The Town Hall’s popular National Theatre Live programme returns with Yerma screened next Thursday, 31st August from 7 p.m.

The incredible Billie Piper returns in her Evening Standard Best Actress award-winning role. A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece.

The unmissable theatre phenomenon sold out at the Young Vic and critics call it ‘an extraordinary theatrical triumph’ (The Times) and ‘stunning, searing, unmissable’ (Mail on Sunday). Set in contemporary London, Piper’s portrayal of a woman in her thirties desperate to conceive builds with elemental force to a staggering, shocking, climax. Please note that the performance of Yerma includes strobe lighting.

All NT Live screenings take advantage of the Town Hall’s HD cinema projection and full Digital Surround Sound to replicate the atmosphere of the theatre as it happens. The fully licenced Sarah Ann bar will be open for the screenings. Tickets for both parts can be bought in advance from: www.ticketsource.co.uk/mnct by or phoning: 01761 419133.

Tickets will also be available on the door.