Good Grief
originaltheatreonline.com

Of all the reasons scripts go un-produced – budget, casting, subject matter, commissioning whim – the one that writers find most frustrating is when a generally liked project is judged an “awkward length.” At 45 minutes, Lorien Haynes’ Good Grief, a piece about two bereaved friends, was thought too brief for an evening’s theatre, but also missed the half-hour and one-hour building blocks of TV scheduling.

But in the new genre of streamed fiction that has resulted from the disruptions of the pandemic such measurements are irrelevant. So Good Grief is finally premiered (15 February-15 April) on the online platform Original Theatre, which is pioneering a hybrid form somewhere between theatre and film.