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Online Theatre 2021
The Theatreguide.London Reviews
In March 2020 the covid-19 epidemic
forced the closure of all British theatres. Some companies adapted
by putting archive recordings of past productions online, others
by streaming new shows. And there are past productions worth
rediscovering online. As things return to normal we continue to
review the experience of watching live theatre onscreen.
Most of the shows reviewed here continue to be available online in later years.
AFLOAT
- Sunday's Child. Global warming
puts Dublin underwater. August 2021
ALADDIN - US television and YouTube. Cole Porter's last show. September 2021
ALICE
IN WONDERLAND Three television versions - US
1954, US 1955 and BBC 1966. Autumn 2021
THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM - Red Bull Theater. 1780 romantic comedy by Hannah Cowley. February 2021
BLITHE
SPIRIT - US television and YouTube. 1956 broadcast
of Noel Coward comedy, starring Coward. Autumn 2021
A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO DIED - Finborough Theatre. Encountering death at various stages in life. May 2021
CONSTELLATIONS - Donmar Theatre. Four alternate casts in Nick Payne's play about life's alternative paths. December 2021
CRIPS
WITHOUT CONSTRAINTS II - Graeae Theatre. Five
short plays about disabilities. February 2021
THE
DAUGHTER - Schaubuhne.de.
2015 film
adaptation of Ibsen's Wild Duck. February 2021.
DAYS TO COME - Mint Theater. 1936 Lillian Hellman play about effects of a workers' strike. January 2021
DEATH OF ENGLAND: FACE TO FACE - National Theatre and Sky Arts. Being a man, black or white, in today's England. November 2021
DISTANCE REMAINING - Assembly, Edinburgh Fringe. Three monologues by Stewart Melton. August 2021
ELIZABETH
- YouTube. Hit German musical about 19th-century
Austrian Empress. December 2021
EVENING
PRIMROSE - US Television and YouTube. 'Lost'
Sondheim musical, made for television 1966. September 2021
THE
FATAL WEAKNESS - Mint Theater. 1946 play about a
woman's unexpected reaction to her husband's infidelity. June 2021
GOOD GRIEF - PlatformPresents.com A woman's lover and best friend slowly come to terms with her death. February 2021
HIGH TOR - US Television and YouTube. 1956 musical of Maxwell Anderson ghostly romance. Autumn 2021
HINDLE
WAKES - Mint Theater. 1912 play about
not-particularly-fallen woman. December 2021
JAMES DEAN - US Television and YouTube. Review of several American TV shows of 1953 featuring Dean. Autumn 2021
JEKYLL
& HYDE - Broadway Television Network and YouTube.
1997 Broadway musical of the Stevenson split-personality story.
December 2021
J'OUVERT - BBC iPlayer. Play set in Notting Hill Carnival. Spring 2021
JUNE
MOON - US television and YouTube. Two TV
productions of comedy about songwriters, 1949 and 1973. Autumn 2021
KATIE ROCHE - Mint Theater. 1936 Irish play about village girl's life. February 2021
KING
LEAR - New York Shakespeare Festival and YouTube.
James Earl Jones in Central park 1974 November 2021
KISS ME PETRUCHIO - New York Shakespeare Festival and YouTube. On- and offstage look at 1978 production of The Taming Of The Shrew September 2021
LYSISTRATA - Actors Of Dionysus. Aristophanes' bawdy comedy of a sex strike to end a war. March 2021
THE MACBETHS - Citizens Theatre. Shakespeare condensed into two-character psychological drama. June 2021
MARTY
- YouTube. American television classic of 1953
about a lonely guy. September 2021
MASKS AND FACES - Finborough Theatre. 19th century comedy about actress. Summer 2021
MUSTARD - Fishamble Theatre. Monologue of woman resorting to self-harming. August 2021
NO
TIME FOR SERGEANTS - YouTube. 1955 US TV
military comedy, basis for later stage play and film. September 2021
ONE HAND TIED BEHIND US - Old Vic. Four monologues for women. Spring 2021
OUR
DAY OUT - BBC Play Of The Week and YouTube. 1977
drama by Willy Russell about school trip. September 2021
OUR
TOWN - YouTube. 1955 American television musical
of Thornton Wilder play. April 2021
THE
PALE SISTER - BBC iPlayer Retelling of the
Antigone story as a solo show. Spring 2021
PETER PAN - US Television and YouTube. 1950s Broadway musical starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard. January 2021
A
PICTURE OF AUTUMN - Mint Theater. R C Hunter play
about leaving the family home. Spring 2021
THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD - Druid Theatre and Vimeo. 2006 production of J M Synge classic comedy. January 2021
PLAYFIGHT - Finborough Theatre. Tracing friendship of three women from teens to twenties. April 2021
POLICE
COPS - Assembly, Edinburgh. Three-man parody of
police movies. August 2021
POTTED PANTO - StreamTheatre. Comic mash-up of all Christmas Panto plots. January 2021
ROMEO AND JULIET - Shakespeare's Globe. 2019 Globe production online. March 2021
REBECCA - YouTube. 2012 German production of musical based on moody DuMaurier novel. December 2021
THE
ROYALE - Lincoln Center Theater. Drama of black
prizefighter challenging white champion, Spring 2021
SADIE - Field Day Theatre and BBC iPlayer. Northern Ireland woman's unreliable memories. April 2021
THE
TAMING OF THE SHREW - American Conservatory Theater and
YouTube. 1976 production as broadcast on Public
Television November 2021
10 MINUTES TO . . . CALL HOME - Live Theatre. Nine short plays ranging from angry to comic. March 2021
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS UNSCRIPTED - Improv Theatre. Improvised comedy. August 2021
TRACY JONES - Bechdel Group. A party where host and guests all have the same name. Autumn 2021
TWELVE ANGRY MEN - US television and YouTube. The original 1954 television version of classic courtroom drama. September 2021
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE - Lincoln Center Theater. 2012 Christopher Durang salute to Chekhov, Howdy Doody and the American family. Spring 2021
WALDEN
Future-set play seen onstage in London 2021. Autumn
2021
THE WINTER'S TALE - BBC iPlayer. Royal Shakespeare Company in tale of jealousy and redemption. Spring 2021
THE WOLVES - Lincoln Center Theater. Teenage
girls' soccer team. Summer 2021
YOURS
UNFAITHFULLY - Mint Theater. 1933 play about an
open marriage. Spring 2021
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