British Council and the Cinemania film festival present a special edition of the National Theatre Live programme for broadcasting the best of British theatre in a cinema near you. Don’t miss the Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game, Frankenstein at the National Theatre) who takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.
Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, National Theatre Live will broadcast this eagerly awaited production live to cinemas.
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
You can watch a recording of Hamlet, as played on the stage of the Barbican centre in London, on Friday 20 November in Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture.
Tickets are now on sale at the National Palace of Culture box office.
NT Live
NT Live is the National Theatre's groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre live from the London stage to cinemas across the UK and around the world.
Though each live broadcast is filmed in front of a live audience in the theatre, cameras are carefully positioned throughout the auditorium to ensure that cinema audiences get a 'best seat in the house' view of each production. Camera positioning is different for each broadcast, to ensure that cinema audiences enjoy the best possible experience every time.
In Bulgaria NT Live is brought to you by the British Council in partnership with Cinema City. All live broadcasts, and most of the encores, can only be watched at Cinema City in the Mall of Sofia. However each summer select performances are also screened across the country by Cinema City venues in Burgas, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora and Ruse. NT Live performances are often featured at the Varna Summer International Theatre Festival in June.
European distributor: Cikanek Management
