Scottish Youth Theatre: Theatre Director

Date of Activity: November 2024 – March 2025

Location:

Dundee
Fee: £2175

Scottish Youth Theatre is seeking a Theatre Director with proven experience and interest in digital performance, emerging technologies and live theatre to support the delivery of Haptic Theatre – an R&D project in Dundee, in collaboration with Abertay University and XR Network+ .

What does it feel like to absorb the impact of a rugby tackle, wrestle with the pressure of a water cannon or experience the extreme G-force of a Formula 1 car? TESLASUIT technology can simulate all these sensations for training, gaming and full-body learning purposes. So, what is the potential for live theatre audiences?

Using TESLA SUITS and motion capture technology, Haptic Theatre R&D aims to synchronise the sensations of performers in action with audience members as they witness it.

Scottish Youth Theatre is seeking a Theatre Director who will collaborate with the project team and two young adult performers to apply the possibilities of this technology to a live theatre-making and performance context.

The Theatre Director will collaborate with the project team and two young adult performers to apply the possibilities of this technology to a live theatre-making and performance context.

Alongside the project team, the Director will identify a scene or script (15-20 minutes long) that can be adapted into both a real-world stage and virtual environment. The core element of the R&D is a week of experimentation, testing, rehearsals and data-gathering with the TESLA SUITS in Abertay’s state-of-the-art production studios, which includes a fully equipped virtual production environment. Findings will then be shared at a showcase event for invited industry experts, theatre practitioners and emerging technology specialists.

Haptic Theatre R&D will take place between November 2024 and March 2025. To learn more about the project and what is required to apply, please read the recruitment pack below.

If you have any questions regarding the applications, please get in contact directly with Digital Media Producer Jamie Steedman on (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). .

Scottish Youth Theatre is a young artists’ development organisation with a national remit t
work with young people aged 14 to 25. Its purpose is to collaborate with young theatre artists to create experiences and events that reverberate in their lives, their communities and the country.

The opportunities on offer are inspired and shaped by young people from across Scotland who tell the company their needs and aspirations to thrive as young creatives. As the artistic programme evolves, a focus is to locate its work across Scotland, connecting with artists and industry partners that inspire innovative theatre-making and participation opportunities; including emerging technology, hybrid performance and the vision to stage theatre outwith its conventional setting.