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Id 917
Author Swift E.
Title What do audiences do? Negotiating the possible worlds of participatory theatre
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Swift E.; What do audiences do? Negotiating the possible worlds of participatory theatre ;Journal of Contemporary Drama in English vol:4.0 issue: 1.0 page:134.0

Keywords Ergodic; Hypertext; Intermedial performance; Possible Worlds Theory; Spectatorial practice; Virtual worlds
Link to article https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85042499508&doi=10.1515%2fjcde-2016-0011&partnerID=40&md5=6dab1f383cff36a1dc309db9e6bda152
Abstract Questions around what audiences do are becoming ever more complex as innovative modes of participation are developed in contemporary immersive, interactive and intermedial theatre. Drawing on examples from Uninvited Guests, Void Projects, Punchdrunk, Blast Theory and other contemporary theatre practitioners, this article suggests that new models are needed in order to reason about the experience of the contemporary theatre audience. It proposes that the philosophical framework of Possible Worlds Theory, as used by digital theorists to elucidate the readers experience of hypertext fiction, can also provide tools and a language which recognise and validate the complexities of spectatorial practices in participatory theatre. The article uses digital theory and several applications of Possible Worlds Theory to reveal some implications of active spectating as it explores what it means to manoeuvre between successive states of immersion and interaction through an aesthetic process. © 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin.

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DOI 10.1515/jcde-2016-0011
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