Dream is a live motion capture performance by The Royal Shakespeare Company that showcased the future of virtual theatre by allowing the audience to interact with the actors in real time. The audience is guided by Puck who introduces the behind the scenes technology before donning the VR headset and the frame cuts to the virtual forest. Puck’s route is lit by the audience controlling fireflies and as the story progresses we meet the other characters all perfomed by actors wearing motion capture suits - Peasebottom, Moth, Mustardseed and Cobweb. The fourth wall is broken in the end sequence by returning the frame to the design studio with the actors in front of a larger video wall and the performance can be seen from the perspective of the real world. The event concluded with a Q&A that included a demonstration of the way that the Cobweb character is brought to life using movement of the actor detected by the motion cameras.
