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The Cultural Frontline: What’s the future of performing arts?

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What’s the future of performing arts?

08/08/2020 GMT

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Tina Daheley hosts a discussion on what’s next for the performing arts globally

Tina Daheley hosts a discussion on what’s next for the performing arts globally.

This week, as part of a series of special programmes, we look to the future of the performing arts.

As many theatres around the world remain dark, closed to audiences for months and with a largely freelance community of actors, writers, directors, musicians and production crews unable to work, we talk to four global theatre makers about the impact of the pandemic on performing arts communities. 
 
We ask what's next for theatre.  Is the outlook bleak or is there cause for hope from the creativity and invention shown in lockdown? What does the future of stage performance hold?
 
Tina Daheley is joined by Rwandan theatre director and curator of the Ubumuntu International Arts festival, Hope Azeda, Chilean playwright and theatre director Guillermo Calderon, Indian playwright, theatre director and lecturer Abhishek Majumdar and the artistic director of the Kiln theatre in London, Indhu Rubasingham.
 
Presented by Tina Daheley

(Photo: The empty auditorium of the London Coliseum. Credit: Richard Baker/In Pictures via Getty Images)

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