Groups of Ten or More People (2020): 포스트 코로나 시대, 줌 연극, 셰익스피어 (Groups of Ten or More People (2020): The Post-COVID-19 Era, Zoom Theatre, and Shakespeare)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 한국현대영미드라마학회
· 수록지 정보 : 현대영미드라마 / 35권 / 2호 / 189 ~ 208페이지
· 저자명 : 지유리

초록

This study analyses Groups of Ten or More People (2020) by Littlebrain Theatre, a Zoom performance presented on Facebook and YouTube on 11 July and 6 August 2020. Director’s introductions of Groups of Ten or More People tell us that it is a Zoom play staged within the proscenium arch of computer screens. It inherits some basic tenets of physical stage, and whether it is a play recorded in single long takes (Act I) or a real-time reading performance (Act II), it leads the audience to the uninterrupted experience of theatrical liveliness. Internet-based Zoom theatre actually extends the ephemeral concept of here-and-now into an affective one. Even though people are physically distant from one another, Zoom theatre connects them in the virtual theatre and helps to create a sense of a community. Groups of Ten or More People especially makes the audience respond to and contribute to the social issue of LGBTQIA+. By having a gender diverse cast for its retelling of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, it makes Shakespeare live as the adaptation. Zoom theatre is a useful way to make theatre alive during the pandemic. It makes the live and collective aspects of the theatrical experience remain for the audience in quarantine. I hope that this study on a Zoom play by a young American local theatre can contribute to the democratization of Zoom Shakespeare studies as well.

영어초록

This study analyses Groups of Ten or More People (2020) by Littlebrain Theatre, a Zoom performance presented on Facebook and YouTube on 11 July and 6 August 2020. Director’s introductions of Groups of Ten or More People tell us that it is a Zoom play staged within the proscenium arch of computer screens. It inherits some basic tenets of physical stage, and whether it is a play recorded in single long takes (Act I) or a real-time reading performance (Act II), it leads the audience to the uninterrupted experience of theatrical liveliness. Internet-based Zoom theatre actually extends the ephemeral concept of here-and-now into an affective one. Even though people are physically distant from one another, Zoom theatre connects them in the virtual theatre and helps to create a sense of a community. Groups of Ten or More People especially makes the audience respond to and contribute to the social issue of LGBTQIA+. By having a gender diverse cast for its retelling of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, it makes Shakespeare live as the adaptation. Zoom theatre is a useful way to make theatre alive during the pandemic. It makes the live and collective aspects of the theatrical experience remain for the audience in quarantine. I hope that this study on a Zoom play by a young American local theatre can contribute to the democratization of Zoom Shakespeare studies as well.

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