I wonder if they might do this as a 'live streamed' performance where one or more cameras are pointed at the stage and the whole thing is beamed magically to a cinema screen, either live or recorded. This has been done for some other performances and I've seen one of them (Frankenstein) and thought it worked very well. As far as I'm aware it's reasonably straightforward technically and can bring in extra revenue - and allows more people to see it of course. However I'm not sure how the actors feel about it. I know that Gemma Arterton wasn't a fan of the idea and here she is speaking about that in 2014, though she may have changed her mind.
Gemma Arterton says live theatre should be experienced on stage not screen relays
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/gemma-arterton-says-live-theatre-should-be-experienced-on-stage-not-screen-relays-9398438.htmlThe Travesties actors might not like the idea, for all sorts of reasons - and even if it lets more people see the performance they're not seeing it in quite the right way as being in an audience is all part of the experience.
A few years ago there was a workshop where I work, on audiences whose abstract said -
"People in audiences act: they talk, clap, heckle, sigh, inhale, exhale, rustle, twitch, tweet, dance, flirt, laugh, whisper, shuffle, cough... in doing so, they interact. There is a structure and dynamic to these responses which is central to the experience of being in a live audience."
- and even in a cinema audience I'm not sure the experience is shared in quite the same way when staring at a screen.
Anyway it's been lovely to read all the wonderful comments and reviews of the play, even if I do have to wade through some rather eye-opening pornographic spam on Twitter! My 'don't show me smut' settings seem have given up the unequal struggle entirely
Jo
The Frankenstein play is the one with Benedict in it ! It played at select theaters after the run had ended here in the US and I think you can see it on cable and even get it on video now . It would be great if Travesties could do that at some point .