Will technology change how we watch theatre in the future?


Will technology change how we watch theatre in the future?

The Netflix generation knows what it wants, and increasingly gets it: TV and films on demand, available on as many screens and devices as possible. But what about theatre? In theory, it’s the medium you can’t put in your pocket, catch on the go, consume at second hand without it losing its in-the-moment magic. Yet a second-hand viewing culture has grown over the past decade which points to a shift that might revolutionise what we think of as “theatre-going”.

We should consider, in the first instance, the National’s phenomenal NTLive cinema screenings initiative. Inspired by the New York Metropolitan Opera’s “Live in HD” series (which began in 2006), it launched in the summer of 2009, with Helen…




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