National Theatre Live
2024 Screenings
The Motive and the Cue
May 11, 2024 | Noon
Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111. E Broadway
1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.
Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play.
Running Time: 160 minutes including an interval
*Individual tickets will be sold through Salt Lake Film Society for $15 per ticket per show.
More info: Salt Lake Film Society.
Bringing the best of London to the Salt Lake City screen
National Theatre Live launched in June 2009 with a broadcast of the National Theatre production of Phèdre with Helen Mirren. Broadcasts have now been experienced by over 5.5 million people in over 2,000 venues around the world. Past broadcasts from the National Theatre have included The Audience starring Helen Mirren; Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller; Man and Superman with Ralph Fiennes; Yerma starring Billie Piper, Macbeth starring Kenneth Branagh, and Follies starring Imelda Staunton.
Each broadcast is filmed in front of a live audience in the theatre and cameras are carefully positioned throughout the auditorium to ensure that cinema audiences get the ‘best seat in the house’ view. Where these cameras are placed is different for each broadcast to make sure that cinema audiences enjoy the best possible experience every time.
Venues view the broadcasts ‘as live’ according to their time zone or at a later date - which is where we come in. The Tanner Humanities Center started broadcasting National Theatre Live productions in 2010 at the University of Utah's historic Post Theatre. Shortly thereafter, screenings moved to Tower Theatre before finally landing at Salt Lake Film Society's Broadway Centre Cinemas in downtown Salt Lake. Proceeds from screenings support the Tanner Humanities Center's K-12 theatre/education outreach program, helping more that 500 students throughout Utah experience the best of British Theatre as learning supplements to their arts, English, and theatre curriculae. Partner schools include, Salt Lake Arts Academy, Herriman High School, West High School, and Whittier Elementary.
K-12 Educators: if you are interested in hosting a free, private screening at the Broadway for your students, please contact us!
Partners & Sponsors:
The Salt Lake Film Society
College of Humanities
Thank you to the season ticket supporters of this program!
Lindy Barrett
Barbara Bellows-Terranova
Scott Black
Janice Burk
Leslie Calvert
Mary Beth Clark
Beverley Cooper
Kathy Davis
Mame Fitzpatrick
Caren Frost
Marilyn Getts*
Octavia Haines
Mary Heers*
Lee Hollaar
Cheryl Hunter
Amy Dixon
Susan Dyer
Elaine England
Anita Lichtenberg
Susan Loffler
Howard Mann
Michele Margetts
Dianne May
Colleen Merrill
Richard Jonas
Sara Klein
Melissa Larson
Donna Ogden
Marjorie Riches
Janet Rogers
Gene Sartain
Grant Schettler
Helene Schroeter
Virginia Vierra
Elaine Weis
Berry Weller
Paul Werner
Larry West
Cindy White
Lisa White
Betty Yanowitz
*Season Ticket Plus