ACuTe:
Digital Theatre
A Casebook

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ACuTe:The Future for Digital Theatre

It is with great pride that I introduce the ACuTe Casebook –Digital Theatre, the latest publication in ETC’s long-stand-ing series of casebooks that share knowledge, practice, andlearning from large-scale European collaboration projects.Over the years, these casebooks have documented how theatres across Europe respond collectively to urgent artis- tic and societal questions – from STAGES – Sustainable Theatre, to Fabulamundi New Voices – Diversifying Theatre, and Future Laboratory – Artistic Research in Theatre. ACuTe now joins this lineage, offering a rich and timely reflectionon digital creation in theatre, based on extensive performa- tive research results spanning 2022-2025.

The ACuTe project represents four years of deep collab-oration, bringing together 14 partners from 11 countries to rethink how new technologies can be meaningfully embed-ded in theatrical productions and organisational pro- cesses.Rather than treating technology as an add-on or spectacle, ACuTe invited partners to experiment, question, and rede- sign their working methods through the culture testbeds– a new design thinking toolkit to be employed in theatre practice and across the performing arts, developed by our project partners at Saxion University/The Netherlands. This approach foregrounded curiosity, iteration, and critical reflection, enabling theatres to test ideas in real artistic and institutional contexts.

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