Teaching Research-based Theatre Online: A Narrative of Practice

Abstract

For the last twelve years, students at the University of British Columbia could take a course in Research-based Theatre, a research methodology that transforms data into dramatic performances. Previously, this course has only ever been conducted in-person, but due to COVID-19, the course was offered online for the first time. This narrative of practice explores the authors’ experience of translating the course into a virtual form. Throughout their experience of teaching Research-based Theatre over Zoom, the authors returned to fundamental questions: What teaching practices endure in the online Research-based Theatre classroom, and what new ways practices were fostered through our emerging partnership with technology?