DURYODHANAN
(SINGAPORE'S FIRST BILINGUAL AR & VR THEATRE PRODUCTION)
DETAILS
Date: 20 Feb 2021
Time: 1.30pm
Venue: National Gallery Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
Presented in Tamil and English
Launch is approximately 1 hour with no interval and guests were ushered to experience the VR and AR performance (7min each)
Duryodhanan was the first virtual/augmented reality theatre production of Singapore Tamil theatre. The launch was graced by Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Law, Mr Edwin Tong on 20 February 2021 at National Gallery Singapore.
Key invited guests included Deputy CE, Sector Development, National Arts Council, Head ( Indian audience) MediaCorp, Indian Heritage Centre GM, Director (Head of Community programming) Esplanade, Justice of Peace and SIET Chairman and many more.
Duryodhanan had added value to its strong contributions to Tamil theatre’s recent advent in digital productions. Duryodhanan was the maiden Tamil theatre production that leveraged on the use of volumetric capture / augmented reality technology. Partnering with Vostok VR- an award-winning VR technology and motion capture company, AGAM took the leap of faith in turning this new venture into a new norm in the realms of virtual performances and challenged the notions of traditional theatre. This has allowed us as an organisation to push the boundaries of conventional theatre-making and allow us to use this opportunity that COVID-19 has presented to us to test the potential of a new technology in theatre. This project has been supported by the National Arts Council and Tamil Language Learning and Promotion Committee.
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KEY CREATIVE PERSONNEL
Exec Producer and Director
Producer
Co-Producer
Playwright
Technical Director
Production Manager
Head of VR AR Post pdn
Original background score
FOH manager
Collateral design
Title poster design
Motion poster animation
Making Video
VR equipment support
Technical team
House management
Costume design
Make up design
Photography support
Videography support
Emcee for the Launch
Special thanks
Ganesh Subramanian
Shanmuga Sundram
Nallu Dhinakharan
Dr Elavazhagan Murugan
Vitaliy Che, Vostok VR
Durga Devi
Alex Surkhocv
Raghu Sounderarajan
Mathangi Narayanan, Vijay
Vinith Kumar
JS Sasikumar
Lawrence Xiao
Srinath Ramalingam
Nina, Fantasium Group
Sai Hoong
Raveena Siva
Durga Devi
Norehan Fong
Damian Vault
Curious Productions
Karthikeyan Somasundram
MCCY
AGAM Board of Directors
PIXEL Studio
THE MAKING
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TAMIL MURASU 28.02.2021
MEDIACORP TAALAM INDIAN BEAT 12.03.2021
MEDIACORP VANAKKAM SINGAI 25.04.2021
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