Stephen Daldry’s revival of David Hare’s Skylight will be “live” broadcast in UK cinemas on Thursday July 17th. Ryan Pollard went to the West End this week to find out if the production is worth seeing…

Bill Nighy (Love Actually, In Time, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Carey Mulligan (An Education, Inside Llewyn Davis, The Great Gatsby) feature in the highly-anticipated and sold-out production of David Hare’s Skylight, directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Reader), and broadcasted live from the West End by National Theatre Live to cinemas across the UK. Skylight was originally produced at the National Theatre in 1995, before transferring to the West End and Broadway, and won an Olivier Award for Best Play. On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Careytragedy to the way the characters have become. Nighy’s character is someone who has a successful business and loads of money, but yet, he had this affair with Mulligan that completely tore his own life apart, as well as her’s. He never resolved the issues with his wife before she died, he is unable to connect with his teenage son (played in a very naturalistic manner by Matthew Beard), and is struggling to cope and understand Mulligan’s own ideologies about the world. Mulligan’s character, on the other hand, even though she became a teacher to help struggling students, is devoid of friends and loved ones, and was perhaps at her most happiest when she was with Nighy’s character, but yet, she no longer wants to remember it. In