NT
Live enters its third season, broadcasting HD performances of National
Theatre plays onto cinema screens around the world. Each listed
presentation will be performed live in London, filmed in high definition
and presented exclusively by the Shakespeare Theatre Company.
Travelling
Light
Saturday, 03/03/12–8:00 p.m.
“★★★★ A
love letter to the movies.” -Guardian
“As The Artist threatens to win the
first silent Best Picture Oscar since 1927... Nicholas
Wrights play offers a fairytale imagining of how it began.” –The
Times
“Antony Sher is explosively energetic.” -Evening
Standard
In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced
by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph. Bankrolled
by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl
sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary
way of story-telling. Forty years on, Motl – now a famed American film
director – looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling
his dreams.
Following Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter, Nicholas
Wright’s new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European
immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age. The award-winning
Antony Sher – whose previous work with the National Theatre includes Primo and Stanley – returns
to play Jacob.
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The Comedy
of Errors
Monday, 04/09/12–7:30 p.m.
“Wall-to-wall joy. Sublime.” -Daily
Mail
“Fabulous fun… Dominic Cooke’s imaginative,
superbly acted contemporary production.” -Mail
on Sunday
“A comic delight…a savvy modern-dress
production set in a recession-ravaged city.” -Daily
Telegraph
“Magnificently funny…a modern-urban production
full of sharp ideas” -The Times
Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting
for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand
scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio
who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their
distant home. A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of
wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound.
Meanwhile, Aegeon, father to the Antipholus twins, has been captured searching
for his sons and, as an illegal immigrant, is sentenced to death at sunset.
Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary
world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the
first time. Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse.
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She Stoops
to Conquer
Tuesday, 05/01/12–7:30 p.m.
★★★★ from Independent,
Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Sunday Times,
Sunday Express and Mail on Sunday.
“Leaves the theatre echoing with the sound
of the audience’s happiness.” -Guardian
“Played with lip-smacking relish.” -Financial
Times
“A sparkling revival. Riotously comic performances...” -Sunday
Times
“Gloriously
funny.” -Mail On Sunday
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter
with his old pal’s son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy
Lumpkin, he’s mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper,
his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely
speak to a woman of quality he’s a charmer with those of a different
stamp. And so, as Hardcastle’s indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle’s
appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanors multiply, love blossoms,
mayhem ensues.
One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language,
Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship
and the dysfunctional family.
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