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Stage v screen: is theatre better in the cinema?

by Peter Bradshaw

Theatre is pricey and divisive but can a livestream ever capture its flesh and blood thrills? Our film critic decided to find out " by legging it out of Kenneth Branagh's Romeo and Juliet at the interval … It has, in the past, taken all too little encouragement for me to express my bad-tempered and contradictory views concerning the theatre: namely, that it is pricey and divisive compared to cinema's democracy; and…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 1:15pm on July 27, 2016