Fri 08 May
|Fryern Pavilion
Supper Club Film Night - The Penguin Lessons
During the 1976 coup in Argentina, an English teacher rescues a penguin and brings it to his school. His life begins to change when the bird's presence starts to have a positive effect on the school.
Time & Location
08 May 2026, 19:30 – 22:20
Fryern Pavilion, Greenways, Chandler's Ford, Eastleigh SO53 2LE, UK
About the event
The script was adapted by Jeff Pope from Tom Michell's memoir of the same name,[5] published in 2015.
Tom Michell's 2015 memoir chronicles his experience as a British teacher who travelled to South America to teach at a boys' boarding school in Argentina in the 1970s. On a trip to Uruguay, he visited a beach in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este where he stumbled on many dead penguins soaked with oil. He noticed one penguin still alive, and so he decided to rescue it, bringing it to his hotel to clean and feed it. After that, the penguin would not leave him and kept following him; eventually he took it back to the school, where it became a popular pet.
Starring Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce and Vivian El Jaber
Tickets
General Admission
Sale ends
08 May, 00:00
£5.00
Total
£0.00