The 2004-05 Season was split between the Little Theatre, in Newtown, and Chester Steam Mill.
2004-05 Season
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Bright Young Things
Audience Rating: 6.94
An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel “Vile Bodies”, is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s.
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Springtime in a Small Town
Audience Rating: 6.08
In a mansion decimated during World War II, a frustrated, bored housewife, Yuwen, is torn between caring for her ailing husband and her longing for a former sweetheart, a doctor who has come to treat her husband.
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Être et avoir
Audience Rating: 8.16
The documentary’s title translates as “to be and to have”, the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200. The school has one small class of mixed ages (from four to twelve years), with a…
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M
Audience Rating: 7.08
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert’s heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer…
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Happy Times
Audience Rating: 7.25
Zhao is an old laid-off worker who’s dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pair off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a lavish wedding and that Zhao finds a job and another place to stay for her blind step-daughter. Pretending he’s the General Manager of a non-existent…
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Whale Rider
Audience Rating: 7.95
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been…
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Casablanca
Audience Rating: 9.37
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.