Gettysburg College's Majestic Theater Sets A London Theatre Festival Weekend

Gettysburg College's Majestic Theater, Gettysburg, PA proudly presents a 3 day, HD theatre festival direct from London. National Theatre Live broadcasts will feature Tony Award winner & host of "The Late Late Show" James Corden, Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch, Academy & Tony Award winner Helen Mirren. Individual show tickets may be purchased or save 28% by purchasing a festival pass to all 6 shows!

The festival begins with The National Theatre's internationally acclaimed and Tony Award winning production of War Horse. Based on Michael Morpurgo's novel, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France.

FRANKENSTEIN stars Benedict Cumberbatch (PBS' Sherlock Holmes) who earned an Olivier Award for his celebrated performance of Victor Frankenstein's Creature. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered Creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker.

Benedict Cumberbatch returns as the brooding Prince of Denmark in Shakespeare's classic play HAMLET, directed by Lyndsey Turner. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.

Nominated for three Tony Awards, THE AUDIENCE sees Helen Mirren reprise her Olivier Award-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II. For sixty years, Queen Elizabeth II has met with each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a private meeting known as The Audience. From the old warrior Winston Churchill, to the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair to David Cameron, the Queen advises her Prime Ministers on all matters both public and personal. Through these private audiences, we see glimpses of the woman behind the crown and witness the moments that shaped a monarch.

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS stars James Corden, Host of "The Late Late Show." Corden won a Tony Award for his Broadway performance in this role which was captured at the National Theatre during its original London run. Francis Henshall is a round and hungry young man who finds himself working for two different employers at the same time. His motivations throughout this corkscrew tale of scrambled identities, set in the seaside town of Brighton in the early 1960s, are as primal as his appetites: he wants food, and he wants a girl. But if reasons for his actions are simple, the consequences of them are anything but. For this ingenuous, calmly addled creature is chaos incarnate.

And finally, don't miss a stellar cast led by Mark Strong in an electrifying production of A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Playwright Arthur Miller confronts the American dream in this dark and passionate tale. In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price.

To purchase single show tickets, (Adults $23/Show, Students $12/Show), www.gettysburgmajestic.org, call 717-337-8200, visit the box office in person, 25 Carlisle Street, Gettysburg. The Box Office is open Monday through Saturday from Noon until 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. (Festival Pass *$100).

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