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‘The quality of this production shines through’: Phèdre – National Theatre (Online review)

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by John Chapman5th December 2020Leave a Comment

Following news that the National Theatre has launched its much anticipated streaming service National Theatre At Home, John Chapman goes back to 2009 and NT Live’s very first live streamed production on cinema screens, Helen Mirren in Phèdre.

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NEWS: NT launches new streaming service National Theatre at Home

In London theatre, Musicals, Native, News, Online shows, Photos, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases1st December 2020

The National Theatre, in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, has launched National Theatre at Home, a brand-new streaming platform making their much-loved productions available online to watch anytime, anywhere worldwide.

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NEWS: Phoebe Waller-Bridge is appointed vice president of Acting For Others

In Native, News, Press Releases by Press Releases27th July 2020

Acting for Others has announced that Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been appointed vice president of the theatrical charity.

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‘Paying tribute to what has been a marvellous season’: Thank you to the National Theatre At Home

In London theatre, Musicals, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by John Chapman24th July 2020Leave a Comment

So, bravo National Theatre. Others may have joined in the home streaming trend but nobody else did it bigger or better. Time to look for yet another new normal for Thursday evenings.

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‘A scintillating production which consistently thrills’: AMADEUS – National Theatre (Online review)

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by John Chapman18th July 2020Leave a Comment

Sixteen weeks ago the National Theatre At Home season was launched and this week the final show began its one week run. In Amadeus they may just have saved the best until last.

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‘Death haunts this play as surely as it does Hamlet’: How significant is the role of Hester in The Deep Blue Sea?

In Features, London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays by Maryam Philpott15th July 2020Leave a Comment

Like Shakespeare’s greatest play, The Deep Blue Sea is grief channelled into art, aligning Hamlet and Hester as two souls enveloped by death and choosing whether to live.

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‘Helen McCrory is on fine form’: THE DEEP BLUE SEA – National Theatre At Home (Online review)

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by John Chapman13th July 2020Leave a Comment

In the case of The Deep Blue Sea I find myself firmly sitting on the fence. Good performances? Mostly. Fine production? Mainly. Great play? The jury’s still out.

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‘A remarkable play’: LES BLANCS – National Theatre at Home (Online review)

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Tom Bolton9th July 2020Leave a Comment

The National Theatre’s 2016 production of Les Blancs was directed by Yaël Farber and used the full resources of the Olivier stage to transmit its full force.

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‘Raw & fascinating to watch’: LES BLANCS – National Theatre at Home (Online review) ★★★★★

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon7th July 2020Leave a Comment

Lorraine Hansberry’s play Les Blancs is vividly and powerfully brought to life in Yaël Farber‘s atmospheric production.

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‘A delightful two hours of comedy, love & misunderstandings’: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, Bridge Theatre ★★★★★ (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon1st July 2020Leave a Comment

Enhancing the magic and dreamy qualities of the play, Nicholas Hytner’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a delightful two hours of comedy, love and misunderstandings.

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‘A modern-day classic about an age-old problem’: SMALL ISLAND – National Theatre (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Reviews by John Chapman24th June 2020Leave a Comment

A terrific and epic play about the Windrush generation: Andrea Levy’s sprawling novel Small Island has been turned into a glorious staged adaptation by writer Helen Edmundson.

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‘A towering central performance by Mark Gatiss’: THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III – Nottingham Playhouse (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Reviews by John Chapman14th June 2020Leave a Comment

An excellent production of a modern classic with a towering central performance: Alan Bennett’s early 1990s play examines public versus private monarchical concerns at the end of the 18th century in the latest stream from National Theatre At Home.

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NEWS: National Theatre announces five final free lockdown YouTube streams

In Native, News, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases11th June 2020

The National Theatre today announces a further five productions that will be streamed as a part of the National Theatre at Home series.

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‘A lean, swift & feisty political thriller’: CORIOLANUS – Donmar Warehouse (Online review)

In Online shows, Plays, Reviews by Shane Morgan10th June 2020Leave a Comment

To take a play as epic in scale as Coriolanus and find a natural home within the intimacy of London’s Donmar Warehouse takes a skill and lightness of touch that is not only rare but all so often missed.

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‘Tom Hiddleston is worth the price of admission’: CORIOLANUS – Donmar Warehouse (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Reviews by John Chapman7th June 2020Leave a Comment

There are some staggering contemporary references to draw from this staging of a lesser-known Shakespeare, starring Tom Hiddleston.

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NEWS: National Theatre at Home screens Mark Gatiss in Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III

In London theatre, Native, News, Online shows, Plays, Press Releases, Regional theatre by Press Releases5th June 2020

Alan Bennett’s epic multi-award-winning drama The Madness of George III, starring Mark Gatiss in the title role, will be streamed from next Thursday 11 June 2020 via National Theatre at Home.

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‘It is immediately clear how prescient it was’: THIS HOUSE – National Theatre (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Tom Bolton2nd June 2020Leave a Comment

The chaos of national politics in the mid-1970s seemed light years away in 2014, but how arrogant that assumption seems now.

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‘Power is shown to be almost totally male-dominated’: THIS HOUSE – National Theatre (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Reviews by John Chapman31st May 2020Leave a Comment

The plotline of James Graham play covers several years during a period when majorities were slim and politics was a brutal business.

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Recalling Tom Hiddleston in CORIOLANUS: ‘One of the best nights of theatre of my life’

In Features, London theatre, Native, Opinion, Plays, Reviews, Video by Darren Ross30th May 2020

It is not often that one reviews a play one saw six years ago, but with the forthcoming National Theatre At Home streaming of the Donmar Warehouse production of Coriolanus, right now seems a strangely appropriate time to recall one of the best nights of theatre of my life.

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‘Ralph Fiennes & Sophie Okonedo are well matched’: ANTONY & CLEOPATRA – National Theatre (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Reviews, Touring by John Chapman11th May 2020Leave a Comment

I’ve always found Antony and Cleopatra a bit of a slog. There, I’ve said it. Too many scenes which flit about all over the place, too many minor inconsequential characters, deaths which seem interminable.

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