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The Guide #179: How National Theatre Live brought the magic of the stage to the cinema
In this week’s newsletter: The project bringing live-capture versions of the theatre’s shows to international audiences has been a resounding successLast month I went to the National Theatre to catch The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde’s campy, farcical comedy. But unlike other theatre visits, this time I was surrounded by a number of large cameras.This was not due to some crisis in audience etiquette, but because I was watching the live-capture of the onstage performance. As I was enjoying Ncuti Gatwa’s Algernon pretending to play piano in a dazzling hot-pink dress, production teams in a number of trucks outside were frantically working to ensure the performance would be optimised for cinema screens across the world. Continue reading...
In this week’s newsletter: The project bringing live-capture versions of the theatre’s shows to international audiences has been a resounding success
Last month I went to the National Theatre to catch The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde’s campy, farcical comedy. But unlike other theatre visits, this time I was surrounded by a number of large cameras.
This was not due to some crisis in audience etiquette, but because I was watching the live-capture of the onstage performance. As I was enjoying Ncuti Gatwa’s Algernon pretending to play piano in a dazzling hot-pink dress, production teams in a number of trucks outside were frantically working to ensure the performance would be optimised for cinema screens across the world. Continue reading...
