Profs in the Pav - creativity is contagious series

'The Show Must Go On' by Dr Robert Marsden, Associate Professor of Acting and Directing

The old adage that ‘theatre is dying’ has been proved a myth.

In this lecture, Rob argues that theatre has merely evolved, through the creative endeavours of those who make theatre, driven by audiences who have a need for stories.

In England alone, an attempted ban by the Bishop of Lincoln in 1244, the Puritanical laws of the 17^th Century, wars, pressure groups, plagues and pandemics have not stopped storytelling in shared spaces.

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