'#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei' online streaming

28 April 2020

As part of a series of productions streamed in partnership with Hampstead theatre, The Guardian is showing '#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei' via its website, until 10pm on 3 May. Directed by James Macdonald, the production is based on a book by Barnaby Martin about the 81-day detention and interrogation of Ai Weiwei by the Chinese authorities in 2011. Benedict Wong stars as the artist and activist in the play by Howard Brenton.