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RSC Live: Timon of Athens
A glittering and biting satire on whether money truly buys happiness.
Featuring a ‘searing central performance’ (Guardian) from award-winning actor, Kathryn Hunter.
Run time tbc
Courtyard Theatre
£15
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Norden Farm Youth Theatre (Seniors 1)
Led by Karen Wallace-Jones and Jane Hibbs
After a long time apart, it’s time we rediscovered all the wonderful reasons we choose to come to Youth Theatre!
We’ll explore how we to tell stories by combining text and movement.
Drawing on the physical theatre styles of companies such as Frantic Assembly, we’ll play with the imaginative possibilities of using music and original text to devise short, original pieces to share at the end of term.
School Years 7 - 11
Wed 16 Sept - 25 Nov (exc 28 Oct)
4.15pm - 5.45pm
£97 per 10 week term
Please prepare for your visit by reading our latest Visitor Information here. This includes important information about face coverings, social distancing and measures we have implemented to keep everyone safe when visiting Norden Farm.
- 30 Sep
- 7 Oct
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
Captured live on stage in 2011, this thrilling, sold-out production became an international sensation, experienced by almost half a million people in cinemas around the world.
By Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley
Directed by Academy Award® winner Danny Boyle, Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating between the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation.
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the increasingly desperate and vengeful Creature determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.
WHY? Scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil, are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic tale
Run time 123 mins.
Courtyard Theatre
£15
In line with current government guidelines, this event has a reduced capacity with socially distanced seating. This is subject to change as we monitor government advice. Seat numbers are also subject to change.
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The Magic Lamp
The story of a blessed and beautiful boy who, through serendipity alone, ends up with a lamp-dwelling genie at his disposal.
Played out in a Bedouin tent with a set filled with billowing silken drapes, this bewitching shadow play is told using light, paper and oil.
From these simplest of ingredients, indefinitearticles conjures up fantastical characters, shimmering transformations - souks, caves, palaces and deserts choreographed to
haunting original music.
WHY? 'Soothingly compelling - a harmonious shadow play of magic and myth' Time Out
Courtyard Theatre
£11, £9 under 16s
Family & Friend (4 people): £36
Booking cut off time: 30 minutes before each show
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National Theatre Live: A View from the Bridge
Filmed live onstage from London’s West End, Arthur Miller’s dark and passionate play A View from the Bridge returns to our screen.
Ivo Van Hove directs Mark Strong and Nicola Walker in this ‘magnetic, electrifying, astonishingly bold’ production (Evening Standard).
In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price. Eddie’s jealous mistrust exposes a deep, unspeakable secret – one that drives him to commit the ultimate betrayal.
WHY? ★★★★★ Evening Standard | ★★★★★ Sunday Times | ★★★★★ Independent | ★★★★★ The Telegraph
Run time 141 mins.
Courtyard Theatre
£15
In line with current government guidelines, this event has a reduced capacity with socially distanced seating. This is subject to change as we monitor government advice. Seat numbers are also subject to change.
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National Theatre Live: Hansard
Encore screenings of the National Theatre production.
Hansard; noun
The official report of all parliamentary debates.
See two-time Olivier Award winners, Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings, in this new play by Simon Woods, captured live in 2019 from the National Theatre in London.
It’s a summer’s morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Diana. But all is not as blissful as it seems. Diana has a stinking hangover, a fox is destroying the garden, and secrets are being dug up all over the place. As the day draws on, what starts as gentle ribbing and the familiar rhythms of marital scrapping quickly turns to blood-sport.
WHY? A witty and devastating portrait of the governing class, directed by Simon Godwin (NT Live: Antony & Cleopatra, Twelfth Night)
Run time 99 mins.
Courtyard Theatre
£15
In line with current government guidelines, this event has a reduced capacity with socially distanced seating. This is subject to change as we monitor government advice. Seat numbers are also subject to change.
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National Theatre Live: King Lear
Captured live from London’s West End in 2018, see Ian McKellen’s ‘extraordinarily moving portrayal’ (Independent) of King Lear.
Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.
Jonathan Munby directs this ‘nuanced and powerful’ (The Times) contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play.
WHY? ‘Ian McKellen reigns supreme in this triumphant production’ ★★★★★ Daily Telegraph
Run time 227 mins.
Courtyard Theatre
£15
In line with current government guidelines, this event has a reduced capacity with socially distanced seating. This is subject to change as we monitor government advice. Seat numbers are also subject to change.
Please prepare for your visit by reading our latest Visitor Information here. This includes important information about face coverings, social distancing and measures we have implemented to keep everyone safe when visiting Norden Farm.
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