This volume reshapes a contemporary understanding of research in theatre and performance arts. Bringing together distinguished scholars from all over the world, the book serves as an arena for international scholars to introduce innovative research methodologies and disseminate their research findings regarding VLT, data archiving, and digital history and discusses the impacts of digital culture in art production, stage performance, film, and literature. The Ibsen focus in the book is illustrative of the power of digital database research that is generating new relations in spatial-historical dimensions that have otherwise gone unnoticed. It demonstrates how a new methodology can bring practical benefits to handling big data with the support of digital technologies. In line with the post-pandemic landscape, this book engages a reflectionon how the digital revolution has brought about changes and challenges, and constraints and breakthroughswithin the field of theatre and performance arts.It is of appeal to theatre artists and practitioners, scholars, critics, librarians, digital archive engineers, and postgraduate students interested in theatre, performance studies, digital media, information technology, library science, communication, education, sociology, as well as political science.

The book investigates the latest methodological development in digital cultures and performance arts, which significantly contributes to the ever-changing and increasingly advanced technological culture in this field. - Jessica Tsui-yan Li, York University, Canada

"In line withthepost-pandemic landscape, this book engages thereader in reflecting onhow thedigital revolution has brought about chances and challenges, constraints and breakthroughs tothefield oftheatre and performance arts. An original, eye-opening and inspiring volume atmultiple levels, this book brings together distinguished scholars fromall over theworld."

- Dr Anna Tso,The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong