Six Final Plays
Thursdays, June 18 – July 16
Streaming for free on YouTube
Tickets: Free

Picture: Leah Harvey in Small Island. Photo by Brinkhoff Moegenburg, courtesy of National Theatre Live

Six more weeks of National Theatre for free
Following 10 productions and over 12 million views to date, the company has announced the final National Theatre at Home plays to be shared for free on YouTube. More information about each play can be found on the Arena Theater website, arenatheater.org including a link to the National Theatre’s YouTube site.

The program includes the following plays: June 18, “Small Island,” Rufus Norris directs the epic stage version of Andrea Levy’s prize-winning novel, tracing the history between Jamaica and the UK through WWII to 1948, streaming to mark Windrush Day 2020; June 25, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with Gwendoline Christie as Titania in the Bridge Theatre’s immersive production, directed by Nicholas Hytner; July 2, “Les Blancs,” an African country teeters on the edge of civil war in Lorraine Hansberry’s epic, directed by Yaël Farber; July 9, “The Deep Blue Sea,” Helen McCrory plays one of contemporary drama’s greatest female roles in Terence Rattigan’s masterpiece, directed by Carrie Cracknell; July 16, “Amadeus,” Lucian Msamati is Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s iconic play, directed by Michael Longhurst and featuring live orchestral accompaniment by Southbank Sinfonia. All shows will start on a Thursday and will be available for one week.

Alongside the National’s regular supporting content, Ola Animashawun from the New Work Department will explore “Small Island” and “Les Blancs” in the context of the current global conversation around race.

Audiences who are deaf or hearing impaired can watch all shows with captions. Audiences who are blind or visually impaired can watch separate audio described versions of “Small Island,” “The Deep Blue Sea,” and “Amadeus.”

Arena Theater is located at 214 Main Street, Point Arena, California. Arena Theater is a member-supported community theater owned and operated by the Arena Theater Association, a 501 (c) (3) not for profit corporation. For additional information visit: www.arenatheater.org