Box Office
Priority booking is now available to members of our Supporters Scheme with a special 15% Early Bird Discount running until 3rd July.
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THURSDAY 8th OCTOBER
PARTNER FILM SCREENING
19:30 Abbeygate Cinema
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
following An Evening with Rachel Joyce 18:00 United Reformed Church
When a retired pensioner sets off to post a letter and just keeps walking – 500 miles across England – he discovers that saving a dying friend might just save himself. Based on the best selling novel by Rachel Joyce.
This partnership event must be booked direct with Abbeygate Cinema. Tickets £7.50 or £4.50 with code BURYLIT
FRIDAY 9th OCTOBER
PARTNER FILM SCREENING
20:00 Abbeygate Cinema
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
following Smelling of Rooks with Lois de Berniéres 18:00 United Reformed Church
On a sun-drenched Greek island during WWII, a spirited Italian Officer and a local woman fall into forbidden love, torn apart by war, loyalty, and the wounds time leaves behind. Based on the best selling novel by Louis de Berniéres.
This partnership event must be booked direct with Abbeygate Cinema. Tickets £7.50 or £4.50 with code BURYLIT
SATURDAY 10th OCTOBER
POST SHOW TALK
Sat 10 Oct, 7.30pm | After the evening performance, Andrew Wilson will be hosted by Margaret Meyer. Andrew is author of Beautiful Shadow – A Life of Patricia Highsmith.
A Theatre Royal production inspired by the life of Patricia Highsmith, written by Joanna Murray-Smith.
A gripping, psychological thriller.
1995. The Swiss Alps.
Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr Ripley, has retreated from the world. Surrounded by her collection of literature and antique weaponry, she finds solace in her cats, her cigarettes, and the silence of the mountains. The queen of the thriller has nothing left to prove.
When a polished young man sent by her New York publisher arrives at her door, he appears to have one purpose: to persuade Patricia to write the final instalment of her best-selling Ripley series. The last outing for fiction’s most seductive and charming manipulator – Tom Ripley.
But as day breaks over the mountains, it becomes clear that the charming stranger is set on a far more sinister mission…
SUNDAY 11th OCTOBER
PARTNER FILM SCREENING
14:00 Abbeygate Cinema
The Prince and the Showgirl
following Marilyn Monroe: Fact and Fiction of a Dazzling Life 12:30 Unitarian Meeting House
In 1910s London, a stiff Eastern European prince and a vivacious American showgirl clash, flirt, and surprise each other – proving that charm and stubboness makes the most unlikely romance.
This partnership event must be booked direct with Abbeygate Cinema. Tickets £7.50 or £4.50 with code BURYLIT
POST SHOW TALK
Sat 17 Oct, 2pm | After the matinee performance, of SWITERLAND
Jill Dawson will be hosted by Kate Sawyer. Jill is author of The Crime Writer.
A Theatre Royal production inspired by the life of Patricia Highsmith, written by Joanna Murray-Smith.
A gripping, psychological thriller.
1995. The Swiss Alps.
Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr Ripley, has retreated from the world. Surrounded by her collection of literature and antique weaponry, she finds solace in her cats, her cigarettes, and the silence of the mountains. The queen of the thriller has nothing left to prove.
When a polished young man sent by her New York publisher arrives at her door, he appears to have one purpose: to persuade Patricia to write the final instalment of her best-selling Ripley series. The last outing for fiction’s most seductive and charming manipulator – Tom Ripley.
But as day breaks over the mountains, it becomes clear that the charming stranger is set on a far more sinister mission…