VIRTUAL REALITY

IN THEATRE
EDUCATION
AND DESIGN
PRACTICE - NEW
DEVELOPMENTS
AND
APPLICATIONS
Experiencing theatre
as words and
conceiving it

televisually are the

two main
factors blocking
students from
envisioning the
spatial properties of
live theatre.
As Jerzy Grotowski
and Peter Brook
have concluded, the
fundamental
elements

defining all theatre

are an actor, space
and an audience. To
fully comprehend the
dynamics of space
needs the visual
skills of a sculptor,
designer or architect
which most theatret
eachers,le t alone
students,d o not
posses.

(Beardona ndE
nright,1 999,p . 7)
'Absenceo f designis
still designA. ny
arrangemenotsf s
paceo r objectsa,
nym ovementht
rougho r
across that space [the
stage], is design. '
(Aronson, 2005, p. 6)