Screening of Denzel Washington's 2016 film 'Fences', with Viola Davis, part of the Hidden Beach: Winter of Culture programme at the Electric Palace Cinema.
Fences is screening at The Electric Palace Cinema on Sunday 22 November, from 15:00 to 17:30. It's part of Hidden Beach: Winter of Culture, a film programme curated by Remi Vibesman at the cinema, and it brings Denzel Washington's 2016 adaptation of the play to the big screen in Hastings years after its original release.
Washington directed the film and starred in it, with Viola Davis alongside him. Both had previously played these roles on Broadway, where they each won a Tony Award for the part, and they reprise them here. The story is set in the 1950s and centres on Troy Maxson, a Pittsburgh sanitation worker who once dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player. He was deemed too old when the major leagues finally began admitting Black athletes, and that missed opportunity left him bitter—a feeling that shapes his relationship with his family.
It's a tense, domestic drama that stays close to the stage play it comes from, and seeing it in a cinema rather than on a screen at home gives it a different weight. The programme also points to Storm the Palace - Political Documentaries, a separate series curated by Hastings' own BAFTA award-winning producer and director Archie Lauchlan, so if you're in the mood for more, there's a whole other run of political docs to look into.
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Fences runs from 15:00 to 17:30 on Sunday 22 November at The Electric Palace Cinema, 39a High Street, Hastings TN34 3ER.
