Romeo and Juliet become online daters unable to meet in a new project that celebrates freelance creatives When the UK went into lockdown in March, a tempest of tweets shared the heartening (or is that daunting?) observation that Shakespeare wrote King Lear during plague quarantine. Whether true or not, the suggestion led theatre director Nadia Papachronopoulou to conceive an online drama series that imagines Shakespe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM on June 19, 2020