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Transmedia Theatre Plays: A Contemporary Anthology(Methuen Drama Play Collections)

Transmedia Theatre Plays: A Contemporary Anthology(Methuen Drama Play Collections)


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About the Book

Between 2020 and 2022, theatre had to adapt and, in doing so, challenged ideas of what was possible – and what was even 'theatre'.

Due to the global pandemic, an exceptional and wide range of works were made for, or adapted to, brand new conditions and limitations. While these works are defined by interpandemic conditions in the Anthropocene, they serve as portals to thinking about theatre-making in the future.

Gathered in this collection are pieces adapted or made for podcast theatre, a livestream illusionist interactive performance, an audience-uploaded hybrid performance, one-on-one online interaction, lip-synch opera-theatre, climate crisis activist manifesto film/theatre, spoken word and gaming installation art and multi-location broadcast plays, providing an accessible introduction to 'Transmedia' theatre.

Transmedia theatre has been a boundary-breaking and rich area of performance since the 1990s, but the (by necessity) explosion of works that were created during the early years of the pandemic signalled a new, exciting and accessible method by which theatre-makers could share their work and also challenge their own practices.

While these specific works are markers of a specific time in performance history, they also point ways forward, not only in terms of form and function, but in how educators, students and fellow practitioners could conceive of re-staging these works in person and/or on digital platforms.

For a generation that has grown up online, whose vocabularies of expression are as much digitally native as they are IRL, transmedia theatre, and the realm too of VR and AR story and audience design which it borders, holds a firm place in busting open the realm of the possible.



Table of Contents:

Introduction
Can I Live? By Fehinti Balogun (UK)
I am Sending You the Sacred Face by Heather Christian (US)
Odds On by Dante or Die (UK)
To Be a Machine (Version 1.0) by Dead Centre (Ireland)
I Hate it Here: Stories from the End of the Old World by Ike Holter (US)
Every Dollar is a Soldier/with money you’re a dragon by Daniel York Loh (UK)
T.M. by Ontroerend Goed (Belgium)



About the Author :
Caridad Svich is a playwright, associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review and founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press. She received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for The House of the Spirits. She has edited several books on theatre including Audience Revolution and Innovation in Five Acts (2016 and 2015), Out of Silence: Censorship in Theatre & Performance (2014), and Trans-Global Readings (2004).

Review :
As a textual primer to the art of transmedia theatre, this is indispensable, and flies the flag for future exploration of what can be achieved by blurring the edges of what is ‘theatre’, ‘what is film’, and anything in-between … Transmedia Theatre Plays offers a window into the creativity that exists within theatre as an art form. Attesting to the power of creativity and artistic resilience during times of difficulty, these transmedia plays will be available to read for theatre artists and will certainly open new paths for them to develop their own work.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350496538
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama
  • Height: 238 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 575 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1350496537
  • Publisher Date: 15 May 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Methuen Drama Play Collections
  • Sub Title: A Contemporary Anthology
  • Width: 158 mm


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