THE entertainment industry has pulled out all the stops to keep us going with new livestreams every night. But which will you abandon within minutes?
Hamlet from the Globe
If it was any good people would remember more than two lines from it. Besides, your Letts Study Guides are up in the loft so how can you understand it without them?
Abandoned: 8m 23s
Così fan tutte from the Royal Opera House
What a marvellous way of opening up elitist art forms such as opera to everyone, you say. Really, you only clicked on it because it sounded like a delicious ice-cream. You’ll frown through until a truly agonising bit then never try opera again.
Abandoned: 15m 44s
One Man, Two Guvnors from the National Theatre
Yeah, James Corden is actually good in this, but not good enough to make you forget what a dickwad he is in Carpool Karaoke. You stop watching but you don’t abandon the interval drinks you’d prepared, or the hope that Corden might keep self-isolating for years.
Abandoned: 25m 02s
Euripides’ Bacchae
You had great hopes that the lockdown could turn you into a cultured person. But this Ancient Greek stuff is more depressing than the actual news, so you go back to old episodes of Eldorado on YouTube. It’s a classical tale of sorts.
Abandoned 28m 08s
Comedy Club
It’s been years since you watched live comedy, so you thought you’d tune in to see a bunch of comedians perform in an empty room while struggling to hide their anxiety about their whole industry imploding.
Abandoned 32m 58s
Your weird friend’s birthday party
It’s supposed to be fun. Everyone’s there, on screens, watching a lone man in a party hat getting drunk and demanding a Communist revolution. Leave immediately and return to watching your Nan’s bird-box cam, which is quite frankly all you can cope with right now.
Abandoned 2m 12s
