Seminar: Lockdown Shakespeare
UPDATE (3 May 2021):
A recording of this event is now available on the
#lockdownshakespeare YouTube channel.
Facilitated by Henry Bell and Stephen Collins (Creative Media Academy, University of the West of Scotland), with Chris Thurman and Buhle Ngaba (Tsikinya-Chaka Centre). Featuring theatre makers from South Africa, Scotland, Ghana and Malawi!
Please join us for our inaugural online event!
Last year, our friends over at Shakespeare ZA launched #lockdownshakespeare, an initiative that aimed to support theatre makers unable to practice their craft because of restrictions introduced to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.
This resulted in over forty actors submitting video performances of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays.
Covid-19 has hit the performing arts especially hard - in South Africa and around the world. Theatre makers are resilient and creative, but going digital (and making money while doing so) hasn’t been easy. It has, however, resulted in new theatrical forms, built new audiences and enabled new collaborations.
In this seminar, #lockdownshakespeare performers in South Africa will share their experiences with students at the University of the West of Scotland who have experimented with the same model, as well as with the Ghanaian community theatre company Act for Change and UK-Malawi organisation Bilimankhwe Arts, who have also been forced to find new ways of “making theatre”.
To register for this free event, please book through Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lockdown-shakespeare-transnational-explorations-tickets-147108731175