Amazon to stream major National Theatre plays in UK and Ireland Mark Sweney
Amazon has partnered with the National Theatre to stream four high-profile live-recorded stage shows, including Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag.
The shows, which include Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in 2011’s Frankenstein, will be made available to Amazon’s Prime Video customers in the UK & Ireland from 11 June.
The two other performances are Cumberbatch as Hamlet, filmed at the Barbican in 2015, and Ian McKellen on Stage, a solo show the Lord of the Rings actor toured in 2019 to mark his 80th birthday.
“As theatre-makers continue to be impacted by the pandemic, this will enable us to further support the artists behind the work,” said Lisa Burger, joint chief executive at the National Theatre, which has beamed theatre performances into British cinemas for the past 12 years. “Audiences will have the best seats in the house.”
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s West End performance filmed by the National Theatre
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s stage performance of Fleabag is to broadcast on Amazon Prime next month.
One of the dates in her sold-out West End run of 2019 was filmed by the National Theatre, and subsequently released in cinemas. Now it is to be made available to Amazon subscribers from June 12, as part of a tie-up with the National.
Three other stage shows are also included: Frankenstein,
directed by Danny Boyle and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller; Cumberbatch’s version of Hamlet
; and Ian McKellen On Stage, his reminiscence show available for fans to watch at home for the first time.
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