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Moviehouse One, our grand downstairs theatre, seats 440 people. The theatre features state-of-the-art film projection as well as a large stage ideal for panel discussions, Q&A's, and live performances.
Moviehouse Two used to be the balcony when the Coolidge was a one-theatre house. It is now a medium-size, 217-seat theatre featuring state-of-the-art film projection and audio, as well as a small stage ideal for director q&a's, small performances and group discussions.
The GoldScreen seats 14 in our plush deluxe seats and features high-definition digital projection
The Video Screening Room seats 45 and features high-definition digital projection.
People
Monday, April 1
2hr 45mins
"Wonderfully funny... a grand evening. Dorothy is Frances de la Tour, in the best part Alan Bennett has written for her." — The Times (London)
"Outrageously funny and provocative." - The Independent (UK)
Award-winning writer Alan Bennett is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner and Olivier Award-winning actress Frances de la Tour, with whom he worked on The History Boys and The Habit of Art. Bennett is one of Britain's most celebrated playwrights, and the much-anticipated People is the sixth of his plays to have its premiere at the National Theatre.
The action is set in the decaying stately home of the impoverished aristocrat Dorothy Stacpoole (de la Tour), once a successful fashion model but now sporting a moth-eaten fur-coat. Her younger sister, a bossy archdeacon, wants to hand the place over to the National Trust for historic preservation, but Lady Stacpoole has other ideas...
Bennett and Hytner also collaborated on the award-winning play and film The Madness of King George and their last stage production, The Habit of Art, was broadcast as part of National Theatre Live in 2010.