For one last time, the theatre comes to you with National Theatre at Home.
As the West End has shuttered and theatres around the country followed suit, all the drama of the London stage has fled online. Thankfully, the National Theatre are dab hands at a bit of online streaming – judging by the wild success of their NT Live productions – and they’ve taken things a step further, by putting some of their most successful theatre shows on YouTube. However, all good things must come to an end, and so it is with National Theatre at Home, which streams its final production from tonight. (Featured image: National Theatre, via Facebook)
The ‘National Theatre at Home’ project invited you to catch a range of the theatre’s best-loved productions from the past few years, released weekly on Thursdays. All the productions were filmed with the intention of showing them in cinemas, so they’ve essentially been like an NT Live event for your own home. We’ve already seen the likes of Jane Eyre, Twelfth Night, Frankenstein, Antony and Cleopatra, A Streetcar Named Desire, Small Island, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and now we’re onto the final show.
Luckily, the series is finishing with a glorious crescendo, as beginning tonight (July 16) at 7pm, you can stream Amadeus. Featuring West End veteran and Game of Thrones alum Lucian Msamati as the talented but jealous composer Antonio Salieri, the production embarked on a sell-out run in 2016, and returns to the capital tonight. With critically-acclaimed performances and music from the Southbank Sinfonia, it’s not one to miss. You can see it live on the National Theatre’s YouTube channel at 7pm, and it’ll be available on demand for a week afterwards.
Catch the show on the National Theatre’s YouTube channel, which you can find here.