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National Theatre London
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New Event Series Premieres at Arena Theater
Telecast from the National Theatre London to
Point Arena in HD and Surround Sound
NCM Fathom and BY Experience are bringing National Theatre Live to movie theaters across the country. The 2011-12 season is the first time that Arena Theater is participating in the series which includes a total of 6 presentations from October through March.
From the heart of London, each performance will be captured live in high-definition and broadcast on a delayed basis via satellite, giving audiences an extraordinary close-up view of the world-class productions that take center stage at the National Theatre of Great Britain. Broadcasts will also feature behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with artists.
All NT Live shows will be presented on Thursdays at 7 PM, doors open 6:30 PM. Tickets are $18 general, available online and at the door; $5 youth (18 and under), available at the door. The Arena Theater snack stand will be open.
The schedule is as follows:
- February 9 – Travelling Light - Nicholas Wright’s new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age.
- March 1 – The Comedy of Errors – a Shakespeare classic with UK comedian Lenny Henry
- March 29 – She Stoops to Conquer- a comedy by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith; one of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language and offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.
ABOUT NT LIVE
National Theatre Live is an initiative operated by the Royal National Theatre in London, which broadcasts live via satellite, performances of select productions to movie theaters, cinemas and arts centers around the world. The program began its pilot season in June 2009 with a production of Phedre, starring Helen Mirren, which screened live in 70 cinemas across the UK and more than 200 more venues internationally, resulting in a combined audience of around 50,000 people for this one performance. The number of venues that show NT Live productions has grown substantially, including to multiple countries around the world. The events are distributed outside the UK by New York-based BY Experience www.byexperience.net. |
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Showtime:
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Doors Open: 6:30 PM
Show Starts:7:00 PM
Tickets:
$18.00 General
$5.00 Youth (18 and under)
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Travelling Light
by Nicholas Wright
Travelling Light is a new play by Nicholas Wright, directed by Nicholas Hytner.
Following Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter, Wright’s new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age. The award-winning Antony Sher – whose previous work with the National Theatre includes Primo and Stanley – returns to play Jacob.
The story line: In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling. Forty years on, Motl – now a famed American film director – looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams.
Tickets are $18 general, available online and at the door; $5 youth (18 and under), available at the door. The Arena Theater snack stand will be open. |
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Showtime:
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Doors Open: 6:30 PM
Show Starts:7:00 PM
Tickets:
$18.00 General
$5.00 Youth (18 and under)
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The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
Arena Theater presents The Comedy of Errors, the final event of the 4 part series “National Theater Live” on Thursday March 1, 2012 at 7 PM.
Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time.
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.
Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home. A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound.
Tickets are $18 general, available online and at the door; $5 youth (18 and under), available at the door. The Arena Theater snack stand will be open. |
The Comedy
of Errors |
Showtime:
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Doors Open: 6:30 PM
Show Starts:7:00 PM
Tickets:
$18.00 General
$5.00 Youth (18 and under)
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to...
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She Stoops to Conquer
by Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith that was first performed in London in 1773. It is one of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language and offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family. A young lady poses as a servant girl to win the heart of a young
gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. Many delightful deceits and hilarious plot turns ensue.
More about the plot:
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal’s son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he’s mistaken by his prospective son in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he’s a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle’s indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle’s appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.
Tickets are $18 general, available online and at the door; $5 youth (18 and under), available at the door. The Arena Theater snack stand will be open. |
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