National Theatre Live
The exciting new season of National Theatre Live will launch in Autumn 2010 and will bring the best of the National’s theatre to cinema screens around the world. Tickets on sale soon! The season will launch on 14 October with Complicite's A Disappearing Number live from Theatre Royal Plymouth. Directed by Simon McBurney. Awards include the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2008), the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play (2007) and The Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play (2007). On December 9 Hamlet will be broadcast, directed by Nicholas Hytner featuring Rory Kinnear in the title role, David Calder as Polonius, Clare Higgins as Gertrude, Patrick Malahide as Claudius and Ruth Negga as Ophelia. A provocative and wholly unique hybrid of dance, theatre and music, FELA! explores the extravagant, decadent and rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Tony winning musical FELA! will be broadcast on January 13, 2011. Danny Boyle’s production of Frankenstein, a play by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley will follow on March 17, 2011. Also in the new season will be 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. 
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