London is one of Europe’s most exciting theatrical cities, with a variety of live performances on offer at any given time. In 2020-21, the challenges to the theatre and performance industry have been widespread.
Despite these difficulties, a range of innovative and exciting work continues to be made while the industry prepares to make potentially difficult, challenging, and exciting changes that may well affect the theatre and performance ecology in London – and beyond – for years to come.
To take advantage of this moment in London’s performance history, this semester students on London Performance Now have been exploring a range of performances and different performance modes to examine how we read and analyse performance events both live and online. As part of this, we’ve been developing strategies for reading performance in ways that recognise the importance of how and where these performances take place, who they are for and how it relates to the times we are living in.
These short blog posts were developed in response to shows that the authors chose to view and provide a snapshot into different kinds of work that’s available online. From circus to poetry, monologues, applied performance and online festivals, there’s still a great range of work out there to watch and enjoy!
Latest posts
- London Performance Now: Milly Miller-Adams on Performance Live: Kae Tempest
- London Performance Now: Maya Ostrowska on A Small Gathering
- London Performance Now: Lucinda Saufley on Amaluna
- London Performance Now: Emma Semani on One Hand Tied Behind Us at Old Vic
- London Performance Now: Emma Howes on The Coronavirus Time Capsule, Company 3
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