Page 110 - Guildhall Coverage Book 2020-21

24 February 2021

By Andrew Zuccala

Students at Guildhall School of Music & Drama are not letting this lockdown stop them
from putting on their much-loved shows. And, like so many cultural experiences, they
are taking to the web this season.

There is a chance to see The Drowned World, Gary Owen’s rarely performed play
directed by John Haidar, and a series of short, stand-alone solo performances
titled Pieces of Us, created by Guildhall School students overseen by dramaturg Jude
Christian.

Acting and Production Arts students will also create two devised works in collaboration
with multi award-winning theatre companies Barrel Organ and Breach. Check out a few
below.

The Drowned World

In The Drowned World, two couples exist in a world obsessed with aesthetics, policed
by the community. One pair must learn what it is to survive, while the other must
interrogate who they truly are and what it is they serve. Premiered at the Traverse
Theatre and winner of the George Devine Award 2002, Gary Owen’s devastating play
explores how far humans will go to save themselves and what we are capable of when
faced with the most brutal of dystopias.