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Last of National Theatre Live season at end March

The last production of Cinema Nouveau's National Theatre Live, Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, will screen at selected Cinema Nouveau theatres on 24-25 March and 28-29 March 2012. It is a 136-minute show, including host introduction and a 20-minute intermission.
Last of National Theatre Live season at end March

Directed by Dominic Cooke, the show stars actor Lenny Henry, who made his Shakespearean debut in the title role of Othello for Northern Broadsides/West Yorkshire Playhouse, which transferred to the West End and for which he won the 2009 Evening Standard Outstanding Newcomer Award.

Others include Marcus Adolphy, Tom Anderson, Paul Bentall, Claudie Blakley, Ian Burfield, Silas Carson, Clare Cathcart, Adrian Hood, Chris Jarman, Lucian Msamati, Yvonne Newman, Pamela Nomvete, Rhiannon Oliver, Jude Owusu, Simon Parish, Daniel Poyser, Grace Thurgood, Amit Shah, Michelle Terry, Everal A Walsh and Rene Zagger. Bunny Christie, designs the production with lighting by Paule Constable, music by Gary Yershon, movement by Ann Yee, sound by Christopher Shutt and fight direction by Kate Waters.

Last of National Theatre Live season at end March

Cinemas

Showing at Cinema Nouveau Rosebank, Brooklyn, V&A Waterfront, Cavendish and Gateway, tickets may be booked through the group's website.

National Theatre Live events are distributed outside the UK through New York-based BY Experience Inc, the pioneer of global live 'alternative content' digital cinema events. For more, go to www.byexperience.net.

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