Skylight

RECORDED ON LONDON’S WEST END IN 2014

Bill Nighy (Love Actually, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Carey Mulligan (Inside Llewyn Davis, The Great Gatsby) feature in the highly-anticipated production of David Hare’s Skylight, directed by Stephen Daldry (The Audience), recorded live on the West End by National Theatre Live.

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy), a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died.

As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.

· From the director of The Audience (Stephen Daldry), who is also several times Academy Award nominated
· Carey Mulligan’s West End stage debut
· Olivier Award winning play
· Playwright David Hare familiar to both stage and screen/TV audiences
· Debuted at the National Theatre in 1995
· Designer Bob Crowley won an Olivier Award for his work on The Audience
· Bill Nighy took the same role in the 1997 West End transfer from the NT, and 1997 UK tour

Cast and creative career highlights
Carey Mulligan (Kyra Hollis)
Film: Inside Llewyn Davies, The Great Gatsby, An Education, Never Let Me Go, Pride and Prejudice, Drive, Shame
TV: Northanger Abbey, Doctor Who, Waking the Dead, My Boy Jack
Theatre: The Seagull (Royal Court and Broadway), The Hypochondriac (Almeida), Forty Winks (Royal Court), Through a Glass Darkly (Atlantic Theater Company)
Awards and nominations: BAFTA Award winner 2010 (Best Actress in a Leading Role – An Education), Academy Award nominee 2010 (Best Actress in a Leading Role – An Education), Golden Globe nominee 2010 (Best Actress in a Leading Role – An Education), BAFTA Award nominee 2011 (Best Supporting Actress – Drive)

Bill Nighy (Tom Sergeant)
Film: Love Actually, About Time, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Glorious 39, Valkyrie, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Boat That Rocked
TV: Turks & Caicos, Page Eight, Doctor Who, The Girl in the Café, Gideon’s Daughter, State of Play
Theatre: Skylight (West End in 1995, UK tour in 1997), The Vertical Hour (Music Box Theater, NYC), Blue/Orange, Arcadia (NT), The Seagull, King Lear (NT), Pravda (NT)
Awards and nominations: Golden Globe winner 2005 (Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television – Gideon’s Daughter), British Academy Television Award winner 2003 (Best Actor – State of Play), BAFTA Award winner 2003 (Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Love Actually)

David Hare (Playwright)
Film: The Reader, The Hours, Damage, The Corrections, Plenty
TV: Salting the Battlefield, Turks & Caicos, Page Eight
Theatre: Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton), The Judas Kiss, The Vertical Hour, Gethsemane, South Downs, Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War, The Blue Room, Stuff Happens

Stephen Daldry (Director)
Film: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Reader, The Hours, Billy Elliot
Theatre: The Audience (West End), Billy Elliot: The Musical, An Inspector Calls (NT and Broadway)

Bob Crowley (Designer)
Theatre: The Audience (West End), People (NT), Once (Broadway and West End), The History Boys (NT), Collaborators (NT)