A Trio of HD Programs at SJCT November 1-4
Posted October 31, 2013 at 5:45 am by Tim Dustrude
From an award-winning production of Frankenstein to an eclectic opera featuring a nose on the loose to acclaimed British actor Kenneth Branagh’s first Shakespeare performance in over a decade…San Juan Community Theatre’s new HD-live program is brimming with world class performances November 1, 3 and 4.
On Friday, November 1 at 7:00 p.m., SJCT will screen an encore performance of the 2012 sold-out run of Nick Dear’s Frankenstein (based on the Mary Shelley novel). The National Theatre received several awards for director Danny Boyles’s production, including the 2012 Olivier Award for Best Actor for Benedict Cumberlatch and Jonny Lee Miller. The two alternated roles as Victor Frankenstein and his creation.
Then on Sunday, November 3 at 2:00 p.m., The Met: Live in HD presents Shostakovich’s The Nose. Paulo Szot reprises his acclaimed performance of a bureaucrat, whose satirical misadventures in search of his missing nose are based on Gogol’s comic story. Valery Gergiev conducts.
Monday, November 4’s 7:00 p.m. presentation features the Manchester International Festival’s production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn, Hamlet), and Alex Kingston (Doctor Who, ER) as Lady Macbeth. This electrifying new production of Shakespeare’s tragic tale of ambition and treachery unfolds within the walls of an intimate deconsecrated Manchester church.
SJCT’s partnership with The Met and National Theatre was made possible through a generous bequest from the late Dodie Gann, which also allowed for new satellite, projection and sound systems in the Whittier Theatre.
Tickets for each of these productions are $20 for adults, $18 for SJCT members and $10 for student reserved. The SJCT box office (378-3210) is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets are also available on-line at www.sjctheatre.org
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