Lockdown Theatre Festival: Love, Love, Love

“What happened to the shows whose runs were cut short because of the theatre lockdown? Bertie Carvel, best known for being the original Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, playing Rupert Murdoch in Ink and for starring in Mike Bartlett’s Dr Foster on TV, has come up with a good idea: four shows that were running in London and Manchester on the day of the theatre shutdown in which the original cast recreate the plays for radio while in isolation. A pretty fab bunch they are, including the Lyric Hammersmith’s revival of Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love, Winsome Pinnock’s Rockets and Blue Lights which had been due to open at the Royal Exchange in Manchester, Josh Azouz’s The Mikvah Project (which was running at the Orange Tree), and EV Crowe’s deliciously surreal Shoe Lady which was at the Royal Court.”