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| | Arts Calendar / May 6 / Film |
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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UK 2013, 177 min (with one intermission). Directed by Dominic Dromgoole. Starring: John Light, Michelle Terry, Matthew Tennyson, Olivia Ross. Hermia loves Lysander and Helena loves Demetrius – but Demetrius is supposed to be marrying Hermia… When the Duke of Athens tries to enforce the marriage, the lovers take refuge in the woods and wander into the midst of a dispute between the king and queen of the fairies. Shakespeare put some of his most dazzling dramatic poetry at the service of this teasing, glittering, hilarious and amazingly inventive play, whose seriousness is only fleetingly glimpsed beneath its dreamlike surface. Michelle Terry won the 2011 Olivier Award for her portrayal of Sylvia in Tribes (Royal Court). Michelle returns to the Globe having previously played the Princess of France in Love’s Labours Lost (2007). Watch online here.
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Frankenstein: Cumberbatch |
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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.
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Hamlet |
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USA 2010, 169 min. Conductor: Louis Langrée. Starring: Simon Keenlyside, Marlis Petersen, James Morris. In French. After over a century out of the Met’s repertoire, audiences were thrilled to discover just what a sensational evening in the theater Thomas’s Hamlet can be. Simon Keenlyside’s riveting performance as the tortured Prince of Denmark in Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser’s starkly brooding production had critics raving that Keenlyside’s superb singing, coupled with his deftly delineated three-dimensional Hamlet, was one of the greatest examples of operatic drama of our time. The cast includes Marlis Petersen as the long suffering Ophélie, who brilliantly shows why her mad scene is so justly famous, along with Jennifer Larmore and James Morris as Gertrude and Claudius. Watch online here.
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