A SERIES of world class dramas will be shown at Otley Courthouse this summer.

The venue is continuing its programme of successful National Theatre Live broadcasts throughout July and August, starting with Angels In America.

Showing in two parts on successive Thursdays, July 20 and 27, the show is a new staging of Tony Kushner’s multi-award-winning play and is directed by Olivier and Tony award-winning director Marianne Elliott.

Set in Reagan’s mid-1980s America, it shows how gay New Yorkers grapple with the AIDS crisis and casts a stark light on issues of life and death, love and sex, and heaven and hell.

Hollywood star Andrew Garfield, whose recent movies include Silence and Hacksaw Ridge, heads a stellar cast which includes Denise Gough (People, Places and Things), James McArdle (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Nathan Lane (The Producers).

Salomé, meanwhile, is a new take on the famous biblical story.

Set in an occupied desert nation, it focuses on a radical from the wilderness who is on hunger strike and a girl whose mysterious dance will change the course of the world.

This production from internationally acclaimed director Yaël Farber (Les Blancs) turns the original tale on its head by putting Salomé at the centre of a revolution.

It stars Syrian-French actor Ramzi Choukair as the wild, half-naked Jokanaan (aka the Baptist) and Isabella Nefar as Salomé.

The action is also commented on by the ageing Salomé, called Nameless, played by Olwen Fouéré.

The Encore screening takes place at 7pm on Thursday, August 3.

The final NT Live offering of the summer at the Courthouse is Yerma, which gives Billie Piper (Penny Dreadful, Great Britain) a return to her Evening Standard Best Actress award-winning role.

This radical production of Lorca’s masterpiece is directed by Simon Stone and set in contemporary London, where Piper’s portrayal of a woman in her thirties, desperate to conceive, builds to a shocking climax.

The play will be shown at 7pm on Thursday, August 31.

Tickets for each of the screenings cost £12 and can be bought by visiting otleycourthouse.org.uk, calling (01943) 467466 or popping into the venue on Courthouse Street, Otley.