Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience by Rose Biggin

Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience by Rose Biggin

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.

Rose Biggin is a writer and performer. She received her PhD from the University of Exeter, UK, researching audience immersion and the work of Punchdrunk, and both writes and makes work on gender, history and language.

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ISBN 13	9783319620381
ISBN 10	331962038X
Title	Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience
Author	Rose Biggin
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Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Year published	2017-09-21
Number of pages	225
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