In international cinemas now. She wears a lot of purple, in fact, drifting on to the museum-like, pock-marked palace in the Peloponnese, in a full set of mauve veils, tugging at her jewellery and tearing at her own terrible obsession. With all the main physical business banished off stage, Racine can be hard going for the uninitiated. About National Theatre Connections 2020. To 2 August (020 7452 3000; www.nationaltheatre.org.uk) Show comments. You simply don't get the tragic tread of the French alexandrines in a bolshie arrangement of free verse with the odd iambic pentameter thrown in. With state-of-the-art filming techniques, tailored to every play, we bring you each performance as it happens, in all its glory. National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. It’s often either statuesque or histrionic, and often the verse doesn’t translate well. The all-new National Theatre at Home is a streaming service offering unforgettable British theatre available to watch any time, anywhere. Alongside such colleagues, Mirren does not attempt to hog the limelight. Phèdre with Helen Mirren at the National Theatre, review. Helen Mirren (The Queen, State of Play) takes the title role in this savage play by Jean Racine, translated into free verse by the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes. So she's no stranger to the purple in Jean Racine's great classical 17th-century tragedy about a dysfunctional royal expiring with incestuous love for her stepson. Aricia, the political prisoner with whom Hippolytus has fallen in love, is well done by Ruth Negga. While visiting The National Theatre and the New Stage You can use nearby secure car parks: Kotva department store (Revoluční 1/655, Prague 1), then walk along Králodvorská street to Ovocný trh. National Theatre at Home will make plays available for either a one-off payment or a subscription. T he National Theatre made history last night. Synopsis The result is carnage. Cooper first appears in designer Bob Crowley’s sun-drenched, polished-concrete palace in bare feet and rolled-up jeans, as if he has stepped off the beach in Mamma Mia. It pokes you with its self-satisfied aesthetic beauty but it doesn't unleash the animal of art. Watch National Theatre Live recordings, filmed in high definition for cinema to capture all the twists and turns, laughter and heartbreak. To 2 August (020 7452 3000; www.nationaltheatre.org.uk), Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Its live transmission of Racine's Phèdre was broadcast to 73 cinemas in the UK and 200 more around the world. order back issues and use the historic Daily Express Saison 2019-2020 Theater. Stanley Townsend is a bruising hulk of a king who really might call on the gods to kill his own son, only later howling with remorse. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. at the National Theater, it was with great hope (and very little expectations) that I attempted to score a ticket. ENTER CITY, STATE OR ZIP CODE GO. PHEDRE at the National Theater I recently had the great privilege to be in London for a few days, and when I heard that Helen Mirren (excuse me, *Dame* Helen Mirren) would be starring in a production of Phedre (the Ted Hughes translation, no less!) The exhibition of her suffering is both an act of abdication and an unforgettable attack. Bob Crowley's design is a cunning architectural arrangement, with a cerulean backdrop and a portentous soundtrack by Adam Cork. Devious and ferocious, she is the nanny who doesn’t know best. They're just all acting in something very bad, a thoroughly traduced and reverentially presented "classic". Since she last appeared at the National six years ago, Helen Mirren has become a dame and played the Queen. When the king returns unharmed, Phèdre’s poisonous servant Oenone misguidedly intervenes to make everything end as messily as possible. National Theatre Live broadcast its first theatre production from the National Theatre in London on the 25th of June 2009. Phedre is supposed to be consumed by her own sunshine. And he's very good. 2009. The 16 productions resulted in 15m views in 173 countries. Phedre: National Theatre WHEN Helen Mirren was last on the stage of the National Theatre, she had yet to wow the world with her Oscar-winning turn in The Queen. Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson, and believing her absent husband is dead, Phèdre confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare. All ends badly for all. ... After a memorably thorough exploration of the theater of Corneille, Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman directs Phèdre, Racine’s most famous and most mysterious play. Helen Mirren is hugely intelligent as Phedre. It plays for two uninterrupted hours and feels like something devised for groups of tourists on the South Bank. They include Dame Helen's Phèdre, Medea starring Helen … Published Dec. 1, 2020 Updated Dec. 3, 2020 LONDON — Cultural institutions around the world have been pivoting to online this year, and Britain’s National Theater … Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing National Theatre Live: Phedre Encore near you. War Horse. The queen declares her passion while King Theseus is presumed lost at sea, to the horror of the young prince, who is in turn illictly in love with Aricia (almond-eyed beauty Ruth Negga). But it’s a hugely intelligent performance, catching every throe of Phèdre’s internal battle between passion and decency. But with a plain-voiced version by the late poet laureate Ted Hughes, Hytner’s production is a rare, brilliant treat, showing that you can do the French national playwright in English. 1. There are one or two admirable performers such as wonderful Wendy Morgan as Panope and cheeky Chipo Chung as Aricia's attendant. It has nothing much to do with Racine. It pokes you with its self-satisfied aesthetic beauty but it doesn't unleash the animal of art. The Croods: A New Age (2020) Freaky (2020) In cinemas now. “Phèdre” at the National Theatre A world first. But while those were free to watch, there will be a fee this time round, which can be paid monthly or annually. Since she last appeared at the National Theatre six years ago, Helen Mirren has become a dame and played the Queen. Phèdre herself is the wife of the king of Athens, guiltily in love with her stepson Hippolytus, played here by another big-screen sex symbol, Dominic Cooper. Cyrano de Bergerac – 20 February 2020 The Welkin – 21 May 2020 Cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic Leopoldstadt – 25 June 2020 Cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic Jack Absolute Flies Again – 23 July 2020 Cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic Dick Whittington – A Pantomime for 2020 - 15 December 2020 Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional theatre-making, giving them full control of a theatrical production - from … Pinocchio (2020) Monster Hunter (2020) Fatale. The National Theatre has announced the next two filmed productions that will be added to its new streaming service National Theatre at Home. And Theseus is given lots of fizz and bottle by Stanley Townsend. That's simply not what happens in Racine. The National Theatre’s 2019-2020 “Broadway at the National” season continues its history as the nation’s oldest touring theatre with a lineup of a dozen shows. Big-screen sex symbol Dominic Cooper (centre) takes on Hippolytus. Mise en scène de Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman Avec Pascal Bekkar, Pauline Bolcatto, Raphaèle Bouchard, Sophie Daull, Lucie Digout, Kenza Lagnaoui, Raphaël… The filmed version of this classic play will also include a behind-the-scenes feature at the National Theatre. It helps that he has the kind of smouldering looks any stepmother might fall for. Launched in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, the new platform – titled National Theatre at Home – follows the success of the theatre streaming filmed plays on Thursdays during the summer. And Margaret Tyzack, the elderly actress honoured with an Olivier Award last year, is a wonderful and even comic Oenone. Phedre is descended from the Sun, and Mirren is a randy old ray, even if she looks more like an anachronistic Brunhilde in her flaxen wig. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, As part of a brilliant new initiative from the National Theatre of London, Phedre will be shown on cinema screens as a live recording direct from the London stageplay (find out more at nt-online.org).Screenings are limited. The National Theatre announced their 2020-2021 season this morning, detailing nine productions that will play on the South Bank in the next year.. From October, Rufus Norris’ acclaimed production of Andrea Levy’s Small Island returns to the Olivier Theatre after a sell-out run in 2019. Fandango ... (2020) News of the World (2020) Promising Young Woman. 1. The play is the intense, bleak tragedy of inappropriate passion by the French neo-classical dramatist Racine. A study in controlled, proud decency, he perfectly grasps the Ancient Greek ethos of duty even in the face of death. NT launches new streaming service National Theatre at Home.
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