A world-renowned but reclusive novelist, believing he is about to die, summons his estranged sons to his home. But instead of seeking forgiveness for their shattered family, he tells them a wild and unbelievable secret that could rewrite their past.

Ivy is a teenager in remission from cancer, whose mum and dad insist she attend Children Run Free Camp, a summer retreat for young adults affected by cancer. However, as Ivy is reluctantly dragged through camp experience, she discovers new feelings with new friends.

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The ultimate celebration of the genius of Stevie Wonder!

Voted one of Britain’s top soul singers, mesmeric vocalist Noel McCalla, award-winning saxophonist Derek Nash (Jools Holland’s R&B Orchestra) and their world-class band present a diverse catalogue of iconic back-to-back hits including Superstition, Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Isn’t She Lovely, I Wish, Sir Duke, Master Blaster and many more.

The Wonder of Stevie’s outstanding live band features musicians who have previously performed with a wide variety of music legends including Sir Rod Stewart, Bill Withers, Amy Winehouse, The Bee Gees, Eric Clapton, Sir Paul McCartney, David Gilmour, Nile Rodgers, Martha Reeves, Chaka Khan, Sam Moore, Jethro Tull, Eddie Floyd, Gregory Porter and Alfie Boe.

“Breathtaking” - Sunday Times

“Spine-tingling” - The Guardian

“A dazzling homage to one of the great masters of 20th & 21st century music” - Jools Holland

Grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder, Robin Hood finds himself gravely injured after a battle he thought would be his last. In the hands of a mysterious woman, he is offered a chance at salvation.

After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation.

Supported by Harwich Haven Authority who proudly present this screening of The People's Emergency Briefing which is a 50-minute film and public information initiative designed to brief UK communities on the realities and threats of the climate and nature crisis.

The Origin: Based on a live briefing held in Westminster in November 2025, where ten leading experts presented evidence to over 1,200 politicians and leaders.

The Core Focus: The 50-minute film outlines the immediate implications of climate and environmental breakdown on human health, food systems, the economy, and national security.

The Format: Presented by Chris Packham, the film combines hard scientific data with public and familiar reactions (featuring contributions from figures like Jennifer Saunders and Deborah Meen) to make the scale of the emergency digestible on a human level.

The Purpose: Rather than just highlighting risks, it emphasizes the massive benefits and actionable solutions of genuine emergency action, serving as a catalyst for local community discussions alongside MPs and local decision-makers.

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In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.

Fort Flicks: Jurassic Park at the Harwich Redoubt

Join us for a special open-air screening of Jurassic Park at the Harwich Redoubt, bringing one of the world's most iconic films to one of our town's most iconic locations.

On Sunday 27 September, the historic fort will be transformed into an outdoor cinema for one afternoon only, screening Steven Spielberg's much-loved 1993 blockbuster.

Created by the Harwich Society in partnership with the Electric Palace Archive Project, Fort Flicks brings together film, fun and local heritage. Visitors are invited to explore the Redoubt when doors open at 1pm and enjoy a range of activities inspired by Jurassic Park and the fort itself before dinosaurs take over the big screen.

1pm onwards - Entry to the Redoubt and access to family-friendly activities

2.30pm - Jurassic Park (PG) screening

5:30pm - Expected finish

When Jurassic Park was first released in 1993, it was originally shown at the Electric Palace Cinema. More than 30 years later, Fort Flicks brings the film back to the town, giving audiences the chance to experience this much-loved classic in a completely new setting.

Bring a picnic blanket or camping chair, dress for the weather, and join us for an unforgettable afternoon at one of Britain's best-preserved Napoleonic forts.

Tickets: £5 per adult, with children under 15 admitted free of charge.

In a nod to Jurassic Park's original Electric Palace screening, a limited number of £1.50 adult tickets are also available on a first come, first served basis, matching the original 1993 ticket price. Use code FORT150 when booking. *Please note these tickets have now sold out*

This event has been generously funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England as part of the Harwich Society's Pilot Repair Project.

Film Synopsis:

Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park follows Dr Alan Grant and Dr Ellie Sattler as they visit an extraordinary new theme park where dinosaurs have been brought back to life through genetic engineering. But when the park's security systems fail, the prehistoric creatures break free, putting everyone on the island in danger.

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

FILM183 opens its new Gangster season with Miller’s Crossing which finds Joel and Ethan Coen bringing their distinctive blend of wit, fatalism and immaculate craft to the gangster film. Set in an unnamed American city during Prohibition, it follows Tom Reagan, the laconic adviser to Irish mob boss Leo O’Bannon, as Leo’s feud with rival racketeer Johnny Caspar turns a dispute over a double-crossing bookie into a full-blown gang war. Caught between friendship, strategy and his dangerous attachment to Verna, Leo’s lover, Tom manoeuvres through a world where every alliance is provisional and every favour has a price.

Drawing on the hard-boiled fiction of Dashiell Hammett and the sharp rhythms of 1930s crime cinema, the film both honours and slyly distorts the conventions of the gangster movie. Its shoot-outs, backroom deals and shifting loyalties are staged with operatic elegance, but the Coens are just as interested in bruised pride, wounded codes of honour and the comedy of men who mistake calculation for control. Gabriel Byrne gives Tom a magnificently opaque weariness, while Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, Jon Polito and John Turturro deepen the film’s mix of menace, glamour and desperation. Stylish, intricate and mordantly funny, Miller’s Crossing is a perfect season entry: a gangster classic about loyalty in a world where loyalty may be the most dangerous racket of all.

Next up  FILM183 will be showing Orson Well's restored Touch of Evil (1958) on Monday, 26th October 2026.

The Misanthrope by Martin Crimp after Molière

Directed by Indhu Rubasingham

Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy.

Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the hollow contemporary mantras of kindness and respect. But the bolder she becomes in speaking out, the more colleagues avoid her, and the more her personal relationships begin to fracture. As she challenges fashionable ideas and lends her voice to causes others are afraid to touch, she faces intense criticism and backlash.

Alice will soon learn the price she must pay as an artist and as a woman for daring to speak her mind. Award-winner Sandra Oh is the Misanthrope in Martin Crimp's cutting new version of Molière's dark comedy, directed by National Theatre Director Indhu Rubasingham.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Indhu Rubasingham directs Martin Crimp’s (Cyrano de Bergerac) highly anticipated play.

On an Orkney isle, siblings Isla and Sandy survive by hunting seabirds, retelling the stories of their ancestors, and defending the isle from dreaded "Incomers". Their world is upended with the arrival of an awkward council worker who has come to uproot them from their homeland.

After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound.

On Halloween Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm, excitement turns to dismay when the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch. Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments, but things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.

A struggling primary school teacher begins to make some questionable decisions after one of her students is injured.

Set in Georgian-era England, the story begins with the death of the wealthy Mr. Dashwood. Because of estate laws, his property passes entirely to his son from a first marriage, leaving his second wife (Caitríona Balfe) and her three daughters suddenly destitute and facing financial uncertainty.Evicted from their grand estate, the family relocates to a modest cottage provided by a distant relative. There, the two eldest sisters must navigate societal expectations, harsh family betrayal, and the fickle world of courtship to find both love and financial security.

The tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice is intertwined with the complex relationship of Hades and Persephone. Eurydice, struggling with poverty, is lured to the industrial underworld of Hadestown by Hades, while Orpheus, a struggling musician, ventures down below to bring her back. (Filmed live at the Lyric Theatre, London, featuring the core five original Broadway cast members.)

In the feature film North Sea Untamed, the viewer is taken beneath the waves through the eyes of Peter van Rodijnen. He is an experienced diver and underwater cameraman. From the wild blue waters around the Scottish islands to the shallow delta of the Low Countries and up along the dramatic coastline of the Norwegian fjords. North Sea Untamed is a cinematic adventure and a voyage of discovery that will show the North Sea in all its glory.

The next presentation in FILM183's Gangster Season is Touch of Evil (1958), presented here in its restored version, is Orson Welles’s feverish borderland masterpiece: part film noir, part gangster picture, and part grotesque study of corrupted authority. A car bomb explodes on the US-Mexico border, drawing Mexican narcotics official Miguel Vargas and his new American wife, Susan, into a nightmarish investigation led by Hank Quinlan, Welles’s hulking, racist and morally decayed police captain. As Vargas pursues the truth, Quinlan’s methods reveal a justice system poisoned by prejudice, intimidation and the gangster logic it claims to oppose.

Famously wrested from Welles after production, Touch of Evil was later reconstructed in 1998 according to his detailed 58-page memo, restoring the film’s darker rhythms and its legendary opening tracking shot without imposed credits or music. The result is a dazzling, claustrophobic work of late Hollywood noir, alive with canted angles, crowded frames, cheap motels, backroom deals and a sinister performance from Welles himself. Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Akim Tamiroff and Marlene Dietrich move through a world where law, crime and desire are fatally entangled. For a Gangster movie season, this is an essential boundary case: not just a tale of organised crime, but a vision of institutions becoming indistinguishable from the underworld they pursue.

Next up  FILM183 will be showing Drive (2011) on Monday, 30th November 2026.

In the seedy underbelly of 18th-century Paris, money is king. Nothing is sacred – even love itself can be bought for the right price. A native of this hedonistic underworld, Manon is caught between twin desires when she falls in love with the student Des Grieux.

Steadfast and devoted, he offers the possibility of an honourable life. Yet, the riches promised by the world of Parisian society remain tempting... Manon’s inner turmoil and struggle for survival lie at the devastating heart of Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 adaptation of Abbé Prévost’s novel.

In this signature work of The Royal Ballet, MacMillan’s nuanced understanding of human psychology makes for an unflinching look into the moral degradation of Manon’s Paris, while all its decadence and decay are brought to life through Jules Massenet’s score and Nicholas Georgiadis’s designs.

THE COMIC STRIP PRESENTS

1.BEST OF RIK MAYAL

Featuring  clips  from BAD NEWS, MR JOLLY, and FISTFUL OF TRAVELLERS CHEQUES

2.RED NOSE OF COURAGE

Ex PM John Major (Ade Edmondson) runs away from the circus to become an MP.  Under pressure from his Dad, the circus manager, (Alexei Sayle) Major is obliged to work evenings as part of a clown act, even when he’s Prime Minister. But then he falls for the Opposition Leader (Dawn French)

INTERVAL

3. BEST OF STELLA STREET

Scenes from the hit BBC series starring PHIL CORNWELL and JOHN SESSIONS

LIVE Q&A with PETER RICHARDSON and PHIL CORNWELL

4. FOUR MEN IN A CAR

Four salesmen heading to a conference in Swindon have the journey from hell, involving road-rage, a snowstorm, food poisoning and a farmer’s wife wielding a shotgun.

Starring Rik Mayal, Nigel Planer, Ade Edmondson and Peter Richardson.

GIANT, the 5-star critically acclaimed play starring John Lithgow (Killers of the Flower Moon, The Crown) as Roald Dahl, comes to the big screen. Winner of 3 Olivier Awards® including Best Play and a Tony Award® for Best Actor in a Play (John Lithgow), the production was filmed live in London’s West End ahead of its sold-out Broadway run.

The stellar cast includes Aya Cash (The Boys, The Franchise, You’re the Worst), Elliot Levey (Cold War, Patriots, Good) and Rachael Stirling (The Divine Mrs S).

A world-famous children’s author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake of scandal. And one chance to make amends...It’s the summer of 1983, The Witches is about to hit the shelves and Roald Dahl is making last-minute edits. But the outcry at his recent, explicitly antisemitic article won’t die down.

Across a single afternoon at his family home, and rocked by an unexpectedly explosive confrontation, Dahl is forced to choose: make a public apology or risk his name and reputation. Inspired by real events, GIANT explores with dark humour the difference between considered opinion and dangerous rhetoric offering a complicated portrait of a fiendishly charismatic icon.

“The only Christmas album you'll ever need" ★★★★★ - Songlines 

“A festive folk supergroup!” Matthew Bannister, Folk On Foot

Since their initial one-off pilot in 2015, five leading lights of the UK folk scene have been reconvening each December to share their joyous Christmas party with audiences across the country.

Expect reimagined Winter classics from both sides of the Atlantic, some little known Yuletide gems, and plenty of songs direct from the pen of these five critically acclaimed songwriters.

Perhaps most of all though, look forward to the feeling

of having started the festivities with A Winter Union.

A Winter Union release their third studio album “Through The Western Door” in December 2026, touring the UK with their biggest live show to-date.  

"Just fantastic!" Katie Derham, BBC Radio 3 InTune

Links:

awinterunion.com

facebook.com/winterunion

x.com/awinterunion

instagram.com/awinterunion

BRENTWOOD MAC – An outstanding tribute to the music of FLEETWOOD MAC

Brentwood Mac returns to the Electric Palace following two previous sell-out concerts. They are consistently performing to sell-out audiences in Essex and beyond, so find out why and join us for a fabulous evening of Fleetwood Mac music.

Brentwood Mac is a charismatic musical ensemble dedicated to bringing the timeless melodies of Fleetwood Mac to life. Their repertoire spans all eras of the band, from the early Peter Green days to their iconic hits and their attention to details in capturing the nuances of each era ensures an authentic and unforgettable experience for audiences.  

From the haunting vocals of Stevie Nicks to the driving rhythms of Mick Fleetwood, Brentwood Mac pays homage to every member of Fleetwood Mac, delivering a performance that transports audiences back in time. Whether you’re a Fleetwood Mac enthusiast or a new listener, Brentwood Mac promises a night of captivating music that’s sure to leave you wanting more!

Following a string of sell-out concerts we recommend that you buy your tickets early to avoid disappointment.

Bar opens at 7pm

Doors & bar open at 6:45pm

Concert starts at 7:30pm

Approx finish time 10:00pm