just finished live screening of Poltergeist's 2018 show at the Metamodern Theatre symposium. #MetaSymp #theatre

Missed the Metamodern Theatre Symposium? Don’t panic! The whole event is now available to watch on YouTube

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A 5 part video playlist ft. @gregdember.bsky.social @katekavs.bsky.social @csvich.bsky.social @dermotdaly.bsky.social and more! #academicsky #theatresky #MetaSymp

Dermot Daly: '"Work" is finite, "play" is almost never-ending'. #MetaSymp

If you're interested in Creation's live digital theatre, I recommend seeing their current production of Antigone, next staged online from 21-23 November. #MetaSymp

The first panel begins with Katharine Kavanagh (@katekavs.bsky.social) presenting 'A Metamodern View on Circus'. #MetaSymp

Next is the keynote from Greg Dember (@gregdember.bsky.social), 'Say Hello to Metamodernism', which is also the title of his recent publication which I highly recommend. #MetaSymp

How better to begin a theatre symposium than with a dramatic multi-performer reading of the first few pages of the introduction to @miserchristmas.bsky.social's monograph? #MetaSymp

Next, Caridad Svich (@csvich.bsky.social) and Dermot Daly (@dermotdaly.bsky.social) are talking about 'The Next One Hundred Years as Metamodern Intimate Theatrical Epic' - a genuinely hybrid paper with Caridad and Dermot online accompanied by a student performance in the lecture theatre! #MetaSymp

here in live screening of Poltergeist's LIGHTS OVER TESCO CAR PARK at the Metamodern Theatre symposium. #theatre #MetaSymp

And we're off! Tom Drayton (@miserchristmas.bsky.social) offers his welcome remarks and runs through everything we've got to look forward to today. #MetaSymp

Really enjoyed Alex Watson's paper, 'Immediacy and Anglophone Metamodern Monodrama'. And a good reminder to take @annakornbluh.bsky.social's book off my shelf and read the whole thing after dipping in and out of it earlier this year! #MetaSymp

A great summary from @miserchristmas.bsky.social of how he theorises metamodern theatre, and how this fits into the wider structure of feeling recognised as metamodernism. #MetaSymp

The Metamodern Theatre Symposium was held at The University of East London and online on 19.11.24 to launch @miserchristmas.bsky.social's book Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre. Every talk now available on YouTube.

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Absolutely putting in my back pocket for future use @miserchristmas.bsky.social's reference to the DVD 'screensaver' as an analogy for metamodern oscillation: constantly moving between multiple different positions, never settling on one for long before shifting to another. #MetaSymp

Following a screening of Poltergeist Theatre's wonderful 2018 production 'Lights Over Tesco Car Park', @miserchristmas.bsky.social reads a section from a chapter about the play to commence the launch of 'Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre'. #MetaSymp

Looks like #MetaSymp is the hashtag for today's Metamodern Theatre Symposium at UEL. I'll do my best to share updates here as the day goes on - starting with a photo of @miserchristmas.bsky.social's fantastic volume, 'Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre', greeting us on the welcome desk 📚

Thank you to the #MetaSymp audience for their fantastic questions and response to my paper on Creation Theatre's Zoom productions of early modern plays as metamodern theatre. Watch this space to see where my meta(early)modern research takes me next.