Live Commentaries
Introducing Lockdown Theatre - don't miss it!
27 April, 2020
With series one of the weekly Quarantine Commentaries now complete, read on for news of a very special treat coming this Sunday (3rd May):
Lockdown Theatre is a specially designed initiative to serve up original entertainment in these troubled times.
Every writer has a treasured script that never got made - the one that got away. We're giving those scripts the opportunity to see the light of day.
The opening show is by Oscar®-winning screenwriter James Hendrie, and it's a 30 minute sci-fi mystery, rippled through with delicious dark comedy.
We've assembled an amazingly stellar cast including Chris Barrie, Hattie Hayridge, Iwan Rheon, Robert Lindsay, Martin Kemp, Felicity Montagu, Lee Cornes, Frances Barber and Ruby Wax, to bring it to life at a live table reading, broadcast at 2pm on Zoom on Sunday.
It's directed by Ed Bye, produced by Paul Jackson, and Rob Grant will be serving the interval Häagen-Dazs. There'll also be a Q&A afterwards.
It's a new kind of theatre for the lockdown era. Don't miss it.
If you've already signed up for previous commentaries, you don't need to sign up again, but you will receive instructions by email shortly on how to opt-in to this show. If you haven't signed up before, then complete the form at the bottom of this page as soon as you can to get your slot!
Places will go first-come first-served based on your original signup date (so those already watching the weekly commentaries are the first in the queue!), and this one won't be going on YouTube afterwards, so sign up now to avoid disappointment!
Previously...
In these trying times of lockdown, quarantine and hopefully not too many sprout-based meals, Rob Grant, Paul Jackson and Ed Bye are bringing some fun to your sofas and putting a smile on your faces by offering their unique live commentary on Red Dwarf, episode by episode! And they're inviting special guests - so far including Chris Barrie and Lee Cornes, with more to follow!
Each week, the trio line up over the Zoom conferencing service to a select audience of fans worldwide - an audience you can be a part of, if you read on. Everyone syncs up the episode and watches it together, with the gang reminiscing and answering questions both during the show and in a Q&A session afterwards. And there may or may not be Double Rimmer salutes involved.
And you haven't seen any of the shows so far, then they're collected right here for your playbacking pleasure in this handy YouTube playlist:
Note that if you've signed up for a previous week's commentary, you'll automatically be entered into the draw for a place each week!
Apply here
WARNING: Though we can't absolutely promise it, there may be some cussing. So if the language of the guttersnipe offends you, you probably shouldn't apply.
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