We can hardly contain ourselves with the glee that stems from the idea that our current way of life may possibly be coming to an end... or at least a kind of optimistic pause
In the meantime, those of us who make plays. films, musicals, operas, ballets, etc. etc. find ourselves stuck in the same boat: not 100% seaworthy, overcrowded, and possibly not even sailing in one discernable direction.
The Most Basic Questions:
Will Zoom Theatre continue even after we've all stopped needing to construct approximated lives via our laptops?
When will theatre lovers, for example, not hesitate for one moment when lining up to purchase tickets for shows that pack us into houses with the cool efficiency of one of our major commercial airlines?
Will the type of work that audiences clamor for have changed in any fundamental way as a direct result of a steady diet of talking heads in screens?
And has more than a year of making theatre happen within the narrow confines of the Zoom Box somehow helped us all to see some of the ways in which the traditional rules of how theatre gets made and who gets to make it don't necessarily need to be renewed without question?
What Have We Learned? Surely a lot. No?
COVIUSbe sure there's nothing we'd like to carry with us into the future, a future that's anything but certain for the performing arts.
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