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The 1950s crime thriller which became a TV drama with Derek Farr and Margaret Lockwood.
Murder is his business and generally speaking Edward Bare is a successful "business man. Today’s the day that Teddy Bare has his picnic…
'Packed with suspense and thrills, …the twists are unexpected and spine-chilling' - Samuel French. |
| Monday 02 September 2019 |
19:30 |
| Tuesday 03 September 2019 |
19:30 |
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The world’s first cycling theatre company, The HandleBards, pedal from venue to venue with all the set, props and costume necessary to perform environmentally sustainable Shakespeare across the globe.
Join their all-male troupe at Shelley Theatre for a bicycle-powered production of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ like none other. In usual HandleBards style, expect riotous amounts of energy, a fair old whack of chaos, and a great deal of laughter.
And what’s the play about? Well - a group of soldiers return from the war to a household in Messina, causing the kindling of new love interests and the re-kindling of old rivalries. The parallel love stories of Beatrice, Benedick, Claudio and Hero become entangled with plotting, frivolity and melodrama in Shakespeare’s famous comedy. |
| Saturday 07 September 2019 |
14:30 |
| Saturday 07 September 2019 |
19:30 |
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| September 1939, the eve of World War ll. Little Arthur gazes from his nursery window trying to make sense of the mad world of the grown-ups beyond. Nanny Eve knows she cannot hide the truth from him. She fortifies herself with a swig from her special medicine bottle that she keeps hidden under her pillow and reaches for her book of stories of the Empire to explain what is about to happen. In a dramatic climax we come to understand the secret that Nanny herself has kept hidden all these years. “A searchingly intelligent” play by celebrated Dorset playwright Peter John Cooper, veering madly between deep emotion and outright slapstick humour. Peter John Cooper and Trisha Lewis have worked together on this and a number of other projects over the years and Trisha’s performance in Eve of War has been described as “a tour de force”, ”captivating and vivid” and “magnificent”. |
| Sunday 08 September 2019 |
19:30 |
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| Don't come! Honestly no-one knows what they're doing. The script hasn't even been written yet. There won't be any fun, frolics, frills, or laughter. We will not be listening to your suggestions for comedy sketches, games and spontaneous musical theatre. So if you're up for some laughter filled, one-of-a-kind, high energy, spontaneous performance go somewhere else because Black Cherry has not got the show for you. To be completely frank with you we are not even sure what we are writing this for? Why are you reading this anyway? We really are running out of things to... |
| Sunday 15 September 2019 |
19:30 |
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| From London’s Leicester Square Theatre, the unique 1940’s Show & Dance Band -Five Star Swing. As featured at Dame Vera Lynn’s Charity Gala Nights. Famous War-Time tunes & “sing-a-long” songs brought to life by the singers and multi-instrumentalists of the 1940’s Five Star Swing band, ("Everyone was up dancing!” – Blenheim Palace). Featuring Simone from the latter days of the Ivy Benson Orchestra plus Chris Smith (Jnr) composer and arranger for Glenn Miller’s Brother, Herb and the BBC Radio Big Band. "A formidable Swing Band...beautiful ballads to glorious Big Band sounds !" Tony Parker, Encore Magazine. Five Star Swing was featured in the National theatre tour of TV’s “Military Wives” – Chris Says, " I've been brought up with this style of music as my father (Chris Smith Snr) played trombone for Frank Sinatra on his European tours and the famous Ted Heath Big Band - we recreate a great atmosphere with Five Star Swing enjoyed by the band and all generations these days”. |
| Thursday 19 September 2019 |
19:30 |
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DIRT IN THE GATE MOVIES are back for a THIRD, TWO DAY extravaganza of classic genre movies!
Welcome to GRINDFEST!
Our search of film archives the world over continues to bring rare 35mm prints out of storage and are excited to screen them on the big screen in their original native release format, some of which haven't been seen theatrically in the UK for YEARS!
Expect some surprises/give aways/short films/vintage trailers during the mind melting weekend of celluloid treats!
An exclusive 2 DAY GRINDFEST PASS will give you access to ALL of the following screenings (You must be 18 years or over to purchase and use a 2 day pass)
TALES FROM THE CRYPT- DEMON KNIGHT (1995) Dir. Ernest R. Dickerson
SUSPIRIA (1977) Dir. Dario Argento
THE RETURN OF SWAMP THING (1989) Dir. Jim Wynorsky
THE HIDDEN (1987) Dir. Jack Sholder
WICKED, WICKED (1973) Dir. Richard L. Bare
RAZORBACK (1984) Dir. Russell Mulcahy
ARMY OF DARKNESS (1992) Dir. Sam Raimi
Food options at the Shelley Theatre will also be available throughout Saturday including an option to pre-order breakfast.
Individual Tickets also available for each film at www.shelleytheatre.co.uk |
| Friday 20 September 2019 |
18:50 |
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GRINDFEST 2019 kicks off with a bang! Ex-soldier Frank Brayker (William Sadler) is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil. The sinister but charming Collector (Billy Zane) is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where, with the help of its quirky residents; he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.
GRINDFEST 2 DAY PASS ALSO AVAILABLE |
| Friday 20 September 2019 |
19:00 |
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Dirt in the Gate Movies present
Suspiria
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Suzy (Jessica Harper) travels to Germany to attend an exclusive ballet school. When she arrives late on a stormy night, she sees Pat (Eva Axén) another student, fleeing from the doors. The next day, Suzy is welcomed to her new school but has a difficult time settling in. She hears noises, and often feels ill and as people die, Suzy uncovers a terrifying secret history which will change her life forever.
2 DAY DISCOUNTED GRINDFEST PASS ALSO AVAILABLE |
| Friday 20 September 2019 |
21:10 |
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The long awaited sequel to Wes Craven's SWAMP THING which many claim as being superior and based on DC Comics character from the same name, a beautiful horticulturist visits her stepfather to discover the mystery behind her mother's untimely death. Her stepfather wants to kill her to create his immortality serum, but the Swamp Thing comes to her rescue. The two become an unlikely couple, hunted by the insane Dr. Arcane.
2 DAY DISCOUNTED GRINDFEST PASS ALSO AVAILABLE |
| Saturday 21 September 2019 |
11:45 |
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Premiere magazine once called this movie, "One of the best films you've never seen". They were right and we're delighted to be able to bring this classic to GRINDFEST. The focus of this guilty pleasure would be a spoiler but expect a fast paced, car chasing, host swapping, edge of your seat horror thriller with FBI agent (Kyle MacLachlan) and homicide detective (Michael Nouri) on the hunt of otherwise law abiding citizens causing havoc across the city.
2 DAY DISCOUNTED GRINDFEST PASS ALSO AVAILABLE |
| Saturday 21 September 2019 |
14:00 |
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'Twice The Tension, Twice The Terror!'
'No Glasses, All You Need Are Your Eyes!'
Screening in its original Duo-Vision process at GRINDFEST!
Simmons (Roger Bowen), the manager of a seaside hotel in California, has a problem: Guests are turning up dead, and Sgt. Ramsey (Scott Brady), the hotel's detective, has no information as to the identity of the murderer. The only thing anybody knows is that the killer wears a strange mask and has a fondness for blonde women. As Ramsey tracks down a list of suspects, Lisa (Tiffany Bolling), the hotel's lounge singer, finds herself in danger.
2 DAY GRINDFEST DISCOUNTED PASS ALSO AVAILABLE |
| Saturday 21 September 2019 |
16:15 |
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Before he directed the cult classic Highlander (1986), music video creator Russell Mulcahy adapted this stylish Ozploitation horror film from the novel by Peter Brennan. Gregory Harrison stars as Carl Winters, a grief-stricken American husband who has come to a remote corner of Australia to seek answers in the death of his wife, a TV journalist who was investigating a story on kangaroo poaching. Carl meets Jake Cullen (Bill Kerr), a man obsessed with hunting down what he says is an enormous razorback boar that consumed his grandson. Joined by farmer Sarah Cameron (Arkie Whiteley), Carl and Jake set out to find the powerful beast.
TWO DAY DISCOUNTED GRINDFEST PASS ALSO AVAILABLE |
| Saturday 21 September 2019 |
18:50 |
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The third in director Sam Raimi's stylish, comic book-like horror trilogy that began with The Evil Dead (1982), this tongue-in-cheek sequel offers equal parts sword-and-sorcery-style action, gore, and comedy. Bruce Campbell returns as the one-armed Ash, now a supermarket employee ("Shop Smart...Shop S-Mart") who is transported by the powers of a mysterious book back in time with his Oldsmobile '88 to the 14th century medieval era. Armed only with a shotgun, his high school chemistry textbook, and a chainsaw that mounts where his missing appendage once resided, the square-jawed, brutally competent Ash quickly establishes himself as a besieged kingdom's best hope against an "army of darkness" currently plaguing the land. Since the skeleton warriors have been resurrected with the aid of the Necronomicon, he agrees to face the enemy in battle. Ash also finds romance of a sort along the way with a beautiful damsel in distress, Sheila (Embeth Davidtz), and contends with his own doppelganger after mangling an important incantation
TWO DAY DISCOUNTED GRINDFEST PASS ALSO AVAILABLE |
| Saturday 21 September 2019 |
21:00 |
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Belinda O’Hooley began playing the piano at the age of seven. She is an exceptionally gifted pianist, singer, songwriter and composer and has become renowned for her highly individual, emotional, yet sensitive musicality. She is half of four time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Best Duo nominees O’Hooley & Tidow alongside her wife Heidi Tidow; together described by The Guardian as ‘exceptional songwriters.’ Their song ‘Gentleman Jack’ features as the closing theme song for Sally Wainwright’s latest BBC/HBO drama series Gentleman Jack. Belinda is also known for her inventive, minimalist, sometimes flamboyant accompanying of folk luminaries including Rufus Wainwright, Nic Jones, Jackie Oates and the Mercury nominated; Rachel Unthank and The Winterset.
‘Inversions’ showcases Belinda’s abilities as a composer and pianist with many of the piano pieces inspired by the songs and tunes her father inherited from a long line of male musicians in the hills of the West coast of rural Ireland. With the passing of her father in 2017, Belinda; the first woman to be handed the tradition, has found the freedom to express the music of her ancestors in her very own, unconventional way, evolving and migrating them into something you could describe as an inversion: a reversal of the norm. Gently nurtured, produced and recorded by Heidi Tidow at MOMA Wales, the mountains, valleys and landscapes of Snowdonia also provide the backdrop to a trio of compositions; each celebrating a deep love of the nature and wildlife of this breathtaking part of Wales. ‘Inversions’ encapsulates the essence of an artist truly at one with her instrument. |
| Friday 27 September 2019 |
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