Helen W. Kennedy

Punchdrunk’s production of The Masque of the Red Death. Photography by Stephen Dobbie

June 30, 2020

Punchdrunk: new venture with Pokemon Go designer offers hope for post‑pandemic theatre

Helen W. Kennedy, University of Nottingham and Sarah Atkinson, King's College London

The performing arts sector will need to change after the pandemic. This new venture is a glimpse of how it might look.

Quick on the uptake: Corona is one of a number of new films reacting to the pandemic. Grandmuse Pictures

May 22, 2020

Sarah Atkinson, King's College London and Helen W. Kennedy, University of Nottingham

COVID-19 has hit the film industry hard, but some enterprising film-makers are already plotting ways to cope with the ‘new normal’.

Secret Cinema’s production of Moulin Rouge. Secret Cinema

February 28, 2020

Sarah Atkinson, King's College London and Helen W. Kennedy, University of Nottingham

The immersive future of live cinema is already being written.

Manuel Lopez/EPA

January 17, 2017

Sarah Atkinson, King's College London and Helen W. Kennedy, University of Brighton

Woody Harrelson’s directorial debut, released this month, signals that we are in a new age of cinema.

December 1, 2015

Sarah Atkinson, King's College London and Helen W. Kennedy, University of Brighton

Cinema is evolving into a multi-sensory spectacular.