Streaming and IG LIVE performance thread

Enjoyed One Man Two Guvnors more on screen than I did when I saw it live. But I often enjoy things more second time around.

I saw it on tour with Gavin Spokes, who was excellent. Lots of ad-libs and arguably better than James Corden. But there's something magical about an original production.

My overarching memory of seeing this live is the group sat behind me who talked to me in the interval and didn't think me very sympathetic to the lady I was clearly attending the show with (who got invited on stage towards the end of the first half).

Attended the filming of the show at the NT at the time and saw it again years later in the West End. Remembered then what it was that had annoyed me about the show...everything that seemed so spontaneous and ad-lib clearly was part of the show. Still like the show, but also still annoyed lol.

I finally saw 'One Man, Two Guvnors' last night, and - despite expecting I wouldn't like it much, because I'm not really a comedy person - I found it quite sweet and funny.
James Corden was good, I think I enjoyed his interactions with the audience more than his character acting, but Oliver Chris stole the show, I thought - he was superb!

It's not a play I'd say is a must-see (I didn't appreciate all of the humour in it, some bits were a bit odd to me - like the old waiter), but it's kind of fun, and it worked well as a day-brightener after a long work day.

When I saw that sequence again I was strongly reminded of "Dinner for One", the comedy sketch well known and loved in Germany, but not really in the UK. It's the same type of humour.

Yep and on multiple channels

CURTAINS (UK production) will stream online next week!

filmedonstage.com/news/102-broadway-musical-curtains-starring-jason-manford-will-stream-online

I'm really excited about Jane Eyre tonight. I saw it twice at the time, and really loved it, but can remember very few actual details of it.

NeilVHughes , I partially agree with you, although I think for me it's more about these streamed productions reinforcing the sad notion that there really is no theatre to see, than about them actually being bad at channelling the magic of it.

I've seen a number of National Theatre LIVE productions back home throughout the years, and I've always enjoyed them. I've also spent many hours since I've moved to London at the desks/in front of monitors at the V&A Visual Archive and the NT Archive, and while I was watching recordings - and the experience was admittedly never the same as seeing theatre in person - I've always found them genuinely enchanting. I still walked out utterly shaken up seeing a recording of Katie Mitchell's 'Cleansed' (and had to sit on a bench at Bankside and stare at the sky for a while to clear my head - that was quite an experience!), I was delighted by Rupert Goold's 'Enron' and I laughed out loud at 'Ink' (I was the only one at the V&A, and the incredibly nice guy who was taking care of the the DVDs later asked me if the play was really good, because he could hear me giggle in the next room! luckily, he didn't mind at all), I was absolutely mesmerised by James Macdonald's 'John' (so much so, that I went back to see it at the NT Archive for a second time)... Somehow, I got immersed and lost in all of these, despite the fact that the recordings weren't even that great: they felt like discovering hidden treasures; something I could not really experience, and yet there I was, doing exactly that!

Now, the recordings are a reminder of the real theatre experiences that I am missing. And while I do treasure them for that, because some theatre is better than no theatre, I cannot seem to let go and enjoy them fully... 


On that note, I just came to say that the Berliner Ensemble will be making their recording of Oliver Reese's 'Die Blechtrommel/Tin Drum' available to stream for a week, with English subtitles, starting tonight. I didn't see it when it was recently playing for a few days at the Coronet Theatre, but I remember it got great reviews. 

Same procedure as every year, Deal J.

Othello is high on my wish list so i'm assuming it won't be and therefore secretly hoping to be wrong. I suspect my picks are probably way down any list.

AppleTv are being kind/need someone to watch so are streaming several of their exclusive shows to non paying customers including The Servant, Dickinson and the elephant queen which is awesome (unless of course u already subscribe and then its a bit of a kick in the goolies )