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| Id | 910 | |
| Author | Frieze J. | |
| Title | Reframing immersive theatre: The politics and pragmatics of participatory performance | |
| Reference | Frieze J.; Reframing immersive theatre: The politics and pragmatics of participatory performance ;Reframing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance vol: issue: page:1.0 |
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| Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85028821249&doi=10.1057%2f978-1-137-36604-7&partnerID=40&md5=24a4e9bbc0a007d4db72def2cb47a15f |
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| Abstract | 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. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016. |
Reframing immersive theatre: The politics and pragmatics of participatory performance. He is the author of Beyond Immersive Theatre: Aesthetics Politics and Productive Participation and is currently working on a collection co-edited with Martin Welton titled Theatre in the Dark: Shadow Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre. Rachael Blyth has performed in and produced theatre live art transmedia music videos and films. xiv NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Merryn Owen has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the Arcola Manchester Royal Exchange Londons West End Europe and the USA in work ranging from mainstream theatre to one-man shows large-scale outdoor events and immersive theatre like The Hit. He is Co-Artistic Director of Triangle Theatre and is co-author with Carran Waterfield of a handbook for performers produced for the National Trust.
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