The classic 1946 black-and-white Christmas film is now at Eden Court on 21st - 23rd and 26th of this month. The film will star Jack Stewart and Donna Reed. It just wouldn't be Christmas without a classic film such as this one. I hope that you will see it and enjoy a heart full film.
A link to It's A Wonderful Life on the Eden Court website:
https://www.eden-court.co.uk/whats-on/shows/it-s-a-wonderful-life-1
I hope that you all have a Merry Christmas.
Thursday 11 December 2014
Sing-a-long Sound of Music
The infamous musical 1965 film Sound of Music is coming to Eden Court on the 16th of April to mark the 50th anniversary of the film's release.
Starring Julie Andrews (Oscar award winning actress of Disney's Mary Poppins the year before The Sound of Music) and Christopher Plummer (who has played in Star Trek and National Treasure) this film is as good as it was when it first came to the screens.
Andrews plays the character Maria, a lady learning to become a nun, who goes to the Von Trapp family to look after seven children and helps bring music to soften Captain Von Trapp (Plummer), however the Anschluss is hovering over their happiness in Salzburg, Austria.
A link to Sing-a-long Sound of Music on the Eden Court website:
https://www.eden-court.co.uk/whats-on/shows/sing-a-long-a-sound-of-music-1
Starring Julie Andrews (Oscar award winning actress of Disney's Mary Poppins the year before The Sound of Music) and Christopher Plummer (who has played in Star Trek and National Treasure) this film is as good as it was when it first came to the screens.
Andrews plays the character Maria, a lady learning to become a nun, who goes to the Von Trapp family to look after seven children and helps bring music to soften Captain Von Trapp (Plummer), however the Anschluss is hovering over their happiness in Salzburg, Austria.
A link to Sing-a-long Sound of Music on the Eden Court website:
https://www.eden-court.co.uk/whats-on/shows/sing-a-long-a-sound-of-music-1
Sweeney Todd and Maria Marten - Review
09/12
The first night was, I believe, a great night. After a hectic afternoon of rehearsals on Sunday (in which Maria Marten (which I am in) didn't get a run through) we managed to do a full run through before the play started at 8pm with an audience watching. In Maria Marten, my character called Tim, holds the "skellington" of Maria Marten in the Old Red Barn where her murder takes place, the only problem was that until the night I didn't have a skeleton to work with and when I did, I was told to be careful and that it isn't Eden Court's but the College's after the run through before the performance. We, the cast of Maria Marten, are happy with what we've done and we are ready to do at again.
One night down - two to go.
10/12
The second night was just as fantastic as the first. We went over a couple of points at the start of the play before we went to the dressing rooms and started getting ready for the second night of performance. We got a few more giggles from the audience this night than the previous night. We are all happy with the result and we are ready for the final performance.
Just one night to go now.
11/12
The final was the best night. Everyone was laughing or giggling as we performed for them.
At the end of the perform, William Corder, the villain of the story, gets hanged for his crimes and when the Hangman took Corder's hat off, it ended up the audience, but Tom Masterton (who played Corder) got his hat back for when we did out bows (or curtic (and I know that this is not the correct word) by the ladies in their dresses). After we (the cast of Maria Marten) were finished and were out of our costumes we went to see Sweeney Todd and I couldn't believe of how good it was, even I was laughing at the funny scenes. The Sweeney Todd group were very good.
It's hard to believe that it's all over now. Now we have to wonder what we are doing next year. Till then, see ya.
A link to previous blog about Sweeney Todd and Maria Marten: http://chrisedencourtblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/sweeney-todd-and-maria-marten.html
A link to Inverness Courier about Sweeney Todd and Maria Marten:
http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Whats-On/Theatre/Barbermakes-the-cut-to-star-as-Sweeney-Todd-05122014.htm
The first night was, I believe, a great night. After a hectic afternoon of rehearsals on Sunday (in which Maria Marten (which I am in) didn't get a run through) we managed to do a full run through before the play started at 8pm with an audience watching. In Maria Marten, my character called Tim, holds the "skellington" of Maria Marten in the Old Red Barn where her murder takes place, the only problem was that until the night I didn't have a skeleton to work with and when I did, I was told to be careful and that it isn't Eden Court's but the College's after the run through before the performance. We, the cast of Maria Marten, are happy with what we've done and we are ready to do at again.
One night down - two to go.
10/12
The second night was just as fantastic as the first. We went over a couple of points at the start of the play before we went to the dressing rooms and started getting ready for the second night of performance. We got a few more giggles from the audience this night than the previous night. We are all happy with the result and we are ready for the final performance.
Just one night to go now.
11/12
The final was the best night. Everyone was laughing or giggling as we performed for them.
At the end of the perform, William Corder, the villain of the story, gets hanged for his crimes and when the Hangman took Corder's hat off, it ended up the audience, but Tom Masterton (who played Corder) got his hat back for when we did out bows (or curtic (and I know that this is not the correct word) by the ladies in their dresses). After we (the cast of Maria Marten) were finished and were out of our costumes we went to see Sweeney Todd and I couldn't believe of how good it was, even I was laughing at the funny scenes. The Sweeney Todd group were very good.
It's hard to believe that it's all over now. Now we have to wonder what we are doing next year. Till then, see ya.
A link to previous blog about Sweeney Todd and Maria Marten: http://chrisedencourtblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/sweeney-todd-and-maria-marten.html
A link to Inverness Courier about Sweeney Todd and Maria Marten:
http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Whats-On/Theatre/Barbermakes-the-cut-to-star-as-Sweeney-Todd-05122014.htm
Thursday 20 November 2014
Sweeney Todd and Maria Marten
From the drama group that has brought Fawlty Towers and 'Allo 'Allo to the stage, comes two melodramas.
The first is the best known: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, where more people go and are never seen from again and Mrs Lovart's Pie Shop business is booming. The police are as clueless to what has happened to the missing people, a poor family seeks employment, a lady worries for her missing loved-one and what will a returning sailor find when he offers to bake for Mrs Lovart?
The second is called Maria Marten, a play based on a true story set in Suffolk 1827, where the villain plots to become richer and more devious, the gypsies plot for revenge, ghosts haunt dreams, a young maiden loses her happiness and her family seek justice.
A link to the website for more information:
https://www.eden-court.co.uk/whats-on/shows/sweeney-todd-s-cut-throat-Christmas
Hope that you enjoy the performances brought to you by Eden Court's Dramalab. I know I will: I will performing one of these melodramas - but you've got to come to find out which one.
The first is the best known: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, where more people go and are never seen from again and Mrs Lovart's Pie Shop business is booming. The police are as clueless to what has happened to the missing people, a poor family seeks employment, a lady worries for her missing loved-one and what will a returning sailor find when he offers to bake for Mrs Lovart?
The second is called Maria Marten, a play based on a true story set in Suffolk 1827, where the villain plots to become richer and more devious, the gypsies plot for revenge, ghosts haunt dreams, a young maiden loses her happiness and her family seek justice.
A link to the website for more information:
https://www.eden-court.co.uk/whats-on/shows/sweeney-todd-s-cut-throat-Christmas
Hope that you enjoy the performances brought to you by Eden Court's Dramalab. I know I will: I will performing one of these melodramas - but you've got to come to find out which one.
The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies
The last film of the infamous The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien is due to come to Eden Court.
Directed by Peter Jackson (who directed the The Lord of the Rings (2001-3) and The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011), the third film of The Hobbit trilogy films, stars Martin Freeman (best known as Watson in BBC's Sherlock) plays the character Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit who finds himself in an adventure of a lifetime, with a little help from a wizard called Gandalf the Grey(played by Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf in Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy a decade ago), with a company of 13 dwarves under the leadership of Thorin Oakenshield (played by Richard Armitage, who has stared in BBC's Spooks and North & South, and has starred in other films such as Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)) all of whom are attempting to reclaim the Lonely Mountain where their home was taken by Smaug the dragon (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, best know as Sherlock Holmes in BBC's Sherlock, co-starring with Martin Freeman). The film will star Luke Evans (who played Apollo in 2010's remake of The Clash of the Titans, Aramis in 2011's The Three Musketeers and 2014's Dracula Untold) as Bard the Bowman who reclaims his family's long-lost throne of Dale (which was destroyed by Smaug) and Orlando Bloom (Will Turner in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean) will return to reprise his breakthrough role as Legolas the elf
The film will begin where The Desolation of Smaug left off, when Smaug leaves the Lonely Mountain to attack the Lake-town. The film will detail the events that will lead to the Battle of the Five Armies, the climax of Tolkien's book, with other links and connections to other works and notes by Tolkien.
Here's a link to the details of the film:
https://www.eden-court.co.uk/whats-on/shows/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies
Hope that you enjoy the climax of an all-star trilogy and the prequel at The Lord of the Rings.
Directed by Peter Jackson (who directed the The Lord of the Rings (2001-3) and The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011), the third film of The Hobbit trilogy films, stars Martin Freeman (best known as Watson in BBC's Sherlock) plays the character Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit who finds himself in an adventure of a lifetime, with a little help from a wizard called Gandalf the Grey(played by Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf in Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy a decade ago), with a company of 13 dwarves under the leadership of Thorin Oakenshield (played by Richard Armitage, who has stared in BBC's Spooks and North & South, and has starred in other films such as Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)) all of whom are attempting to reclaim the Lonely Mountain where their home was taken by Smaug the dragon (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, best know as Sherlock Holmes in BBC's Sherlock, co-starring with Martin Freeman). The film will star Luke Evans (who played Apollo in 2010's remake of The Clash of the Titans, Aramis in 2011's The Three Musketeers and 2014's Dracula Untold) as Bard the Bowman who reclaims his family's long-lost throne of Dale (which was destroyed by Smaug) and Orlando Bloom (Will Turner in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean) will return to reprise his breakthrough role as Legolas the elf
The film will begin where The Desolation of Smaug left off, when Smaug leaves the Lonely Mountain to attack the Lake-town. The film will detail the events that will lead to the Battle of the Five Armies, the climax of Tolkien's book, with other links and connections to other works and notes by Tolkien.
Here's a link to the details of the film:
https://www.eden-court.co.uk/whats-on/shows/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies
Hope that you enjoy the climax of an all-star trilogy and the prequel at The Lord of the Rings.
Wednesday 19 November 2014
Aladdin Pantomime
The Pantomime returns to Eden Court for full month in the form of the infamous story of Aladdin. In the story Aladdin is a poor boy who believes that his dreams will never come true, meanwhile, with a law only a prince can marry a princess, an evil character called Abanazar plots his next move.
I saw a familiar version many years ago, before Eden Court was rebuilt I am sure, because one of the characters (Aladdin's brother/sister) was called Wishee Washee and there was two idiot policemen and it was all great to see.
The first night is Tuesday the 2nd and the last performance is on Sunday the 4th of January. The days the Panto is not on is Monday the 8th, Tuesday the 9th, Tuesday the 16th, Wednesday the 17th, Thursday the 25th of December (Christmas Day) and Thursday the 1st of January (New Year's Day).
There is a matinee performance in the early afternoons from Thursday the 4th of December starting at 1.30pm (2.15pm on Monday the 22nd, Tuesday the 23rd, Friday the 26th, Saturday the 27th of December and Saturday the 3rd of January (with BSL Interpreted and Audio Described on this date).
The evening performance starts at 7.00pm (5.00pm on Saturday the 6th, Sunday the 7th, Saturday the 13th (with Captions), Sunday the 14th, Saturday the 20th, Sunday the 21st, Wednesday the 24th, Sunday the 28th, Monday the 29th, Tuesday the 30th, Wednesday the 31st of December, Friday the 2nd and Sunday the 4th of January.
Tickets for the matinee performance on Thursday the 4th of December is £13.00 along with the evening performances on Tuesday the 2nd, Wednesday the 3rd, Thursday the 4th and Thursday the 11th of December. Any other performances are £16.50.
Hope that you enjoy this year's Panto's performance of a classic tale from 1001 Arabian Nights.
I saw a familiar version many years ago, before Eden Court was rebuilt I am sure, because one of the characters (Aladdin's brother/sister) was called Wishee Washee and there was two idiot policemen and it was all great to see.
The first night is Tuesday the 2nd and the last performance is on Sunday the 4th of January. The days the Panto is not on is Monday the 8th, Tuesday the 9th, Tuesday the 16th, Wednesday the 17th, Thursday the 25th of December (Christmas Day) and Thursday the 1st of January (New Year's Day).
There is a matinee performance in the early afternoons from Thursday the 4th of December starting at 1.30pm (2.15pm on Monday the 22nd, Tuesday the 23rd, Friday the 26th, Saturday the 27th of December and Saturday the 3rd of January (with BSL Interpreted and Audio Described on this date).
The evening performance starts at 7.00pm (5.00pm on Saturday the 6th, Sunday the 7th, Saturday the 13th (with Captions), Sunday the 14th, Saturday the 20th, Sunday the 21st, Wednesday the 24th, Sunday the 28th, Monday the 29th, Tuesday the 30th, Wednesday the 31st of December, Friday the 2nd and Sunday the 4th of January.
Tickets for the matinee performance on Thursday the 4th of December is £13.00 along with the evening performances on Tuesday the 2nd, Wednesday the 3rd, Thursday the 4th and Thursday the 11th of December. Any other performances are £16.50.
Hope that you enjoy this year's Panto's performance of a classic tale from 1001 Arabian Nights.
Wednesday 12 November 2014
The Nutcracker
The Scottish Ballet is returning with a performance of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. A story of a young girl called Clara who gets a Nutcracker for Christmas and when she falls asleep, she dreams of helping the Nutcracker Prince defeat the Mouse King and his army of mice. Clara will visit the Land of Snow where snowflakes comes to life dancing and the enchanted land of the Sugar Plum Fairies, the Kingdom of Sweets.
Scottish Ballet's Nutcracker has always been a great success whenever it comes to Eden Court.
"Nutcracker is the perfect Christmas entertainment" The Guardian
The Ballet will be performing from Wednesday 21st of January till Saturday 24th at 7.30pm for two hours (inc 20 minutes interval). A Audio Described Performance will take place on Saturday the 24th at 2pm (Touch Tour at 12.30pm).
Tickets range from £10 (for Under 26) - £29. Groups of 10+ for the price of 9. If you book on-line or by phone booking fees will apply.
There are Pre-show Talks from members of the Artistic and Music staff from the Scottish Ballet. Thursday the 22nd 6.30 - 7pm will focus on the dancing. Friday the 23rd same time will focus on the music. Booking is required but free.
If you stay in the auditorium after the performance on Friday the 23rd you will get a chance for a Post-show Discussion where you can put questions to a dancer. It will be free with nor booking required.
A Family Insight on Saturday 24th 11am - 12.30pm is where you can learn about the characters, story and costumes of The Nutcracker in a way the appeals to the young and old with a chance to see the one of the dancers. Suitable for children above the age of 6. The tickets range £3.50 - £5.50.
I hope that all who see Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker will enjoy it.
Scottish Ballet's Nutcracker has always been a great success whenever it comes to Eden Court.
"Nutcracker is the perfect Christmas entertainment" The Guardian
The Ballet will be performing from Wednesday 21st of January till Saturday 24th at 7.30pm for two hours (inc 20 minutes interval). A Audio Described Performance will take place on Saturday the 24th at 2pm (Touch Tour at 12.30pm).
Tickets range from £10 (for Under 26) - £29. Groups of 10+ for the price of 9. If you book on-line or by phone booking fees will apply.
There are Pre-show Talks from members of the Artistic and Music staff from the Scottish Ballet. Thursday the 22nd 6.30 - 7pm will focus on the dancing. Friday the 23rd same time will focus on the music. Booking is required but free.
If you stay in the auditorium after the performance on Friday the 23rd you will get a chance for a Post-show Discussion where you can put questions to a dancer. It will be free with nor booking required.
A Family Insight on Saturday 24th 11am - 12.30pm is where you can learn about the characters, story and costumes of The Nutcracker in a way the appeals to the young and old with a chance to see the one of the dancers. Suitable for children above the age of 6. The tickets range £3.50 - £5.50.
I hope that all who see Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker will enjoy it.
Wednesday 29 October 2014
The Inverness Film Festival
The Inverness Film Festival is back on the 5th of November till the 9th. The opening night film is The Silent Storm with The Imitation Game as the closing night film. With films ranging from the old (black and white) to the recent films (ranging from last year till this year) there is plenty to watch.
Kon-Tiki film about the 1947 voyage of Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members across the Pacific Ocean on a raft hade out of balsa wood to prove that settlers of South America could have travelled from Asia with only a simple radio as the only modern equipment on board the raft. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language film Oscar. The 2012 film is 118 minutes long and screened on Saturday the 8th of November.
Viktoria film is about a young girl who lives in Bulgaria during the last decade of the Cold War and after. The screening of the film will be on Sunday the 9th of November, the day before 25 years to the day that the infamous Berlin Wall came down and Todor Zhivkov, the Bulgarian communist head of state resigned, all of which caused the fall of the USSR and free elections across Eastern Europe the following year and beginning the 90s.
There are plenty see and you can find more information on-line or in a booklet available at Eden Court. I hope that you will enjoy watching them.
Kon-Tiki film about the 1947 voyage of Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members across the Pacific Ocean on a raft hade out of balsa wood to prove that settlers of South America could have travelled from Asia with only a simple radio as the only modern equipment on board the raft. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language film Oscar. The 2012 film is 118 minutes long and screened on Saturday the 8th of November.
Viktoria film is about a young girl who lives in Bulgaria during the last decade of the Cold War and after. The screening of the film will be on Sunday the 9th of November, the day before 25 years to the day that the infamous Berlin Wall came down and Todor Zhivkov, the Bulgarian communist head of state resigned, all of which caused the fall of the USSR and free elections across Eastern Europe the following year and beginning the 90s.
There are plenty see and you can find more information on-line or in a booklet available at Eden Court. I hope that you will enjoy watching them.
The Initiation Game film
Starring the infamous Benedict Cumberbatch (infamous for playing Sherlock Holmes in the TV Series Sherlock and voicing Smaug the Dragon in the Hobbit film series) as Alan Turing a bright Cambridge mathematician and early computer scientist who is set to crack the German Enigma Code along with Keira Knightley (famous for Elizabeth Swann of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series). The film will highlight the highs and lows of Alan Turing in his film directed by Morten Tyldum (who has directed Headhunters). The film will be screened between Friday 14th of November and Thursday the 4th of December.
Fury (film)
Starring Brad Pitt (who has starred in Ocean's Eleven), the film Fury is a story about a group of tank drivers who push on a deadly mission behind the enemy lines in April 1945, but the crew are felling overwhelming odds with a new crew member among them. The film is directed by David Ayer. The film will be screened between Friday the 28th of November till Thursday the 4th of December and runs for 135 mins.
Wednesday 8 October 2014
The "A Most Wanted Man" film
Based on a novel by John le Carré, the film starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman (who has starred in a Mission Impossible film and the Hunger Games sequels) is about an illegal immigrant who gets involved in the War of Terror. If you wish to see the film, there is a subtitled version tonight at 6pm with the final screening tomorrow at 11.30am and 8.45pm. Tickets are £8 for adults (above 18) and the film runs for 122 minutes. Enjoy the film in which "Philip Seymour Hoffman is flawless".
Wednesday 1 October 2014
Scottish play of Cinderella
Cinderella is a classic story that everyone recognises at the sound of the name. (With a little help from Walt Disney). The play is performed by the Scottish Opera, the play is going to be performed on the 4th, 6th and the 8th of next month from 7:15 in the evening running for 2 hours and 50 minutes. Starting as Cinderella will be Victoria Yarovaya from Russia with Nico Darmanin playing Prince Ramiro. Music will be conducted Oliver Rundell on the first night with William Lacey conducting on the remaining two nights. The paly is directed by Sandrine Anglade. Tickets are about £10 for any seat, if you are in a group more than ten people, you can buy ten tickets and get the eleventh free. Hope that everyone who goes to see will enjoy the classic story of Cinderella.
Wednesday 17 September 2014
Tuesday the 16th of September
The "Snooker Legends" were visiting Eden Court last night and it looked liked the Empire Theatre was packed. Shame I didn't get to see it but I saw with my dad and granddad last time it was here and I hope that everyone enjoyed it.
The play of Sweeney Todd has been casted with a second play being played beside it, I believe that it is called "Maria Merten, the Murder at the Red Barn", both of which are set in the 19th century, only Sweeney Todd is in Fleet Street of London and Maria Merten is in Suffolk. Both plays are going to be performed on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of December.
The play of Sweeney Todd has been casted with a second play being played beside it, I believe that it is called "Maria Merten, the Murder at the Red Barn", both of which are set in the 19th century, only Sweeney Todd is in Fleet Street of London and Maria Merten is in Suffolk. Both plays are going to be performed on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of December.
Wednesday 10 September 2014
Eden Court in December
It looks like Eden Court is going to be busy in December, with the panto play of Aladdin and the play of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (of which I'll be in). I hope that all goes well at Eden Court for them.
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