Shaw Festival's Running A Live Cabaret Event On Youtube In 10 Minutes!

Shaw Festival's running a live Cabaret event on youtube in 10 minutes!

Dunno what's in store but might be worth a look!

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Normally when an Animal Crossing game comes out:

"Awww man! I have to go to work/school/social obligations! I just want to stay at home and play Animal Crossing!"

Mid-March 2020: North America enacts Social Distancing protocol. Events are closed. Businesses are emptied. The public is advised to stay at home.

Covid-19:

You're Welcome

If Boomers didn’t want my generation to be full of obstinate spite against widespread evils then why did they expose me to these lines in Lord the Rings at the tender age of eight:

fuck your Climate Change Denial-ism, we’re going to get through this

The National Theatre is going to stream a free play every Thursday night  (source) 

As numerous theatrical institutions have admirably opened up their archives in response to increasing lockdown restrictions, all eyes have remained on one organisation: the National Theatre, which has the greatest archive of cinema-quality recordings of stage plays of any theatre in the world, thanks to its formidable NT Live programme. It’s designed to beam productions from the NT into cinemas across the country, but there are of course no cinemas in operation at present. So the NT is switching to its YouTube channel. From April 2, under the banner of National Theatre at Home, every Thursday (7pm) will see a new National Theatre play released – free to watch for one week – along with bonus content including cast and creative Q&As and post-stream talks.

There’s a definite emphasis on family-friendly good cheer for the line-up so far, which kicks off with a big hitter: Richard Bean’s beloved farce ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’, starring a pre-chat-show-days James Corden. Over the next few weeks you can expect a string of family-friendly titles, though naturally there will be those hoping for some of the real NT Live blockbusters, notably ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Frankenstein’ starring Benedict Cumberbatch and ‘Coriolanus’ starring Tom Hiddleston.

The initial programme is:

April 2 ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ by Richard Bean, starring James Corden. Read our review.

April 9 ‘Jane Eyre’, adapted by Sally Cookson. Read our review.

April 16 ‘Treasure Island’, adapted by Bryony Lavery. Read our review.

April 23 ‘Twelfth Night’ by William Shakespeare, starring Tamsin Greig. Read our review.

Additionally, the National Theatre will be rolling out National Theatre Collection study resources to pupils now learning at home.

The NT has also confirmed that live performances won’t restart until at least July.

Well, still not Frankenstein, Hamlet, or Coriolanus, but getting close! If we are still in lock down in 5 weeks…but as much as I want to see these again, I REALLY don’t want to still have to have most of the world still in lock down. And what they are planning to show are going to be good.