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Royal Opera House: Madama Butterfly 24 (U)

Royal Opera House: Madama Butterfly 24

The Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season 2023/24


MADAMA BUTTERFLY


Sung in Italian with English subtitles


Music Giacomo Puccini

Conductor Kevin John Edusei

Directors Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier

Set Designer Christian Fenouillat

Costume Designer Agostino Cavalca

Lighting Designer Christophe Forey

Cio-Cio-San Asmik Grigorian

Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton Joshua Guerrero

Sharpless Lauri Vasar

Suzuki Hongni Wu

Goro Ya-Chung Huang

The Bonze Jeremy White

Prince Yamadori Josef Jeongmeen Ahn

Kate Pinkerton Veena Akama-Makia

Imperial Commissioner Romanas Kudriašovas

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

A co-production with Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona


Synopsis

When the young geisha, Cio-Cio-San, marries American Naval Officer Pinkerton, she

believes she is entering a real, binding marriage for life. Forsaking her religion and

community, she learns all too late that for Pinkerton, their marriage is merely an illusion –

with tragic consequences.

With a score that includes Butterfly’s aria, 'Un bel dì, vedremo' (‘One fine day’) and the

Humming Chorus, Giacomo Puccini’s opera is entrancing and ultimately heart-breaking.

Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s exquisite production takes inspiration from 19th-century

European images of Japan. Asmik Grigorian performs the role of Cio-Cio-San, with Kevin

John Edusei conducting.




Running time 195 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


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Thursday 28 Mar 20247:00pm Book Now

A Country Music Songbook

A Country  Music Songbook

A brand new, and refreshing, country music theatre production for 2024.


 

A unique collection of songs, some familiar and some possibly not so, carefully illustrated with projected imagery, together with a band of seasoned players, and an intimate, engaging, emotional and entertaining musical journey through the past ten decades of country music’s wide-ranging history and heritage.


 

The show is a fascinating glimpse at America’s rich and varied country music legacy and, we hope, a testament to the enduring power of country music and its ability to paint pictures with lyrics and melodies that can transport you to another world…..



Tickets: General Admission £26

All tickets include a £1 booking fee

Accessible seating is available via the box office during working hours, Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

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

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Friday 29 Mar 20247:30pm Book Now

The All Seasons (U)

The All Seasons

The Alll Season


Scintillating vocals & incredible harmonies. Bringing to life the music of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, The All Seasons present a show that will wow fans of the Jersey Boys sound.


Crammed with singalong hits, The All Seasons is a West End experience at The Beehive, Honiton. Young, vibrant and talented; The All Seasons are a guaranteed hit. Immaculately costumed in the iconic red jackets, the boys offer a show that faithfully recreates the sound that has been the soundtrack to our lives for over half a century.


The All Seasons is an exhilarating revue of the best of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, presented as a live all-singing, all-dancing fully-staged show that has impressed audiences throughout the UK and abroad.



Tickets £18

All tickets include a £1 admin fee

Accessible seating available by contacting the Box Office

Bar open 1 hour before event

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Saturday 30 Mar 20247:30pm Book Now

Show of Hands (24)

Show of Hands (24)

SHOW OF HANDS

Running Time 2 hours 10 minutes (Including an interval)


This will be an opportunity to reconnect with their loyal supporters, and a chance to inspire a new generation of folk musicians. One of the defining aspects of Show of Hands' career has been their unwavering commitment to supporting grassroots promoters. This ethos has not only enriched the folk music scene but also strengthened the bonds between artists and their audiences.


Following this tour, Steve and Phil will be taking a well-deserved break from the limelight.


They plan to pursue solo projects, explore new creative horizons, and recharge their artistic batteries. This indefinite hiatus marks the end of an era, but it also heralds exciting new beginnings for two of the folk world’s best loved musicians. Show of Hands' dedication to their roots, their music, and the communities that have supported them is a testament to their enduring legacy.


The spring of 2024 promises to be a time of reflection and celebration as we bid farewell to an era while eagerly anticipating the next chapter in the incredible journey of Steve Knightley and Phil Beer.


 


Website: https://showofhands.co.uk/


Tickets: General Admnission £36, Student £18

All tickets include a £1 booking fee

Accessible seats are available by calling the box office on 01404 384050

The bar will open 1 hour before the performance begins



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Wednesday 3 Apr 20247:30pm Book Now (Sold Out)

Migration (U)

Migration

Migration


Directors: Benjamin Renner & Guylo Homsy

Cast includes: Kumail Nanijiani, Tresi Gazal, Elizabeth Banks

Running time: 1 hour 33 minutes



 Illumination, creators of the blockbuster Minions, Despicable Me, Sing and The Secret Life of Pets comedies, invites you to take flight into the thrill of the unknown with a funny, feathered family vacation like no other in the action-packed new original comedy, Migration.







Tickets: Adult £8, Under 16's £7, Family (4 people) £26

All tickets include a £1 booking fee

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

Our cafe/bar will be open 1 hour before the performance begins

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Friday 5 Apr 20242:00pm Book Now

The Holdovers (15)

The Holdovers

The Holdovers

Director: Alexander Payne

Cast includes: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa

Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes


Oscar nominated 4 times including; Best Film, Best Actor & Best Supporting Actress


Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham (Giamatti) -- not his students, not his fellow faculty, not the headmaster, who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating.


With no family and nowhere to go over Christmas holiday in 1970, Paul remains at school to supervise students unable to journey home. After a few days, only one student holdover remains -- a trouble-making 18-year-old named Angus, a good student whose bad behavior always threatens to get him expelled.


 Joining Paul and Angus is head cook Mary (Randolph)-an African American woman who caters to sons of privilege and whose own son was recently lost in Vietnam. These three very different shipwrecked people form an unlikely Christmas family sharing comic misadventures during two very snowy weeks in New England.


The real journey is how they help one another understand that they are not beholden to their past-they can choose their own futures.



Giamatti gives a wonderful performance here. He roots his character’s frustrations not in cruelty but in misguided desperation -- an eagerness to mould these boys into men better than himself. Independent


Tickets: Adult £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

Our bar will be open 1 hour before the performance begins

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Friday 5 Apr 20247:30pm Book Now

Honiton Lions Club Barn Dance (U)

Honiton Lions Club Barn Dance

The Honiton & District Lion Club Fundraising Barn Dance

Caller: Jeremy M Child


Honiton and District Lions Club CIO are pleased to announce that we will be holding a Barn Dance in  aid of local charities at The Beehive Honiton on Saturday 6th April 2024. The start time is 7.30pm. The bar will be open from 7.00pm. The ticket price is just £10 per person.


We are pleased to welcome Jeremy M Child to be the caller for the evening.


Honiton Lions were formed in 1977 here in Honiton with 20 members and over the last 46 years have supported many local and international charities.


Unfortunately, our membership is now nine, we are always looking for new members.

If you would like to know more about Lions Clubs International and in particular Honiton Lions  please give our President Lion Brian Richards a call on 01404 43738 or mobile 07966173828 or drop  him an email brian.richards@honitonlions.org.uk or visit our website www.honitonlions.org.uk.


Please support this event to help us help others in the community and if you need more information about this event, please give Lion Nigel a call on 07769494601


Tickets: General Admission £10

All ticket prices include a £1 booking fee

The bar will open at 7pm for this event

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Saturday 6 Apr 20247:30pm Book Now

The Jungle Bunch World Tour (U)

The Jungle Bunch World Tour

The Jungle Bunch World Tour

Director: Benoît Somville,

Cast includes:  Dawn Ford, Mark Camacho, Wyatt Bowen

Running Time: 99 minutes


The wet season is coming – and our Jungle Bunch are preparing for the usual deluge.  But when Henry the Beaver blankets the jungle with a “super-dangerous” pink foam – which explodes on contact with water (!) - The Jungle Bunch must unite in a thrilling race against time to save their home.


 Their mission: to discover an antidote and save the jungle!


 


Tickets: Adult £8, Under 16's £7, Family(4 people) £26

All tickets include a £1 booking fee

Accessible seating can be booked via the box office on 01404 384050

The bar will be open 1 hour before the start of the film

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Thursday 11 Apr 20242:00pm Book Now

Royal Opera House: MacMillan Celebrated (U)

Royal Opera House: MacMillan Celebrated


The Royal Ballet Live Cinema Season 2023/24


MACMILLAN CELEBRATED


Choreography Kenneth Macmillan

Danses Concertantes

Music Igor Stravinsky

Designer Nicholas Georgiadis

Lighting Designer John B. Read

Cast TBC


Different Drummer

Music Anton Webern/ Arnold Schoenberg

Set designs Kenneth Macmillan

Costume designs Yolanda Sonnabend in association with Peter Farley

Lighting design John B. Read

Cast TBC


Requiem

Music Gabriel Fauré

Designs Yolanda Sonnabend in association with Peter Farley

Lighting design John B. Read

Cast TBC

Conductor Koen Kessels

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House



Synopsis

Danses Concertantes, commissioned by Ninette de Valois in 1955, was MacMillan’s first

major work. An early sign of the incredible artistic output that would follow, the work’s critical

success spurred MacMillan to abandon performing in favour of choreography. It is followed

by Different Drummer, MacMillan’s complex and haunting balletic interpretation of Woyzeck,

Georg Büchner's play about a soldier’s descent into madness. The mixed programme

concludes with Requiem, his 1976 work for Stuttgart Ballet, created in memory of its late

artistic director, MacMillan’s friend and former Royal Ballet dancer and choreographer John

Cranko.




Running time 195 minutes (including two intervals)


Tickets: Adults £17, Students £11

All tickets include £1 booking fee

Accessible seating available by contacting the Box Office

The bar opens 1 hour before the performance starts

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Thursday 11 Apr 20247:00pm Book Now

India Electric Co (24)

India Electric Co (24)



INDIA ELECTRIC CO

Running time 115 minutes (Including interva)


India Electric Co are perhaps best described as “a veritable musical magpie’s nest” (BBC Radio 3) and “A full musical odyssey” (BBC Radio 1). Blending traditional instruments, folk melodies and subtle electronic influences, they’ve extensively performed throughout Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and most recently at The Royal Albert Hall.


After a mammoth 60+ date UK and European support tour with Midge Ure and live sessions with BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music they return in 2024 with their long awaited third studio album.


 With The Daily Telegraph giving them **** and declaring them “Bursting with invention and full of surprises.” and FRUK describing them as “one of the truly pioneering acts” they will be bringing their unique headline shows to audiences throughout the year.



“Two of the most extraordinary musicians, a phenomenal duo” – BBC Radio 2


**** “Busy as rush hour but full of light, describing a life alive with motion” – The


Independent


“One of the truly pioneering acts in folk music” – FRUK


**** “Classy pop” – The Scotsman


Tickets: Advanced ticket £17,  General Admission £19

All ticket prices include a £1 booking fee

Our bar will be open 1 hour before the performance starts

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Friday 12 Apr 20247:30pm Book Now

Maestro (15)

Maestro

Maestro

Director: Bradley Cooper

Cast includes: Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Matt Bomer

Running time: 2 hours 19 minutes


Oscar nominatated for 7 Oscars including Best Film, Best Actor & Best Actress


Maestro is a towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.


 A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.



**** Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan make sweet music in dynamic Bernstein double act - The Guardian


Tickets: Adult £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

Our bar will be open 1 hour before the performance begins

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Saturday 13 Apr 20247:30pm Book Now

The Deane Big Band

The Deane Big Band

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.

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Thursday 18 Apr 20248:00pm Book Now

Wicked Little Letters (15)

Wicked Little Letters

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

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Friday 19 Apr 20247:30pm Book Now

Nostalgic Cinema: National Velvet (1944) (U)

Nostalgic Cinema: National Velvet (1944)

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.

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Thursday 25 Apr 20242:00pm Book Now

Exhibition On Screen: John Singer Sargeant (U)

Exhibition On Screen: John Singer Sargeant

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.]

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Thursday 25 Apr 20247:00pm Book Now

Dune: Part Two (12A)

Dune: Part Two

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

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Friday 26 Apr 20247:00pm Book Now

Royal Opera House Ballet: Swan Lake 24 (U)

Royal Opera House Ballet: Swan Lake 24

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

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Saturday 27 Apr 20244:00pm Book Now