On (Digital) theatre fieldtrips

The pandemic interrupted a years-long exchange between students at the National University of Singapore and Universitas Gadjah Mada (Yogyakarta,Indonesia). Since 2013, students from each place have visited each other to learn about the theatrical cultures of their different environments. The disruption of travel and theatre last year forced us to reimagine what an exchange can look like in a digital environment, and we conducted a longer, distributed exchange using digital platforms. This presentation reflects on the continuities and differences between the fieldtrip and its digital double, and offers some speculations of what the future of intercultural theatre education might bring.