Players Presents a MET Premiere and an Encore of WAR HORSE this Weekend

In additional to launching their Inaugural Winter Season of Plays this week the Peterborough Players continues their Arts on Screen Season this weekend with two performances.

On Saturday, December 10 at 1pm, the Players will screen Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin.

Commissioned by the Salzburg Festival, where it was first seen in 2000, it will now finally have its MET premiere in a dazzling new production by Robert Lepage. Eric Owens is the knight on a quest of love and Susanna Phillips is his lover on the other side of the sea. Conductor Susanna Mälkki makes her Met debut.

On Sunday, December 11 at 1pm, the Players will screen an encore presentation of the National Theatre's acclaimed production of War Horse.

Since its first performance at the National Theatre in 2007, War Horse has become an international smash hit, capturing the imagination of millions of people around the world. Based on Michael Morpurgo's novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France. Filled with stirring music and songs, this powerfully moving and imaginative drama is a show of phenomenal inventiveness. At its heart are astonishing life-size puppets by South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to thrilling life on stage

Met HD Live tickets are $25 and National Theatre Live tickets are $20. Each can be purchased by calling the Box Office at 603-924-7585 or online at www.peterboroughplayers.org. The Peterborough Players theatre is handicapped accessible, is equipped with a hearing assistance system and is located at 55 Hadley Rd, Peterborough, NH 03458

The Peterborough Players 2016-2017 Arts on Screen Season includes 11 operas presented by the MET: Live in HD, 7 wonderful plays from London's National Theatre Live and 7 ballets from The Bolshoi Ballet on Screen.

The stunning ultra high resolution cinematography of our Arts on Screen series allows the audience to see every detail and feel as if they have been transported to New York, London and Moscow, while remaining in the comfort of our theatre. In addition, the Dolby sound is custom designed for our theatre and gives you breathtaking realism. For all three of our programs, the audience is treated to exclusive interviews with singers, actors, dancers, directors, and designers - it is an exclusive backstage pass to some of the greatest companies in the world, at a fraction of the cost of a live opera, ballet or theatre ticket.