The 2011-12 Season was split between the Little Theatre, in Newtown, St. Mary’s Centre and Chester Steam Mill.
(Planned but not used: University of Chester Riverside Theatre.)
N.B. Most audience ratings are missing from this season.
2011-12 Season
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The Bothersome Man
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment – even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there’s no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who…
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My Afternoons with Margueritte
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
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Winter’s Bone
Audience Rating: 7.58
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin’s code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions…
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Vincere
The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini’s secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigour but blind to the fascist dictator’s many flaws. A historical drama with the passion, lyricism and tragedy of a classical Italian opera. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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REC
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
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White Material
Maria is a White farmer who runs a failing coffee plantation in an unnamed African country in the present day. Civil war has broken out and rebel soldiers, many of them child soldiers, are advancing on the area. Rebels on the radio advocate attacks on emblems of colonialism. Maria’s workers leave, but she refuses to…
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Morning Glory
Eva Lovelace, would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage, is a wildly optimistic chatterbox full of theatrical mannerisms. Her looks, more than her talent, attract the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom or the “casting couch”? Will she fade after the brief…
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The Bicycle Thieves
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The American
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.