Let's stop pretending that theatre can't be captured on screen
An intimate filmed production of the Almeida's Ghosts disproves the idea that theatre is an irreducible experienceI recall a Punch cartoon of the late 1950s showing two moviegoers gazing in astonishment at the latest 3D spectacle. "Next thing," one of them remarked, "they'll be having real people up there." But we are now in an era when the gap between film and theatre, thanks to sophisticated tec…