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Un grupo de actores y cantantes vuelven a reunirse en el teatro en el que trabajaban y que ahora está a punto de ser demolido. De entre los congregados destacan dos parejas: Buddy y Sally Durant Plummer y Benjamin y Phyllis Rogers Stone. Sally y Phyllis eran bailarinas en la época del Follies. Con el devenir de los años, ambas parejas se han vuelto profundamente infelices en sus respectivos matrimonios. Buddy, viajero empedernido, ha comenzado una relación con una chica que conoció en un viaje de negocios. Sally, por su parte, sigue enamorada de Ben, como tantos años atrás. Pero Ben está demasiado preocupado por la depresión de Phyllips para pensar en nada más. Las bailarinas recorren la vieja historia del teatro, con números de la época, y el espíritu presente de los que en en su día habitaron el lugar.
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“I’ve no talent for life.” Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free... Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God.
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As London's East End scrubs up for the coronation, Mr and Mrs Peachum gear up for a bumper day in the beggary business. Keeping tight control of the city's underground – and their daughter’s whereabouts.
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London Road es un drama musical que documenta los acontecimientos de 2006, cuando la tranquila ciudad rural de Ipswich fue destrozada por el descubrimiento de los cuerpos de cinco mujeres. Los residentes de London Road habían luchado durante años con frecuentes solicitaciones y rastreo de aceras en su calle. Cuando un residente local fue acusado y luego condenado por los asesinatos, la comunidad luchó con lo que significaba estar en el epicentro de esta tragedia.
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Academy Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List, Oedipus at the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic. Jack Tanner, celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this dazzling revolutionary. Tanner, appalled by the whiff of domesticity, is tipped off by his chauffeur and flees to Spain, where he is captured by bandits and meets The Devil. An extraordinary dream-debate, heaven versus hell, ensues. Following in hot pursuit, Ann is there when Tanner awakes, as fierce in her certainty as he is in his. A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live.
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Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) returns to the National Theatre with his highly-anticipated new play The Hard Problem, directed by Nicholas Hytner (Othello, Hamlet, One Man, Two Guvnors). Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brainscience institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? This is ‘the hard problem’ which puts Hilary at odds with her colleagues who include her first mentor Spike, her boss Leo and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry. Is the day coming when the computer and the fMRI scanner will answer all the questions psychology can ask? Meanwhile Hilary needs a miracle, and she is prepared to pray for one.
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Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace. It’s time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.
