by William Shakespeare directed by Lyndsey Turner produced by Sonia Friedman Productions presented by Sponsor of NT Live in the UK Photo (Benedict Cumberbatch) © Johan Persson Running time: 3 hours 20 minutes (including a 20-minute interval) Hamlet digital programme Now available for iPad and iPhone Cast, in alphabetical order Experience even more of the world of the play, and hear from Danish Soldier, Norwegian Soldier BARRY AIRD Benedict Cumberbatch and other members of the cast and Captain, Servant EDDIE ARNOLD creative team. Horatio LEO BILL Ophelia SIÂN BROOKE Contents include: Cornelius NIGEL CARRINGTON · Exclusive video interview about the Player King RUAIRI CONAGHAN famous fight sequence, with fight director Hamlet BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Bret Yount, Benedict Cumberbatch and Guildenstern RUDI DHARMALINGAM Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Priest, Messenger COLIN HAIGH · Interactive feature ‘Staging Hamlet around Fencing Official PAUL HAM the world’ Player Queen, Messenger DIVEEN HENRY · The political and theatrical context of Hamlet Gertrude ANASTASIA HILLE by Shakespeare specialist James Shapiro Claudius CIARÁN HINDS Laertes KOBNA HOLDBROOK-SMITH · Behind-the-scenes film about the make-up Ghost, Gravedigger KARL JOHNSON for the Ghost Polonius JIM NORTON · Stunning rehearsal and production images Stage Manager, Official AMAKA OKAFOR Barnardo DAN PARR Courtier JAN SHEPHERD Search National Theatre Backstage in the App Store Voltemand MORAG SILLER Rosencrantz MATTHEW STEER Fortinbras SERGO VARES Coming next Marcellus DWANE WALCOTT All other roles covered by members of the company Follies Broadcast live Director LYNDSEY TURNER 16 November Set ES DEVLIN Costume KATRINA LINDSAY Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee Video LUKE HALLS and Imelda Staunton play Lighting JANE COX the magnificent Follies in Music JON HOPKINS this dazzling production of Sound CHRISTOPHER SHUTT Sondheim’s legendary musical. Movement SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI Fights BRET YOUNT Casting JULIA HORAN CDG Tell us what you think in our short online survey Find your nearest venue and book at ntlive.com Give us your and be entered into a prize draw for £100. Turn over for details of more upcoming broadcasts feedback Visit surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ntlivesurvey Connect with us Subscribe to our email updates Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter ntlive.com/signup facebook.com/ntlive @ntlive Join in the conversation about tonight’s screening #HamletBarbican Upcoming broadcasts Follies book by James Goldman, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Broadcast live 16 November Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical is staged for the first time at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas. Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Staunton play the magnificent Follies in this dazzling new production. Featuring a cast of 37 and an orchestra of 21, it’s directed by Dominic Cooke (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom). New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves. Image by National Theatre Graphic Design Studio Image by National Theatre Photograph by Charlie Grey Photograph by Charlie Grey Photograph by Chris Mosey Young Marx Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Julius Caesar by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman by Tennessee Williams by William Shakespeare a Bridge Theatre production directed by Benedict Andrews a Bridge Theatre production Broadcast live 7 December In cinemas from 22 February Broadcast live 22 March Rory Kinnear (The Threepenny Opera, Penny Tennessee Williams’ 20th-century masterpiece Ben Whishaw (The Danish Girl, Skyfall, Hamlet) Dreadful, Othello) is Marx and Oliver Chris Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played for a limited time in is Brutus, Michelle Fairley (Fortitude, Game of (Twelfth Night, Green Wing) is Engels. Broadcast London’s West End in 2017. Following his smash- Thrones) is Cassius, David Calder (The Lost live from the Bridge Theatre, London, the hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, City of Z, The Hatton Garden Job) is Caesar and production is directed by Nicholas Hytner and Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ (New York David Morrissey (The Missing, Hangmen, The reunites the creative team behind Broadway and Times) of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof stars Sienna Walking Dead) is Mark Antony. Broadcast live West End hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors. Miller, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney. from the Bridge Theatre, London. 1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the On a steamy night in Mississippi, a southern in Dean Street, Soho. His marriage dying, his people pour out of their homes to celebrate. family gather at their cotton plantation to friend Engels in despair at his wasted genius, his Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. As Brick and only hope is a job on the railway. But there’s still educated élite conspire to bring him down. After Maggie dance round the secrets and sexual no one in the capital who can show you a better his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage, night on the piss than Karl Heinrich Marx. of the capital with chaos following in its wake. the scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. With the future of the family at stake, which version of the truth is real – and which will win out? Find your nearest venue and book at ntlive.com.