If you’ve watched an opera or a foreign play, you may have noticed the surtitles above the stage. One company in France is trying to revolutionise the theatre experience with surtitling glasses.
Daisy Jacobs from Theatre in Paris explains how it works:
“Everyone can choose the language, colour and size of the text, as well as the brightness and position of the text that appears. I can open the application and I have all of the folders with surtitles, so there’s King Lear and Retour à Berratham which is on tonight. I’m going to choose to follow the surtitles in English and I’m going to start the text scroll by clicking on the arrow. If one of the actors skips a line or makes a mistake, you can easily do the same.”
A secure wifi network is used to link the tablet to the glasses.
Avignon, a town steeped in history, has decided to go digital. Jean-François Césarini, the head of development at start-up accelerator ‘The Bridge’ explains why.
“The Bridge was an accelerator programme
