Real-ish : audiences, feeling, and the production of realness in contemporary performance / Kelsey Jacobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobson, Kelsey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions.

Reality.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Real-ish investigates how realness in performance is perceived, produced, and felt by contemporary audiences. Focusing on documentary, participatory, historical, and immersive theatre pieces, the book considers how audience experiences exist both as products of the performances' real source material and as real products in their own right.

Contents:

Cover

REAL-ISH

Title

Copyright

Contents

Table and Figures

Preface: A Crisis of the Real?

Acknowledgments

1 Feeling Real: Realness, Affect, Audiences

2 "Everything is True, Some Things are Scripted": Documentary Practice and the Presentation of Multiple Truths

3 Talking to, at, and with Audiences: The Politics of Participation

4 "You Will Long Remember": The Nostalgic Real in Site-Specific Historical Re-enactment

5 Constructing Immersive Experiences for "Real" Engagement

6 Immersion and Exertion: Audiences, Feeling-Labour, and the Production of Real-ish-ness

Coda: How Real is it Anyway?

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Jacobson, Kelsey Real-Ish

ISBN:

9780228016427