Digital Theatre: The Making and Meaning of Live Mediated Performance, Us & UK 1990-2020

ISBN-13: 9783030556273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 295 str.

Nadja Masura

Recenzje

"This book is a valuable addition to anglophone literature on theatre and the performing arts, new media, and the digital paradigm. It certainly enriches the knowledge base of the field of arts and humanities. Its refinement would only allow it to shine brighter to the advantage of scholars, practitioners, and students, who I am sure, will relish its timely contribution to the currently embattled art of the theatre." (Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou, European Journal of American Studies, Issue 1, 2021)

Spis treści

1. Introduction.- 2. Scenography.- 3. The Theatre Building/Place.- 4. The Actor.- 5. The Animated Actor.- 6. Costuming.- 7. Director/Dramaturg (Authority).- 8. Writer/Audience (Authorship).- 9. Theorizing Body/Place: The Agency of the Digital Performer and the Body as Place.- 10. Theorizing Place/Community: Issues of Access and Performativity.- 11. Conclusion: Binaries of Hope, Theorizing Theater’s Place in an Increasingly Performative Digital World.

O autorze

Nadja Masura is a former MITH Fellow with degrees in Theatre from University of Maryland, Michigan, & Puget Sound, USA.  She also holds degrees in Multimedia Authoring & Integration and Graphics Design. Nadja is a director, dramaturg, and artist and has worked in arts NPOs and the tech industry.

Blurb

Digital Theatre is a rich and varied art form evolving between performing bodies gathered together in shared space and the ever-expanding flexible reach of the digital technology that shapes our world. This book explores live theatre performances which incorporate video projection, animation, motion capture and triggering, telematics and multisite performance, robotics, VR, and AR. Through examples from practitioners like George Coates, the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre, Troika Ranch, David Saltz, Mark Reaney, The Builder’s Association, and ArtGrid, a picture emerges of how and why digital technology can be used to effectively create theatre productions matching the storytelling and expressive needs of today’s artists and audiences. It also examines how theatre roles such as director, actor, playwright, costumes, and set are altered, and how ideas of body, place, and community are expanded.