Reframing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137366030)

Introduction. Immersion Reconsidered; James Frieze.- Part I. Participant as Co-Designer.- Chapter 1. On Being Immersed; Josephine Machon.- Chapter 2. Insider Dynamics Transform Dance Spectatorship in Sleep No More; Julia M. Ritter.- Chapter 3. Troubling Bodies in Follow the North Star; Ruth Bowman.- Chapter 4. Experiencing Michael Mayhew's Away in a Manger; Roberta Mock.- Chapter 5. Integrating Realities through Immersive Gaming; Lindsay Brandon Hunter.- Chapter 6. Negotiating the Possible Worlds of Make Better Please; Elizabeth Swift.- Chapter 7. Outdoors; Esther Belvis Pons.- Chapter 8. Immersed in Sound; Kristian Derek Ball.- Part II. Facilitating Immersive Performance.- Chapter 9. reflections on immersion and interaction; non zero one.- Chapter 10. Caravania!; Adam J. Ledger.- Chapter 11. A Dramaturgy of Participation; Jorge Lopes Ramos and Persis Jade Maravala.- Chapter 12. She Wants You To Kiss Her; Richard Talbot.- Chapter 13. The Fourth Wall and Other Ruins; Rachel Blyth.- Chapter 14. Immersive Performance and the Marketplace; Sherrill Gow and Merryn Owen.- Part III. Where Material meets Magic.- Chapter 15. Spectral Illusions; Nele Wynants.- Chapter 16. Playing a Punchdrunk Game; Rosemary Klich.- Chapter 17. Proximity to Violence; James R. Ball III.- Chapter 18. The Promise of Experience; Adam Alston.- Chapter 19. Differences in Degree or Kind?; Geraldine Harris.- Chapter 20. Coriolan/us and the limits of 'immersive'; Andrew Filmer.- Chapter 21. Participation, Ecology, Cosmos; Carl Lavery.- Bibliography.

Author: James Frieze
ISBN-10: 1137366036
ISBN-13: 9781137366030
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2017
Pages: 345
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.13d