National Theatre
National Theatre Live is a groundbreaking initiative to broadcast the best of British theatre to cinemas around the world. “We couldn’t have foreseen that the initial National Theatre Live season would be such a hit with audiences around the world, who are hungry to see our work in their local cinema,” says Nicholas Hytner, Director of the National Theatre.
Due to the time difference between London and New Hampshire, the Peterborough Players will present National Theatre Live productions as they were recorded, on Saturday afternoons.
All National Theatre Live TICKETS: $25 Adults, $20 Students
COMING THIS SEASON:
One Man, Two Guvnors — Saturday, Oct. 1, 1:00PM
By Richard Bean, based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni with songs by Grant Olding.
In Richard Bean’s English version of Goldoni’s classic Italian comedy, sex, food and money are high on the agenda. James Corden returns to the National for the first time since The History Boys to play Francis.
The Kitchen — Saturday, Oct. 22, 1:00PM
By Arnold Wesker
1950s London. In the kitchen of an enormous West End restaurant, the orders are piling up: a post-war feast of soup, fish, cutlets, omelettes and fruit flans.
Collaborators — Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, 1:00PM
A new play by John Hodge
Collaborators, opening in October is a new play by John Hodge (screenwriter of Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, The Beach) directed by National Theatre Director Nicholas Hytner. The play centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (best known for his novel The Master and Margarita); Alex Jennings (The Habit of Art) will play Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale (London Assurance) will play Stalin.
The Comedy of Errors — Saturday, March 3, 1:00PM
By William Shakespeare
Dominic Cooke, Director of the celebrated Royal Court Theatre in London, comes to the National Theatre for the first time to direct Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, opening in the Olivier Theatre in late November and continuing in repertoire until March 2012. Famed U.K. comedian and actor Lenny Henry makes his NT debut as Antipholus of Syracuse.