The Finborough Theatre's new digital initiative #FinboroughFrontier continues with the second in an ongoing season of online readings and performances of Ukrainian Plays as a part of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Reading Series, a collaboration with the Theatre of Playwrights in Kyiv to read new Ukrainian plays around the world.
Digital Sharing – KickItDown Productions | Review
March 10, 2021 Last updated:
March 14, 2021
The team behind Digital Sharing might not be best pleased with me likening their series to a ‘scratch night’ but there were moments when it felt like one. Most of the eighteen short plays were very good, with the odd one or two that were either too long (by which I mean ‘too slow’) or otherwise didn’t quite hit the spot. Others simply needed to be a little more developed:
CTRL + ALT + DELETE by Caroline Wilson and Angela Moneke involved a surprise online birthday party for Nina (Morayo Adeagbo), put together by her friends. The host, Maria (Alison Boateng) has the briefest of interactions with Nina’s estranged father Barry (Renford Warmington) before the party gets underway, but otherwise, the audience is simply watching other people having a catch-up and enjoying themselves, which is lovely, but hardly makes for gripping theatre. Then again, with the world being as angry