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Dateline: 27th October, 2009
Productions Online New company Digital Theatre has come to an agreement with the Almeida, the Royal Court, Young Vic, Royal Shakespeare Company and English Touring Theatre to make recordings of their productions available online. Already launched this week are ETT’s Far From The Madding Crowd and the Young Vic’s The Container. The Young Vic's Kafka’s Monkey will be available soon. Productions from the Almeida, Royal Court and RSC will follow in 2010. In order not to compete with the live show, online versions will not be released until after the production has finished its "live life". "It's meant," says Delemere, "to be complementary." It will also not compete with other new developments, such as NT Live or the new arrangements bwteen Opus Arte and Shakspeare's Globe to screen live performances across the country in cinemas. "We're always looking for ways to bring our work to the largest possible number of people and the potential of digital technology to connect with a worldwide audience is genuinely exciting," says the Royal Court's Dominic Cooke, and Michael Boyd added, "There needs to be a revolutionising of the capture of live theatre, and we are enjoying the pursuit of that ambition with Digital Theatre." The company uses multiple camera angles, not the more normal fixed camera technique for filming stage shows, and they will film over several performances. Director Robert Delamere (who has directed for the RSC, Donmar Warehouse and Royal Court) and producer Tom Shaw, the originators of the idea, work closely with the creative team of each production to ensure the film is as close to the spirit of the live production as it can be. Delamere says that they aim "to get the essence of what the performance is and work alongside the creative teams in order to capture that in an accurate experience. There’s a lot of collaboration, a lot of everyone being on the same page and then working it towards something that everyone is proud of.” Downloads require Digital Theatre's own Player, which can be downloaded free from the company's website. It requires Adobe AIR to be installed and both can be downloaded at the same time. This is a once-only installation. Downloads of the plays cost £8.99 and come in two versions, standard and high definition. To download the Player and plays, go to www.digitaltheatre.com/.
Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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