As the First World War rages on the Western Front, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire, has lost most of its men to the army. With the annual performance approaching, the society must bend its rules, enlisting a group of unlikely teenagers and the musically gifted, but socially scandalous, Dr. Guthrie. Ralph Fiennes leads an outstanding ensemble cast in this charming and poignant wartime drama, written by celebrated playwright Alan Bennett.

Reviews

‘A quiet and consistent pleasure: an unsentimental but deeply felt drama which subcontracts actual passion to the music of Elgar and leaves us with a heartbeat of wit, poignancy and common sense’
★★★★
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

‘The Choral is inevitably at its best when digging about in the subterranean reality beneath a curious attempt to stage a musical work with a handful of teenage boys.’
★★★★
Kevin Maher, The Times