Tech changes the theater game

A scene from Blowing in the Wind, an experimental creation to explore how technology integrates with theater at the Beijing Fringe Festival. [Photo provided to China Daily]

In his final novel, The Glass Bead Game, Swiss-German writer Hermann Hesse envisioned an art form that transcends all boundaries — an intricate game woven from the essence of human culture, drawing on every creative achievement in history.

Its masters, secluded in the ivory towers of Castalia, believed the game could mirror the universe's spiritual order and lift humanity beyond the mundane into a realm of pure thought.

Last month in Beijing, that vision found a contemporary echo in a group of young creators, passionate about theater and eager to explore technology, coming together in their own version of Castalia.