Viewing Marquee TV Summer Shorts 2021

If you’re not quite ready to face hordes of real-life theatregoers, tune into Marquee TV’s Summer Shorts Festival, celebrating the very best of opera, dance, theatre and music on demand. During the month of August, you’ll be able to stream 30 short films from institutional partners and independent artists from around the world for free. ‘The very best short films have the power to inspire and excite all in a space of minutes, and great stories can be told in a very short time,’ says Susannah Simons, Editorial Director at Marquee TV.

Not to be missed are the five short films from the 2020 Platform Presents Playwright’s Prize, including My Dad’s A C**t and Is Edward Snowden Single? For those who enjoy dance, look to the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and to The Washington Ballet’s pas de deux titled Unbound, a striking duet inspired by Michael Pendry’s installation Les Colombes (Doves) in the Washington National Cathedral. Opera buffs will enjoy Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment and LA Opera’s Let Me Come In starring American soprano Angel Blue. With so much to see, you’ll be swopping Aperols alfresco for pointes and pirouettes in no time.