My Order

Starring Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Tashi's husband, a champion player on a losing streak, faces off against the washed-up Patrick - his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend, and Tashi must ask herself, what will it cost to win.

ADAM DYER - ‘And all that Jazz Piano’

Adam Dyer and his wife Katerina Paul (violin) gave a very well received recital at the Flavel in 2017 and now Adam makes a welcome return to one of our ‘Happy Hour’ concerts, He demonstrates Ragtime, Stride, Latin influences (and Classical ones too) and how Beethoven invented Boogie Woogie. Challenge him to improvise on any tune you name!

Brought up as a teenager in Kingswear, Adam graduated from Christ’s College, Cambridge and, subsequently, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Having played classical music from the age of seven, he took to playing jazz piano in his mid-teens. Following his time at the Guildhall he gained a scholarship to study jazz in Scandinavia for two years. He now lives in London but often returns to Devon for holidays with his young family.

TICKET PRICE        £14 includes complimentary glass of wine

The Royal Opera:  ANDREA CHÉNIER

At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror,

transforming the power balance between Chénier, his beloved Maddalena, and Gérard, the man who could destroy him...

Jonas Kaufmann headlines David McVicar’s spectacular staging, under the baton of long-time collaborator Antonio Pappano – who conducts Giordano’s epic historical drama of

revolution and forbidden love in his last production as Music Director of The Royal Opera.

In cinemas: Tuesday 11 June 2024, 7.15pm (filmed on 5 June 2024)

Running time 195 minutes (including one interval)

Sung in Italian with English subtitles

Music Umberto Giordano

Conductor Antonio Pappano

Andrea Chénier Jonas Kaufmann

Maddalena Di Coigny Sondra Radvanovsky

Carlo Gérard Amartuvshin Enkhbat

Bersi Katia Ledoux

The Incredibile Alexander Kravets

Roucher Ashley Riches

Contessa Di Coigny Rosalind Plowright

Pietro Fléville William Dazeley

The Abbé Aled Hall

Madelon Elena Zilio

Major-Domo Simon Thorpe

Mathieu James Cleverton

Fouquier-Tinville Eddie Wade

Dumas Jamie Woollard

Schmidt Jeremy White

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Co-production with China National Centre for Performing Arts, Beijing and San Francisco Opera

THE TROUBLE WITH JESSICA

Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. When their best friends Richard and Beth come round for a final dinner, an uninvited old friend, Jessica, tags along.  After a seemingly trivial argument, Jessica hangs herself in the garden. Tom goes to call the police when Sarah realizes if the buyer finds out, the sale will collapse, meaning definite financial ruin. The only solution - to convince Richard and Beth to take Jessica’s body to her flat and make it look like she killed herself there. If they’re clever enough about it, what could possibly go wrong?

Roadways in the Ancient World

The Romans laid out over 250,000 miles of roads, 10,000 miles of which were here in Britain.

Steve will cover what we know about the network, how the routes were laid out and constructed, how to find lost Roman roads. And an ingenious experiment involving fungus (yes - fungus) and to emphasise the importance of good roads we’ll look, just for fun, at the salesman’s biggest problem.