Film director and founder of hibrow.tv Don Boyd was invited by Time Out’s films editor Dave Calhoun to see the first performance of Palimpsest’s production of Hedda Gabler performed at Burgh House in Hampstead in the autumn of 2013.  Calhoun, a curator of Hibrow’s platform for the performing and visual arts, had recommended that it might be a suitable vehicle for an experimental collaboration integrating digital film technologies with immersive theatre . Boyd, who had liked the show, heard that the company had planned to perform their Hedda at Leighton House, and decided to find a way to recreate the experience for movie, TV and computer screens using highly flexible High Definition multi camera technologies. The challenge was to avoid the conventional observational techniques used by most directors when ‘capturing’ theatre productions. The ambition  was to try to put viewers into the same position that they might have been had they been the audience at the venue, allowing for anachronisms as part of the process. Unlike a theatre auditorium, Leighton House offers several rooms which are almost exact replicas of Lord Leighton’s London residence which in chronological terms was lived in at the same time that Ibsen would have written his masterpiece Hedda Gabler. Boyd devised a system to integrate the mobile cameras discretely in and around the performers without needing to disguise their presence. The Palmipsest  production, meticulously and accurately costumed for the late 19th century, was refashioned for the series of ‘sets’ provided by all the rooms at Leighton House. Boyd and his team worked with the show’s theatre director Patrick Sandford and the actors so that the three digital camera crews and two extra static cameras could film two versions of each section of the play providing Boyd  with a multiplicity of shots for the editing process almost as if an imaginary ‘live’ audience had digital cameras to follow every actor as they moved from room to room.