Beyond immersive theatre [electronic resource] : aesthetics, politics and productive participation / Adam Alston.
Alston, Adam, author.
2016
PN1590.A9
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Title
Beyond immersive theatre [electronic resource] : aesthetics, politics and productive participation / Adam Alston.
Author
Alston, Adam, author.
ISBN
9781137480446 (electronic book)
1137480440 (electronic book)
9781137480439
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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PN1590.A9
Dewey Decimal Classification
792.022
Summary
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.
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Introduction
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.

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