A decade of theatre broadcasts: issues and trends

• Autor(a) principal: Aebischer, Pascale
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Letras (Santa Maria. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/letras/article/view/56341
• topic: Transmissão de teatro; William Shakespeare; National Theatre Live (NT Live); RSC; O Globo shakespeariano; Rob Ashford; Kenneth Branagh; Theatre broadcasting; William Shakespeare; National Theatre Live (NT Live); RSC; Shakespeare's Globe; Rob Ashford; Kenneth Branagh

This article tracks the development of theatre broadcasting in the UK from 2009, when NT Live launched its broadcasting operation, to 2019. It argues for the need to consider the impact theatre broadcasting technologies have on the production and reception of Shakespeare in Britain and across the world, given that broadcasts are increasingly at risk of becoming a surrogate for the experience of theatre-going which they promote. The first part of the article considers the differential reach, across continents, of this supposedly ‘global’ phenomenon, and explores the risk of cultural monopolies being built by large companies like the National Theatre, the RSC and Shakespeare’s Globe, which might crowd out smaller players. The second part considers the camera techniques employed by broadcasts and pays closer attention to the relationship between a proscenium set-up in the theatre and the two-dimensionality of the cinema screen in Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh’s Romeo and Juliet, which was broadcast by Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Plays at the Garrick Live in 2016.