The 2009-10 Season was split between the Little Theatre, in Newtown, and Chester Steam Mill.
2009-10 Season
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
Audience Rating: 8.44
True story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to thrilling, dramatic life. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, director Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl’s…
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The Band’s Visit
Audience Rating: 7.52
Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this… It wasn’t that important. A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
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Ten Canoes
Audience Rating: 6.61
A story within a story within a story. In Australia’s Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A youngster on the hunt is being tempted to adultery with his elder brother’s wife, so an elder tells him a story from the mythical past about how evil can…
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After the Wedding
Audience Rating: 7.64
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
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In Bruges
Audience Rating: 7.63
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.
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Il Divo
Audience Rating: 6.15
The narration spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti as Prime Minister of Italy in 1992, until the trial in which he was accused of collusion with the Mafia.
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The Reader
Audience Rating: 8.47
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war.…
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Paris, Texas
Audience Rating: 7.75
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.