Nobody expected theatre relayed to cinemas would work – until National Theatre Live became a hit. Matt Trueman watches one show come together
Gunnar Cauthery is building up to his big moment. He's on stage at the National Theatre, playing a Conservative MP in a drama called This House. Despite hoping for a safe home-counties seat with haystacks and hillocks, his character has just been elected MP for the Worcestershire town of Redditch. "You can't find a haystack in Redditch," he bellows, "because of all the fucking needles!"
Ninety-five miles away, in Redditch, a huge cheer goes up at the local Vue cinema. In Sheffield, there's applause when another Tory MP snootily suggests Manchester "either needs a good clean or a good fire", while at the Covent Garden Odeon in London, the man next to me almost chokes on his noodles from laughing so hard. "I hope people cheered like a...
Gunnar Cauthery is building up to his big moment. He's on stage at the National Theatre, playing a Conservative MP in a drama called This House. Despite hoping for a safe home-counties seat with haystacks and hillocks, his character has just been elected MP for the Worcestershire town of Redditch. "You can't find a haystack in Redditch," he bellows, "because of all the fucking needles!"
Ninety-five miles away, in Redditch, a huge cheer goes up at the local Vue cinema. In Sheffield, there's applause when another Tory MP snootily suggests Manchester "either needs a good clean or a good fire", while at the Covent Garden Odeon in London, the man next to me almost chokes on his noodles from laughing so hard. "I hope people cheered like a...
- 6/10/2013
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
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