Teatre Virtual _____ Act 5: Imaginations _ Thaumaturgies of the Soul http://www.teatrevirtual-mercatflors.net What is Teatre Virtual? TEATRE VIRTUAL is a programme iniciated by the Municipal Theatre Mercat de les Flors-Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and DOGONEfff to develop and explore real connections between Theatre and the Internet. The programme assumes the challenge of proposing another way to think theatre in the context of the Internet. More often than not, the virtual and its realities, or virtual reality, is thought of as being solely within the domain of cyberspace and computer generated environments, but Theatre has always presented a virtual image. Now it is a matter to discover what value does Theatre have in regard to the production of art in the Internet and what can the Internet bring to Theatre. TEATRE VIRTUAL is a programme of five acts. The first four acts are Internet based. Together they elaborate a structure towards the final act, Act 5: Imaginations _ Thaumaturgies of the Soul to be performed on a theatre stage: a scenic presentation entwining the concepts of theatre and Internet. Central to each act is a single character called the Imaginal Anthrõpos, an extra-ordinary entity experiencing existence. Through this character, TEATRE VIRTUAL articulates a dramaturgy from the poetic reason of thinkers and humanistes who address the complexity of the human entity, in terms of matter, representation and image. Act 5: Imaginations _ Thaumaturgies of the Soul TEATRE VIRTUAL, Act 5: Imaginations _ Thaumaturgies of the Soul is an exploration of a point of existence through a series of imaginations: an imagination which invokes a way to look at reality; an imagination of the extensive void of speed; an imagination for the transgression of our own organism; an imagination of the fluctuation between the ordinary and the extra-ordinary; the imagination of a renewed sense of existence. Using live video, 'livestream' technologies of the Internet, Macromedia Flash and Director animations, sounds, musics, words, chat and webcams, an aural and visual backcloth is created for the presentation. From the first scene of the love song, Act 5: Imaginations _ Thaumaturgies of the Soul confronts the audience with a series of actions: looking in a mirror, walking, mopping the floor, smoking a cigar. Via the montage of scenes a non-linear dramaturgy complexifies the presences of two performers and their interaction with the Internet and its virtualities. Mediating the presentation into the virtual is the onstage presence of a video camera. In the presentation's movement from a scenic dramaturgy to a virtual dramaturgy, what the audience sees through the camera image and two projection screens, is the gradual unveiling of the creation of a live image for the Internet. The presentation closes with a scene directly composed for the Internet.