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Explore remote rehearsal, telepresence, livestreaming, online and hybrid theatre, audience participation, and the documentation of networked performance.

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A PLACE TO BEGIN / Collaboration & Practice

How to Archive a Digital Theatre Production

Archiving a digital theatre production means capturing the work and the conditions that produced it: master recordings, source and show-control files, scripts and caption or surtitle files, rights and consent records, descriptive metadata, and a preservation plan that outlives the platform it…

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Collaboration & Practice

A Technical Checklist for Remote Theatre Rehearsals

A remote rehearsal checklist covers the decisions that must be settled before anyone signs in: which platform and licence tier you are using, what each participant's device…

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Digital & Networked Performance

Designing Audience Participation for Online Theatre

Audience participation in online theatre should be designed as a clear participation model rather than added as a chat feature. Producers need to decide what audiences may…

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Collaboration & Practice

Planning Rehearsals Across Time Zones

Planning rehearsals across time zones requires more than converting a clock time. Build a shared time-zone map, choose a sustainable and rotating overlap window, separate live rehearsal…

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Digital & Networked Performance

Around the World: A Case Study in Networked Theatre

Around the World is an annual networked theatre project by the collective The Internationalists that presents plays simultaneously in multiple cities and online. It exemplifies how digital…

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Editorial stock photographs illustrate themes; they do not document the productions discussed on this site. Used under the Pexels licence.