Live Screenings
This summer marks ten years since the National Theatre’s first groundbreaking broadcast to cinemas around the world, which included The Roses. Tickets for all productions: A B C £15 (Concessions available)
Small Island (15) Adapted by Helen Edmundson
The Lehman Trilogy (12A)
One Man, Two Guvnors (12A)
Andrea Levy’s Orange Prizewinning novel comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation.
By Stefano Massini Adapted by Ben Power Directed by Sam Mendes
Small Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury.
This critically acclaimed and five-time Olivier Award nominated play tells the story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening.
Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall (played by the Tony Award-winning James Corden) becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancée’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers.
The play follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.
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 by his two brothers and an American epic begins.
Holed up at The Cricketers’ Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be reunited with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple.
A company of 40 actors take to the stage of the National Theatre in this timely and moving story.
163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and triggers the largest financial crisis in history.
Thursday 27 June 7pm
Thursday 25 July 7pm
Thursday 26 September 7pm
3hrs 20mins
Approx. 4hrs (with 2 intervals)
3hrs 30mins
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See p. 36 for seating plan and booking info
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