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Living Room is an inter-disciplinary research project exploring how we can turn a(ny) room into a room that can host and support a performance, facilitated by a better understanding of theatre scenography (staging/set/lighting/sound). How can we use the arts to improve the way we use the spaces we w...

The Round is an augmented reality platform that allows users at home to watch live streamed 3D characters being produced by real actors in a motion capture suite. The project holds the idea of “liveness” in high regard and considers it an important part of the theatrical experience that needed to be...

Acting Like Children was a research event held in 2011 examining approaches to the performance of child characters by adult artists, involving Polka Theatre, Action Transport Theatre, Travelling Light, Early Years Theatre expert Jo Belloli, director Sally Cookson, Vice Chair of Action for Children’s...

In London in the mid nineteen-thirties Fred Bentham invented a theatre lighting control system that was in several key respects a radical departure from the controls of the time. In a pre-digital age, the Light Console made use of cinema organ technology to create a lighting control that for the fir...

Funded by British Council Uzbekistan and Rose Bruford College. This report has been commissioned by British Council Uzbekistan and prepared by Niamh Dowling, Head of the School of Performance at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance (RBC). Over the course of the Theatre Development P...