Dream by the Royal Shakespeare Company: a dystopian experience of live performance, between avatars and virtual reality

IF 0.1 Q4 CULTURAL STUDIES

Altre Modernita-Rivista di Studi Letterari e Culturali Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI:10.54103/2035-7680/19184

Ester Fuoco

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Abstract

If, by definition, the performing event could not do without the co-presence in space and time of spectators and actors (Brook 21), history has shown us how profound reflections on the possibility of shifting the fundamental axes of theater have nevertheless come about. The increasingly substantial presence of video within performances, even if filmed in real-time, is one example that has called into question the fundamental concept of hic et nunc. The creation of performances for a single spectator has altered the anthropological binomial community/ritual in addition to the "non-human" entity of the performer, from metal theater to cyborg performance (Schrum). The Royal Shakespeare Company's new production (2021) Dream will be analyzed to discuss the particular artistic experimentation that has become widespread in the Covid era. This production, which is a technological performance watched by more than 20,000 people worldwide in just three days, brings performance and gaming technology together to explore new ways for the audience, a remote spectator, to experience live theater (Aebischer 21). As live play performances and readings continually crowd virtual platforms, theater is undergoing a radical shift from stage to screen and cyberspace. However, will these new formats survive in the post-pandemic times?

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皇家莎士比亚剧团的梦想：化身和虚拟现实之间的现场表演的反乌托邦体验

如果从定义上讲，表演活动离不开观众和演员在空间和时间上的共同存在（Brook 21），那么历史已经向我们表明，尽管如此，对改变戏剧基本轴线的可能性的深刻反思还是产生了。视频在表演中越来越重要，即使是实时拍摄的，也是一个让人质疑hic et nunc基本概念的例子。除了表演者的“非人类”实体之外，为单个观众创造的表演改变了人类学的二项式社区/仪式，从金属剧院到半机械人表演（Schrum）。英国皇家莎士比亚剧团（Royal Shakespeare Company）的新作品《梦想》（2021）将被分析，以讨论在新冠肺炎时代广泛存在的特殊艺术实验。这部作品是一场在短短三天内有全球20000多人观看的技术表演，它将表演和游戏技术结合在一起，为观众（远程观众）探索体验现场戏剧的新方式（Aebischer 21）。随着现场戏剧表演和阅读不断涌入虚拟平台，剧院正在经历从舞台到屏幕和网络空间的彻底转变。然而，这些新形式会在后疫情时代幸存下来吗？

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期刊介绍： Altre Modernità (AM), a six-monthly journal, ISSN 2035-7680, features articles, discussions, interviews, translations, creative works, reviews, and bibliographical information on the cultural production of Modernity. The themes and topics tackled in each issue will take Altre Modernità to areas of the world traditionally perceived as geographically and culturally disparate, aiming at capturing the newness of the cultural paradigms that are taking shape in several places today in order to isolate, subvert, weaken or transcend the monologic discourse of mainstream culture. AM is dedicated to the study of the peripheries of the world and the peripheries of societies that act as vibrant centres of cultural production, with special attention paid to those aspects of his cultural production that offer alternative models, suggestions and tools for overcoming it. The literary discourse still represents - for Altre Modernità - the point of departure and the unavoidable hub collating explorations in contiguous cultural and artistic fields. Altre Modernità is an Open Access journal devoted to the promotion of competent and definitive contributions to literary and cultural studies knowledge. The journal welcomes also works that fall into various disciplines: cultural studies, religion, history, literature, liberal arts, law, political science, computer science and economics that deal with contemporary issues, as listed in AM CfPs. Altre Modernità uses a policy of double-blind blind review (in which both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process) by at least two consultants to evaluate articles accepted for consideration. Altre Modernità promotes special issues on particular topics of special relevance in the cultural debates. Altre Modernità occasionally has opportunities for Guest Editors for special issues of the journal. Altre Modernità publishes at least 2 original issues in a calendar year.