“Imagining the future – confronting the present” could summarise the journey of DE MAAN (Mechelen, Belgium), which has spent the last 5 years exploring the question of how to regenerate puppet theatre in a more visual approach that involves new media, whilst also looking at how to immerse the audience to the full extent through technology. This lecture includes a presentation that explores some relevant theories to these questions and also provides some case studies to illustrate the main topic.
Stef De Paepe is a Director (of Theatre, Animation Movies, and Audio Plays), Playwright, Screenwriter, Actor, and Teacher at the Erasmus Institute Brussel, RITCS (Actors, Directors, and Writers). He is the General and Artistic Director of DE MAAN in Mechelen (Belgium), a Visual Theatre Production House which he has transformed from being a Puppet Theatre to being a Multimedia Art House.
