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PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited

ISBN-101349693944

ISBN-139781349693948

eBay Product ID (ePID)17038463404

Product Key Features

Book TitleBeyond Immersive Theatre : Aesthetics, Politics and Productive Participation

Number of PagesXiii, 241 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicTheater / General, Theater / History & Criticism, General

Publication Year2019

IllustratorYes

GenrePerforming Arts

AuthorAdam Alston

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Beyond Immersive Theatre asks important questions and offers apposite interpretations according to the parameters for analysis it sets. These undoubtedly inform and challenge the reader. ... I would wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone interested in engaging in discussion around, and beyond, the aesthetics and politics of immersive theatre." (Josephine Machon, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 6 (2), November, 2018)

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal792.01

Table Of ContentIntroduction.- 1.Theatre in a Box: Affect and Narcissism in Ray Lee's Cold Storage.- 2.Theatre in the Dark: Spectatorship and Risk in Lundahl & Seitl's Pitch-black Theatre.- 3.Theatre through the Fireplace: Punchdrunk and the Neoliberal Ethos.- 4.Frustrating Theatre: Shunt in the Experience Economy.- 5.Theatre in the Marketplace: Immaterial Production in Theatre Delicatessen's Theatre Souks.- Conclusion.

SynopsisIntroduction.- 1.Theatre in a Box: Affect and Narcissism in Ray Lee's Cold Storage.- 2.Theatre in the Dark: Spectatorship and Risk in Lundahl & Seitl's Pitch-black Theatre.- 3.Theatre through the Fireplace: Punchdrunk and the Neoliberal Ethos.- 4.Frustrating Theatre: Shunt in the Experience Economy.- 5.Theatre in the Marketplace: Immaterial Production in Theatre Delicatessen's Theatre Souks.- Conclusion., Immersive theatre currently enjoys ubiquity, popularity and recognition in theatre journalism and scholarship. However, the politics of immersive theatre aesthetics still lacks a substantial critique. Does immersive theatre model a particular kind of politics, or a particular kind of audience? What's involved in the production and consumption of immersive theatre aesthetics? Is a productive audience always an empowered audience? And do the terms of an audience's empowerment stand up to political scrutiny? Beyond Immersive Theatre contextualises these questions by tracing the evolution of neoliberal politics and the experience economy over the past four decades. Through detailed critical analyses of work by Ray Lee, Lundahl & Seitl, Punchdrunk, shunt, Theatre Delicatessen and Half Cut, Adam Alston argues that there is a tacit politics to immersive theatre aesthetics - a tacit politics that is illuminated by neoliberalism, and that is ripe to be challenged by the evolution and diversification of immersive theatre.

LC Classification NumberPN1560-1590