the best theatre and dance to watch online
Beckett Double Bill
Two-thirds of Trevor Nunn’s masterful Beckett triple bill at London’s Jermyn Street theatre in early 2020 has been made available online. Hugging his tape recorder and munching bananas, James Hayes unspools melancholic memories in the classic Krapp’s Last Tape, which is accompanied by a rarity in The Old Tune, where Niall Buggy’s Mr Gorman and David Threlfall’s Mr Cream shoot the breeze on a park bench. Available from Digital Theatre until 31 December.
How I Hacked My Way into Space
In July, a group of Yorkshire theatre companies – organised by the brilliant Tutti Frutti – came together for a citywide outdoor children’s festival, Live Little Stories for Leeds. Unlimited Theatre’s production How I Hacked My Way Into Space, performed by Jon Spooner, is now available to watch online until 27 August. In his intergalactic shed, Spooner tells how he accidentally set up a space