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Cast, in alphabetical order Enjoy the show Patients Visitors Molly Jacqueline Chan Colin, Joe’s Son We hope you enjoy your National Theatre Please do let us know what you think Mrs Maudsley Jacqueline Clarke Alex, Documentary Director Sam Bond Live screening. We make every attempt to through our channels listed below or Mavis Patricia England Mrs Earnshaw Rosie Ede replicate the theatre experience as closely approach the cinema manager to share Mary Julia Foster Cliff, Camera Nadine Higgin as possible for your enjoyment. your thoughts. Arthur Colin Haigh Andy, Work Experience David Moorst

Renee Anna Lindup Mr Earnshaw Duncan Wisbey Neville Louis Mahoney Creative Team Connect with us Joe Jeff Rawle Cora Cleo Sylvestre Writer Alan Bennett Lucille Gwen Taylor Director Nicholas Hytner Explore Never miss out Hazel Sue Wallace Designer Bob Crowley Go behind the scenes of Allelujah! and Get the latest news from Ambrose Simon Williams Choreographer Arlene Phillips learn more about how our broadcasts National Theatre Live straight Music George Fenton Staff happen on our website. to your inbox. Lighting Designer Natasha Chivers Dr Valentine Sacha Dhawan Sound Designer Mike Walker Sister Gilchrist ntlive.com ntlive.com/signup Salter, Hospital Chairman Peter Forbes Broadcast Team Ramesh, Junior Doctor Manish Gandhi Gerald, Physiotherapist Richie Hart Director for Screen Robin Lough Technical Producer Christopher C Bretnall Join in Feedback Nurse Pinkney Nicola Hughes Fletcher, Junior Doctor Gary Wood Script Supervisor Laura Vine Use #Allelujah and be a part of Share your thoughts by taking our Lighting Director Bernie Davis the conversation online. short online survey and enter into a Sound Supervisor Conrad Fletcher prize draw to win £100. /ntlive Running time: Please note: ntlive.com/feedback Approx. 2 hours 45 mins, BBFC Rating 15. @ntlive including an interval. Contains strong language. Alan Bennett introduces Allelujah! Coming soon Excerpts from his programme introduction for Bridge Theatre Find the next broadcast or screening near you at ntlive.com

I have been writing plays (slightly to my can speak with a divided voice. In Allelujah! surprise) for fifty years and more and it is a it means that I have some sympathy with Olivier Award-winners (Sherlock) bit late in the day to confess that I tend to Salter and with Nurse Gilchrist, neither of and Adrian Scarborough (Gavin and Stacey) write a play before I do the research for it. whom is entirely sympathetic. feature in this moving and funny masterpiece Otherwise, knowing myself, I’m likely to get about the life of King George III. too interested not to say bogged down in Staged as it is in my eighty-fourth year the the facts and so never get round to writing play [Allelujah!] could be taken as a would- Written by one of Britain’s best-loved the play. be apotheosis though I hope not. It does by Alan Bennett playwrights Alan Bennett (The History include occasional jokes that have been a Nottingham Playhouse production Boys), The Madness of George III is Writing a play I have never tried to hide the with me half my writing life without (perhaps National Theatre Live’s first live broadcast sound of my own voice. It hasn’t always understandably) ever finding a place. Broadcast live 20 November from Nottingham Playhouse. been where an audience or a critic has thought to find it and certainly not always One of the reasons why Nicholas Hytner and in the mouth of the leading character. It’s I have always worked well together is that often a divided voice or a dissenting one; plays as I first submit them are generally two things (at least) are being said and I am quite loose-fitting garments which can then not always sure which one I agree with. But be tailored to his (and sometimes the casts’) that is one reason why I write plays: one strengths and requirements. HHHHH ‘Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo dazzle.’ Financial Times Bridge Theatre National Theatre Live Director Simon Godwin’s (National Theatre by William Shakespeare Live: Twelfth Night, Man and Superman, The Bridge Theatre was founded by National Theatre Live distributes a National Theatre production The Beaux’ Stratagem) five-star, critically Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr on world-class theatre straight from stages acclaimed production is ‘not to be missed’ leaving the National Theatre after 12 years. across the United Kingdom to cinema Broadcast live 6 December (Independent). The theatre has a 900-seat adaptable screens around the world. auditorium designed to answer the needs of contemporary audiences and Working with the best of British theatre-makers that is capable of responding theatre companies and producers, to shows with different formats (end-stage, we simultaneously broadcast live theatre thrust stage and promenade). It is the first shows to cinemas in the UK, Europe and Richard II, King of England, is irresponsible, wholly new theatre of scale to be added sometimes North America, as well as foolish and vain. His weak leadership sends to London’s commercial theatre sector capturing the live performance for encore his kingdom into disarray and his court into in 80 years. screenings in other territories. uproar. Seeing no other option but to seize power, the ambitious Bolingbroke challenges The Bridge was designed by Steve Our live broadcasts and screenings the throne and the king’s divine right to rule. Tompkins and Roger Watts of Haworth have been seen by over 8 million people Tompkins Architects (winner of the 2014 in 2,500 cinemas in 65 countries since by William Shakespeare an production plays William Stirling Prize). we launched in 2009. Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast live Broadcast live 15 January to cinemas from the stage of the Almeida Theatre in London. bridgetheatre.co.uk ntlive.com facebook/bridgetheatrelondon facebook/ntlive @_bridgetheatre @ntlive