List of Figures, Tables, and Videos

All the images I've included in the GitBook so far, including memes; the videos, and the one (singular sensation) table.

Figures

1. Promotional photo of the Witches at the beginning of Codename: KANSAS, Witch Hunter! This demonstrates the meatspace human performers and digital video projection/scenography.

2. Two Witches and a warrior nearly start a giant fight for supremacy.

3. The ‘Good Witch’ sends Kansas on the hunt for Elfesto, the ‘Evil Witch’, using a Magic: The Gathering-inspired character card in the background.

4. Me (Minion t-shirt, face mask) following a salmon puppet to get the 'audience perspective' while also getting in that perspective's way.

5. Me attempting to film part of an immersive promenade production to capture the experience while getting in the way of the experience.

6. A screenshot of Critical Role’s Twitch broadcast schedule. Critical Role is a massively successful group of performers who livestream tabletop gameplay, mostly Dungeons and Dragons.

7. End of a Henry IV rehearsal showing grid/gallery view with all the performers, some of whom have virtual backgrounds, some who have greenscreens, and some who have not integrated their side of the virtual production practice.

8. Compared to Spotlight View for a soliloquy in the show.

9. Two performers in Henry IV rehearsal determining their spacing in gallery view so they appear to be in the same location, able to reach each other.

10. Screenshot from an OnBoardXR 6 rehearsal with the evening's crew, performers, and audience seen in a Discord channel on the right, and the virtual stage for Andy North's comedy show in Hubs seen on the left, with an orange life jacketed avatar of a performer/test audience member visible.

11. Dressing up for the theatre is a long-standing tradition; in this screengrab, I have chosen a hammerhead shark avatar to attend Ferryman Collective’s production of Finding WiiLii.

12. A screenshot from the YouTube Livestream of OBXR6’s ‘i can build it’, featuring the keyboard entry and several A.I.-generated images based on prompts from the audience in Mozilla Hubs.

13. ‘Wendys x Godzilla 2’ screenshot from the same performance, with Godzilla-Wendy played by Michael Morran getting an image prompt from a dwarfed audience member.

14. An illustration of the gamified theatre spectrum I created in Canva.

15. A screenshot of me (video stream in bottom left corner; avatar in centre) getting set up in Meta vs. Life by Hijinx Theatre, with two characters - Charon and Derek (video streams in the top middle, avatars in the centre); the online version of the interactive performance was built in Gather.town.

16. Screenshot of The Kiffness (a remix composer and musical artist) remixing funny cat videos to create electronic music. The video of the full song is linked in the paragraph above.

17. A screenshot from Jared Mezzocchi’s Section 230 which feature livestreamed video, composited images, glimpses of the Zoom audience, and references to internet spaces.

18. A screenshot from Jared Mezzocchi’s Section 230 which feature livestreamed video, composited images, glimpses of the Zoom audience, and references to internet spaces.

19. Screenshot of a WhatsApp text for the final episode release, featuring several emojis and colloquial language that Agatha Christie would not have used.

20. Screenshots from several moments in the final 7-ish minute episode 12 of Hot Cousin’s Murder Ballad: 1) Agatha Christie played by Ally Poole using a mask-like filter; 2) Stephanie Fuller as Hercule Poirot with digital compositing; 3) Elana Binysh meta-commenting on the plot, with background and internet references using digital compositing; 4) Further meta-commentary with Elana as the murder victim and Stephanie as herself; 5) Madeleine Lewis composited onto the mansion’s set background image; 6) Agatha Christie recounting how the show was developed and the actual murderer(s) were determined as meta-commentary on the digital performance process.

21. A screenshot of the instructions to properly watch Nosferatu: A 3-D Symphony of Horror from Theater in Quarantine. 1) The video setting the scene behind the writing is intentionally pixelated or blurry. 2) Another screenshot from the introduction to the show, demonstrating the red and blue lines that make the show 3-D with proper eyewear. 3) Screenshot from Nosferatu featuring a digitally inserted frame around the video, the blue and red for 3-D glasses, two live actors in Gelb’s small closet, and the early cinema visual effect of a long dining table which was actually a much flatter device strapped to the actor’s body. This is similar to trompe l’oeil. 4) Artaud-inspired theatrical and early cinema techniques with the flat bedframe prop and the layered video in the performance space.

22. A screenshot from my Instagram account of the Wanderers’ Society Page, which features only six images each containing clues to be put together, as well as a link to the Spotify playlist that integrates into the clues in the images. These add up to a code to unlock the website invitation to the Wanderer Society’s gathering.

23. A screen grab of RealWheels Theatre's 2022 YouTube livestream of In Camera. The performance utilised livestreaming chat (seen on the right), a timing note for the start of the show (left side), and an introductory image similar to the show poster with basic performance information (YouTube screen, left). These are all components of YouTube's User Interface which several Cinematic and Televisual Theatre productions take advantage of. In the very bottom right, however, you can see one of my personal recommended videos, which is unrelated to theatre at all and is frankly a little distracting from the performance itself.

24. Screen grab of the entry to QuillsFest 2022, created by Oregon Shakespeare Festival; the graphics clearly demonstrate the 'cyber' nature of the virtual world created to host the festival, and the 'Enter' button is clear and bright. This helps the audience know what they are looking at and how to get in.

25. A screenshot of Creation Theatre's 2024 Antigone, in a modern adaptation with these two featured actors performing news readers; on the right, a chat moderator/house manager informs the audience how to use some of Zoom's tools, outside of the narrative, while below those comments, the chat audience becomes engaged with the narrative.

26. Screengrab of the 'lobby' created in FutureStages Mozilla Hubs fork for OnBoardXR 6. The intention was to replicate a physical space in a virtual setting, and this includes woodgrain on the floor.

27. A screenshot from Hijinx Theatre's Meta vs. Life, during the very beginning of the show, in which performers playing Charon and Derek (top video; avatars in centre) are explaining to me (bottom left video; avatar in centre), within the world of the play, how everything works. There is also a moderator (no video, avatar in centre) present, I presume acting as stage manager and house manager simultaneously).

28. Screengrab of the introduction to Streamed Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1, which uses a Star Wars-inspired font and written introduction to summarise Shakespeare's introductory monologue in the show. The summary clarifies the backstory for the play, and the font sets the expectation for a scifi setting.

29. Screenshot of an email from URHERE, containing a link to a streaming performance. It is extremely simple and covers only the necessary information required to get to the play; if you want to spice up ticket link emails, you can, and it can help set the scene, but you do not have to.

30. Screenshot of the PDF instructions for Nosferatu: A 3-D Symphony of Horror, emailed by NYUSkirball ahead of the October 2023 Livestream.

31. A screenshot of the channels OnBoardXR audiences were given access to, which includes a ‘read me’ guide, the box office for ticket questions, tech support for written assistance, and a voice channel for verbal requests.

32. Screen grab of Streamed Shakespeare's Henry IV production folder on Google Drive, which Holly Champion allowed me to access as part of my archival research into this livestreamed performance. The folder contains several test images demonstrating how Chromakey setups could work for various characters. The Chromakey tests, the testing process itself, and the online documentation itself demonstrate a few ways that technology is integrated into second wave digital theatre behind the scenes.

33. Streamed Shakespeare's Chromakey testing over Zoom for Henry IV, an important step in rehearsal for second wave digital theatre.

34. Screenshot of a Zoom rehearsal in which the stage manager cues actors using the chat function, seen as a popup in this recording.

35. Meme attempting to describe user experience design.

36. Founder of Theater in Quarantine describes their approach to YouTube’s use of audience/user data.

37. A screenshot of part of Brendan Bradley’s statement on the sunsetting of Mozilla Hubs, from the OnBoardXR Discord #chat channel.

38. Screenshot from Shakespeare in Fallout 76's Twitter (X) account, 27-8-2024, about their most recent successful virtual performance.

39. 'Modern Narcissus' meme, credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/krvzo2/modern_narcissus/?rdt=49318

40. ‘Another day of staring at the big screen while scrolling through my little screen so as to reward myself for staring at the medium screen all week’; Original image source: https://x.com/delia_cai/status/1330597127131684870.

41. Screenshot of Holly Champion rehearsing Henry IV Part 1, using Chromakey/greenscreen with the telepresence set-up and navigating her otherwise very flat space.

42. Screenshot from a rehearsal of Brendan Bradley's i can build it, with several images generated by AI making up the set.

43. A virtual burger with image skin generated by an AI image generator; part of Michael Morran's ‘Wendy's x Godzilla 2’, screenshot taken during a rehearsal when our avatars (the fish) were accidentally ported over from the previous short play

44. Meme on the downsides of new digital technology, from: https://www.iwastesomuchtime.com/who-can-find-the-tech-released-or-popularized-since-2019-with-the-most-filled-squares

45. Screenshot of Google Trends’ analysis of the lifetime of the term digital detox.

46. Livestreaming ticket cost on League of Livestreaming for Jaja's African Hair Braiding, in US Dollars. While this is considerably cheaper than the average Broadway or Off-Broadway ticket, it still seems like a lot because most of us just don't expect online artworks to cost significant money.

47. 'gif king of reddit creator of /r/HighQualityGifs creator of that Jeremiah Johnson gif'

Videos:

1. The Sustained Two-Shot from YouTube creator Every Frame a Painting.

2. YouTube video of The Brady Bunch's intro sequence, arguably the original 'Grid View' before Zoom.

3. Why Do People Like VR? credit WheezyWaiter on YouTube.

Tables

1. An ever-growing list of theatre-specific streaming platforms