Towards Intelligent Interactive Theatre: Drama Management as a way of Handling Performance

In this paper, we present a new modality for intelligent inte r-active narratives within the theatre domain. We discuss the possibilities of using an intelligent agent that serves as a drama manager a nd as an actor that plays a character within the live theatre exper ience. We pose a set of research challenges that arise from our analysi s towards the implementation of such an agent, as well as potential method ologies as a starting point to bridge the gaps between current literatu re and the proposed modality.