Film: West Side Story

Shakespeare is celebrated in film adaptations that attracted the greatest contemporary composers of the day.

Based on Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story remains the most successful musical film at the Oscars, winning 10 in all. Set in the Upper West Side of New York City in the late 1950s, two youngsters from rival gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. Bernstein’s superb score energises the excitement, melodrama and despair.

Peter Hinds, Associate Professor of English at Plymouth University will give a short pre-screening introduction to each film in this series.The introductory talk for West Side Story sets the film in the social and
racial context of 1950s New York

Monday 16th May at 19.00

Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building

£6.60, concessions £4.50, Peninsula Arts Friends free
Ticket discounts available via Artory App