NT Live: Phčdre in Aero Cinema

PHÉDRE IN AERO CINEMA

The series kicks off June 25 with PHČDRE, with Helen Mirren, Dominic Cooper and Margaret Tyzack

The pilot season of NT Live, the new initiative by the UK´s National Theatre to broadcast live performances of plays onto cinema screens around the world, launches Thursday, June 25 with NT Director Nicholas Hytner´s production of PHČDRE by Jean Racine, in a version by Ted Hughes, with Helen Mirren in the title role.  The cast also includes Dominic Cooper and Margaret Tyzack.  PHČDRE will be followed on Thursday, October 1 by Shakespeare´s ALL´S WELL THAT ENDS WELL with Clare Higgins; and, in early 2010, by NATION, based on a novel by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Mark Ravenhill; and Alan Bennett´s new play THE HABIT OF ART with Michael Gambon, Alex Jennings and Frances de la Tour.

NT Live performances will be filmed live at the National Theatre in high definition and broadcast via satellite to over 230 cinemas and performing arts centers around the world.

Participated cinemas In Czech Rebublic:
Prague – Aero www.kinoaero.cz/en/
České Budějovice – kino Kotva | www.kinokotva.cz                      
Zlín – Velké Kino | www.velkekino.cz
Jablonec n. Nisou – kino Radnice | www.kinajablonec.cz    
Hradec Králové – kino Centrál | www.kinocentral.cz  

“The NT Live events are designed to bring what we do on the stages of the National to a far greater number of people than we would ever be able to reach otherwise,” says Nicholas Hytner.  “Through high definition broadcasts, we have the technology at our disposal to present our productions beyond the four walls of the National, to reach passionate theatre-goers all over the world, and to do it really well.”  

Of her performance in PHČDRE to be sent via satellite to movie theaters, Helen Mirren says, “I am very happy to have the opportunity to play Phčdre – a rich, complex and demanding role – and to be part of NT Live, this grand new adventure for the National Theatre.”

www.kinoaero.cz/en/film/2635/Faidra-|-Jean-Racine/
www.nationaltheatre.co.uk/45462/home/nt-live-homepage.html

The plays for the pilot NT Live season are:  
 
Racine´s Phčdre, in a version by Ted Hughes, directed by Nicholas Hytner, with Helen Mirren, Dominic Cooper and Margaret Tyzack (Thursday, June 25, 2009); 7 PM UK / 8 PM Europe

Shakespeare´s All´s Well That Ends Well, directed by Marianne Elliott, with Oliver Ford Davies, Clare Higgins, Conleth Hill, George Rainsford and Michelle Terry (Thursday, October 1, 2009);

Nation, based on a novel by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Mark Ravenhill, directed by Melly Still (early 2010);

The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett, directed by Nicholas Hytner, with Michael Gambon, Alex Jennings and Frances de la Tour (early 2010);