Tansley Film

29/08/2026

31/07/2026

Booking is open for our first film (play) of the new season at ticketsource.com/TansleyFilm .

The first film of our new 19th season is National Theatre Live: LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES (15) (with subtitles) - Filmed play on Sunday 6th September.

09/07/2026

WE NOW HAVE OUR NEW TREASURER - THANK YOU.

We have a vacancy for our Treasurer. The is a voluntary unpaid role to handle all cash, to keep a record (an account) of all income and expenditure, to manage our online bank account with Nationwide (Virgin) paying all bills online. It is an interesting role, ideal for someone of any age who is numerate, diligent, organised and competent with online banking and some kind of accounting software or a spreadsheet. If you are interested in finding out more, please message or email [email protected] (Chris).

02/07/2026

We need extra help next season with setting up and clearing away. Please message if you would like to help us. Thank you.

02/07/2026

By default, we will be showing subtitles on films next season, at least for a long trial period, unless we know in advance that the dialogue is so amazingly clear that they are not needed.

31/05/2026

The first film of our new 19th season is National Theatre Live: LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES (15) (with subtitles) - Filmed play on Sunday 6th September.

31/05/2026

Feedback for tonight's screening of National Theatre Live: THE PL***OY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (PG) - Filmed play was 40% Good, 20% Neutral and 40% Poor.

31/05/2026

We are showing National Theatre Live: THE PL***OY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (PG) - Filmed play TONIGHT at 7.30 pm. You are welcome to walk-in (with £11 cash) or book at https://www.ticketsource.com/tansleyfilm.

Every woman loves a bad boy, or so the cliche goes. Here it is tested when Christy Mahon walks into a pub to confess he has killed his father with a farming tool. It’s not quite the truth but he is, to his own surprise, turned into a local celebrity. Women flock to see him and men hail him a hero.

John Millington Synge’s unromanticised comic portrayal of a farming community in the west of Ireland caused moral outrage at its 1907 premiere at Dublin’s Abbey theatre. This revival by the Abbey’s current artistic director, Caitríona McLaughlin, makes clear that it is something of a woman’s play, ahead of its time, with two female leads abjuring conservative Catholic morality to hope for something bigger than a small, scratching country existence.

Nicola Coughlan plays spirited barmaid Pegeen, who is dazzled enough by Christy to abandon her suitor, Shawn (Marty Rea). Siobhán McSweeney, as Widow Quin, is more strategic and openly lascivious. Both tread a fine line between comic desire and serious inner yearnings. “It’s true all girls are fond of courage,” says Widow Quin, and Éanna Hardwicke, as Christy, manages the transformation from geek to hero to geek again in a way that shows how little he changes, but how much those around him are willing to believe.

26/05/2026

Feedback for our screening of HAMNET (12A) tonight was
64% Excellent
19% Good
14% Neutral
3% Poor.
Thank you to everyone who came.

24/05/2026

This astounding film is the last of our feature films on Tuesdays for this season. As usual we are providing FREE ice-cream cones (Cornetto-like) and luxury ice-lollies in the cinema before the film starts. The film is too intense for an intermission.