Howard's world tour

Back in June, we held a Myth & Moor Watch Party for Theatre is Dead!, the wonderfully wacky new play that Howard's company, Columbina Theatre, performed live online throughout the month of June. (Thank you to all who came!) At the time, I received messages from folks outside the UK who wanted to see the show, but couldn't manage the time difference...and so, voil��, on Friday, July 31st, Theatre is Dead! is going around the world. Over the course of one day, the show will be performed online at 8:00 pm local time in Sydney, London, and New York. Three shows, three continents, three time zones. 

Yes, it's crazy, but so is the show: a Beckett-like saga of two theatre clowns isolated in their garden sheds while the world goes dark around them.  Written by Peter Oswald (former writer-in-residence at The Globe under Mark Rylance), the play is performed by Peter, Howard, and Alice Welby from their own garden sheds in Bristol, Chagford, and London.

So is theatre dead...? It's certainly struggling for life under the constraints of a global pandemic; theatre companies across the UK have gone dark, and many simply won't survive. In the face of this challenge, Howard and co. are experimenting with new ways to produce, perform, and fund live theatre. For this play, the square boxes of the Zoom platform become a rough-and-ready theatre space for a comedy about isolation and connection -- an echo of the punk aesthetic of creating art through whatever materials you have at hand.

I hope you will support this madcap endeavor. And please, can you help spread word of the Friday shows? 

For free tickets to any of Friday's three performances go here.