| Description |
xvii, 345 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN |
9781137366030 |
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1137366036 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (pages 317-334) and index. |
| Contents |
Reframing immersive theatre: the politics and pagmatics of participatory performance / James Frieze -- Part I: Participant as co-designer: critical reflections. On being immersed: The pleasure of being: washing, feeding, holding / Josephine Machon -- In the body of the beholder: insider dynamics and extended audiencing transform dance spectatorship in Sleep no more / Julia M. Ritter -- Troubling bodies in Follow the North Star / Ruth Laurion Bowman -- Experiencing Michael Mayhew's Away in a manger: spectatorial immersion in durational performance / Roberta Mock -- Integrating realities through immersive gaming / Lindsay Brandon Hunter -- Negotiating the possible worlds of Uninvited Guests' Make better please: a hypertextual experience / Elizabeth Swift -- Outdoors: a Rimini Protokoll theatre-maze / Esther Belvis Pons -- Immersed in sound: Kursk and the phenomenology of aural experience / George Home-Cook and Kristian Derek Ball -- Part II: Facilitating immersive performance: ethics and practicalities. Reflections on immersion and interaction / non zero one -- Caravania!: intimacy and immersion for family audiences / Adam J. Ledger -- A dramaturgy of participation: participatory rituals, immersive environments, and interactive gameplay in Hotel Medea / Jorge Lopes Ramos and Persis Jade Maravala -- She wants you to kiss her: negotiating risk in the immersive theatre contract / Richard Talbot -- The fourth wall and other ruins: immersive theatre as a brand / Rachael Blyth -- Immersive performance and the marketplace: The hit / Sherill Gow and Merryn Owen -- Part III: Where material meets magic: theories, histories, and myths of immersive participation. Spectral illusions: ghostly presence in phantasmagoria shows / Nele Wynants -- Playing a punchdrunk game: immersive theatre and videogaming / Rosemary Klich -- Proximity to violence: war, games, glitch / James R. Ball III -- The promise of experience: immersive theatre in the experience economy / Adam Alston -- Differences in degree or kind?: Ockham's Razor's Not until we are lost and Punchdrunk's The drowned man: a Hollywood fable / Gearldine Harris -- Coriolan/us and the limits of 'immersive' / Andrew Filmer -- Participation, ecology, cosmos / Carl Lavery. |
| Summary |
This diverse collection of essays and testimonies challenges critical orthodoxies about the twenty-first century boom in immersive theatre and performance. A culturally and institutionally eclectic range of producers and critics comprehensively reconsider the term 'immersive' and the practices it has been used to describe. Applying ecological, phenomenological and political ideas to both renowned and lesser-known performances, contributing scholars and artists offers fresh ideas on the ethics and practicalities of participatory performance. These ideas interrogate claims that have frequently been made by producers and by critics that participatory performance extends engagement. These claims are interrogated across nine dimensions of engagement: bodily, technological, spatial, temporal, spiritual, performative, pedagogical, textual, social. Enquiry is focussed along the following seams of analysis: the participant as co-designer; the challenges facing the facilitator of immersive/participatory performance; the challenges facing the critic of immersive/participatory performance; how and why immersion troubles boundaries between the material and the magical. |
| Library Class |
Theatre A7
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| Subject |
Performance.
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Theater.
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Performance -- Political aspects.
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Participatory theater.
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| Other Author |
Frieze, James, 1967- editor.
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