Manchester theatre company grows from audience of dozens to potentially thousands thanks to live stream performance
A theatre company’s latest live stream production will see it broadcast to potentially thousands of people worldwide – including the play’s writer 8,500 miles away.
Only four years ago Elysium Theatre Company, which has bases in Manchester and Durham, was putting on its first play in front of just dozens of people at the Assembly Rooms, Durham.
But its latest offering – Hello and Goodbye, by South Africa’s leading playwright Athol Fugard – will be filmed and streamed across the internet for the world to see, when it is performed at Northern School of Art, Hartlepool, at 7.30pm on Wednesday 23rd June.
It will star Manchester-based actor Hannah Ellis Ryan, and fellow Elysium co-founder Danny Solomon.
Hannah also runs Hope Mill Theatre in the city and found fame in Coronation Stre...