National Theatre
ENCORE:
Sunday July 14, 2019, 11:30am @ Palace Cineplex (Sovereign Centre)
Gillian Anderson (X-Files, NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire) and Lily
James (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) lead
in All About Eve, broadcast live to
cinemas from the West End in London.
All About Eve tells the story of
Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always
has been. But now there's Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The
golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve…don't you…?
Lifting the curtain on a world of jealousy and ambition, this new production,
from one of the world's most innovative theatre directors, Ivo van Hove (NT Live: A View from the Bridge),
asks why our fascination with celebrity, youth and identity never seems to get
old.
All About Eve is adapted by Ivo van
Hove from the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film by Joseph L Mankiewicz and the
play "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr. Ivo van Hove directs this new stage
version with set and lighting design from Jan Versweyveld, costume design by An
D'Huys and music from double Mercury Prize-winner PJ Harvey, alongside Tom
Gibbons' sound design. Casting is by Julia Horan CDG.
All My Sons
ENCORE:
Sunday August 04, 2019, 11:30am @ Palace Cineplex (Sovereign Centre)
Broadcast
live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill
Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur
Miller's blistering drama All My Sons.
America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller
are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a
thriving business.
But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the
loss of their eldest boy to war, are about to shatter. With the return of a
figure from the past, long buried truths are forced to the surface and the
price of their American dream is laid bare.
Jeremy Herrin (NT Live: This House, People, Places
& Things) directs a cast including Jenna Coleman (Victoria), and Colin Morgan (Merlin).
All My Sons is an Old Vic
co-production with Headlong
The Audience
ENCORE:
Sunday September 08, 2019, 11:30am @ Palace Cineplex (Sovereign Centre)
Academy
Award-winner Helen Mirren (The Queen), plays
Queen Elizabeth II in the Tony Award-winning production of The Audience.
Captured live from London's West End in 2013,
the original broadcast returns to cinemas to mark National
Theatre Live's 10th birthday.
For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II has met with each of her 12 prime ministers in
a private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as The Audience. No one knows
what they discuss, not even their spouses.
From the old warrior Winston Churchill, to Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher and
finally David Cameron, the Queen advises her prime ministers on all matters
both public and personal. Through these private audiences, we see glimpses of
the woman behind the crown and witness the moments that shaped a monarch.
Small Island
ENCORE: Sunday
September 22, 2019, 11:30am @ Palace Cineplex (Sovereign Centre)
Andrea
Levy's Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes
to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. Experience the play in cinemas,
filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live's
10th birthday.
Small Island embarks on a journey
from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the
HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury,
England.
The play follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new
life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie
longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality
as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.
A company of 40 actors take to the stage of the National Theatre in London in
this timely and moving story.
Hamlet
ENCORE: Sunday October
06, 2019, 11:30am @ Palace Cineplex (Sovereign Centre)
Benedict
Cumberbatch (BBC's Sherlock, Doctor Strange)
plays the title role of Shakespeare's great tragedy.
Now seen by over 900,000 people worldwide, the original broadcast returns to
cinemas to mark National Theatre Live's 10th birthday.
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge
his father's death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the
impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security
of the state.
The Lehman Trilogy
ENCORE: Sunday October
27, 2019, 11:30am @ Palace Cineplex (Sovereign Centre)
The
story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on
a single evening.
Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, The Ferryman) directs Simon
Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles who play the
Lehman Brothers, their sons and grandsons.
On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New
York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two
brothers and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish
– Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and triggers the
largest financial crisis in history.
This critically acclaimed and five-time Olivier Award nominated play features
stunning set design from Es Devlin (NT Live: Hamlet) and will
be broadcast live from London's West End as part of National Theatre Live's 10th
Birthday season.
One Man, Two Guvnors
ENCORE: Sunday December
29, 2019, 11:30am @ Palace Cineplex (Sovereign Centre)
Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Show, James Corden, the hilarious West End and Broadway hit One Man, Two Guvnors returns to cinemas to mark National Theatre Live's 10th birthday.
Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancee's dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who's been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers.
Holed up at The Cricketers' Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be re-united with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple.
