2020: A Theater of the Absurd for Europeâs Playhouses
The Timesâs theater critics in London, Paris and Berlin reflect on a year of closures, reopenings, restrictions and curfews, in which the show somehow went on.
At the National Theater in London in September. The cityâs theaters were closed and reopened twice in 2020, then closed a third time.Credit.Lauren Fleishman for The New York Times
Dec. 17, 2020
Matt Wolf, London Theater Critic
Theater of the absurd has nothing on the bizarre scenario endured by Britainâs playhouses during 2020. March 16 was the first of several doomsdays on which the coronavirus pandemic forced them to close their doors, bringing to a halt a theatrical economy worth billions of pounds.
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By Logan Culwell-Block
Dec 10, 2020
The Jeremy O. Harris-penned work played Broadway last year, and is currently up for 12 Tony Awards. Cast of
Concord Theatricals has announced that it has acquired worldwide licensing rights to Jeremy O. Harris
Slave Play, which will join their Samuel French imprint. The initial release will be limited to professional theatres. Knowing that
Slave Play, a work written with friends and small theatres in mind, is joining the work of idols like Adrienne Kennedy and Caryl Churchill at Concord Theatricals is still overwhelmingly humbling, says Harris. In a time when the complexities of the Black American experience are being discoursed by citizens all around the world it is invigorating to know that my work will sit beside peers like Aleshea Harris and Antoinette Nwandu in deepening the global understanding of the Black American identity and our theatrical traditions.