The evening will feature live music from the Burntwood U3A Choir.
St Anne’s Church and Community Hub in Chasetown will hold its next monthly film night next week, on Thursday 18 June, featuring Alan Bennett’s The Choral.
This 2025 British drama is set in a small Yorkshire town during World War I. With most local men lost to the army, the Choral Society committee is determined to press ahead with new recruits. They engage a controversial new choir master, Dr Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes), recently returned from a career in Germany, who unites a ragtag group of teens and townsfolk to perform Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius. As they prepare, wartime tensions, prejudice and personal struggles surface – and the community discovers that the best response to the war is to make music together.
The evening will begin at 7pm, with live music from the Burntwood U3A Choir. The film will start at 7.30pm, with an interval halfway through, when refreshments – including tea, coffee, soft drinks, cakes and popcorn – will be served.
Entry is free. All donations are welcome, which raise funds for St Anne’s to help facilitate its ongoing programme of community activities.
Film Night takes place on the third Thursday of each month and relaunched in April with Downton Abbey, The Grand Finale. Co-Op Highfields Road generously provided the refreshments. In May, a special screening of A Game Of Two Halves took place, after which director Khayam Khan conducted a Q&A about how the film was made. Dhol and tabla percussionist Sahil Solanki kicked off the evening with live music and Chase Balti supplied Indian snacks for the interval.
For more information on Film Night, get in touch at stanneschurch@hotmail.co.uk, or call 01543 686111.
St Anne’s Church Chasetown, Church Street, Chasetown, Burntwood, WS7 3QL.