Specticast presents
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
part of Midtown Cinema's Classic Digital Theatre Series
January 4th @4pm & January 6th @7pm, 150 min with intermission | Staged and filmed at the Vaudeville Theatre, West End, London, this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Jo Clifford has been universally acclaimed as a triumph on its sellout tour of the United Kingdom. This event forms part of the global celebrations surrounding the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth. Directed by Graham McLaren and starring Jack Ellis as Jaggers, Chris Ellison as Magwitch, Paula Wilcox as Miss Havisham, Paul Nivison as Adult Pip; Grace Rowes as Estella and Taylor Jay-Davis as Young Pip.
National Theatre Live presents
JOHN
part of Midtown Cinema's Contemporary Digital Theatre Series
Sun Jan 18 @4pm & Tue Jan 20 @7pm, 155 min with intermission | Internationally renowned DV8 Physical Theatre bring their powerful new production to the National Theatre. DV8 Physical Theatre has produced 18 highly acclaimed dance-theatre works and four films for television, which have garnered over 50 national and international awards. The company’s new production, JOHN, authentically depicts real-life stories, combining movement and spoken word to create an intense and moving theatrical experience. Lloyd Newson, DV8’s Artistic Director, interviewed more than 50 men asking them frank questions, initially about love and sex. One of those men was John. What emerged was a story that is both extraordinary and touching. Years of crime, drug use and struggling to survive lead John on a search in which his life converges with others, in an unexpected place, unknown by most. JOHN contains adult themes, strong language and nudity. Suitable for 18yrs+
Specticast presents
CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA
part of Midtown Cinema's Classic Digital Theatre Series
February 1st @4pm & February 3rd @7pm, 115 min (no intermission) | A witty and seductive comedy about the relationship between a veteran Roman political strategist and an enchanting Egyptian teenage queen. Stratford's production was hailed by The New York Times as "the climactic event in the company's impressive current season." Now movie audiences can witness the acclaimed performance of legendary Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, and experience the drama, intrigue and comedy of George Bernard Shaw's celebrated play. The production also stars Nikki M. James, who later went on to receive the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon. The high quality production captures the true experience of witnessing Shaw's celebrated play on the prestigious Stratford Festival stage.
National Theatre Live presents
TREASURE ISLAND
part of Midtown Cinema's Contemporary Digital Theatre Series
Sun Feb 15 @4pm & Tue Feb 17 @7pm | Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life in a thrilling new stage adaptation by Bryony Lavery, broadcast live from the National Theatre. It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins. Suitable for 10 years +
Specticast presents
THE TEMPEST
part of Midtown Cinema's Classic Digital Theatre Series
March 1st @4pm & March 3rd @7pm, 132 min (no intermission) | This culminating masterpiece of Shakespeare's career, featuring Christopher Plummer as Prospero, pits the desire for revenge against the demands of love and asks if man is capable of creating a brave new world. Performed and filmed at the Stratford Festival.
Specticast presents
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY - THE MUSICAL
part of Midtown Cinema's Classic Digital Theatre Series
March 29th @4pm & March 31st @7pm | Pearl Harbor, 1941, where the girls sing “don’cha like Hawaii”, the men of G Company sing the blues, and where even on an army base, love and desire are never very far away. When the troubled Private Prewitt falls for the kind hearted escort club girl Lorene, and when his platoon sergeant, Warden, embarks on a dangerous affair with his commanding officer’s wife, Karen, the lives of both men are set on a course they cannot control. As war approaches, the worlds of the four lovers and the soldiers of G Company are dramatically ripped apart. Sir Tim Rice’s magnificent new musical From Here To Eternity is adapted from one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century; a gripping tale of illicit love and army life which translates in to a breath-taking, romantic and excitingly original show, set to join the front rank of great musicals.
National Theatre Live presents
THE HARD PROBLEM
part of Midtown Cinema's Classic Digital Theatre Series
Sun May 3rd @4pm & Tue May 5th @7pm | 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.
National Theatre Live presents
MAN AND SUPERMAN
part of Midtown Cinema's Classic Digital Theatre Series
Sun June 7th @4pm & Tue June 9th @7pm | 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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