Reframing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance: 2016

La 4e de couverture indique : "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." Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Reframing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance....Pages 1-25 Front Matter....Pages 27-28 Experiencing Michael Mayhew’s Away in a Manger: Spectatorial Immersion in Durational Performance....Pages 29-42 Integrating Realities Through Immersive Gaming....Pages 43-62 Negotiating the Possible Worlds of Uninvited Guests’ Make Better Please: A Hypertextual Experience....Pages 63-76 Immersed in Sound: Kursk and the Phenomenology of Aural Experience....Pages 77-91 Front Matter....Pages 93-102 Reflections on Immersion and Interaction....Pages 103-118 She Wants You to Kiss Her: Negotiating Risk in the Immersive Theatre Contract....Pages 119-127 The Fourth Wall and Other Ruins: Immersive Theatre as a Brand....Pages 129-134 Front Matter....Pages 135-136 Spectral Illusions: Ghostly Presence in Phantasmagoria Shows....Pages 137-144 Playing a Punchdrunk Game: Immersive Theatre and Videogaming....Pages 145-150 Proximity to Violence: War, Games, Glitch....Pages 151-169 The Promise of Experience: Immersive Theatre in the Experience Economy....Pages 171-191 Front Matter....Pages 193-198 Participation, Ecology, Cosmos....Pages 199-202 Back Matter....Pages 203-205 ....Pages 207-220 "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." --Cover This new collection offers an important contribution to work on immersive theatre and performance, focusing on the broader socio-economic framework and its connection to issues around production, economics and spectatorship. The volume addresses the ethical, practical and philosophical issues that it raises about the politics of participation.