14 Oct

NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

Event Date
7:00 pm

Estep Room in the Bill S. Cole University Center 

NT Live:  A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE presented by ECU SCREENS and Sigma Tau Delta 

The fastest-selling production in the Young Vic’s history, Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire will be broadcast live from their London home by National Theatre Live. With Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The Fall) as Blanche DuBois, Ben Foster (Lone Survivor, Kill Your Darlings) as Stanley and Vanessa Kirby (BBC’s Great Expectations, Three Sisters at the Young Vic) as Stella. 

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. Visionary director Benedict Andrews returns to the Young Vic following his Critics’ Circle Award-winning Three Sisters. 

Estimated run time: 3 hours

14 Nov

NT Live: Skylight

Event Date
6:30 pm

Estep Room in the Bill S. Cole University Center 

ECU SCREENS presents  NT Live: SKYLIGHT (in the Estep) presented by ECU SCREENS and Sigma Tau Delta 

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), broadcast live from 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. 

Estimated run time: 2 hours, 15 minutes

19 Nov

NT Live: PROMISED LAND followed at 7:30 p.m. by a public forum on Fracking

Event Date
5:30 pm

Foundation Hall of the CBCC

PROMISED LAND followed at 7:30 by a public forum on Fracking (both in the Estep) presented by ECU SCREENS and The Honors Student Association 

Promised LAND, which will be screened as part of the annual Honors Presents the Sciences series in the Foundation Hall at 6:00 on Thursday, November 20th followed by a panel discussion and Q&A forum and about Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) featuring:  Guy Sewell, executive director of the Institute for Environmental Science Education and Research and professor and Robert S. Kerr Endowed Chair of ECU’s Environmental Health Sciences Department;  Dr. Bob Puls is the Director of the Oklahoma Water Survey; and Dick Scalf, engineer, retired EPA, past Mayor of Ada, and water expert.