Directing Site Specific Theater Exploring Unique Locations For Immersive Productions
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Directing Site-Specific Theater: Exploring Unique Locations For Immersive Productions
Journey beyond the confines of traditional theater and delve into the captivating realm of Site-Specific Theater! This groundbreaking guide unveils the secrets of transforming unconventional spaces into immersive, unforgettable productions. Imagine your audience stepping into an abandoned warehouse that transforms into a haunting asylum. Or a bustling city park becoming the backdrop for an epic battle. The possibilities are limitless, and the stakes are high as you navigate the challenges and rewards of this exhilarating art form. This comprehensive guide equips you with practical strategies for: Choosing the perfect site and adapting it to your vision Crafting performances that engage all the senses Overcoming logistical hurdles and ensuring audience safety Collaborating with local communities to create meaningful connections As you explore the case studies and expert insights, you'll gain invaluable knowledge to push your productions to new heights. Whether you're an aspiring director, a seasoned performer, or simply a theater enthusiast, this book will inspire you to unlock the transformative power of Site-Specific Theater. Embrace the challenge, elevate your storytelling, and create productions that leave an indelible mark on your audience!
Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk's Theatrical Worlds
Author: Carina E. I. Westling
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2020-05-14
Longlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design & Scenography 2023 Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk's Theatrical Worlds is a detailed account of the company's award-winning productions and their historical context. Examining Punchdrunk's role as pioneers of immersive theatre in the UK through a range of their productions including Sleep No More and The Drowned Man besides theatrical works such as Faust, The Duchess of Malfi and Kabeiroi, and cross-platform productions like The Moon Slave, The Borough and The Oracles, the book presents an original framework for understanding immersion in theatrical and mixed reality experiences. Central to the book is a study of how immersive experience is produced in interaction with physical and digital scenography for participatory audiences. Through ethnographies of the company, their designers, actors, producers and audiences, the book interrogates the relationship between the aesthetics of interaction and the experience of immersion in Punchdrunk's work. The theoretical framework that the book introduces affords analyses of material cultures and the influence of technology on interaction design in theatre and beyond, and offers a blueprint for next-generation immersive design and scenography for interactive multimedia environments.
Lockdown Shakespeare
Author: Gemma Kate Allred
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2022-06-16
This edited collection offers the first in-depth analysis and sourcebook for 'Lockdown Shakespeare'. It brings together scholars of stage, screen, early modern and adaptation studies to examine the work that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic and considers issues of form, liveness, reception, presence and community. Interviews with theatre makers and artists illuminate the challenges and benefits of creating new work online, while educators consider how digital tools have facilitated the teaching of Shakespeare through performance. Together, the chapters in this book offer readers the definitive work on the performance and adaptation of Shakespeare online during the pandemic. From The Show Must Go Online, which presented Shakespeare's First Folio via YouTube, to Creation Theatre and Big Telly's interactive The Tempest and Macbeth, which used Zoom as their stage, the book documents the variety and richness of work that emerged during the pandemic. It reveals how, by taking Shakespeare online in new and innovative ways, the theatre industry sparked the evolution of new forms of performance with their own conventions, aesthetics and notions of liveness. Among the other productions discussed are Arden Theatre Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tender Claws' 'The Under Presents: Tempest', The Shakespeare Ensemble's What You Will, Merced Shakespearefest's Ricardo II, CtrlAltRepeat's Midsummer Night Stream, Sally McLean's Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) and Justina Taft Mattos's Moore – A Pacific Island Othello.