‘Hello stranger.” This cheery neon greeting, inside one of the pavilions at a former slaughterhouse, welcomes you to the UK exhibit of the Prague Quadrennial. It’s a reminder that, four years after this vast festival of performance design and scenography last took place, a few months before the Covid-19 outbreak, the arts are still beckoning audiences back and adjusting to the pandemic’s impact.
The quadrennial features dozens of multimedia installations representing productions mounted around the world during theatre’s difficult last few years. But several countries face the future too. Kathrine Sandys and Lucy Thornett, the UK exhibit’s curators, encourage visitors to contribute ideas for “a radical reinvention of ways of thinking and working”.
