Hymn

Lolita Chakrabarti’s ‘Hymn’ was originally supposed to run at the Almeida at the start of 2021 – and it did, just to an online-only audience after the third lockdown made the original plans impossible. Now, hopefully, a live audience will get to see Adrian Lester’s Benny and Danny Sapani’s Gil, in a drama about male platonic friendship that follows two unhappy strangers who meet at a funeral and form a troubled bond. Blanche McIntyre directs, her second show for the Almeida after the incendiary ‘The Writer’.