Hiran Abeysekera
Biography: Hiran Abeysekera is a Sri Lankan actor. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the stage adaptation of Life of Pi. On television, he is known for his roles in Russell T Davies' A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016) and the fantasy dance series Find Me in Paris (2018–2019).
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National Theatre Live: The Father and the Assassin
2024-03-01
National Theatre Live: The Father and the Assassin
Overview: Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader. Nathuram Godse: journalist, nationalist – and the man who murdered Gandhi. This gripping play traces Godse’s life over 30 years during India’s fight for independence: from a devout follower of Gandhi, through to his radicalisation and their tragic final encounter in Delhi in 1948.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-01
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National Theatre Live: Life of Pi
2023-03-30
National Theatre Live: Life of Pi
Overview: Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel. After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Filmed live in London’s West End and featuring state-of-the-art visuals, the epic journey of endurance and hope is bought to life in a breath-taking new way for cinemas screens.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-30
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016-05-30
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: At the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father for loving the wrong man. Meanwhile, in the town below, an amateur theatre group rehearses. And beyond Athens, in the wild woods, dark forces are stirring...
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-30
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RSC Live: Hamlet
2016-06-10
RSC Live: Hamlet
Overview: Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014) directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. Hamlet played in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon until throughout summer 2016.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-10
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National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
2015-01-01
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Overview: India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own. Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve and stunted, wants to eat until he’s as tall as Kalu the thief. Asha seeks to steal government anti-poverty funds to turn herself into a ‘first-class person’, while her daughter Manju intends to become the slum’s first female graduate. But their schemes are fragile; global recession threatens the garbage trade, and another slum-dweller is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighbourhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Supervized
2019-07-16
Supervized
Overview: Four aging superheroes in a retirement home in Ireland come together for one last hurrah.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-16
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RSC Live: Cymbeline
2016-10-31
RSC Live: Cymbeline
Overview: Britain is in crisis. An ineffectual Queen Cymbeline rules over a divided dystopian Britain. Consumed with grief at the death of two of her children, Cymbeline's judgment is clouded. When Innogen, the only living heir, marries her sweetheart Posthumus in secret, an enraged Cymbeline banishes him. Behind the throne, a power-hungry figure plots to seize power by murdering them both. In exile Innogen's husband is tricked into believing she has been unfaithful to him and in an act of impulsive jealousy begins a scheme to have her murdered. Warned of the danger, Innogen runs away from court in disguise and begins a journey fraught with danger that will eventually reunite Cymbeline with a long-lost heir and reconcile the young lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-31
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Unleaded
2015-05-23
Unleaded
Overview: Three thugs attempting to rob a petrol station are interrupted by three stoners with a severe case of the munchies.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-23
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