By Megan & Cal
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-R1vxZBaYU
With captions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZJ4kHnPKU8
Available until: Unknown
By Megan
Love in Lockdown has some mentions of grown-up things so maybe I shouldn’t be watching it but it’s really good. It’s about a lady who is working from home in the pandemic. It is difficult talking to her workmates on Zoom because they have got pandemic brain and they can’t remember how to use their computers but it’s okay because the lady has the perfect housemate and that makes it easier for her to deal with everything. She and her housemate have so much in common and they agree on everything. But then things start to go wrong.
Jessica Norman is a really clever writer but I can’t say how because it will give too much away. Cara Horgan reads the monologue and she is really good at expressing emotions and doing other people’s voices when she talks to them. Nessa Wrafter is the director and she obviously sees it as a really light and funny monologue which works really well. There are two different versions, one with a picture of a pair of feet in bed and another one with captions so if you are hearing impaired or you have podophobia you can watch the captioned one instead.
CTRL + ALT + DELETE is set on Zoom. Maria is planning a surprise Zoom party for someone special and her DJ friend TK is helping her. But when Maria is getting ready, she gets a call from someone from her past who she really doesn’t want to speak to. Someone who she thinks has no right to be calling her and it’s an especially bad time now.
Caroline Wilson and Angela Moneke wrote this together.
The characters are really well written and I like how Maria talks differently
to all the characters because her relationships with them are all different.
Lolly Comms directed it and she has got a really good party atmosphere going on
Zoom and she has had lots of really good ideas about different ways of filming
the party scenes. Maria also stands up quite a lot and I think that’s good
because it makes sense for her to do that in the play and it also means we get
to see more of her body language which tells us a lot about how she is feeling.
Alison Boateng is really lovely as Maria and she is really convincing in the
way she quickly changes her emotions and the way she speaks to each character
in a slightly different way. Gelito Da Matam is fun as TK, he is very cool but
he also seems very kind. Morayo Adeagbo is really sweet as Nina and Renford
Warmington is quite scary as Barry.
By Cal
Megan really wanted to review Digital Sharing as she’s really enjoyed the ones we’ve let her listen to, but we thought this one might be a bit much for a very clever but sensitive ten year old. But Megan says she knows it’s brilliant because Honey Gabriel is in it.
Tina is an audio monologue. The main character is a mother who is on maternity leave with a new baby. She loves baby Rosa, but she’s finding it very difficult and she’s not very happy at the moment. She watches the neighbours, making speculations about them and not always very positive ones. She watches the eponymous Tina, who watches her right back. The main character is not happy with the way things are and she’s decided something needs to change.
Max Wilkinson has written this really well, revealing the information very gradually, giving us plenty of time to develop our own disturbing theories about what’s going on. He’s written the main character really well – she’s scary but not completely unlikeable because some of her feelings are understandable. Just… not all of them. Megan is absolutely right about Honey Gabriel’s performance – she is brilliant. She creates the character very strongly and although the character isn’t very nice, Honey is really compelling and you really want to know what happens next, even if you are a bit worried! Kwame Owusu directs this brilliantly and I love the way he has used background sounds to add to the creepy atmosphere. Great work from sound designer Nicola T. Chang.
I’m sad this series has come to an end, but this is
definitely a great way to end it.
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