Tamsin Greig as Malvolia in Twelfth Night.
“If music be the food of love, play on…”
Twelfth Night, the acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity – filmed live at the National’s Olivier Theatre in London – is the next National Theatre Live broadcast on the big screen.
The production releases at Ster-Kinekor’s Nouveau cinemas on Saturday, May 27, for limited screenings. Continue reading
Roxie Hart (Jessica Sole, left) and Velma Kelly (Katy Moore) make a dynamite double act in KickStArt Theatre Company’s ‘Chicago’. Photo: Val Adamson
ESTELLE SINKINS review’s KickStArt Theatre Company’s Chicago, which is at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre in Durban until April 30. Continue reading
The next National Theatre Live broadcast to screen at Cinema Nouveau is the 2016 National Theatre production of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, starring Fresh Meat’s Adam Gillen and Misfit’s Karla Crome as Mozart and his wife, and Game of Throne’s Lucian Msamati as the composer’s great rival Salieri.
The stage production, directed by Michael Longhurst, was filmed live for broadcast into cinemas globally at the National Theatre in London, with orchestral accompaniment by the 30-piece Southbank Sinfonia orchestra.
Opening on Saturday, 4 March there will be for four screenings only. Continue reading
Cinema Nouveau’s next two broadcasts from National Theatre Live will include Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea releases on Saturday, October 15 for limited screenings, and the landmark of 20th century musical theatre, The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill from October 29. Continue reading
Currently playing at The Fugard Theatre in Cape Town is Bruce Norris’ smash hit Broadway and West End comedy, Clybourne Park. Continue reading
HOT off its premiere at the Royal Court in London and recent Market Theatre run, South African Mongiwekhaya’s latest play, I See You opens on Friday, May 6 at the Fugard Studio Theatre and runs until May 28.
Presented by Eric Abraham and The Fugard Theatre, this Royal Court (London) and Market Theatre (Johannesburg) production is based on a true story and movingly addresses the questions of a new generation of South Africans encountering their country’s traumatised past. Continue reading
The next production in the National Theatre Live series to be screened at Cinema Nouveau is the acclaimed Royal Court Theatre production of Hangmen.
Written by Olivier and Academy Award-winner Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, The Cripple of Inishmaan), and with an all-star cast, the big-screen version of this hit new comedy releases on Saturday, April 9 at Cinema Nouveau. Continue reading
Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Photo: Johan Persson
IF you love watching the National Theatre Live broadcasts then you can’t afford to miss the latest offering in the series, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which is being screened at Cinema Nouveau theatres in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town.
Filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London there will be four screenings only on Saturday, March 5 at 7.30pm. Sunday, March 6 at 2.30 pm, Wednesday, March 9 at 7.30 pm and Thursday, March 6 at 7.30 pm. Continue reading
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