Mar 31, 2016
10 min
Full-HD

The Roof (2016)

A brief comedy about a visit from a legendary theatre maker and his legion of fans.

Category

Comedy

Country

Companies

Young Vic

Natalie Dormer

A Fan

Noma Dumezweni

Another Fan

Rory Kinnear

Yet Another Fan

Jude Law

And Yet Another Fan

Ian McKellen

And Even Yet Another Fan

Hugh Skinner

And Finially One More Fan

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

David Lan's Assistant

Sinéad Matthews

Peter Brooks' Assistant

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