Reframing Immersive Theatre
Year: 2016
Type: book
Abstract: This essay explores the similarities of immersive theatre and videogames, drawing on Virtual Reality and computer gaming discourse to examine the player/participant’s experience of immersion in performances such as Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man (2013). Addressing aspects of perceptual and psychological immersion as articulated by VR and gaming theorists Marie-Laure Ryan and Gordon Calleja, the author argues for an understanding of immersion in Punchdrunk productions as active, playful and fundamentally ludic. Like a videogame, immersive theatre such as The Drowned Man insists on the audience-performer’s ‘hyper-attention’ (Hayles) and instinctive response to a multi-dimensional performance text.
Source: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Author: Klich, Rosemary E.
Institution: Liverpool John Moores University
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2601209852