Paper Details

Name: Siva Prasad Tumu
Country: India

Year: 2020
Volume: Volume-7, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 1-5

Abstract
The use of video and digital images in theatre is increased due to the development of technology and its availability. This technology is not only user friendly, but also less expensive when compare to the cost of set materials. The digital media is not only changed the way of practicing theatre, but it also opened the doors for new forms and new thoughts. The incorporation of Digital images and video in to Theatre has enhanced the visual grandeur of scenography. The usage of video images and digital images in Theatre is probably a recent phenomenon in Indian theatre. The economic liberalization has brought new changes in India. From 1990 onwards computers and internet communications are accessible in the public domain. The technologies in the computer science have drastically developed within a lap of few years. There is an ambiguity about the incorporation of video images and its use in Theatre performances. In the initial days, the video images were projected on the cyclorama to represent the interior or exterior of a fictional space, and also to communicate the conceptual ideas of a director. The Theatre festivals in India have given an opportunity to witness the contemporary practice of international theatre directors. Indian theatre practitioners are adopted new methods, technologies, approaches and methodologies of western theatre. This led to
include the mediated images in Theatre performances. This paper analyses such a mediated images usage in two productions. “Barrister Parvateesham” and “Strange lines”