After exploring some views on performance online during lockdown, I'm now going to look at some examples. I'm looking at National Theatre to find some examples on online performance.
Immediately on the National Theatre home page, it says, Watch The Madness of George III on YouTube, for free. As the National Theatre is closed until the end of August, no productions are being held in the building. The three different theatres, Olivier Theatre, Lyttelton Theatre and Dorfman Theatre, have a combined capacity of almost 2,500 seats. Here are some of their key facts and figures:
Even through quarantine, they're still providing entertainment to the public, with fundraisers on their videos in hopes of continuing. Their YouTube channel has over 600k subscribers and is providing free full-length plays every Thursday. So far, they have only premiered The Madness of George III which got almost 300k views and 3k likes. Before the play starts, they kindly ask people to consider donating, which is a good way of monetisation through this time.
Tomorrow I want to watch The Madness of George III and comment on my thoughts and feelings of watching a performance over a screen rather than in person.
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