Beyond Immersive Theatre
Subtitle: Aesthetics, Politics and Productive Participation
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781137480446
Subjects: Performing arts; Theater audiences; Theater, production and direction
Description: 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? This book contextualises these questions by tracing the evolution of neoliberal politics over the past four decades.