TELE-ENCOUNTERS: DRAMATURGIA TEATRULUI TELEMATIC
TELE-ENCOUNTERS: THE DRAMATURGY OF THE TELEMATIC THEATRE

Summary/Abstract: „The Planet of Lost Dreams”, part of the „Tele-Encounters” Creative Europe project, is performed simultaneously in Romania (Buzău) and Spain (Murcia) by Romanian and Spanish actors, with audience in both spaces. It tells the story of a family separated by migration: the mother has gone to work in Spain, while her husband and little daughter have stayed in Buzău. The performance is telematic, as it was built on the online interaction of actors located thousands of miles apart, connected in real time via video-conferencing and Kinect-controlled digital animations. The article analyses the „levels of organization” of this telematic performance, borrowing Eugenio Barba’s terminology: the narrative dramaturgy, the dramaturgy of the space, the actor’s dramaturgy and the spectator’s dramaturgy, to which it adds „technology’s dramaturgy”. It also proposes an extension of the notion of telepresence in the context of telematic theatre and a re-examination of the dramaturgical role of technology in dramatic theatre. How do you build a telematic performance from ground zero, integrating technology to tell a coherent story?

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