EVENTS
The Shawshank Redemption // 10-15 Oct
Paul Nicholls, Jack Ellis and Ben Onwukwe will star in the 2016 UK tour of The Shawshank Redemption. Following a hugely successful 2015 tour, Bill Kenwright’ s production, inspired by the classic film and based on the short novel by Stephen King, comes to The Hawth from Monday 10th – Saturday 15th October. Directed by award-winning Broadway director, David Esbjornson, this powerful and acclaimed production is adapted from Stephen King’ s novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which was made into the 1994 Oscar-winning film, The Shawshank Redemption, and is regularly voted as the nation’ s favourite film.
The Shawshank Redemption follows Andy Dufresne, a banker handed a double life sentence for the brutal murder of his wife and her lover, who finds himself incarcerated in the notorious Shawshank penitentiary. Unflinching in his protests of innocence, Andy strikes up an unlikely friendship with the prison fixer, Red, and things take a slight turn for the better. However, when prison warden, Stammas decides to bully Andy into subservience and exploit his talents for accountancy, a desperate plan is quietly hatched. The play examines desperation, injustice, friendship and hope behind the claustrophobic bars of a maximum security facility. The movie starred Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne and Morgan Freeman as Ellis ' Red ' Redding and was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Freeman.
7.30pm( Wednesday and Saturday matinee 2.30pm). Price: from £ 23.50 The Hawth Theatre, Hawth Avenue, Crawley RH10 6YZ www. hawth. co. uk / 01293 553636
Sour Grapes // 11 Oct Rudy Kurniawan, it was rumoured, was a wine savant, who made millions of dollars from the sale of rare wines – until a French wine producer realised that wine from his family’ s domain was being sold from a year they hadn’ t produced it. Featuring obsessive collectors, outraged wine producers, suspect auction houses, and specialist FBI sleuths, this is an‘ emperor’ s new clothes’ fable for the modern age; a tale of an unassuming young man who bamboozled the wine world elite.
Local director, Jerry Rothwell, will be at The Picture House in person to present his humorous and suspenseful tale of an ingenious con, and will be answering any questions after the screening.
6.30pm. Price: £ 20( film only £ 13). The Picture House, High Street, Uckfield TN22 1AS www. picturehouseuckfield. com / 01825 764909
HAUNTED ABBEY
Sat 22 – Sun 30 October 10am – 4pm
Feeling brave enough to take on the haunted abbey ruins? Be prepared to be scared this autumn half term as a frighteningly great day out awaits you.
Battle, East Sussex TN33 0AE
The English Heritage Trust is a charity, no. 1140351, and a company, no. 07447221, registered in England.
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