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BRIGHT STAR (PG)
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Written & Directed by Jane Campion
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Ben Wishaw
Runtime: 2hrs
London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet, JOHN KEATS (Ben Wishaw), and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), an outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general.
It was the illness of Keats’s younger brother that drew them together. Keats was touched by Fanny’s efforts to help and agreed to teach her poetry.
By the time Fanny’s alarmed mother and Keats’s best friend Brown realised their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept into powerful new sensations, “I have the feeling as if I were dissolving”, Keats wrote to her. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted. Only Keats’s illness proved insurmountable.
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At
HENFIELD Hall, West Sussex
on Tue 16 February 2010
Doors open at 4.30PM
Starts at 5.00PM
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Box Office: 01903 750235
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The online ticket allocation on this date is not currently on sale
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