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Difficult to connect to shakespeare? we constantly look at what it is that is engaging people now. so, you know, the digital aspect has become very, very important. i did a production of the tempest, shakespeare s most magical play, and i remember saying to my team, look, you know, in shakespeare s day, he was using high tech. he was using the technology available for the jacobean masques, which included lighting effects and stage machinery. and what is it that we would need now to astonish an audience? and we created that through extraordinary pioneering digital effects of. so ariel was both an actor on the stage, but also an avatar in the.in the air. and the avatar moved at exactly the same time as ariel did on the stage, with no latency at all. and what that grabbed was a young audience who kind of went, oh, ....
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And stage machinery. and what is it that we would need now to astonish an audience? and we created that through extraordinary pioneering digital effects of. so ariel was both an actor on the stage, but also an avatar in the.in the air. and the avatar moved at exactly the same time as ariel did on the stage, with no latency at all. and what that grabbed was a young audience who kind of went, oh, i get this language, i want to see that production. well, there s a question of language. do you change the language? how much can you play with shakespeare s words to make them.? you know, these are the words that many people sort of use when it comes to trying to find a way of connecting relevance, accessibility, connection. can you change the words to achieve that? well, i remember doing. when we did king lear and we took it in fact ....
Culture has changed. it has. and does it make it more difficult to connect to shakespeare? we constantly look at what it is that is engaging people now. so, you know, the digital aspect has become very, very important. i did a production of the tempest, shakespeare s most magical play, and i remember saying to my team, look, you know, in shakespeare s day, he was using high tech. he was using the technology available for the jacobean masques, which included lighting effects and stage machinery. and what is it that we would need now to astonish an audience? and we created that through extraordinary pioneering digital effects of. so ariel was both an actor on the stage, but also an avatar in the.in the air. and the avatar moved at exactly the same time as ariel did on the stage ....
An avatar in the.in the air. and the avatar moved at exactly the same time as ariel did on the stage, with no latency at all. and what that grabbed was a young audience who kind of went, oh, i get this language, i want to see that production. well, there s a question of language. do you change the language? how much can you play with shakespeare s words to make them.? you know, these are the words that many people sort of use when it comes to trying to find a way of connecting relevance, accessibility, connection. can you change the words to achieve that? well, i remember doing. when we did king lear and we took it in fact to new york, and somebody, a young woman came up to me and said, i was amazed. i could understand everything. and i had no idea that you were going to change all the words and put it into modern english. and i said, we didn t. that was as shakespeare wrote it in, you know, jacobean period, 400 years ago. ....