Due to the ongoing COIVD pandemic, this year’s annual joint postgraduate symposium will take place online.
The organisers have devised sessions exploring some of the questions, challenges, and possibilities surrounding virtual theatre and performance. What precisely is the reception dynamic when watching virtual performance? Discussions will focus on several broad questions surrounding the interplay between virtuality and liveness, ownership and global dissemination, place and space.
Organisers
- David Bullen
- Giovanna Di Martino
- Peter Swallow
- Claire Barnes
- Alison Middleton
- Marcus Bell
- Zoë Jennings
Programme
Thursday 2 July (11am – 12.30pm):
1. Performance, Collaboration and Reception
2. Digital Archives
Friday 3 July (4.30 – 6pm):
3. Who authors and owns classical drama in the post-COVID digital world?
4. Virtual Space, Canon and Performance
Members of Magnet Theatre Company and the University of Cape Town will be presenting examples of virtual performances from South Africa’s Virtual National Arts Festival, including a play staged on WhatsApp directed by participant Lesego Chauke.