Love Actually: your favourite Christmas movie will never be the same again!

Wednesday 15th December, 6pm drinks on arrival, talk starts at 7pm

Amersham Band Hall, Rectory Meadow, Amersham

£20 per person, tickets from www.amershammuseum.org/events

Join us for a light-hearted festive evening with a talk about the film Love Actually from experienced broadcaster and teacher, Mary Sharp. When Richard Curtis interweaved ten stories with equal doses of comedy and tragedy in Love Actually, he created one of our best loved Christmas movies. But could it be that the stories are not all that they seem? In this entirely original (and definitely unauthorised) lecture, Mary presents her insights into how Shakespeare’s four great tragedies (and other classical masterpieces) lurk just under the surface.

Mary worked for many years for BBC Radio 4 producing some of its most popular programmes including Start the Week and Woman’s Hour before joining the senior management team as a Commissioning Editor. Mary has subsequently worked as a teacher and Director of Sixth Form at a leading girls’ grammar school. She now lectures for the Arts Society and runs her own company “Opening Up Literature” which offers literature courses for adults including studies of Shakespeare and Creative Writing. Her most popular course is “Telling Tales” which explores how writers and artists have reinvented classical stories.