Event Description

What is the value of art?  Does it reside in personal expression?  Cultural longevity?  Financial worth?  These questions fuel this gloriously entertaining comedy, directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Ed Solomon.

A mainstay of the London art scene since his starry breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960s, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into a cluttered, self-imposed seclusion.  His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) enlist Lori (Michaela Coel), a young painter and sometime-forger, to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in his home studio, in a deceptive bid to secure an inheritance for themselves.

Cert:  15
Running time:  1hr 40mins
AD  Audio Description available
DS  Descriptive Subtitles:  Monday 25 May at 7:15pm and Thursday 4 June at 5pm

Prices:
Evenings:  £9.50/£10.50 (Premium seats)
Mornings and matinees:  £8.50/£9.50 (Premium seats)
Concessions and members discounts apply

Show Times:
Please note:  Film starts at advertised time
Friday 22 May at 7:15pm
Saturday 23 May at 7:15pm
Sunday 24 May at 6:30pm
Monday 25 May at 7:15pm (with DS)
Tuesday 26 May at 7:15pm
Wednesday 27 May at 7:15pm
Friday 29 May at 7:15pm
Saturday 30 May at 7:15pm
Sunday 31 May at 6:30pm
Monday 1 June at 7:15pm
Tuesday 2 June at 11am, 4:30pm and 7:15pm
Wednesday 3 June at 7:15pm
Thursday 4 June at 5pm (with DS) and 7:45pm

Friday 22 May 2026

7:15pm

Malvern Theatres

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Malvern Theatres

WR14 3HB

01684 892277

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