While the coronavirus outbreak around the world may have made social distancing the order of the day, it seems to also bring the world closer in a time of crisis in its own way. As such, when San Diego-based actor Julia Giolzetti put out a Facebook post with the idea of Sofa Shakespeare, she received hundreds of responses, including 20 from India (mostly Mumbai and New Delhi).

"The idea was: what if a bunch of people stuck in their homes took one minute each of a Shakespeare play, and combined it into one performance?" says Giolzetti who has performed Shakespeare herself for the last 20 years, and has seen her acting and teaching assignments dry up in the wake of the pandemic.