Season : National Theatre Live
NT LIVE: FRANKENSTEIN (Cumberbatch as the Creature)
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonny Lee Miller
Director: Danny Boyle Running time: mins
Synopsis:
THIS IS A CINEMA RECORDING AND HAS JOHNNY LEE MILLER AS FRANKENSTEIN AND BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH AS THE CREATURE
a new play by Nick Dear based on the novel by Mary Shelley. Oscar-winner Danny Boyle (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire) returns to the theatre to direct this visionary new production. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down...
NT LIVE: FRANKENSTEIN (Lee Miller as the Creature)
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonny Lee Miller
Director: Danny Boyle Running time: mins
Synopsis:
THIS IS A CINEMA RECORDING AND HAS BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH AS FRANKENSTEIN AND JONNY LEE MILLER AS THE CREATURE
a new play by Nick Dear based on the novel by Mary Shelley. Oscar-winner Danny Boyle (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire) returns to the theatre to direct this visionary new production. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his...
NT LIVE: The Last of the Hassmans
Starring: Julie Walters, Rory Kinnear, Helen McCrory
Director: Running time: 180 mins
Synopsis: The Last of the Haussmans a new play by Stephen Beresford LIVE DATE: Thursday, 11 October 2012 Running time: 3 hours (estimate) including host introduction and one 20-minute intermission Julie Walters plays Judy Haussman with Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory as her children in this eagerly-anticipated new play: a funny, touching and sometimes savage portrait of a family that’s losing its grip. Part of National Theatre Live – the best of British theatre broadcast live to cinemas worldwide. Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high society drop-out Judy Haussman...
NT LIVE: Timon of Athens
Starring: Simon Russell Beale
Director: Running time: mins
Synopsis: Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare LIVE DATE: Thursday, 1 November 2012 Running time: 3 hours (estimate) including host introduction and one 20-minute intermission Simon Russell Beale takes the title role in Shakespeare’s strange fable of consumption, debt and ruin, written in collaboration with Thomas Middleton. Part of National Theatre Live – the best of British theatre broadcast live to cinemas worldwide. Wealthy friend to the rich and powerful, patron of the arts, ostentatious host, Timon of Athens is surrounded by free-loaders and sycophants. He vastly outspends...
