The online theatrical piece starts in a faraway forest, moves across a parched desert, roiling seas and towering mountains before ending with a savage battle involving a furry beast.
Not bad for a production that spans five minutes. The video, titled “The Big Little Adventures of Beebee and Russel,” is one of 18 short plays recently adapted for small screens by theatrical writers, directors and actors from across Canada – all of them forced into isolation by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The brief videos in the Isolate Nights series, produced over five days earlier this month, were released Saturday on the Villains Theatre website. “We wanted to do it on a quick timeline because a lot of people had just lost their theatre contracts and were