Overview
Provides the first book-length academic study of the internationally-renowned theatre company, Punchdrunk
Draws on the author's role as embedded researcher within Punchdrunk to provide fascinating insights into the company
Suggests innovative theoretical approaches to immersive theatre
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience
Book Subtitle: Space, Game and Story in the Work of Punchdrunk
Authors: Rose Biggin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62039-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62038-1Published: 21 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87219-3Published: 09 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62039-8Published: 06 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 225