NT Live: Yerma (Live Screening)

Thu 31 Aug

The incredible Billie Piper (Penny Dreadful, Great Britain) returns in her Evening Standard Best Actress award-winning role.

A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece. The unmissable theatre phenomenon sold out at the Young Vic and critics call it ‘an extraordinary theatrical triumph’ (The Times) and ‘stunning, searing, unmissable’ (Mail on Sunday).

Billie Piper’s lead performance is described as ‘spellbinding’ (The Evening Standard), ‘astonishing’ (iNews) and ‘devastatingly powerful’ (The Daily Telegraph). Set in contemporary London, Piper’s portrayal of a woman in her thirties desperate to conceive builds with elemental force to a staggering, shocking, climax.

Please note that this broadcast does not have an interval. This live screening is certified as 15. Please note that this performance of Yerma includes strobe lighting and includes strong language.

★★★★★

“Brutal yet ferociously funny”, Metro

★★★★★
“Billie Piper makes a shattering Yerma in Simon Stone’s inspired reworking of Lorca”, The Observer

★★★★★
“A shatteringly powerful reinvention of a familiar classic”, The Independent

 

Dinner Deals

The Olive Branch will be serving food in our cafe from 6 – 7pm before the screening, or you can get a free glass of prosecco at Wivenhoe House with your meal. Find out more.

 

  • Thu 31 Aug
  • 19:00
  • 8.50 UoE Students / £10 Concession / £13 Full. Advance prices. More on the door.
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