Free National Theatre plays on Youtube.

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Apologies if anyone has already posted this, but starting from April 2nd, the National Theatre will be showing free plays on Youtube, every Thursday at 7pm.They'll be available for a week and will have bonus content.

The plays so far are...
April 2 ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ by Richard Bean, starring James Corden. .
April 9 ‘Jane Eyre’, adapted by Sally Cookson.
April 16 ‘Treasure Island’, adapted by Bryony Lavery. .
April 23 ‘Twelfth Night’ by William Shakespeare, starring Tamsin Greig.

Just thought I'd post if anyone is looking for something different to watch.

Really looking forward to some of these!

Me too. I was hoping that they'd do this, and hopefully there'll be more to come. It's a lovely gesture.

So excited but a real shame they’re starting with one of the worst plays I’ve ever seen! 😩🙈

Thank you for letting us know, something to look forward to.

Ooooo

Good, I'd hoped they might. We normally see quite a lot of Stage to Screen performances, NT and RSC. Of this lot, I've only seen the 12th Night.

I hope the NT follows suit, or are some of their recorded performances already accessible somehow?

Duh... I meant the RSC follow suit...

I saw 1 man 2 Guvnors in the cinema and it was great, really enjoyed it and going to be watching again.

I wonder if theyll do their back catalogue!!!! Frankenstein with Johnny lee miller

Ohh Frankenstein with Benedict and Johnny is excellent, highly recommend. ( not for children though)

Fantastic.

@CoolCarrie my jealousy is currently overwhelming. I missed it at the theatre then at the cinema and have been desperate to see it since

I'm so hoping for Present Laughter as I missed. Looking forward to these. Jane Eyre was very good.

I enjoyed Present Laughter the least of the things I've seen, but that might in part have been because the volume was way too high on that screening.

The best - to my surprise - was The Lehman Trilogy.

That's interesting. Lehman Trilogy was very good, I agree.

The Lehman Trilogy was amazing.

I saw it live-screened last summer, on the hottest day in all history, sitting in a beautifully air-conditioned cinema - from where we watched the theatre audience desperately fanning themselves with anything available.

Weirdly, I often find that if I can’t get to a performance of something I want to see, I always seem to miss the live screening as well.

The RSC are doing this:

In the hope that someone from the National Theatre is reading this thread, I'd like to add my vote for another showing of Frankenstein. Please. Please. Please.

I’d like that too. Kept missing it.

Thanks for posting, I hadn't seen this, but will definitely tune in.

I am SO excited for Twelfth Night. That’s the play that made me enjoy Shakespeare (we had an excellent English teacher in year 9, whereas when we’d done Midsummer and Merchant of Venice before they were just... meh)

AND she’s one of my favourite British actresses too! :o

I saw Jane Eyre when it was originally a two part play in Bristol. It was electrifying! Can't wait to see it condensed.
Also saw 1 man and really enjoyed it. It's great fun. Think the kids will love it.

Jane Eyre is the first classic I enjoyed too :) we were only studying the first ten chapters in year 8 but I read it all after. Glad to hear the play is good!

Not a Corden fan, but saw One Man Two Guvnors live at theatre. It was fantastic. My husband hates theatre and Corden but he was laughing his head off. We will be watching this, could do with a laugh.

I've seen One Man Two Guvnors. It's quite.. slapstick... and even my 13 year old was a bit shocked at some of the things said...
Not a bad night's entertainment though.