Performances

Performances will be at the Benjamin Meaker Theatre, Phillips Street, St. Helier, unless otherwise stated.

Mon 12 JADC: Choices Tue 13 JADC: Choices Wed 14 JADC: Choices Thur 15 JADC: Choices Fri 16 JADC: Choices Sat 17 JADC: Choices Mon 19 Monday Matinée: Hidden Figures Mon 19 JFS: The Lighthouse Tue 20 Penelope Blackie Thur 22 Dr. Adam Perchard: Bathtime for Britain Fri 23 Dr. Adam Perchard: Bathtime for Britain Sat 24 Polish Film Festival: Wild Roses Sat 24 Polish Film Festival: Ida Wed 28 ACT: Lust Actually Thur 29 ACT: Lust Actually Fri 30 ACT: Lust Actually Sat 31 Polish Film Festival: Women’s Day Sat 31 Polish Film Festival: In Darkness

Mon 2 JFS: Pain and Glory Tue 3 HRFF: Disclosure Wed 4 HRFF: A Worm in the Heart Thur 5 HRFF: Gay Chorus Deep South Fri 6 HRFF: José 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 3pm 8pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 3pm 8pm

8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm

Sat 7 James Horsfall (piano) Sun 8 Drama Lab: Hamlet Thur 12 Simon MacDonald: In Receipt Fri 13 Simon MacDonald: In Receipt Sat 14 JFS: The Souvenir Mon 16 Monday Matinée: Romeo + Juliet Mon 16 St Martin’s Musical Society: Unlocked! Tue 17 St Martin’s Musical Society: Unlocked! Wed 18 St Martin’s Musical Society: Unlocked! Sat 21 Chantez Avec Bertrand et Veronique Mon 23 JFS: Stories We Tell

Wed 2 My Family and Other Animals Thur 3 My Family and Other Animals Fri 4 My Family and Other Animals Sat 5 My Family and Other Animals Sun 6 My Family and Other Animals Tue 8 My Family and Other Animals Wed 9 My Family and Other Animals Thur 10 My Family and Other Animals Fri 11 My Family and Other Animals Sat 12 My Family and Other Animals Sun 13 My Family and Other Animals Tue 15 My Family and Other Animals Wed 16 My Family and Other Animals Thur 17 My Family and Other Animals Fri 18 My Family and Other Animals Sat 19 My Family and Other Animals Sun 20 My Family and Other Animals Mon 21 My Family and Other Animals Tue 22 My Family and Other Animals 7.30pm 3pm + 6.30pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 8pm 8pm

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7.30pm

Say Something Happened by Alan Bennett (30 mins) Alternative Accommodation by Pam Valentine (40 mins) Parcel by David Campton (40 mins)

The JADC proudly presents an evening of humour and poignancy. These three One Act Plays are all linked with the theme of old age, or more importantly, how we look after the elderly in our families and the wider community. This seems particularly appropriate during lockdown, when the elderly were (and still are) amongst the many who were self-isolating, cut off from family and friends. Despite the seriousness of the subject (or perhaps because of it?) they are all comedies.

These three amateur productions are presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.

£12

USA 2016 | 127 mins | Cert: PG | Director: Theodore Melfi

Matinée: 2pm

Hidden Figures tells the incredible true story of Katherine Jonson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson: three visionary African-American women working at NASA in the early 1960s. Serving as the brains behind the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn, which became a turning point in the space race, the three women cross gender, race and professional lines to achieve the seemingly impossible.

£5 (£3 students) Members: £4.25 (£2.55 students) JFS Members: £4

USA / Canada 2019 | 109 mins | Cert: 15 | Director: Robert Eggers

8pm

Shot in black and white, echoing 19th century photography, two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) try to maintain their sanity whilst living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. When a storm leaves them stranded, tensions rise in this eerie psychological thriller.

Open to Jersey Film Society Members only Tickets must be booked in advance at the Box Office

8pm

Penelope, who returns to give her fourteenth annual Recital, is a graduate of the Paris Conservatoire where she gained a Premier Prix as a pupil of the celebrated pianist Vlado Perlemuter. Perlemuter had studied all the piano works of Ravel over a six-month period whilst staying with the composer. Penelope is thus, in a sense, a pupil at one remove of Ravel. It is fitting, therefore, that one of the evening’s pieces is Le Tombeau de Couperin.

Haydn: Sonata in E minor Hob XVI:34; Beethoven: Sonata No 17 in D minor Op. 31 no 2 (The Tempest); Chopin: Ballade No 3 in A flat; Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

£18 (£5 students in full-time education)

FROM THE WEST END TO THE U-BEND / Dr Adam Perchard

8pm

Join local boy and international cabaret sensation Dr Adam Perchard as he sings his way through lockdown in his childhood bathroom. Featuring hits from pop, rock, and musical theatre - and numerous outfit changes.

“Dazzling” - The Financial Times “Twisted genius” - Time Out “Perchard makes song and sentiment throb with life” - The Guardian

£15 (£11 students/children) Members £12.75 (£9.35 students/children)

Bathtime for Britain will only take place if the guidelines for singing during COVID-19 are relaxed. 15

Polish Film Festival: Women in Polish Cinema - Part One Polish film has long enjoyed an outstanding reputation but its best known protagonists tended to be male. For this year’s festival we have chosen films which showcase the important contribution to Polish film made by female Directors, Cinematographers and Actors.

Poland 2017 | 90 mins | Cert: 15 Director: Anna Jadowska

3pm

Ewa returns from hospital to a small Polish village with a secret. Her husband also returns from working abroad as the family gather for their daughter’s communion. Wild Roses enchants with truth and emotional intensity whilst fighting against a patriarchal culture which has been passed down and consolidated from generation to generation.

£7 (£5 students) Members: £5.95 (£4.25 students)

Poland 2013 | 84 mins | Cert: 12 Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

8pm

Poland, 1962. Anna, a novice nun who is about to take her vows, uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation. Her Mother Superior tells her she must visit her aunt, Wanda, her only living relative, before she takes her vows. Wanda tells Anna about her Jewish roots and both women start a journey not only to find their family’s tragic story, but to see who they really are and where they belong.

£7 (£5 students) Members: £5.95 (£4.25 students)

A Radio Comedy for the (Very) Broadminded by Jason Kenyon / (Loosely) adapted from Aristophanes’ Lysistrata / ArtsCentreTheatre (ACT)

7.30pm

A long time ago on a small group of islands, in a quiet backwater of the Atlantic Ocean, the women are so fed up with their men folk going off to war at the slightest excuse that they decide the only solution is to give these rampant warriors an ultimatum: No peace, no nookie!

In celebration of reaching its 30th production ACT returns to its roots with this brand new adaptation of the Ancient Greek Sex Comedy that was its first project and which established the group as “adult” in every sense of the word! But this is an ACT Production with a difference; this is its first ever audio production. Each evening it will be recorded in front of a live theatre audience (that’s you) for subsequent editing and release. All those attending the performances will receive a copy of the final result on CD.

As you can imagine, this production is unsuitable for anyone under the age of 16 due to its adult content, themes and language.

£12 (£9 students) Members £10.20 (£7.65 students)

Polish Film Festival: Women in Polish Cinema - Part Two Polish film has long enjoyed an outstanding reputation but its best known protagonists tended to be male. For this year’s festival we have chosen films which showcase the important contribution to Polish film made by female Directors, Cinematographers and Actors.

3pm

Middle-aged single mother Halina Radwan is promoted from cashier to manager of a Butterfly grocery store, which is part of a nationwide chain of supermarkets. What seems to be a great opportunity at first gradually turns into a nightmare. While taking on the issues of female solidarity, the film centres on the dark side of the corporate regime and Halina’s fight against it.

£7 (£5 students) Members: £5.95 (£4.25 students)

Poland 2011 | 138 mins | Cert: 15 Director: Agnieszka Holland

8pm

Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Poland, encounters Jewish people trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. The film, based on a true story, is also an extraordinary story of survival as families try to outwit certain death during many months of ever increasing and intense danger.

£7 (£5 students) Members: £5.95 (£4.25 students)

Spain 2019 | 113 mins | Cert: 15 | Director: Pedro Almodovar

8pm

Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas), a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, is plagued by health issues just as one of his early cinematic works is being readied for re-release.

Told in two narrative threads, Pain and Glory follows Mallo as he reconnects with an actor he hasn’t spoken to in 32 years, and his early life with his mother Jacinta (Penelope Cruz).

In Spanish with English subtitles.

Open to Jersey Film Society Members only Tickets must be booked in advance at the Box Office

USA 2020 | 105 mins | Cert: 15 | Director: Sam Feder

Tuesday 3 November 8pm

Disclosure is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Leading trans thinkers and creatives, including Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski and Chaz Bono, share their reactions and resistance to some of Hollywood’s most beloved moments.

£7 (£5 students) Members: £5.95 (£4.25 students)

USA / Ireland / Russia 2020 | 85 mins | Cert: NR Director: Paul Rice

Wednesday 4 November 8pm

Shot in six cities along the Trans-Siberian railway, A Worm in the Heart follows queer Irish filmmaker Paul Rice and his boyfriend Liam, as they go undercover to meet with the many heroic members of the LGBTQ+ community who risk their lives living authentically under oppressive laws and prejudices — from Nobel Peace prize nominees to drag queen performers thriving in remote Siberia.

£7 (£5 students) Members: £5.95 (£4.25 students)

USA 2019 | 100 mins | Cert: 15 | Director: David Charles Rodrigues

Thursday 5 November 8pm

In response to a wave of discriminatory anti-LGBTQ+ laws and the divisive 2016 election, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus embarked on a tour of the American Deep South. The conversations and connections that emerge throughout this documentary offer a glimpse of a less divided America, where the things that divide us (faith, politics and sexual identity) are set aside by the soaring power of music, humanity and a little drag.

£7 (£5 students) Members: £5.95 (£4.25 students)

Guatemala / USA 2018 | 85 mins | Cert: 15 Director: Li Cheng

Friday 6 November 8pm

19-year-old José’s life in Guatemala City is routine and aimless until he finds passion, pain and self-reflection through a relationship with a Caribbean migrant. This feature film delicately depicts the hardship of being gay in a fraught cultural environment, where machismo and religion take centre stage. In Spanish with English subtitles.

£7 (£5 students) Members: £5.95 (£4.25 students)

7.30pm

James Horsfall has played the piano from an early age, and gained a music scholarship to Public School. He later gained another to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was offered further awards. The next stop was the Royal College of Music in London where he studied piano exclusively.

Although he has spent much of his life as a teacher and accompanist on the island, solos have often featured, and more so of late.

He has been married for nearly 48 years to Jane, also a musician, and they have four children and five grandchildren. Now in his seventies, he is keener than ever to further music in the community, and very much looking forward to the forthcoming recital which will comprise music by: Bach, Beethoven, Horsfall, Rachmaninov and Chaminade.

£15 (£9 students) Members £12.75 (£7.65 students)

Drama Lab / Directed by Paul and Pippa Adams

3pm + 6.30pm

Drama Lab’s Youth Theatre presents Shakespeare’s classic tale of revenge, tragedy and all things ‘rotten in the state of Denmark’!

An abridged, original text production, performed by the talented, young actors of our now famous, annual Summer Shakespeare Week in its 11th successful year!

“To be, or not to be, that is the question”... Thanks to the lovely Jersey Arts Centre - it is to be!

£12.50

Simon MacDonald

8pm

We often insist on a receipt, but most quickly end up shoved in bags or wallets - screwed up, forgotten. But what if these little bits of paper became treasured somethings?

This new show by Simon MacDonald revels in the storytelling potential of receipts - these overlooked snapshots of everyday life that punctuate a questioning narrative journey:

“Why buy strawberry laces and masking tape?”

This performance will follow these stories, conjuring lost voices and memories. And something else emerges too: one person in a particular time and moment revealing something that insists on being held longer than a moment before being thrown away.

£15 (£11 students) Members: £12.75 (£9.35 students)

USA / UK 2019 | 120 mins | Cert: 15 | Director: Joanna Hogg

8pm

Starring Honor Swinton-Byrne, Tom Burke and Tilda Swinton, this 1980s-set drama follows Julie (Swinton-Byrne), a young film student who becomes romantically involved with a complicated older man (Burke). Written and directed by Joanna Hogg, this critically acclaimed drama is a semi-autobiographical tale of the writer/director’s experiences at film school, and was named Sight & Sound’s best film of 2019.

Open to Jersey Film Society Members only Tickets must be booked in advance at the Box Office

USA 1996 | 120 mins | Cert: 12 | Director: Baz Luhrmann

Matinée: 2pm

Brilliantly adapted and reimagined by visionary director Baz Luhrmann, Shakespeare’s tragedy of the original star-crossed lovers is given a modern twist. Set in Verona Beach, the Montague and Capulet families’ fueding has spilled into the streets and violence is spreading. When Romeo Montague crashes a Capulet party, he sets eyes on Juliet and their fateful tale of doomed young love is set into motion.

£5 (£3 students) Members: £4.25 (£2.55 students) JFS Members: £4

7.30pm

St Martin’s Musical Society, as it is now known, was originally called St Martin’s Olde Tyme and has been raising funds for local charities since October 1974. It has always been the aim of the Society to foster the spirit and traditions of the old time music hall, but now primarily includes extracts from modern musicals and film. Over the past number of years, the Society has raised and donated in excess of £145,731 for local charities.

Unfortunately, like every other production on the Island and worldwide, due to COVID, our usual 2020 charitable show has been postponed to October 2021 (in aid of Jersey Cheshire Homes). However, our Members have been practising all our old favourites with the aim to stage a ‘best of’ performance just in case ‘social distancing’ permits. Whilst rehearsals have been few and far between and taken place on St Martin’s Village Green, we have managed to put together a variety show with popular song, dance and comedy, which also includes a preview of next year’s show.

Musical numbers include: ‘Hello Dolly’, ‘9 to 5’, ‘Get Happy’, ‘Oh What a Beautiful Morning!’, ‘River Deep’ and ‘Night Fever’.

All profits will go to Jersey Arts Centre who we would like to thank for helping us to put on this production.

£15 (£10 students + seniors)

Unlocked! will only take place if the guidelines for singing during COVID-19 are relaxed.

Art’Comedia from L’Hermitage, Brittany

8pm (1 hour)

During lockdown, Bertrand and Veronique rehearsed and recorded 18 songs across their musical repertoire for our digital programme. This concert will showcase a number of those songs, and one or two more, from their home in Brittany.

Jersey Arts Centre has been working with Art’Comedia since 2013, and Bertrand and Veronique have been our respective Musical Director and Vocal Coach, and musicians, on our past three Christmas productions.

Now based in L’Hermitage, Brittany, Art’Comedia combined music, video, dance and performance to create a multimedia exploration of childhood and memory in their 2013 JAC residency ‘Infinite Landscapes’. After concerts on the Benjamin Meaker stage in 2015 and 2017, Art’Comedia returned in 2018 with a concert, ahead of their work on our third Christmas production of Alan Bennett’s adaptation of ‘The Wind in the Willows’, to present a showcase of pieces from various musicals.

We are delighted that B&V wish to be a part of our programme this autumn with a concert to keep our audiences, and our island community, culturally and socially engaged!

£7 Members £5.95

This concert will only take place if the guidelines for singing during COVID-19 are relaxed

Canada 2013 | 108 mins | Cert: 12A | Director: Sarah Polley

8pm

In this inspired, genre-twisting documentary, writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who’s telling it. Polley takes on the roles of both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers, playfully interviewing and interrogating a cast of characters who provide candid, yet contradictory answers to the same questions.

A deeply personal film, Stories We Tell explores how our narratives shape and define us, painting a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.

Open to Jersey Film Society Members only Tickets must be booked in advance at the Box Office