NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE!
As part of a lottery grant for North Yorkshire to improve cinema facilities in the area, the Galtres Centre, Easingwold, has secured the screening of plays beamed live by satellite on to the large screen in the theatre, with clarity as good as a cinema from a projector costing £10,000.
They are also beamed to cinema screens around the world, and the initiative is delivered by a consortium of Screen Yorkshire, Blaize, the National Media Museum in Bradford, and North Yorkshire County Council
The satellite dish and necessary wiring will be fitted very soon, in time for the first screening on October 14th at 6:45pm of “A Disappearing Number”, live from the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, the first venue beyond London, directed by Simon McBurney, and won many awards, including Olivier Award for best New Play (2008), the Evening Standard Theatre Award for best play and the Critics’ Circle Theatre award.
Tickets are available now from the Galtres box office price £12, telephone 01347 822472, open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, credit cards accepted.
The performances for the National Theatre Live season are all live, with several cameras in the theatre to capture every nuance of acting, as well as extra sections that the theatre audience does not see, like interviews with the actors and director.
No need to travel to see these plays, they will be available at the Galtres Centre, which could, depending on the success of the plays, be developed to include later opera, and ballet.
“A Disappearing Number” has toured all over the world including a London season, and weaves together the story of two love affairs, separated by a century and a continent. The first happens now. The second is set in 1914. It tells of the heartbreaking collaboration between the greatest natural mathematician of the 20th century, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a penniless Brahmin from Madras in South India, and his British counterpart, the brilliant Cambridge don G H Hardy.
With a haunting original score it is a piece of startling visual poetry, a compelling meditation on love, mathematics, and the pain of exile in an age when we think we can belong anywhere and have everything.
The season of National Theatre Live at the Galtres Centre is an entirely new experience, theatre, and being there, but without the downside of travelling and paying out high prices for seats.
