Reframing Immersive Theatre The Politics and Pragmatics of Participa
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
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JAMES FRIEZE
Reframing Immersive Theatre
James Frieze Editor
Reframing Immersive Theatre The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance
Editor James Frieze Liverpool Screen School Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-36603-0 ISBN 978-1-137-36604-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016957738 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover illustration: © non zero one Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom
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Thanks to Jenny McCall, Paula Kennedy, April James, and Amy Jordan at Palgrave. Adrian Howells died while this book was being written and is greatly missed. References to his practice have been left in the present tense.
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1 Reframing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance 1 James Frieze
Part I Participant as Co-designer: Critical Reflections 27 2 On Being Immersed: The Pleasure of Being: Washing, Feeding, Holding 29 Josephine Machon 3 In the Body of the Beholder: Insider Dynamics and Extended Audiencing Transform Dance Spectatorship in Sleep No More 43 Julia M. Ritter 4 Troubling Bodies in Follow the North Star 63 Ruth Laurion Bowman
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5 Experiencing Michael Mayhew’s Away in a Manger: Spectatorial Immersion in Durational Performance 77 Roberta Mock 6 Integrating Realities Through Immersive Gaming 93 Lindsay Brandon Hunter 7 Negotiating the Possible Worlds of Uninvited Guests’ Make Better Please: A Hypertextual Experience 103 Elizabeth Swi
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