Since remote theatre is so new, we're having to invent some of the terminology to talk about it. And already in the writing of these posts we've encountered a problem. We've been referring to traditional theatre as 'face-to-face theatre' (to distinguish it from theatre mediated through a screen) and yet paradoxically, faces are something which actually may be somewhat lacking from the traditional way of working.

The first thing we may notice when watching a remote play like the one we showed yesterday is that the stage is more tightly defined than it is in face-to-face theatre.