What’s On Week Ahead

Until Fri 10 Jul

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville joins Aidan Turner in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel.

Until Thu 9 Jul

Jodie Foster’s impeccable French and comedic skills are on full display in this mystery thriller, which sees her character journey down a rabbit hole to investigate a suspicious death.

Until Thu 9 Jul

Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch, How to Live on Earth is a visionary feature documentary that explores our vital connection to nature and its role in our future.

Until Thu 9 Jul

Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?

A gripping and frank examination of elder queer desire.

Join us for this very friendly, informal meet up to connect with other Make Shifters, the Watershed team and Studio Residents.

Until Thu 9 Jul

Following its super-buzzy reviews from America, we are proud to bring you one of the best Hong Kong action films in years.

Until Thu 9 Jul

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.

Until Thu 9 Jul

In the late 1990s, a family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island, as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the experiences of the youngest child, Sasha. Their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family’s oldest child.

Drawing inspiration from both classic rom-coms and traditional English folklore, director Isobel Moncloa Daly examines the complexity in letting go.

Until Thu 9 Jul

Based on Gary Owen’s much lauded and widely performed one-woman play, Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau is director Marc Evans’ cinematic interpretation set against the wide open landscapes of North Wales.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom in this adaptation of the global phenomenon from Kane Parsons.

Fri 10 - Thu 16 July

Surviving bar-to-bar on anecdotes and the ‘good old days’, two blustery 50-somethings hatch a plan to change their luck by digging up the cash their old pal buried before he left for Argentina.

In this Lunchtime Talk, theatre artists Naomi Smyth and China Fish will share their ambitions to combine audience participation, improvised performance and responsive technologies.

Fri 10 - Thu 16 July

A London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman retrace their love story over thirteen years of war, revolutions and exile. Drawing on intimate personal archive, Birds of War asks what it means to build a life together in a world shaped by conflict.

Fri 10 - Fri 24 July

Underneath the Catalonian sun, a rich white American family lives in hedonistic isolation, seeking love and validation through one another, their designer wardrobes and pop music. But when an outsider infiltrates the family, buried tensions surface and blood ties are severed...

When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.