What’s On
Director: Jean Renoir (son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
It’s 1890 and Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) café ‘Le Paravent Chinois’ featuring his mistress, belly-dancer Lola, goes slumming in Montmartre, where the then old-fashioned cancan is still danced. There he conceives the idea of reviving the cancan as the feature of a new, more popular establishment and meets Nini, a laundress and natural dancer whom he hopes to make the star of his new show. But a tangled maze of jealousies intervenes.
1955 (U) – colour 102 mins (comedy/drama)
Grand Prix de l’Academie du Cinéma – 1956
Please click HERE for the full Malvern French Film Centre 2021/22 programme.
Ticketing information: As part of the restrictions currently in place at The Coach House Theatre, designed to minimise any potential spread of the Covid virus, only numbered seating will be available. Seats may be booked through Malvern Theatres Box Office up until 6 p.m. on the day before each film. Unsold seats (if there are any) can also be purchased on the day of the film at the door. The MFFC will try to let those on the mailing list know in advance if any film is fully booked. This will also be shown on the ‘Film Programme’ page.
Tickets booked via Malvern Theatres “for collection” will be available on the door at The Coach House. (Please note that Malvern Theatres’ terms and conditions with regard to returns or refunds apply
For at least the first few films, masks must be worn inside the auditorium. Chatting / socialising can only happen in the courtyard. Other regulations may also be in place.
All films in the Malvern French Film Centre 2021/22 Season are shown with English subtitles.

Malvern Theatre Players
(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)
46th Season
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
By Brian Friel
Dancing at Lughnasa, set in the summer of 1936 Ireland was hailed by Time magazine as “the most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie”. The story of five sisters, living a fragile life in rural Ireland, is told through flashbacks of one of the sisters’ illegitimate son, Michael. Though the sisters’ tragic fates are revealed through Michael’s memories of that summer when he was only seven, the play is lightened by their mutual love and support, shared humour and moments of wild abandon when their erratically functioning radio fills the house with a cocktail of 1930s song and dance together with Irish traditional music. This almost carefree, yet precarious, world is disturbed with the homecoming of their long-lost brother Jack, who has “gone native” after years of missionary work in Uganda. To add to the turmoil, Gerry, Michael’s adventurer father pays one of his infrequent visits and the impact of Lughnasa, the Pagan Harvest Festival, looms large on the horizon.
Dancing at Lughnasa is a play about love and loss and family set against a background of strict Catholicism and Paganism.
Dancing at Lughnasa – Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play

Malvern Theatre Players
(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)
46th Season
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
By Brian Friel
Dancing at Lughnasa, set in the summer of 1936 Ireland was hailed by Time magazine as “the most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie”. The story of five sisters, living a fragile life in rural Ireland, is told through flashbacks of one of the sisters’ illegitimate son, Michael. Though the sisters’ tragic fates are revealed through Michael’s memories of that summer when he was only seven, the play is lightened by their mutual love and support, shared humour and moments of wild abandon when their erratically functioning radio fills the house with a cocktail of 1930s song and dance together with Irish traditional music. This almost carefree, yet precarious, world is disturbed with the homecoming of their long-lost brother Jack, who has “gone native” after years of missionary work in Uganda. To add to the turmoil, Gerry, Michael’s adventurer father pays one of his infrequent visits and the impact of Lughnasa, the Pagan Harvest Festival, looms large on the horizon.
Dancing at Lughnasa is a play about love and loss and family set against a background of strict Catholicism and Paganism.
Dancing at Lughnasa – Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play

Malvern Theatre Players
(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)
46th Season
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
By Brian Friel
Dancing at Lughnasa, set in the summer of 1936 Ireland was hailed by Time magazine as “the most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie”. The story of five sisters, living a fragile life in rural Ireland, is told through flashbacks of one of the sisters’ illegitimate son, Michael. Though the sisters’ tragic fates are revealed through Michael’s memories of that summer when he was only seven, the play is lightened by their mutual love and support, shared humour and moments of wild abandon when their erratically functioning radio fills the house with a cocktail of 1930s song and dance together with Irish traditional music. This almost carefree, yet precarious, world is disturbed with the homecoming of their long-lost brother Jack, who has “gone native” after years of missionary work in Uganda. To add to the turmoil, Gerry, Michael’s adventurer father pays one of his infrequent visits and the impact of Lughnasa, the Pagan Harvest Festival, looms large on the horizon.
Dancing at Lughnasa is a play about love and loss and family set against a background of strict Catholicism and Paganism.
Dancing at Lughnasa – Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play

Malvern Theatre Players
(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)
46th Season
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
By Brian Friel
Dancing at Lughnasa, set in the summer of 1936 Ireland was hailed by Time magazine as “the most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie”. The story of five sisters, living a fragile life in rural Ireland, is told through flashbacks of one of the sisters’ illegitimate son, Michael. Though the sisters’ tragic fates are revealed through Michael’s memories of that summer when he was only seven, the play is lightened by their mutual love and support, shared humour and moments of wild abandon when their erratically functioning radio fills the house with a cocktail of 1930s song and dance together with Irish traditional music. This almost carefree, yet precarious, world is disturbed with the homecoming of their long-lost brother Jack, who has “gone native” after years of missionary work in Uganda. To add to the turmoil, Gerry, Michael’s adventurer father pays one of his infrequent visits and the impact of Lughnasa, the Pagan Harvest Festival, looms large on the horizon.
Dancing at Lughnasa is a play about love and loss and family set against a background of strict Catholicism and Paganism.
Dancing at Lughnasa – Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play

Malvern Theatre Players
(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)
46th Season
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
By Brian Friel
Dancing at Lughnasa, set in the summer of 1936 Ireland was hailed by Time magazine as “the most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie”. The story of five sisters, living a fragile life in rural Ireland, is told through flashbacks of one of the sisters’ illegitimate son, Michael. Though the sisters’ tragic fates are revealed through Michael’s memories of that summer when he was only seven, the play is lightened by their mutual love and support, shared humour and moments of wild abandon when their erratically functioning radio fills the house with a cocktail of 1930s song and dance together with Irish traditional music. This almost carefree, yet precarious, world is disturbed with the homecoming of their long-lost brother Jack, who has “gone native” after years of missionary work in Uganda. To add to the turmoil, Gerry, Michael’s adventurer father pays one of his infrequent visits and the impact of Lughnasa, the Pagan Harvest Festival, looms large on the horizon.
Dancing at Lughnasa is a play about love and loss and family set against a background of strict Catholicism and Paganism.
Dancing at Lughnasa – Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play

Malvern Theatre Players
(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)
46th Season
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
By Brian Friel
Dancing at Lughnasa, set in the summer of 1936 Ireland was hailed by Time magazine as “the most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie”. The story of five sisters, living a fragile life in rural Ireland, is told through flashbacks of one of the sisters’ illegitimate son, Michael. Though the sisters’ tragic fates are revealed through Michael’s memories of that summer when he was only seven, the play is lightened by their mutual love and support, shared humour and moments of wild abandon when their erratically functioning radio fills the house with a cocktail of 1930s song and dance together with Irish traditional music. This almost carefree, yet precarious, world is disturbed with the homecoming of their long-lost brother Jack, who has “gone native” after years of missionary work in Uganda. To add to the turmoil, Gerry, Michael’s adventurer father pays one of his infrequent visits and the impact of Lughnasa, the Pagan Harvest Festival, looms large on the horizon.
Dancing at Lughnasa is a play about love and loss and family set against a background of strict Catholicism and Paganism.
Dancing at Lughnasa – Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play

Malvern Theatre Players
(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)
46th Season
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
By Brian Friel
Dancing at Lughnasa, set in the summer of 1936 Ireland was hailed by Time magazine as “the most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie”. The story of five sisters, living a fragile life in rural Ireland, is told through flashbacks of one of the sisters’ illegitimate son, Michael. Though the sisters’ tragic fates are revealed through Michael’s memories of that summer when he was only seven, the play is lightened by their mutual love and support, shared humour and moments of wild abandon when their erratically functioning radio fills the house with a cocktail of 1930s song and dance together with Irish traditional music. This almost carefree, yet precarious, world is disturbed with the homecoming of their long-lost brother Jack, who has “gone native” after years of missionary work in Uganda. To add to the turmoil, Gerry, Michael’s adventurer father pays one of his infrequent visits and the impact of Lughnasa, the Pagan Harvest Festival, looms large on the horizon.
Dancing at Lughnasa is a play about love and loss and family set against a background of strict Catholicism and Paganism.
Dancing at Lughnasa – Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play
Time travelling Toby and the dinosaurs
About this event
We’re on the look out for fearless, adventure, explorers who’ll join Toby and his dinosaur on a time travel quest!
All aboard the time travel bus as we explore a pre-historic world of astounding dinosaurs. Put on your boots, your hat and grab your adventure bag and join the fearless explorers, Toby & Pip, to travel through time and meet the dinosaurs.
Let’s round up all the little ones to give them the opportunity to go on stage and help feed the T-Rex during the show! But careful he may bite 🦖
Dont miss out on our post-show meet-and-greet where you’ll get up close and personal with the dinosaur have your photo taken! (Just watch your fingers as you pet them!)
You won’t want to miss out on this roaarrrr-some expedition to see Jurassic beasts come to life. Tickets on sale NOW!

CRUMBLE BY THE SEA
Mr Thumb and his daughter Georgina come to the town of Crumble-by-the-Sea to take part in a baking competition to bake the biggest pastry to fill the King’s belly. There are rumours in the town of a dragon in the mountains. Mr Thumb just can’t get the oven hot enough to bake this pastry, so Georgina sets out on a quest to find something hot enough to heat the oven.
Relaxed Performances: Wednesday 3rd and Saturday 6th August at 1pm
Relaxed performances will include dimmed show lights, raised house lights and open doors throughout the performance. This is ideal for theatre goers with sensory issues and extra requirements.

CRUMBLE BY THE SEA
Mr Thumb and his daughter Georgina come to the town of Crumble-by-the-Sea to take part in a baking competition to bake the biggest pastry to fill the King’s belly. There are rumours in the town of a dragon in the mountains. Mr Thumb just can’t get the oven hot enough to bake this pastry, so Georgina sets out on a quest to find something hot enough to heat the oven.
Relaxed Performances: Wednesday 3rd and Saturday 6th August at 1pm
Relaxed performances will include dimmed show lights, raised house lights and open doors throughout the performance. This is ideal for theatre goers with sensory issues and extra requirements.

CRUMBLE BY THE SEA
Mr Thumb and his daughter Georgina come to the town of Crumble-by-the-Sea to take part in a baking competition to bake the biggest pastry to fill the King’s belly. There are rumours in the town of a dragon in the mountains. Mr Thumb just can’t get the oven hot enough to bake this pastry, so Georgina sets out on a quest to find something hot enough to heat the oven.
Relaxed Performances: Wednesday 3rd and Saturday 6th August at 1pm
Relaxed performances will include dimmed show lights, raised house lights and open doors throughout the performance. This is ideal for theatre goers with sensory issues and extra requirements.

CRUMBLE BY THE SEA
Mr Thumb and his daughter Georgina come to the town of Crumble-by-the-Sea to take part in a baking competition to bake the biggest pastry to fill the King’s belly. There are rumours in the town of a dragon in the mountains. Mr Thumb just can’t get the oven hot enough to bake this pastry, so Georgina sets out on a quest to find something hot enough to heat the oven.
Relaxed Performances: Wednesday 3rd and Saturday 6th August at 1pm
Relaxed performances will include dimmed show lights, raised house lights and open doors throughout the performance. This is ideal for theatre goers with sensory issues and extra requirements.

CRUMBLE BY THE SEA
Mr Thumb and his daughter Georgina come to the town of Crumble-by-the-Sea to take part in a baking competition to bake the biggest pastry to fill the King’s belly. There are rumours in the town of a dragon in the mountains. Mr Thumb just can’t get the oven hot enough to bake this pastry, so Georgina sets out on a quest to find something hot enough to heat the oven.
Relaxed Performances: Wednesday 3rd and Saturday 6th August at 1pm
Relaxed performances will include dimmed show lights, raised house lights and open doors throughout the performance. This is ideal for theatre goers with sensory issues and extra requirements.