Hamilton playwright pens award-winning drama about living during the pandemic

Ryan (played by Peter Anderson) and Miles (played by Marc Charrier) in Hamilton playwright Maxie Dara’s award-winning play about COVID-19, “Alone Together.”By Gary SmithSpecial to the SpectatorThu., April 29, 2021timer3 min. readupdateArticle was updated 4 hrs ago Hamilton playwright Maxie Dara has written a prizewinning drama about lives caught up with COVID-19.It’s the first play I’ve seen about people living through this pandemic. It won’t be the last.What is surprising about “Alone Together,” a sensitive tale of eight people struggling with extraordinary circumstances, is the way it makes their stories so intensely personal.In many ways, their journeys becomes our own.Hamilton’s Classical Theatre Company and Virtual Theatre Online has filmed the piece directed by J.R. Hewson in a well-paced Zoom production that connects with most of the power of Dara’s script. And while there are some overt performances by stage actors used to the distance of the theatre, rather than the probing lens of a Zoom camera in the face, the work remains moving, even riveting. The strongest thing about this Vimeo production, available free by accessing tinyurl.com/alonetogether21 is Dara’s realistic, yet sometimes poetic script.The words tell the story in a dramatically satisfying way, even though actors must remain stationary, perched…
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