Prior to the movie, guests are welcome to “bring your own” alfresco dinner to the Redwood Room at Gateway. Guests may gather from 5:30pm – 6:30pm for dinner.

Albert Nobbs is a 2011 Irish period drama set in late 1800s Dublin.  The film was a passion project of its star, Glenn Close (who plays Albert), who worked for over 30 years to transform the story to film.  Albert Nobbs is a woman who, desperate for safety and economic security,  masquerades as a man in order to obtain service work as a waiter in a high-class Dublin hotel.  When Albert meets another cross-dressing woman, Hubert, who is living in a marriage with another woman, Albert begins to imagine a different future for herself. Albert’s decision to live as a man makes perfect sense, given the lack of palatable livelihoods available to women, and as a response to the character’s history of childhood poverty and sexual assault. But in a world offering few choices, only soul-killing compromises, seeing Hubert’s relationship finally provides Albert with hope for an alternative to her furtive, fear-filled, and lonely life.