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Livestreamed and Virtual and Streamed... Oh, My!
Not much of anything is for certain anymore, except to say that — if you’ll excuse the pun — your theatre season will be dramatically different than any other year. No longer can we simply assume that an audience will be in the same physical space as the actors; nor can we even take for granted that all the actors will be in the same space!
Thankfully, theatre is proving itself to be quite adaptable to these altered circumstances so that performances, in one format or another, can still happen. Pioneer Drama Service is the most flexible of all the play publishers regarding licensing rights, whether traditional, livestreamed, virtual, or recorded and streamed. And even if you have to change your type of performance midway through rehearsals, we can easily work with you to accommodate whatever new plans you need to make because rights are available for all of these options for ALL or our shows!
Because this is new for everyone and we want to be perfectly clear, we made this chart to show exactly what we mean by all these different types of performances:
We don’t know about you, but we’re actually confused by what some other publishers are saying... and not saying. They claim to have hundreds of virtual scripts, when they really just mean their traditional scripts are available electronically. Or they offer livestreaming rights, but only for a limited number of shows. Or their shows can be performed on Zoom, but they have to be done live with no editing. Yikes!
We want to keep this simple, so we’ll give you just a handful of details to show why Pioneer Drama Service has quickly become THE best theatre resource for virtual and online materials and rights!
- We can’t say it often enough — rights are available for ALL of these performance types for ALL of our plays and musicals! Enjoy browsing our entire website, because you’re not going to be limited to some partial list. Just talk to us and we can help you arrange the rights you need... for any Pioneer show.
- We have 28 virtual plays written specifically for rehearsing and performing on Zoom or a similar platform, more than any other publisher! There’s a lot more to these scripts than just having camera cues instead of entrances and exits. These plays have the characters being separated as part of the plot so that their communication via devices becomes part of the storyline, rather than a distraction. Even the director’s books for these virtual plays have been adapted to leave you room for screen mapping on every single script page.
- We allow you to adapt any of our traditional plays to accommodate performing it virtually or with social distancing as long as you don’t alter the playwright’s original intent.
- ALL 1200 of our plays and musicals have electronic scripts available for production orders if you wish to email them to your cast and crew and for previewing through our E-view program.
- When you prepay for your materials and royalties, you can receive instant electronic delivery of your entire production order — scripts, director’s books, scores, and music tracks — thanks to our signature Get It Now! delivery option.
We’ve come a long way in just six months, and we’re not going to stop because we know you aren’t going to either. As the theatre world adapts, we will continue to be here for you. We have full business hours again and are eager to talk with you either through our website’s chat feature or when you call us at 800-333-7262. We are happy to field any questions and help you navigate this new world as best we can.