Season : National Theatre Live

National Theatre Live: Othello

National Theatre Live: Othello

Starring: Jonathan Bailey, Sandy Batchelor, Adam Berry, David Carr, William Chubb

Director: Nicholas Hytner    Running time: mins

Synopsis: The National Theatre presents a major new production of William Shakespeare’s celebrated play about the destructive power of jealousy. Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester (Henry V at the National Theatre, BBC’s Hustle) takes the title role. Playing opposite him as the duplicitous Iago is fellow Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (The Last of the Haussmans, James Bond: Skyfall), who is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner (Timon of Athens, One Man, Two Guvnors) following their acclaimed collaboration on the National Theatre’s recent production of Hamlet. Othello, newly married to Desdemona...

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National Theatre Live: The Audience

National Theatre Live: The Audience

Starring: Helen Mirren

Director: Stephen Daldry    Running time: mins

Synopsis: For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace - a meeting like no other in British public life - it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses.

The Audience breaks this contract of silence - and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private...

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