Featured Events
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![NT Live: The Audience [cert TBC]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/a2b95d2c-e0cc-47cd-8c3a-8444eef7c322.jpg)
NT Live: The Audience [cert TBC]
Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II who - for 60 years - met with each of her 12 prime ministers in a private weekly meeting known as 'The Audience'. She advised her prime ministers on matters both public and personal, and through these private audiences, we see glimpses of the woman behind the crown and witness the moments that shaped a monarch.
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![Sinners [15]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/3745642a-c2aa-400f-86ae-e30c8b1323d5.jpeg)
Sinners [15]
Nominated for a stunning 16 awards at the upcoming Oscars – the most of any film in history – including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, Sinners sees Black Panther and Creed collaborators Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan deliver a new vision of fear. Set in the pre-war South, it dances between genres, incorporating elements of folk horror, Western, Southern Gothic, blaxploitation thriller, musical and vampire movie into one superlative whole.
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DCC: The Creation
Dartington Community Choir is delighted to present Haydn´s Creation conducted by Simon Dunbavand. They will be joined by Dartington Sinfonietta and 3 wonderful soloists to tell the inspiring story of the Creation of the Earth from chaos.
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Dartington Gardens
Buy a day ticket to Dartington's stunning formal Grade II Listed gardens.
Elmhirst Heritage Centre Tour
Welcome to the Elmhirst Heritage Centre, our new indoor visitor destination at Dartington Hall. The Heritage Centre was once the private residence of Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, and you can book a guided heritage tour to get a sense of how the building looked in its 1960s heyday.
Exhibition: Dancing in Utopia
1930s Dance at Dartington.
Our exhibition space is in the new Elmhirst Heritage Centre, which will host a series of changing temporary exhibitions inspired by our wider art collection and archive.
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Rental Family [12A]
Oscar nominee Brendan Fraser (The Whale) plays an American adrift in Japan in this sweet-natured comedy drama.
![H is for Hawk [12A]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/308f1ed9-14a3-4600-a74f-686d2176bca8.jpg)
H is for Hawk [12A]
Cambridge academic Helen is stricken with grief after the unexpected loss of her beloved father. To recover, she retreats from the human world and turns to nature instead. Claire Foy (Wolf Hall, The Crown) stars as writer Helen MacDonald in the soaring adaptation of her award-winning 2014 memoir H Is for Hawk, featuring BAFTA-nominated cinematography from Charlotte Bruus Christensen.
![Nouvelle Vague [12A]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/8c0688c6-22e3-4425-becd-dd913575e76c.JPG)
Nouvelle Vague [12A]
Reimagining the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Richard Linklater’s Golden Globe-nominated Nouvelle Vague is a playful, poignant love letter to cinema and an exuberant exploration of the youthful rebellion and creative tumult that shaped the French New Wave.
![Stitch Head [U]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/771c8b73-cc23-4075-81e6-fc6b3cb69a29.jpg)
Stitch Head [U]
Asa Butterfield, Rob Brydon and Alison Steadman lend their voices to this elegant Tim Burton-esque animation. Adapted from Guy Bass’s children’s book, Stitch Head is a warm-hearted story about loneliness, purpose and self-discovery that’s cloaked in humour and Gothic style.
![The Shepherd and the Bear [15]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/097695a7-a87e-4b60-84e9-05abc6b6838b.jpg)
The Shepherd and the Bear [15]
Plus Director Q&A on 14 February. Set high in the majestic Pyrenees, Max Keegan’s visually and aurally ravishing documentary explores the conflict set off by the controversial reintroduction of wild bears into a traditional shepherding community.
![Royal Ballet Live: Giselle [cert TBC]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/07855e0e-e8ef-4acf-8fa8-f5dfba4eafa5.jpg)
Royal Ballet Live: Giselle [cert TBC]
Royal Ballet & Opera Season 25-26. Experience the quintessential Romantic ballet Giselle in Peter Wright’s atmospheric and bewitching production.
![The Voice of Hind Rajab [15]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/0e85e2e4-eac5-4d8b-be50-c0b7253c0f46.jpg)
The Voice of Hind Rajab [15]
Tunisia’s entry for Best International Feature at the upcoming Oscars.
January 29, 2024. Workers at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society receive an emergency call. A terrified 6-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her, but are hindered by complex rescue protocols.
![The Testament of Ann Lee [15]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/b2b444b0-1e4d-4973-a61d-54b9b71f4b6c.jpg)
The Testament of Ann Lee [15]
Powered by a transformative, Golden Globe-nominated performance from Amanda Seyfried (The Housemaid, Mamma Mia), award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold’s (The World to Come, The Brutalist) exhilarating epic captures the agony and ecstasy of radical preacher Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker movement.
Farmers Market - Cider Press Centre
11am - 4pm, first Saturday of every month.
Clash/Crop are hosting a regular local market inspired by visits to the likes of London's Spitalfields market and Bristol's Tobacco Factory, where visitors can buy great produce, clothes, music and hang out with friends enjoying food, drinks and browsing through what’s on offer. 2 hours free parking.
Devon Baroque: Spotlight on Strings
Devon Baroque Orchestra present a thrilling programme of music for the string section of the ensemble. The concert includes JS Bach’s iconic and evergreen Double Violin Concerto featuring Persephone Gibbs and Sharon Lindo as soloists.
In addition Persephone will perform Bach A minor Violin Concerto, and the Vivaldi Concerto for Violin & Cello in Bb.
![Don't Be Prey Preview + Q&A [18*]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/7c902cd8-3d63-462b-9079-de4e116f95ac.jpg)
Don't Be Prey Preview + Q&A [18*]
Imagine climbing Mount Everest – only more difficult, in treacherous open water, and at risk of being eaten by sharks. That’s the Oceans Seven, which Australian swimmer Mark Sowerby takes on in this gripping, edge-of-your-seat adventure.
![Hamnet [12A]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/1824b20f-70bf-49eb-93bd-7a7e241fe67c.jpg)
Hamnet [12A]
Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s acclaimed novel about William Shakespeare and his family, Hamnet is a wildly sensitive, magnificently crafted story of love, grief and the restorative power of art.
![EOS: Turner and Constable [12A]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/2078fbdd-7a80-4995-b62c-daece117dc32.jpg)
EOS: Turner and Constable [12A]
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition.
![Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man [15]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/c06005f1-f8e6-4683-ad08-fabffaab9043.jpg)
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man [15]
Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet. With the future of the family and the country at stake, Tommy must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground. By order of the Peaky Blinders…
![The Secret Agent [15]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/505d7530-656c-4d0c-a877-7836b99a8f1e.jpg)
The Secret Agent [15]
Master filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho (Neighbouring Sounds, Aquarius, Bacurau) teams up with a superb Wagner Moura (Narcos, Civil War) for this rich, arresting, novelistic political thriller that was garlanded with awards at Cannes (including Best Director and Best Actor) and has been hailed by critics as a fascinatingly unpredictable, shape-shifting epic.
Exhibition: Dorothy's Gardens
The Elmhirst Heritage Centre’s spring exhibition, Dorothy’s Gardens, will open on Saturday 14th March. Featuring photographs from the archive and extracts from Dorothy Elmhirst’s own garden diaries, this display will bring to life the rapid development of the formal Victorian grounds into a thriving environment for horticulture, performance, and reflection.
![The Tale of Silyan [12A]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/abaa00bd-ee46-4038-a02e-638fb373338a.jpg)
The Tale of Silyan [12A]
Back due to audience demand.
From the Oscar-nominated director of ‘Honeyland’ comes a poignant and visually arresting story set in the heart of rural Macedonia. A down-on-his luck farmer grappling with the harsh reality of new economic policies, develops a unique bond with a wounded white stork as he nurses the bird back to health.
![Dartington 100: All Things To All People Part 1 [U]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/76651dce-6403-467d-b0c0-eba09c4b6e19.jpg)
Dartington 100: All Things To All People Part 1 [U]
With unique, never before seen film archive from the 1930s & 40s Dartington Film Unit which has been restored and digitised, this tells the story of Dartington not through a guide or narration but through the words, voices and ideas of those who made Dartington what it was, what it is and what we hope it can be.
![One Battle After Another [15]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/87f443ae-b839-4372-b886-dee1c500767a.jpeg)
One Battle After Another [15]
Nominated for 13 awards at the upcoming Oscars – including Best Picture, Best Director and four acting nominations for Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Benecio del Toro and Sean Penn – Paul Thomas Anderson’s (Phantom Thread, The Master) sensational One Battle After Another has been hailed a masterpiece and his most entertaining film to date.
![Mother's Pride [12A]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/26160ca3-471e-458b-a415-184e5a197d8d.JPG)
Mother's Pride [12A]
Martin Clunes (Doc Martin), Mark Addy (The Full Monty) and James Buckley (The Inbetweeners) star in new comedy drama Mother’s Pride, a love letter to the nation’s pubs.
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Sirāt [15]
Oliver Laxe’s unforgettable, brilliantly original Sirāt – now Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature and Best Sound – propels desert ravers into a hallucinatory vision of the future.
![Wuthering Heights [15]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/41194c7a-75d7-4fb8-a9e3-e61498d8fbac.jpg)
Wuthering Heights [15]
Oscar-nominee Margot Robbie (Barbie) and Jacob Elordi (Priscilla) star in Oscar-winner Emerald Fennell’s (Saltburn) electric reimagining of Emily Brontë’s Gothic masterpiece.
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The Tasters [15]
Based on a story almost too compelling to be true, and on the award-winning, bestselling book At the Wolf’s Table by Rosella Postorino, The Tasters reconstructs the fascinating tale of the women coerced into testing Adolf Hitler’s food during World War II.
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The Bride! [cert TBC]
A lonely Frankenstein (Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (five-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride (Buckley) is born.
![Royal Opera Live: Siegfried [cert TBC]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/b0bced5c-2dee-4d0a-a3dc-5b4fd88d1807.jpg)
Royal Opera Live: Siegfried [cert TBC]
Royal Ballet & Opera Season 25-26. Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber...
![Royal Opera Live: The Magic Flute [cert TBC]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/b71d44c9-b13a-4c84-a5f4-1577b61c6b4f.jpg)
Royal Opera Live: The Magic Flute [cert TBC]
Royal Ballet & Opera Season 25-26. Mozart’s fantastical opera glitters in David McVicar’s enchanting production, conducted by French conductor Marie Jacquot in her Covent Garden debut, and Finnegan Downie Dear.
![Met Opera: Eugene Onegin [cert TBC]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/78e78f07-538b-4277-9e13-ff663a2bc379.jpg)
Met Opera: Eugene Onegin [cert TBC]
Royal Ballet & Opera Season 25-26. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, 'offers a beautifully detailed reading of… Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance' (The Telegraph).
The English Music Festival
A major international classical music festival with world-class artists comes to Dartington Hall! The English Music Festival presents four days of recitals, concerts and talks, including The London Mozart Players, University of Exeter Chapel Choir, award-winning and immersive early music group The Telling, tenor James Gilchrist and cellist Raphael Wallfisch.
![NT Live: The Playboy of the Western World [cert TBC]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/2b43b00b-7825-4c43-a300-072ef927e590.jpg)
NT Live: The Playboy of the Western World [cert TBC]
Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene…
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.
Othello - The Lord Chamberlain’s Men
Join The Lord Chamberlain’s Men this summer for Othello, one of the most captivating and thrilling plays ever written. See it performed how William Shakespeare first saw it, as The Lord Chamberlain’s Men – with a history stretching back to Shakespeare’s original company – present this play in the open air, with an all male cast and Elizabethan costumes, music and dance.