National Theatre Live: The Wife of Willesden
Dec 14, 2022 | IMDB 0
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A proper local legend. Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. Alvita will tell her life story to anyone in the pub – there’s no shame in her game. The question is: are you ready to hear it? Because this woman’s got the gift of the gab: she can rewrite mistakes into triumphs, turn pain into parables, and her love life’s an epic poem. They call her The Wife of Willesden... A play that celebrates the human knack for telling elaborate tales, especially about our own lives. Zadie Smith transports Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath to 21st Century North West London, directed by Kiln Theatre Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingh. A production from Kiln Theatre
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National Theatre Live: The Kitchen
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IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 2017
In 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together. The collision threatens them all with chaos. Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams play the sisters in this drama from writer Lucy Kirkwood.Private Lives
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2013
Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne are glamorous, rich, reckless…and divorced. Five years later, their love for one another is unexpectedly rekindled when they take adjoining suites of a French hotel while honeymooning with their new spouses. This chance encounter instantly reignites their passion, and they fling themselves headlong into a whirlwind of love and lust once more, without a thought for partners present or turbulences past. This Chichester Festival Theatre production of Noël Coward’s Privates Lives was filmed live at London's Gielgud Theatre.Royal Opera House Live 2024/25: The Marriage of Figaro
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2024
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IMDB 7.5 | Feb , 1984
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IMDB 7.9 | Jun , 2019
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 2015
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IMDB 0 | Feb , 1986
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 2021
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 2020
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IMDB 8 | Apr , 2010
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IMDB 8 | Sep , 2022
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IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 1960
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IMDB 5.2 | Dec , 1987
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 1990
Groucho Marx tribute show by Jan Sigurd.National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
IMDB 8.7 | Apr , 2017
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IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 2017
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 2011
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2011
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2010
The innovative interweaving of romance and math was conceived. The 2008 Olivier Award winner for Best New Play, it has toured the world and was recently performed in New York as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.National Theatre Live: London Assurance
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2010
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