LiveDesign: "Student performers from three universities across the continent will be leaping from stage to stage in a digital-age version of Lewis Carroll's classic that achieves the latest breakthroughs in cutting-edge, distance theatre technology.
As part of the first affordable and easily replicable show that merges three universities' stages, casts and audiences into one interactive experience, students will pull spectators through the looking glass and into an innovative “Internet2 wonderland.”"
5 comments:
This sounds really cool. I wish I could go see it. I was anticipating this sort of thing after that other show that was using projections. It's amazing how much technology continues to change how we do things in our lives though it has been around for a while. Being able to use it in an artistic way is something I think a lot of people don't really think of when they look at a projector or use the internet. Crazy, crazy things!
That is so cool. First of all, anytime theater brings large numbers of diverse people together, it is cool, but simultaneously performing one show in three different locations, using technology, with a modern and technological twist, thats pretty awesome. I wonder if here lies the future or even a future of performing arts. It will be interesting to see it what other venues this technology will be explored.
I just saw this show in Orlando and I have to say this may quite possibly be THE worst thing... EVER. I am a HUGE fan of theater and creative use of technology so I thought that this show was going to be a fun and groundbreaking use of modern technology. Unfortunately it turned out to be quite the opposite.
The story was nonexistant and the video technology never worked properly. There was a time delay which really seemed to hurt the actors' comedic timing, but the script was so awful it probably didn't matter. The show opened with Alice walking out onstage bouncing a basketball and prancing around without saying ANYTHING for about FIVE MINUTES! So here we are before first bit of dialogue and I'm already thinking of walking out. Then the show finally started and they basically vomited random internet and pop-culture referenes all over the place in a cheap attempt to get laughs. You've really got to wonder how drunk or high on crack the director was when he came up with utterly nonsensical lines like: "I can do anything, I'm just like Kim Possible!" After a while I just sat there praying that it would end or that I would die right then so I wouldn't have to endure this horrendous torture any more. It was long, boring, inconsistant, and just didn't make ANY sense. I've seen a lot of terrible theatre in my day, but I can honestly say beyond the shadow of a doubt that this is THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE! Please, avoid it at all costs if you wish to maintain your sanity! I have now been scarred for life. Thanks a lot.
The above poster is a bit melodramatic, but he's sadly right. The idea is very cool, but to rely so heavily on technology with a script this wishy-washy was just begging for a trainwreck. Where was the wit and wry style that any adaptation of Carroll deserves? All I saw was a sequence of one after another "look it's this part and we did this to it" moments that were (despite the actors' best efforts) soul-less.
I saw this show last weekend and it had to be one of THE worst shows I've ever seen. The technology was horribly choppy, slowing down the story to a halt. I wanted to leave after 15 minutes. I feel for the actors. From the shows I've seen previously, I know UCF performers are better than this, and probably did as best they could with what they were given. But they must have had to put up with some really awful direction and an even worse script. The lines were so incredibly trite it made me sick to my stomach. Who wrote this? Why are they employed? Can someone PLEASE tell me who the hell took this idea, which has a great concept, and turned it into absolute rubbish? After the show no one spoke or even uttered a compliment that I could hear, it was all blank faces and a general air of confusion. The director of this show must be so ashamed. I hope that if this idea does ever resurface again, it's done the right way. And of course completey rewritten. That's all I have to say.
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