A tailor, an ice skater and Macbeth walk into a bar

Hi guys, thank you for an encouraging start to the term with Lady Bird. We continue this week with Phantom Thread on 35mm film (the nostalgia), an inspirational tale of a woman's fight for sporting success and a live stream of one of Shakespeare's most famous and immortal plays. Please do come for what promises to be an entertaining week.

Apologies for the multiple emails sent out last week due to an error with the mailing server. Also, I listed the wrong edition of NT Live: Macbeth in last week's email which has been rectified.

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Phantom Thread

Tuesday 8th May @ 18:30 - 35mm film

Wednesday 9th May @ 20:55 - 35mm film

In the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.

I, Tonya

Tuesday 8th May @ 21:05 - with subtitles

Wednesday 9th May @ 18:30

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

NT Live: Macbeth

Thursday 10th May @ 19:00

£5 Concessions / £10 Adult

The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness. Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy, directed by Rufus Norris (The Threepenny Opera, London Road), sees Rory Kinnear (Othello) and Anne-Marie Duff (Suffragette) play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Ready Player One

Tuesday 15th May @ 19:00 - 3D screening

Wednesday 16th May @ 19:00 - 2D screening with subtitles

When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.

National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Thursday 17th May @ 19:00

£5 Concessions / £10 Adult

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney. On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gather at their cotton plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and Maggie dance round the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. With the future of the family at stake, which version of the truth is real – and which will win out?

Love, Simon

Tuesday 22nd May @ 18:30

Thursday 24th May @ 20:45

Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: he’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he’s fallen for online.

Pacific Rim: Uprising

Tuesday 22nd May @ 20:45

Thursday 24th May @ 18:30

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.

Avengers: Infinity War

Tuesday 29th May @ 19:00

Thursday 31st May @ 19:00

As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment - the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.

Isle of Dogs

Tuesday 5th June @ 19:00 - One screening only!

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that's a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.

Deadpool 2

Tuesday 19th June @ 19:00

Thursday 21st June @ 19:00

Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.

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