ABSTRACT
Performance may be extended or rearranged by the use of technology, creating a new kind of theatrical or dramatic form. As Patrice Pavis noted, 'a multimedia performance is not simply a performance that uses audiovisual means and many different sources of information, but one that introduces a whole different dimension into the live performance as customarily defined; the place where an actor meets a spectator'. Audiovisual technology can multiply the dimensions of performance, both in time and space as the live and the mediatised converge or clash. For television, or video, or pre-recorded sound offer completely different means of perceiving. More ambitious perhaps was the international success achieved by Alladeen, a co-production between motiroti and New York's Builders Association. Video particularly could make the past present, or integrate the mediatised with the live, as in Fiona Templeton's Recognition. The postdramatic stage thus supported an intermediality which blurred individual identity, paradoxically in a society which itself was mediatised.
