Carmen

Towner Cinema is bringing the Royal Ballet & Opera to Eastbourne with a screening of Carmen, showing on Sunday 15 November and Tuesday 24 November. It's a cinema screening of Damiano Michieletto's production of Bizet's Carmen, sung in French with English subtitles, so you'll hear the original language with the translation on screen.

Ginger Costa-Jackson takes the title role, with Russell Thomas as Don José and Sesto Quatrini conducting. The whole thing runs 3 hours and 35 minutes, including one interval, and both screenings start at 2:00 PM. If you're deciding between the two dates, you've got a Sunday afternoon or a Tuesday to choose from.

For those who haven't spent much time there, the Towner Cinema opened in 2017 with support from Arts Council England and the Eastbourne Arts Circle. It's an independent venue with a 4k HD projector and a Dolby surround-sound system, and it programmes alongside the Eastbourne Film Society, the University of Sussex's School of Media, Film and Music, Eastbourne Rainbow, and Eastbourne Cult Film Club. They also run special screenings for things like LGBTQ+ History Month and World AIDS Day. Beyond the screen, there are 'cinema plus' activities like introductions, Q&As, and programme notes, and a relaxed cafe bar on site.

Accessibility is a priority here: there's permanent space for two wheelchairs, an integrated induction loop, and captioned screenings. One practical thing to keep in mind is that they don't show trailers before the film, so the advertised start time is when it actually begins. Tickets are £20 standard, £19 for concessions, and £15 for under 25s.