National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea

National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea

Drama|

7/10

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. Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing.

Helen McCrory

Yolanda Kettle

Nick Fletcher

Marion Bailey

Hubert Burton

Peter Sullivan

Tom Burke

Tomiwa Edun