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National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art

22 Apr 2010
  • United Kingdom
145 mins
8
1 votes
  • Drama
  • Comedy
articleOverview personCast
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings and Frances de la Tour, returns to cinemas as part of the National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations. 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. Alan Bennett’s 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.
  • Richard Griffiths

    as Fitz / W. H. Auden
  • Alex Jennings

    as Henry / Benjamin Britten
  • Frances de la Tour

    as Kay
  • Stephen Wight

    as Tim / Stuart
  • Philip Childs

    as Brian
  • Elliot Levey

    as Neil
  • John Heffernan

    as George
  • Barbara Kirby

    as Joan
  • Martin Chamberlain

    as Ralph
  • Laurence Belcher

    as Young Boy
  • Adrian Scarborough

    as Donald / Humphrey Carpenter
  • Tom Attwood

    as Tom

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