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In this collaborative work between a computer science researcher (Denise Lengyel)and theatre researcher (Mrunal Chavda), the attempt is to answer the following question:
Can we trace actors’ physical manifestation and provide a link their internal states using a computer generated model?
The first part of this discussion relates to Chavda’s analysis of a theatre production of The Kanjoos by Tara Arts, a British Asian theatre Company in Earlsfield. Moliere’s The Miser in French set in seventeenth-century France has been adapted by Hardeep Singh Kohli and Jatinder Verma to Nagpur, a city in central India, Harpagon of The Miser becomes Harijider of The Kanjoos.
Tara Arts produced TheKanjoos at Tara Arts, Earlsfield (London) from 26th September to 13th October 2012 before touring in 2013. I viewed the performance on 29th September 2012. The production ran for 110 minutes approximately with a ten…
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