What did actors do in Elizabethan times when the plague hit and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre was closed? Not like they could stream their work online or invite audiences to a Zoom show. Highly unlikely they were sitting at home baking banana bread. This is what Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Catastrophic Theatre, Tamarie Cooper was
“Tamarie Cooper’s 2020: Quarantine Edition!” is a new webseries from the Catastrophic Theatre that falls squarely right in the middle of amateur and professional. It has the homemade quality of a stitched-together Zoom project, the thoughtful effort of seasoned performers and every bit the awkward charm of local theater. A replacement for the theater’s annual