2025/09/20 by Tianyang Xu, Xu, Tianyang, Hongqiu Wu +5
Arts and Humanities · Engineering · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human Motion and Animation #Theatre and Performance Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2509.16713
openalex publication_date 2025/09/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
LLM-based Interactive Drama introduces a novel dialogue scenario in which the player immerses into a character and engages in a dramatic story by interacting with LLM agents. Despite the fact that this emerging area holds significant promise, it remains largely underexplored due to the lack of a well-designed playground to develop a complete drama. This makes a significant barrier for researchers to replicate, extend, and study such systems. Hence, we present Open-Theatre, the first open-source toolkit for experiencing and customizing LLM-based interactive drama. It refines prior work with an efficient multi-agent architecture and a hierarchical retrieval-based memory system, designed to enhance narrative coherence and realistic long-term behavior in complex interactions. In addition, we provide a highly configurable pipeline, making it easy for researchers to develop and optimize new approaches.