C-CATS

Research | Development | Production

Remotely Theatrical

Remotely Theatrical (Real-Time) is a virtual theatre stage set which allows different theatre production departments to collaborate and learn through a synchronous cooperative real-time environment. Using low-cost performance capture technologies, RT-RT enables stage actors working remotely and at a distance to ‘project’ their performances into a fully working responsive virtual environment. Scenographers, scenic artists, costumiers, lighting designers, sound specialists, character designers and other specialists all perform their functions via a set of bespoke digital interfaces so that the totality of the performance is integrated as part of the same synchronous virtual world, offering audiences a unique live, in-the-moment and as-it-happens experience of the show. This is ‘digital’ theatre as it has never been previously experienced, and something we feel is a particularly apposite solution to the challenges of our times.

Key People

Partners

Guildford School of Acting, Unreal Engine


An Avatar Prepares

In a bold attempt to become more ‘human’, a fully working and life-like mid-21st century android travels back in time to the early part of the previous millennium to attend workshops at Konstantin Stanislavsky’s Moscow Arts Theatre Studio in order to learn and understand the master theatre-maker’s ground-breaking new acting and rehearsal techniques.

Key People

Partners

Falmouth University