Next week's workshop will be run by Julian Maynard Smith of Station House Opera. The subject he will be exploring is telematic theatre. This is the start of his introduction to the project:

Telematic theatre employs some method of sending and receiving theatrical information over a distance.  Telematics usually implies the use of telecommunication devices, but there is no reason specifically why this should be the case. 
If theatre is viewed to have the use of present performance as its primary means, and if that means the audience needs to be physically in the same space as the performance, telemetry would seem to have a limited role in theatre.  If by telematic theatre we do not mean theatre that has telemetry as merely one of its elements, the notion becomes rather paradoxical. 
There are many uses of new media that engage an audience, in a greater or lesser extent, in a performance, but its theatre potential has not been adequately explored.