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Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic
Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic
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Barbara Fuchs' book, "Theater of Lockdown," explores the changes and challenges in theater since the global shutdown in 2020, focusing on digital and distanced performances. It offers a record of the changes and a framework for thinking through theater's transformation, highlighting new practices such as multi-platform plays, enhancement via filters and augmented reality, and urban distanced theater. These productions transcend geographic and financial barriers to access new audiences and offer a lifeline to artists. The study charts how virtual theater puts pressure on existing assumptions and definitions, transforming the conditions of theater-making and viewership.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 248 pages
Publication date: 20 October 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Since the widespread closure of theaters in March 2020, Barbara Fuchs has provided one of the first scholarly examinations of digital and remote performance. This study provides both a record of the changes and a framework for considering theater's transformation.
Recent productions offer a new world of practice, ranging from multi-platform plays on Zoom, WhatsApp, and Instagram to enhancements via filters and augmented reality to urban-distanced theater that enlivens streetscapes and building courtyards. These productions, largely outside the commercial theater, transcend geographic and financial barriers to access new audiences while offering a lifeline to artists.
This study charts how virtual theater puts pressure on existing assumptions and definitions, transforming the conditions of both theater-making and viewership. How are participatory, site-specific, or devised theater altered under physical-distancing requirements? How do digital productions blur the line between film and theater? What does liveness mean in a time of pandemic?
The Theater of Lockdown focuses on digital and distanced productions from the Americas, Europe, and Australia, offering scholarly analysis and interviews. Productions examined include Theater in Quarantines "closet work" in New York; Forced Entertainments (Sheffield, UK), End Meeting for All, I, II, and III; the work of Madrid-based company Grumelot; and the virtuosic showmanship of EFE Tres in Mexico City.
Weight: 264g
Dimension: 138 x 215 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350231856
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