National Theatre HD Simulcasts
Cast listings and plot synopses
Thursday 14, October, 7 pm
Complicite’s A Disappearing Number
Full Cast: David Annen, Firdous Bamji,
Paul Bhattacharjee, Hiren Chate, Divya Kasturi, Chetna
Pandya, Saskia Reeves, Shane Shambhu. Directed by Simon
McBurney.
Synopsis:
A Disappearing Number weaves together the
story of two love affairs, separated by a century and
a continent. The first happens now. The second is set
in 1914. It tells of the heartbreaking collaboration
between the greatest natural mathematician of the 20th
century, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a penniless Brahmin from
Madras in South India, and his British counterpart,
the brilliant Cambridge don GH Hardy.
With a haunting original score by Nitin Sawhney, this piece
of startling visual poetry from Simon McBurney and Complicite
is a compelling meditation on love, mathematics and the
pain of exile in an age when we think we can belong anywhere
and have everything.
Thursday December 9, 7 pm
Hamlet
Full Cast: Matthew
Barker, David
Calder, Marcus
Cunningham, Jake
Fairbrother, Clare
Higgins, Ferdinand
Kingsley, Rory
Kinnear, Alex
Lanipekun, James
Laurenson, Patrick
Malahide, Ruth
Negga, James
Pearse, Saskia
Portway, Victor
Power, Prasanna
Puwanarajah, Nick
Sampson, Lucianus Michael
Sheldon, Leo
Staar, Zara
Tempest-Walters, Giles
Terera, Ellie
Turner. Directed by Nicholas Hytner.
Synopsis:Hamlet, the prince of Denmark,
sees his father’s ghost. Tormented with loathing
and consumed by grief, he must avenge his father's
murder. What he cannot foresee is the destruction that
ensues.
Following his celebrated performances at the National
in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The
Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet.
Thursday, January 13 at 7 pm
FELA!
Full Cast: Lydie Alberto, Sherinne
Kayra Anderson, Jonathan Andre, Rolan Bell, Cindy Belliot,
Nandi Bhebhe, Kwame Peter Crentsil, Catia Moto da Cruz,
Jacqui Dubois, Scarlette Douglas, Poundo Gomis, Paulette
Ivory, Aisha Jawando, Wanjiru Kamuyu, Nyron Levy, Melanie
Marshall, Shelley-Ann Maxwell, Sahr Ngaujah, Pamela
Okoroafor, Tamara McKoy Patterson, Thierry Picaut,
Jermaine Rowe, Ira Mandela Siobhan, Craig Stein, Ricardo
Coke, Thomas Jazmine,
Jarret Thorpe. Directed and choreographed by Bill T.
Jones.
Synopsis: Winner of three 2010 Tony Awards including
Best Choreography. A
provocative and wholly unique hybrid of dance, theatre and music, FELA! explores
the world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Using his pioneering music
(a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythm and harmonies), FELA! reveals
Kuti’s controversial life as an artist and political activist. Featuring
many of Fela Kuti’s most captivating songs and Bill T. Jones’ visionary
staging, FELA! – an original new creation – comes
via Broadway to London and the National Theatre.
Thursday February 3 at 7 pm
King Lear
Full Cast: Pippa
Bennett-Warner, Ron Cook, Michael Hadley, Derek Jacobi,
Paul Jesson, Gina McKee, Justine Mitchell. Directed
by Michael Grandage.
Synopsis: An ageing monarch. A kingdom
divided. A child’s love
rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all
that he once believed is brought into question. One of
the greatest works in western literature, King Lear explores
the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power
and loss, good and evil.
Thursday March 17 at 7 pm
Nick Dear’s Frankenstein
Full Cast: TBA
Synopsis: Danny Boyle’s (Slumdog
Millionaire)production
of Frankenstein, a play by Nick Dear, based on
the novel by Mary Shelley.
Thursday, June 30 at 7 pm
Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard
Full Cast: TBA
Synopsis:
Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, directed
by NT Associate Director Howard Davies, whose recent productions
of Russian plays (including Philistines, Burnt by the
Sun and The White Guard) have earned huge
critical acclaim. Zoë Wanamaker will play Madame
Ranevskaya.
