A unique musical experience inspired by Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, commissioned by infamous pianist Paul Wittgenstein after he lost his right arm during the First World War. Concerto is a deconstructed and re-orchestrated exploration of the legacy of war and the healing power of music to overcome tragedy.
Created by award-winning theatre maker Michael Pinchbeck, devised with emerging artists Ryan O’Shea and Katt Perry, and featuring world-renowned concert pianist Nicholas McCarthy. Commissioned by Lincoln Performing Arts...
In this overview of one of the most successful exhibitions of 2017, ‘Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932’, which took place at the Royal Academy of Arts in February-April 2017, curator Dr Natalia Murray will investigate how artists from Kazimir Malevich to Alexander Deineka made Russian art revolutionary in the first 15 years after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
Triggering radical innovations in Russian art, artists including Kandinsky, Malevich, Tatlin, Rodchenko and Popova turned the storm of the Russian Revolution into a radical experiment in art and society. However, this was...
Dir: Sergei Eisenstein Running time: 66 mins Cert: PG
Eisenstein’s hugely influential masterpiece and one of the most famous silent films ever made will be accompanies by a new live score created and performed by The Imperfect Orchestra, an eclectic ensemble of musicians who mix classical and modern instruments.
Focusing on the naval mutiny of the failed 1905 Soviet Revolution, the ‘Odessa Steps’ sequence is still recognised as one of the most important, innovative and inflammatory scenes created in cinema and remains as shocking and provocative as when it was first...
Marcelo Gimenes: piano/keyboard Rich Hamer: guitar Mike Trevarthen: drums
Including audience participation, this improvisation performance includes both musicians and artificial performers in an open musical dialogue. A musical response to the We The People Are The Work exhibition, this performance steps into a world with no pre-determined boundaries or limitations – other than our own imagination – and explores the interaction between humans and technology.
Audience members are asked to participate via a smartphone app.
The 1947 partition of India devastated the region, engulfing it in violence and the largest, forced migration of the 20th century. The impact was felt immediately by the two new nation-states – Pakistan and India – but the longer-term legacies have been more significant.
70 years later, India and Pakistan appear to be as polarised as ever, and religious nationalism has revived. Focusing on Punjab, Dr Pippa Virdee, Senior Lecturer in Modern South Asian History at De Montfort University examines the ways in which the nation-states have re-imagined the region post-partition to create...
In the first screening of this film based on Plymouth’s notorious Union Street since the 1980s, Remembrance tells the tale of a group of Devonport-based Royal Navy personnel who go out on the town before they are due to set sail to America.
Featuring the distinctive Brian Eno soundtrack and significant, early performances from British actors Gary Oldman, Timothy Spall and John Altman who have gone on to establish significant careers, the film also features Plymouth residents who will reunite for the first time on this night...
Dir: Tod Browning Running time: 120 mins Cert: 12A
Freaks ruined the career of its director, Tod Browning, known today for the infamous Dracula (1931), starring Bela Lugosi. Banned in the UK for 30 years, audiences were unable to cope with its frank portrayal of disability. Freaks is one of the most human films you will ever watch.
Johnny Mains, author of Freaks (Midnight Movie Monographs 2017) will give a talk after the film screening.
Be inspired by the We The People exhibition around Plymouth. Get expert advice from our professional artist whilst you create your own flick book. Suitable for 7 years+ to teens. Please note, all children under 11 must be accompanied by an adult.
Two sessions - 10:30-12:30 & 14:00-16:00
£2.50 per child, booking essential www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/family-workshop-big-draw
Running time: 60 mins (plus interval) Age suitability: 8 years+
An exceptional group of six dancers perform two dramatic explorations of genius in an inspirational performance full of eminent talent and creative power. Gary Clarke’s Beethoven takes a touching and darkly humorous look at the extraordinary personal life and musical works of Ludwig van Beethoven. Lea Anderson has created a stylised, gently humorous and visually stunning exploration of the legend of the vampire Nosferatu and his depiction in film.
“One of the brightest companies in British Dance” Donald Hutera...
The early decades of the 20th century were marked by a series of turbulent political upheavals, from revolutions in Russia and Mexico to unprecedented leftist radicalism across Europe and America. This talk examines the dynamic relations between art and revolution, exploring the ways in which artists working across the aesthetic spectrum, from realism through to the new abstraction, sought to participate actively in the fight for political change, engaging culture as a means of transforming society.
