Our good friend Emer Dooris from Emer D blog is back with us, guest blogging this week to bring you her top picks of entertainment from home. She’s a great all-rounder when it comes to the arts, but particularly loves theatre and music… But we also have some fab TV in here too including my own recommendation for the week The Framing of Britney Spears.
And with spring in the air it’s lovely to see some positivity around with all the music, theatre and art that we all so desperately need to get us through what will hopefully be the last of the lockdowns (but we wont hold our breath!).
HEADLINERS
Jack Garratt will be live on his YouTube tonight at 8pm where he will be playing an acoustic version of his album Phase from the Village Underground in London.
Want to get that Friday Feeling? Roger Sanchez is live streaming as part of the house nation over on futurescreen.tv tonight at midnight till 3am!
Burning the night oil? Patti Smith will also be lives streaming at 2am on Veeps.com and 3 Doors Down will be playing their greatest hits on mandolin.com.
THEATRE
Original Theatre online present their first theatre live stream this weekend. ‘Good Grief’, starring Sean Clifford and Nikesh Patel, tells the story of two friends navigating the five stages of grief through comedy and absurdity. Find out more at www.originaltheatreonline.com
Curve at Home, in association with the Birmingham Hippodrome, will stream an intimate, bold and beautiful new digital version of the WhatsOnStage award-winning production of ‘The Colour Purple’ this weekend from www.curveonline.co.uk
FILM
Need something to finish the mid-term break with the kids? Check out The Willoughbys on Netflix. PG animated fun for all! (We loved this wonderful piece, written by Ricky Gervais)
To commemorate that anniversary of the trial of the Chicago 7, Netflix has released the film of the same name on its YouTube channel for 48hrs this weekend. Starring Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeremy Strong, Michael Keaton (and many more), it tells the real life story of a peaceful protest to end the Vietnam War which ended in an historic court case. The film has been nominated for 5 Golden Globes, 6 Critic’s Choice Awards and 3 SAG Awards, so it's one not to missed! Jump on to the Netflix YouTube account now!
Also just out on Netflix is ‘Behind Her Eyes’, which is based on a best-selling thriller by Sarah Pinborough. We’re not horror fans here at The F Words, but we could def go a psychological thriller!
THE OTHER BEST BITS…
Check out Stan and Ollie on BBC1 at 8.25pm. The film tells the story of Laurel and Hardy's famous tour of Britain and Ireland in 1953 (they even popped into the Grand Opera House on this tour and stayed in Belfast for a couple of weeks).
Or Limitless starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro is on 5Star at 8pm. We loved this movie back when it first came out.
Oh and if you haven’t watched it yet, ‘The Framing of Brittany Spears’ is currently on NowTV/Sky Documentaries. Editor Cathy Martin has been following the #FREEBRITNEY campaign for the last year and was a massive advocate of this documentary when it first came out. Poor Britney was harangued and harassed for abnormal behaviours when actually they were pretty normal reactions to being CONSTANTLY hounded by a press and paparazzi who were unhealthily OBSESSED with every move she made. I mean, poor Britney was on lockdown before any of us even had an inkling of lockdown life as she tried to live her life against the massive wave of pressure among paps to get a money shot (an upskirt pic of her by a paparazzo was rewarded with a $1m fee by People magazine). And then for her father to team up with a crooked lawyer to forcibly become her custodians and decide every tiny thing about her including how and what she was medicated and drugged with?! Aaaaargh!
Anyway, Cathy’s advice: IT’S A MUST-WATCH.
Back to me though, I’ll be honest I'll have to finish Married at First Sight Australia before I tackle any of these as I’m addicted! But whatever you get up to, enjoy!
E x
