Wednesday 3rd March 7.30pm
Burnt by The Sun (15)
Tickets £4
Dir: Nikita Mikhalkov, 1995, Russia, 135 min.
With Oleg Menchikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Nadia Mikhalkov.
Colonel Kotov is spending the summer with his young wife and six year old daughter in their dacha in the heart of the Russian countryside. Surrounded by family and friends the days pass idyllically by. When Cousin Dimitri arrives from Moscow he charms everyone with his games and piano playing. But this is 1936, when Stalin’s show trials are at their height, and Dimitri is on a mission which will cast a shadow over them all.
Poetry
From Prose to Poetry
A creative writing workshop with Mimi Khalvati
Tickets £15, 12 places available
Further information: The Poetry Trust, 01986 835950
To book tickets: The Cut Box Office 0845 6732123
The Cut café & bar will be happy to provide good things to eat and drink for workshop attenders wanting supper before the evening reading.
Thursday 4th March, at 7.30pm
Tickets £6
Thursday 4th March, 4 – 6pm
Mimi Khalvati & Roger Robinson
An exhilarating mix of sustaining and vibrant voices
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, grew up in the Isle of Wight and now lives in North London. Her sixth collection The Meanest Flower (2007) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. Her poems, full of a generosity of spirit, have been translated into nine languages.
“Mimi Khalvati is one of the most poignant and graceful poets currently writing in England.”
– George Szirtes.
Roger Robinson is a Trinidadian writer who has lived in London for twenty years. His work encompasses poetry, one-man shows, short fiction and an album of spoken folk. In 2009 he published his second collection Suckle and he gave a storming performance at the 21st Aldeburgh Poetry Festival last autumn.
“A fresh, daring, sensitive, clear-sighted and big-hearted poetic voice… we need poets like Roger Robinson.” – Bernardine Evaristo.
Friday 5th March 7.30pm
Open Space Theatre Company
84 Charing Cross Road
by James Roose-Evans
Tickets £8.50/£6
Following their success with Private Lives, by Noel Coward, Open Space Theatre Company are now touring this amusing but deeply moving drama.
Portraying a trans-Atlantic relationship spanning the two decades after the Second World War. A burgeoning New York writer with a quirky sense of humour (Helene Hanff) sends an enquiry to a London bookshop, sparking a growing affection with its staff, particularly the shop’s manager (Frank Doel). The two appear to have little in common in their lives – except a rich love and knowledge of books.
Steve Homes Spanish NightSaturday 6th March 2010
7.30pm
Tickets £16.00
The Cut Arts Centre, New Cut, Halesworth, IP19 8BY
0845 673 2123
Pre booking is required as the ticket price includes tapas, Paella and Steve Homes on Flamenco guitar with dancing after in the auditorium.
Steve is widely regarded as the best and most original Flamenco guitarist in the UK. He began playing at the age of ten giving his first performance aged fourteen, teaching himself from recordings of Sabicas and later Paco de Lucia applying their exacting standards to his own music. His playing is rich with original ideas, his stunning technique freeing him to play with great expression and rhythmic clarity. In essence his compositions are derived from the traditional forms of flamenco but they use elements from many other kinds of music. Titles like ‘Giraffe‘ and ‘Elevator‘ reflect the expanding tradition of flamenco.
Notable UK venues he has performed at include The Royal Festival Hall, The Barbican, The National Theatre, The Commonwealth Institute and The Glastonbury Festival as well as many TV and radio appearances.
He has produced several recordings of his work, the most recent being ‘The Silk Road’.
