Pets love a pandemic (mostly). Dogs never get to have their humans at home with them so much. Maybe the cats are secretly wishing everyone would go back to work. But our intersections with other animals and plants are not so simple. ZOONOSIS takes a sideways look at how the pandemic has impacted our fellow species on earth.
The Gate is open as audiences dance into one of Jay Gatsby’s legendary parties. For summer 2017 only, the seats will be removed from the auditorium, and the chandeliers lowered, transforming the beautiful theatre space into the Gatsby Mansion with all its decadent opulence and atmosphere.
Building on the Gate tradition of ‘page to stage’, this production will give the legendary 1920’s jazz age story a whole new spin offering a portal into Fitzgerald’s novel.
ANU Productions brought to life one of the most significant events in Irish history – the Treaty Debates.
Poet and writer Theo Dorgan spent over 3 years working with the original documents, fearlessly and scrupulously replaying the debates in the words of those who participated exploring both the historical and contemporary relevance of the debate.
Directed by Louise Lowe.
“Inside there are two rooms. You are in one. Holding your dirty laundry. They are in the other. Waiting for you.”
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.
Katy Perry's 2020 performance of her song Daises on American Idol uses extended reality and was a significant event in television due to its extensive use of many different shapes and angles. It was made during peak COVID-19 and so it was not viewed by a live audience. They used motion-graphic content and camera tracking in order to achieve this VR look.
Off-Rail is a parody of a western-themed VR/AI theme park of the future where "nothing can go wrong". It is a collaboration by RaptorXR, an independent studio featuring the most experienced VR comedy improvisers in the world. This show offers the most audience agency of any VR performance ever made and dares you to take risks as our expert cast follows you..."Off Rail"!
Paar is a VR dance film split between a physical and virtual world. Filmed in the historic GDR-era Tieranatomisches Theater (TAT) at Berlin Charité hospital, Paar uses 360 video together with motion capture technology to follow a journey of discovery between linked bodies and theaters.
‘The Neon Pack’ is a ‘Protopian Tale’ directed by Nick Bax. This immersive 360 experience by Human Studio interprets three scenes from the original short story by Nick Bax, featuring VR design and animation by Dan Fleetwood with additional design by Michaela White and an original soundtrack by 96 Back on CPU Records.
