{"product_id":"transmedia-theatre-plays-a-contemporary-anthology-hardcover","title":"Transmedia Theatre Plays: A Contemporary Anthology - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCaridad Svich\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBetween 2020 and 2022, theatre had to adapt and, in doing so, challenged ideas of what was possible, and what was even 'theatre'.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDue to the global pandemic, an exceptional and wide range of works made for, or adapted to, brand new conditions and limitations. While these works are defined by interpandemic conditions in the Anthropocene, they serve as portals to thinking about theatre-making in the future. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGathered in this collection are pieces adapted or made for podcast theatre, livestream illusionist interactive performance, audience-uploaded hybrid performance, one-on-one online interaction, lip-synch opera-theatre, climate crisis activist manifesto film\/theatre, spoken word and gaming installation art, multi-location broadcast plays, providing an accessible introduction to 'Transmedia' theatre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransmedia theatre has been a boundary-breaking and rich area of performance since the 1990s, but the (by necessity) explosion of works that were created during the early years of the pandemic signalled a new, exciting, and accessible method by which theatre-makers could share their work and also challenge their own practices. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile these specific works are markers of a specific time in performance history, they also point ways forward, not only in terms of form and function, but in how educators, students and fellow practitioners could conceive of re-staging these works in person and\/or on digital platforms. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor a generation that has grown up online, whose vocabularies of expression are as much digitally native as they are IRL, transmedia theatre, and the realm too of VR and AR story and audience design which it borders, holds a firm place in busting open the realm of the possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaridad Svich \u003c\/b\u003eis a playwright, associate editor of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Theatre Review\u003c\/i\u003e and founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press. She received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e. She has edited several books on theatre including A\u003ci\u003eudience Revolution and Innovation in Five Acts \u003c\/i\u003e(2016 and 2015), \u003ci\u003eOut of Silence: Censorship in Theatre \u0026amp; Performance\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), and \u003ci\u003eTrans-Global Readings\u003c\/i\u003e (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697861034119,"sku":"9781350496538","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/LrWL7S1zjf9781350496538.webp?v=1767430513","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/transmedia-theatre-plays-a-contemporary-anthology-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}