Digital technology was also used to bring to life other aspects of the play: the harpy, the hounds and the spectacle of the masque. Bringing live performance capture technology to the theatre for the first time, we created animated versions of the spirit character Ariel live on stage, through motion capture sensors in the suit worn by the actor Mark Quartley. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016, we collaborated with Intel and the Imaginarium Studios to create a groundbreaking production of The Tempest, Shakespeare’s last play and arguably his most magical story world. It’s in this spirit that we at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) have worked digitally over the past decade, expanding a theatre-making toolkit for our artists, our audiences and our organisation, and achieving genuine creative innovation, global impact and value. The tools that have developed over the past 400 years have been critical to enabling Shakespeare’s plays to be performed, reimagined and reinterpreted for diverse audiences, keeping the form of presentation as perennially relevant as the content of his work. In the pandemic, this is proving vital.įrom candlelight to Pepper’s ghost, the printing press to the internet, theatre has always used the newest technologies to tell and share its stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Collaborations with digital pioneers can help theatre reimagine its connection with its audiences.
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