at the York Festival of Ideas – June 8th & 9th, 2024
The MT Space Project brings together Virtual Musical Theatre Practitioners and Researchers from across the globe. Led by Mary Stewart-David from University of York and Professor Robert Mark Morgan from Washington University in St Louis, USA, this practical research project looks at how live and recorded music theatre performance can be produced in interactive and immersive virtual spaces. At these ‘Meet the Makers’ sessions we will be previewing our latest Immersical® and demonstrating some of the Virtual Production techniques we employ in making musicals in the metaverse.
Dates and locations of event:
Saturday & Sunday 8 & 9 June 2024 2-5pm in person (Studio 1, TFTI)
Saturday & Sunday 8 & 9 June 2024 7-8pm online in FrameVR (via Zoom)
A virtual tour above of the ‘Madame X Storyplex’ where theatre practitioners and colleagues from Washington University in St. Louis and the University of York hosted an immersive live musical theatre performance in web-based VR in January 2024 about the infamous Madame X portrait that hangs in the Met. It ruined the life of a Louisiana socialite from Paris named Madame Gautreau, but also made her immortal. Now every woman wants to be the fabulous Madame X.
Setting: We land in the Storyplex – a circular cluster of rooms in VR. The central hub has five doors which lead to individual scenes in the drama. They may be blank, or contain a few objects. These rooms will change over time, and multiple scenes can be staged in each space. Each room is connected to the next and to the central hub. The audience can choose (or will be guided) as to the sequence in which the rooms can be viewed.
MT Space Project with Digital Creativity Labs at the University of York
International colleagues in higher education began work on two VR pieces that center around the story of John Singer Sargent’s Madame X painting (above) utilizing FrameVR and environments built in Sketchup and Blender.