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for the Era of Digital Media Convergence1 Earthbound Robert Allen am a theater director, and my research is prompted by my obsession with August Strindberg's Ett drömspel (A Dream Play). Here I will discuss Earthbound, an original adaptation of Ett drömspel that I am currently working on, one in which I employ digital technologies to provide a new solution to Strindberg's own vision for the play as evidenced in his stage directions. Earthbound is a "hyperserial," which is to say it merges an episodic video structure with the Internet as a venue. I am a director, not a scholar, and what I have to say mainly concerns process and structure (though towards the end I will also discuss outcomes). So in order to talk about Ett drömspel and Earthbound, I need to back up and talk about dreams and experiments and the relationship between the two. I am what you might call an experimental theater director--though experimental is one of those unfortunate words that is more confusing than revealing, but that theater is stuck with. Much of what passes as experimental theater today is actually quite conventional, in that it is not really experimental at all but would
Scandinavian Studies – Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Published: Aug 9, 2012
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