Friar Lawrence’s Confessional: Shakespeare through the lens of a webcam

Abstract

A review of Friar Lawrence’s Confessional, a digital adaptation produced by Creation Theatre, discusses how the adaptation utilises the Zoom online conferencing platform as both a stage and setting for the performance, varying between ‘showing’ and ‘telling’ modes to retain both the narrative of the source text (William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet) and the central conceit of the production: that the audience is viewing the Friar through his webcam.