December, 2020
The Covid pandemic has accelerated the power of digital media in all aspects of life. Theatre is very much affected by this as well. We've been having conversations with past and present Free Theatre members and collaborators asking questions around how theatre can survive and stay relevant? And what role theatre can play to be a liberating factor in a time where our actual lives become more and more mediatised and conformist in our own digital performances?
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Ryan Reynolds and Marian McCurdy discuss Technology and the Body through the lens of Free Theatre projects including Doctor Faustus (2010), I Sing the Body Electric (2012) and Kafka's Amerika (2014):
Nansi Thompson and Stuart McKenzie discuss the Future of Dystopia and experience in 1984: The Future is Now (1984):
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Hester Ullyart and Tomas Aspinwall discuss the Live verses the Virtual in relation to their own recent work:
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Production CreditsCreated by Marian McCurdy, Stuart Lloyd-Harris and Peter Falkenberg.
With thanks to conversations with Hester Ullyart, Tomas Aspinwall, Ryan Reynolds, Nansi Thompson and Stuart McKenzie. Project made with the support of Pub Charity Ltd. 
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