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This moreish serial drama finds new terrain with excellent performances from Rachael Stirling and Alec Newman
“You’re on mute,” says Emilia to Giovanni, minutes into this episodic drama about a virtual romance in the early days of the first lockdown. It is by now such a well-worn line – in online theatre as in life – that it inspires an internal groan. But it is a rare trite note and this intelligent Zoom performance does more than reflect overfamiliar pandemic situations back at us. Even if playing it out on a split screen is not a particularly original scenario, it finds new terrain.
Key moments from last year form the backdrop to the relationship, including the announcement of the first Covid death in the UK and Boris Johnson’s plea for Britons to “stay at home”, impeccably impersonated by Jon Culshaw.
