NT Live Season - Habit Of Art
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Director: Nicholas Hytner
Origin: UK
Year: 2010
Duration: 2 hours 25 minutes
NT Live is an exciting initiative to broadcast live performances of National Theatre plays onto cinema screens worldwide via a satellite link.
HABIT OF ART
A new play by Alan Bennett
Thursday 22nd April 2010 6.30pm
Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn’t otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different.
Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, amongst others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station.
You are a rent boy. I am a poet. Over the wall lives the Dean of Christ Church. We all have our parts to play.
Alan Bennett’s new play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion’s spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.
‘In the end,’ said Auden, ‘art is small beer. The really serious things in life are earning one’s living and loving one’s neighbour.’
5 STARS 'Another absolute cracker, often wonderfully and sometime filthily funny, but also deeply and unexpectedly moving.' Daily Telegraph
5 STARS 'Bennett the maestro returns with a multi-layered masterpiece.' Independent
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Tickets £10.00 / £9.00 for QUAD Members
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