Dramaturgies of Immersion
draws on case studies from international productions to conceptualise and analyse the state of contemporary immersive theatre. Immersion appears in different forms, raising the core question: What is at stake in immersive theatre for participants, artists, and society? The answer depends on the underlying values of the different immersive poetics.
The book takes a multifaceted approach to immersive theatre and its dramaturgies to explore the forms of emersion rendered possible by immersion in a number of cases from international and Danish performances. The edited collection examines how theatre in the 21st century finds adequate forms that allow it to both entertain and stay socially relevant. The chapters build on each other, developing a specific way of thinking about and analysing dramaturgies in immersive theatre, as well as offering tools for dramaturgical analysis.
An insightful exploration of the potentials of immersive theatre, Dramaturgies of Immersion is essential for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of dramaturgy and immersive theatre, scholars and researchers in these fields, as well as theatre practitioners.
Dramaturgies of Immersion draws on case studies from international productions to conceptualise and analyse the state of contemporary immersive theatre. Immersion appears in different forms, raising the core question: What is at stake in immersive theatre for participants, artists, and society?
Preface
Chapter
1. Dramaturgies of Immersion: An Introduction
Chapter
2. Emersive Immersion: Emersive poetics in immersive theatre in
Denmark
Chapter
3. Intimate Immersion. Moralities in the Poetics of Cantabile2
Chapter
4. Ecomimetic Immersions: Anticipating the future with eyes closed in
performances by Aarhus Theatre, Wunderland and Himherandit
Chapter
5. Sloppy Immersion: On the potential of emersion-as-immersion in the
work of Sisters Hope and Lena Bondeson.
Chapter
6. Resonant Immersion: Immersive staging of homelessness in
performances by Fix&Foxy, SIGNA and Aarhus Theatre
Chapter
7. Uncanny Immersion: The mythologisation of suffering in SIGNAs Det
Åbne Hjerte
Chapter
8. Immersive Research Methodologies: Analysing dramaturgies of
immersion and their poetics
Janek Szatkowski is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Dramaturgy and Musicology, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Thomas Rosendal Nielsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Dramaturgy and Musicology, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark.
