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Digital Actors on Shakespeare’s Stage

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"Digital actors" - people, animals, monsters - are common in Hollywood movies. Now they are on stage at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In "The Tempest", human actors are on stage when a huge digital tidal wave crashes across stage, sinking a ship. It looks and sounds like the real thing. Then Ariel, a digital sprite, appears and manipulates the storyline while changing size and appearance from time to time.

Thus the traditional performance of Shakespeare is changing with technology - virtual reality, augmented reality, digital effects, 360 degree environments, 3-D, holography and interactivity.

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ESU: COME FOR THE MISSION, STAY FOR THE FUN

The mission is to cultivate the English language as a connection between world cultures.

This ranges from teaching the language to students and to immigrants, to appreciating the written word, as well as public speaking and critical thinking through debate.

It offers a deeper dive in appreciation through performance, particularly focused on the plays of William Shakespeare.

Overall, English offers a bridge to people and cultures around the world.

Examples of Cleveland's activities can be found in the Branch Photo Gallery.

History of the ESU

The English-Speaking Union of the United States was created to fulfill a mission. It was formally organized in the United States in 1920 and arose from the conviction of its founder, Sir Evelyn Wrench and a group of like-minded American and British friends, that maintenance of the close personal and national ties forged during World War I was necessary for the preservation of peace. He imagined the ESU as an inclusive organization "founded in no narrow attitude of race pride, in no spirit of hostility to any people." Its educational mission would be carried out by a host of activities allowing for personal contact between peoples at every level.

The Cleveland Branch was founded in 1923 under President John A. Penton of the Penton Publishing Co. The Branch disbanded at the end of World War II, to be re-activated in 1960 under the presidency of Dr. Harlan Hamilton, Professor of English at Western Reserve University (now CWRU)

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