Saskatoon playwright Joel Bernbaum is reflecting on how the novel coronavirus pandemic will impact his own research and the way theatre is done in the future.
He said this is an opportunity to open up to new ways of thinking about the performing arts when things are back to normal. “It’s also an opportunity for us in the arts to rethink the way we make our art and the reason we make our art.
COVID-19 can be a portal to reimagining a whole new future for the arts. This is an incredible moment in history. Every theatre in the world is dark,” Bernbaum said. “When the lights go back on, we have a choice.
Do we go back to doing the same thing the way we’ve always done it, or do we reimagine the way that we connect with our communities, our