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Reframing immersive theatre
the politics and pragmatics of participatory performance
Abstract
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.
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the politics and pragmatics of participatory performance
pp.1-25
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_1the pleasure of being
pp.29-42
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_2insider dynamics and extended audiencing transform dance spectatorship in sleep no more
pp.43-62
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_3spectatorial immersion in durational performance
pp.77-91
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_5pp.93-102
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_6a hypertextual experience
pp.103-118
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_7a rimini protokoll theatre-maze
pp.119-127
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_8Kursk and the phenomenology of aural experience
pp.129-134
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_9intimacy and immersion for family audiences
pp.145-150
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_11participatory rituals, immersive environments, and interactive gameplay in hotel medea
pp.151-169
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_12negotiating risk in the immersive theatre contract
pp.171-191
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_13immersive theatre as a brand
pp.193-198
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_14the hit
pp.199-202
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_15ghostly presence in phantasmagoria shows
pp.207-220
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_16immersive theatre and videogaming
pp.221-228
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_17war, games, glitch
pp.229-242
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_18immersive theatre in the experience economy
pp.243-264
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_19a hollywood fable
pp.265-288
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_20Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2016
Pages: 345
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-137-36603-0
ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-36604-7
Full citation:
Frieze James (2016) Reframing immersive theatre: the politics and pragmatics of participatory performance. Dordrecht, Springer.