Abstract
This article addresses the relationship between Shakespearean dramaturgy and contemporary manifestations of surveillance, space and location. It focuses on a workshop production of The Tempest at the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival, which explored the use and adaptation of digital surveillance technologies in order to appraise and restage Shakespeare's arrangement of power relations and spatial organization. The article draws on scholarship on surveillance and transit in order to expand on the workshop production, and relate theatre and performance practice to contemporary cultural process and experience. In both production and article I attempt to move between early modern dramaturgy and contemporary multimedia staging to examine mutually informing principles and structures. © 2012 Intellect Ltd Article.