@article{ART002869989},
author={Yuri Ji},
title={Groups of Ten or More People (2020): The Post-COVID-19 Era, Zoom Theatre, and Shakespeare},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2022},
volume={35},
number={2},
pages={189-208}
TY - JOUR
AU - Yuri Ji
TI - Groups of Ten or More People (2020): The Post-COVID-19 Era, Zoom Theatre, and Shakespeare
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2022
VL - 35
IS - 2
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 189
EP - 208
SN - 1226-3397
AB - This study analyses Groups of Ten or More People (2020) by Littlebrain Theatre, a Zoom performance presented on Facebook and YouTube on 11 July and 6 August 2020. Director’s introductions of Groups of Ten or More People tell us that it is a Zoom play staged within the proscenium arch of computer screens. It inherits some basic tenets of physical stage, and whether it is a play recorded in single long takes (Act I) or a real-time reading performance (Act II), it leads the audience to the uninterrupted experience of theatrical liveliness. Internet-based Zoom theatre actually extends the ephemeral concept of here-and-now into an affective one. Even though people are physically distant from one another, Zoom theatre connects them in the virtual theatre and helps to create a sense of a community. Groups of Ten or More People especially makes the audience respond to and contribute to the social issue of LGBTQIA+. By having a gender diverse cast for its retelling of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, it makes Shakespeare live as the adaptation. Zoom theatre is a useful way to make theatre alive during the pandemic. It makes the live and collective aspects of the theatrical experience remain for the audience in quarantine. I hope that this study on a Zoom play by a young American local theatre can contribute to the democratization of Zoom Shakespeare studies as well.
KW - pandemic;Zoom theatre;Groups of Ten or More People;Littlebrain Theatre;Shakespeare the adaptation
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Yuri Ji. (2022). Groups of Ten or More People (2020): The Post-COVID-19 Era, Zoom Theatre, and Shakespeare. Journal of Modern English Drama, 35(2), 189-208.
Yuri Ji. 2022, "Groups of Ten or More People (2020): The Post-COVID-19 Era, Zoom Theatre, and Shakespeare", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.35, no.2 pp.189-208.
Yuri Ji "Groups of Ten or More People (2020): The Post-COVID-19 Era, Zoom Theatre, and Shakespeare" Journal of Modern English Drama 35.2 pp.189-208 (2022) : 189.
Yuri Ji. Groups of Ten or More People (2020): The Post-COVID-19 Era, Zoom Theatre, and Shakespeare. 2022; 35(2), 189-208.
Yuri Ji. "Groups of Ten or More People (2020): The Post-COVID-19 Era, Zoom Theatre, and Shakespeare" Journal of Modern English Drama 35, no.2 (2022) : 189-208.
Yuri Ji. Groups of Ten or More People (2020): The Post-COVID-19 Era, Zoom Theatre, and Shakespeare. Journal of Modern English Drama, 35(2), 189-208.
Yuri Ji. Groups of Ten or More People (2020): The Post-COVID-19 Era, Zoom Theatre, and Shakespeare. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2022; 35(2) 189-208.
Yuri Ji. Groups of Ten or More People (2020): The Post-COVID-19 Era, Zoom Theatre, and Shakespeare. 2022; 35(2), 189-208.
Yuri Ji. "Groups of Ten or More People (2020): The Post-COVID-19 Era, Zoom Theatre, and Shakespeare" Journal of Modern English Drama 35, no.2 (2022) : 189-208.
