Welcome to the Monarch Theatre!
The Monarch Theatre is a movie theatre in downtown Medicine Hat.
Its single screen shows new, unique and classic movies.
Movie of the week
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This week, we show Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (rating: 14A). This spy film is based on the novel by John le Carré. Welcome to "the Circus". This is the internal nickname for British Intelligence. It is a funhouse of smoke, mirrors. Is anything what it seems? In October 1973, the Circus sends an agent to Hungary to meet a general who wishes to sell information. The operation is blown and the fleeing agent Prideaux is shot in the back by Hungarian intelligence. Amid the international incident that follows, the head of British Intelligence and his right-hand man George Smiley are forced into retirement. Smiley is brought out of retirement by Oliver Lacon, the Civil Servant in charge of intelligence, to investigate an allegation that there is a long-term mole in a senior role in the Circus. |
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- Tinker
- Percy Alleline: The person who because the new chief of the Circus after Smiley is forced out. He has established his status by delivering apparently high-grade Soviet intelligence material, code named "Witchcraft", about which Smiley was suspicious. Alleline shares Witchcraft material with the Americans, obtaining valuable US intelligence in exchange.
- Tailor
- Bill Haydon: Percy Alleline's deputy. On the night of the Hungarian incident, Haydon had arrived at the Circus saying he saw the news on the tickertape at his club at 1am. Smiley realises that because the club would have been closed at that time, Haydon must have heard the news from Smiley's wife, with whom Haydon was having an affair.
- Soldier
- Roy Bland: Unusually for Circus officers, Bland was from a working-class background. His father was a manual labourer with pronounced left-wing views. Bland received a scholarship to Oxford and was recruited by George Smiley. Bland took an economics degree and, building on his father's reputation, built a career as a left-wing academic. Regarded as friendly to the Soviets, he thus gained a string of professorships at various Eastern Bloc universities, which were cover for him to recruit Circus agents from among his students.
- Poorman
- Toby Esterhase: George Smiley recruited him in Vienna, when he was a starving student living in the ruins of a museum of which his dead uncle had been curator. Esterhase's own role is to pretend to be a Soviet mole when meeting with the Soviets.
- Beggerman
- George Smiley himself
Upcoming Matinees:
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The next weekend, Satuday and Sunday, Feb. 25-26, 2012, we show We Bought a Zoo (rating: PG) as matinee at 3pm. This family drama is about an adventure writer, Benjamin Mee. After his wife dies, Benjamin (played by Matt Damon) decides to begin a new life. To escape the sad reminders of his deceased wife, he buys a large house with a rundown private zoo in the backyard. Although reluctant to take on the zoo with all its animals, he decides to give it a try. Benjamin and his two children, Dylan (played by Colin Ford) and Rosie (played by Maggie Elizabeth Jones) move to thee zoo in the hope of re-opening it to the public. Benjamin meets the zoo staff, led by head zookeeper Kelly (played by Scarlett Johansson). The matinee is $5 admission. (Unlike the five & five deal, concessions are regular price.) |
Regular admission prices:
- $8 for adults
- $7 for seniors (65+)
- $7 for students with valid student ID
- $6 for children (12 and under)
- $5 for everyone for matinees
Special Movie Deals
Every Wednesday is 5&5
This means admission is $5 and you can get a medium pop & popcorn combo for only $5.
Dinner and a Movie
Two city centre restaurants offer a "dinner and a movie" deal: Come to dinner and receive a movie pass for that night's show at the Monarch Theatre.
Concerts at The Monarch Theatre
Two concerts are coming up:Scott Woods and His Band pay tribute to Fiddle Legends
A fun-filled two-hour variety show featuring old time fiddling, traditional country, sensational step dancing and gospel music. Scott's trick fiddling and lots of humour will keep the entire family entertained!
Admission:- $20 (general admission)
- $10 (child)
To charge advance tickets,
call 1-855-SCOTTWOODS (1-855-726-8896).
For more information:
e-mail: info@scottwoods.ca
toll free: 1-855-SCOTTWOODS
Joseph Hall, Elvis Tribute Artist
He was in the top 10 of America's Got Talent, Season 3. He won the Last Chance Elvis Tribute Artist Contest at the Memphis Hard Rock cafe. He has been seen on Good Morning America, USA Today, Fox News, The Morning Show. He currently has an Elvis Tribute show in Branson, MO, at The New Americana Theatre.
Admission: $40The doors open at 7:00PM and the show starts at 8:00PM. Tickets are available by phone at (403) 957-0507.
