ARatorio for the Mis-Remembered
2025 Full Show
ARatorio for the Mis-Remembered is an experimental theatrical project through the University of Iowa Next Steps Grant, which focuses on telling the stories of local veterans both in person and in virtual reality. It is a continually ongoing project, which will eventually consist of three parts telling the stories of twelve veterans stationed across the globe. This project also seeks to find methods to blend emerging technologies such as motion capture and VR/AR into the theatrical process to create innovative ways to tell stories to a live audience. The goal is to not only showcase these techniques in this particular project, but to expose students and audiences alike to them to foster the imagination for what the future of the workflow may be.
Playwright: Sandy Dietrick
Composer: Mark Bruckner
Director: Mary Beth Easley
Creative Director: Kaelen Novak
Costume and Character Designer: Bella Fortunato
Projection-Ambience Designer: Søren Olsen
Technical Manager: Jackson Kopesky
Stage Manager: Reese Morgan
The 05-24-2025 version of ARatorio for the Mis-Remembered brings all three parts of 10 veterans stories to fruition for a live and virtual audience. The live audience arrangement existed in a 4-sided projection box with the audience arranged in a horseshoe, while the livestream existed by showing the front most screen due to technical issues the day of. Post-show, the 360 VR performance was rendered out in 4k resolution, but was intended and able to be livestreamed live in the future.
360 VR Performance: Link
1pm Livestream Performance : Link
3pm Livestream Performance : Link
1pm Audience View (360 Video) : Link
3pm Audience View (360 Video) : Link
