ODEON Magazine March/April 2015 | Page 5

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Did You
Know?

The original title for Tomorrowland
was 1952, the year in which Uncle
Walt established Walt Disney
Imagineering, the research and
development arm that would
create, among other things,
Disneyland and its futuristic
Tomorrowland
area.

DIRECTOR Brad Bird
STARRING George Clooney,
Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie

PHOTO: © Disney/Planet Photos, Capital Pictures

Tomorrowland TBC
RELEASED 22 May

Meera Syal (The Kumars,
Goodness Gracious Me, Rafta
Rafta at the National) returns
to the National Theatre,
directed by Rufus Norris
(Broken, London Road) for
NT Live: Behind the
Beautiful Forevers.
Beyond the luxury hotels
that surround Mumbai airport
lies a makeshift slum, full of
people with plans of their own.
But their schemes are
fragile; global recession
threatens the garbage trade,
and another slum-dweller is
about to make an accusation
that will destroy herself and
shatter the neighbourhood.
Pulizter Prize-winner
Katherine Boo spent three
years in Annawadi recording
the lives of its residents.
From her uncompromising
book, Behind the Beautiful
Forevers: Life, Death, and
Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
– winner of the National Book
Award for Non-Fiction in
2012 – David Hare has
fashioned a tumultuous
play on an epic scale that
demands to be seen.

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