Some entertainment for your downtime.
Hampstead Theatre are showing three plays,
Last week, Andrew was that guy with his girl lunching in KFC, discussing apartments and making plans for the future. Today he’s in Moscow, in an undisclosed hotel room, on the run and at risk of assassination.
Last week, a nobody. This week, America’s Most Wanted: a man who humiliated his country with one touch of a button.
Mike Bartlett’s darkly comic new play directed by James Macdonald explores the unexpected, bewildering, and life-changing consequences of challenging the status quo at a global level. As the State grows more powerful because of technology, and technology grows more powerful because of the State, where do the self-appointed protectors of the rights of the citizen stand? Heroes? Or traitors?
Also in the Hampstead Theatre At Home series: watch Beth Steel’s Wonderland from Monday 6th April here and Howard Brenton’s Drawing The Line from Monday 12 April here.
The Midlands, 1984. Two young lads are about to learn what it is to be a miner, to be accepted into the close camaraderie and initiated into a unique workplace where sweat, toil, collapsing roofs and explosions are all to be met with bawdy humour.
London, 1984. A conflicted Tory MP, a brash American CEO and an eccentric maverick are the face of a radical Conservative government preparing to do battle with the most powerful workforce, the miners.
As the two sides clash, the miners fight for their livelihoods and families, and the government for its vision of a free Britain. Together they change the fabric of the nation forever.
Beth Steel‘s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominated play, originally performed at Hampstead to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Miners’ Strike, is directed by Edward Hall.
Also in the Hampstead Theatre At Home series: watch Mike Bartlett’s Wild from Monday 30 March here and Howard Brenton’s Drawing The Line from Monday 12 April here.
London, 1947. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the Court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is given an unlikely mission. He is to travel to India, a country he has never visited, and, with limited survey information, no expert support and no knowledge of cartography, he is to draw the border which will divide the Indian sub-continent into two new Sovereign Dominions. To make matters even more challenging, he has only six weeks to complete the task.
Wholly unsuited to his role, Radcliffe is unprepared for the dangerous whirlpool of political intrigue and passion into which he is plunged – untold consequences may even result from the illicit liaison between the Leader of the Congress Party and the Viceroy’s wife… As he begins to break under the pressure he comes to realise that he holds in his hands the fate of millions of people.
Harold Brenton‘s sweeping epic directed by Howard Davies vividly unfolds the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world.
Also in the Hampstead Theatre At Home series: watch Mike Bartlett’s Wild from Monday 30 March here and Beth Steel’s Wonderland from Monday 6 April here.
The National Theatre are also showing plays being streamed on: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/nt-at-home?queueittoken=e_safetyevent25mar20~q_8b3b72a8-392f-4a1d-aa3b-bf631fd4b304~ts_1585641735~ce_true~rt_safetynet~h_d00d236dd7b2c0a546f4f82df28e9d7941553df892e6e2d8e7f3c500cd2b47a5
Some fun science experiments to try with the kids (or just be big kids!) at home – https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/whats-on/things-to-do/kids-science-experiments-home-how-help-your-child-science-activities-and-easy-experiments-they-can-try-2521001
Or a forestry experience online https://www.forestryengland.uk/blog/10-ways-keep-the-kids-entertained-through-covid-19
ORDER A CHEESEFEST!!!! https://www.cheddaronline.co.uk/
Watch and listen to a beach cam – bring the beach to you! https://hoteldel.com/live-webcam/
Do a free open university course! https://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue
Or an alternative from Amnesty – https://academy.amnesty.org/learn/course/external/view/elearning/164/COVID-19&HumanRights
An online Yoga Class! https://youtu.be/v7AYKMP6rOE
Or some free craft classes. https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/craft-ideas/g31903853/good-housekeeping-facebook-live-craft-classes/