Dream
A major piece of cutting-edge research and development (R&D), this pioneering collaboration explores how audiences could experience live performance in the future in addition to a regular visit to a performance venue. Dream was due to open in Spring 2020 as an in person and online live performance and has been recreated during the pandemic for online audiences whilst theatres remain closed. The project is one of four Audience of the Future Demonstrator projects, supported by the government Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund which is delivered by UK Research and Innovation.
All Seeing Eye joined the cohort of companies and freelancers brought together to deliver a re-imagining of a Midsummer Night’s Dream after pivoting to create an at home experience during the pandemic in 2020/21.
Joining the team as Technical Leads on the realtime side and engineering leads for the web team, we designed and developed the framework underpinning the creation and running of the show, incorporating live face & body motion capture from the 7 actors, virtual camera operators and audience interaction data, as well as assisting with the creative delivery of various key aspects of the performance.
Alongside this we also developed the interactive web player for desktop and mobile devices that enabled audiences to watch and interact with the performances in real time.
Credits
- Director & Narrative
- Robin McNicholas
- Script Creation & Narrative
- Pippa Hill
- Music Director & Composer
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Movement Director
- Sarah Perry
- Composer, Interactivity Designer & Creative Advisor, Music
- Jesper Nordin
- Creative Advisor, Music
- Luke Ritchie
- Executive Producers
- Sarah Ellis
Gaby Jenks
Luke Ritchie
Nell Whitley
- Artistic Director, RSC
- Gregory Doran
- Casting Director, RSC
- Hannah Miller
Cast
- The Wood
- Nick Cave
- Cobweb
- Maggie Bain
- Understudy Puck & Mustardseed
- Pheobe Hyder
- Moth
- Durassie Kiangangu
- Peaseblossom
- Jamie Morgan
- Mustardseed
- Lauren O’Dair
- Camera Operator
- Tom Scurr
- Puck
- EM Williams
- Assistant Movement Director
Understudy Moth, Cobweb & Peaseblossom - Edmund Wood
Heads Of Production
- Business Director University of Portsmouth
- Pippa Bostock
- Producer
- Georgie Fellows
- Producer
- Michelle Feuerlicht
- Managing Director for i2Media Research
- Professor Jonny Freeman
- Head of Production
- Pete Griffin
- Producer
- Dan Munslow
- Technical Director
- Louis Mustill
- Producer
- Oriana Neidecker
- Producer
- George Simons
- Technical Director
- Arron Smith
- General Manager
- Julia Walter
Technical & Creative Leads
- Art Director
- Paul Mumford
- Realtime Technical Lead
- Ollie Lindsey
- Technical Artist Lead
- Will Young
- Senior Realtime Technical Artist
- Michael Adefehinti
- Environment Lead
- Neal Coghlan
- Live Performance Capture Technical Lead
- Alex Counsell
- Lead Unreal Developer and Show Control
- Dan Orchard
- Lighting Designer and Show Control
- Matt Peel
- Front-End Engineering Lead
- Robin North
Artists & Developers
- Unreal Developer
- Adam Child
- Unreal Developer
- Ken Maclean
- Games Engine Consultant
- Marc Winklhofer
- Houdini Artist
- Tim Bacon
- Rigger TD
- Martin Gunnarsson
- 3D Technical Artist
- Joaquina Salgado
- Motion Capture and Unreal Development
- Steve Keeley
- Studio Design and Concept Artist
- Mariangela Mazzeo
- Unreal Technical Artist
- Sebastian Monroy
- Unreal Technical Artist
- Sean-Kee Murmann
- Unreal Technical Artist
- Gabor Papp
- 3D Technical Artist
- Izaak Pardey
- Streaming Architecture
- Peak Signal Limited
- Interaction Consultant
- Marek Bereza
- Lead WebGL Artist
- Simo Santavirta
- Backend Engineer
- Igor Clark
- Storyboard Artist
- Rob Pybus
For Marshmallow Laser Feast
- Creative Director
- Barnaby Steel
- Creative Director
- Ersin Han
- Executive Producer
- Mike Jones
- Senior Producer
- Carolina Vallejo
- Senior Producer
- Mully Jowers
- Technical Producer
- Derek Rae
- Production Assistant
- Fay Lenehan
- Head of Technical
- Mike McKellar
- Technical Lead
- Randall Velasquez
- Games Engine Generalist
- Rob Lynam
- Backend Developer
- Lucas Moskun
- Research Engineer
- Catherine Taylor
- Head of Finance
- Matthew Dale
- Studio Manager
- Aisha Saeed
- Administrator
- Amin Noor