The 2005-06 Season was split between the Little Theatre, in Newtown, and Chester Steam Mill.
2005-06 Season
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Enduring Love
Audience Rating: 6.33
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an…
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The Sea Inside
Audience Rating: 8.38
The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. It is the story of Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living.
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Sideways
Audience Rating: 7.14
The one joy in the lives of a mother and daughter comes from the regular letters sent to them from Paris from the family’s adored son, Otar. When the daughter finds out that Otar has died suddenly, she tries to conceal the truth from her mother, changing the course of their lives forever.
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The Station Agent
Audience Rating: 8.15
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
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Solaris
Audience Rating: 5.89
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
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House of Sand and Fog
Audience Rating: 6.84
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with…
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Carnival in Flanders
Audience Rating: 7.56
In 1616, when Flanders is under Spanish occupation, the town of Boom, in the midst of preparations for its carnival, learns that a Spanish duke with his army is on the way to spend the night there. Fearing that this will inevitably result in rape and pillage, the mayor — supported by his town council…
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The Consequences of Love
Audience Rating: 7.01
Titta di Girolamo has been living in a small hotel in Lugano for ten years, he leads a dull and rigid live and has apparently lost his capability to feel human emotion. This all changes when he decides to talk to Sofia, the barmaid.
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The Red Violin
Audience Rating: 8.12
Spans 300 years in the life of one famed musical instrument that winds up in present-day Montreal on the auction block. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin derives its unusual color from the human blood mixed into the finish. With this legacy, the violin travels to Austria, England, China,…
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Young Adam
Audience Rating: 5.89
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers’ lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.