The 2007-08 Season was split between the Little Theatre, in Newtown, and Chester Steam Mill.
2007-08 Season
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Kirikou and The Sorceress
Audience Rating: 7.65
Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn boy, Kirikou, saves his village from the evil witch Karaba.
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Tsotsi
Audience Rating: 8.60
The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just stolen. He decides that it his responsibility to take…
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The Farewell
Audience Rating: 6.12
A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht’s life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family.
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Little Fish
Audience Rating: 6.80
Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
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With a Friend Like Harry…
Audience Rating: 7.08
Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel’s life… and things take a sinister turn.
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Three Times
Audience Rating: 5.24
There are three stories of women and men: in “A Time for Love” set in 1966, a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool; “A Time for Freedom,” set in a bordello in 1911, revolves around a singer’s longing to escape her surroundings; in “A Time for Youth” set in…
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Volver
Audience Rating: 8.03
Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) works and lives Madrid with her husband Paco and daughter Paula. Her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) lives nearby and they both miss their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), who died several years ago in a house fire along with their father. A former neighbor from their hometown reports that she has seen the…
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Journey to Italy
Audience Rating: 5.74
This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple (George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman) travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a house inherited from an uncle is transformed by Roberto Rossellini into a passionate story of cruelty and cynicism as their marriage disintegrates around them.