle Dance Theatre and developed through workshops and shared extracts with over 700 participants including school children and young people, Olive Branch is an impressive and poetic tale of rediscovering the wonder and beauty that nature provides.
Snug and Grub Catch a Bug
Snug and Grub live safely underground in their earthy heap. One day they pop out from under a rock to see some googly eyes peering through the grass. What on earth is it? and who can catch it first? But beware, something is hovering in the blue sky ready to swoop down! A wonderfully wiggly adventure for all the family .
Join Garlic Theatre for a funny organic tale, with clowning and a host of colourful puppets, a beautifully crafted set and foot tapping music.
Programmed as part of the national Rekindle Libraries project funded by Arts Council England.
Shades of Nature: Shadow Theatre Workshop
Using paper cut-out creatures, drawings and plants harvested from the library garden, create your own shadow scene that you can enter and explore! Artists and gardeners from Edible East (Jennie Pedley and Tara Sampy) and storyteller Jonathan Lambert will help you compose and pose in your own immersive silhouette projections. Bring to life the inhabitants of an edible forest garden and record images and video on your phone to take home. What shapes will you make, and what stories will you tell?
This workshop includes a tour of the community garden and a chance to learn about the plants and food growing there, as well as the opportunity to harvest some! You’ll then step inside the library to learn shadow puppetry techniques, and use the included art materials to make more characters and objects for your silhouette scene. You can then record a still freezeframe or a moving scene to look back on.
If We Just Keep Going We Will Get There In The End
Acclaimed stand-up poet, storyteller and lo-fi theatre maker Jonny Fluffypunk is back with a brand spanking new show about searching for the hero inside yourself, without involving M-People.
The world’s gone nuts. You’ll have had your problems; Jonny’s had his. He also built himself a shed in lockdown, in which to work out how to get through it. This is the result. Inspired equally by idleness, ancient myths, and Grayson Perry’s Art Club, it’s part story, part on-theme poetic digression and part community support group.
It’s a show about celebrating the glory of small things; about love and strength and finding some sort of meaning. By turns funny, absurd, and touching, there’s a pilgrimage across London with a home-made effigy of a dead dog, the tragedy of throwing your childhood home into a skip, and an epiphany beside a derelict canal.
There are poems, bits with a ukulele, opportunities for supported sharing, and who knows what else? The world keeps throwing curveballs; the best-laid plans are thrown into chaos, and Jonny’s plans are rarely that. But that’s what this show is really all about- fragile humans, and the ways we have to find to cope with it all.
This show is part of The Inn Crowd at The Festival Speak EasyÂ
Boring Someone in Some Dark Café
Three days. Six shows. Experience some of the best spoken word and live literature in the UK in our very special secret pub hidden in
Festival Gardens.
Wide-eyed and brimming with hopes of becoming the next guitar-cradling, shoe-gazing romantic that everybody’s talking about, Jess dreams of a life that’s anything but ordinary. Boring Someone In Some Dark Cafe follows one musician’s discovery, that outside of the world of records and songs – ordinary might just be the best thing going.
With original songs and music carefully knitted into the narrative, this show tells a story of being both a nobody in the music industry and a rookie in love, and of looking around for somewhere to belong.
Jess Morgan is a writer and musician from Norwich – described as ‘The sort of thing you put on your headphones when walking alone and wanting to feel like you’re in your own gritty British love story.’ (TRASH magazine).
This show is part of The Inn Crowd at The Festival Speak EasyÂ