The Old Harrovian Players weren’t going to let a pandemic interrupt a 69 year tradition. In March, director Tobias Deacon floated the possibility of a digital Hamlet, recorded remotely and presented online as this year’s production, and the OHPs embraced the idea and the opportunities it offered.

Without the need for on-site rehearsals, Hamlet could involve far more Old Harrovians than usual, who could rehearse their scenes with online conference-call technology and record their lines from home, during lockdown. A cast of 36 OHPs from around the world went to work, assembling all manner of make-shift recording studios and submitting their files to Tobias and Annabelle Brown, who mixed, scored and edited the production together.