Shakespeare’s Globe to live-stream A Midsummer Night’s Dream for free
Shakespeare’s Globe has teamed up with the BBC for the first ever live stream of a production from the theatre.
The final performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be broadcast online for free on a BBC website on September 11, and will then be available on iPlayer for the following 60 days.
Meera Syal will introduce the production before broadcast, while the Globe will also air a series of live behind the scenes tours on social media in the run up to the live stream.
Globe artistic director Emma Rice said the broadcast would enable the show “to reach even more people than we can fit in the Globe over an entire summer season”.
“This is the best gift to the audience I can imagine and will catapult this amazing play and extraordinary venue into living rooms around the country,” she added.
Peter Maniura, head of digital development at BBC Arts, said it would be a “fitting climax” to the online Shakespeare Lives festival, which the BBC is co-curating with the British Council.
He continued: “Theatre is all about the live experience and I'm delighted that the energy, brilliance and sheer fun of Emma Rice's smash-hit production is going to reach the biggest possible audience globally through this live stream.”
The broadcast follows a similar project that saw Don Warrington’s performance as King Lear at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre uploaded to iPlayer earlier this year.
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