Book
Immersive theatre and audience experience
space, game and story in the work of punchdrunk
Abstract
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.
Details | Table of Contents
theoretical approaches
pp.59-77
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62039-8_2communicating immersive experience
pp.97-112
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62039-8_4narrative and immersion
pp.113-133
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62039-8_5narrative, immersion and chronology
pp.135-155
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62039-8_6an approach to narrative in immersive theatre
pp.157-176
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62039-8_7space, place and immersion
pp.177-205
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62039-8_8Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2017
Pages: 225
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62039-8
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-62038-1
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-62039-8
Full citation:
Biggin Rose (2017) Immersive theatre and audience experience: space, game and story in the work of punchdrunk. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.