National Theatre Live: She Stoops To Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer
by Oliver Goldsmith
Starring Katherine Kelly
Directed by Jamie Lloyd
Strictly limited season: SAT APRIL 14 and SUN APRIL 15 at 1pm
(Additional screenings at select cinemas)
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Running time: 3 hours approximately including interval
ABOUT THE PLAY
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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National Theatre Live: Travelling Light
Travelling Light
A new play by Nicholas Wright
Starring Anthony Sher
Directed by Nicholas Hytner
Strictly limited season: SAT FEBRUARY 25 and SUN FEBRUARY 26 at 1pm
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Running time: 3 hours approximately including interval
ABOUT THE PLAY
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 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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National Theatre Live: Collaborators
Collaborators
A new play by John Hodge (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave)
Starring Alex Jennings (as Mikhail Bulgakov) and Simon Russell Beale (as Joseph Stalin)
Directed by Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys, Hamlet, One Man, Two Guvnors)
Strictly limited season: SAT JANUARY 14 and SUN JANUARY 15 at 1pm
(Additional screenings at select cinemas)
Running time: 3 hours 15 minutes approximately including interval
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ABOUT THE PLAY
Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom.
Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he’s offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Inspired by historical fact, Collaborators embarks on a surreal journey into the fevered imagination of the writer as he loses himself in a macabre and disturbingly funny relationship with the omnipotent subject of his drama.
Killing my enemies is easy. The challenge is to change the way they think, to control their minds. And I think I controlled yours pretty well. In years to come, I’ll be able to say: Bulgakov? Yeah, we even trained him. He gave up. He saw the light. We broke him, we can break anybody. It’s man versus monster, Mikhail. And the monster always wins.
John Hodge’s blistering new play depicts a lethal game of cat and mouse through which the appalling compromises and humiliations inflicted on any artist by those with power are held up to scrutiny. Alex Jennings plays Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale, Stalin.
REVIEWS
4 STARS ‘Dream casting of Alex Jennings as Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale as Stalin… A truly tremendous double act which thrills, chills and makes you laugh out loud – even though you know you shouldn’t.’ – Daily Telegraph (UK)
4 STARS ‘Collaborators is fresh and energetic, with a thick, throbbing vein of grotesque humour.’ – Evening Standard (UK)
4 STARS ‘Rare and special… An absurdly fantastic view of Stalin, and it’s seriously funny.’ – The Times (UK)
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[Gallery not found]Met Opera 2010-11: Verdi’s Don Carlo
(New Production)
SAT JANUARY 8 at 11:30am
SUN JANUARY 9 at 1:00pm
Director Nicholas Hytner (current Director of London’s National Theatre) makes his Met debut with this new production of Verdi’s profound, beautiful, and most ambitious opera. Roberto Alagna leads the cast, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, and Simon Keenlyside also star. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, back after his triumphant debut leading Carmen, conducts. “I think Don Carlo is the quintessential Verdi opera,” Hytner says. “Right through this opera there is, on the one hand, an implacable expression of impending doom and, on the other hand, a succession of the most gloriously open-throated arias, the most fantastically determined music.”
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Production: Nicholas Hytner
Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna
Approximate running time: 5 hours 20 minutes with intermissions
Note: All operas are subtitled in English. Casting for the 2010-11 season is subject to change due to unforseen circumstances.
Screening as part of the 2010-11 season of THE MET: CAPTURED IN HD
The Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of operas in HD continues for a fifth season and features twelve transmissions.
Tickets for the 2010-11 season series are now on sale so check with your local cinemas.
Go to www.themetinaustralia.info for links to online ticketing at individual cinemas.
Note: All operas are subtitled in English. Casting for the 2010-11 season is subject to change due to unforseen circumstances.
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SCREENING JULY 24 & 25 (JULY 17 & 18 SA, WA) in 2010
TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY!
Sir Harcourt Courtly is lured away from the epicentre of fashionable London by the promise of a rich and beautiful bride, Grace, several decades his junior. Arriving at Oak Hall, Gloucestershire, he marvels at this rural Venus until her charms are eclipsed by her hearty cousin, the foxhunting Lady Gay Spanker. Meanwhile his disguised son turns up in flight from his creditors and falls head over heels for Grace. When Lady Spanker discovers the young couple, she needs little prompting from the visiting chancer Dazzle to lead Sir Harcourt astray.
I am about to present society with a second Lady Courtly: young – blushing eighteen; lovely – I have her portrait; rich – I have her banker’s account. An heiress and a Venus!
Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created – in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker – two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the NT by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw.
Give me the trumpet neigh, the spotted pack just catching scent. What a chorus in their yelp! The view-halloo, blent with a peal of free and fearless mirth! That’s our old English music – match it where you can.
5 STARS
‘This is an absolute corker of a production, one that will be talked about and chuckled over with reminiscent affection for years to come.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK)
5 STARS
‘London Assurance is the funniest and most assured comedy in all of London.’ SUNDAY EXPRESS (UK)
4 STARS
‘This is a treat – stylish, hilarious and unmissable…
‘Nicholas Hytner is entirely at home with this wonderfully outrageous play. This is what gives English theatre its strengths; classicists like him, Simon Russell Beale, Fiona Shaw and Richard Briers are happy to apply their talent and versatility to a boisterous social comedy.’ THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK)
4 STARS
‘Dion Boucicault, not much studied these days, was a prolific Irish playwright who was the Victorian era’s Alan Ayckbourn. His London Assurance is riotous, unpretentious fun.’ DAILY MAIL (UK)
4 STARS
‘This production is worth a visit to witness the sheer fun of Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw having the time of their lives.’ DAILY EXPRESS (UK)
4 STARS
THE TIMES (UK)
4 STARS
INDEPENDENT (UK)
DIRECTOR: Nicholas Hytner
DESIGNER: Mark Thompson
LIGHTING: Neil Austin
MUSIC: Rachel Portman
SOUND: John Leonard
CAST
Mark Addy, Richard Briers, Matt Cross, Fiona Drummond, Mark Extance, Richard Frame, Junix Inocian, Tony Jayawardena, Simon Markey, Laura Matthews, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Paul Ready, Simon Russell Beale, Nick Sampson, Maggie Service, Fiona Shaw, Michelle Terry and David Whitworth.
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NT Live: The Habit of Art
THE HABIT OF ART – A new play by Alan Bennett
SCREENING MAY 8 & 9 in 2010 TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY!
JUST ANNOUNCED: Encore screenings by popular demand!
Cinema Nova, Carlton: May 20 and May 22
Sun Theatre, Yarraville: May 16
Orpheum Cremorne: May 17 and 18
Dendy Opera Quays: May 22
Chauvel Cinemas: May 19 and May 22
Narooma Cinemas: May 21
Palace Nova Eastend: May 20
Luna Cinemas: May 20
Luna SX: May 20
The 75-year-old playwright of The Madness of King George and The History Boys, and six time Tony Award winner, Alan Bennett teams with Nicholas Hytner to bring to the stage The Habit of Art.
Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn’t otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different.
Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, amongst others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station.
You are a rent boy. I am a poet. Over the wall lives the Dean of Christ Church. We all have our parts to play.
Alan Bennett’s new play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion’s spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.
‘In the end,’ said Auden, ‘art is small beer. The really serious things in life are earning one’s living and loving one’s neighbour.’
DIRECTOR Nicholas Hytner
DESIGNER Bob Crowley LIGHTING DESIGNER Mark Henderson SOUND DESIGNER Paul Groothuis MUSIC Matthew Scott
“Another absolute cracker, often wonderfully and sometimes filthily funny, but also deeply and unexpectedly moving.. I can think of few plays that combine wild laughter, deep emotion and technical ingenuity with such bravura. The Habit of Art is a smash hit if ever I saw one.” – Charles Spencer
“A richly thought-provoking piece… deft, amusing and so intelligentlyand generously crafted that it makes you feel clever just watching it.. Nicholas Hytner’s direction is a perfect match for Bennett’s charm, and the performances are a treat.” – Christopher Hart
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