What if we are working from home again, but there is no time to watch long films? Switch to mini format. The super-short British «Staging» is a great option. In it, David Tennant and Michael Sheen, known to the general public as Crowley and Aziraphale in Good Omens, play themselves and try to rehearse a new play — using Zoom, of course, and the episodes are so short that the whole show can be mastered in a couple of times. lunch breaks.
It is embarrassing to talk about what fertile ground the pandemic in general and quarantine in particular have become for screenwriters, playwrights, directors, showrunners and other creative reflectors of reality and creators of new worlds. Now the point is to qualitatively reflect on the new experience and present it to the viewer. What the creators of the series «Staging» (Staged) did. To do this, they needed a minimum of technical means: recordings of conferences in Zoom are interspersed with wonderful (hello, social phobia) shots of deserted London, several charismatic actors and the ability to joke witty about our new reality.
«Where are the children?» «They are silent.» «Don’t they have classes?» «They are all for today.» «It’s 10 o’clock in the morning!» «Okay, that’s all for today.»
Like many of us, Tennant and Sheen squeaky master the format of videoconferencing, and at the same time try not to go crazy in four walls and for this they go out to yell in the garden, say words backwards, hide empty bottles — traces of their brewing alcoholism — in the trash can An 80-year-old neighbor … In a word, they behave like normal people locked in quarantine. Because even the most adequate people and the most friendly families, as we all recently found out, sometimes had a hard time.
«And what does it mean?» «That I should be happy at home.» “But you don’t? ..” “I … try.”
Today, when children go on unscheduled vacations, and some parents work from home again, the series released in the summer seems especially relevant. It looks like it’s time to morally tune in to the fact that we will again have to coexist under the same ceiling for some time. And it would be better to learn to relate to what is happening with humor.