Watch Pina with Lockdown Theatre Club on Tuesday 21 April. Pina is available to rent on Amazon Prime. At 8pm everyone presses play and watches together. You can tweet along (#LockdownTheatreClub) or just enjoy the film knowing we're all part of an audience together. What is Pina? A documentary about the choreographer Pina Bausch, one of the most significant 20th-century artists, by Wim Wenders … [Read more...]
Fences | Lockdown Theatre Club 4
Watch Fences with Lockdown Theatre Club on Tuesday 7 April. Fences is on Amazon Prime. At 8pm UK time, everyone presses play and watches together. You can tweet along (#LockdownTheatreClub) or just enjoy the film knowing we're all part of an audience together. Ashley Zhangazha introduces FencesAshley Zhangazha played Cory in the West End production of Fences in 2013. He starred alongside Lenny … [Read more...]
Into the Woods | Lockdown Theatre Club 2
Our twitter poll asking for people’s favourite genre saw an overwhelming vote for musicals. Cheer was needed. As it was also Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday, we went for Into the Woods (Sweeney Todd: too cannibalistic. A Little Night Music: too inept). As an added treat, Matthew Xia, who had directed a very different production at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, recorded a very tender … [Read more...]
Lockdown Theatre Club
Join a weekly online audience for a stage-adjacent movie. Theatre and its audiences have always been there for me, even in the toughest times, and they’re still here. For you too, if you like. Coming up on Lockdown Theatre Club Tuesday 7 July at 8pmHamiltonA return to the room where it happened: Lin-Manuel Miranda leads the original Broadway cast of his landmark musical. Available on Disney … [Read more...]