Theatre HD Live in Cinema 2014-2015:
The Theatre

Dates:
01.10.2014-30.06.2015


Choose city for details:


В тени вечной красоты
Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Country: Great Britain
Year: 2015
Director: Rufus Norris
Genre: theater production
Language: English
Translation: russian subtitles
Time: 2 hours 40 minutes
Возраст: 16+

Meera Syal (The Kumars, Goodness Gracious Me, Rafta Rafta at the National) returns to the National Theatre, directed by Rufus Norris (Broken, London Road).

Cast:

Meera Syal
Shane Zaza
Hiran Abeysekera
Assad Zaman
Stephanie Street
Anjana Vasan

Pulizter Prize-winner Katherine Boo spent three years in Annawadi recording the lives of its residents. From her uncompromising book, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2012, David Hare has fashioned a tumultuous play on an epic scale.

India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own. Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve and stunted, wants to eat until he’s as tall as Kalu the thief. Asha seeks to steal government anti-poverty funds to turn herself into a ‘first-class person’, while her daughter Manju intends to become the slum’s first female graduate.

But their schemes are fragile; global recession threatens the garbage trade, and another slum-dweller is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighbourhood.

Images