Digital & AI

When the world went online, theatre followed — and the questions multiplied. These conversations grapple with screens, algorithms and artificial intelligence as new creative territories: how digital tools reshape pedagogy and performance, what is lost and gained in virtual space, and what the future of human presence might mean.

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  • Jan 30, 2025

    Jonathan O’Hear, Maria Sappho, and Qondiswa James explore Chimère, a community-driven AI, as a counter-cultural creative collaborator challenging corporate AI narratives and expanding human-nonhuman collaboration.

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  • Apr 20, 2023

    Merlin Sheldrake and Marcus du Sautoy explore mycelial networks and AI as provocative metaphors for collective creativity, consciousness, and the future of theatre-making.

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  • Aug 19, 2021

    Practitioners reflect collectively on how Unrehearsed Futures conversations have shaped their teaching, embracing theatre as process, digital space as community, and uncertainty as creative possibility.

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  • Jul 8, 2021

    Lebo Mashile examines how the pandemic deepened racial economic inequality in South Africa’s creative sector while opening possibilities for African digital sovereignty and artistic resistance.

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  • Jun 24, 2021

    SITI Company’s Ellen Lauren and J.Ed Araiza reflect on pandemic teaching, Suzuki training, Viewpoints method, and expanding theatre tools beyond Eurocentric communities globally.

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  • Apr 29, 2021

    Amitesh Grover and Benjamin Samuels explore how physical theatre training informs their boundary-pushing work with motion capture, virtual reality, and immersive digital performance.

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  • Season 1 Conversation 10

    Sep 24, 2020

    Is there such a thing as a Covid-trained performer? For Nicole Stinton, course coordinator for musical theatre diploma at the Western Australia Academy of….

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  • Sep 10, 2020

    Living through disruption is not new to Janice Sze-Wan Poon. She lives and teaches theatre in Hong Kong, which has been seething with pro-democracy…

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  • Season 1 Conversation 6

    Aug 20, 2020

    Voice work is considered a crucial element of actor training in drama schools around the world, closely connected to movement and acting. But, when…

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  • Season1 Conversation 5

    Aug 13, 2020

    When the world went into lockdown in early March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, theatre pedagogues were at loss to understand how they were…

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