I had a really good day on Sunday. The main reason was a totally splendid time at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park tweetup in celebration of @little_mavis and @wombat37’s wedding anniversary. I got to see people I had met before, and some people I have tweeted with but never met before, and some people I didn’t know from Adam but was very pleased to meet, nonetheless. Here I am especially thinking of @vanishedhippo’s parents-in-law.
The secondary reason was that I serendipitously discovered that “The Audience” was playing at the Wakefield Cineworld as an encore performance i.e. not broadcast live but a live recording. It meant leaving the tweetup early but really, could you blame me?
I am a great admirer of Helen Mirren; I could sit watching her watching paint dry. To see her in a London production would ordinarily be beyond my reach. Or if not quite beyond my reach, then at least a little difficult and costly. Instead of which thanks to ntlive.com I had, due to the filmed quality of the performance, a better seat than I would ever have been able to afford for myself for a tenner. That’s £10. 10 GBP. 10 Pound Sterling.
I think this is a marvellous thing. Of course, it’s not the same as theatre. (There are no exorbitantly-priced interval drinks for a start.) It doesn’t smell the same as theatre. (I’ve yet to go to a theatre that sells popcorn.)
But…I am planning on seeing Macbeth, Othello and Coriolanus in the same way. Why would any sane person not?
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