CK Dance & friends present an evening at the flicks with a difference. Performing songs & routines to all your favourite movie hits. Lilo & Stitch, Happy Feet, Love Actually, Bugsy Malone & The Matrix are just some of the films you will remember as we dazzle you with dance, surround you with song & send you away with the Feel Good Factor!

Performances from CK Work it Juniors, Under 10’s, Over 10’s, Pezazz PA and introducing ‘Work it Ladies’ with special guests … and a surprise for all.

TICKETS: Adults £6.00, Friends £5.50, ES40’s/Students £3.50 Proceeds of this show go to West Somerset Stroke Club

Oasis Performing Arts showcase the work of their member groups in spectacular style. The programme features breakdance, street dance, puppets, Dianne Turner’s D.R.E.A.M.S School Of Dancing and singing and dancing talent from young people living in Exmoor and West Somerset.

TICKETS: Adults £5.50, Friends £5.00, Students/ ES40’s £3.00

Dir Roman Polanski Fra/Ger/UK 2010 128 mins

The Regal Film Society launches its 2010/11 season with a public fund-raising performance of The Ghost Writer.

Polanski brings his characteristic sense of atmosphere and suspense to this well crafted thriller, based on the novel by Robert Harris, about a former British prime minister – who may or may not be based on Tony Blair – who appoints a ghost writer to write his memoirs with cataclysmic consequences. Stars Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Williams and Kim Cattrall.

TICKETS: Members £2.00, Non-members £4.00. Members’ priority booking period from Monday 16th August to Saturday 28th August. Tickets go on sale to the public on Monday 30th August.

A great night of skiffle, country rock, blues, jazz and a lot of foot-stomping fun from The Lonnie Donegan Band fronted by Peter Donegan

The Lonnie Donegan Band lineup is the same as toured with Lonnie Donegan for over 30 years and features Paul Henry (Lead Guitar), Chris Hunt (Drums) Sticky Wicket (Percussion) and Eddie Masters (Bass) – only this time Peter Donegan heads the Band, performing lead vocals as well as playing acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, and harmonica.

Peter Donegan, a talented musician in his own right, had his own band until he decided to change musical direction and resume the partnership with the original Lonnie Donegan Band.

Hear well -loved Lonnie classics including ‘Putting on the Style”, “Have a Drink on Me”, “ Rock Island Line” and “Pick Bale of Cotton as well as some original songs written by Peter.

TICKETS: Adults £16.00, Friends £15.50, ES40’s/Students £8.50

The Searchers are: John McNally, Frank Allen, Spencer James and Scott Ottaway

With such classic hits as “Sweets For My Sweet”; “Needles and Pins”; “Don’t Throw Your Love Away” and “When You Walk In The Room”, The Searchers have contributed enormously in establishing the UK as the world’s leading nation in the music industry. With total record sales well in excess of 40 million, their recent compilation album ‘The Very Best of The Searchers’, which includes all of their hits, has seen a recent welcome and deserved return to the UK charts. No doubt the decade that gave us The Beatles, The Searchers and many others, was unique and pervades all cultural and age barriers today.

The Searchers continue touring the globe as much today as they have done throughout a fantastic career now remarkably spanning 5 decades. They have devised a ‘special’ solo concert for UK touring, which will appeal to all ages. It is a highly entertaining concert which has been enthusiastically and warmly received throughout the world.

The fully self-contained concert includes all their famous hits, plus many of their original album recordings, B-sides and a selection of other collector and well known favourites.

TICKETS: Adults £17.50, Friends £17.00, ES40’s/Students £10.00, Student Friends £9.50

Be prepared for murder, mystery and entertaining silliness in this latest adventure of the hopeless and hapless Inspector Drake and his sidekick Sgt Plod.

When oil tycoon John Johnson is found with a huge sword in his back it looks like a straightforward case of murder. But why was Johnson badly disguised as his own wife? Why had he eaten a tortoise? And why do all the women in the house look so similar? Sgt Plod relates events through a series of flashbacks and has a recurring nightmare about Inspector Drake, dead! When the Black Widow lays her deadly trap – only Plod knows how it ends.

The show is directed and produced by Peter Wintle and Olwen Herridge with a talented cast bringing David Tristram’s comedy to life. Redline Theatre is based locally in Street and performs regularly at Strode Theatre

TICKETS: Adults £7.50, Friends £7.00, ES40’s/Students £3.50

Phil Cool is one of the country’s finest and most original comedians and impressionists. He is legendary for his facial contortions – instantaneously changing to anything from international celebrity to intergalactic alien. He punctuates his show with a wealth of hilarious anecdotes, observations, comic sketches and routines that make him as funny and unique today as he was during the 80s.

TICKETS: £15.00, Friends £14.50, ES40’s/Students £8.50

Producer Alexander Korda UK 1934 98 mins

Another outstanding film from the Regal’s first season, presented by Minehead Conservation Society in association with the Regal Film Society. The 1934 Scarlet Pimpernel is the definitive screen version of Baroness Orczy’s famous novel, with a witty script by the author herself and a wealth of attractive period detail. Leslie Howard stars as Sir Percy Blakeney, with Merle Oberon and Raymond Massey and numerous cameo roles including Nigel Bruce as the Prince of Wales and Ernest Milton as Robespierre.

We are once again grateful to the British Film Institute for making an original 35mm print available, and to projectionists Edward and Robert Taylor for bringing this classic costume drama back to the big screen for the first time in many years.

TICKETS: Adults £4.00, Friends, Film Society Members, Minehead Conservation Society Members, Students/ ES40s £2.00

A special Saturday morning children’s film.

Dir Mike Mitchell USA 93 mins

The final film in the hugely successful Shrek series is a return to form and finds the loveable ogre bored and domesticated. He makes a pact with deal-maker Rumpelstitskin who promises to make him feel like a real ogre again. But he is duped, and sent to a twisted version of Far Far Away, where Rumpelstiltskin is king, ogres are hunted and he and his lovely wife Fiona have never met. He sets out to restore his world and reclaim his true love.

Shrek Forever After features the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews and John Cleese.

TICKETS: Adults £3.00, Children £1.50 (Open to the public). Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Doors open and refreshments from 10am.

Crocosmia is an explosion of fast-paced, visual storytelling using slide shows, ingenious bulb experiments and cake puppetry and follows the Brackenberg siblings and their attempts to make sense of the world, all backed by their parents’ vintage record collection.

In a family that is shrinking and a world that is growing bigger, three precocious children attempt to carve out a unique space for themselves and the memory of their parents.

Crocosmia was a great success at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it received five star reviews in The Metro and The Scotsman and was awarded a Fringe first. Critics described it as ‘Unbearably poignant’… ‘Beautifully directed’… ‘Lovingly acted’ (The Guardian)

TICKETS: Adults £7.50, Friends £7.00, ES40’s/Students £3.50