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The Nettle Dress (12A)
Tavistock Place
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AT
Opening Times
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Prices
Standard Ticket: £9
OAPs (over 60): £7.75
Budget (Unwaged/ Low Income) No proof needed: £4
Students: £4
25 and Under: £4
Arts University Plymouth Staff: £4.
Friends: 10% discount and £6 tickets on Tuesdays
Matinees: £7
Bringing in Baby: £4
Free tickets are available for Companions, Personal Assistants or Carers accompanying customers who are Disabled and/or customers who have a CEA card. Click here for more information.
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About us
Dir. Dylan Howitt, UK, 2023, 68 mins.
Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand just from the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. This is 'hedgerow couture', the greenest of slow fashion but also his medicine. It's how Allan survives the passing of his wife, leaving him and their four children bereft, and how he finds a beautiful way to honour her. The film follows Allan's journey through seasons and years, foraging, spinning, weaving, cutting and sewing the cloth, before finally sharing a healing vision of the dress back in the woods where the nettles were picked, worn by one of his daughters.
A labour of love in the truest sense, The Nettle Dress is a hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.
Actor Mark Rylance called the film "Exquisite and inspiring, beautiful and helpful for anyone suffering loss or grief".
To accompany the film, we are hosting a craft workshop with Vicky Putler of The Flax Project CIC on Saturday 28 October at 11:30am.
