Tim Crouch 'Theatre will grow back stronger if we plant a different crop'
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As the writer and actor takes I, Cinna (the Poet) on to Zoom, he talks about how the pandemic may result in shaking up the structure of theatre for the better
‘I always fly the flag of live theatre,” Tim Crouch says with a smile, acknowledging the unlikeliness of his new project. As a writer, director and performer, he often investigates in his work what it means for people to gather together and share an experience. The distance and separation of the digital space is, you would think, anathema to all that. Yet for a limited few dates this month, Crouch will be taking his solo show I, Cinna (the Poet) online.
The piece was originally written for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2012, with Jude Owusu in the role of Cinna – the marginal character who’s killed in a case of mistaken identity in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Crouch performed the show in a revival this February at the Unicorn theatre in London, whose artistic director, Justin Audibert, has now persuaded him to remount it over Zoom. Continue reading...
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