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An Industry in Crisis: Virtual Mediums for Theatre and Live Performance

In: Extended Reality and Metaverse

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  • James Simpson

    (Copper Candle Ltd.
    Rose Bruford College
    University of East London)

Abstract

The pandemic created an opportunity within a crisis for theatres and live performances. It took away the ability to experience live events in person but encouraged new experimentation and discovery of virtual mediums to replace them. This paper looks at three case studies from work undertaken by Copper Candle and Rose Bruford College during the pandemic which were developed as alternatives to physical theatre but allowed audiences to continue to experience live performances from remote locations. The research considers the work of Auslander and Phelan (Auslander 1999; Phelan 2003) and their discourse on Liveness in performances. It expands on the association of the need for liveness with theatre and experiential events by challenging the expectation that events should be live because the performer, not the audience require it to be live. This paper introduces the idea of the performer centric bias, a consideration of how existing research and professional practice is guiding the industry to make incorrect assumptions about the necessity of liveness in virtual performances.

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  • James Simpson, 2023. "An Industry in Crisis: Virtual Mediums for Theatre and Live Performance," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Timothy Jung & M. Claudia tom Dieck & Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro (ed.), Extended Reality and Metaverse, pages 282-293, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-25390-4_25
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25390-4_25
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