The Choral
Show Date: July 2, 2026 7:30 pm
A ‘new’ film by Alan Bennett, and directed by Nicholas Hytner.
It is about men in a fictional Yorkshire town during the first world war who are variously too old or too young to fight, and the women who have to deal with the menfolk’s repressed emotions and their own.
The place is upended by the arrival of Dr Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes) who is to be the choirmaster, directing the music society’s annual production; he scandalises some with the fact that he once lived in Germany and has a scholar’s love of that country’s literature and music – as well as the fact that he is a bachelor who had a close friendship with another young man now serving overseas.
German composers such as Bach, Beethoven and Handel being unacceptable, Dr Guthrie proposes to his ragtag crew of amateurs a radical new production of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, its theme of death being the more heart-wrenching in the circumstances. He gets permission from Elgar himself for this performance, though not his daringly interpretive new variations!
This is an unsentimental but deeply felt drama, where music itself mysteriously exalts and redeems the community.
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