Colin Haigh
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Department: Acting
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Wahala In America
Overview: THIS STORY FOLLOWS THE MAIN CHARACTER WHO JUST LANDED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN A VISITING VISA. AFTER THE LONG TRIP, HE HAD JETLAG AND DECIDED TO LOOK FOR A PHARMACY (A.K.A CHEMIST IN NIGERIAN TERM) TO GET PAIN MEDICATIONS, DUE TO THE BIG VOCABULARY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NIGERIAN ENGLISH AND THE AMERICAN ENGLISH, HE RANDOMLY ASKED A STRANGER FOR A PLACE TO BUY DRUGS, HE WAS DIRECTED TO SOME STREET DRUG DEALERS. MR PATRICK HAD NO IDEA THAT THE TERM DRUG MOSTLY REFERS TO NARCOTICS AND HE ALMOST GOT HIMSELF IN TROUBLE WITH THE GANG, HE WAS FORTUNATELY SAVED BY THE GANG LEADER WHO HAPPENS TO HAVE NIGERIAN HERITAGE AND UNDERSTOOD THE MISCOMMUNICATION. HE GOT INVOLVED IN A KIDNAPPING CASE, WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH A THREAT OF DEPORTATION. A MIRACLE FROM A HELP HE HAD EARLIER RENDERED TO AN IMPORTANT INDIVIDUAL DURING THE TRIAL RESULTED IN SOLIDIFYING HIS SURVIVAL IN AMERICA.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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National Theater Live: The Crucible
Overview: A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller's captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial. Lindsey Turner (Hamlet) directs this contemporary new staging, design by Tony award winner Es Devlin. Captured live from the Olivier stage of the national theater.
Genres: History Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-26
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National Theatre Live: King Lear
Overview: An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says nothing. Simon Russell Beale, whose recent appearances at the National include Timon of Athens and Collaborators, takes the title role in Shakespeare’s tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-01
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Butley
Overview: Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-21
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National Theatre Live: Allelujah!
Overview: Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre during its limited run. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town in Yorkshire, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and the triumphs of the old people’s choir.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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National Theatre Live: Travelling Light
Overview: In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-09
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I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill
Overview: Returning home to her flat, Ann Rogers passes a stranger leaving the building. A few moments later she discovers her neighbor lying dead in the hallway, the latest victim of a serial killer. Ann could be able to identify the killer, but the killer also knows her face and knows he needs to silence the witness... TV episode from the series, "Thriller" was also released as feature film on home video starting in the 1980s.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-18
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Overview: As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-15
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National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
Overview: Academy Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List, Oedipus at the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic. Jack Tanner, celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this dazzling revolutionary. Tanner, appalled by the whiff of domesticity, is tipped off by his chauffeur and flees to Spain, where he is captured by bandits and meets The Devil. An extraordinary dream-debate, heaven versus hell, ensues. Following in hot pursuit, Ann is there when Tanner awakes, as fierce in her certainty as he is in his. A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-14
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