The Vote

The Vote (2015)

El 7 de mayo, las iglesias, los salones y los salones de los centros comunitarios se convertirán en centros de votación, atendidos por trabajadores del consejo y voluntarios. Una estación de votación de la iglesia es el telón de fondo de una obra teatral y de televisión en tiempo real, llamada The Vote, que se presenta en el momento exacto en que se desarrolla la acción: los últimos 90 minutos antes de que se cierren las urnas.

Fecha de estreno
2015-05-07
TMDB
8.4 / 10 (6)
Duración
1 h 27 min
Géneros
Comedia, Drama, Película de TV
Director
Josie Rourke, Tony Grech-Smith

Reparto

Curiosidades

The Vote is a 2015 play by British playwright James Graham. The play received its world premiere at the Donmar Warehouse as part of their spring 2015 season, where it ran from 24 April to 7 May 2015. Directed by Josie Rourke and set in a fictitious London polling station on election night 2015, the play was broadcast live on UK television channel More4 on the night of the election.

Production history

The Vote was written by playwright James Graham. On 3 November 2014, it was announced the play would premiere as part of the Donmar Warehouse's spring 2015 season and would begin previews at the Donmar Warehouse, London on 24 April with an official opening, and final night on 7 May 2015. Tickets for the play's short run were made available through a ballot.

The Vote is set in a polling station in Lambeth, during the final 90 minutes of polling for the 2015 general election on 7 May 2015, meaning it was the first ever play broadcast live at the exact time it was set. The broadcast attracted 555,000 viewers at its peak, making it the most viewed production in the history of the Donmar Warehouse.

The play featured an ensemble cast of around 40, including Catherine Tate, Mark Gatiss, Timothy West, Nina Sosanya and Bill Paterson. Judi Dench also starred alongside her real life daughter Finty Williams for the first time, playing a mother and daughter and marking her first performance at the theatre since 1976.

A typical performance ran 90 minutes, with no interval.

Describing the live broadcast, director Rourke said, "This is a unique opportunity for the Donmar to make a small theatre feel very big", whilst writer Graham added that he hoped to illuminate the "diverse, diligent and often hilarious individuals" who turn the "unglamourous" settings of polling stations into "places where history is made".

Leer en Wikipedia · Texto de Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Datos de Wikidata.

Recomendadas