To Be With Hamlet is a live theatre performance in Virtual Reality that allows anybody anywhere to have an intimate experience with Hamlet, Shakespeare’s dramatic masterpiece. The experience enables audiences to walk the battlements of Elsinore Castle with Prince Hamlet as he confronts the ghost of his murdered father.
Nightmare Time was a series of musical comedy livestreams by LA-based theatre company Starkid Productions. Pre-COVID, they only staged traditional live theatre, but during the pandemic they began this series of three "episodes" that aired in October of 2020. These streams were mostly live, with intermittent songs that were pre-recorded and edited in the style of music videos.
In a reimagined version co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, THESE ROOMS shared its focus between the civilians of North King Street and the men of the South Staffordshire Regiment who committed the massacre – their identities largely anonymous, their actions controversially exonerated at a military enquiry. Created by two of Ireland’s most original companies, this fearless and embodied physical performance shed new light on a long-forgotten but pivotal moment in British-Irish relations.
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You can tune into the YouTube live stream. Or, if you have participated in Project Perfect Stranger, you could be one of the 20 contestants in the live Game-Show.
Traitor VR is a two-player experience combining VR, video and live action. It is a thriller that deals with themes of citizenship, ethics and surveillance and places participants at the centre of the story.
Flood is a groundbreaking 45-minute location-based XR drama for up to 8 audience members. It’s a dark, foreboding, cinematic experience, set during and after an apocalyptic climate event, which confronts audiences with a bold and visceral vision of what happens when land turns to water. Audiences are dropped into a beautifully bleak virtual world where they have to work together with the cast to find dry land.
Two of Ireland’s leading theatre companies – ANU Productions and Landmark – collaborated for the first time, to present a hugely ambitious co-production that plots a singular path through one of the most secretive, contentious and turbulent times in Irish history.
A game in which online and street players collaborate to find Uncle Roy before being invited to make a commitment to a stranger.
'A New Normal' is a short film created using Augmented Reality, that subverts the limitations of digital intimacy, to create a story about warmth, hope and family.
