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British playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn was interviewed about releasing his unproduced play as an audio drama. It’s a way to put his work into the world while theaters and venues are temporarily closed. Ayckbourn and his wife, actress Heather Stoney, played all eight parts and recorded the work in their home studio.

I love this kind of resilience amidst constraint. Two artists’ insistence to be creative within a new and changing landscape.

About the experience, Ayckbourn remarked, “It’s a curious time and it will get curiouser.”

The phrase resonated.