NT Live filming: She Stoops to Conquer 29 March 2012

by Oliver Goldsmith

This performance will be broadcast live. There will be several cameras in the auditorium and views of the stage may be blocked at any time during the performance. Please note:

* This is a studio performance.
* The light and sound will be adjusted for broadcast.
* There will be 360degree filming - resulting in audience members being filmed.
* No latecomers will be admitted.

Details of the cinema screenings are available on the National Theatre Live website.

5 STARS ‘Goldsmith's tightly plotted play seems wonderfully youthful in this fizzy production.' Evening Standard

5 STARS 'A joyous spectacle.' Sunday Telegraph

4 STARS 'A delight.' Independent

4 STARS 'Leaves the theatre echoing with the sound of the audience's happiness.' Guardian

4 STARS ‘A great night of high English comedy.' Daily Telegraph

4 STARS 'Played with lip-smacking relish.' Financial Times

4 STARS  ‘A sparkling revival. Riotously comic performances...' Sunday Times

4 STARS ‘A rollicking fantastically funny production.' Sunday Express

4 STARS 'Gloriously funny.' Mail On Sunday

Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal’s son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he’s mistaken by his prospective son in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he’s a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle’s indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle’s appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.

One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.

 

National Theatre Live

This performance of She Stoops to Conquer will be broadcast to cinemas across the UK and around the world on 29 March 2012 as part of National Theatre Live. Find your nearest cinema and book.

photo (Katherine Kelly and Cush Jumbo) by Oliver Prout

NT Live filming: She Stoops to Conquer 29 March 2012 finished on: 29 March 2012