We are thrilled to be bringing you these new National Theatre
Live productions
over the coming months. All in HD, live from the South
Bank.
Thursday February 9th 7.00pm Book Now
A new play by Nicholas Wright
How had a twenty-two-year-old pretentious layabout made a
discovery that would elude everyother cinematic pioneer for years
to come?
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
revolutionaryway 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.
Thursday March 1st 7.00pm SOLD OUT on
two screens!
ENCORE (Recorded) PERFORMANCES ADDED DUE TO HUGE
DEMAND!
Thurday March 8th 2.00 & 7.00 (Click on link to
book)
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.
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.
Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking? mad or well advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!
Consistently recognised by strangers, the visitors question their
very selves as the turmoil escalates. 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.
Do you know me, sir? Am I Dromio? Am I your man? Am I
myself?
Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse.
Thurs 29th March 7.00pm Book Now
EXTRA SEATS ADDED DUE TO HUGE DEMAND
By Oliver Goldsmith
To come to my house, to call for what he likes, toturn me
out of my own chair, to insult the family, to order his servants to
get drunk, and then to tell me, "This house is mine, sir". By all
that's impudent it makes me laugh.
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. Misdemeanours
multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.
This little barmaid though runs in my head most strangely,
and drives out the absurdities of all therest of the family. She's
mine, she must be mine, or I'm greatly mistaken.
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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