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Enjoy the show Cast in order of appearance Creative Team We hope you enjoy your National Theatre Please do let us know what you think Live screening. We make every attempt to through our channels listed below or Daphne Stillington Kitty Archer Director Matthew Warchus replicate the theatre experience as closely approach the cinema manager to share Miss Erikson / Lady Saltburn Liza Sadovy Set and Costume Rob Howell as possible for your enjoyment. your thoughts. Fred Joshua Hill Co-lighting Tim Lutkin Monica Reed Sophie Thompson and Hugh Vanstone Garry Essendine Andrew Scott Sound Simon Baker Liz Essendine Indira Varma Casting Jessica Ronane CDG Connect with us Roland Maule Luke Thallon Associate Director Joe Murphy Helen Lyppiatt Suzie Toase Morris Dixon Abdul Salis Explore Never miss out Broadcast Team Joe Lyppiatt Enzo Cilenti Go behind the scenes of Present Laughter Get the latest news from on our website and learn more about how National Theatre Live straight Director for Screen Marcus Viner our broadcasts happen. to your inbox. Technical Producers Julia Nelson and Christopher C. Bretnall ntlive.com ntlive.com/signup Lighting Constultant Gemma O’Sullivan Sound Supervisor Conrad Fletcher Script Supervisor Annie McDougall Join in Feedback Use #PresentLaughter and be Share your thoughts by taking our a part of the conversation online. short online survey and enter into a prize draw to win £100. /ntlive ntlive.com/feedback Running time: @ntlive 3 hours, with one 20 minute interval. ntlive.info Noël Coward, ‘the original pop star’ Coming soon Find the next broadcast or screening near you at ntlive.com An excerpt from Matthew Warchus’ programme piece on directing Present Laughter.

I’ve heard Coward described as ‘the original the subject of fame and celebrity is when pop star’. This seemed particularly relevant you look carefully at it. It tells you a lot of to his depiction of Garry Essendine, the complicated things about human beings. famous matinee idol who is the central We often refer, maybe legitimately but also character of this play. Directed by Danny Boyle judgementally, to the ego and narcissism of We are all used to observing in the news the star, but what about the strange intense Frankenstein returns to international cinemas the chaotic (sometimes tragic) lives of neediness of the fans? What is that form to mark the 200th anniversary of Mary major pop stars as they navigate (or fail to of love and desire all about? Shelley’s most famous novel. Directed by navigate) between the extraordinary highs Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle There’s no doubt that Coward was very and lows of their celebrity lives. But do we (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), interested in all this as he tried to deal with In cinemas 7 March 2020 pause to properly consider that this lifestyle Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch his own celebrity and the unavoidable is itself a form of trauma...partly self-inflicted (Hamlet, BBC’s Sherlock) and Jonny Lee Miller identity crisis which accompanies fame. and partly inflicted by the intense adulation (Elementary, Trainspotting) alternating between Not only are most of the characters in this of fans? the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his play driven by an intense need for Garry creation. I love the brilliantly true Coward quote to do or be something or other, but Garry ‘Extraordinary how potent cheap music is’ Essendine’s own surname is of course and it’s equally extraordinary how potent an anagram of ‘neediness’.

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