Virtual theater in pandemic times
a look over the future of the spectator
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https://doi.org/10.48075/rt.v16i3.30085Keywords:
Theater, Virtual, pandemic, spectatorAbstract
This paper tries to draw the characteristics of what would be the new artistic language of theater within the virtual environment, considering the technical limitations of this space and in which ways this artistic language differenciates itself from audiovisual works and presential theater itself. The methodology consists in the observation of two staging proposals of plays that were performed presentially before the COVID-19 pandemic and that were adapted to the internet in diferente ways inbetween 2020 and 2021. The analyses of these spectacles joins the speech of researchers and artists who discourse about the movement of theater on the internet, both from the pre pandemic period as speeches that happen within this moment. From that, the analysis deepens over the figure of the cyberspectator and what is its place in this new scenic language. Taking these elements in account, the research looks for possible ways for further development of this language, considering it a valid form of scenic expression and allowing itself to glimpse the opportunities of creation and divulgation that open through the cyberspace.
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