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NT Live in HD Events

OCCA is proud to present events live in HD from the National Theatre in London.

NT Live is an exciting initiative to broadcast live performances of plays onto cinema screens worldwide. Broadcasts also feature behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with artists. The four-show pilot season launched with Phèdre, with Helen Mirren, Margaret Tyzack and Dominic Cooper.

On June 25, 2009, the performance of Phèdre was filmed in high definition and broadcast via satellite to approximately 70 cinemas and arts centres, reaching a widespread audience live across the UK. Over 200 venues around the world also screened the production.

This was followed by All's Well That Ends Well on October 1, 2009. By the end of October, more than 300 venues had screened the production across the world.

New venues and countries continue to join NT Live, with the latest additions being Germany, Spain and Hawaii. NT Live events are funded in partnership with NESTA England Arts Council, with additional support from the Sidney E. Frank Foundation; the Michael Marks Charitable Trust; and the Northern Rock Foundation.

US NT Live events are broadcast in cooperation with By Experience.

July 24, 2010 - "London Assurance"

7 p.m. Saturday, July 24, 2010 At The PAC

Sir Harcourt Courtly is lured away from the epicentre of fashionable London by the promise of a rich and beautiful bride, Grace, several decades his junior. Arriving at Oak Hall, Gloucestershire, he marvels at this rural Venus until her charms are eclipsed by her hearty cousin, the foxhunting Lady Gay Spanker. Meanwhile his disguised son turns up in flight from his creditors and falls head over heels for Grace. When Lady Spanker discovers the young couple, she needs little prompting from the visiting chancer Dazzle to lead Sir Harcourt astray.

I am about to present society with a second Lady Courtly: young – blushing eighteen; lovely – I have her portrait; rich – I have her banker’s account. An heiress and a Venus!

Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created – in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker – two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the NT by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw.

Give me the trumpet neigh, the spotted pack just catching scent. What a chorus in their yelp! The view-halloo, blent with a peal of free and fearless mirth! That’s our old English music – match it where you can.