NVAP Screening: Barnum

Join us to watch the musical Barnum. Featuring acrobats, circus and specialty performers, experience P.T. Barnum’s rise to fame as he creates the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’. Directed by Gordon Greenberg.

 

 

This production was recorded live by the V&A at the Menier Chocolate Factory in March 2018.  

Established in 1992, through an agreement with the Federation of Entertainment Unions, NVAP was the first project of its kind in the UK. The archive now holds over 450 high-quality archival multi-camera recordings of live performance in Britain and continues to record and preserve productions for the national collection. The archive, launched with Richard Eyre’s production of Richard III starring Ian McKellen (National Theatre, 1992), features a vast range of stage performances with work by notable playwrights, directors, set designers, lighting designers and actors. It is an invaluable research tool to view and learn about significant British productions and captures and preserves moments of ephemeral performance history that otherwise would be lost.