Bardwatching: Creation Theatre's Romeo & Juliet; Amazon's Alexa; Michael Blanding's findings

Creation Theatre has partnered with Watford Palace Theatre to deliver a multi-platform digital performance of Romeo & Juliet this May, directed by Natasha Rickman, artistic associate at the Jermyn Street Theatre.

Audience members will find themselves at a Capulet party, and will have to ‘choose their own adventure’, with a mix of live performance and prefilmed scenes. This will be Creation Theatre's 9th online production, but the first that utilises multiple digital platforms.

Among the 13-strong cast is RSC associate artist Katy Stephens, who has starred in a huge number of leading Shakespearian roles at Shakespeare's Globe and the RSC.

Rickman has said ‘Digital theatre is now its own art form. The multiverse format is so freeing and the fact that our actors can perform multiple versions of scenes which can be viewed simultaneously by people all over the world is hugely exciting. Plus, for this special production we have amassed a hugely talented cast, which includes some of the UK's leading Shakespearean actors.’