National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea

National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea

Actors:  Helen McCrory, Yolanda Kettle, Nick Fletcher, Marion Bailey, Hubert Burton, Peter Sullivan Directors:  Carrie Cracknell

A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion. Be...