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14 February
POV : or where is the camera placed - in the theatre, or art gallery ? (work in progress)
In its day, the enterprise of BBC Television Shakespeare was not without its critics (and the whole thing would be done differently now, not with one director to each play, etc.), but it has this massive point in its favour : it does not present any sort of illusion that one is watching a stage production, or suggest that one might as well save (think that one saves ?) and go to the cinema to watch a 'live' (or 'encore') production, where a director gives you what to look at / what to think...
What - by comparison with the Television Shakespeare - does NT Live (or other theatres / theatre companies, now drearily doing the same) actually offer for a minimum of £16 per adult ticket for one of these directed, live performances ? The BBC endeavour was included in the licence fee - and, at some later point, one could buy the plays on VHS cassette, for example Felicity Kendal (as Rosamund) in As You Like it, or Derek Jacobi as Richard II, as one recalls...
More to come...
Interesting ? :
The producers of "Hamilton" and "Harry Potter" are aggressively trying to contain ticket scalping https://t.co/lPeguESkm0— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 14, 2017
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
