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National Theatre Live Screening Series

The Tanner Humanities Center, in collaboration with the Salt Lake Film Society, is proud to present a series of filmed performances by the National Theatre company in London.

The Royal National Theatre is one of Great Britain's premere theater companies. Founded in 1963, the National Theatre presents a varied program, including Shakespeare and other international classic drama, as well as new plays by contemporary playwrights.

In 2009, the National Theatre started "National Theatre Live," which seeks to broadcast the best of British theatre to cinemas around the world. Screenings are shown in high definition and utilize dynamic camera work to provide an engrossing viewer experience.

 

Spring/Summer 2013 Season

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This House

It’s 1974 and the corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backbiting as Britain’s political parties battle to cha nge the future of the nation, whatever it takes. In this hung parliament, the ruling party holds on by a thread. Votes are won and lost by one, fist fights erupt in the bars, and ill MPs are hauled in to cast their votes. It’s a time when a staggering number of politicians die, and age-old traditions and allegiances are thrown aside in the struggle for power.

James Graham’s biting, energetic and critically-acclaimed new play strips politics down to the practical realities of those behind the scenes who roll up their sleeves, and on occasion bend the rules, to manoeuvre a diverse and conflicting chorus of MPs within the Mother of all Parliaments.

Saturday, June 8, 2013
Noon
Broadway Centre Cinemas
111 E. 300 S.

 

The Audience

Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the highly-anticipated West End production of The Audience, broadcast as part of National Theatre Live. For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace – a meeting like no other in British public life – it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses.

The Audience breaks this contract of silence – and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional – sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive. From young mother to grandmother, these private audiences chart the arc of the second Elizabethan Age. Politicians come and go through the revolving door of electoral politics, while she remains constant, waiting to welcome her next Prime Minister.

The Audience reunites writer Peter Morgan and Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren following their collaboration on the critically-acclaimed movie sensation The Queen.

Saturday, July 13, 2013
Noon
Broadway Centre Cinemas
111 E. 300 S.