Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen Plus the Bolshoi Ballet Come to Peterborough Players

The stars will be on the screen this weekend at the Peterborough Players with the continuation of their spectacular 2017-18 Arts on Screen Season. This Saturday, October 21 at 1pm the Players will screen London's National Theatre's production of Harold Pinter's NO MAN'S LAND starring juggernauts of the stage and screen Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.

One summer's evening, two aging writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men. Runtime is approximately 2 hours 30 minutes including one intermission.

Then on Sunday, October 22 at the 1pm the Players present the Bolshoi Ballet's LE CORSAIRE live in HD. Amidst a bustling Turkish market, the pirate Conrad falls in love at first sight with beautiful Medora, the ward of the slave merchant Lankedem's bazaar. Conrad kidnaps Medora when Lankedem decides to sell her to the Pasha. Inspired by Lord Byron's epic poem and reworked by Alexei Ratmansky from Petipa's exotic 19th-century classic, this miracle of the repertoire is one of the Bolshoi's most lavish productions, complete with a magnificent awe-inspiring shipwreck and dramatic scenery. Runtime is approximately 3 hours 34 minutes including two intermissions.

Single tickets to NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE and BOLSHOI BALLET IN HD are $20 each. Subscriptions are also available. For tickets and information on this and all upcoming production, call 603-924-7585 or visit www.peterboroughplayers.org. The Peterborough Players is located at 55 Hadley Rd in Peterborough, NH.

The Peterborough Players, a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization, has been providing professional theatre to audiences since 1933. Peterborough Players, PO Box 118, 55 Hadley Road, Peterborough, NH 03458, (603) 924-9344, www.peterboroughplayers.org.

The Peterborough Players is sponsored in part by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation-Monadnock Region.

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