The Gateway What's On Apr-May 2022

Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man 29th April 2022

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THEATRE, SEATON

Welcome to the latest Seaton Gateway What ’s On Guide

It’s that time of year when you must ne’er cast

April 2.30pm, when the Easter Trail winner will

between and betwixt time isn’t it, when none of

If you want to take part in the Easter Trail,

us know quite what to wear or whether to take

entry forms can be collected from the Gateway

But one thing I can absolutely guarantee is, our

if you haven’t already bought your tickets to

new seasonal programme, generously

see the film, you can do that at the same time.

a clout, but is it Spring, or is it summer? It’s that

an umbrella with us when we leave the house.

supported by the Arts Council England, the government’s Cultural Recovery Fund and the unstinting generosity of our volunteers,

supporters and donors, has something for everyone to enjoy.

Theatre from 11am on Good Friday 15 April, and

Our widely anticipated screening of Matthew

Bourne’s The Car Man Friday 29 April is going

to be popular and the musical version of Cyrano Friday 6 May is one not to miss and if you’re looking for the best in award-winning films,

Did you come along to see Detroit Soul

then look no further. We have a second

musical line-up continues with the Rollin’

the Nile and The Duke.

Collective? What a fantastic night! Our brilliant

Stoned on 30 April and the Darkside of Pink

Floyd on 21 May, giving you plenty of time to perfect your dance moves!

But what else do we have planned?

If you are looking for some family fun, then how about our film Sing 2 on Saturday 2 April at

2.30pm? Or there’s our Easter Trail followed by the wonderful film Peter Rabbit on Friday 15

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be announced and awarded with a special treat.

showing of Belfast, the Colour Room, Death on So as we head towards the warmer days of

summer and in the hope the relentless sadness and tragedies the world is facing, will come to an end, we look forward to welcoming you very soon.

Sophia Moseley Theatre Manager

June

Fri 1

Belfast

7:30pm Picnic Night

Thu 2

TBC Live Cinema

Sat 2

Sing 2

2:30pm Film

The Queen’s Birthday Parade (Trooping the Colour) Live

Fri 3

Fri 8

Uncharted

7:30pm Picnic Night

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

TBC Picnic Night

Sat 4

Sat 9

The Colour Room

7:30pm Picnic Night

Platinum Party at the Palace

TBC Live Cinema

Sat 11

Operation Mincemeat

Thu 14 Coppelia

3:00pm Film

TBC Picnic Night

Fri 17

Gateway Summer Quiz

Fri 15

Peter Rabbit

2:30pm Film

7:30pm Fundraiser

Sat 18

Sat 16

Death on the Nile

7:30pm Picnic Night

Downtown Abbey: A New Era

TBC Picnic Night

Fri 22

The Duke

7:30pm Picnic Night

Sat 23

The Merry Wives of Windsor

7:30pm Screening

Fri 29

Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man

7:30pm Screening

Sat 30 The Rollin’ Stoned

7:30pm Live Music

May

Performance Diary

April

August Fri 26 - Dracula: The Bloody Sat 27 Truth

7:30pm Theatre

September Sat 24 A Night of Adventure: 7:30pm Cycling 3500 Miles Talk around Pandemic Britain October

Fri 6

Cyrano

7:30pm Picnic Night

Sat 22

Fri 13

Ali & Ava

7:30pm Picnic Night

Sing-A-Long-A The Greatest Showman

2:00pm Film

Sat 22

Sing-A-Long-A Grease

Sat 14

Seaton’s Got Talent: Semi Final

7:00pm Fundraiser

7:30pm Film

November

Thu 19 Royal Opera House: Swan Lake Live

TBC Live Cinema

Sat 12

Sat 21

8:00pm Live Music

Riveria Dogs - Back to the 80’s

Fri 18

Lyme Bay Moonrakers - 7:30pm Songs for the Wellerman Live Music

The Darkside of Pink Floyd

Thu 24 National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy

7:00pm Live Cinema

Sat 28 Seaton’s Got Talent: Final

7:00pm Fundraiser

Tue 31 The Bad Guys

TBC Film

8:00pm Live Music

For more shows visit thegatewayseaton.co.uk Or collect a What’s On guide at the Box Office

Line Up of events is correct at time of publication and may change at short notice. Please check our website or social media for confirmed start times and more information.

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Screening - The Beatles: Get Back The Rooftop Concert & Open Mic

The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert & Open Mic

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eter Jackson's epic docuseries The Beatles: Get Back has been a streaming phenomenon over the last few months. Now you can experience the legendary rooftop concert as a standalone cinema experience.

This exclusive cinema presentation features their unforgettable final

concert in its entirety, filmed on the rooftop of Apple Corps’ Savile Row headquarters on January 30, 1969. With newly mixed audio by Giles Martin and Sam Okell, the film includes versions of Get Back, Don't Let Me Down, I've Got a Feeling, One After 909, and Dig a Pony Tickets Include an open mic session before the screening. Anyone willing to perform the show is welcome. Open Mic event starts at 7:00pm, an hour before the screening.

Thursday 31 March 2022 Tickets From £7.00 Doors open: 6:30pm 4

Film starts: 8:00pm

Age Guidance: 12A

Picnic Night - Belfast

Belfast

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ritten and directed by Academy Award® nominee Kenneth

Branagh, Belfast is a poignant story of one boy's childhood amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.

BELFAST is a movie straight from Branagh's own experience. A nine

-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly turned upside down. His stable and loving community and everything he thought he understood about life is changed forever but joy, laughter, music and the formative magic of the movies remain.

Friday 1 April 2022 Tickets From £7.00 Doors open: 6:30pm

Film starts: 7:30pm

Age Guidance: 12 5

Film - Sing 2

Sing 2

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uster (Oscar® winner Matthew McConaughey) and his cast have turned the New Moon Theater into a local hit, but Buster has his eyes on a bigger prize: Debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City.

But with no connections, Buster and his cast—including harried mother pig Rosita (Oscar® winner Reese Witherspoon), rocker porcupine Ash (Scarlett Johansson), earnest gorilla Johnny (Taron Egerton), shy elephant Meena (Tori Kelly) and, of course, porcine provocateur extraordinaire Gunter (Nick Kroll)—have to sneak their way into

the world-famous Crystal Entertainment offices, run by a ruthless mogul wolf named Jimmy Crystal (Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale).

Sing 2 is written and directed by acclaimed returning filmmaker Garth Jennings and features, in addition to Bono’s and Cannavale’s roles, new characters played by music superstars Pharrell Williams and Halsey, Black Panther’s Letitia Wright, and comedians Eric Andre and Chelsea Peretti.

Saturday 2 April 2022 Tickets From £7.00 Doors open: 1:30pm 6

Film starts: 2:30pm

Age Guidance: U

Picnic Night - Uncharted

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Uncharted ased on one of the best-selling, most critically acclaimed video game

series of all time, 'Uncharted' introduces audiences to the young street -smart Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) and showcases his first treasure hunting adventure with wisecracking partner Victor 'Sully' Sullivan

(Mark Wahlberg). In an action-adventure epic that spans the globe, the two go in dangerous pursuit of 'the greatest treasure never found' while also tracking clues that may lead to Nathan's long-lost brother.

Friday 8 April 2022 Tickets From £7.00 Doors open: 6:30pm

Film starts: 7:30pm

Age Guidance: 12A 7

Picnic Night - The Colour Room

The Colour Room

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n the grey industrial British midlands of the 1920s, creative young factory worker

Clarice Cliff (Phoebe Dynevor) makes the bold move to take a lower paying job at a prestigious pottery owned by Colley Shorter (Matthew Goode). Driven by imagination and ambition, she fights her way through the deep prejudice of an

industry caught in devastating economic hardship as she defies expectation and

circumstance to become the designer of her own unprecedented ‘Bizarre’ range, ensuring the factory’s survival and becoming a trailblazer of Art deco.

Saturday 9 April 2022 Tickets From £7.00 Doors open: 6:30pm 8

Film starts: 7:30pm

Age Guidance: PG

Screening - Coppelia

Coppelia

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modern fairytale, told without words . . .

When everyone in town falls under the spell of charismatic cosmetic surgeon Doctor Coppelius, feisty Swan must act to save her sweetheart Franz, before his heart is used to spark life into Coppelia - the "perfect" robot-woman the Doctor has created.

Coppelia combines enchanting animation and live action dance in a modern take on the much-loved ballet. Through Swan’s quest to uncover Coppelia's secret, the townspeople come to learn that in an increasingly image conscious culture – it’s never been more important to be yourself!

Thursday 14 April 2022 Tickets From £7.00 Doors open: 2:30pm

Film starts: 3:00pm

Age Guidance: PG 9

Film - Peter Rabbit

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Peter Rabbit amily fun for the Easter weekend!

Peter Rabbit and and his three sisters Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-Tail enjoy spending their days in Mr. McGregor's vegetable garden. When one of

McGregor's relatives suddenly moves in, he's less than thrilled to discover a family of rabbits in his new home. A battle of wills soon breaks out as the new owner hatches scheme after scheme to get rid of Peter -- a resourceful rabbit who proves to be a worthy and wily opponent. comedians Eric Andre and Chelsea Peretti.

Friday 15 April 2022 Tickets From £7.00 Doors open: 2:00pm 10

Film starts: 2:30pm

Age Guidance: PG

Peter Rabbit Easter Trail

Family fun for the Easter weekend!

Only £1 per entry | 11am till 2:30pm Friday 17th April 2022

The trail sheet will be available from the theatre on the morning of the event from 11am.

All entries must be returned to the theatre before the film starts at 2.30pm and a winner will be drawn after the film. If you do not intend to watch the film please make sure you leave your contact details on your entry sheet.

The winner will win an Easter treat!

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Picnic Night - Death on the Nile

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ased on the 1937 novel by Agatha Christie, “Death on the Nile” is a daring mystery-thriller directed by Kenneth Branagh about the emotional chaos and deadly consequences triggered by obsessive love.

Detective Hercule Poirot turns to Egypt where he must work out who killed a young heiress. Kenneth Branagh becomes Poirot again, directing and starring alongside Gal Gadot, Letitia Wright and Armie Hammer in this adaptation of Agatha Christie’s mystery novel of the same name and sequel to 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express.

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travelers, and enough wicked twists and turns to leave audiences guessing until the final, shocking denouement.

Kenneth Branagh ( All Is True, Dunkirk ), whose accolades include BAFTA and Emmy wins and Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, directs this sequel to 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express . He’ll be stepping into the role of Poirot again.

Among his suspects are Gal Gadot ( Ralph Breaks the Internet , Wonder Woman), BAFTA winner and Emmy nominee Letitia Wright ( Avengers: Endgame , Black Panther ) and Golden Globe nominee Armie Hammer ( Cars 3 , Call Me by Your Name).

Saturday 16 April 2022 Tickets From £7.00 Doors open: 6:30pm 12

Film starts: 7:30pm

Age Guidance: 12A

Picnic Night - Death on the Nile

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Picnic Night - The Duke

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The Duke n 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. He sends ransom notes saying that he will

return the painting if the government invests more in care for the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. An uplifting true story about a good

man who set out to change the world and managed to save his marriage.

Starring Jim Broadbent (Only Fools and Horses, Harry Potter), Helen Mirren (Calendar Girls, Fast & Furious), Matthew Goode (Downtown Abbey, The Crown) and Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk).

Friday 22 April 2022 Tickets From £7.00 Doors open: 6:30pm 14

Film starts: 7:30pm

Age Guidance: 12A

Screening - The Merry Wives of Windsor

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The Merry Wives of Windsor ouble-meanings, disguises and dirty laundry abound as Sir John Falstaff

sets about improving his financial situation by wooing Mistress Page and Mistress Ford. But the ‘Merry Wives’ quickly cotton on to his tricks and decide to have a bit of fun of their own at Falstaff’s expense…

The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only comedy that Shakespeare set in his native land.

Drawing influences from British 1930s fashion, music and dance, the production will celebrate women, the power and beauty of nature, and with its witty mix of verbal and

physical humour, it rejoices in a tradition that reaches right down to the contemporary English sitcom. The Windsor Locals appear courtesy of Soldiers’ Arts Academy, London Bubble and Clean Break.

Filmed live at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Saturday 23 April 2022

Adult (16+) £13.50 | Child £7.00 (£15.00 & £8.00 on door if available) Doors open: 7:00pm

Screening starts: 7:30pm

Age Guidance: 12 15

Screening - Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man

Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man

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sensational dance event for cinemas from the internationally acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne and his dance company New Adventures, The Car Man is loosely based on Bizet’s popular opera (CARMEN) and has one of the most thrilling and instantly recognisable scores in classical music, brilliantly arranged by Terry Davies.

Fuelled by heat and desire, the inhabitants are driven into an unstoppable spiral of greed, lust, betrayal and revenge. Lez Brotherston’s epic design, Chris Davey’s evocative lighting and Matthew Bourne’s vivid storytelling take in a wealth of cinematic references, creating a powerful and uncompromising vision of small-town America.

Starring Alan Vincent (Swan Lake, The The familiar 19th Century Spanish Nutcracker!) and Zizi Strallen (Mary cigarette factory becomes a greasy garage Poppins, Strictly Ballroom).

-diner in 1960’s America where the dreams and passions of a small-town are shattered Filmed live at the Sadler’s Wells London. by the arrival of a handsome stranger.

Friday 29 April 2022

Adult (16+) £13.50 | Child £7.00 (£15.00 & £8.00 on door if available) Doors open: 7:00pm 16

Screening starts: 7:00pm

Age Guidance: 12A

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tribute to The Rolling Stones focusing on the early part of their career from 1964 1969 including 'Jumping Jack Flash', 'Paint It Black', 'Not Fade Away' and 'Satisfaction'.

They have been described by The Times as 'better than the real thing' and it’s not just enthusiastic fans who rate The Rollin Stoned so highly, it's the people in the know and those from the Stones' inner circle; even booking the band for a band member's birthday party.

"....probably more authentic” than the Stones themselves would be inclined to muster" The Times. "...about as true to the original as you can get." Times Magazine.

Saturday 30 April 2022

Tickets From £16.00 (£18.50 on door if available) Doors open: 7:30pm

Show starts: 8:00pm 17

Picnic Night - Cyrano

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Cyrano ward-winning director Joe

appearance renders him unworthy of the

in a symphony of emotions

Roxanne (Haley Bennett), Cyrano has yet to

with music, romance, and

declare his feelings for her — and Roxanne

Wright envelops moviegoers love of a devoted friend, the luminous

beauty in Cyrano, re-imagining the

timeless tale of a heartbreaking love triangle.

A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de

has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.).

Based on the stage musical adapted and

directed by Erica Schmidt from Cyrano de

Bergerac (played by Peter Dinklage)

Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, with music

dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay

by Aaron & Bryce Dessner and lyrics by

at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay Matt Berninger & Carin Besser. in a duel. But, convinced that his

Friday 6 May 2022 Tickets From £7.00 Doors open: 6:30pm 18

Film starts: 7:30pm

Age Guidance: 12

Picnic Night - Ali & Ava

Ali & Ava

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parks fly after ALI and AVA meet through their shared affection for

Sofia, the child of Ali’s tenants whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava’s warmth and kindness while Ava finds Ali’s complexity and humour irresistible. As the pair begin to form a deep connection they have to

find a way to keep their newfound passion from being overshadowed by the stresses and struggles of their separate lives and histories.

Enveloped in music, humour and emotion, ALI & AVA is a heartfelt contemporary

love story written and directed by BAFTA-nominated Clio Barnard (The Arbor, The

Selfish Giant).

Friday 13 May 2022 Tickets From £7.00 Doors open: 6:30pm

Film starts: 7:30pm

Age Guidance: 15 19

Fundraiser - Seaton’s Got Talent

Seaton Gateway Theatre is excited to announce the launch of ‘Seaton’s Got Talent’ fundraiser taking place this Spring at The Gateway Theatre*.

We’re giving you the opportunity to showcase your talent, any age, any genre.

Sign up today on our website or collect a form at the Box Office *Terms and conditions apply. Please read before applying.

SIGN UP HERE TICKETS ON SALE SOON

Semi Final: Saturday 14 May 2022 Final: Saturday 28 May 2022 20

Tickets From £7.50

Doors open: 6:00pm

Show starts: 7:00pm

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or one night only, The Darkside of Pink Floyd play Seaton’s Gateway Theatre.

More than just an ordinary Pink Floyd tribute band, The Darkside of Pink Floyd entertain audiences with a fantastic light show and passionate performances.

They were also the first band to play a live public performance inside the prehistoric caves of the world famous Kents Cavern and they’ve had six sell-out concerts deep underground at Carnglaze Caverns as part of their highly acclaimed ‘Echoes of the Past’ tour.

Saturday 21 May 2022

Tickets From £20.00 (£22.50 on door if available) Doors open: 7:30pm

Show starts: 8:00pm 21

Live Cinema - NT Live: Straight Line Crazy

NT Live: Straight Line Crazy

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or forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses exploited those in office through a mix of charm and intimidation. Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of New York City's workers, he created parks, bridges and 627 miles of expressway to connect the people to the great outdoors.

Faced by resistance by protest groups campaigning for a very diffrent idea of what the city should become, will the weakness of democracy be exposed in the face of his charismatic conviction?

Ralph Fiennes (Antony & Cleopatra) leads the cast in David Hare's (Skylight) blazing account of the most powerful man in New York, a master manipulator whose legacy changed the city forever.

Broadcast live from the Bridge Theatre in London, Nicholas Hytner directs this exhilarating new play.

Thursday 26 May 2022

Adult (16+) £15.00 | Child £7.00 (£16.50 & £9.00 on door if available) Doors open: 6:30pm 22

Screening starts: 7:00pm

Age Guidance: 12A

Film - The Bad Guys

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The Bad Guys obody has ever failed so hard at trying to be good as The Bad Guys. In the new action comedy from DreamWorks Animation, based on the

New York Times best-selling book series, a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws are about to attempt their most challenging con yet— becoming model citizens.

After a lifetime of legendary heists, notorious criminals Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Shark and Ms. Tarantula are finally caught. To avoid a prison sentence, the animal outlaws must pull off their most challenging con yet -- becoming model

citizens. Under the tutelage of their mentor, Professor Marmalade, the dubious gang sets out to fool the world that they're turning good.

Tuesday 31 May 2022

Timings and information for this showing are to be confirmed. Please keep an eye on our website.

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