Film Night – THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS
Fri 29 Apr 2022, 7:30PM
OUR SECOND EVENT TO COMMEMORATE Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Day )
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2008 British film written and directed by Mark Herman. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by John Boyne. Set in World War II, the Holocaust drama relates the horror of a Nazi extermination camp through the eyes of two eight-year-old boys: Bruno (Asa Butterfield), the son of the camp’s Nazi commander, and Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish prisoner…
OUR SECOND EVENT TO COMMEMORATE Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Day )
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2008 British film written and directed by Mark Herman. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by John Boyne. Set in World War II, the Holocaust drama relates the horror of a Nazi extermination camp through the eyes of two eight-year-old boys: Bruno (Asa Butterfield), the son of the camp’s Nazi commander, and Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish prisoner…
A Brief History of Jazz with The Paul Higgs Quartet
Friday 6 May 2022, 7:30PM
A Brief History of Jazz with trumpet suprendo Paul Higgs and his band
An entertaining, enlightening musical tour of jazz history presented by one of the UK’s top trumpeters with a live band. Featuring music by the legends Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker and Miles Davis featuring New Orleans, swing and bebop, through to cool jazz, modal and Latin…
A Brief History of Jazz with trumpet suprendo Paul Higgs and his band
An entertaining, enlightening musical tour of jazz history presented by one of the UK’s top trumpeters with a live band. Featuring music by the legends Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker and Miles Davis featuring New Orleans, swing and bebop, through to cool jazz, modal and Latin…
The Muse of Newmarket
Thu 12th May 2022 – Sun 22nd May 2022
(performance times & locations vary)
England has been under severe restrictions for 16 years – with entertainment banned by Cromwell’s Puritans and the theatre driven underground. Now with the monarchy restored King Charles II revives leisure pursuits – and where better to start than the home of the sport of kings. Charles demands entertainment – but can The Players step up to the mark? Where will they find the right play? And a famous actor to star in the show? In Four Weeks!
Telling the story of Aphra Behn, the first female playwright and Robert Palmer’s Newmarket Players in song and humour
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(performance times & locations vary)
England has been under severe restrictions for 16 years – with entertainment banned by Cromwell’s Puritans and the theatre driven underground. Now with the monarchy restored King Charles II revives leisure pursuits – and where better to start than the home of the sport of kings. Charles demands entertainment – but can The Players step up to the mark? Where will they find the right play? And a famous actor to star in the show? In Four Weeks!
Telling the story of Aphra Behn, the first female playwright and Robert Palmer’s Newmarket Players in song and humour
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Choice Grenfell
Friday 20th May 2022 7:30pm
To mark 40 years since her loss – celebrate the incomparable humour of comedienne Joyce Grenfell
Choice Grenfell features some of the best of Joyce’s delightful songs and monologues from ‘Stately as a Galleon’ and ‘School Nativity Play’ to “A Terrible Worrier” and “First Flight”. Joyce is our guide for a delightful delve into some of her most delightful characters, ably accompanied by her trusted pianist…
To mark 40 years since her loss – celebrate the incomparable humour of comedienne Joyce Grenfell
Choice Grenfell features some of the best of Joyce’s delightful songs and monologues from ‘Stately as a Galleon’ and ‘School Nativity Play’ to “A Terrible Worrier” and “First Flight”. Joyce is our guide for a delightful delve into some of her most delightful characters, ably accompanied by her trusted pianist…
Gainsborough And The Modern Woman
Wednesday 25 May 2022, 7:30PM
A New Play by Peppy Barlow & Sally Wilden – presented by Woven Theatre
In 1760, Gainsborough painted a portrait of Ann Ford, which took his world by storm. Prepared to break the rules about how a woman should be portrayed, this painting was a cause of outrage but put a seal on Gainsborough’s growing reputation. Come to the play and enter the world of Gainsborough and this extraordinary young woman…
A New Play by Peppy Barlow & Sally Wilden – presented by Woven Theatre
In 1760, Gainsborough painted a portrait of Ann Ford, which took his world by storm. Prepared to break the rules about how a woman should be portrayed, this painting was a cause of outrage but put a seal on Gainsborough’s growing reputation. Come to the play and enter the world of Gainsborough and this extraordinary young woman…
Luke Wright
Fri 27 May 2022, 7:30PM
WINNER Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Performer 2021
Whether he’s opening for the Libertines or reciting Georgian ballads down your local, Luke Wright is adept at taking poetry places it doesn’t normally go. John Cooper Clarke’s regular warm-up guy writes poems that are tender, riotous, caustic and romantic then delivers them with the ferocity and panache of a raconteur at the top of his game.
This is an ALL-NEW show with deliciously funny poems set against a backdrop of pandemic politics, ageing parents, and the endless, droning culture war…
WINNER Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Performer 2021
Whether he’s opening for the Libertines or reciting Georgian ballads down your local, Luke Wright is adept at taking poetry places it doesn’t normally go. John Cooper Clarke’s regular warm-up guy writes poems that are tender, riotous, caustic and romantic then delivers them with the ferocity and panache of a raconteur at the top of his game.
This is an ALL-NEW show with deliciously funny poems set against a backdrop of pandemic politics, ageing parents, and the endless, droning culture war…
Michael Pennington – In My Own Footsteps
Sunday 12 Jun 2022, 7:00PM
Felixstowe Book Festival in association with Two Sisters Arts Centre present
Michael Pennington IN MY OWN FOOTSTEPS.
Michael has been working as an actor and director for the past 57 years. He is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company and co founded the English Shakespeare Company. He will be performing readings from his memoir which he says will be “generally funny, unexpected and full of heroes of the past – Paul Scofield, Peggy Ashcroft, Ian Holm, as well of my generation”…
Felixstowe Book Festival in association with Two Sisters Arts Centre present
Michael Pennington IN MY OWN FOOTSTEPS.
Michael has been working as an actor and director for the past 57 years. He is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company and co founded the English Shakespeare Company. He will be performing readings from his memoir which he says will be “generally funny, unexpected and full of heroes of the past – Paul Scofield, Peggy Ashcroft, Ian Holm, as well of my generation”…
Charlie Haylock – Suffolk Day Talk
Friday 17th June 2022 7:30pm
Charlie Haylock returns to Two Sisters with his Suffolk Day talk
Expect anecdotes, tall tales and interesting history…
Charlie Haylock returns to Two Sisters with his Suffolk Day talk
Expect anecdotes, tall tales and interesting history…
Mrs Simpson In Felixstowe
at 18th June 2022 7:30pm
An American divorcee, a besotted Prince and a constitutional crisis – sound familiar? But this was 1936.
Focusing on her six weeks in Felixstowe as she waited for her divorce – this play looks at Wallis Simpson’s relationship with Edward, her husband Ernest and the explosive circumstances that rocked the monarchy and ultimately led to the King’s abdication and Princess Elizabeth eventually becoming Queen.
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An American divorcee, a besotted Prince and a constitutional crisis – sound familiar? But this was 1936.
Focusing on her six weeks in Felixstowe as she waited for her divorce – this play looks at Wallis Simpson’s relationship with Edward, her husband Ernest and the explosive circumstances that rocked the monarchy and ultimately led to the King’s abdication and Princess Elizabeth eventually becoming Queen.
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Film Club – Stanley’s War/Private Peaceful
Wed 10th November 2021
Stanley’s War dramatises stories of love and sacrifice, following the lives of Suffolk people during WW1. The film recounts the true life-changing experiences at the Western Front of Stanley Banyard, a farmhand from Ramsholt Suffolk, and how he saved the lives of his comrades, lost in No Man’s Land by using the skills he learnt as a boy from a Suffolk gamekeeper.
The film also follows the Pretty family, factory owners from Ipswich, and the forbidden romance between Major Frank Pretty, (4th Batallion, Suffolk Regiment) and Edith Dempster (later Edith Pretty of Sutton Hoo fame), as well as the tragic story of Lieutenant Donald Pretty (4th Batallion, Suffolk Regiment) killed in action on 11th May 1915.
The film is directed by Tim Curtis (Life on the Deben) and features mainly Suffolk cast and film crew. The screenplay was written by Jonathan Ruffle
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Pantaloons Jekyll & Hyde
Sat 20th November 2021
The critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company present their horrifically innovative take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s murky tale of murder, mystery and transmogrification! When lawyer John Utterson fears that his friend Dr Jekyll is being blackmailed by the shadowy and violent Mr Hyde he begins an investigation that will inexorably lead him to the shocking truth of this strange case – but will it be too late?
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BOOK FAYRE
SUNDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2021 10am-4pm
FREE ENTRY
Book Fayre to support local authors
Books to buy from local authorsTreasure Chest BooksDisplays by Writers GroupsCoffee Bar Open all day for drinks and snacks
PLUSLive MusicFREE Taster Creative Writing Workshops OPEN MIC readings…
Stacks of Sax – Deep in The Forest
Fri 26th November 2021
‘Once upon a time fairy tale fun with saxes big and small – you never know what tune is behind the next tree’
Stacks of Sax return with a seasonal take on the theme of the fairy story
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Film Night – The Dig
Wed 8th Dec 7:30pm
The Dig is a 2021 British drama film directed by Simon Stone, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston, which reimagines the events of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo. It stars Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott, Archie Barnes, and Monica Dolan.
PLEASE NOTE: FOR LICENSING PURPOSES ENTRY IS FREE – Any payment for the ticket is a DONATION TO SUPPORT TWO SISTERS WORK WITHIN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
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Pantaloons Humbugged
Sat 11th December 7:30pm
Ebenezer Scrooge is a changed man
Having given away too much to charity he is now caught between the dangerous loan shark Mr Hardplace, calling in his debt on Christmas Eve, and the evil orphanage mistress Mrs Rock who plans to force children into deadly dangerous factory work on Christmas day.
Scrooge’s only hope is to recruit his old friends – the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future – to bring down Hardplace’s criminal organisation and liberate the children of Rock’s orphanage before it’s too late.
The Pantaloons present a brand new adventure that’s part supernatural time-travel heist, part seasonal sequel – and all unasked for.
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