Theatre and Utopia: Imagining Better Worlds

Tickets
🎫 Access for 1 to Theatre and Utopia: Imagining Better Worlds

Highlights
🏠 An experience you can enjoy from the comfort and safety of your of your home
🗣️ A chance to discuss the cultural implications of theatre and its capacity to imagine and create better worlds within it
🍎 An evening which will leave you with plenty of food for thought

General Info
📅 Date: January 19, 2022
🕒 Time: 6 p.m.–7 p.m.
📍 Location: your home
👤 Age requirement: all ages welcome
❓ Please note: your link to this talk will be found in your confirmation email

Description
The potential and possibility of theatre and performance to create or re-create utopia and utopian ideals on stage is vast. The idealistic creation of places and structures which characters perceive of as sanctuary, the crucial element of hope as a driving force for story progression and the exploration of alternative worlds and world views are common threads running through many forms of theatre and performance. Are we as audiences drawn into such worlds and stories because they can provide a blueprint for how best to undo oppressive structures in our own worlds? Do such performances serve as an optimistic and educational benchmark of culture or can utopia, if it is ever to be achieved, only exist on the stage or page rather than in the outside world? In this talk we explore the ways in which Utopia and Utopian ideals have been presented in performance and ask what the impact and effect of such performances has had upon us.