Digital theatre : the making and meaning of live mediated performance, US & UK 1990-2020 / Nadja Masura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masura, Nadja, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Series:

Palgrave studies in performance and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology and the arts.

Theater--Technological innovations--United States.

Theater.

Theater--Technological innovations--Great Britain.

Technological innovations.

Great Britain.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

System Details:

text file PDF

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Acknowledgments and Gratitude

Praise for Digital Theatre

Contents

About the Author

List of Figures

1 Introduction

References

Part I Spectacle

2 Scenography

Production Example: Kansas' The Magic Flute

Production Example: Alladeen

Production Example: Wings

Production Example: Threesixty's Peter Pan

Production Example: Robert LePage's Siegfried

3 The Theater Building/Place

Portability

Production Example: Studio Z

Site-Specific Performance

Production Example: Talking Birds (Undercurrents)

Production Example: Blind Messengers

Production Example: The 2006 Staging of the Coventry Mystery Plays

Extended Playing Space and Multi-site Performance

Production Example: Outside/In

Production Example: Alice Experiments in Wonderland

Intelligent Spaces

Performance Example: ASU's Intelligent Theatre

Production Example: Kaspar

Production Example: Wonder Dome

4 Costuming

Production Example: The Magic Flute

Production Example: GSRT's Making of Americans

Production Example: GSRT's UBU Project

Production Example: Digital Masks

A Brief Word on Implants

Part II Acting

5 The Actor (Agency)

The Actor Extended

The Technology: Digitizing Motion

Production Example: L'Universe and the High-Tech Tools of the Clown

Production Examples: Troika Ranch's The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz and Future of Memory

Production Example: The Magic Flute and the Power of Pure Expression

Production Example: The Tempest (the Actor Caged)

6 The 'Other' Actor

Digital Puppets

Production Example: Dinosaurus

Production Example: The Magic Flute

Production Example: The Skriker

Production Example: Blue Bloodshot Flowers

The Video Actor

Production Example: Continuous City

Mechanical Actors

Production Example: Baxter, the Robot Actor

The Performance: YOU n.0

Anthropomorphizing

Production Example: Comedia Robotica (Zeeb Zob)

Production Example: Robots in a Midsummer Night's Dream (Non-humanoid Robots)

Part III Creative Authority & Authorship

7 Director/Dramaturg (Creative Authority)

Production Examples: The InterPlay Series, Devising/Collaboration in Action

Production Example (1): InterPlay-Hallucinations

Production Example (2): InterPlay-Loose Minds in a Box

Production Example (3): InterPlay-Dancing on the Banks of Packet Creek

Production Example (4): InterPlay-Nel Tempo Di Sogno

Production Example: Elements/Digital Performance Group

Production Example: Re-Membering Harmony

8 Writer and Audience (Authorship)

Authorship and Plays Written for the Digital Age

Production Example: Grace Plains

Production Example: Elements-Compass Points

Audience as Author and Participant

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Masura, Nadja. Digital theatre.

ISBN:

9783030556280

303055628X

Publisher Number:

99986121492

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.