Welcome to our weekly What To Watch television and streaming guide. This week features Flight Pattern at the Royal Opera House, Thatcher & Reagan: A Very Special Relationship, House of Maxwell and Falklands War: The Forgotten Battle.
Flight Pattern
Royal Opera House stream, available now
Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite first created Flight Pattern for The Royal Ballet in 2017. This special stream of the production is presented in support of Ukraine, and all net proceeds will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). This large-scale ensemble work, which takes a powerful and sombre look at ongoing refugee crises, is set to Górecki’s “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”, music often associated with the Holocaust. Pite gives his music news meaning using a large ensemble that moves as one body until one distraught couple is marked out from the crowd. Buy tickets here.
