Innovation & Digital Theatremaking

Introduction

DOI: 10.4324/9781003289906-1

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the spread of COVID-19 a pandemic. Quickly, unprecedented lockdowns followed across the globe. Lockdowns prevented mass gatherings in public spaces, and theatres were among the first to be shut down. These lockdowns were essential: the virus went on to infect over five hundred million people and kill over six million worldwide (at the time of writing; Source: Wikipedia).

Producer Sarah Peachey and Artistic Director Robert Myles have lived itinerant existences with portfolio careers, having worked together in theatre first as actors and later as producers and directors, but also variously for multinationals including Unilever, EA Games, General Mills, ...