With the stop-start nature of theatre over the last year, you might be forgiven for thinking that there wouldn’t and couldn’t be any awards made for productions which took to the stage during 2020. However, as followers of this blog will know there has been a wealth of stuff online. In response, OffWestEnd introduced a unique idea – the OnComms – recognising the best of this new development. OffWestEnd received over 350 submissions last year and have made nearly 150 online commendations; they have now announced the Oncomm Award Finalists
Geoffrey Brown, Director of OffWestEnd, has said “2020 devastated live theatre but it was fantastic to see so many companies, venues and creatives go online to develop and present new work, or to enable audiences to enjoy some great work from the archives. The level of innovation in new work was really exciting, from the use of Zoom to imaginative…
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