Collaboration for theatre artists across borders may become a little easier thanks to an innovative new digital tool. Launched this week, CdnStudio is a web platform that uses basic green screen technology to overlay video feeds and make it appear as though artists in...
Journeying back to late 1800s, we see how anti-semitism, the sympathies of a poet, and military law collided in The Dreyfus Affair. Alfred Dreyfus, originally a member of the French artillery, was found to have committed treason. He eventually served in Devil’s...
MMK3 is the smallest of Frankfurt's Museum für Moderne Kunst's three buildings, and Hassan Khan's exhibition Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said began here from outside the gallery. Applied to its windowed façade were two giant faces looking away from one another,...
Felix Mortimer is a former member of Punchdrunk who has gone on to found RETZ with Simon Ryninks to respond to the need for a dialogue between performance, film and the internet. Felix has produced and directed many large-scale site-specific, technology-led...
Felix Mortimer is a former member of Punchdrunk who has gone on to found RETZ with Simon Ryninks to respond to the need for a dialogue between performance, film and the internet. Felix has produced and directed many large-scale site-specific, technology-led...
If your vacations haven’t been focused on interaction with indigenous shamans (as have many of mine), if your experience with LSD or other shape-shifting substances were interesting but not worthy of quiting your day job, if you just didn’t have the resources to brave...
Twenty years ago, it was inconceivable for people to meet without a physical encounter. But today, as the web browser has become a cyber theatre – a proscenium stage with a kind of “performance-action” taking place in the cyberspace behind its arch – when you...
Professor Judith Ackermann studied media, psychology, and computer linguistics prior to taking up acting for a time after growing tired of so much theoretical study. Nonetheless, she also decided to pursue her PhD in parallel with her acting studies, but this simply...
In Shuzo Oshimi’s comic series, Drifting Net Café, the protagonist runs into his first love from middle school in the internet café that he frequents. It is pouring outside and they must spend the night in the café. The next morning the rain stops and they walk out of...
The Theatre Times recently republished an article called “A New Form of Theatre Consumption Aims to Revolutionize the World of Theatre.” If you have been following our transmedia section, you will remember several examples of theatre-makers trying to...
You won’t be alone if you’ve never heard of the Tokyo-based International Centre for Theatre Arts, because few have seen any plays it has staged and anyway its focus is firmly on building a reputation outside Japan. Founded in 2012 by New Zealand-born James...
Interview with Tomáš Procházka, one of the founding members of the Czech performing arts group Handa Gote, about old media, physicality and one of their latest production Eleusis. How did you go from attending an engineering secondary school to staging creative...
The way media is produced and consumed has been transformed in the past decade or so thanks to game-changing services like Spotify and Netflix. But while technology has fundamentally shaken up the film, music, TV, and newspaper industries performance arts such as...
Sarah Ellis is the head of digital development at the Royal Shakespeare Company. She first studied music at Goldsmiths University. After finishing her studies, she moved to a digital television company but she quickly went back to the arts. First to a poetry...
In this time of superdiversity, with different cultures and strata of the population living alongside each other, how to make a performance that is potentially open to everybody? This inherently impossible question lies at the heart of Mount Tackle, a project by...
IJAD Dance Company begins 2017 with two firsts: the launch of its pioneering new digital platform (the Open Online Theatre) and the world premiere of Walk Into Space, an interactive, dance extravaganza exploring gravity and the wonders of the universe. Set against a...
Imagine getting in a car without knowing the destination. Sharing the car are singers, actors, and instrumentalists who draw you into a story. The car stops at an incredible site, where another chapter of the story commences – until another car pulls up, with...
Peter Lee is the founder of NOLGONG, the Seoul-based game design company, which is also producing offline games based on historical events and also on classical literature like Goethe’s Faust. Last spring they were also commissioned to design a game for the Korean...
machina eX is one of the most immersive theatre company in Germany. They constantly recreate surrounding of video games where the audience can experience how is to be a real protagonist of such games. Interview with machina eX’s member, Lasse Marburg. What is exactly...
Evert Hoogendoorn is a strategist and game designer at IJsfontein Interactive Media. He also has a background in theatre and acting, has been part of the game industry for over fifteen years and started the Design for Virtual Theatre & Games program that later...
A conversation with Katie Day (founder and artistic director of The Other Way Works company) about her latest productions and why is important for her to work with new technology tools. How do you see as a practitioner what is going to be the relationship of...
Interview with Mirko Stojkovic dramaturg, video game developer and university teacher about monomyths, nano-spectacles and avatars. At last years IETM meeting you mentioned that one of the biggest problems of the virtual world is in its lacking emotions. Do you see...
Returning to the Met’s Live in HD series is a moving production of Don Giovanni. Part of the charm of Live in HD is gathering at a large cinema to see opera transfer to the screen. Unlike longer operas, Mozart’s Don Giovanni feels like a whirling Two Act, with love,...
Live – what is it and why does it matter? The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series brings opera to over 2,000 screens. The 10th anniversary season of Met Live in HD began on October 8, 2016. Fans of regular Met performances - who prefer the viewing experience of...
The formal launch of the OzAsia Festival’s visual arts program at the Adelaide Festival Centre earlier this month involved an encounter with the unexpected. In the adjoining gallery, instead of the usual well-heeled patrons and donors clinking wine glasses and...
Sander Veenhof is a hands-on futurist, creating interactive experiences to explore scenario’s for a speculative but highly probable future. He has already exhibited his work in MOMA using AR, and he is continuously experimenting with AR, VR and their possible...
The Brighton-based Blast Theory is one of the world leading interactive performance companies that combines elements of performance, installation and virtual reality. The company is at the forefront of using technology, doing research and actually “testing” human...
Three US neuroscientists published a case study in 2005 detailing how a woman, AJ, was plagued by memories of her own life and of public events such as the dates of death of Elvis and Princess Diana. The discussion of AJ’s memory never mentions it, but it seemed clear...
Christina Papagiannouli directs and devises cyberformances on online platforms such as UpStage and Waterwheel Tap. She is a research assistant and lecturer at the University of South Wales, and her monograph Political Cyberformance: The Etheatre Project was published...
For the first time in Broadway history, on June 30th 2016, a musical was live streamed: Roundabout Theatre Company’s She Loves Me, a classical Broadway hit that first opened in 1963. Hamilton, the latest Broadway megahit, is also about to receive the attention of...
Theater, Yale’s journal of criticism and performance, launched its special issue on “Digital Feelings” (Theater 46, no. 2). Curated as a sequel to the 2012 explorations of “Digital Dramaturgies” (Theater 42, no. 2), the latest issue of Theater Magazine continues to...
The evening that I saw Red Wednesday by Built for Collapse at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, there was an illustration of Iran’s Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and former Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini on the cover of the Wall Street Journal. For a play that...
This post discusses the emergence and evolution of digital art and online performance in the U.K. This original content was written exclusively for TheTheatreTimes.com There’s a huge swell of digital arts activity in the UK at the moment. The BBC and Arts Council...
Over six hours, three Shakespearean tragedies – Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony And Cleopatra – are connected in an immensely ambitious production, Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s Roman Tragedies. Under Ivo van Hove’s direction, this was one of the key offerings at the...
Polish theatre has gained world renown thanks to its innovative and bold experimental style. In international theatre circles, it is often enough to mention the names of Grotowski, Kantor, Witkacy, and Gombrowicz to elicit profound nods of approval. One aspect of...
I highly respect and admire Schaeffer's escalation of innovations but it creates the effect of “always something different, and thus always the same.” Word has just got out that Bogusław Schaeffer, almost exactly on his eightieth birthday, received an annual...
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