Explore remote rehearsal, telepresence, livestreaming, online and hybrid theatre, audience participation, and the documentation of networked performance.
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…
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…
Livestreamed theatre relays a performance that is happening in a physical venue to remote viewers, usually in real time. Theatre created for online audiences is designed from…
Digital theatre is performance that uses digital technologies in staging, distribution, or audience experience. Networked performance is a related branch in which the internet and telecommunications shape…
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…
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…
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…
Latency affects dialogue and timing by inserting delay between action and perception. In online theatre it can turn intended pauses into apparent silence, cause speakers to overlap,…
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