The UK”s National Theatre in London a bastion of all that’s good and fine in both classic and contemporary drama  have just launched National Theatre at Home.  It’s a new  on-demand streaming service featuring a number of productions filmed at the U.K. institution.

Available globally , there are some superb productions such as Tom Hiddleston in Coriolanus, (be still my heart …) Medea with Helen McCrory, Amadeus, starring Adam Gillen and Lucian Msamati,  and minus her crown, Olivia Colman in Mosquitos .

 

 

Additional productions available  to stream at the moment include Othello with Adrian Lester. Phèdre with Helen Mirren, Dominic Cooper, and Ruth Negga; and The Cherry Orchard with Zoë Wanamaker.  But take a moment to browse  though their extensive catalogue which they will add too weekly

“At a time when many people were isolated at home, it was uplifting to see audiences recreate the shared experience of visiting the theatre,” said National Theatre Executive Director and Joint Chief Executive Lisa Burger. ” With the agreement from artists, we are now able to showcase an extraordinary range of fantastic NT Live productions and, for the first time, some treasured plays from our NT Archive.”