NT Live
English summary

Monday, June 18th / 8PM / version with Johny Lee Miller in the role of Frankenstein and Benedikt Cumberbatch as the Monster

Monday, June 25th / 8PM / version with Benedikt Cumberbatch in the role of Frankenstein and Johny Lee Miller as the Monster

both version to be seen in Cinema Atlas (Prague)

Nick Dear / Mary Shelley
Frankenstein (Encore)
Director: Danny Boyle / UK, 2011
Music: The Chemical Brothers
In English with english and czech subtitles
Suitable only for 15yrs+

A new play by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley.

I followed nature into her lair, and stripped her of her secrets! I brought torrents of light to a darkening world! Is that wrong?

Frankenstein enjoyed a sell-out run at the National Theatre, and went on to win awards including the 2012 Olivier Award for Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller.

First broadcast to cinemas in 2011, don't miss this second chance to catch Danny Boyle's electrifying stage production as encore screenings take place across the UK and around the world from June 2012.

Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch alternated the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature throughout the show's run at the National Theatre. Cinemas will offer the chance to see both of these versions.

Thursday, March 29, 2012 / 7:45PM /
Prague - Bio Oko

Oliver Goldsmith
She stoops to conquer
Director: Jamie Lloyd / UK, 2012

A comedy by Irish author , first performed in London in 1773. A young lady poses as a servant girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. Many delightful deceits and hilarious plot turns ensue. 
One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.

To come to my house, to call for what he likes, toturn me out of my own chair, to insult the family, to order his servants to get drunk, and then to tell me, “This house is mine, sir”. By all that’s impudent it makes me laugh.

    Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal’s son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he’s mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he’s a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle’s indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle’s appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.

This little barmaid though runs in my head most strangely, and drives out the absurdities of all therest of the family. She’s mine, she must be mine, or I’m greatly mistaken.

Press Reviews:
The Evening Standard, 1. 2. 2012
The Financial Times, 1. 2. 2012
The Guardian, 1. 2. 2012
The Independent, 1. 2. 2012
The Stage, 1. 2. 2012
The Daily Telegraph, 1. 2. 2012
The Daily Mail, 1. 2. 2012
The Daily Experess, 2. 2. 2012
The Observer, 5. 2. 2012
The Independent on Sunday, 5. 2. 2012

Thursday, March 1, 2011 / 7:45PM /
Prague - cinema Aero
Semily - cinema Jitrenka

William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors
Director: Dominic Cooke / UK, 2012
English with Czech and English Subtitles

Dominic Cooke, Director of the celebrated Royal Court Theatre in London, comes to the National Theatre for the first time to direct Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.

I in earth, in heaven, or in hell? Sleeping or waking? mad or well advised? Known unto these, and to myself disguised!

Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale.
And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home.  A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound.

Do you know me, sir? Am I Dromio? Am I your man? Am I myself?

Consistently recognised by strangers, the visitors question their very selves as the turmoil escalates. Meanwhile, Aegeon, father to the Antipholus twins, has been captured searching for his sons and, as an illegal immigrant, is sentenced to death at sunset.
Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time.
Lenny Henry makes his NT debut as Antipholus of Syracuse.

Press Reviews
The Evening Standard, 30. 11. 2011
The Financial Times, 30. 11. 2011
The Guardian, 30. 11. 2011
The Stage, 30. 11. 2011
The Daily Telegraph, 30. 11. 2011
The Independent, 30. 11. 2011
The Daily Mail, 1. 12. 2011
The Observer, 4. 12. 2011
The Independent on Sunday, 4. 12. 2011

Thursday, February 9, 2012 / 7:45PM / Prague - cinema Bio Oko

Nicholas Wright
Travelling Light
Director: Nicholas Hytner/ UK, 2012
English with English and Czech Subtitles

A new play by Nicholas Wright, directed by Nicholas Hytner.

How had a twenty–two–year–old pretentious layabout made a discovery that would elude everyother cinematic pioneer for years to come?

In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling. Forty years on, Motl – now a famed American film director – looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams.

Following Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter, Nicholas Wright’s new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age.
The award-winning Antony Sher – whose previous work with the National Theatre includes Primo and Stanley – returns to play Jacob.

Press Reviews:
The Evening Standard, 19. 1. 2012
The Guardian, 19. 1. 2012
The Daily Telegraph, 19. 1. 2012
The Stage, 19. 1. 2012
The Independent, 19. 1. 2012
The Daily Mail, 19. 1. 2012
The Financial Times, 20. 1. 2012
The Daily Express, 20. 1. 2012
The Sunday Times, 22. 1. 2012
The Observer, 22. 1. 2012
The Independent on Sunday, 22. 1. 2012

Director - NICHOLAS HYTNER; Set Designer - BOB CROWLEY; Costume Designer - VICKI MORTIMER; Lighting Designer - BRUNO POET; Video/Projection designer - JON DRISCOLL; Music - GRANT OLDING; Sound Designer - RICH WALSH; Dialect Coach - JEANNETTE NELSON.

Cast:
Maurice Montgomery - PAUL JESSON; Tsippa, Motl’s aunt - SUE KELVIN; Motl Mendl - DAMIEN MOLONY; Jacob Bindel, a timber-merchant -ANTONY SHER; Ida, Jacob’s wife - ABIGAIL McKERN; Aron, Jacob’s son - JONATHAN WOOLF; Itzak, Jacob’s son-in-law - KARL THEOBALD; Anna Mazowiecka - LAUREN O’NEIL; Josef, foreman at the sawmill - COLIN HAIGH; Hezzie, a workman - DARREN SWIFT; Mo, a workman - MARK EXTANCE; Rivka, Jacob’s daughter - ALEXIS ZEGERMAN; Nate Dershowitz - DAMIEN MOLONY; Little Boy - NELL McCANN / ALEXANDER SEMPLE; Ensemble - TOM PETERS, JILL STANFORD, GEOFFREY TOWERS, KATE WEBSTER.
Actors on film:
Teacher - TOM KELLER; Rabbi - HARRY DICKMAN; Young woman - JULIA KORNING; Dying man - MICHAEL GRINTER; Reb Gershon - JACK CHISSICK; Reb Horovitz - JEFFRY KAPLOW; Doctor - PHILIP COX; Wife - NORMA ATALLAH; Servant - JILL STANFORD; Young Servant/Granddaughter - ELSIE MORTIMER; Yeshiva Boys - TOM ALLWINTON, ROY BARON, PABLO CARCIOFA, DANIEL KRAMER, HENRY MARKHAM-HARE, PIP PEARCE.

Thursday, December 1, 2011 / 7:45PM / Prague - Bio Oko cinema

John Hodge
Collaborators
Director: Nicholas Hytner/ UK, 2011
English with Czech and English Subtitles

A new play by John Hodge, screenwriter of Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, The Beach.

Characters, in order of speaking:
Mikhail Bulgakov- ALEX JENNINGS; Yelena, his wife - JACQUELINE DEFFERARY;Joseph Stalin - SIMON RUSSELL BEALE; Vassily, ex-aristo - PATRICK GODFREY; Praskovya, a teacher  - MAGGIE SERVICE; Sergei - PIERCE REID; Grigory, a young writer - WILLIAM POSTLETHWAITE; Anna, an actress - JESS MURPHY; Vladimir, an NKVD officer - MARK ADDY; Stepan, an NKVD officer - MARCUS CUNNINGHAM; Doctor - NICK SAMPSON; Actor 1 - PERRI SNOWDON; Actor 2 - MICHAEL JENN; Eva - SARAH ANNIS;

Production credits:
Director - NICHOLAS HYTNER; Designer - BOB CROWLEY; Lighting Designer - JON CLARK; Music - GEORGE FENTON.

Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom.

Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he’s offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Inspired by historical fact, Collaborators embarks on a surreal journey into the fevered imagination of the writer as he loses himself in a macabre and disturbingly funny relationship with the omnipotent subject of his drama.

Killing my enemies is easy. The challenge is to change the way they think, to control their minds. And I think I controlled yours pretty well. In years to come, I’ll be able to say: Bulgakov? Yeah, we even trained him. He gave up. He saw the light. We broke him, we can break anybody. It’s man versus monster, Mikhail. And the monster always wins.

John Hodge’s blistering new play depicts a lethal game of cat and mouse through which the appalling compromises and humiliations inflicted on any artist by those with power are held up to scrutiny. Alex Jennings plays Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale, Stalin.

Reviews:
London Evening Standard, 2. 11. 2011
Theater and Dance, 2. 11. 2011
www.whatsonstage.com, 2. 11. 2011
The Guardian, 2. 11. 2011
The Telegraph, 4. 11. 2011
The Observer, 6. 11. 2011
The Telegraph, 16. 11. 2011

Running Time: 3 hours, 15 minutes (estimate) including host introduction and one 20 minute intermission (10 minutes of programming; 10 minutes of countdown clock)

Thursday, October 6, 2011 / 7:45PM / Prague - cinema Atlas

Arnold Wesker
The Kitchen
Director: Bijan Sheibani / UK, 2011
English with Czech Subtitles

1950s London. In the kitchen of an enormous West End restaurant, the orders are piling up: a post-war feast of soup, fish, cutlets, omelettes and fruit flans.

Fifteen hundred customers an' half of them eating fish. I had to start work on a Friday.

Thrown together by their work, chefs, waitresses and porters from across Europe – English, Irish, German, Jewish – argue and flirt as they race to keep up. Peter, a high-spirited young cook, seems to thrive on the pressure. In between preparing dishes, he manages to strike up an affair with married waitress Monique, the whole time dreaming of a better life. But in the all-consuming clamour of the kitchen, nothing is far from the brink of collapse.

We all said we wouldn’t last the day, but tell me - what is there a man can’t get used to?

Arnold Wesker’s extraordinary play premiered at the Royal Court in 1959 and has since been performed in over 30 countries. The Kitchen puts the workplace centre stage in a blackly funny and furious examination of life lived at breakneck speed, when work threatens to define who we are.

Thursday, September 15, 2011 / 7:45PM / Prague - cinema Světozor

Richard Bean
One Man, Two Guvnors
(based on "The Servant of Two Masters" by Carlo Goldoni with songs by Grant Olding)
English with Czech and English Subtitles

Production credits:
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Associate Director: Cal McCrystal
Designer: Mark Thompson
Lighting Designer: Mark Henderson
Music: Grant Olding
Sound Designer: Paul Arditti
Fight Director: Kate Waters

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancée’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers.
Holed up at The Cricketers’ Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be re-united with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple.

Rachel: Are you seriously suggesting that we men, are, day to day, moment to moment, making thousands of small tactical decisions, the cumulative effect of which is to reduce the time between leg-overs?
Francis: I can’t speak for you guv, but that is a fair description of my life.

In Richard Bean’s English version of Goldoni’s classic Italian comedy, sex, food and money are high on the agenda. James Corden returns to the National for the first time since The History Boys to play Francis.

Cast credits:
Gareth - David Benson, Stanley Stubbers - Oliver Chris, Ensemble - Polly Conway, Francis Henshall -James Corden, Ensemble - Jolyon Dixon, Alfie - Tom Edden, Doctor - Martyn Ellis, Ensemble - Derek ElroyLloyd Boateng - Trevor Laird, Pauline Clench - Claire Lams, Ensemble - Paul Lancaster, Ensemble - Fergus March, Ensemble - Gareth Mason, Charlie Clench - Fred Ridgeway, Alan - Daniel Rigby, Rachel Crabbe - Jemima Rooper, Ensemble - Clare Thomson, Dolly - Suzie Toase.

Reviews:
The Guardian, 25. 5. 2011
Evening Standard, 25. 5. 2011
The Independent, 26. 5. 2011
Financial Times, 27. 5. 2011
The Independent, 29. 5. 2011
Sunday Express, 29. 5. 2011
The Observer, 29. 5. 2011
Timeout, 31. 5. 2011
Daily Mail, 6. 7. 2011

Thursday, 30th June / 19:45 p.m.
A. P. Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard
Director: Howard Davies / UK, 2010
In english with english and czech subtitles

Production credits:
Director - Howard Davies, Designer - Bunny Christie, Lighting Designer - Neil Austin, Music - Dominic Muldowney, Sound Designer - Paul Groothuis, Choreographer - Lynne Page, Magic Consultant - Simon Evans.

Cast credits:
Varya - Claudie Blakley Trofimov - Mark Bonnar Yepihodov - Pip Carter Firs - Kenneth Cranham Station Master - Paul Dodds Passer-by - Craige Els Ensemble - Mark Fleischmann Ensemble - Colin Haigh Lopakhin - Conleth Hill Yasha - Gerald Kyd Gaev - James Laurenson Simyonov-Pischik - Tim McMullan Ensemble - Jessica Regan Ensemble - Tim Samuels Dunyasha - Emily Taaffe Ensemble - Stephanie Thomas Ensemble - Joseph Thompson Ensemble - Rosie Thomson Ensemble - Ellie Turner Anya - Charity Wakefield Ranyevskaya - Zoë Wanamaker Charlotta - Sarah Woodward

Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, directed by NT Associate Director Howard Davies, whose recent productions of Russian plays (including Philistines, Burnt by the Sun and The White Guard) have earned huge critical acclaim. Zoë Wanamaker will play Madame Ranevskaya.

Reviews:
The Independent, 23. 5. 2011
www.westendtheatre.com, 21. 5. 2011
The NY Times, 31. 5. 2011
The Telegraph, 18. 5. 2011

Thursday, 17th March / 19:45 p.m.
Nick Dear / Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Director: Danny Boyle / UK, 2011
In english with english and czech subtitles
Suitable only for 15yrs+

A new play by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley.

I followed nature into her lair, and stripped her of her secrets! I brought torrents of light to a darkening world! Is that wrong?

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.

All I ask is the possibility of love!

Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is adapted for the stage by Nick Dear and realised by Danny Boyle in his return to the theatre after winning the Academy Award for best director for Slumdog Millionaire.

Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller will alternate the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature.

Cast credits for 17. 3.: Rab - Mark Armstrong, Servant 2 - Martin Chamberlain, Victor Frankenstein - Benedict Cumberbatch, Ensemble - Josie Daxter, William Frankenstein - Haydon Downing, Klaus - Steven Elliott, M. Frankenstein - George Harris, Elizabeth Lavenza - Naomie Harris, Servant 1 - Daniel Ings, De Lacey - Karl Johnson, Gustav/Constable - John Killoran, Felix - Daniel Millar, The Creature - Jonny Lee Miller, William Frankenstein - William Nye, Female Creature - Andreea Padurariu, William Frankenstein - Jared Richard, Gretel/Clarice - Ella Smith, Ewan - John Stahl, Agatha - Lizzie Winkler.

Production credits:
Director - Danny Boyle
Designer - Mark Tildesley
Costume Designer - Suttirat Anne Larlarb
Lighting Designer - Bruno Poet
Music and Soundscore - Underworld
Sound Design - Underworld and Ed Clarke

About:
The Independent, 22. 1. 2010
Daily Mail, 29. 10. 2010
www.westendtheatre.com, 29. 10. 2010



Press reviews:
The Guardian, 24. 2. 2011
The Telegraph, 23. 2. 2011
The Guardian, 24. 2. 2011
The Independent, 24. 2. 2011
www.whatsonstage.com, 24. 2. 2011
The Express, 24. 2. 2011
The Hollywood reporter, 24. 2. 2011
The NY Times, 24. 2. 2011
The Financial Times, 25. 2. 2011
The Prague Post, 23. 3. 2011

Thursday, 3rd February / Světozor cinema / 19:45 p.m.
William Shakespeare
King Lear
Director: Michael Grandage / UK, 2010
In english with english and czech subtitles

Live from the Internationally acclaimed Donmar Warehouse.
The Donmar’s Artistic Director, Michael Grandage directs Derek Jacobi as King Lear.

“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”

An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question.
One of the greatest works in western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.

Cast Includes

Pippa Bennett-Warner, Ron Cook, Michael Hadley, Derek Jacobi, Paul Jesson, Gina McKee, Justine Mitchell.

Creative Team
Director: Michael Grandage
Designer: Christopher Oram
Lighting Designer: Neil Austin
Composer & Sound Designer: Adam Cork

Press reviews
The Telegraph, 8. 12. 2010
The Guardian, 8. 12. 2010
London Evening Standard, 8. 12. 2010
Financial Times, 10. 12. 2010
The Observer, 12. 12. 2010
Mail Online, 23. 12. 2010

Home page of NT live/King Lear

Thursday, 13 January 2011 / 19:45 p.m.
Bill T. Jones
FELA!
Director: Bill T. Jones / UK, 2010
In english with english and czech subtitles

A provocative and wholly unique hybrid of dance, theatre and music, FELA! explores the world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.
Winner of three 2010 Tony Awards including Best Choreography (Bill T. Jones).
Using his pioneering music (a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythm and harmonies), FELA! reveals Kuti’s controversial life as an artist and political activist. Featuring many of Fela Kuti’s most captivating songs and Bill T. Jones’ visionary staging.
FELA! had its world premiere in 2008 at Off-Broadway’s 37 Arts Theatre. The production earned widespread critical acclaim and won three Lucille Lortel Awards: Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Choreography (Bill T. Jones) and Outstanding Costume Design (Marina Draghici). Sahr Ngaujah won the Obie Award for Performance for his portrayal of the title role, and New York Magazine named FELA! its pick for Best Theatre 2008.
FELA! – an original new creation – comes via Broadway to London and the National Theatre.

Production credits
Book - Jim Lewis and Bill T Jones, based on the life of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti; Conceived by Bill T. Jones, Jim Lewis and Stephen Hendel; Music and lyrics - Fela Anikulapo-Kuti; Director and choreographer  - Bill T. Jones; Designer - Marina Draghici; produced in association with Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter

Cast includes
Lydie Alberto,Sherinne Kayra Anderson, Jonathan Andre, Rolan Bell, Cindy Belliot, Nandi Bhebhe, Kwame Peter Crentsil, Catia Moto da Cruz, Jacqui Dubois, Scarlette Douglas, Poundo Gomis, Paulette Ivory,
Aisha Jawando, Wanjiru Kamuyu, Nyron Levy, Melanie Marshall, Shelley-Ann Maxwell, Sahr Ngaujah, Pamela Okoroafor Tamara McKoy Patterson, Thierry Picaut, Jermaine Rowe, Ira Mandela Siobhan, Craig Stein, Ricardo Coke Thomas, Jazmine Jarret Thorpe

Press Quotes
“There should be dancing in the streets. There has never been anything like this.” Ben Brantley, New York Times

“An ecstatic phenomenon.” Time Out, New York

“Radiates joy.” Entertainment Weekly

“Top 10 Shows of 2009. It’s a work of total theatre and a party where the power of the people is unleashed with a contagious jiggle.” Los Angeles Times

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Bio
Fela Ransome Kuti was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, north of Lagos in 1938. His father was a Christian schoolmaster, minister and master pianist and his mother was a world-recognized feminist leader, who was very active in the anti-colonial Nigerian women's movement during the struggle for independence.
Fela was educated in Nigeria amongst the indigenous elite. Ironically, many of his classmates in his Nigerian school would become the very military leaders he so vociferously opposed.
With medical aspirations for their offspring (Fela’s older brother. Koye, was to become a Deputy Director of the World Health Organization and his younger brother, Beko, President of the Nigerian Medical Association) in 1958 Fela's parents sent him to London for a medical education. Instead, he registered at Trinity College's school of music where he studied composition and chose the trumpet as his instrument. Quickly tiring of European composers, Fela, struck by Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra, formed the Koola Lobitos in 1961, and his band became a fixture in London's club scene. Two years later, Fela returned to Nigeria, restarted the Koola Lobitos, and became influenced by James Brown. Trying to find an authentic musical voice, he added elements of traditional Yoruba, high life and jazz, and "Afrobeat" was born. In 1969, Fela's Koola Lobitos traveled to Los Angeles to tour and record. During his eight months in the US, with LA as a home base, Fela befriended Sandra Isidore, who introduced him to the writings and politics of Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver and other proponents of Black nationalism and Afrocentrism.
With this new politically explicit and critical worldview, Fela reformed the Koola Lobitos as Nigeria 70 and returned to Lagos. He founded a commune/recording studio called the Kalakuta Republic, complete with his own private nightclub, The Shrine, and Fela dropped his given middle name "Ransome," and replaced it with a Yoruba name "Anikulapo" (meaning "he who carries death in his pouch"). Playing constantly and recording at a ferocious pace, Fela and band (who were now called Africa 70) became huge stars in West Africa and beyond. His music served as a rallying cry for the disenfranchised, critiquing the military government, and made Fela not only a pop star but thrust him into political life. People took to the streets singing his songs and the military responded by viciously harassing Fela, jailing him and nearly killing him on several occasions.
In 1977, during a government-sanctioned attack on his Kalakuta Republic commune, Fela and other members of his commune were arrested; Fela himself suffered a fractured skull as well as other broken bones; a number of women living at Kalakuta were beaten and raped; and his 82-year old mother was thrown from an upstairs window, inflicting injuries that would later prove fatal. The soldiers set fire to the compound and prevented fire fighters from reaching the area. Fela's recording studio, all his master tapes and musical instruments and the only known copy of his self-financed film Black President were destroyed.
After the Kalakuta tragedy, Fela briefly lived in exile in Ghana, returning to Nigeria in 1978. A year later, he formed his own political party, MOP (Movement of the People) and ran for president in two elections, although his campaigning was consistently blocked by the military. As the '80s ended, Fela recorded blistering attacks against Nigeria's corrupt military government.
Fela Anikulapo Kuti was arrested more than two hundred times in his life, and charged with almost every conceivable crime, although only serving one eighteen month sentence in jail for a currency violation. Despite this constant harassment he continued to live in Nigeria even though, as an icon in the international world of rock and roll, soul, jazz and hip-hop, he could have at any point abandoned Nigeria and led the life of an international music superstar. His death on August 3, 1997 of complications from AIDS deeply affected musicians and fans internationally, as a unique and ineffable musical and sociopolitical voice was lost. In Nigeria one million people attended his funeral. His incredible body of work, almost 70 albums, is now available, through public demand, all over the world.

Bill T. Jones
(Director & Choreographer) is a 2007 and 2010 Tony Award® winner and the recipient of the 2007 Obie Award and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation CALLAWAY Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening, the recipient of the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship, the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven, the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement, the prestigious 2005 Wexner Prize, and the Aaron Davis Hall Harlem Renaissance Award. He is also a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient in 1994, named one of America’s Irreplaceable Dance Treasures by the Dance Heritage Coalition in 2000, and was awarded The 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for which recipients are considered trailblazers who have redefined their art and reshaped the cultural landscape. He began his dance training at the State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY), where he studied classical ballet and modern dance. After living in Amsterdam, Mr. Jones returned to SUNY, where he became co-founder of the American Dance Asylum in 1973. Before forming Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982, Mr. Jones choreographed and performed nationally and internationally as a soloist and duet company with his late partner, Arnie Zane. In addition to creating more than 100 works for his own company, Mr. Jones has received many commissions to create dances for modern and ballet companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Axis Dance Company, Boston Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Berkshire Ballet, Berlin Opera Ballet and Diversions Dance Company, and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’ The Flight Project. He has also received numerous commissions to create new works for his own company, including premieres for the American Dance Festival, the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and for St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra. In 1995, Mr. Jones directed and performed in a collaborative work with Toni Morrison and Max Roach, Degga, commissioned by Lincoln Center’s Serious Fun Festival and with Jessye Norman, How! Do! We! Do! which premiered at New York’s City Center in 1999 as part of Lincoln Center’s Great Performers New Visions series. The Breathing Show, Mr. Jones’s evening-long solo, toured for three years, and his second solo show, As I Was Saying…, toured for more than two. He has directed and choreographed for theatre and opera, most recently choreographing Off-Broadway for the New York Theatre Workshop’s production of The Seven for which he was awarded the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Choreography and for the Broadway musical Spring Awakening, for which he received the Tony Award® for Outstanding Choreography. Mr. Jones has received honorary doctorates from the Art Institute of Chicago, Bard College, Columbia College, the Juilliard School, Swarthmore College, Yale University, as well as the SUNY Binghamton Distinguished Alumni Award.

Home page of Fela! London

Press reviews
The Guardian, 26. 10. 2010
The Observer, 31. 10. 2010
The Telegraph, 5. 11. 2010
The Guardian, 17. 11. 2010
Evening Standard, 17. 11. 2010
Daily Telegraph, 17. 11. 2010
The Independent, 18. 11. 2010

Thursday, 9th December / 19:45 p.m.
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
Director: Nicholas Hytner / UK, 2010
In english with english and czech subtitles

"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt"
Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, sees his father’s ghost. Tormented with loathing and consumed by grief, he must avenge his father's murder. What he cannot foresee is the destruction that ensues.
Following his celebrated performances at the National in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode (which won him an Olivier Award and the 2007 Ian Charleson Award), Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet.

Cast
Hamlet - Rory Kinnear; Claudius - Patrick Malahide; Ghost/Player King - James Laurenson; Gertrude - Clare Higgins; Polonius - David Calder; Laertes - Alex Lanipekun; Ophelia - Ruth Negga; Horatio - Giles Terera; Rosencrantz - Ferdinand Kingsley; Guildenstern - Prasanna Puwanarajah; Fortinbras - Jake Fairbrother

About Hamlet
The Independent, 8. 10. 2010
Daily Mail, 8. 10.2010