Digital Dream

Artists: UBC Theatre and Film, Patrick Pennefather, Tom Scholte

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Date: Friday, April 9th, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT | 10:00 pm EDT | 4:00 am CEST (April 10th) | 6:30 am IRST (April 10th)

Event Access: YouTube

Digital Dream Play is a response to Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, first performed in Stockholm in 1907. In the play's description characters “split, double, multiply, evaporate, condense, dissolve and merge”, provoking us to experiment with the potential of off-the-shelf streaming technologies to co-locate actors virtually whose physical proximity is constrained due to social distancing during a pandemic. In our mixed reality experience, live actors surrounded by walls of green screens on a theatre stage transport audiences to dream-like virtual environments. This production is an innovative proposition to the question: “How can technology support theatre-making during a pandemic and how might this influence future audience experiences?”…