In this damned COVID world of ours it has become a mission of theatre to adapt to the world of technology to the expense of actually BEING with people. We have Zoom and Teams and one hundred others tools that can fake the experience but never deliver it. If the thing in front of you is a screen and not a real person, it isn’t theatre no matter how expensive your laptop is. It is not just how immediate your response is to what you see. It is not the clarity of your vision of the person – it is that they are dead on arrival. The speed of technology can never be “here”. It is always then! Read more