CHEKHOV’S play The Seagull will be screened at Shaftesbury Arts Centre this weekend as part of the National Theatre Live programme.

The new production stars Emilia Clarke, best known as Daernerys Targaryen, the Dragon Queen, in Game of Thrones, who gives a fragile, almost childlike turn as Nina in her first West End performance.

The play is directed by Jamie Lloyd, soon after his hugely successful production of Cyrano de Bergerac.
Other standout performances include Daniel Monks as the tortured and failed playwright Konstantin, and by Indira Varma, who plays his successful actress mother Arkadina. Her cunning and layered performance leaves the audience disgusted yet intrigued simultaneously.

Tensions boil over between Arkadina’s friends and family, gathered in a dizzyingly hot Russian country house by a lake, as they discuss their failed ambitions and doomed desires for love.
The play is being screened on Sunday 27 November. Tickets priced £10 are available from Shaftesbury Arts Centre on 01747 854321 or visit www.shaftesburyartscentre.org.uk