1st Edition

Innovation & Digital Theatremaking Rethinking Theatre with “The Show Must Go Online”

By Robert Myles, Valerie Clayman Pye Copyright 2024
222 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Innovation & Digital Theatremaking introduces a blueprint for how to think differently about Theatre, how to respond creatively in uncertainty, and how to wield whatever resources are available to create new work in new ways. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had a colossal impact on theatre across the world. At a time when even the wealthiest and best-supported theatre companies in the... Read more

1. Innovation and Theatremaking  2. Why Shakespeare?  3. Creating A Community  4. Producing Rapidly, Producing Regularly  5. Directing for Digital  6. The Future

Biography

Robert Myles is an actor, director, writer, and practitioner who specializes in Shakespeare in Performance, Stage & Screen Combat, and Digital Theatre. Creator of The Show Must Go Online, The Shakespeare Deck, Fight Rep, and more, Rob is dedicated to transforming perceptions, performance, and participation in all his practice areas.

Valerie Clayman Pye is an actor, director, author, and academic who specializes in training actors to meet the demands of performing Shakespeare and challenging audience expectations about Shakespeare in performance. She is an associate professor of Theatre and Chair of the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Arts Management at Long Island University, Post.

"This is an essential book for anyone trying to create theatre in the current environment. It’s a book that opened my eyes not just to the unprecedented challenges faced by young theatre artists but to ways of addressing those challenges that aim not just to meet them but to turn them into provocations to make a new kind of theatre. New generations of theatre professionals will find it a sympathetic guide and a mine of invaluable advice."

Sir Nicholas Hytner, former Artistic Director of the National Theatre and Artistic Director of the Bridge Theatre, UK