Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience

2017-09-06 Performing Arts

Author : Rose Biggin
Release : 2017-09-06
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 398/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience by : Rose Biggin

Download or read book Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience written by Rose Biggin. This book was released on 2017-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first full-length monograph to focus on Punchdrunk, the internationally-renowned theatre company known for its pioneering approach to immersive theatre. With its promises of empowerment, freedom and experiential joy, immersive theatre continues to gain popularity - this study brings necessary critical analysis to this rapidly developing field. What exactly do we mean by audience “immersion”? How might immersion in a Punchdrunk production be described, theorised, situated or politicised? What is valued in immersive experience - and are these values explicit or implied? Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience draws on rehearsals, performances and archival access to Punchdrunk, providing new critical perspectives from cognitive studies, philosophical aesthetics, narrative theory and computer games. Its discussion of immersion is structured around three themes: interactivity and game; story and narrative; environment and space. Providing a rigorous theoretical toolkit to think further about the form’s capabilities, and offering a unique set of approaches, this book will be of significance to scholars, students, artists and spectators.

Immersive Theatres

2017-09-16 Performing Arts

Author : Josephine Machon
Release : 2017-09-16
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 859/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Immersive Theatres written by Josephine Machon. This book was released on 2017-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive text is the first survey to explore the theory, history and practice of immersive theatre. Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, Josephine Machon shares her wealth of expertise in the field of contemporary performance, inviting the reader to immerse themselves within this abundantly illustrated text. The first section of the book introduces concepts of immersion, situating them within a historical context and establishing a clear critical vocabulary for discussion. The second section then presents contributions from a wealth of immersive artists. Assuming no prior knowledge with its critical commentary, this is a rich resource for lecturers and students at all levels and internationally, including undergraduates and post-graduates, as well as practitioners and researchers of contemporary performance. This would also be an ideal text for general enthusiasts and readers with an interest in immersive theatre.

Creating Worlds

2017 Participatory theater

Author : Jason Warren
Release : 2017
Genre : Participatory theater
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Book Rating : 456/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Creating Worlds written by Jason Warren. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new text on immersive theater.

Reframing Immersive Theatre

2017-03-30 Performing Arts

Author : James Frieze
Release : 2017-03-30
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 044/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reframing Immersive Theatre written by James Frieze. This book was released on 2017-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Theatre and Audience

2017-09-16 Performing Arts

Author : Lois Weaver
Release : 2017-09-16
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 608/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Theatre and Audience written by Lois Weaver. This book was released on 2017-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does theatre do for – and to – those who witness, watch, and participate in it? Theatre & Audience provides a provocative overview of the questions raised by theatrical encounters between performers and audiences. Focusing on European and North American theatre and its audiences in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, it explores belief in theatre's potential to influence, impact and transform. Illustrated by examples of performance which have sought to generate active audience involvement – from Brecht's epic theatre to the Blue Man Group – it seeks to unsettle any simple equation between audience participation and empowerment. Foreword by Lois Weaver.

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