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Hard Truths
09 March 2025 @ 7.30pm to 9.10pm
About Hard Truths
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us.
Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way.
Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments – brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike.
This expansive film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.
Reviews
”Mike Leigh’s latest is a scorchingly funny drama of depression, rage – and love.” ★★★★
The Telegraph
Tickets
£8.00 – £11.00
Please see important booking information below.
Booking information
Tickets prices:
Standard tickets – £11.00
Under 16s – £8.00
All prices include any booking fees
Dates & times:
Sunday 09 March 2025 at 7.30pm
Running time:
1 hour 37 minutes
Film rating:
15
About The Theatre Chipping Norton
The Theatre Chipping Norton, sometimes called The Theatre, Chipping Norton or Chipping Norton Theatre, is a theatre, an arthouse cinema, a gallery and a concert hall in Chipping Norton.
The theatre has has 217 seats, including stalls and a balcony. It is a resource for the community, and it is also a professional venue, welcoming over 55,000 customer visits every year.
It is something unique, but it is also different things to different people. It is the cause and subject of many arguments and debates; and a fair amount of acclaim and affection. It is complicated and a little eccentric.
It is not a little theatre. It likes to make a big noise.
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