Art and technology are mutually entailing, each suggesting to the other new dimensions of creative endeavour. (T. Sleigh)
I have been preoccupied recently by two things: working on a new play (I am a playwright), and learning about the digital technologies hypertext and hypermedia (I am also a latecomer). Increasingly, the two things have become one, and this convergence has proved my most important lesson, that hypermedia can be a means of reimagining both what I do as a writer for theatre and how I do it. It has taught me that a playwright in the late age of print does not have to resign herself to the status of either anachronism or "content provider", that there is an alternative to both knee-jerk technophobia and an equally unthinking embrace of the new. Above all, it has taught me the necessity of theatre in a digital world. Recently, I have been preoccupied, working on a new play by thinking about technology.