New Forms of Communities? The Constitution and Performance of Audiences in Digital Theater during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor: Kai Padberg
Jazyk: English<br />Polish
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Pamiętnik Teatralny, Vol 70, Iss 3, Pp 145-163 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0031-0522
2658-2899
DOI: 10.36744/pt.861
Popis: The Covid-19 pandemic plunged many theaters around the world into a temporary crisis and favored the rise of digital theater forms. This article investigates how the reception of theater changes in the digital space and, above all, how audiences as a social dimension of theatrical performances must first be constituted separately there. Based on performance analysis of the digital theater productions Homecoming and Sterben from Germany, the significance of the digital infrastructure for the assembly, performance, and action repertoires of these theater audiences is discussed. The author examines how audiences can be formed into different temporal communities in the digital space. These temporal communities are characterized by hybridity and have the potential to enable intense theatrical encounters across spatial boundaries.
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