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National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy

8.0 150 mins Drama   2022
National Theatre  
Director(s): Nicholas Hytner

Ralph Fiennes leads the cast in David Hare’s blazing account of the most powerful man in New York, a master manipulator whose legacy changed the city forever. For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses exploited those in office through a mix of charm and intimidation. Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of New York City’s workers, he created parks, bridges and 627 miles of expressway to connect the people to the great outdoors. Faced with resistance by protest groups campaigning for a very different idea of what the city should become, will the weakness of democracy be exposed in the face of his charismatic conviction?

Casts of National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy

Ralph Fiennes

as Robert Moses

Alisha Bailey

as Mariah Heller

Samuel Barnett

as Ariel Porter

David Bromley

as Stamford Fergus

Al Coppola

as Sandy McQuade

Siobhán Cullen

as Finnuala Connell

Ian Kirkby

as Lewis Mason

Alana Maria

as Shirley Hayes

Dani Moseley

as Carol Amis

Guy Paul

as Henry Vanderbilt

Helen Schlesinger

as Jane Jacobs

Mary Stillwaggon Stewart

as Nicole Savage

Danny Webb

as Governer Al Smith

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