nt live presents three penny opera

opening of the show with the Balladeer

kThis latest offering as part of the NT Live wonderful season is dark, disturbing and compelling.

The social comment and context is extremely important. Directed by Rufus Norris and adapted by Simon Stephens much is made of the savage despair …

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nt live presents jane eyre

Jane Eyre-second

The latest in the marvelous NT Live screenings, this epic, sprawling production, some three and a half hours long,  is a co -production between the Bristol Old Vic and the National Theatre. The production originally was even longer and the …

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nt live presents hamlet

More than hotly anticipated, the National Theatre Live’s HAMLET at The Barbican, became the fastest selling ticket in London theatrical history.

Lyndsey Turner’s production is towering, bleak and imposing and uses a slightly bridge and shifted text.

As the Prince …

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bernard shaw – nt live: man and superman

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George Bernard Shaw’s 1903 MAN AND SUPERMAN with more than 57,000 words, is an epic romantic comedy of manners, a witty social satire and presents a range of very profound philosophical arguments and other existential topics and theories.

Full of …

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nt live: treasure island

Treasure Island- inset

Ahoy me hearties! All aboard for a thrilling, somewhat dark piratical adventure.

When a treasure map is discovered, what else is there to do but go in search of it? Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of mutiny , murder, and money …

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nt live : dv8: john

This is a darkly disturbing, confronting work that is extremely powerful. It is a piece of verbatim theatre in which the text is derived entirely from interviews with real people, reworked into a usable theatre script.

DV8 Physical Theatre has …

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