Pandemic Play

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Pandemic Play

Community in Performance, Gaming, and the Arts

Individual actors and performers Theatre studies Media studies: internet, digital media and society

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Collection: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology

Language: English

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Published on: 20th May 2024

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9783031473128


When the arts, culture, and entertainment industries came to a halt in late winter 2020, many claimed this was the end of art as we knew it.

Theatre managers, museum directors, performers, artists, and everyday folks had to figure out new strategies for living and thriving in a new world order. As the global pandemic and its consequences continue to play out, the question of how we have learned—as creators or consumers—to play, is far from settled. This collection addresses pandemic play in broad terms: how did creative industries adapt to a majority virtual world? How have our understandings of community and play evolved? Might new forms of art and play outlive the pandemic and supplant earlier iterations?

Pandemic Play takes these questions as a starting point, exploring strategies, case studies, and effects of the arts worlds gone virtual.

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