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Thursday, March 03, 2022
This Play Is Touring Europe. But No One’s Going Anywhere.
The New York Times: By 2024, the British director Katie Mitchell’s latest project “A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction,” will have been shown in 10 countries. Yet neither Mitchell, nor any cast or crew, will cross a single border.
2 comments:
Hadley
said...
This is a really fascinating idea. The title caught my attention as I assumed that it meant more "zoom theatre" or a live streaming situation. But this is so much better than anything I initially thought. The idea of creating a show that can change and evolve from country to country and design team to design team is so much fun and I love the idea of focusing on the changes that each team introduces to the creative process. I feel like as much as this piece of theatre is a study in sustainability in the industry, which is something that so many more companies should take into consideration, it is also a study on culture, and regions. I can't help but be incredibly curious as to how the play will change from country to country to fit in with the culture that it is being presented to and designed by. I think that getting pictures or videos of each performance together in one place will be very interesting to compare in the future.
I think that this is a really interesting article, and not some thing that I’ve ever really seen before. But a lot of the comments that I’ve seen above say that zoom theater and digital theater is not theater. To me it is something that I’ve grappled with during the pandemic whether or not digital or zoom theater is theater, and going against the other Commenters I want to say that I believe that zoom theater or digital theater as they call it, is cedar. However I do want to qualify by saying that there are so many shortcomings with digital theater, especially when it comes to the immersive aspect of theater as a whole. When an audience member walks into a physical theater space with other audience members, they are essentially transformed and placed in another world. Audience members suspend believe that what they see in front of them isn’t real and let themselves be immersed into the story, however I feel like that is incredibly difficult achieve through a computer screen. So I guess the final question is, does theater inherently have to be immersive to be considered theater?
2 comments:
This is a really fascinating idea. The title caught my attention as I assumed that it meant more "zoom theatre" or a live streaming situation. But this is so much better than anything I initially thought. The idea of creating a show that can change and evolve from country to country and design team to design team is so much fun and I love the idea of focusing on the changes that each team introduces to the creative process. I feel like as much as this piece of theatre is a study in sustainability in the industry, which is something that so many more companies should take into consideration, it is also a study on culture, and regions. I can't help but be incredibly curious as to how the play will change from country to country to fit in with the culture that it is being presented to and designed by. I think that getting pictures or videos of each performance together in one place will be very interesting to compare in the future.
I think that this is a really interesting article, and not some thing that I’ve ever really seen before. But a lot of the comments that I’ve seen above say that zoom theater and digital theater is not theater. To me it is something that I’ve grappled with during the pandemic whether or not digital or zoom theater is theater, and going against the other Commenters I want to say that I believe that zoom theater or digital theater as they call it, is cedar. However I do want to qualify by saying that there are so many shortcomings with digital theater, especially when it comes to the immersive aspect of theater as a whole. When an audience member walks into a physical theater space with other audience members, they are essentially transformed and placed in another world. Audience members suspend believe that what they see in front of them isn’t real and let themselves be immersed into the story, however I feel like that is incredibly difficult achieve through a computer screen. So I guess the final question is, does theater inherently have to be immersive to be considered theater?
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