National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
Academy Award nominee and Tony Award-winner John Lithgow (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Shrek, 3rd Rock from the Sun) takes the title role in Arthur Wing Pinero’s uproarious Victorian farce, directed by Olivier Award-winner Timothy Sheader (Crazy for You and Into the Woods, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London). In a similar vein to the National Theatre’s smash-hit classic comedies, She Stoops to Conquer and London Assurance, The Magistrate is sure to have audiences doubled up with laughter. When amiable magistrate Posket (John Lithgow) marries Agatha (Olivier Award-winner Nancy Carroll, After the Dance), little does he realise she’s dropped five years from her age – and her son’s. When her deception looks set to be revealed, it sparks a series of hilarious indignities and outrageous mishaps.
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- Cast:
- John Lithgow , Nancy Carroll , Christina Cole , Nicholas Burns , Nicholas Blane , Jonathan Coy
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Fresh and Exciting
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,