I was lucky enough to spend most of January at the Hands up Project’s educational space in Cairo. One of the things I was doing was helping to set up a remote theatre space so that plays could be performed live from one of the rooms to classrooms around the world.
As you can see from the images below you don’t need much to do this - a laptop with an internet connection and enough space behind the laptop so that the actors can be both onstage (in front of the camera) and offstage (not visible to the audience). These are the basic requirements.
It very much helps to create the illusion of theatre if you also have a plain coloured wall with no pictures on it in the cameras field of vision, or, if you want to use virtual background images most effectively, a green screen. We’d also recommend putting the laptop on top of a chair or a pile of books on a table, so that the actors don’t have to crouch down when they speak.
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