Lauren Allen
Published:
6:00 PM April 16, 2021
Escape to the outdoors for a big-screen night of blockbusters, laughs and sing-a-longs.
- Credit: Mark Carline
Late-night cinema under the stars - Storyhouse’s Moonlight Flicks is back with a bang this summer with promises of the largest and longest open-air season of cinema to date. Open on the late May bank holiday weekend (May 29 - and hosted by Chester Cathedral’s Dean’s Field, Claremont Farm on the Wirral and Snugburys Ice Cream at Park Farm, Nantwich – there will be almost 70 separate screenings until September, with the films starting as the sun sets. Line-up genres so far include family, cult, comedy and blockbuster favourites. Storyhouse members can book now, with general bookings open on May 4. moonlightflicks.co.uk
Moonlight Flicks open-air cinema bringing sunset screenings to Wirral and Chester
Film screenings start as the sun sets and food is available to eat as you watch
11:00, 13 APR 2021
Moonlight Flicks open-air cinema is returning this summer with its ever longest season - across three locations.
The programme opens on the late May Bank Holiday weekend at Chester Cathedral’s Dean’s Field and Claremont Farm in Wirral, with Park Farm near Nantwich to follow.
It will launch at sunset on Saturday, May 29 with a special 25th anniversary screening of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet at the Dean s Field, while Claremont Farm is hosting Wonder Woman 1984.
CINEMA returns to the great outdoors thanks to Storyhouse Chester – with the longest and largest Moonlight Flicks season yet. The big screen entertainment opens on the late May Bank Holiday weekend and will take place at three venues across the region. Open-air cinema is back in Chester Cathedral’s Dean’s Field for a second year, as well as at Claremont Farm in Wirral, where there was a sell-out season of screenings last October. And this year there is a new addition to the summer season, with Snugburys Ice Cream at Park Farm near Nantwich joining the Moonlight Flicks film family. It will host cinematic favourites on Saturday evenings from July 3 to August 28.
The Week in Light & Sound
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Summer of Love - More than 200 events are to be staged in and around Chester as Storyhouse prepares a reopening programme, which it promises will be a ‘barn-raising’ open air season. The arts organisation said it would begin activity from May, with theatres and cinemas allowed to operate from 17 May under the government reopening roadmap. Storyhouse said its Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre would open earlier than normal – possibly as early as 22 May – while Moonlight Flicks open-air cinema will also run from the May half term. Storyhouse artistic director Alex Clifton said: “We’re launching a summer of festivity, joy and healing, together in the sunshine – a real summer of love. We’re planning a barn-raising, together-again party with the roof off. Plays and movies and family activities: all of us together in the city’s parks and open spaces, loving our city, and reconnecting with each other, in the summer sunshin