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Funnily enough, a lot of the best theatre streaming services are currently run by youth-oriented theatre companies. This is because a great majority of established theatre companies for young people already offer online services, to deploy to educational institutions such as colleges and schools. Another kind of zoning occurs in saline playas with respect to the hydration of different minerals. Dehydrated minerals, such as anhydrite (CaSO 4), occur on surface areas protected against flooding and in wet saline areas. Two broad classes of playas may be defined on the basis of past histories. One type develops from the desiccation of a former lake. Sediments in such a playa are primarily lacustrine, rather than derived from modern depositional processes. The second type of playa has no paleolacustrine heritage. Small salt pans in South Africa, called vokils, are of this type. If you signed up within a Google Play or Android app, follow the steps here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7018481 Melodrama – A melodrama is full of strong emotions. You will see the struggle of the hero or heroine and their quest to overcome adversity. Don't worry, though; it usually ends on a happy note!

Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin’s dizzily enjoyable musical about Roald Dahl’s telekinetic bookworm sings the importance of two invaluable resources: public libraries and arts subsidy. Produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, it became a global sensation thanks to its sweetly spiky songs, empowering celebration of the imagination and brilliantly rebellious heroine who puts the “revolt” into revolting rhymes. While her mum is at the bingo, Dahl’s Matilda spends “two glorious hours” at the library. This gives the same pleasure in the theatre. CW Read the review. 6 The York Realist (2001) David Tennant is set to return to theatre in October in a West End revival of Good, CP Taylor’s play about nazism. But you can see him ruling the stage, tresses flowing, in this RSC production of Shakespeare’s first history play, told with many heroic couplets and some of his most beautiful lines including the “sceptered isle” speech. Savage satire … Ralph Fiennes and Janet McTeer in God of Carnage at the Gielgud, London, in 2008. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian 36 God of Carnage (2006) Russian folk dance is very diverse. Some are languid maiden dances, while others are a lively whirl with stomping and rhythmic clapping. Sophocles’ play is still the most powerful ever written about the conflict between our obligations to the state and our duty to the ties of kinship. Antigone defies her uncle Kreon, the new ruler of Thebes, by burying her brother Polyneices. He had brought an army against his native city and Kreon, in these politically volatile times, wants his corpse left for the dogs as an exemplary desecration. The philosopher Hegel saw this as the quintessence of true tragedy: not a conflict between good and evil, but between right and right. In fact, productions nowadays tend to come down in favour of Antigone and her self-sacrificing intransigence. The play has been adapted for many modern contexts, including Northern Ireland and South Africa. P

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With so many highly-anticipated plays currently in production, and many well-received London shows already on stage, it’s an extremely exciting time for the city’s theatre scene. The stage is enjoying a boom. It’s a perfect opportunity to get the inside scoop on the plays you most want to see. Find out more on London’s West End Gripping … Michael Sheen and Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon at the Donmar, London, in 2006. Photograph: Johan Persson/AP 45 Frost/Nixon (2006) Henry V, nee Prince Hal, is, in our minds, the perfect model of kingship after an education gained by indulgence in a misspent youth, and a perfect human being, but that is only because that’s the way Shakespeare chose to present him in the furtherance of the themes he wanted to develop and the dramatic story he wanted to tell. Like all ancient folk dances, Russian plyas had ritual significance, i.e. the ancient Slavs not only danced for pleasure and artistic purposes, but to accomplish some kind of ritual that usually involved connecting with nature or the gods, or entering a metaphysical realm.

In the 17th century under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich (the father of Peter I) the minstrels were persecuted, but the tradition of Russian plyas continued to be passed on from generation to generation. Clever and dangerous … Ken Nwosu and Kevin Trainor in An Octoroon at the Orange Tree, London, in 2017. Photograph: Richard Davenport/The Other Richard 11 An Octoroon (2014) You may not find the edgiest, most adult or cutting-edge material on these platforms. However, if you’re looking for insight into the theatre-making process, a lot of these companies couple their streamed shows with supporting educational resources. Traditional Streaming Services Inside your head … Simon McBurney in the Encounter at the Edinburgh festival in 2015. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian 13 The Encounter (2015)Endorheic basin, also known as a sink, alkali flat or sabkha, a desert basin with no outlet which periodically fills with water to form a temporary lake Loosely based on Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer prize-winning play unfurls at Mama Nadi’s, a brothel and bar in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Here Mama Nadi and her “girls”, each an orphan of war, entertain soldiers on both sides, flirting for their lives. Never indulgent or exploitative, this shattering play explores how women assert themselves in a world ruled by men who use rape and mutilation as weapons. Nottage’s play never sanitises this violence, but it argues, via beautifully complicated characters, that survival, compassion and even love remain possible. AS Read the review. 33 Mr Burns (2012) Tom Stoppard sometimes gets accused of being all head and no heart – but this play proves otherwise. Yes, it’s a mind-achingly clever look at both science and art, pitting the rational against the romantic, while giving you mini lessons in chaos theory, the second law of thermodynamics and the life and shaggings of Lord Byron. But there’s a love story and a tragedy here too. Two stories, set in the same country house, in 1809 and the present day, intersect and eventually overlap beautifully. The mathematic theorising forecasts hope as well as disaster for the universe, and the story offers the same for its characters. HW