NT Live: The Motive and the Cue

BBFC RatingNT Live: The Motive and the Cue

Showing: 18 May 2024

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Sat 18 May 2024

Certificate15
Year2024
GenreStage on Screen
Director(s)Sam Mendes
Writer(s)Jack Thorne
LanguageEnglish
CountryUK
Running Time2HR 52MINS
SeasonStage on Screen
Audio Accessible

Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play.

1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.

Written by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and designed by Es Devlin (The Crucible), the Evening Standard award-winning best new play was filmed live during a sold-out run at the National Theatre.

★★★★★ ‘A brilliant, compassionate new play’ Financial Times