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Producing a festival is like conducting a war with multiple fronts travel visas, multiple venues, overstretched staff.
People kept testing positive; sets couldnt be unloaded from cartage; performers couldnt make it into the country.
The following Monday, the opera-and-music-theater festivalPrototypefollowed suit.
Brooklyns Exponential Festival had already decided that it would stream its programming.
But January is generally the window for avant-garde performance, when a usually marginalized fringe takes over the town.
For those of us who use the mini-season as a battery-charging period, the outlook seems grim.
But the festivals arent really gone, or at least not completely.
Experimental artists are still making work a little of it in person, much of it online.
Under the Radar, for example, isnt entirely canceled.
Mac is a Pulitzer finalist whose work has made it to the worlds largest stages.
So its a really special opportunity.
They test everyone involved, every day.
Nothing slows down the juggernaut-of-weirdExponential Festival,not even Buchheisters bout with COVID in December.
(The other eight productions will appear later in the year.)
The quick-draw talents involved have been adapting their pieces to fit the new limitations.
you might also fashion your own digital festival out of everything else available online right now.
I cannot responsibly recommend being in a real bar right now, but areconstructionof a bar?
Where we all keep our masks on?
