The theatre is a performance spectacle with a great sum of communication possibilities. Then, the theatre in the future can be seen from different points of view depending of different elements and contexts.

So, if we pretend to talk about the theatre in the future, we need to attend to a very important and basic element: THE ETERNITY. The theatre is eternal because it reflects the reality. There have been theatre in the past, there is theatre in the present and, I think without doubt that, there will have in the future.

The theatre is a spectacle that has existed from the beginnings of the times in whatever city or country (Greece, Rome,...). Because of what, I think that we must also know something about the area or the country where the theatre is performed.

I’m referring to the level social, economical and cultural of a country. The inversion’s possibilities on the theatre depending of it. To this certain situation, it is necessary add the interest that these countries have to invest over the educational and cultural sectors in a society.

On the other hand, there are other two elements which must be emphasized: THE INNOVATION and THE AUDIENCE. The theatre needs audience and because of that it needs to innovate.

If there is INNOVATION, there are MORE AND NEW AUDIENCES and, if there are more and new audiences, the FUTURE, the ETERNITY of the theatre is guaranteed.

However, I’m not going to write here about the future of the theatre, but I’m going to write about the theatre of the future attending to the named aspects.

According to different resources and techniques used we can talk of different kind of theatre.

From the theatre of text to the theatre based on the mime language, we can talk of the street’s theatre, where the actors act in a opened space, the black theatre or shadow plays, where the play needs a closed space and certain characteristics in the atmosphere, or the musical theatres, the coffee theatre, the marionette theatre, etc.

It’s here where the NEW TECHNOLOGIES must be mentioned. It’s about a virtual situation. THE DIGITAL THEATRE is the theatre of the future.

In this kind of theatre all of the fundamentals elements are present: the audience (intercultural), the music, the illumination, etc; in it all kind of techniques such as mime, marionette, shadow plays, etc, can be used. All of this in a opened space as well as in a closed space.

The network is the stage where the physical and the digital elements are joined. Here, the actors can interact with another kind of actors as, for instance, marionettes or the same audience, and they can interact being in different places and times. The audience takes directly part in the performance.

I think that the beginning of this new century is the beginning of a new era to organise interactive and intercultural experiences.

In my opinion this is the revolution in the theatre of the future. The digital era, which through internet, can do to the theatre arrived to the most number of the audience.

This way of doing theatre can also arrive to places where there are ill or poorer people. It, without doubt, can improve the cultural and social level in the poorer societies.

lo físico y lo digital. lo físico y lo digit