The Rosendale Theatre is excited to present broadcasts from the NATIONAL THEATRE in London.  Once a month | 2:00 PM | $12/$10 members

The National Theatre stages over 20 theatre productions a year. These are put on in our three auditoriums – the Olivier, Lyttelton and Cottesloe Theatres – and in these three theatres, we present a mix of new plays and classics, with up to six productions in repertory at any one time.

It aims constantly to re-energise the great traditions of the British stage and to expand the horizons of audiences and artists alike. It aspires to reflect in its repertoire the diversity of the nation’s culture. At its Studio, the National offers a space for research and development for the NT’s stages and the theatre as a whole. Through the NT Education Department, tomorrow’s audiences are addressed. Through an extensive programme of Platform performances, backstage tours, foyer music, exhibitions, and free outdoor entertainment it recognises that the theatre doesn’t begin and end with the rise and fall of the curtain. And by touring, the National shares its work with audiences in the UK and abroad.

To purchase tickets in advance for any of these events by mail, (or consider the whole series as a gift), please send a check payable to the Rosendale Theatre Collective, Inc, att: NQ. Please memo: “name of play”, or “all four” and send to: Rosendale Theatre, P.O. Box 250, Rosendale, NY 12404. Include an email/phone contact for acknowledgement. Or request a gift notice. All tickets held at the box office.

2:00 | $12/$10 members | A new play by Nicholas Wright

Travelling Light imagines the birth of silent film in a remote Eastern European village at the turn of the century. Motl Mendl, who’s entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph, makes this small Jewish community his camera’s focus. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling. Forty years on, Motl – now a famed American film director – looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams.

Nicholas Wright’s new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age, and stars Tony and Olivier award winner, Antony Sher.

“As The Artist threatens to win the first silent Best Picture Oscar since 1927? Nicholas Wright’s play offers a fairytale imagining of how it all began.” The Times

“A love letter to the movies and an appealingly intelligent evocation of the Jewish folk culture that formed the basis of American cinema.” Guardian ”Nicholas Wright’s new play is a theatrical valentine to the movies.” Daily Telegraph

4 STARS “Enchanting. A golden-hearted tragicomic fable.” The Times

To purchase tickets in advance for any of these events by mail, (or consider the whole series as a gift), please send a check payable to the Rosendale Theatre Collective, Inc, att: NQ. Please memo: “name of play”, or “all four” and send to: Rosendale Theatre, P.O. Box 250, Rosendale, NY 12404. Include an email/phone contact for acknowledgement. Or request a gift notice. All tickets held at the box office.

More info:  National Theatre Live

2:00 | $12/$10 members

I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking? mad or well advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!

Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale.  And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home.  A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound.

Do you know me, sir? Am I Dromio? Am I your
man? Am I myself?

Consistently recognised by strangers, the visitors question their very selves as the turmoil escalates. Meanwhile, Aegeon, father to the Antipholus twins, has been captured searching for his sons and, as an illegal immigrant, is sentenced to death at sunset.  Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time.  Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse.

To purchase tickets in advance for any of these events by mail, (or consider the whole series as a gift), please send a check payable to the Rosendale Theatre Collective, Inc, att: NQ. Please memo: “name of play”, or “all four” and send to: Rosendale Theatre, P.O. Box 250, Rosendale, NY 12404. Include an email/phone contact for acknowledgement. Or request a gift notice. All tickets held at the box office.

More information: National Theatre Live

2:00 | $12/$10 members

To come to my house, to call for what he likes, toturn me out of my own chair, to insult the family, to order his servants to get drunk, and then to tell me, “This house is mine, sir”. By all that’s impudent it makes me laugh.

Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal’s son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he’s mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he’s a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle’s indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle’s appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.

This little barmaid though runs in my head most strangely, and drives out the absurdities of all therest of the family. She’s mine, she must be mine, or I’m greatly mistaken.

One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.

More info: National Theatre Live

To purchase tickets in advance for any of these events by mail, (or consider the whole series as a gift), please send a check payable to the Rosendale Theatre Collective, Inc, att: NQ. Please memo: “name of play”, or “all four” and send to: Rosendale Theatre, P.O. Box 250, Rosendale, NY 12404. Include an email/phone contact for acknowledgement. Or request a gift notice. All tickets held at the box office.