Late Night

Date: 19/11/2019 Times: 7:30 pm - 9:15 pm

A late-night talk show host’s world is turned upside down when she hires her first and only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision brings about unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women, who are separated by culture and generation, become united by their love of a biting punchline. Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling, who wrote the screenplay, star in this film which has been described as ‘hilarity heaven’. Late Night lights up when Kaling puts her female warriors in the centre of the ring and lets them rip. The actor-screenwriter is too savvy for tirades. But there’s no mistaking the heat in her subversive wit. And when the glorious Thompson (it’s high time for another Oscar) starts tossing Kaling’s verbal grenades like a virtuoso, this workplace satire is just the pointed fun we need.

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Venue: William Loveless Hall