Lynne Brighouse discovers what is on offer in Quad's line-up of live screening events.
WORLD-CLASS musicians and actors are the focus of a number of one-off cinema events and live screenings coming up at Quad over the next four weeks, featuring Kenneth Branagh, Helen Mirren, David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen.
Quad's cinema programmer, Adam Marsh, said that Quad annually tries to source some interesting film events over the summer to offer adults an alternative to their school holiday summer activities.
"We are lucky that a perfect storm of events have come up this year which offer some really exciting one-off opportunities," he said.
Tomorrow night, visitors will have the opportunity to see a live screening of Manchester International Festival's production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh in his first Shakespeare performance in over a decade.
He will take the role of Macbeth, with Alex Kingston (Doctor Who, ER) as Lady Macbeth. Directed by Rob Ashford and Branagh, this electrifying new production of Shakespeare's tragic tale of ambition and treachery unfolds within the walls of an intimate de-consecrated Manchester church.
An encore performance will be screened on Monday, August 5, 2pm and 6.30pm.
On Monday, August 12, at 2pm and 7pm there will be a final chance to see the encore show of the National Theatre's live broadcast of The Audience.
The production reunites The Queen writer Peter Morgan with Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren as she reprises her role as Queen Elizabeth II.
On Monday, for one day only, cinemas nationwide have the chance to screen Springsteen and I – a film celebration of two anniversaries for rock star Bruce Springsteen.
This year is both the 40th anniversary of his debut performance and the 30th anniversary of the seminal Born in The USA album.
Springsteen and I documents his career as well as containing a bonus 30 minutes of footage from Bruce's 2012 UK tour. There will be two screenings at Quad at 12.30pm and 6.45pm.
Another giant of the music industry, David Bowie, will have his career successes featured in Live at The V&A, another one-off countrywide cinema event, on Tuesday, August 13, at 6.45pm
The V&A museum in London will presents this unique event, screened live in cinemas across the UK, as the finalé to their enormously successful exhibition David Bowie Is, before it goes on international tour.
The film will be introduced by exhibition curators Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh.
It will feature special guests offering an insight into the stories behind some of the 300 objects from the David Bowie Archive, many of which have never before been displayed in public.
David Bowie Is Happening Now will be directed by Bafta-winning director Hamish Hamilton, who directed the live TV coverage of the opening and closing ceremonies at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Quad say tickets for all four shows are selling fast.
For more show details and ticket prices, call 01332 290606 or visit www.derbyquad.co. uk
