Reframing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance

Introduction. Immersion Reconsidered
James Frieze.- Part I. Participant as Co-Designer.- Chapter 1. On Being Immersed
Josephine Machon.- Chapter 2. Insider Dynamics Transform Dance Spectatorship in Sleep No More
Julia M. Ritter.- Chapter 3. Troubling Bodies in Follow the North Star
Ruth Bowman.- Chapter 4. Experiencing Michael Mayhew's Away in a Manger
Roberta Mock.- Chapter 5. Integrating Realities through Immersive Gaming
Lindsay Brandon Hunter.- Chapter 6. Negotiating the Possible Worlds of Make Better Please
Elizabeth Swift.- Chapter 7. Outdoors
Esther Belvis Pons.- Chapter 8. Immersed in Sound
Kristian Derek Ball.- Part II. Facilitating Immersive Performance.- Chapter 9. reflections on immersion and interaction
non zero one.- Chapter 10. Caravania!
Adam J. Ledger.- Chapter 11. A Dramaturgy of Participation
Jorge Lopes Ramos and Persis Jade Maravala.- Chapter 12. She Wants You To Kiss Her
Richard Talbot.- Chapter 13. The Fourth Wall and Other Ruins
Rachel Blyth.- Chapter 14. Immersive Performance and the Marketplace
Sherrill Gow and Merryn Owen.- Part III. Where Material meets Magic.- Chapter 15. Spectral Illusions
Nele Wynants.- Chapter 16. Playing a Punchdrunk Game
Rosemary Klich.- Chapter 17. Proximity to Violence
James R. Ball III.- Chapter 18. The Promise of Experience
Adam Alston.- Chapter 19. Differences in Degree or Kind?
Geraldine Harris.- Chapter 20. Coriolan/us and the limits of 'immersive'
Andrew Filmer.- Chapter 21. Participation, Ecology, Cosmos
Carl Lavery.- Bibliography.