Seniors’ free matinee

Shakespeare Wallah

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A moving drama about the adventures of a traveling theatre company, who perform Shakespeare throughout the 1950s in towns across India.

  • Director

    James Ivory

  • With

    Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendall, Maddhur Jaffrey

  • USA-India 1965. 120min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

James Ivory’s drama, written by regular collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, is loosely based on the real-life adventures of a traveling theatre company in towns across India in the 1950s, at a time when the popularity of Bollywood cinema was on the rise. The screening will be presented by the South Asian Cinema Foundation as part of their Merchant-Ivory Heritage Films Project.

Free for the over-60s (booking by phone or in person only), otherwise normal matinee price.