Chiwetel Ejiofor leads the cast in Carol Ann Duffy’s adaptation of Everyman, directed by Rufus Norris.

The performance will be broadcast at Theatr Mwldan on Thursday, July 16 at 6.45pm.

The cast also includes Sharon D Clarke (Mother), Dermot Crowley (Death), Kate Duchene (God), and Penny Layden (Knowledge).

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling.

He is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend, anyone, to speak in his defence. But Death is close behind, and time is running out.

One of the great primal, spiritual myths, Everyman asks whether it is only in death that we can understand our lives.

A cornerstone of English drama since the 15th century, this new production has words by Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate and movement by Javier De Frutos.

Chiwetel Ejiofor returns to the National to play the title role.

His many film and TV performances include 12 Years A Slave for which he won the BAFTA Award for Leading Actor and has received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations.

Carol Ann Duffy was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009 and is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children’s Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America.

Tickets for the National Theatre Live screenings are priced £12.50 full price (£11.50 concessions) and are available now from Theatr Mwldan’s Box Office on 01239 621200, on-line at www.mwldan.co.uk.