The Monday Club at the Kino has returned to the intimate and comfortable Silver Room. It is run by Anwesha Arya who choses interesting older films, like Educating Rita on Monday, April 4 and Gandhi coming up on Monday, April 18, starting at 7:30pm. It is good to arrive early to be able to enjoy the lovely tea and samosas provided.
Anwesha has lived in Rye with her husband Saga and four children for several years. She is a poet, actor and author. Saga is a Shakespearian stage actor and has been in several films, TV programmes and also does voiceover work.
The Monday club is planned to take place every other week. Presently the charge is only £5. After Educating Rita, Anwesha encouraged a discussion which included the making of the film in 1983, whether it still has relevance, and the difference between the stage play by Willy Russell and his screenplay. The film won multiple major best acting awards for Judy Dench, Michael Caine and others. Other films planned for the Monday Club are: Earth, Amadeus, Passage to India The Piano, Water and Crash.
Saga joined the discussion and talked about his acting career on the stage. He said that on the whole famous actors were unassuming and accepting of lesser known actors or newbies. There were one or two who of course felt above the rest of any ‘unknowns’ in the cast, in both the theatre and film worlds. At the moment he is busy rehearsing at the National Theatre in London for the play The Father and the Assassin, about the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi in 1948 when he was 78 years old. The assassin thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to the Muslims during the partition of India the year before. Saga said the play was challenging, it starts on May 12.
It should be an interesting precursor to see the film in the Kino and afterwards the play at the National. If anyone would like to know more about Saga and Anwesha just Google their name for details.
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