Post by n1david on Mar 7, 2016 21:17:07 GMT
New arts focus for BBC2, including:
KING LEAR starring Sir Anthony Hopkins
Sir Anthony Hopkins returns to the channel in King Lear from the team behind last year's The Dresser, produced by Colin Callender’s Playground Entertainment.
KING CHARLES III
The multi-award-winning, internationally successful ‘future history’ play is to be adapted by award-winning playwright and television screenwriter Mike Bartlett (Doctor Foster) from his own Olivier Award-winning script. Fellow Olivier Award-winner Rupert Goold will direct, reuniting the creative team behind the play originally produced by the Almeida Theatre.
The piece, daringly written in blank verse, sees Prince Charles ascend to the throne following the Queen’s death. But when he refuses to sign a controversial bill into law, political chaos ensues – a constitutional crisis, rioting on the streets, and a tank in front of Buckingham Palace. Charles, meanwhile, is forced to wrestle with his own identity and purpose as a ceremonial monarch.
A sell-out theatrical success, following a critically acclaimed run at the Almeida Theatre and in the West End, the play has toured nationally, and enjoyed a rapturous reception upon its transfer to Broadway. King Charles III won Best New Play at the Olivier Awards and the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards in 2015, and was awarded the South Bank Sky Arts Theatre Award.
Mike Bartlett says: "I'm so excited to bring King Charles III to BBC Two. The play has always had the ambition to be an ambitious, provocative, yet popular national story, written to explore the possibilities and contradictions of a figure and a family that we all think we know so well. It can now reach a wider, national audience, and the story can expand out onto the screen. With Rupert Goold directing, and Drama Republic producing, I know it's in the very best hands possible."
THE HOLLOW CROWN
In May, the second run of Shakespeare adaptations The Hollow Crown begins with Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III and a cast list that includes Dame Judi Dench, Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins.
KING LEAR starring Sir Anthony Hopkins
Sir Anthony Hopkins returns to the channel in King Lear from the team behind last year's The Dresser, produced by Colin Callender’s Playground Entertainment.
KING CHARLES III
The multi-award-winning, internationally successful ‘future history’ play is to be adapted by award-winning playwright and television screenwriter Mike Bartlett (Doctor Foster) from his own Olivier Award-winning script. Fellow Olivier Award-winner Rupert Goold will direct, reuniting the creative team behind the play originally produced by the Almeida Theatre.
The piece, daringly written in blank verse, sees Prince Charles ascend to the throne following the Queen’s death. But when he refuses to sign a controversial bill into law, political chaos ensues – a constitutional crisis, rioting on the streets, and a tank in front of Buckingham Palace. Charles, meanwhile, is forced to wrestle with his own identity and purpose as a ceremonial monarch.
A sell-out theatrical success, following a critically acclaimed run at the Almeida Theatre and in the West End, the play has toured nationally, and enjoyed a rapturous reception upon its transfer to Broadway. King Charles III won Best New Play at the Olivier Awards and the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards in 2015, and was awarded the South Bank Sky Arts Theatre Award.
Mike Bartlett says: "I'm so excited to bring King Charles III to BBC Two. The play has always had the ambition to be an ambitious, provocative, yet popular national story, written to explore the possibilities and contradictions of a figure and a family that we all think we know so well. It can now reach a wider, national audience, and the story can expand out onto the screen. With Rupert Goold directing, and Drama Republic producing, I know it's in the very best hands possible."
THE HOLLOW CROWN
In May, the second run of Shakespeare adaptations The Hollow Crown begins with Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III and a cast list that includes Dame Judi Dench, Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins.
