Hyperdrama
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Hyperdrama is a dramatic performance generated by playscripts written in hypertext. The performance is noted for its split narrative with scenes branching to play simultaneously in an expanded performance space. The audience is mobile, able to follow actors and watch scenes as each individual chooses.
Several universities added the study of Hyperdrama to their hypertext and electronic media studies, including the University of Virginia,{{Cite web|title=Syllabus|url=http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/courses/ensp481/syllabus.html}} Tunxis Community College,{{Cite web|title=Course Syllabus|url=http://www.tunxis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Hyperdrama08-syllabus-14-22.pdf|access-date=2015-08-28|archive-date=2016-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306085324/http://www.tunxis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Hyperdrama08-syllabus-14-22.pdf|url-status=dead}} and New York University.{{Cite web|title=Writing: Time and Space|url=http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/TimeSpace/timespace.html}}
Description
According to Astrid Ensslin in her book Canonizing Hypertext,{{Cite book|title = Canonizing Hypertext|last = Ensslin|first = Astrid|publisher = Continuum|year = 2007|isbn = 978-0-8264-9558-7|pages = 27}} the term hyperdrama "was coined by hyperdramatist and theorist Charles Deemer,{{Cite web|url = http://www.ibiblio.org/cdeemer/hdrama.htm|title = Hyperdrama}} who understands 'traditional drama as a special case of hyperdrama'." Ensslin places Deemer's one-act hyperdrama The Last Song of Violeta Parra{{Cite web|url = http://www.ibiblio.org/cdeemer/chile-m.html|title = The Last Song of Violeta Parra}} in the canon of "first generation hypertext."
Hannah Rudman, who wrote "The Benefactor: a Hyperdrama" in 1998 with Billy Smart, describes the form this way:
"A hyperdrama is a play that is written in hypertext, that is performed as a promenade and that is realised on multiple levels. Scenes happen simultaneously throughout a performance space."{{Cite web|last=Rudman|first=Hannah|title=The Benefactor: a Hyperdrama|url=https://www.hannahrudman.com/benefactor-play/|access-date=16 November 2020|website=Hannah Rudman's website}}Discussion of hyperdrama is included in the book Theatre in Cyberspace:
"... theatre practitioners are increasing their potential audiences with online technology while attempting to discover how to present theatre in an interactive yet non-corporeal way. Also fascinating is how educators and practitioners can collaborate, creating online performance spaces that can be adapted for teaching, and creating online teaching techniques that can be adapted for performance."{{Cite web|title=Peter Lang Publishers|url=http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=44689|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222151510/http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=44689|archive-date=2015-12-22}}
Productions
Deemer wrote a hyperdrama expansion of Chekhov's The Seagull.{{Cite book|last=Deemer|first=Charles|title=The Seagull Hyperdrama|publisher=Sextant Books|year=2004}}
In 2009, the American Repertory Theater and Punchdrunk performed Sleep No More, "a hyperdrama rendition of Macbeth with a creepy, Hitchcock feel."{{Cite web|title=Sleep No More|url=http://htlit.com/archives/October2009/SleepNoMore.html}}
Russell Anderson, author of Woyzeck: a Hyperdrama, calls his play "a performance in the ‘hyperdrama’ format: that is, where multiple elements of performance occur in multiple locations simultaneously."{{Cite web|url = https://www.academia.edu/10351971|title = Woyzeck: a Hyperdrama | last1=Anderson | first1=Russell }}
Tegan Zimmerman uses the presentation software Prezi to explore "Hypertext and Hyperdrama" and their relationship online.{{Cite web|url = https://prezi.com/3bj3w8y4eq2d/hypertext-and-hyperdrama/|title = Hypertext and Hyperdrama}}
Other hyperdrama works of note are Tamara by John Krizanc and Tony n' Tina's Wedding.
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.hannahrudman.com/benefactor-play/ The Benefactor: a Hyperdrama]"
- [http://www.ibiblio.org/cdeemer/newhype.htm hyperdrama]
Further reading
- Changing Key: a video hyperdrama lecture-demonstration.[http://www.ibiblio.org/cdeemer/ChangingKey.htm]
part of an MA Thesis on Hyperdrama
[http://drepository.asu.edu.eg/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/146973/G7382.pdf?sequence=1]