This week I speak with Kas Darley and Mark Stevenson, co- directors of theatre company Theatre Vivo. Theatre is one of the industries which has been extremely challenged as a result of COVID, and I wanted to speak with them about how they have stayed hopeful in the midst of that . Kas and Mark speak about how they adapted during lockdown , including hosting zoom workshops for actors during lockdown to "give people hope and a chance to play". They speak about how they have been encouraged by " a generosity of spirt going on in the cultural world" with people helping and supporting each other. Teatro Vivo creates "immersive, playful work that engages the audience" - in Hight Streets, supermarkets, parks etc. by making theatre everywhere they discovered that "everything is extraordinary and there is magic to be found everywhere". Another of their projects "Grimms Collecting Agency" involves collecting stories from members of the public : "people need to be heard... every story is about how humans do amazing things... hearing peoples stories help us understand each other and make communities better" . We also discuss their latest show on Zoom "The House That Slipped" a time travelling adventure in which a kind of utopia is discovered and the audience are invited discovered what they hope for the future and how we get there. We talked about what they had discovered as a result of story collecting and speaking with people about their hopes during lock down: "people are looking out for each other and being more community focused- they might feel powerless abut the big things but they can affect their street...you need people to do the little stuff... to be part of that ecosystem of fight and change"
You can find out more about Teatro Vivo here: https://www.teatrovivo.co.uk
My book "How To Be Hopeful" is out now!
You can buy it here
or here
or best of all at your local independent bookshop!
More soon
Bernadette
How To Be Hopeful Episode 27 "We Are Meant To Be Telling Each Other Stories"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 26 "Hope and Kindness"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 25 "Comedy, cows and cancer"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 24: "Hope and the Young Voices of The Rebellion "
How To Be Hopeful episode 22 "No one is too small to make difference"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 21 "Labours of Love"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 20 "This Grief Thing"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 19: "“How can we make the world better? Start small”.
A Manifesto of Care by Bernadette Russell and friends
How To Be Hopeful Episode 18 "Hope and Revolution"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 17 "Hope Is A Forest"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 16 “There Is Always Hope”
How To be Hopeful Episode 15 "This time, there is a listening happening"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 14- "Making The Ordinary Extraordinary"
How To Be Hopeful Episode 13 "Pushing Back With Hope"
WONDER episode 4: original short stories read aloud from Revelation Ashford
How To Be Hopeful Episode 12 "Home Made Mutant Hope Machines"
How To Be Hope Hopeful- Season 1- Episode 11- "Finding The Golden Moments"
How To Be Hopeful Season 1 Episode 10 "I am an advocate of hope”
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Museum of the Missing
Moments In Time And Space
TELL ME A STORY: THE TRUE LIFE OF JAKOB STANLEY
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The War of the Worlds
The Adventure Zone
Middle Aged and Creeped Out