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Lockdown culture

The best arts and entertainment during self-isolation

  • Lear Alone, still.

    Winner: Observer/ Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2022: Calum Jacobs on Lear Alone

    Shakespeare’s tragedy becomes a one-man story of homelessness in And Tomorrow’s online production, filmed during lockdown on the streets of London
  • ‘Chapter four: Everything Goes Bonkers!’ … Jacob Butler and Sheri Lineham in Jack and the Beanstalk.

    Jack and the Beanstalk review – panto season’s not yet behind you!

    Stephen Joseph theatre’s filmed seasonal offering is a proper winter warmer with some off-the-wall touches
  • Thaddeus Phillips travels the globe in Zoo Mundo.

    Zoo Mundo review – an exhilarating spin through time and across continents

    From a small studio in his family home, Thaddeus Phillips blends magician’s tricks and object-theatre techniques to build a delightful story
  • Mrs Delgado. Ellen Robertson (Helen). Credit - Alex Harvey-Brown. 3

    Mrs Delgado review – Mike Bartlett’s lockdown fable brims with life

    Compassion and community lie at the heart of this hilarious one-woman show about curtain-twitching neighbours
  • Timberlake Wertenbaker, playwright.

    Who Are You? review – Wertenbaker’s eco-parable invites us to think differently

    A solitary woman finds a strange new presence in her remote house in this audio play which debates people v the planet, nature v culture
  • War up close and personal … The Book of Names.

    Dublin theatre festival review – compelling, exciting drama

    Immersive Irish history, unacknowledged Aids deaths and post-coital chats – this year’s festival is challenging and entertaining
  • Burdened … Halema Hussain in Aaliyah: After Antigone.

    Aaliyah: After Antigone review – Sophocles’s moral dilemmas play out in Bradford

    Struggling zero-hours sisters risk everything as Kamal Kaan’s angsty play transplants the action from Ancient Greece
  • Natalia Osipova.

    Far from her comfort zone: Natalia Osipova feels the beat

    Lockdown’s dance legacy is evident in a new series of films, including one that matches the ex-Bolshoi ballerina with hip-hop choreographer Joseph Toonga
  • Karlina Grace-Paṣeda in Rambert2's Note To Self.

    Note to Self review – transfixing journey through a failing memory

    The new livestreamed production from Rambert2 is a sensual but unnerving, Twin Peaks-y show with a compelling central performance, about a woman with dementia
  • Rosaleen McDonagh’s Walls and Windows, directed by Jason Byrne.

    Walls and Windows review – a moving, unsentimental Travellers’ tale

    Rosaleen McDonagh’s play, an unsettling love story set in a Traveller community, has the ring of truthfulness
  • Metamorphosis

    Metamorphosis review – playful spin on Kafka for the Zoom age

  • Gregory Maqoma’s Retrace-Retract.

    Dancing in the Streets review – making a riveting virtue of necessity

  • Edge of the seat … Tori Allen-Martin and Tim Bowie as Liv and Theo in Park Bench at the Park theatre, London.

    Park Bench review – innovative show starts online and ends on stage

    Tori Allen-Martin’s two-hander opens with the audience watching at home – then the second half is performed in person
  • The cast of Masks and Faces Or, Before and Behind the Curtain ... Michael Billington is top right.

    Masks and Faces review – A comedy of infidelity … starring Michael Billington

    The former Guardian critic, along with Evening Standard scribe Fiona Mountford, take to the limelight in this fruity vintage marital drama
  • Bob Dylan in Shadow Kingdom.

    Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom live stream review – Dylan’s juke joint of dreams

    In a live-stream first for the 80-year-old troubadour, Dylan plays fast and loose with his vast back catalogue to thrilling effect
  • Keir Charles and Gina Beck in South Pacific at Chichester Festival theatre.

    South Pacific review – a roof-raising Rodgers and Hammerstein triumph

    It’s a story bordered by violence and bigotry, but this vibrant production emphasises the anti-racist message of the 1949 Broadway hit
  • LAST EASTER by Bryony Lavery ; Director Tinuke Craig ; Designer Hannah Wolfe ; Design Associate Natalie Johnson ; Lighting Designer Elliot Griggs ; Sound Designer ; Composer Beth Duke ; Costume Supervisor Megan Rarity ; Orange Tree Theatre ; London, UK ; 3rd July 2021 ; Credit & Copyright: Helen Murray

    Last Easter review – a lovable drama about life, death and theatre

  • Michael Billington

    I’ve been cast as bitchy theatre critic Mr Snarl – it’s a role I couldn’t turn down

    Michael Billington
  • Mr and Mrs Nobody

    Mr and Mrs Nobody review – at home with the Pooters

    There are squabbles, strained smiles and domestic mishaps in Keith Waterhouse’s spin on the Grossmiths’ classic
  • Jahmarley Bachelor and Sean Garratt in The Global Playground by Theatre-Rites for Manchester international festival.

    The Global Playground review – silliness at full throttle as cameras roll on dance moves

    Fun, mischief, comic puppetry and rather frustrating lulls abound as a dance company attempts to film its latest show
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