The National Theatre has today announced that Michelle Dockery will play Diana Christenson in the world-premiere of NETWORK, newly adapted by Lee Hall from the Oscar winning screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky.
Directed by Ivo van Hove, and starring Tony Award-winner Bryan Cranston as Howard Beale, NETWORK will open in the National Theatre’s Lyttelton Theatre on Saturday 4 November, 2017, currently booking through to Saturday 24 March, 2018.
Image by Faye Thomas
Howard Beale, news anchor-man, isn’t pulling in the viewers.
In his final broadcast he unravels live on screen.
But when the ratings soar, the network seizes on their new found populist prophet, and Howard becomes the biggest thing on TV.
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