Theater of Lockdown

Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at UCLA, USA, where she also directs the Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance and its Diversifying the Classics project (http://diversifyingtheclassics.humanities.ucla.edu/). In 2013, she launched the Golden Tongues initiative, which adapts Hispanic classical theater to contemporary Los Angeles. She also directs LA ESCENA, Los Angeles’ first festival of Hispanic classical theater, founded in 2018. Recent scholarly projects include Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World (2021); a collaborative translation of Ana Caro's The Courage to Right a Woman's Wrongs (2021); and 90 Monologues from Classical Spanish Theater, with Jennifer Monti and Laura Muñoz (2018).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Straight to Zoom: Theater Moves Online2. Bending the Rules: Experimenting with Zoom3. Thinking outside the Box: Multiplatform4. Thinking outside the Box: Simulation5. Solo: Small-Scale Theater6. Audio Theater, from Telephones to Podcasts7. Distanced Theater: Reinhabiting the City and BeyondPostscriptAppendix: List of WorksNotesIndex

This book will appeal to students studying intermedial, multimedia, and online theatre, whilst also providing an excellent introduction to the discourses of liveness and computation in performance … Theatre and film scholars will also find it useful to discover new artists and companies who are experimenting with Internet dramaturgies and online interaction.