Free Digital Theatre this March
10 March 2021
Looking for digital theatre this month? Druid has you covered - and it's all free.
The country may still be in lockdown and our theatre's doors closed but we have a range of digital theatre offerings available for you to enjoy in your own home. Our mission is to share our work with audiences far and wide so we're proud to offer these free digital productions to you wherever you may be.
The Cherry Orchard
Join us on Friday 19 March at 8pm GMT to watch our 2020 production of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, in a version by Tom Murphy, in your own home. Directed by Garry Hynes, The Cherry Orchard will be available to audiences around the world, free to view for a limited period.
Bringing together one of the world’s great classic plays with one of Ireland’s greatest writers, The Cherry Orchard opened in Galway’s Black Box Theatre in February 2020. In a first for Irish theatre, the production was also broadcast live to cinemas across Ireland and the UK in March 2020.
Coole Park Poetry Series
We're delighted to be part of this year's St Patrick's Festival, in collaboration with Poetry Ireland and our partners, the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. Twelve poetry films, including six filmed in Coole Park as part of DruidGregory, will be available to view as part of this year's online festival.
The festival, featuring more than 100 events, will be broadcast globally over 6 days and nights on St Patrick’s Festival TV (SPF TV), a dedicated online TV channel, and will simultaneously stream on RTÉ Culture and Oireachtas TV. The poems will be available on SPF TV until Sunday 21 March.
The poems will also be available here after the festival has ended.
DruidSynge
In 2005, we presented the first ever staging of John Millington Synge's entire theatrical canon. Directed by Garry Hynes, DruidSynge was performed as a series of plays on consecutive days or as a really special festival experience of all the plays on the same day. You can now watch them free online.
The Playboy of the Western World
DruidGregory Educational Resources for Children
As part of our DruidGregory Education and Community Programme, primary and secondary school students and teachers across Ireland can now avail of free resources that explore and highlight two extraordinary Galway writers, Lady Gregory and Tom Murphy.
These resources include colouring sheets, crosswords, wordsearches, writing exercises and videos.