ADRIAN PANG

CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF PANGDEMONIUM

“The theatre community has a love-hate/push-pull relationship with the whole tilt towards ‘upskilling’, ‘pivoting’ and ‘digitalisation’—words that made us all collectively heave into our mouths even as we said them. While it goes against the grain and spirit of live theatre, we also had to come to the reluctant conclusion that it would be inevitable for us to embrace digital technology in some form. And while the experience of producing an online play was quite an invigorating experience for us, and we are gratified that viewers welcomed and appreciated our efforts, we know that this is just a stopgap ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ model of not-quite live theatre. So we know that online theatre has a limited shelf life. Hence our experimental adventures into digitalisation of theatre will be short-lived. We can’t wait to get back on stage.”