Classic TV – Community
With all six of its seasons newly added to Netflix, this cult show centred on a study group of mature students in a community college is a sitcom in excelsis, matching a joyfully motley gang of lead characters to a hyperactive script packed with sharp one-liners and pop-culture references and at its very best when serving up glorious, episode-length genre pastiches. This really is about as purely joyful as your lockdown viewing options yet. (HM)
Theatre – The Lockdown Plays
The latest example of theatreland responding with resourcefulness and dynamism to these difficult times is this excellent weekly podcast, featuring new short audio plays written by top playwrights like Caryl Churchill, Inua Ellams and Simon Stephens. Raising money for homeless charity St Mungo’s, it has begun this week with Cordelia Lynn’s Fragments, starring the luminous British stage actress Patsy Ferran (who was due to be seen on Broadway this spring in a now-aborted production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) Visit shows.acast.com/thelockdownplays to listen. (HM)
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