Lunchtime Talk: Inhabiting The Lantern Room – Synchronised Theatre for Durational Narratives Patterns in Practice Artist Residency 

DCRC Member and Creative Director of Raucous, Sharon Clark hosted a lunchtime talk alongside Raucous and Toronto based company Lost & Gone, to consider a synchronised performance that spans an ocean and a five hour time difference.

With international touring becoming prohibitively expensive and flying resources and people round the globe contributing to climate catastrophe is there a way we can construct new processes that allow for remote collaborative co-creation? Furthermore, can we build a production where audiences feel as if they are occupying the same physical space at the same time? How could we reinterpret notions of liveness? And if we do, is that ‘cheating’?

In this lunchtime talk the Raucous and Lost & Gone teams discussed the ideas they tested (and are still testing) with The Lantern Room. They shared what these periods of exploration helped them discover and how those discoveries will influence the work as they move forward in their partnership.

Image credit: Jon Aitken