The Theater And The Pandemic

The year 2020 is a difficult one for all of us: employees, employers, economic or cultural operators, event organizers, parents and children, artists and spectators. Nothing is as we knew it. The classroom, the performance hall, the office, all moved to our living room, and new technologies have shown us once again that we can no longer live without them in the 21st century, that they can save us in situations that at first sight have no solution. The emotion, the closeness, the direct contact from the rehearsals and from the performance hall have become a rarity for those who work in the artistic area, with the mass spread of a virus that does not take into account anyone’s needs. The artists were forced to bring on stage a mask that they would never have wanted there, the surgical one, and the theater to exceed new limits. Online rehearsals, in the heart of your own library, online premieres, live streaming and pay-per-view have all taken over a living art, an art that needs the here and now of the real, the physicality of real life. Screens are the new filters through which we sift our emotions. Distance art, technologymediated art, pseudo-appropriation are part of the new reality of those who creates and consume art. Surgical masks and visors become indispensable components when working on stage costumes and this can reduce emotion. But this is a challenge for artists like no other, their limits are tested, their creativity tried and their ability to adapt extremely demanded

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• Lithuanian Theatres During the Covid-19 Pandemic

  Open Access•Asta Petrikienė•Creativity Studies•2023

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