Shakespeare Online

I've posted about music performances being streamed online during our time of social distancing and lockdowns, but there's much more to see and hear. That includes Shakespeare.

London's Globe Theatre is streaming plays (mostly Shakespeare) on their YouTube channel. Hamlet just finished a two-week run; next up is Romeo and Juliet.

On April 23, Canada's Stratford Festival will begin streaming some of its plays, starting with Colm Feore in King Lear.

The nicely curated program is divided into four themes, each of which resonates with things we're thinking about during the pandemic: Social Order, Isolation, Minds Pushed to the Edge and Relationships. 

Each film will debut with a 7 pm viewing party and remain available for free for a three-week period on the Stratford Festival website. Once it begins, with several plays running "in rep," it'll come to resemble the actual Stratford Festival itself.