INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL THEATRE
by Kill The Cat Theatre
In this 'How to’, Kill The Cat challenge you to view ‘digital theatre’ as an equally exciting medium to traditional 'in-person theatre' and explain how to use interactivity to overcome limitations in the digital form, keep your audience engaged, and offer a rich experience that is still recognisably ‘theatre' even when experienced online.
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Kill The Cat are an award winning interactive theatre company run by co-artistic directors Dylan Frankland & Madeleine Allardice. Produced by Turtle Key Arts.
'[One of] a few companies who make a strong case for theatre in its digital form' (New York Times) they’ve spent the last year exploring interactivity in the digital sphere, creating the award winning THE HOUSE NEVER WINS. Undergoing 4 digital tours in partnership with 15 theatres, reaching nearly 1000 people across the UK, USA, Australia, The Philippines, Malaysia, Brazil, Spain & The Netherlands. Commissioned by Upstart Theatre, supported by Arts Council England.
They also run workshops on digital, interactive and sustainable theatre and are currently making their first Twine piece; ESCAPE TO MARS! as well as curating THE FUTURE PROJECT- a series of free artist resources and interviews with those at the frontier of theatre’s new digital realm (launching 3rd August).
Kill The Cat are members of the South West Creative Technology Network and were shortlisted for the BBC’s New Creatives Interactive Strand (2020).
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INTRODUCTION TO ANIMATING
by Edalia Day
Have you ever wanted to animate but had no idea where to start? All you need nowadays is a smartphone and there are loads of brilliant free apps to use. Join Edalia as she leads you step by step through the basic principles of hand drawn animation including the best apps to use in this snappy video tutorial. She'll also share info on how to develop as an animator with recommendations for where to go to learn more as well as some of the techniques and software she uses to incorporate animation into her theatre productions.
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Edalia Day is a transgender spoken word artist, motion designer and theatre maker based in Norwich. Trained at Lecoq and Alra, her spoken word is full of energy and theatrical flair and her theatre combines comedy, live music and interactive projection mapping. Her shows include Super Hamlet 64, about videogames and Shakespeare and Too Pretty To Punch, about transphobia in the media. Since lockdown she's produced several successful projects combining Animation and Poetry, working with the Young Vic, HOME, Harrogate Theatre, Theatre Royal Norwich and Lost in Translation Circus.
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INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE CAPTIONING USING ISADORA
by Tim Kelly
This introduction is a short tutorial teaching you how to create an adaptable captioning engine for live performance using the Data Array functionality to recall captions from a database and apply dynamic attributes like position, font, colour, size and other effects.
Tim graduated from the University of York BA Writing, Directing and Performance in 2016, and now works as a freelance theatre creative and production manager with work spanning disciplines including lighting, set, video and interactive media. He’s particularly passionate about accessibility in theatre, having worked on projects with creative captioning, integrated audio description, has built an app to help enable people with severe learning disabilities to operate lighting and sound, and built tools to help others caption their productions and videos easily.
Selected credits include: The Future Project (Lighting & Video Designer, Kieran Lucas); Antigone (Lighting Designer, Holy What?), Electrolyte (Lighting Designer, WILDCARD), Glitch (Lighting & Video/Caption Designer, Chronic Insanity/Studio Odder), Jade City (Set, Lighting and Caption Designer), Sirens (Lighting & Projection Designer, Zoo Co.), Not F**kin Sorry (Lighting Designer, Not Your Circus Dog), Joan of Leeds (Production Manager, BREACH), The Noises (Lighting Designer, Luke McLaughlin); 17 (Lighting and Projection Designer, WILDCARD)
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