Tag Archives: actor recreates his stage role

National Theatre Live: Hangmen
7.6

National Theatre Live: Hangmen

In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what’s the second-best hangman in ...
National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra
7.3

National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra

Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire ...
National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
8.9

National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

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 ...
National Theatre Live: Follies
8.3

National Theatre Live: Follies

New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their ...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
8.4

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their ...
National Theatre Live: Peter Pan
7.4

National Theatre Live: Peter Pan

When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it. In return, she is invited to Neverland, ...
National Theatre Live: War Horse
8.5

National Theatre Live: War Horse

Based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from ...
Philadelphia, Here I Come
6.7

Philadelphia, Here I Come

Friel contrasts Gar’s cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public ...
The Animal Kingdom
6.3

The Animal Kingdom

Dec. 28, 1932

The Animal Kingdom

Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the ...
National Theatre Live: King Lear
8.3

National Theatre Live: King Lear

Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the ...