Theatre in the Age of Digital Technologies

Abstract

The paper studies the functioning of modern theater in regard to the use of digital technologies. New digital technologies affect the development of theater as an art form, with unique forms of performances, new theatrical specialties, specific technologies of stage creativity, and theatrical work appearing. Currently, the technification of theatre stage design, a process of mutual influence ofscience and art, goes along with the aestheticization of theatre equipment. The concept of the virtual and interactive theatre was also clarified due to the influence of digital culture. In this context, introduction of new technologies in theatre is associated with the changes in the stage design imagery linked to the change in worldview, with the development ofsocio-aesthetic features of the clash of different eras, the enhancement of the theatre technical equipment, which contributes to the emergence of new genre precedents in theatre. At the same time, digital technologies in modern stage design made it possible to form a new culture of scenography, adding a diverse, spatial composition, special effects, hyperrealism or expressionistic blur to the space of the stage. Digital culture and its new technologies contribute to the globalization of the perception of theatrical art, including online broadcasts of performances, where new technologies radically influence the dynamics of the artistic process and serve as a source of diversity in the existing forms of theatrical discourse and its artistic practice.