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Virtual Reality and Theatre on the Play Copenhagen 

Session Time: 15:30 PM – 16:30 PM, Dec. 8th 

Coordinator: Jing Wang Thomas 

Format: Digital 

Registration: Thank you for your interest in the workshops. Please choose the workshop you wish to register for, fill in the registration form and submit it.

Introduction:

Copenhagen (2022), inspired by Michael Frayn’s well-known play, is based on a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen in 1941. Two Physics Ph.D. candidates take you on a journey across spaces, through the past, the present, and into the future. Play and lecture performance merge with Web VR experience as you are invited to the Copenhagen event in virtual space. This is a new digital format theatrical experience exploring how Bohr and Heisenberg’s story weaves into our lives at present? What are the implications of this history for us today?

An online virtual space will be co-created in the workshop, enabling a nonlinear, critical examination of how virtual space as a rehearsal room. Participants will be invited to Copenhagen Institute play as Niles Bohr, Heisenberg, and Margrethe who will contribute their own performativity, investigating ways of performing together in virtual reality with avatars. The workshop will ask what the possibility of theatre is in a virtual space and where has the potential to unfold across drama, performance, virtual body, and digital scenography.