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The killing of a play in the digital domain

Theatre content tends to falter on small screens, unless it has been drastically overhauled for the medium

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Theatricality translates both beautifully and terribly onto the small screen.

I thought about this recently after binge-watching Criminal on Netflix. For some reason, my Netflix account opened with season two rather than season one. But it was a serendipitous beginning because the guest star was the incomparable Sophie Okonedo.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on September 29, 2020, with the headline The killing of a play in the digital domain. Subscribe