NT Live: The Deep Blue Sea Encore

Showings

Main Theater Sun, Jan 15, 2017 1:00 PM
INFORMATION
Rating:Unrated
Run Time:3h
Release Year:2016
Category:NT Live
Free to Members
CAST/CREW
Cast:Helen McCrory
Tom Burke

Description

Helen McCrory returns to the National Theatre in Terence Rattigan's devastating masterpeice, playing one of the greatest female roles in contemporary drama. Tom Burke also features in Carrie Cracknell's critically acclaimed new production.

A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952.

When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge.

With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion. Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing.