2013-14 Season 

The 2013-14 Season was split between the Little Theatre, in Newtown, St. Mary’s Centre and Chester Steam Mill.

This is the first year for which we have a PDF version of the leaflet used to promote the season and membership of CFS: click here.

N.B. Some audience ratings from this season are missing.

  • Headhunters

    Audience Rating: 7.86

    An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary..

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  • Grave of The Fireflies

    Audience Rating: 7.97

    In the latter part of World War II, a boy and his sister, orphaned when their mother is killed in the firebombing of Tokyo, are left to survive on their own in what remains of civilian life in Japan. The plot follows this boy and his sister as they do their best to survive in…

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  • Shadow Dancer

    Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.

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  • Even The Rain

    Focuses on Sebastian and Costa, obsessive filmmakers who, in their quest to uncover the myth of Christopher Columbus and resistance to colonial power by Indian rebel Hatuey, ultimately end up embroiled in a modern revolt against Western multinationals in the Bolivian “water wars” brought on by the forced privatization of Bolivia’s leading public water companies…

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  • Mao’s Last Dancer

    Audience Rating: 8.63

    At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a…

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  • Amour

    Audience Rating: 7.94

    Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple’s bond of love is severely tested.

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  • A Late Quartet

    When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group’s future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert — quite possibly their last…

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  • False Trail

    The Interrogator Erik Backstrom (Rolf Lassgård) is forced to return to his former home village to solve a murder mystery, in which the local polices and some hunters and even Erik’s family seems to be involved. Soon, the conflicts are in full action, especially between Erik and the local police Torsten (Peter Stormare). Torsten does…

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  • The Angels’ Share

    Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.

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  • The Hedgehog

    Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment with death approaches, Paloma finally…

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