David Calder
1946 (79 лет)Sleepers
Geoffrey Sax
Nigel Havers, Warren Clarke
Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.
Sleepers
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Nicholas Hytner, Tony Grech-Smith
David Calder, Michelle Fairley
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
The Tragedy of King Richard II
Toby Robertson, Richard Cottrell
Ian McKellen, Timothy West
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall.
The Tragedy of King Richard II
A Question of Attribution
John Schlesinger
James Fox, Prunella Scales
Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a doubtful Titian painting. He also does art restoration work in Buckingham Palace, where he gets into an interesting conversation with HMQ.
A Question of Attribution
Exposed The Church’s Darkest Secret
Ben Steele
Donald Sumpter, David Calder
Peter Ball was a bishop, serial rapist, and friend of the establishment and Price Charles. This is the story about how the Anglican church tried to cover up the whole scandal and help him let off punishment.
Exposed The Church’s Darkest Secret
A Doll's House
David Thacker
Trevor Eve, Juliet Stevenson
One of Ibsen's best known plays, A Dolls House caused a sensation when first published, as it provided a critique on the conventions of Victorian marriage. Nora Helmer feels suffocated and belittled in her marriage to banker Torvald. When faced with blackmail as a result of an attempt to save her husband's life, Nora decides that the only way to discover the real world is to step outside the illusions within her doll's house.
A Doll's House
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Tom Tykwer
Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Nicholas Hytner, Robin Lough
Rory Kinnear, Matthew Barker
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the National Theatre in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition, directed by Nicholas Hytner. He is joined by Clare Higgins (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia).
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
