Drama
Mary has just been released from prison. She wants to come home and forget all about it but Briana has other ideas. Over a tumultuous two days a family is forced to confront not just their past but themselves. Because even if you refuse to hear the truth, the truth doesn’t go away. Róisín McBrinn returns to Clean Break (Favour) to direct this powerful story of family and forgiveness by Deborah Bruce (The House They Grew Up In). A co-production from National Theatre and Clean Break.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
La Cerisaie
National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
National Theatre Live: She Stoops to Conquer
National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number
Company
National Theatre Live: King Lear
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age
National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
National Theatre Live: Obsession
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
National Theatre Live: Yerma
The Seagull
SIMILAR MOVIES
La Cerisaie
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1982
National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
IMDB 10 | Sep , 2012
Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion of killing Mrs Shears' dog Wellington, he records each fact about the event in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of the murder. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world.National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
IMDB 6.2 | May , 2017
In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s displeasure, has invited the new professor and his wife to their home for some after-party drinks. As the alcohol flows and dawn approaches, the young couple are drawn into George and Martha’s toxic games until the evening reaches its climax in a moment of devastating truth-telling.National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
IMDB 10 | Jun , 2011
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.National Theatre Live: Collaborators
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2011
John Hodge's Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.National Theatre Live: She Stoops to Conquer
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2012
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward yo acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle's indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle's appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues. One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2010
The innovative interweaving of romance and math was conceived. The 2008 Olivier Award winner for Best New Play, it has toured the world and was recently performed in New York as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.Company
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1996
Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends.National Theatre Live: King Lear
IMDB 7.1 | May , 2014
An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says nothing. Simon Russell Beale, whose recent appearances at the National include Timon of Athens and Collaborators, takes the title role in Shakespeare’s tragedy.The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2017
Hungry is the first in a three-play cycle introducing us to the Gabriels of Rhinebeck, New York. These three plays unfold in real time and track the lives of the Gabriels throughout the coming presidential election year. To the rhythm of peeling, chopping and mixing, Hungry places us in the center of the Gabriel’s kitchen. The family discusses their lives and disappointments, and the world at large and nearby. As they struggle against the fear of being left behind, the family attempts to find resilience in the face of loss.The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2017
Back in the kitchen of the Gabriel family, the country is now in the midst of the general election for President. In the course of one evening in the house they grew up in, history (both theirs and our country's), money, politics, family, art, and culture are chopped up and mixed together, while a meal is made around the kitchen table.The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2017
Eight months after we first meet the Gabriels, Patricia, the family matriarch, joins her children and daughters-in-law as they prepare a meal from the past and consider the future of their country, town and home. Paying tribute to the difficult year behind them, the Gabriels compare notes on the search for empathy and authenticity at a time when the game seems rigged and the rules are forever changing.National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
IMDB 8.5 | Mar , 2017
Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
IMDB 8.7 | Apr , 2017
A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love. The nearby households of Olivia and Orsino are overrun with passion. Even Olivia's upright housekeeper Malvolia is swept up in the madness. Where music is the food of love, and nobody is quite what they seem, anything proves possible.National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
IMDB 6.1 | Apr , 2017
Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre stage. As the young double act stumble their way in and out of the action of Shakespeare’s iconic drama, they become increasingly out of their depth as their version of the story unfolds.National Theatre Live: Obsession
IMDB 6.6 | May , 2017
Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Hanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
IMDB 8.6 | Jul , 2017
The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis during the mid-1980s.National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
IMDB 8.6 | Jul , 2017
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This new staging of Tony Kushner's multi-award winning two-part play, Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes, is directed by Olivier and Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott.National Theatre Live: Yerma
IMDB 9 | Aug , 2017
A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece.The Seagull
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2017
What if Konstantin Gavrilovich, from Anton Chekkov's famous play, did not commit suicide and was murdered instead? And who did it? Boris Akunin's take on The Seagull unfolds as a comedic murder mystery.