{"id":691314,"date":"2026-01-12T15:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691314\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:26:11","slug":"a-film-about-a-cinema-in-west-wales-being-saved-will-be-shown-at-a-kington-picture-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691314\/","title":{"rendered":"A film about a cinema in West Wales being saved will be shown at a Kington picture house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Save_the_Cinema\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Save The Cinema<\/a> is inspired by the life of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and linchpin to the local Carmarthen community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Save the Cinema<\/strong> is a 2022 British <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drama_film\" title=\"Drama film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drama film<\/a> written by Piers Ashworth and directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sara_Sugarman\" title=\"Sara Sugarman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sara Sugarman<\/a>, based on the true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carmarthen,_Wales\" title=\"Carmarthen, Wales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carmarthen,\u00a0<\/a>who began a campaign in 1993 to save the Lyric cinema from closure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The film features mostly British talent, with principal roles led by Jonathan Pryce, Samantha Morton, Tom Felton, Adeel Akhtar and Susan Wokoma.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Evans was the mother of Huw Evans, a Barrister, and his two younger brothers <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wynne_Evans\" title=\"Wynne Evans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wynne Evans<\/a>, a principal of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Welsh_National_Opera\" title=\"Welsh National Opera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Welsh National Opera<\/a> who, since 2009, has appeared as a fictional Italian tenor called Gio Compario in the advertising campaign for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GoCompare\" title=\"GoCompare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoCompare<\/a>; and Mark Llewellyn Evans, a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_National_Opera\" title=\"English National Opera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English National Opera<\/a> and founder of ABC of Opera. \u00a0Wynne and Mark both appear in the film in cameo roles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A phone call later and one of Hollywood\u2019s elite agree to offer a very special treat for Carmarthen, but does this help save the cinema?<\/p>\n<p>The film will be shown at The Old Picture House in Kington on January 24 at 7.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Old Picture House was built as a Methodist Chapel in 1858.<\/p>\n<p>In 1919 the chapel closed, and the building was adapted into a cinema.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was not until April of 1958 that the cinema closed, opening only periodically over the next eight years until the projectors were finally turned off for good in 1966<\/p>\n<p>In 1980 46 Bridge Street became a place of worship for the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses and stayed as such until 2005.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008 the current owners moved in and started bringing the old cinema back to life!<\/p>\n<p>Save the Cinema is rated as a 12 film and it is a drama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets are \u00a36.50 and they are available by calling<\/strong> 07855 254590\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Save The Cinema is inspired by the life of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and linchpin to the local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,77,920,4884,379,12630,19287,12,20,8972,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-691314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-events","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-local-hubs","13":"tag-mid-wales","14":"tag-mid-wales-entertainment","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-search","17":"tag-south-shropshire","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115882833581457254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}