ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 global crisis will undoubtedly change the way that applied theatre practitioners work to overcome the hurdles of physical space to enter virtual worlds of collaboration and community building. However, what is important is the maintenance of the essential foundations that inform the range of methodologies that encapsulate applied theatre practice. The echoes priorities for applied theatre that are arguably unchanged over the past decade. But perhaps the ways in which each approach happens has necessarily shifted and required further thought over time. The potential to play with alternatives, and offer space for communities to engage with the politics of oppression, is often a central theme within applied theatre projects to varying degrees. The politics of intervention and the poetics of applied theatre need to account for the need to find different ways of offering radical pedagogy through artistic forms. However, applied theatre works with communities where a readily available community isn’t always easy to identify or bring together.
