Cinema screening of the Soviet-era thriller 'Winter of the Crow', with Lesley Manville, based on a story by Olga Tokarczuk.
Winter of the Crow is coming to the Stephen Joseph Theatre on 16, 17 and 18 November, with screenings at 7.45pm each night. It's a Soviet-era thriller with Lesley Manville in the lead, and it's being shown as a cinema screening rather than a stage production.
The story follows a visiting academic, played by Manville, who finds herself in Cold War-era Warsaw just as the country enters martial law in 1981. It's a gripping piece of period drama, and the whole thing is based on a story by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. If you're not familiar with her, she's one of the most acclaimed writers working today, so there's a strong literary pedigree behind the film.
Manville is the main draw here, and she's known for the kind of mesmerising, precise performance that can carry a film on its own. The setting — Warsaw in the early eighties, with martial law clamping down around her — provides a tense, claustrophobic backdrop for her character to navigate. It's the kind of story that works best on a big screen, and having it at the SJT means you get to see it in a proper cinema setting right here in Scarborough.
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With three nights to choose from, you can pick whichever one fits your schedule best. The screenings are on 16, 17 and 18 November, all starting at 7.45pm at the Stephen Joseph Theatre.
