National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession

Mrs. Warren's Profession is the latest in our live theatre on screen series where you can enjoy an intimate theatrical experience in our red velvet-clad auditorium.

Imelda Staunton and her real-life daughter Bessie Carter star in this latest staging of George Bernard Shaw's incendiary classic (one of his 'Plays Unpleasant' dealing with social and moral conundrums and originally banned in its time). 

Vivie, an intelligent and thoroughly modern young woman, returns home to her mother Kitty (Mrs. Warren) after graduating Cambridge University. Kitty has lined up a selection of suitors and sets about making a good match.

Mother and daughter barely know each other after years apart and their relationship is tested when Vivie discovers how her mother makes a living and has afforded her daughter all the opportunities that she never had. Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Her mother, however is a product of that old partricarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs Warren a fortune - but at what cost?

Shaw's play offers a frank discussion of prostitution and draws attention to the hypocrisies around it and the poor treatment of women in Victorian Britain by the patriarchal order. 

‘An extraordinary tour de force that brings the play to vivid and compelling life’ - WhatsOnStage

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