Another great week at Pontio in Bangor includes films, theatre and events for the community.
Films: Polite Society (12A), ROH Live: The Sleeping Beauty (12A), Dance Craze (12), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (12A)
Theate & Events: Coleg Menai – Made in Dagenham, May Comedy Club, Pontio Family: Frogs in Bogs
Community Events: Dance for Parkinson’s
For more information and to Book for all events visit the Pontio website here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/
Cinema:
Polite Society (12A)
Friday 19 – Thursday 25 May
A martial artist-in-training believes she must save her older sister from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, she tries to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
ROH Live: The Sleeping Beauty (12A)
Wednesday 24 May, 7.15pm
Sunday 28 May, 2pm
Be swept away by Tchaikovsky’s ravishing music and Oliver Messel’s sumptuous designs with this true gem from the classical repertory.
Dance Craze (12)
25 May, 8.15pm
Shot throughout 1980 and released in cinemas the following year, brilliantly captures the cultural phenomenon that was the 2Tone movement.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (12A)
Friday 26 – Thursday 1 June
Our beloved band of misfits are looking a bit different these days. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.
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Studio Theatre
Golygfeydd o’r Pla Du by Chris Harris
Tuesday 23 May 7.30pm (BSL)
Cynhyrchiad Theatrau Sir Gâr Production
1348, Pentreufargirec. A new chaos has arrived – Plague. God has betrayed the people, and a frenzy of finger-pointing, cat-hunting and heretic-burning has drowned the village in the toilet. To con-artist Twm, everything is ripe for the picking. With people dying, there’s a social ladder to climb. But under the rule of a Tax Collector desperately searching for love, and a revolutionary manure-seller spreading free-thinking amongst the peasantry, Twm will realise that the climb to power has its obstacles.
A mischievous, black (death) comedy of crisis and corruption. Welcome to the Black Death – there’s nothing funnier. Written and directed by Chris Harris, this is a Theatrau Sir Gâr Production, funded by the Arts Council of Wales, and supported by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru.
This is a Welsh language production, suitable for ages 14+ (contains strong language, themes of death, illness, comic gore, sarcastic humour and very fluffy puppets). Sibrwd, the Welsh language access app, will be available at every performance – more details below.
The performance will be BSL interpreted by Cathryn McShane-Kouyaté
Sibrwd
In each performance, Sibrwd – Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru’s language access app – will be available to guide the audience through the story, whatever their level of fluency in Welsh. By means of a voice in the ear, the app conveys in English what is being said on the stage, and is available for the audience to use with their own mobile phone and earphones.
Little Wander in association with Pontio presents May Comedy Club
Thursday 25 May 8pm
MC Pete Selwood / Maff Brown / Bella Humphries
Join us for a night of comedy with three comedians from the British comedy circuit! A great night out! Comedians will be announced soon!
Pontio Family: Frogs in Bogs
Saturday 27 May 11.30am & 2.30pm
“In 2023, a crack amphibian plumbing unit was locked up by a clammy court for a contamination crime they didn’t commit. These frogs promptly escaped from a maximum security slimy slammer to the city sewers. Today, still wanted by the gungy government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a pollution problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them….maybe you can hire FROGS IN BOGS.”
Join Frogs in Bogs, the superhero frog plumbers, to crack a clogging crime and defeat the evil Cwac Tŷ Bach in Familia’s new, hilarious, all-jumping, all-dancing, blockbusting show for all the family.
Bilingual show suitable for all ages
Supported by Arts Council of Wales
Theatr Bryn Terfel
Coleg Menai – Made in Dagenham
24 May, 7pm
25 May, 2pm + 7pm
Inspired by a true story and based on the hit movie, Made in Dagenham is the uplifting British musical comedy about friendship, love and the importance of fighting for what is right.
Essex 1968. Like millions of other working women, each morning Rita O’Grady is just trying to get her husband out of bed, get the kids off to school and get to work at the factory on time. But life is about to change forever when it’s announced that the girls in the stitching room of Ford’s Dagenham car plant will have their pay grade dropped to ‘unskilled’. Quickly drawing on a strength she never knew she had, Rita leads her friends in a battle against the might of Ford and the corruption of the Union supposed to protect them. As the girls’ inspiring journey gets bigger than anyone could have imagined, the pressure is too much for some, but can Rita keep up the fight and the happy home she’s worked so hard for?
Funny, touching and timeless with some amazing songs, Made in Dagenham shows how ordinary people can do extraordinary things when they stand together.
*The show contains strong language*
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Community Events:
National Dance Company Wales Dance for Parkinson’s
NDC Wales is excited to launch new Dance for Parkinson’s classes in Bangor!
No experience necessary
Studio £3.50
Tuesdays, 1.30pm – 2.45pm
Dates
23 May, 6 June, 13 June, 20 June, 27 June, 4 July
Dance for Parkinson’s classes are fun and informal.
Dance has been proven to develop confidence and strength, whilst temporarily relieving some participants of symptoms in everyday life. Classes are creative and promote feelings of freedom from the physical and social constraints of having Parkinson’s.
We are an Affiliated hub of English National Ballet’s Dance for Parkinson’s programme.
Classes are 90 minutes long, and all you’ll need is a chair.
English National Ballet’s Dance for Parkinson’s programme has been running since 2008. We are proud to be part of the Dance for PD membership, to support Dance for Parkinson’s Partnership and People Dancing and to have an affiliation with Parkinson’s UK. ENB’s national Dance for Parkinson’s programme enjoys close links with Parkinson’s UK and the European Parkinson’s Disease Association EPDA.
