The Deane Big Band

***Early Bird Tickets are available for each performance. The Early Bird tickets for each performance closes 1 week before the performance date ***

About the band

One of the top big bands in the Southwest, The Deane Big Band is based in Taunton and plays in venues across the West Country. One of the few modern day big bands to have a full schedule of gigs and concerts across the year, its success is due to a combination of first-class musicianship and a constantly changing programme of music.

The Deane Big Band of course plays music from the classic big band era of the thirties and forties, including numbers by Miller, Basie, Goodman and Ellington, but it also features up to date classics by artists such as Mingus, Weather Report and Radiohead. The band even has a resident arranger enabling it to showcase its own unique arrangements.

Plus, with two great vocalists singing everything from Frank Sinatra to Michael Bublé, or Ella Fitzgerald to Norah Jones, the band always goes down a storm.

Thursday Jan 18

Time-travelling with a Big Band. From Glenn Miller to Radiohead, from Tuxedo Junction to Creep,

the first in a series of four gigs at the Beehive introduces the broad scope of the band and its two fantastic vocalists. Whether it’s I Heard it through the grapevine, or a Sinatra classic, or Brubeck’s Take5, you’ll have something to sing about (including, of course, Benny Goodman’s Sing, Sing, Sing).

Thursday April 18

Duke Ellington, his legacy, and Charlie Mingus. No vocals this time, giving plenty of space for our fabulous soloists. Whether it’s Take the A Train or Don’t Get Around Much Anymore the band will swing you through the glorious Duke Ellington songbook. Then, moving up a gear, it’s onto one of Ellington’s greatest admirers, Mingus, with Better Get it in Your Soul and Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - music with added space for improvisation joyously taking Ellington’s ideas to church.

Tickets: Early Bird £11,  General Admission £14

All tickets include a £1 booking fee

Accessible seatin is available by calling the box office on 01404 384050, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

Our bar will be open 1 hour before the performance begins.

Wicked Little Letters

Director: Thea Sharrock

Cast includes: Olivia Coleman, Timothy Spall, Jessie Buckley, An

Running Time: 1 Hour 50 minutes

A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS follows two neighbors: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley).

When Edith and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues.

However, as the town's women -- led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) -- begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all.

Tickets: Adult £8, Under 16's £7

All ticket prices include a £1 booking fee

Accessible seating is available in person at the box office, or by calling 01404 384050, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm

Our bar will open 1 hour before the performance begins

Directed by Clarence Brown

Starring Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor

Duration 133 mins

Nostalgic Cinema events are kindly sponsored by Home Instead Exeter & East Devon – providers of officially outstanding home care across our community.

When Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor), an equine-loving 12-year-old living in rural Sussex, becomes the owner of a rambunctious horse, she decides to train it for England's Grand National race. Aided by former jockey Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney) and encouraged by her family, the determined Velvet gets her steed, affectionately called "The Pie," ready for the big day. However, a last-minute problem arises with the jockey and an unexpected rider must step in as a replacement.

Dementia Friendly Cinemas have proven to be very therapeutic for people with memory problems and their families. Besides engaging the brain and stimulating emotions, being part of an audience enjoying a film helps people with dementia and their carers to feel less isolated and also challenges the stigma associated with the condition.

All Nostalgic Cinema performances have subtitles to assist full enjoyment of the film by any members of the audience who are hard of hearing.

Whilst promoted as a dementia friendly screening, we hope anyone who loves the old films will come along for an afternoon of fond memories.

Tickets £5 - includes hot drink, biscuits and chat after the screening.

Ticket price includes £1 admin fee

Seats are not allocated for these showings.

JOHN SINGER SARGENT

Directed by David Bickerstaff

Running time: 103 minutes

John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, Exhibition on Screen’s film will examine how Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion.

Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sargent’s power to express distinctive personalities, power dynamics and gender identities during this fascinating period of cultural reinvention. Alongside 50 paintings by Sargent sit stunning items of clothing and accessories worn by his subjects, drawing the audience into the artist’s studio.

Sargent’s sitters were often wealthy, their clothes costly, but what happens when you turn yourself over to the hands of a great artist? The manufacture of public identity is as controversial and contested today as it was at the turn of the 20th century, but somehow Sargent’s work transcends the social noise and captures an alluring truth with each brush stroke.

Step into the glittering world of fashion, scandal and shameless self-promotion that made John Singer Sargent the painter who defined an era.

Explore the unique creative process of the late 19th century’s favourite portrait artist and the way in which his portraits captured the spirit of a vibrant and rapidly changing age.

Tickets: General Admission £13

All tickets include a £1 booking fee

Accessible seating can be booked by calling the box office on 01404 384050

The bar will be open 1 hour before the programme starts.]

Dune: Part Two

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Cast includes: Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson

Runnign time: 2 hours 56 minutes

"Dune: Part Two" will explore the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

****Dune: Part Two – second half of hallucinatory sci-fi epic is staggering spectacle The Guardian

***** Dune: Part Two – audacious, intimate, and menacing like no other blockbuster in existence The Independent

Tickets: Adults £8, Under 16's £7

All tickets include a £1 booking fee

Accessible seating can be booked by calling the box office on 01404 384050 or visiting in person, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm

The Royal Ballet Live Cinema Season 2023/24

SWAN LAKE

Choreography Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov

Additional Choreography Liam Scarlett and Frederick Ashton

Music Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky

Production Liam Scarlett

Designer John Macfarlane

Lighting designer David Finn

Conductor Martin Georgiev

Cast TBC

Royal Ballet Sinfonia

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Synopsis

Out hunting, Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans. One among them transforms

into the beautiful human Odette and he is immediately enamoured. But Odette is bound by a

spell which keeps her captive as a swan during the day. Can Siegfried free her?

Tchaikovsky’s sensational score combines with the evocative imagination of choreographer

Liam Scarlett and designer John Macfarlane to heighten the dramatic pathos of Marius

Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s quintessential ballet classic. Swan Lake remains to this day one of

the best-loved works in the classical ballet canon.

Running time 210 minutes (including two intervals)

Tickets: Adults £17, Students £11

All tickets include a £1 booking fee

Accessible seating available by contacting the Box Office

The bar opens 1 hour before the performance starts

The Royal Opera House Live Cinema Seaon 2023/24

CARMEN

Sung in French with English subtitles

Music Georges Bizet

Conductor Antonello Manacorda

Director Damiano Michieletto

Set Designer Paolo Fantin

Costume Designer Carla Teti

Lighting Designer Alessandro Carletti

Carmen Aigul Akhmetshina

Don José Piotr Beczala

Micaëla Olga Kulchynska

Escamillo Kostas Smoriginas

Zuniga Blaise Malaba

Moralès Grisha Martirosyan

Frasquita Sarah Dufresne

Mercédès Gabrielė Kupšytė

Dancaïro Pierre Doyen

Remendado Vincent Ordonneau

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Co-production with Teatro Real, Madrid and La Scala, Milan

Synopsis

Damiano Michieletto's sizzling new production evokes all the passion and heat of Bizet's

score, which features Carmen’s sultry Habanera and the rousing Toreador song. Antonello

Manacorda conducts an exciting international cast, with Aigul Akhmetshina performing the

title role.

Running time 220 minutes (including one interval)

Tickets: Adults £17, Students £11

All tickets include a £1 booking fee

Accessible seating available by contacting the Box Office

The bar opens 1 hour before the performance starts

"Swede Caroline"

Directors: FinnBruce & Brook Driver

Cast Includes: Jo Hartley, Faye Ripley, Aisling Bea , Ray Fearon

Running time: 1 Hour 48 minutes

You can enjoy an optional lunch before the 2pm screening of "Swede Caroline" **

Lunched will be served at 12:45 and the options are as belows:

Indian Lentil Dahl Soup with Pitta Bread (V, VG, GF)

Cheese Ploughmans (GF also available)

Bolognaise Pasta Bake with Garlic Bread

As up-and-coming prospect Caroline readies herself for the big championship, the competitive giant vegetable growing world is rocked by scandal when she has her prized marrow plants stolen. With her life turned upside down and desperate for answers, she turns to two private detectives, who are then dramatically kidnapped.

Are the events linked? No, of course not. But Caroline thinks they are and the hunt or her missing marrows takes her way beyond the allotments, plunging her into a national corruption scandal that goes all the way to the top!

Tickets: Adult Film + Lunch £13.50, Under 16 Film + Lunch £12.50

Cinema Tickets only (2pm & 7:30pm)  Adults £8, Under 16's £7

All tickets include a £1 booking fee

Accessible seating is available by calling  the box office on 01404 384050 or visiting in person, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

The bar will be open 1 hour before the film begins

National Theatre Live 24 Season

Nye

A new play by Tim Price

directed by Rufus Norris

Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life andlegacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state and created the NHS.

Confronted with death, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a

mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground,

Parliament and fights with Churchill.

Written by Tim Price and directed by Rufus Norris (Small Island), this epic new Welsh

fantasia will be broadcast live from the National Theatre.

Tickets £16 General Admission, £13 Student

All ticket prices include £1 admin fee

Accessible seating available by contacting the Box Office on 01404 384050, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

The bar will be open 1 hour before the performance begins

The ultimate celebration of the world’s greatest female anthems.

Since 2016, Women In Rock have been wowing audiences across Europe with their high energy performances of classic female rock.

 Performing to audiences of up to 120,000 and backed by a band of world class musicians, these women are ready to take you on a spectacular journey through five decades of female rock, leaving you cheering for more.

Featuring the songs of Cher, Blondie, Janis Joplin, Republica, Belinda Carlisle, Bonnie Tyler, P!nk, Suzi Quatro, Tina Turner & many more, Women In Rock are guaranteed to get you on your feet.

Grab your tickets and let’s get ready to sing, dance and ROCK!

Tickets: General Admission £22

All tickets include a £1 booking fee

Accessible seating can be booked via visiting/calling the box office on 01404 384050, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

The bar will open 1 hor before the performance begins

Stockland Primary School PTA organises fun events to raise funds for improved facilities and enrichment of the pupils at the school. Our current projects include developing a Forest School and allotment area, and adding exciting new playground equipment.

Sing-A-Long Encanto

Director: Hared Bush, Byron Howard, Charise Castro Smith

Running Time:1hr 42 minutes

Cast Includes: Stephanie Beatriz, Maria Cecilia Botero, John Leguizano

Dressing-up as the characters is actively encouraged, with prizes awarded for the most imaginative costumes!  Get ready to sing along with Mirabel and all her friends at this fundraising Cinema Event.

The Madrigals are an extraordinary family who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia in a charmed place called the Encanto.

 The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift -- every child except Mirabel. However, she soon may be the Madrigals last hope when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is now in danger.

Tickets: Adult £8, Under 16's £7

All tickets include a £1 bookign fee

Accessible seating is available by visiting the box office in person, or calling 01404 384050, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

The cafe/bar will open 1 hour before the screening begins