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Kimberley Twiner wrote a new post 3 years, 3 months ago
Theatre Works’ new Covid-safe seating frames the audience rather than the performance. And what’s with the coffee table? Kimberley Twiner reports
I am in a private audience of three, even though there are 25 […]
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Kimberley Twiner wrote a new post 3 years, 7 months ago
Under the Melbourne lockdown, Kimberley Twiner and her housemates have discovered a new audience – their neighbours
On Sunday September 6, my housemates and I – a crew of physical performers – decided that […]
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Kimberley Twiner wrote a new post 3 years, 11 months ago
Performer Kimberley Twiner says that when live performance moves online, we lose something crucial
Xylitol doesn’t taste like sugar.
The inexplicable desire of the live performer is to be among other […]
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Great article Kimberley.The big mistake in the online ‘pivot’ is to think that any art form can be seamlessly translated into another when they each have their own language and affordances. A book is not a script. A script is not a theatre performance. A theatre performance is not a film. They may all be connected by a plot or by characters, but they are all different experiences for the artists and the audiences involved. Live performance is deeply inconvenient – it’s attached to place and time and people – and therein also lies its power. We will discard it at our peril.
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Kimberley Twiner changed their profile picture 3 years, 11 months ago
I had similar thoughts about the Glasshouse set up. I think Theatre Works would have been better off with raked seating in the round and kept audience members distanced that way, rather than behind sheets of perspex which really impact connecting with the work. I didn’t mind the table, though. I liked having somewhere to put my glass of wine.