Ghafir Akbar hits pandemic rewind with his 1-minute digital theatre series


Ghafir Akbar's ‘re:lapse(d)’ video series - surrounding pandemic reflections and memories - was shot in his bedroom. Photo: Handout

Were the last two years of lockdown just the passing of time? Or was it more than that?

Theatre director/actor/educator Ghafir Akbar offers a curious (and intimate) study of such questions in his 24-episode digital theatre project called re:lapse(d).

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