|
|
|
| | Arts Calendar / May 3 / Film |
|
|
|
| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Bright Stream |
|
|
|
|
Ballet to music by Dmitri Shostakovich. Russia 2016, 121 min (with one intermission). Alexei Ratmansky’s vibrant staging of The Bright Stream makes for a ballet unlike any other. The amusing, surprising and enchanting ballet has the audience bursting of laughter in a combination of aerobatics, disguise, and farce. The mischievous comedy is a non-stop festival of dance set to Shostakovich’s vibrant score. The brilliantly detailed and constructed choreography gives it an individual style and identity, amusing the audience with every move. This true masterpiece is guaranteed to result in laughter. Watch online here.
TheatreHD/Play  |
|
|
|
|
| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Frankenstein: Cumberbatch |
|
|
|
|
UK 2011, 123 min. Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ella Smith, John Killoran, Steven Elliott, Karl Johnson, Daniel Millar, Lizzie Winkler. In English with Russian subtitles. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature (Lee Miller) is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker (Cumberbatch). Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller shared both the Olivier Award and London Evening Standard Award for Best Actor for their respective performances. The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards' Best Performance by an Actor in a Play was given to Cumberbatch. The play also won the Olivier Award for Best Lighting for the filament light bulb installation designed by Bruno Poet. Watch online here.
TheatreHD/Play |
|
|
|
|
| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Frankenstein: Lee Miller |
|
|
|
|
UK 2011, 123 min. Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ella Smith, John Killoran, Steven Elliott, Karl Johnson, Daniel Millar, Lizzie Winkler. In English with Russian subtitles. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature (Cumberbatch) is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker (Lee Miller). Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller shared both the Olivier Award and London Evening Standard Award for Best Actor for their respective performances. The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards' Best Performance by an Actor in a Play was given to Cumberbatch. The play also won the Olivier Award for Best Lighting for the filament light bulb installation designed by Bruno Poet. Watch online here.
TheatreHD/Play |
|
|
|
|
| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Globe: Romeo and Juliet |
|
|
|
|
UK 2009, 189 min (with one intermission). Directed by Dominic Dromgoole. Starring: Adetomiwa Edun, Ellie Kendrick, Philip Cumbus. Dromgoole’s production brings refreshing clarity to one of Shakespeare’s most famous and best-loved tragedies, drawing out the contemporary relevance of this passionate teenage love story. Ellie Kendrick (Game of Thrones, Upstairs Downstairs, The Diary of Anne Frank), a truly youthful Juliet, and Adetomiwa Edun (Merlin, The Hour), a boyish Romeo, head an excellent cast whose period costumes point to the timelessness of parental disapproval, adolescent temperament, rivalry and violence. Watch online here.
TheatreHD/Play |
|
|
|
|
| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Luisa Miller |
|
|
|
|
USA 2018, 195 min (with two intermissions). Conductor: Bertrand de Billy. Director: Elijah Moshinsky. Starring: Sonya Yoncheva, Olesya Petrova, Piotr Beczała. In Italian. Bertrand de Billy and Plácido Domingo add yet another chapter to their legendary Met collaboration with this rarely performed Verdi gem, a heart-wrenching tragedy of fatherly love. Sonya Yoncheva sings the title role opposite Piotr Beczała in the first Met performances of the opera in more than ten years. Watch online here.
TheatreHD/Play |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The virtual community for English-speaking expats and Russians
