The pandemic has fast-tracked the world’s use of digital tools. In arts and culture everywhere, we have seen artists, arts companies and venues experimenting. Out of this enforced innovation, good ideas have emerged. The good ideas, still being revealed, are ripe for considered development.

How can these ideas be harnessed to help nourish playwriting practices, expanding conceptions of ‘stages’ and audiences? How does the playwright contribute to this growing field?

The Digital Stage program will be a provocation on building narratives for online and interactive audiences.