Prague invited the audience back to the theater using virtual reality
The latest technology and borrowed glasses can each watch the performance from a whole new angle – right from the stage, close to the actors. It is intended to help theaters and their functions overcome the difficult time of relaxed operation. At the same time, however, the initiators believe that they are establishing a new international trend that can become a permanent part of the theaters’ offer.
“Virtual reality offers endless possibilities to take the viewer practically anywhere and give him the feeling that everything is happening around him and only for him. That is why we have joined forces with the creative people of Brainz Studios, the Czech top through these technologies, and in the Brejlando project we are adding a new dimension to the great cultural content of our city theaters, ”said Councilor Třeštíková.
Brejland’s uniqueness lies primarily in the way in which a theatrical production for virtual reality is shot. “It’s not an online broadcast of a theatrical performance, but a staging experiment in virtual reality. It is really a new form of experience, or the transfer of information and energy between the actor and the viewer. In each performance, we try to find a special key for its transfer to a new and not yet very researched medium, which offers a lot of interesting opportunities, “Petr Hanousek, VR director and creative producer of Brejland.
Brejlando started with a recording of Hamlets by director Jan Mikulášek from the Na Zábradlí Theater with Petr Čtvrtníček, Jana Plodková, Jiří Vyorálek, Jakub Žáček and other actors and Gingerbread Cottage of the Minor Theater (directed by Jakub Vašíček, Tomáš Jarkovský), Petr Stach and Monika Načeva.