Natalia De Coninck
My idea that I would like to create would going back in history of Theatre. My goal to do this is to help learners that are curious to know about it OR actual students that needs to learn about the history of how it all started.
As myself in my younger years, I was more of a listerener and loved to see things more visual. I always enjoyed watching history through television, hearing someone telling the story and see images passing by to see how it looked like. Even sometimes they re-acted that certain scene of how it might have been that time. As I got older, the reading became easier but it was still not my most favorite thing to do.
I thought to myself why not make a virtual reality of actually going back in time? Reading Theatre History at my academy was very intersting but way to much to read, it was a very thick book. We went back all the way back where it first started with the Greek, to the Romans, to England etc. Reading about it does make you curious, how would have looked like for the actors on stage, how would the Theatre have looked like from the stage or as an audience.
I’m sure as many others, that would have loved that time travel actually existed to to have a better taste of the time was actually reality. With this it actually can! I wanna make a VR to time travel, for example to go all the way back to the Greek time. They had their own out door theatre, their own clothing, their own way to act etc. You would actually be on the stage, to understand how it was for those actors in that time. Also getting the chance to sit on a seat, just to feel as an audience too. You would interact with other actors, for example go to an actor and hear their story of what their scene is etc. Even touch a subject that would give you information what it was for, for example you had enormous masks. What were those masks for? Maybe even find out why that Theatre was build in that certain way etc. It makes it more exciting to actually walk around, see/feel that time. You could get much better knowledge about it.
Also as an extra, to actually do a little scene on stage. Not modern of course, more of that period. That time of how they wrote, moved their bodies, use their vocal corts etc.