The Older Grows the Body, the Faster Run the Machines John Downie December 2010 Feature Articles Digitalisation throws up all kinds of problems and challenges for the very physical and corporeal nature of theatrical or cinematic performance. Digitalisation insists that the body is immaterial, freed from gravity, visually able to roam space at accelerating or de-accelerating speeds, adaptable to the many scales and stretched expectations of spectatorship, and in a way, immortal.