Another year done, and I’m doing like Obama and dropping a list of all the television, books, video games and theatre shows I saw, read and played in 2021.
TeleVision
Schitts Creek S1-6
Wandavision
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK S2 & S3
The Queen’s Gambit
Falcon & the Winter Soldier
Loki
Ted Lasso S2
Bobs Burgers S1
Only Murders in the Building S1
Harley Quinn S1
Midnight Mass
Hawkeye
BOOKS
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Suicide King by Robert Joseph Levy
God I Feel Modern Tonight: Poems from a Gal About Town by Catherine Cohen
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy
The Things They Don’t See by Savannah Brown
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X & Alex Haley
Down Under by Bill Bryson
Goldilocks by Laura Lam
Circe by Madeline Miller
GAMES
The Order 1886
Spider-Man
Until Dawn
Spider-Man: Miles Morales
THEATRE
Yerma
Dir. Simon Stone, NT at Home
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Dir. Benedict Andrews, NT at Home
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Dir. Nicholas Hytner, Bridge Theatre & NT at Home
Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches
Dir. Marianne Elliott, NT at Home
Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika
Dir. Marianne Elliott, NT at Home
Secret Thoughts
Dir. Paulina Jacob-Duvernet, Playdoh at Southwark Playhouse
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons
Dir. Robyn Horne, Playdoh at Southwark Playhouse
Romeo & Juliet
Dir. Ola Ince, The Globe Theatre, London
Emmeline
Dir. Anastasia Revi, Theatre Lab Company at Cockpit Theatre
I’m so grateful for the amount of things I was able to see this year. Some close friends and I started a book club to keep us connected in our different cities, and getting back to live theatre for my own enjoyment and to support my excellent creative friends was a massive privilege too. With another year of uncertainty it felt good to rediscover focus in these small everyday pleasures, and it’s a practice I’ll be taking into 2022.
Happy New Year everyone.
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