INTERACTIVE SPACE : OFF THE STAGE AND BEYOND

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Antigone - The Blind Sound is not located entirely inside a theater stage like a normal play. We believe that theater can go further. A new space will be opened alongside the performance space that promotes viewers' participation in the narrative world of the play: an interactive space.

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We build the entire interactive space based on Discord, a digital communication and social media platform. Based on the Discord platform, we will create a virtual space that simulates a society based on ancient Greek society with interwoven modern elements, with the audience acting as external citizens. In this society, they are both information receivers and participants who help to build linear and non-linear narratives within this virtual society, through discussion - speaking up - voting... and many other features and interactions.

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Audiences are encouraged to keep their phones and personal devices on notification mode throughout the play, ensuring their engagement with this digital space is pushed to the highest level.

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Through this interactive platform, we hope to open up different content "spaces" besides what the audience will be watching. These "spaces" take place in parallel with the play streaming live, aiming at separate experiences for each different audience group. At the same time, the audience's interactive behavior with the actors, as well as between audiences also opens up a metaphor about the duality of intrusion, the blurring of boundaries between public and private.

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Personal computer screens and smartphones are now more than just personal communication devices, they are also portals to a platform that allows each audience member to watch the actors and other audience members, and reminded that they, too, are being observed by the rest of the audience. No one stands outside the gaze of others in Antigone's magical, brutal Thebes.

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