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Tickets: €15 Live screening €10 Encore Performance*
NT Live
Thursday 22 April, 2010, Lyttelton Theatre, London. Broadcast live to cinema screens around the world.
Encore Performance - Friday 30 April*
A new play by Alan Bennett
Director Nicholas Hytner
Music Matthew Scott
Cast Danny Burns, Martin Chamberlain, Philip Childs, Frances de la Tour, Richard Griffiths
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
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.
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. 
*Encore Performances are screenings of the recorded live transmission. .
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