This article describes an investigation of interactive narrative in virtual reality (VR) through Samuel Beckett's theatrical text Play. Actors are captured in a green screen environment using free-viewpoint video (FVV). Built in a game engine, the scene is complete with binaural spatial audio and six degrees of freedom of movement. The project explores how ludic qualities in the original text elicit the conversational and interactive specificities of the digital medium. The work affirms potential for interactive narrative in VR, opens new experiences of the text and highlights the reorganization of the author-audience dynamic.

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Virtual Play: after Samuel Beckett Trailer. A video trailer and synopsis of the Virtual Play: after Samuel Beckett project, which reinterprets Beckett's Play (1963) using volumetric video and virtual reality technologies. Copyright of V-SENSE, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin

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