Everyman: National Theatre Digital Programme


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The National Theatre presents a digital programme to accompany the startling new production of Everyman with words by Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate, and movement by Javier De Frutos.
One of the great primal, spiritual myths, Everyman asks whether it is only in death that we can understand our lives.
Featured content in this digital programme include:
• Everyman, then and now – compare the original text to the adaptation by Carol Ann Duffy
• The Music of Everyman – an article by William Lyons describing the creative team’s approach to music
• A Play for the Anthropocene Age – an article by Kirsten Shephard-Barr on this adaptation of a medieval play
• Changing Perceptions of Death – a short film with Professor Tony Walter reflecting on society’s attitude towards death
• Members of the acting company recite poems by Carol Ann Duffy
• Stunning rehearsal and production photography by Richard Hubert Smith
• Video interviews with director Rufus Norris, choreography Javier De Frutos and Chiwetel Ejiofer
This digital programme does not include the full performance broadcast.