Performing Online
A few years ago, back in the pandemic lockdowns, Martin Shaw, Emma Bush, Bram Thomas Arnold and I were teaching a Poetics of Imagination MA course online with 28 students. In one of my sessions, we performed Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood. It was great fun and a brilliant way to enjoy Thomas’ marvellous language and this delightful radio play. One of the students, based in Canada, provided sound effects. Other performers were based in the US, Turkey, France, Wales, England, and Scotland. Due to all the various voices, I had to undertake quite a lot of preparation to make it work. It was amazing to be an international ensemble revelling in the humour and poetry of Under Milk Wood. Some people spoke in lovely Welsh lilts and hidden dramatic talents were revealed!
I’m organising the Historical Novel Society UK conference this September and we are running a series of online pre-conference sessions. Leslie Carroll, an actor and writer, is offering the opportunity to find out about adapting work for the stage. If you fancy performing from scripts based on Ivanhoe and The Prisoner of Zenda, join us!
