The 3:30 showtime on January 30 will be a Relaxed Screening.

This showtime on January 30 at 3:30 pm is a Relaxed Screening. Relaxed Screenings are presented by Common Senses. House lights are turned up, volume levels are lowered, and open captioned subtitles are displayed on screen. Patrons are welcome to get up, vocalize, stretch, and/or move around during the film. Sensory kits can be checked out from Film Streams Box Office and will include noise-cancelling headphones, fidgets/handheld manipulatives, and sensory stress toys.

From award winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) comes a speculative, sweeping, and musical retelling of the extraordinary story of Ann Lee, founder of the religious sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award-nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shakers’ irrepressible leader—who espoused gender and social equality while believing herself to be the female incarnation of Christ.

The Testament of Ann Lee thrillingly imagines the ecstasy and agony of Ann Lee and her followers’s conviction and commitment to her own vision of utopia. More than a dozen traditional Shaker hymns reimagined as rapturous movements with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall (Vox Lux) and original songs & score by Academy Award winner Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist).

Reviews
"On paper, this might all sound quite bloodless and conceptual. In practice, it has an earnest, full-hearted sweep, in large part thanks to a performance of redoubtable commitment and nerve-deep feeling by Amanda Seyfried — far from the musical terrain of either Mamma Mia! or Les Misérables, but fully in command of her gifts — in the title role." – Variety