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- Kingston Theatre Alliance
- Review
- Single Thread Theatre Co
Like many, the idea of an online theatrical experience doesn’t excite me like it did pre-pandemic. The anticipation of being involved with new technology has been dimmed by having to creatively engage with it out of necessity rather than curiosity for the last two years. This was the unfortunate attitude that I held when I went into the PXR (Performance and Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality) Conference. Immediately I felt […]

Now Hiring: Producer of SWIRLS
- Industry
- Kingston Theatre Alliance
- News
- Single Thread Theatre Co
- Spiderwebshow
Project Description: SWIRLS: a series of workshops held around Kingston as a collaborative setting for meaningful engagement to improve artists’ digital literacy and enhance their capabilities in using AR/VR as an art form. In-person and virtual workshops will bring together a wide array of artists working within different artistic disciplines. The workshops will be experiments in providing learning opportunities while creating a context that makes for creative sparks to happen. […]

TLDR: PXR Was Cool
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- PXR Symposium
- Single Thread Theatre Co
[TLDR is an abbreviation for ‘too long; didn’t read’, usually followed by a brief synopsis] If the pandemic has taught us anything in the last year and a half, it has been how to adapt. While an inability to gather has seen the closing of countless theatres, some companies have turned to the internet as a means of staying afloat. By broadcasting performances and moving programming online, digitizing became a […]

Single Thread’s Collider: Immersive VR Suggests the Possibilities of Theatre
- Review
- Single Thread Theatre Co
In a moment where Zoom meetings, doom-scrolling, and our digital worlds seem repetitive as ever, Single Thread Theatre Company’s production of Collider presents a profoundly innovative way to bring digital theatre to Canadian audiences.

PXR 2020: Exploring The Unique Intersection of XR and Theatre
- News
- PXR Symposium
- Single Thread Theatre Co
On October 2nd, I had the privilege to enter the immersive world of Virtual Reality to attend the 2020 Performance & XR Conference, co-hosted by Electric Company Theatre and Single Thread Theatre Co. Performance & XR is a conference discussing the unique intersection of XR and Performance. With respect to the conference, XR is an umbrella term that can refer to Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality. While the […]

Terraforming, together – XR Performance Creation Experiment with Beth Kates
- News
- PXR Symposium
- Single Thread Theatre Co
At the inaugural Performance and XR Virtual Reality Symposium, award-winning lighting, set, projection and mixed reality designer Beth Kates guides us through an experimentation of creating performance in XR.