National Theatre Live: Top Girls

Mar 26, 2019

2h 10m

★ 0.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

National Theatre

National Theatre Live: Top Girls Trailers

Cast

Joyce

Lucy Black

Shona

Jessica Brindle

Patient Griselda

Lucy Ellinson

Louise

Amanda Hadingue

Angie

Liv Hill

Waitress

Ebony Jonelle

Marlene

Katherine Kingsley

Lady Nijō

Wendy Kweh

Pope Joan

Amanda Lawrence

Ensemble

Marcia Lecky

Win

Charlotte Lucas

Dull Gret

Ashley McGuire

After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr. Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man.

6.4

Putting It Together

Oct 14, 2001

An all-star cast performs the music of one of the greatest composers of our time... Stephen Sondheim. Anxiously anticipated by the myriad fans of the legendary composer, Putting It Together marked the return of Carol Burnett to the Broadway musical stage for the first time in over 35 years. Stephen Sondheim has won a record seven Tony Awards for his songwriting, and the Pulitzer Prize for Sunday in the Park with George. His Broadway smash shows and movies include Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sweeney Todd, Dick Tracy, and West Side Story. This Cameron Mackintosh stage production was captured live in performance during its Broadway run and recorded in high definition with a widescreen format using ten cameras and over 40 microphones.

0.0

National Theatre Live: Allelujah!

Nov 1, 2018

Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre during its limited run. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town in Yorkshire, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and the triumphs of the old people’s choir.

6.7

Rent

Jan 27, 2019

The story of several friends in New York City facing financial poverty, homophobia, AIDS, and, of course, rent.

4.0

Stratford Festival: Antony and Cleopatra

May 21, 2015

Reason and judgement prove no match for the tsunami of mutual passion engulfing Mark Antony, one of the three joint rulers of the Roman republic, and Cleopatra, the seductive queen of Egypt. Surrendering everything to their desires, they open the floodgates to a civil conflict that will shake the very foundations of their world.

8.3

Stratford Festival: King John

Apr 9, 2015

When the King of France demands that John relinquish his crown in favor of his nephew, the young Prince Arthur, war is the inevitable result. Excommunication, attempted atrocity, rebellion, and assassination all contribute to political turmoil and personal grief for a mother who has lost her son.

0.0

Secret Service

Jan 12, 1977

Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.

0.0

Oscar

Dec 25, 2008

An authoritarian, paranoid CEO goes head-to-head with his right-hand man in a merciless duel, all the while trying to get him to marry his pregnant daughter.

10.0

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

Nov 28, 2020

The timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge comes to thrilling new life as Tony winner Jefferson Mays plays over 50 roles in a virtuosic masterclass of a performance that must be seen to be believed.

9.9

A Christmas Carol

Dec 12, 2020

Playwright Jack Thorne and director Matthew Warchus offer a magical new interpretation of Charles Dickens’ classic story. This timeless—and timely—tale of redemption welcomes theatergoers of all ages into an immersive experience that’s brimming with Christmas spirit, with dazzling staging, moving storytelling, and a dozen of the most cherished Christmas carols, including 'Joy to the World', 'Silent Night', and 'It Came Upon the Midnight Clear'.

7.7

National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes

Sep 26, 2017

In 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together. The collision threatens them all with chaos. Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams play the sisters in this drama from writer Lucy Kirkwood.

0.0

Semestersångarna

Oct 20, 1962

Povel Ramel's 1962 show as filmed for television. This time the usual gang of four is joined by promising young comedian Hasse Alfredsson.

0.0

H.M.S. Pinafore

Nov 23, 1973

Captain's daughter Josephine and common sailor Ralph Rackstraw are in love. However, their relationship is complicated by her arranged marriage to the high-ranking Sir Joseph Porter. A secret about the characters' true identities revealed by Little Buttercup, which leads to a farcical resolution. Performed by the D'Oyly Carte Company for Opera Australia.

8.0

National Theatre Live: Hangmen

Mar 3, 2016

In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and pub regulars dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, his old assistant Syd and the peculiar Mooney lurk with very different motives for their visit.

1.0

National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans

Oct 11, 2012

Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high society drop-out Judy Haussman remains in spirit with the Ashrams of the 1960s while holding court in her dilapidated Art Deco house on the Devon coast. After an operation, she's joined by wayward offspring Nick and Libby, sharp-eyed granddaughter Summer, local doctor Peter, and Daniel, a troubled teenager who makes use of the family's crumbling swimming pool. Together they share a few sweltering months in this chaotic world of all-day drinking, infatuations, long-held resentments, free love and failure.

9.3

Revue Starlight ―The LIVE― #1 revival

Jun 27, 2018

At the Seisho Music Academy, the 99th Graduating Class is rehearsing for the annual production of the theatrical play, Starlight. Behind the scenes, however, an underground "Revue Starlight" audition, orchestrated by a talking giraffe, pits the students against each other in stage battles in order to shine as the top star. Karen Aijō, upon being reunited with her childhood friend Hikari Kagura, comes across these auditions and battles to become the top star alongside Hikari.

0.0

National Theatre Live: After Life

Nov 25, 2021

A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death. Encouraged by enigmatic officials, they must sift through their past lives to choose their forever. Adapted from Hirokazu Kore-eda's award-winning film, After Life is a surreal and powerfully human look at the way we view our lives, and a haunting meditation on what it is to live - and to die.