Tag: Alistair Petrie

Theatre should be for the many, and not the few, so by bringing ‘National Theatre Live’ into the cinema, and ‘National Theatre at Home’ to your armchair, there is more chance than ever for everyone to enjoy theatre.  On the 22nd January, Hamlet will be available to watch on a cinema screen near you, and William Shakespeare’s tragic play, will be accessible within the medium of film.  Although live performance will always be the best way to experience theatre, this runs at a pretty close second! Hamlet (for those who have yet to experience the play), is a young prince who resides in Elsinore, Denmark, who returns from university to find that his father the King is dead, and that within a month of his death, his mother has married his Uncle Claudius (Alistair Petrie).  These events d...