40+ ways to get your theatre fix online during lockdown

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Are you fed up with not being able to go out to the theatre? Don’t be. There’s a wealth of stuff to watch online. Here’s a handy list of current opportunities. OK, so it’s not quite the same as sharing the communal experience with others, but beggars, as they say…

There’s more material being added all the time (although by its very nature some stuff doesn’t hang around for long), but this should be enough to keep you going for a while. Despite the first few entries below, most of the material is free to view.

I’ve myself the challenge of watching one of these pieces every day in April.

For full details and links visit 2nd From Bottom.

On websites

  1. Marquee TV
  2. Broadway HD
  3. Globe Player
  4. Digital Theatre
  5. National Theatre Collection
  6. Original Theatre Company
  7. Hampstead Theatre
  8. Greenwich Theatre (Flashback Fridays)
  9. Eugenius
  10. Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
  11. The Wind In The Willows
  12. Cyprus Avenue

On Vimeo

  1. I, Malvolio & I, Peaseblossom
  2. The Turning Point
  3. What I Heard About The World
  4. Five Encounters On A Site Called Craigslist
  5. Beckett By Brook
  6. Peeping Tom Trilogy
  7. Snow Mouse
  8. Boys Don’t

On YouTube

  1. National Theatre Live
  2. The Winter’s Tale
  3. All My Sons
  4. It’s True, It’s True, It’s True
  5. Clown Funeral
  6. Daniel Bye
  7. Key Change
  8. I, Cinna (The Poet)
  9. Top Story
  10. Bubble
  11. 21 Chump Street
  12. Myth
  13. Ghost Quartet
  14. Timpson, The Musical
  15. The Time Of Your Life
  16. 5 Soldiers
  17. Cookies
  18. Girls Like That
  19. Amsterdam
  20. Macbeth

Coming soon

Culture In Quarantine – The BBC’s initiative will include Mike Bartlett’s Albion from The Almeida, Emma Rice’s Wise Children, Battersea Arts Centre’s Frankenstein and six recent titles from the Royal Shakespeare Company

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John Chapman works as a freelance education consultant, writer and copy editor. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Headteacher specialising in English and Drama. John first took to the stage as a schoolboy pretending to be a Latin frog. Decades later, he has been involved with 150+ productions, usually as an actor or director. He is currently a member of Tower Theatre in Stoke Newington, London. In 2016, he was in their “mechanicals” team that worked as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Play For The Nation, appearing both at the Barbican and in Stratford-upon-Avon. In 2004, he served as a panellist on the Olivier Awards; he is currently an Offies assessor. He reviews for a variety of websites, writes his own independent blog 2ndFromBottom about his theatrical life.
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John Chapman
John Chapman works as a freelance education consultant, writer and copy editor. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Headteacher specialising in English and Drama. John first took to the stage as a schoolboy pretending to be a Latin frog. Decades later, he has been involved with 150+ productions, usually as an actor or director. He is currently a member of Tower Theatre in Stoke Newington, London. In 2016, he was in their “mechanicals” team that worked as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Play For The Nation, appearing both at the Barbican and in Stratford-upon-Avon. In 2004, he served as a panellist on the Olivier Awards; he is currently an Offies assessor. He reviews for a variety of websites, writes his own independent blog 2ndFromBottom about his theatrical life.

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