HowlRound Theatre Commons: How do we continue to create amid crisis? Over the past few weeks, this question has been on the hearts and minds of many theatre practitioners around the United States and other parts of the West, where theatre tends to rely on a privileged system of access to physical spaces, resources, and bodies. Ongoing responses to COVID-19 have complicated things, to say the least.
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I never really thought that the end of my sophomore year would be done in a remote learning environment. I miss doing theater and being physically present for all my classes.
The spread of covid- 19 has really turned the world upside down, with everyone having to alter the way they lives their lives, in order to stop the spread of the disease.
I do feel that theater in particular has taken a harder hit than some of the other fields, because of its reliance on live performance. Now that live performances are not allowed to be held, theaters have resorted to digital performances or digital platforms to showcase their productions, which is honestly the best solution, given everything.
I do hope that all this goes back to normal soon, so that everyone can enjoy theater the way they did a few months ago, without the fear of getting infected in any which way.
The show must go on. I never truly felt the deep meaning of that saying before now, where it feels like this virus is a never ending hole. In school, our rehearsals and even our show has to go online. And I’d never thought I’d be living through a time where my life would have to be put on hold because of a virus that is cascading around the entire world. It’s really crazy to think about and above all even scarier to comprehend. We all pray and hope for the moment where this all dies down, the world goes back to normal, and we get to physically be in a space together again. It’s crazy to think how going outside or hugging your friends are now deemed as luxury. I will never take the small things for granted anymore. The show must go on, even if that means remotely, we must stay strong for our audiences.
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