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Strangely absorbing: the first lockdown dramas reviewed

Plus: RSC’s Twelfth Night, which is being livestreamed on Marquee TV, is a strikingly handsome show

Yellow peril: Adrian Edmondson as Malvolio, in an unMalvolian outfit. Photo: Manuel Harlan/RSC 
issue 18 April 2020

High Tide got there first. The East Anglian theatre company has produced a series of lockdown mini-dramas, Love in the Time of Corona, made up of five filmed reflections on self-isolation. ‘Rainbows’ by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm is narrated by a woman on the edge teaching her kids to decorate the windows with coloured paints.

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