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Theatre creation and historical performances: from archives to virtual reality

Création au théâtre et mises en scène historiques : des archives à la réalité virtuelle

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The analysis of archive documents to imagine past performances is an important operation for the historian of theatre. Our paper reports on the first phases of an ongoing project aimed at using virtual reality to visualise the staging indications provided by archive documents. This project brings together the skills of a theatre specialist and a senior researcher in computer graphics and virtual reality. It aims to examine the documents with a view to reconstructing the staging as a whole, using virtual reality. In particular, we propose to study the French tradition of the prompt book (the « relevé de mise en scène »). Our working hypothesis is that the prompt book establishes a veritable meta-writing of the performance, enabling it to be reconstructed in time and in space. The description of what happens on stage tends to become standardised through the creation of standard formulas that are repeated wherever similar actions, movements or movements are perceived. To test our hypothesis, room scale VR reconstruction offers a number of advantages. This visualisation can be carried out at several levels of detail, incorporating several categories of scenic indications. We present the results of preliminary experiments, where we reconstructed the staging of four scenes form their prompt books and vizualized them in virtual reality, and propose new directions for future research.

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hal-05354249 , version 1 (07-11-2025)

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Paola Ranzini, Rémi Ronfard. Création au théâtre et mises en scène historiques : des archives à la réalité virtuelle. Arti dello spettacolo / Performing Arts, 2025, Digital Innovation in the Performing Arts, pp.1-19. ⟨hal-05354249⟩
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