Mediation and the PandeTheatre : Digital performativity in the smart staging of Brilliant Mind
Khattab, Mona; Elmeligi, Wessam (2023-03-08)
Khattab, Mona
Elmeligi, Wessam
Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark
08.03.2023
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2023052949247
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2023052949247
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One of the negative impacts of the pandemic on creative culture is new limitations imposed on interactive performance in theatrical production. Producers resorted to digitality to explore the potentials of smart staging. A new play titled Brilliant Mind is a case in point for its innovative use of digital alternatives to maintain interactive performativity in what the producers describe as “live theatre in digital landscapes”. The play was digitally performed online in 2021, and members of the audience were allowed to digitally explore parts of the set and interact with characters. This paper examines the play’s use of digital performativity as a form of mediation for pandemic-era theatre by unpacking its digital interactive strategies. The authors offer a close textual and visual analysis of their experience as audience members in addition to employing theatrical principles of psychodrama, as well as concepts of affect theory as an approach to visual communication.
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