Royal Opera House 2023/24: Das Rheingold (2023)

On her way to the Promised Land, a blind girl meets a gangster and they fall in love. Their love makes a miracle: the girl regains her sight. This romantic story ends tragically.

Done in the style of an African folk tale, this film, a collaboration between European and African countries, is said to be among the most elaborate, high tech film in African film. Exquisitely photographed and filled with archetypal figures to create a poetic look at nature's revenge against those who would exploit her. It is set in the forest village of Amanha Lundju, a place where the birth of children is celebrated by the planting of a tree. The trees are considered spiritual twins. But for every tree planted, the rapacious state destroys many more for firewood and lumber.

Although the past two years have been challenging for the Theatre industry, they also showed its incredible strength and resilience. Through interviews with West End performers and creatives, this documentary outlines the difficulties presented to our industry over the course of the pandemic, as well as highlighting changes - both positive and negative - that have come from it. An emotional reflection on a battle it was worth fighting for. All profits will be going to 'Acting for Others', an organisation that provides support to all theatre workers through 14 member charities. We hope these stories full of passion for Theatre inspire you just as much as they inspired us!

Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

A 14-year-old skeptical young man one day discovers that everything he knows about his father is a lie.

A folklorist researching an 'urban legend' becomes caught up in his task. The film tells its fictional story in documentary style, featuring interviews with real folklore scholars.

David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a Belfast loyalist, mistakes his five-week-old granddaughter for Gerry Adams.

Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster who the father thinks will bail him out of his money troubles instead.

Starring Tony Award-nominee Marin Ireland, this chilling one-woman show was filmed live at Roundabout Theatre Company’s “Roundabout Underground” black box. When a random act of gun violence tears one woman’s world apart, she finds herself caught in the crosshairs of power lost and, very possibly, regained. Ben Brantley at the New York Times called On the Exhale "Startlingly original! Brave and bold!"

This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone was bored. That was a bone flute. The man with the flute music play. And music song became. The voice of the song begging to seek the other bones of his scattered body. The man and his mother were in those ways of God and hell, looking for the bones that make up the skeleton of that Christian. And give him a Christian burial. And they saw what they saw, they lived what they lived. Many stories lived. And although they did not tell anyone, others told them.

스물한 살이 되는 날, 프레드릭(렉스 스미스)은 견습 해적으로서의 계약의 의무를 다하게 된다. 그리고 해적으로 살 의사가 없다고 밝혀 나머지 해적들을 놀라게 하는데, 그건 그가 놀라운 사실을 알게 됐기 때문이었다. 프레드릭이 아직 어린 아이였을 때, 그의 아버지는 보모인 루스(안젤라 랜스베리)에게 아들을 배의 키잡이(파일럿)한테 도제로 보내라고 지시했으나 그 말을 잘못 알아들은 루스가 프레드릭을 해적(파이어럿)의 도제로 보냈던 것. 자신의 의무를 충실히 이행한 프레드릭은 이제 정직한 삶을 살겠다고 결심하고 해적선을 떠난다. 문명사회로 돌아가는 길에 프레드릭은 스탠리 장군(조지 로즈)의 아름다운 딸들을 만나게 되고 그중에서도 메이블(린다 론스태드)과 사랑에 빠지게 된다. 하지만 장군의 딸들을 아내로 맞아들이려는 해적의 침입으로 둘의 사랑은 방해를 받는다. 꾀 많은 스탠리 장군은 해적들에게 자신이 고아라고 속여 동정을 자아낸 후, 딸들과 함께 풀려난다. 한편, 해적왕(케빈 클라인)은 프레드릭의 생일이 윤년인 해의 2월 29일인 것을 발견하고, 그에게 아직 다섯 살에 불과하니 21살이 될 때까지 계속 해적의 도제 생활을 하라고 한다. 의무를 소중히 여기는 프레드릭은 하는 수 없이 해적들을 따라가기로 하는데 그때 경찰들이 공격해온다. 사나운 해적들은 경찰을 물리치지만 빅토리아 여왕을 들먹이는 경사의 말에 항복하고 만다. 그리고 모두 포로로 잡히려는 순간, 루스가 놀라운 진실을 폭로한다. 해적들이 나쁜 길로 들어서긴 했지만 모두 귀족이라는 사실이었다. 이에 관대한 스탠리 장군은 딸들을 해적들과 결혼하도록 승낙한다. (EBS)

Exploring every facet of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like ‘Eat It’ and ‘Like a Surgeon’ to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle, this biopic takes audiences on a truly unbelievable journey through Yankovic’s life and career, from gifted child prodigy to the greatest musical legend of all time.

Two bullies decide to play an evil prank on an unpopular girl in their class but things quickly spiral out of their control.

Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps.

Short film based on a Yoruba folk tale.

The ghost of a young German colonist, who died a couple of hundred years ago in unclear supernatural circumstances, appears in Chile to fulfill her mythical destiny. To achieve this, she will intervene in the life of an unsuccessful publicist and his lover.

A young hero defeats a dragon to find acceptance to the court of burgundy.