The Ballad of Wallis Island
Monday 15 December 2025
- Duration: 100 mins
Language: English with Open Captions
| Monday 15 December
8pm |
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Accessible / wheelchair seats must be booked through Box Office on 01 272 4030.
Musician Herb McGwyer made his name in a popular folk duo with former creative and romantic partner Nell Mortimer. Now a struggling solo artist, Herb accepts a lucrative offer from eccentric lottery winner Charles Heath to perform a private gig on a remote island. The appearance fee will fund Herb’s new album. But it turns out Charles-who has very personal reasons for organising the gig-has also invited Nell to play, forcing Herb into an unexpected McGwyer Mortimer reunion.
Co-writers and co-stars Tomasden and Tim Key, alongside director James Griffiths, havedelivered a winning crowd-pleaser withThe Ballad of Wallis Island. With a perfect mix ofhumour and poignant character work, this film is a total charmer.
Sundance Film Festival, 2025
‘It’s a love story and a bromance elevated by the actors' superb comic timing and a sense of wonder’
★★★★ Anthony Cecil, The Arts Desk
‘The Ballad of Wallis Island is the best kind of crowd-pleaser: disarming, joyful and full of compassion for its oddball characters’
Tomris Laffly, Variety
‘Warm, perceptive and quietly life-affirming... a big-hearted, consoling hug of a movie’
Ian Freer, Empire Magazine
