A total of 18 new plays will be presented across TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds and radio. This new BBC Four season brings together productions that were either closed, or never even opened to the public, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Will he find the child he abandoned before it is too late? King Leontes rips his family apart with his jealousy but grief opens his heart. Set across a 16-year span from the 1953 coronation to the moon landings, this new production imagines a world where the ghosts of fascist Europe collide with horrors of The Handmaid’s Tale, before washing up on a joyful seashore. This film adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, directed by Erica Whyman, will air on 25th April at 7pm on BBC Four and then be available on BBC iPlayer. The RSC production of The Winter’s Tale was scheduled to run in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Summer 2020 and then go on tour, but was postponed due to the pandemic. Streaming link emailed to audiences The Winter’s Tale (RSC)
The line-up begins with the Globe’s raucous 2019 production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (5th June and 25th September), and is followed by Romeo & Juliet, starring Alfred Enoch and Rebekah Murrell (10th July and 7th August), Metamorphoses at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (27th to 30th October) and Twelfth Night (4th September and 23rd October). Two new online-only shows – Queers, curated by Mark Gatiss (2nd, 30th June), and Home?, curated by Noma Dumezweni (14th to 20th June) – kick things off, followed by in-person productions of Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter (7th to 10th July) and Percy and Eleonore Adlon’s Bagdad Cafe (19th July to 28th August), which will both be recorded and streamed online over the summer.Īs well as its Globe Player hosting archive on-demand recordings, the Globe Theatre will be live-streaming productions throughout its 2021 season. But streaming platforms are still providing a way to get your culture fix from home, while a growing number of theatres are embracing a hybrid approach to cater for those able to get to venues and those remaining indoors – a way to help support the creative talents involved on stage and behind the scenes.įrom theatre plays to stream live in your living room and all-you-can-stream collections of people treading the boards to Broadway shows, West End plays and RSC productions, this is your digital theatre guide: Old Vic TheatreĪfter its “In Camera” streaming of special lockdown productions, the Old Vic is reopening its doors with a blend of online and in-person productions. The UK’s theatres are reopening their doors as coronavirus safety restrictions are gradually eased across the UK and Ireland.