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Edition 2 of
Living Newspaper: A Counter Narrative, an experimental new piece of online theatre from the Royal Court, doesn’t mess around.
Edition 2 of
Living Newspaper: A Counter Narrative, an experimental new piece of online theatre from the Royal Court, doesn’t mess around. Within minutes, a cry of Tory scum is echoing around the Jerwood Theatre – the refrain of an anarchic musical number presided over by a mannequin painted blue, wearing a shaggy blond wig. “Kids cant eat but They’re tryna tell/You its the statues that need saving?” raps grime producer Jammz, setting out exactly where the 27 creators of
Manchester theatre head: Easter warnings are ‘frightening’
Roy Alexander Weise of the Royal Exchange believes the shutdown is a chance to rethink how we run theatres – if they re allowed to re-open
24 December 2020 • 11:00am
Rockets and Blue Lights at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester closed early in March 2020
Credit: Brinkhoff-Moegenburg
“The big frustration is that it’s really difficult to find a logic in all of this,” says Roy Alexander Weise, joint artistic director of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, of the current situation facing his sector.
“We’re trying to plan the best we can, but it’s hard when we’ve lost the solid anchor of ‘This is when we’re opening’. We didn’t anticipate that following Lockdown Two, Manchester would go straight into Tier 3. It takes so much time and energy and people-power to keep resetting.”
Royal Court Theatre, London
TO CONFRONT the travails of our time, the Royal Court has splendidly revived the theatre tradition of The Living Newspaper, developed from the early Soviet agitprop groups, through the documentary work of the US Federal Theatre Project in the years of the Great Depression and in the pre-war political work of London s Unity Theatre.
Like their New York predecessor, the Royal Court Project will provide employment for the hard-pressed theatre profession, using 60 writers and over 200 freelance artists who are mounting promenade productions inside and outside the Royal Court theatre.
Played to both a limited live audience and online, this is the first of six weekly editions which engage in a variety of styles including songs, interviews and sketches dealing with situations and attitudes addressing our Covid-19-fuelled anxieties, bewilderment and fears.
December 15, 2020 10:00 am
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