{"product_id":"amplifying-theatrical-horizons-lisa-hall-9781835953303","title":"Amplifying Theatrical Horizons: Rethinking the Value of Waste in Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA reexamination of the role of waste in theatrical practices, from escape rooms to traditional proscenium theater. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmplifying Theatrical Horizons\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines live performance through the lens of economy, value, excess, and waste, asking what it means to shower resources--material, sensory, and symbolic--on audiences beyond utilitarian calculation. It examines how waste operates within the theatrical relationship between audience, performer, genre, and space, focusing on excessive deployments of value.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on scholarship in theater studies, economics, philosophy, and performance practice, Lisa Hall proposes what she calls the Wasteful Theatre Equation, distinguishing waste as a surplus that amplifies experience rather than diminishing it. Case studies span immersive environments, haunted attractions, escape rooms, site-specific productions, and traditional proscenium theater, demonstrating how space, participation, sensation, and fear operate as sites of wasteful excess. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey chapters pose practical questions for makers, reframing contracts of performance, proximity, and risk as tools for creating singular experiences. Across examples from Robert Wilson to Punchdrunk, Grand-Guignol to theme parks, the book positions waste as both disruptive and generative. Ultimately, it argues that wasteful excess enchants, reorienting theater toward presence, wonder, and transformative exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1835953301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781835953303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Intellect (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Lisa Hall","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48460372148479,"sku":"9781835953303","price":94.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8d55760c-e665-478d-96b3-747d306f32cd.jpg?v=1777414314","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/amplifying-theatrical-horizons-lisa-hall-9781835953303","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}