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Beyond Immersive Theatre: Aesthetics, Politics and Productive Participation

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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?

Artist / Author Adam Alston
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-1137480439
Reference P3101
Date 2016
Type Publication

Keywords

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