5.14(Sun)13:00-16:00 Coriolanus
5.14(Sun)17:00-20:40 Hamlet
5.27(Sat)13:00-16:40 Man and Superman
5.27(Sat)18:00-20:50 The Deep Blue Sea
6.10(Sat)13:00-16:20 The Threepenny Opera
6.10(Sat)18:00-21:05 One Man, Two Guvnors
6.24(Sat)13:00-16:40 Man and Superman
6.24(Sat)18:00-21:20 The Threepenny Opera
7.8(Sat)13:00-16:05 One Man, Two Guvnors
7.8(Sat)18:00-20:50 The Deep Blue Sea
Coriolanus
Director: Josie Rourke
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Mark Gatiss
Genre: Play
Country: UK
Runtime: 150 min.
When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more upon her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field, Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of angry people.
Hamlet
Director: Lyndsey Turner
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch
Genre: Play
Country: UK
Runtime: 220 min.
Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game, Frankenstein at the National Theatre) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy, directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions. 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.
Man and Superman
Director: Simon Godwin
Starring: Ralph Fiennes
Country: UK
Runtime: 219 min.
Jack Tanner, celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this dazzling revolutionary.
Tony Award winner, multiple times Academy and Golden Globe Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List, Oedipus at the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic.
The Deep Blue Sea
Director: Carrie Cracknell
Starring: Helen McCrory
Genre: Play
Country: UK
Runtime: 166 min.
Hester Collyer, the younger wife of a High Court judge, has embarked on a passionate affair with a handsome young former RAF pilot. As her attempt to commit suicide fails, Hester's affair and the broken relationship with her husband is discovered. Written by Terence Rattigan, the play first came out in 1952 in the UK and the US before being adapted into a film in 1955, starring Vivien Leigh, and a 1994 TV series starring Colin Firth. Directed by Carrie Cracknell and starring Helen McCrory, the current title has garnered five-star reviews from The Times and Time Out.
The Threepenny Opera
Director: Rufus Knowles
Starring: Rory Kinnear / Rosalie Craig
Genre: Play
Country: UK
Runtime: 200 min.
First conceived by German playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill’s as a modern revival of The Beggar’s Opera, The Threepenny Opera is doubtlessly one of the greatest plays throughout the 20th century. Ostensibly set against a London near the end of the Victorian era, the work is Brecht’s satire on the corrupt capitalist society of the Weimar Republic after World War I. The current adaptation is directed by Rufus Knowles, director of the Royal National Theater, working with playwright Simon Stevens.
One Man, Two Guvnors
Director: Richard Bean
Starring: James Corden
Country: UK
Runtime: 185 min.
Adapted by Richard Bean from the Commedia dell'arte style comedy play, The Servant of Two Masters, by the Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni, 2011 National Theatre Production of One Man, Two Guvnors replaces the Italian period setting of the original with Brighton in 1963. This production got five-star rave review from The Guardian as “a triumph of visual and verbal comeday.” The Daily Telegraph described it as "the feelgood hit of the Summer." The Independent wrote that it is a "massive hit" and London's Evening Standard as "a surefire hit". Blogging site Everything Theatre described it as "one of the most side-splittingly hilarious productions ever to be staged in London".
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