Below are some of our favorite excerpts from the Third Coast Review’s piece on the present and future of virtual theatre and Arlekin’s role within it. We have provided a link below to read it in full.
“[…] In a recent HowlRound Theatre Commons program, [Golyak] describes how, near the end of the rehearsal process, they realized the Zoom-based production ‘wasn’t working.’ They decided they needed to involve the audience as collaborators and used a variety of techniques such as popup questionnaires and showing audience members on screen. (The play was livestreamed in May.) One reviewer said the play ‘incorporates the possibilities of film and video-game-style animation into its storytelling, while retaining the live-performance component of theater.)'”
“[…] Whether we are viewing actors in Zoom boxes or creatively edited livestreamed video, there’s definitely a value in virtual theater. In addition to the benefits expressed by theater makers, lower production costs can enable theaters to try out new concepts or provide opportunities to emerging performers more easily. And virtual theater can open the theater experience to a wider audience.”