Event Category: Screening (Theatre)

National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World (12)

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán
McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.

Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s
killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts,
that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene… 
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to
the brim with secrets.

MUSIK (15)

Frances Barber stars as Billie Trix — icon, radical, existentialist, and complete disaster — in this bold and hilarious one-woman odyssey through the 20th and 21st Centuries. 

From post-war Berlin to the New York art scene, from folk duos to disco comebacks, Billie Trix has done it all — often naked, usually high, and always on her own terms. Drawing on her warped memories, lost loves, and chaotic career, Billie delivers a savage, surreal monologue that collides memoir, stand-up, and cabaret. 
Blending monologue with original songs by The Pet Shop Boys, MUSIK is a genre- defying exploration of fame, failure, and fierce individuality — wrapped in sequins and spiked with satire.
At once riotous and poignant, this cult show returns as a filmed stage event that cements Billie Trix’s place in the pantheon of outsider icons. As she says herself: 
“I am music. Ich bin Musik. Without me, there is nothing.”

National Theatre Live: All My Sons (15)

Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a
five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary
director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge). 

One family, the heart of the American dream. When wartime delivers profits for Joe, it comes
at a price when his partner is charged with criminal manufacturing deals, and his eldest son
goes missing in action. Will peacetime bring peace of mind, or will he be confronted by the
consequence of his actions? 
Filmed live from the West End, Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), Tom Glynn-Carney
(House of the Dragon), and Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) also feature in this disturbingly
prescient play.

National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (15)

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new
staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the
glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin. 

Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont,
they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry,
the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path. 
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs this thrilling
game of love, lies, and social warfare.