National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession

adore the timelessness of the mother/daughter narrative, a relationship that will forever transcend space and time. as always with national theatre, everybody is at their a-game, truly a league of its own. sets and costumes are gorgeous too!

cerys

Not many tales have the wilful and unconventional heroine be an actuary. It’s a bold choice.  Shaw’s dramedy of manners is beautifully staged and powerfully driven by mother and daughter Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter. I wasn’t so fussed on the blokes, with some…

heatherNZ

When this play was first staged in both London and New York, a police raid closed it for its depiction of a prostitute. This performance was enhanced by women in the background and as stage hands dressed as prostitutes in the period. Apparently, this was not done…

🦋More Cow Bell 🦋

It’s crazy how I got on that stage every night and only managed to see what the audience saw for the first time now, in a cinema. The months spent on Mrs. Warren’s will always be the most special and still fever dream like of my life.  What a summer, what a team.

Lottie

Circumstnces

Lennon

'My work is not your work, and my way is not your way'💐 Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter take on George Bernard Shaw's classic play Mrs. Warren's Profession, directed by Dominic Cooke. Who's joined us in cinemas so far to witness these iconic performances? Find your…

National Theatre Live

Having seen a different production of Mrs. Warren's Profession a few years ago with Caroline Quentin and Emily Farmer, this is one of the best examples I've seen of how actors can make a text so very different (though both were amazing in different ways. Dame Imelda and…

TobyTheWhovian

was waiting the whole time for the ensemble to do more- they didn’t. shame.

looloolooloo

Loved this. As usual, performances by the cast were amazing. It really left me questioning the binary thinking of right and wrong with both leads struggling to accept the nuances.

Lucy