Rugby High School subscribes to both Digital Theatre Plus and The Drama Online Library which has a wealth of outstanding theatre productions that you can stream. Here are some recommendations for the summer holidays – happy watching!

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Digital Theatre Plus Log in: drama@rugbyhighschool.co.uk Password: performingarts2021   PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THESE LOG IN DETAILS OUTSIDE OF THE RUGBY HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY. OUR LICENSE ONLY PERMITS STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AT THE SCHOOL TO USE THEM AND FAILURE TO ADHERE TO THESE RULES COULD INCUR SEVERE FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD FOUND DOING SO. Jane Eyre

Drama Online Library. Age recommendation: 12+ (occasional swearing)

Recorded through National Theatre Live on 8th December, 2015 as a co-production with the Bristol Old Vic.

Born into a life of struggle, the spirited Jane Eyre tackles life's obstacles head-on as she seeks to pursue her own path in the world. Faced with poverty, injustice and a bitter betrayal, the trailblazing Jane follows her heart to fight for freedom and fulfillment on her own terms.

Devised by the Company, Sally Cookson's adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece is a vivid and breathtaking spectacle.

Watch Jane Eyre

 

Barber Shop Chronicles

Drama Online Library. Age recommendation: 12+

This co-production with Fuel Theatre was captured in the Dorfman Theatre on 20th June, 2017.

One day. Six cities. A thousand stories.

Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling.

Barber Shop Chronicles is a heart-warming, hilarious and insightful new play that leaps from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra.

Watch Barber Shop Chronicles

One Man, Two Guvnors

Drama Online Library. Age recommendation: 12+

Recorded through National Theatre Live on 15th September, 2011.

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancée’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers.

Holed up at The Cricketers’ Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be re-united with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple.

Tony Award-winning James Corden plays Francis Henshall in the hilarious West End and Broadway hit.

WATCH ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS

 

Twelfth Night

Online Drama Library. Age recommendation: 12+

Recorded through National Theatre Live on 6th April, 2017.

A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love.

The nearby households of Olivia and Orsino are overrun with passion. Even Olivia's upright housekeeper Malvolia is swept up in the madness. Where music is the food of love, and nobody is quite what they seem, anything proves possible.

Simon Godwin directs this joyous new production with Tasmin Greig as a transformed Malvolia, in a new twist on Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity.

Watch Twelfth Night

 

Lovesong

Digital Theatre Plus. Age recommendation 14+.

Lovesong, written in 2011 by Abi Morgan in collaboration with Frantic Assembly, delves into the intricacies of relationships, love, illness and loss.

Following a couple through the first steps of their life together to the very last, with past interweaving vividly with present, their older selves join with their younger selves and memories become more vivid in the approach to the end.

Watch LoveSong

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