August
26 Aug
Film : Presented by Screen-next-the-Sea Laurel and Hardy, the world’s most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song – a grueling theatre tour of post-war Britain.
30 Aug
Film A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fibre-optic cable deal. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek
30 Aug
Renowned and hugely talented classical guitarist James Boyd comes to Wells Maltings by popular demand. In 1937, East Coast journalist and artist Archie White commissioned the yacht Concord from Harry King’s boatyard at Pinmill in Suffolk. His lovingly kept record of Concord’s early years provides a window onto a lost world touched by the shadow […]
31 Aug
FAMILY SHOW Bigger, bolder, and more brilliant than before! Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the stage with a brand new marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young, old, and everyone in-between! Expect the unexpected, believe the unbelievable, but do not dare miss the unmissable Morgan & West!
31 Aug
FAMILY SHOW Great Scott! Morgan & West bring a magical extravaganza to a millennium near you! Not content with their lot as the nineteenth century’s greatest magic duo, the prestidigitatory pair present a conjuring spectacular to the audiences of the modern day. No future is left unseen and no timeline left unaltered as these temporal […]
September
05 Sept
There and back in the R34 airship: pioneers crossing the Atlantic.
06 & 07 Sept
Filmed mainly in Lowestoft A struggling musician realizes he’s the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline where they never existed. Director: Danny Boyle
09 Sept
Presented by Screen-next-the-Sea Concert footage from 1972 of Aretha Franklin performing songs from the best-selling gospel album at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles.
11 Sept
In a vivid re-creation of the early quartet and trio of the King Of Swing, award-winning clarinettist Peter Long brings with him three of the finest exponents of the period style on their instruments on the scene today. Expect all the hits from the early days of Benny’s career, such as Avalon, Airmail Special, Stompin’ […]
10 Sept
Live by Satellite On Tuesday, September 10th, the wait will be over….The Testaments,Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale,is revealed. The momentous literary event will be celebrated with an exclusive live cinema broadcast, as Fane Productions present an evening with the Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic and inventor.
12 Sept
See the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag, broadcast live to cinemas from London’s West End. Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones, Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. Fleabag may seem oversexed, […]
15 Sep
Hailed as one of the most charismatic and “adventurous” quartets of the British chamber music scene (The Strad), the Villiers Quartet :- James Dickenson (violin) Tamaki Higashi (violin) Carmen Flores (viola) Nicholas Stringfellow (cello) have developed an international reputation as exceptional interpreters of English composers including Elgar, Delius, Fricker, Bush. Programme: Anton Webern – Langsamer […]
19 Sept
Innovation and Landscape: Presentations and discussion on the impact of historical and current innovations in agriculture, commerce, energy and industry on the built environment.
20 - 22 Sept
WELLS FILM FESTIVAL 2019 – Pass to all events Friday 20th- Sunday22nd September KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON LAUGHING Screen-Next-The-Sea with The Maltings
20 Sept
Sponsored by the Golden Fleece Part of the Wells Film Festival 2019 presented by Screen-Next-The-Sea with Wells Maltings True story of a brother and sister from a Norfolk wrestling family who are offered a trial in America for WWE and only one of them is chosen! A heart warming story with great characters, lots of […]
21 Sept
Sponsored by The Globe Inn Part of the Wells Film Festival 2019 presented by Screen-Next-The-Sea with Wells Maltings A group of stuck-in-a-rut guys find camaraderie and self-worth through synchronized swimming! This big-hearted and gentle comedy has great banter and the feel-good factor. Director: Oliver Parker Cast: Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves, Jim Carter, Adeel Akhtar, Jane […]
21 Sept
Sponsored by S.T. Sutton Funeral Directors Part of the Wells Film Festival 2019 presented by Screen-Next-The-Sea with Wells Maltings Very funny British comedy about a funeral going wrong due to LSD pills, a grumpy wheelchair user, a hypochondriac and a shocking surprise guest! Director: Frank Oz Cast: Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Andy Nyman, Ewen Bremner, […]
21 Sept
Sponsored by the Crown Hotel Part of the Wells Film Festival 2019 presented by Screen-Next-The-Sea with Wells Maltings A group of four would-be British terrorists have a secret plan to address the plight of Muslims around the world, but is any of them competent enough to strike a match? This is a smart, pitch black, […]
22 Sept
Sponsored by Hayes & Storr Part of the Wells Film Festival 2019 presented by Screen-Next-The-Sea with Wells Maltings A couple inherit a run-down cinema and its ancient doddering employees, and try to bring it back into popularity and profit. Made in 1957 this is a classic comedy, with a great cast, and reminiscent of our […]
22 Sept
Sponsored by the Bowling Green Part of the Wells Film Festival 2019 presented by Screen-Next-The-Sea with Wells Maltings Alan is the conceited, petty and anal comic creation of Steve Coogan, who gets disastrously involved in a siege at the North Norfolk radio station where he is a DJ. Wonderfully cringe-making and packed with clever gags. […]
22 Sept
Winterreise Op. 89, D911 Franz Schubert BARITONE Cornelius Lewenberg PIANO Adam Johnson Franz Schubert’s exceptional winter song cycle of unrequited love, despair and solitude, has moved audiences since its first performance in March 1828. Ahead of their Vienna debut in November, Cornelius and Adam present Schubert’s masterpiece here at Wells Maltings. The song cycle will […]
26 Sept
Live by Satellite from the National Theatre by Richard Bean based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, with songs by Grant Olding Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Show, James Corden, the hilarious West End and Broadway hit One Man, Two Guvnors returns to cinemas to mark National […]
27 Sept
Rocking since before the Stones first Rolled! David Spinks formed The Starbeats in 1959. In 1962 Mervyn Hurn took lead vocals and Mervyn and the Starbeats were born. The band constantly gigged, headlining and supporting, among others, Cleo Laine and Joe Brown and the Bruvvers. TV work included Anglia TV’s ‘Sandy Sanford Show’ 1964 saw […]
28 Sept
The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world. Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
30 Sept
Presented by Screen-next-the-Sea The MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival is a global phenomenon. Each year, over the course of one exciting week, a selection of short films are simultaneously screened in cinemas, theatres and cafes at over 350 venues around the world. From more than 1,500 entries from all corners of the globe, only around 10 […]
October
02 Oct
Francesca Moody productions presents this Drama in the round The unmissable, Fringe First Award-winning hit show from Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair, featuring an original soundtrack by members of Frightened Rabbit. Square Go is about playground violence, myths of masculinity and the challenge to step up or run. After a sell-out run at the 2018 […]
03 Oct
Strictly Speaking returns for a second year – a celebration of community poetry Open mic night X Factor style poetry event with cash prizes for the best recital.
04 Oct
Live on Stage TV personalities Jules Hudson (Escape to the Country and Countryfile) and Jonnie Irwin (Escape to the Country and Place in the Sun) present an evening of entertainment.
09 Oct
Father and son, Simon and Tom Gardner, team up to play the music of the brothers Pete and Conte Candoli. The credentials of Pete the lead trumpeter and Conte the Jazz master, go without saying. Simon has been around for a bit longer than Tom and has played with Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, The Who, […]
10 Oct
Virginia Wolf meets fellow author Vita Sackville-West in London in the 1920s. Despite both of them being married, they embark on an affair that later inspires one of Virginia’s novels.
11 Oct
When Sir Charles Baskerville is killed under mysterious circumstances Holmes sends Watson to Devon to protect the new heir of Baskerville Hall from the mythical black dog that stalks their family line. A journey that leads the good doctor to suspect the supernatural, negotiate the wilds of nature and ultimately uncover the reality of betrayal […]
12 Oct
Live Screening Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Franco Zeffirelli’s celebrated production of Turandot, which stars Christine Goerke in the title role of the icy Chinese princess who has renounced all men.
14 Oct
Javed is a British teen of Pakistani descent growing up in 1987 England. Amidst the racial and economic turmoil of the times, he writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father. But when a classmate introduces him to the music of Bruce Springsteen, Javed […]
17 Oct
‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute grows, the magical royal couple meddle with mortal lives leading to love triangles, mistaken identities and transformations… with […]
17 Oct
Holkham Hall: Illustrated presentation/lecture by Christine Hiskey, author of ‘Holkham’ and winner of prestigious EDP/Jarrold East Anglian Book (History and Tradition) Award for 2017.
18 Oct
A talk by Lord Robin Butler Lord Butler of Brockwell KG, GCB, CVO, PC, is the only person to have served five prime ministers as Private Secretary, and Secretary of the Cabinet. He was Head of the Home Civil Service from 1988 to 1998. In this very special event he will talk of his many […]
25 & 26th Oct
The plot follows Simba, a young lion who must embrace his role as the rightful king of his native land following the murder of his father, Mufasa, at the hands of his uncle, Scar.
27 Oct
Bolshoi Ballet Live Via Satellite. Raymonda is betrothed to Jean de Brienne, a gallant knight who pledged to go on a crusade led by the King of Hungary. When her beloved leaves, Abderakhman, a foreign knight, makes a bid for the hand of Raymonda and threatens her fate when she rejects him… Created in the […]
28 Oct
Film presented by Screen-next-the-Sea as part of the ’50 years on from Woodstock’ series Through the open country and desert lands, two bikers head from L.A to New Orleans, and along the way, meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap they are unaware of. Director: Dennis Hopper
31 Oct
Live on screen from the Theatre Royal York Adapted by Emma Rice based on Angela Carter’s 1991 novel.
November
01 Nov
A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy Upper East Side family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Based on the novel by Donna Tartt Director: John Crowley Stars: Finn Wolfhard, Nicole Kidman, Ashleigh Cummings
02 Nov
Lisette Oropesa stars as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life, in Laurent Pelly’s revealing production. Michael Fabiano is the besotted Chevalier des Grieux, whose desperate love for Manon proves their undoing.
07 Nov
It’s a summer’s morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Diana. But all is not as blissful as it seems. Diana has a stinking hangover, a fox is destroying the garden, and secrets are being dug up all […]
08 Nov
Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts. Director: Rupert Goold Stars: Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Rufus Sewell
09 Nov
Hui He stars as the devoted geisha who gives everything for the American naval officer, sung by Andrea Carè. Plácido Domingo adds another role to his remarkable repertoire, singing Sharpless for the first time.
11 Nov
Presented by Screen-next-the-Sea In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch
14 Nov
Presented live on stage by Poetry People In the early 1900s Lowestoft’s fishing village – known locally as The Grit – was home to 2,300 people, three schools, churches, shops and 13 pubs. There was a strong sense of independence and community spirit among the often poor ‘Gritsters’. What made it such a special place […]
15 & 16 Nov
The continuing story of the Crawley family, wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early 20th century. Director: Michael Engler Stars: Matthew Goode, Tuppence Middleton, Maggie Smith
17 Nov
Bolshoi Ballet Live via Satellite. On the bazaar square of Andrinopolis, the Pachais struck by the beauty of Medora and tries to buy her, but the lovely young woman is not for sale. As the transaction is about to come to a close, Medora is kidnaped by Conrad, a charming corsair who catches her eye…Bolshoi […]
17 Nov
Hailed as one of the most charismatic and “adventurous” quartets of the British chamber music scene (The Strad), the Villiers Quartet :- James Dickenson (violin) Tamaki Higashi (violin) Carmen Flores (viola) Nicholas Stringfellow (cello) have developed an international reputation as exceptional interpreters of English composers including Elgar, Delius, Fricker, Bush. Programme: Hubert Parry – Quartet […]
21 Nov
This fascinating cinema event opens with a brand-new documentary about the life and work of Paul Gauguin, one of the world’s most popular and important artists. Filmed in Tahiti, France, the Marquesas Islands and the UK, this cinematic film will explore Gauguin’s extraordinary – and at times controversial – artistic achievement, with commentary from his […]
21 Nov
Here Comes the Judge: Planning decisions and changes in the built environment; roles of and relationships between planning authorities; roles of civic organizations and citizens in planning processes; resourcing decisions and appeals.
22 Nov
Screen next the Sea Special Followed by Q&A with Producer Debbie Gray A portrait of the artist L.S. Lowry and the relationship with his mother, who tries to dissuade him from pursuing his passion. Director: Adrian Noble Writer: Martyn Hesford Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Spall, Stephen Lord
23 Nov
Phelim McDermott returns to the Met with a new staging of Glass’s Akhnaten, originally created by LA Opera, Improbable, and English National Opera, where it premiered, winning the 2017 Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production.
24 Nov
Piano Recital With a repertoire of over 100 concertos performed or recorded Martin works regularly with many of the UK’s leading orchestras, having especially close links with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Hallé, Manchester Camerata, Northern Chamber Orchestra and with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, where he […]
25 Nov
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood’s Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles. Director: Quentin Tarantino Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie
28 Nov
Martyn Joseph is a performer like no other: Shades of Springsteen, John Mayer, Bruce Cockburn and Dave Matthews there may be – but he stands in his own right, built on a reputation for giving what thousands have described as the best live music experience of their lives delivering his “songs of lyrical intelligence” according […]
29 Nov
by Noël CowardMatthew Warchusdirects Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter. As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, […]
December
From 05 Dec
A fEAST Theatre production in association with Wells Maltings Emily’s excited! Tomorrow’s Christmas and there’s an i-pad shaped present under the tree with her name on it. If only she could get to sleep … if only anyone could get to sleep … The problem is, a very wicked man with a very wicked plan […]
09 Dec
Presented by Screen-next-the-Sea While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect. The film is told in flashbacks with Zain suing his parents a plot device to draw attention to child poverty in Lebanon. Director: Nadine Labaki Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole
12 Dec
We the People: What civic organizations and individuals have done and are doing to change and protect the built environment. Examples from Friends of North Norfolk, Norwich Society and Council for the Preservation of Rural England.
15 Dec
Christmas concert by the Fakenham Town Band. Details to be announced. Not to be Missed
16 Dec
Presented by Screen-next-the-Sea The classic 1947 film When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. Director: George Seaton Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara, John Payne
19 Dec
Bolshoi Ballet ENCORE. The Bolshoi stage shares its majesticvision of Hoffman’s tale, taking audiences of all ages on a magical journey through a world of enchantment.On Christmas Eve, the mysterious Drosselmeyer brings a Nutcracker doll as a gift for his goddaughter Marie. At midnight, the doll comes to life and finds himself in a battle […]