Cinema highlights at Pontio in Bangor this week include Henry V, The Outfit, Operation Mincemeat and #CITIZENPONTIO – an invitation for us to come together and enjoy great films and explore how we can expand the Pontio film programme and liven up the cinema space here in Bangor.
Kiri Pritchard-McLean is back at Theatr Bryn Terfel on Wednesday 27 April, with a brand-new tour, there’s just a few tickets remaining.
Comedy Club returns on Thursday 28 April and The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will perform at Theatr Bryn Terfel on Friday, 29 April.
For more information and to Book for all events visit the Pontio website here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/
Cinema:
NT Live: Henry V (12A)
Shakespeare / Max Webster, 2022, 180m
Cast – Kit Harrington
Sunday 24 April, 2pm (Encore)
£13 / £11 / £10
Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war and the psychology of power.
Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his campaign encounters resistance, this inexperienced new ruler must prove he is fit to guide a country into war.
Captured live from the Donmar Warehouse in London, this exciting modern production directed by Max Webster (Life of Pi) explores what it means to be English and our relationship to Europe, asking: do we ever get the leaders we deserve
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The Outfit (15)
Graham Moore, 2022, 105m
Cast – Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn
Friday 22 – Thursday 28 April
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
From the Academy Award-winning writer of The Imitation Game (Graham Moore) comes The Outfit, a gripping and masterful thriller in which an expert tailor (Rylance) must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.
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CITIZEN PONTIO
Calling film fans of Bangor!
This first #CITIZEN PONTIO season is an invitation for us to come together and enjoy great films and explore how we can expand the Pontio film programme and liven up the cinema space here in Bangor with 4 double bill film nights!
Full details in the first CITIZEN PONTIO BULLETIN: POWER (copies available in venue)
Memories of Underdevelopment (15)
Tomas Guttierrez Alea, 1968, 97m
Cast – Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Nunez
Wednesday April 27th 5.30pm
Tickets: £7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Alea’s MEMORIES is one the most famous and powerful works of the New Latin American Third Cinema movement that started in the 1960s. (An attempt to oppose neocolonialism, and the capitalist system, and reject the Hollywood model of cinema.) Described by Empire magazine as being ‘the most challenging political film ever made’ it is an unforgettable mix of artistic sublety, political commitment and cinematic entertainment. Set in the time of the Bay of Pigs conflict, the film follows a Europeanized Cuban intellectual too idealistic (or lazy) to leave for the USA, but too decadent to fit into the new regime as he negotiates the revolutionary reality forming all around him.
Double Bill!
The Man of Marble (12A)
The Man of Marble – part of a special double bill night with Memories of Underdevelopment!
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Operation Mincemeat (12A)
John Madden, 2021, 128m
Cast Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald
Friday 29 April – Thursday 5 May
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Operation Mincemeat is a cinematic blend of high-level espionage and ingenious fiction. Tense, romantic, thrilling, unexpectedly funny, and endlessly surprising. It tells a richly human story of the WWII soldiers we seldom see, who fight a different kind of war in the shadows. A British intelligence team plans an elaborate deception to hide the Allied invasion of Sicily from Hitler.
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Theatr Bryn Terfel
Little Wander in association PBJ Management presents
Kiri Pritchard-McLean Home Truths
Wednesday 27 April 8pm
Theatr Bryn Terfel
£15 / £13
16+
Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Have I Got News For You?, Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie to You?) is back with a brand new tour.
It’s been a big few years for most of us and Kiri is no different. She’s moved back to her home island of Anglesey, struggled with lockdown and got herself some rescue chickens. You can expect jokes about skinny jeans, learning Welsh and white supremacy – something for everyone.
“Making powerhouse stand-up from the thorniest of subjects” – The Guardian
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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 29 April 7.30pm
Theatr Bryn Terfel
£25
£20 over 60
£10 under 18s and students
Bruch Concerto for Violin and Viola
Mozart Symphony No.36 ‘Linz’
Mendelssohn Symphony No.3 ‘Scottish’
Julian Rachlin conductor/violin
Sarah McElravy viola
On a summer evening in Edinburgh, amid the ruins of Holyrood Castle, Felix Mendelssohn imagined the first notes of his Scottish symphony. It’s all there in the music, and when conductor Julian Rachlin returns to the Orchestra, it’ll spring vividly to life. That goes double for Mozart’s sunny, celebratory Linz symphony – and since we’re talking doubles, how about a lovely, neglected concerto by former Liverpool Philharmonic music director Max Bruch? With Sarah McElravy on viola and Julian Rachlin on violin, it’s never sounded more natural.
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Clwb Comedi/Comedy Club
Starts Thursday 28 April 2022 20:00
Ends (approx.)22:00
Studio Theatre
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Events for the community
Dawnsio ar gyfer Parkinson’s/Dance for Parkinson’s
Starts Tuesday 26 April 2022 10:00
Studio Theatre – £3.50
