NT Live: The Welkin

INFORMATION
Rating:Unrated
Run Time:2hr 50min
Release Year:2020
Genre:Broadcast
Category:Live Broadcasts
CAST/CREW
Cast:Maxine Peake
Director:James Macdonald

Description

Thanks to a generous gift to The Dreamland, seniors and students are eligible to receive free tickets to Live Broadcast events (Bolshoi, MET Opera, National Theatre). These tickets can only be acquired in person at the Box Office.

One life in the hands of 12 women.

Rural Suffolk in England, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s comet, a young woman is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder.

When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she’s telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose. With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood outside, the matrons wrestle with their new authority, and the devil in their midst.

James Macdonald (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) directs Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything, Funny Cow) and Ria Zmitrowicz (Three Girls, Mr. Selfridge) in this bold and gripping thriller from Tony Award-nominated writer Lucy Kirkwood (Chimerica, Skins). Broadcast live from the National Theatre in London.