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Volume 15, Issue 1
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Abstract

In the first autumn of the COVID-19 pandemic, long-time theatre collaborators in two different cities in the US South discuss the future of an art form that has currently gone dark. Influenced by punk culture, twenty-first-century internet aesthetics, social justice movements and their pets, this decade-strong creative team reflects in a multimedia format on their past work and enumerates their priorities for the future of musical theatre: cheap, remote, inexperienced, local, radical and full of women and sexual/gender minorities.

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The future of musical theatre: An animation of a video call between collaborators, 30 September 2020
Studies in Musical Theatre 15, 25 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1386/smt_00053_1
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Keyword(s): collaboration; creative process; creative team; feminism; new musicals; punk musicals; remote theatre; virtual reality theatre

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