Actors' Roundtable acting during COVID-19: What Shakespeare Actors Did During the Pandemic to Survive

Abstract

Bahr: Welcome. What a fabulous morning and fabulous yesterday we’ve had thus far. I really enjoyed our last panel and many of the comments made by the last panel. The last paper, Kasen’s paper, I think will tie in well with what we are talking about here. The Wooden O Symposium has always had a panel where we celebrate and archive the productions that the festival is doing here. Many times, when we are doing an obscure piece such as Troilus and Cressida—although it’s not so obscure for you René. I think you’ve done four of those, right? Anytime we are featuring obscure plays, I like that to essentially be the show we talk about. We got a chance last year to talk about Hamlet. We had a Hamlet panel, and that was pretty historic and important. We also in the last panel talked about Russia and Russian influences. I would have enjoyed seeing that set during the time of Nicholas II. We also felt that The Book of Will was a very important show last year and so we did that as well.