Τheatre Performance Transformations in the Twilight of the Pandemic video theatre and prosumer culture – and after?
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic pushed theatre to its limits and gave birth to certain creative solutions out of social confinement. It led to its medial transformation into video theatre and video drama. As such, it could enjoy a new status as another «window» on a screen, among advertisements, news and miscellaneous content. Another solution that emerged during the pandemic that resonates with, mostly youth, prosumer culture, was rehearsing in open spaces. The article examines these two major solutions devised during the pandemic and their very special impact on the body of live theatre performance, as well as their possible long-term consequences. It aspires at reformulating the ontology of theatre performance after the pandemic, in relation to the moving image, narrative and participatory culture.
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Timplalexi, E. (2023). Τheatre Performance Transformations in the Twilight of the Pandemic: video theatre and prosumer culture – and after?. Αutomaton: Journal of Digital Media and Culture, 2(2), 83–95. https://doi.org/10.12681/automaton.35477
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