NTLive - YERMA this week

[Skip23]

Posted: 8/11/18 at 5:07pm

Is it worth seeing? 

 

 

[ImAProphet]

Posted: 8/11/18 at 5:13pm

Absolutely, it's among the most intense theatre experiences of my life.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 8/11/18 at 5:42pm

Absolutely. Billie Piper’s performance is extraordinary. One of the most lived-in, intense, visceral performances you’re ever likely to see. I can only imagine how it was live. The play itself is very much of the “watch a woman suffer beautifully” genre, which is often (and usually rightly so) viewed as mysoginistic. It could be especially true in this instance, given that it was directed and written by a man from an even older play also written by a man. But the cast is so all-around exceptional and the direction is so precise that its problems rarely get in the way of the way of the epic human tragedy playing out.

I loved it, even in filmed form.

[JBroadway]

Posted: 8/11/18 at 6:03pm

See it or forever live in regret 

[annang]

Posted: 8/11/18 at 7:44pm

Does NT Live ever make these available outside theaters? None of the theaters near me are showing it. 

[JBroadway]

Posted: 8/11/18 at 10:19pm

annang said: "Does NT Live ever make these available outside theaters? None of the theaters near me are showing it."

 

They never do, but one can find copies of questionable legality floating around the internet, if one knows where to look. 

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 8/12/18 at 2:28am

Yes it's worth it. It may not have nearly the same impact as seeing it live, but it's still an amazing experience seeing the screen version.

[east side story]

Posted: 8/12/18 at 1:03pm

If you weren’t able to see it in person, absolutely go see the screening. Having seen both, nothing could ever match experiencing the production and that performance live. However, you owe it to yourself as a theatre goer to watch in a movie theater if you are able to.

Legendary.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 8/12/18 at 5:01pm

Let's see, this is August, 2018. This film will probably be shown in the little art cinema in our town in January of 2020.