National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

Sep 16, 2014

2h 54m

★ 7.8

Overview

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Young Vic

National Theatre

National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire Trailers

Cast

Blanche DuBois

Gillian Anderson

Stanley Kowalski

Ben Foster

Stella Kowalski

Vanessa Kirby

Harold Mitchell

Corey Johnson

Eunice Hubbell

Clare Burt

Steve Hubbell

Branwell Donaghey

Pablo Gonzales

Troy Glasgow

Young Collector

Otto Farrant

Doctor

Nicholas Gecks

Nurse

Stephanie Jacob

Woman

Claire Prempeh

Mexican Woman

Lachele Carl

One-man stage performance by English stage and screen actor Sir Ian McKellen. McKellen reprises roles over his career in the theatre (such as the works of William Shakespeare) and on film (such as Gandalf in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings film series), while discussing anecdotes throughout his life and career.

0.0

National Theatre Live: Top Girls

Mar 26, 2019

Now hiring: top girls wanted for prestige positions. Must be self-motivated go-getters with an appetite for success. No timewasters. Marlene is the first woman to head the Top Girls employment agency. But she has no plans to stop there. With Maggie in at Number 10 and a spirit of optimism consuming the country, Marlene knows that the future belongs to women like her.

8.0

National Theatre Live: Follies

Nov 16, 2017

New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves.

7.5

National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar

Mar 22, 2018

Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.

0.0

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

Jun 6, 1974

In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags.

0.0

Awake and Sing!

Mar 6, 1972

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.

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0.0

Hamlet

Jan 1, 1986

The production of Shakespeare's Hamlet with František Němec in the title role (premiered at the Smetana Theatre in 1982) was far from enthusiastic at first. To some viewers, it seemed superficially unimpressive. On the spare stage of J. Svoboda, director M. Macháček focused on thinking through the relationships between the characters and their motivations, and cast great actors of the National Theatre in the roles. Macháček gradually revealed the story, like a detective story - from the message from the ghost of Hamlet's father about the manner of his death, through the play of the theatre company as proof of the murderer's guilt, to the final murderous finale... The production eventually became a Prague theatre hit and could certainly have been performed for a long time if it had not been withdrawn from the repertoire in 1988.

7.5

Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II

Nov 13, 2013

A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.

5.0

Actresses

Dec 26, 2007

Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he’ll make her happy on stage — she will shine. But things don’t go to plan.

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0.0

Zbojníci a žandáři aneb Jánošík

Jan 1, 1974

No overview available.

6.0

La fortuna con l'effe maiuscola

Apr 17, 1959

No overview available.

5.0

Besos perdidos

Aug 30, 1945

A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.

7.0

Kaaviya Thalaivan

Nov 7, 2014

Two rival artists at Sivadas Swamigal's drama troupe compete in everything they do. While one of them goes on to become successful, the other fails in life.

6.9

The Goodbye Girl

Nov 27, 1977

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

10.0

National Theatre Live: Chewing Gum Dreams

Mar 19, 2014

Meet Tracey Gordon. Friendship, sex, UK garage, school, teachers, periods, emergency contraception, raves, tampons, white boys, God, money. Friendship. The more she learns about the world the less she understands.