Harold Pinter’s classic play No Man’s Land, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, has set the tone for the next batch of National Theatre Live productions at Cinema Nouveau theatres in the next few months. Other productions to look out for on the NT Live platform are:
Amadeus (from 4 March)
Music. Power. Jealousy… Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy, he begins a war with Mozart, with music and, ultimately, with God.
Lucian Msamati (Game of Thrones, NT Live’s The Comedy of Errors) plays Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s iconic play, broadcast from the National Theatre and with live orchestral accompaniment by Southbank Sinfonia.
Saint Joan (from 18 March)
The Donmar Warehouse production of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan is directed by Donmar Artistic Director Josie Rourke and stars Gemma Arterton as Joan of Arc.
Joan: daughter, farm girl, visionary, patriot, king-whisperer, soldier, leader, victor, icon, radical, witch, heretic, saint, martyr, woman. George Bernard Shaw’s classic play follows the life and trial of a young country girl who declares a bloody mission to drive the English from France. As one of the first Protestants and nationalists, she threatens the very fabric of feudal society and the Catholic Church across Europe.
Hedda Gabler (from 1 April)
“I’ve no talent for life” – Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free… Tony Award-winning director Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge) returns to NT Live cinema screens with a modern production of Ibsen’s masterpiece, with Ruth Wilson (Luther, The Affair, Jane Eyre) in the title role of a new version by Patrick Marber (Notes on a Scandal, Closer). Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.
Additional NT Live broadcasts in 2017 at Cinema Nouveau include:
Twelfth Night starring Tamsin Greig and directed by Simon Godwin;
Salomé directed by South African-born award-winning director Yaёl Farber; and
Marianne Elliott’s production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America – Part I & II, with Andrew Garfield, Susan Brown, Nathan Lane, James McArdle, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Denise Gough and Russell Tovey.
Broadcast dates for these titles to be confirmed.
Where: Cinema Nouveau
Book: www.cinemanouveau.co.za or www.sterkinekor.co.za Discounts and benefits valid for members of SK Club, Discovery Vitality and Edgars Club loyalty programmes apply for all live theatre productions. Special prices for group bookings also available on request
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