![]() Diana takes off its jacket, which once belonged to her father John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and goes back to her car. Then she notices a scarecrow in the distance and eagerly runs towards it with a nostalgic expression. She notes that the long-abandoned neighbouring estate, Park House, used to be her childhood home. On the verge of a breakdown, she avoids heading to Sandringham until running into Royal Head Chef Darren McGrady. The staff of Sandringham prepare for the royals' arrival, and Diana drives around the Norfolk countryside. Among the attendees is Diana, Princess of Wales, whose marriage to Prince Charles has become strained due to his affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. On Christmas Eve 1991, the British royal family prepares to spend the Christmas holidays at the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk. ![]() For her portrayal of Diana, Stewart was nominated for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress. The film grossed $23 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics, with Stewart's performance garnering widespread acclaim. Spencer premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on 3 September 2021, and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom and the United States on 5 November 2021. Kristen Stewart and Jack Farthing star as Diana and Charles respectively, joined by Timothy Spall, Sean Harris, and Sally Hawkins. The film is about Princess Diana's existential crisis during the Christmas of 1991, as she considers divorcing Prince Charles and leaving the British royal family. at the UCSF Mission Bay Community Center, 1675 Owens (at Sixth Street), S.F.Spencer is a 2021 historical fiction psychological drama film directed by Pablo Larraín from a screenplay by Steven Knight. Gay Men's Chorus perform, and the dough goes to the Breakthrough Foundation, at 7 p.m. Jazz smoothie Spencer Day and the much-adored S.F. The idea of the World AIDS Day Benefit, "An Evening of Remembrance and Hope," might give you a lump in your throat, but the entertainment ought to cheer you up. Admission is $10-15 call 826-5750 or visit - Hiya Swanhuyser 30) at the Marsh, 1062 Valencia (at 21st Street), S.F. In other words, fear not the words "family holiday show," because this year's production, Nutcracker Nutz & Boltz, is a good bet to leave you looking at mousetraps, rusted hammers, and possibly your own sweater a little differently, no matter how old you are. The found-object puppet company's director, Liebe Wetzel, is brilliant: Everything she touches turns to funny, and she's quite grabby. Admission is $10-20 call 759-1047 or visit pullover.Īfter Lunatique Fantastique's family holiday show last year, seven of us - all adults - lurched out of the theater weak from having laughed so much. 17) at the Off-Market Theater, 965 Mission (at Fifth Street), S.F. President Augie Victor Douglas leads the nation to doom while a bankrupt Catholic Church sells all of its relics on eBay - except one very small piece of holy skin, which contains the DNA of the savior.Įxamining religion, biotechnology, corruption, and downright absurdity, Foreskin opens at 8 p.m. A fabulously blasphemous production, the satiric piece catapults us into the year 2044, during which power-hungry U.S. We're talking about his foreskin, the star of a new musical aptly titled The Foreskin of Christ. Or at least it deals with the little bit of him reportedly removed in a religious ritual held on the eighth day of his life. It's not Jesus Christ Superstar, but it does deal with the son of God. ![]() Admission is $17-20 call 503-0437 or visit - Karen Macklin 18) at the Shelton Theater, 533 Sutter (at Powell), S.F. From Steve Martin's The Zig-Zag Woman (about a waitress who takes drastic measures in search of a cure for loneliness) to Tennessee Williams' The Case of the Crushed Petunias (which finds a socially secluded woman forced to confront the man who destroyed her treasured flower garden), the dramas and the movies all touch on the natural urge humans have to communicate, despite the worldly forces that attempt to stop us. If you feel the same, prepare your ears and eyes for something a little different, as the innovative theater company La Vache Enragée presents three short plays interspersed with silent films, in turn accompanied by live - and lively - original orchestrations, for the production "Safe Words - Loud Silences: The Shorts Project." Though the genres are triply pleasing, the show floats on one common theme: people coming together in the face of a world coming apart. I get tired of the arts scene in our hard-to-categorize city always being divvied up into neat slots.
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