Halesworth Events for Friday, 20^th May 2022

Doors open 7pm for 7:15pm start. Despite what Billy Wilder said about remakes, this is a very worthy one and the music is timeless. The issues are still current too. With Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler plus Rita Moreno, who was in the first one. Directed by Steven Spielberg. 2021. 156mins.
Southwold Film Society membership required @ £10 a year or £3 for a film season, contact Box Office for details and for bookings. All seats bookable in advance only, to SFS members and their guests. This Spring Season is from May 18th - July 2nd. Tickets: Stalls £6 or £7/Circle £8/Royal Box £15. Evening includes Interval, Organ and National Anthem.

A play by Peppy Barlow and Sally Wilden. In 1760 Gainsborough painted a portrait of Ann Ford, which took his world by storm. Prepared to break the rules about how a woman should be portrayed, the painting was a cause of outrage but put a seal on Gainsborough’s growing reputation.
The play is about the making of this portrait and the relationship between painter and subject, a very personal and exploratory process which tells us a great deal about their characters, their place in history and the creation of a masterpiece.
The story has all kinds of local connections – notably with Gainsborough’s birthplace in Sudbury where his family worked in cloth. For this production two of Sudbury’s present day silk weavers, Stephen Walters and Humphries Weaving, are having the silk for Ann’s dress specially woven to match the design in the portrait – an extraordinary act of generosity which will result in a dress that can be used for exhibition purposes in the future.