‘New Normal' Of The Theater After The Epidemic

This study aims at a new approach by focusing on challenges that theatre faces during and after the pandemic. While the raw materials for a sculptor or an artist are material objects, for music; notes and instruments, for literature; words, the raw material of theatre is human. Performed in the now for centuries and happening right here right now, theatre has been nourished by the chemistry of an organic vibration between the audience and the stage actors. Indispensable elements of the theater are the audience and space.

This study evaluates possible changes in stage actors and other creative members, and the narrative possibilities of technology, investigates probable future changes in the technicalities of theatrical plays in the fields of dramaturgy, performance, set and costume, and technology, and also discusses traditions of practice in theatre management which might require reformulation towards a new understanding of the world.

What’s important in the ‘new normal’ for the director is to organize the digital space technologically where she can create the actor-audience interaction when the play is being performed, and to design the right space/screen which will detect and highlight the audience-object communication to prove the play effective. Whether it’s a stage or a screen, the space where the play is performed will achieve its magical reality through the director.

Keywords: Theater, Epidemic, Audience, Digital Theater