"Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo460/
Author:
	Joubin, Alexa Alice.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2023
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Bulletin 41, no. 1 (2023): 529–53.
DOI:
	10.1353/shb.2023.a920571
Annotation:
	Explores spectator experience and theatrical innovations in All the World’s A Screen, an Irish Sign Language production created and signed by Alvean Jones and Lianne Quigley, which adapted "passages from Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, and Hamlet, as well as Sonnet 18, with Shakespeare’s text and modern English captions displayed on a big screen behind them" and invited “machine guests,” small screens with artificial intelligences to translate and interact with the audience as "co-spectators." Contends that "From a performance studies perspective, All The World’s A Screen accomplished three things: (1) the creation of multiple publics; (2) the deployment of interfaces as co-spectators who expand theatrical publics; and (3) the establishment of an imperfect spectatorial proxy." English summary, 529.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Jones, Alvean; Quigley, Lianne
Keywords:
	Deaf Theater, new media
Tags:
	As You Like It, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Sonnets, Theatrical Techniques, Translations and Adaptations
WSB Update:
	Summer 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo460