Regular attenders to the Market Place venue will be aware that the Corn Exchange also regularly screen live and encore broadcasts from other theatres across the globe, as part of their Live Broadcasts programme.
‘Live screenings’ are broadcast live from other renowned arts venues to the Corn Exchange screen, and ‘encore screenings’ are recorded live on a previous date, before being screened as live at a later time.
These screenings, which take place in the Corn Exchange’s 40 seat cinema, or 400 seat auditorium, enable audiences to experience the biggest names in theatre, presented as live from some of the world’s most acclaimed arts venues, in their home town, and at a fraction of the cost.
Screenings from the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Opera House and Bolshoi Ballet regularly fit the bill, and this season also welcomes broadcasts from the Glyndebourne Opera House.
This season’s broadcasts include NT Live: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Live: 20 Apr, 7pm & Encore: 4 May, 7pm), starring Daniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire in a comic interpretation of two of Shakespeare’s minor characters from Hamlet; director Angus Jackson presents Shakespeare’s epic political tragedy in RSC Live: Julius Caesar (Live: 26 Apr, 7pm & Encore: 17 May, 7pm); and Jude Law stars in Ivan van Hove’s highly anticipated adaptation of Luchino Visconti’s 1940’s film in NT Live: Obsession (Live: 11 May, 7pm & Encore: 25 May, 7pm) broadcast by the National Theatre from the Barbican Theatre, London.
In addition to the dates in this season’s Live Broadcast programme, tickets for screenings up to as late as August 2017 are also on sale now.
Upcoming titles include ROH: Otello (Live: 28 June, 7:15pm), Glyndebourne Opera House: La Traviata (Encore: 8 Jun, 6pm), NT Live: Angels in America part one (Live: 20 July, 7pm) and two (Live:27 July, 7pm), and NT Encore: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (6 June, 7pm).
Tickets for all live and encore broadcasts are £14.50 (£12.50 concessions). To view the Corn Exchange’s complete Live Broadcast programme, please visit their website www.cornexchangenew.com, call the Box Office on 0845 5218 218 (calls cost 2p per minute plus your telephone company’s access charge), or pick up a brochure.