LIve Theatre Broadcast Symposium

25th June 2015

Department of Theatre, Film and Televsision, Univeristy of York

In recent years, live-streamed theatre broadcasts have emerged as a significant cultural phenomenon, aiding public access to - and representing a new practice for - key international, national and regional institutions, such as the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Pilot Theatre, Forced Entertainment, and cinema distributors around the world. How do such broadcasts change the experience of live events, and how do they alter the spectrum of media through which performances occur? This emerging hybrid medium introduces challenges for practitioners, critics and institutions for the creation, reception and funding of live theatre and events, yet suitable approaches to frame academic discussion of it are underdeveloped.

This symposium seeks to explore the rise of live theatre broadcast through questions engaging with a) production processes, b) audiences and c) intermediality.

Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Judith Buchanan, Director of the Humanities Research Centre, University of York; Ross MacGibbon, Royal Opera House Cinema Screen Director; Marcus Romer, Artistic Director of Pilot Theatre; and John Wyver, Illuminations Media and Producer of RSC Live, Senior Research Fellow at University of Westminster.

Travel bursaries are available. Please e-mail Mark France on mapf500@york for further details, or with any other enquiries.

Conference Organisers

Hannah Andrews, Lecturer in Film and Television Studies

Tom Cantrell, Lecturer in Theatre

Tom Cornford, Lecturer in Theatre

Jon Hook, Lecturer in Interactive Media

Ollie Jones, Lecturer in Theatre

Jenna Ng, Anniversary Research Lecturer in Interactive Media