Winter/Spring 2025

We are delighted to welcome the Almshouse Allstars to Pudleston Village Hall.  Fresh from a sold out gig at the Ludlow Assembly Rooms, the Almshouse Allstars are gaining an enthusiastic following with foot tapping, sing-along tunes that everyone knows. Their sets include familiar favourites from the 1930’s jazz age ranging from the gorgeous voice of Annie Summers singing ‘All of Me’ and ‘Night and Day’ to more raucous saxophone renditions by James Hunt of ‘Take the A Train’ and ‘I got Rhythm’.  They’ll include some popular blues tunes including a lovely version of ‘Stormy Monday Blues’ by guitarist and band leader Murray Esplin and even the odd bass solo from Pudleston’s own Andy Offer.

Tickets are £15 (available from Vicki Connop 07779 140853 vicki@connopandson.com) or from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/pudleston-village-hall to include supper.  Doors open 7pm.

Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (Little Women) is superb as a young woman grappling with addiction in Nora Fingscheidt’s (System Crasher) The Outrun, based on the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot. 

 Fresh out of rehab, Rona (Ronan) returns home to the wild, beautiful Orkney Islands. After over a decade in London, where she both found and lost love, and where her life was derailed by alcoholism, Rona, now 30, attempts for the first time to reconcile with her traumatic past amidst the majestic landscape of her youth, surrounded by ferocious gales and a stormy sea. Both visceral and delicate, The Outrun is a moving and complex portrait of one individual’s path to recovery, and of a troubled mind seeking to heal.

The first Indian film to win the Cannes Grand Prix paints a transcendent picture of love and sisterhood. 

A Night of Knowing Nothing director Payal Kapadia’s sublime second feature follows three women navigating life in Mumbai: hard working nurse Prabha, whose husband moved abroad after their arranged marriage, her roommate Anu, involved in a clandestine relationship, and widow Parvati, facing pressure to leave her home. Their stories, challenges and joys intertwine in this soulful, melancholic film, a symphony of the city exploring the unspoken layers of yearning that weave through life in a glittering nocturnal Mumbai.