Playwriting and the craft of audience participation / Helen E. Shutt

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shutt, Helen E., author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in contemporary performance texts

Cambridge elements. Elements in contemporary performance texts, 2753-2798

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Playwriting.

Drama--Technique.

Drama.

Participatory theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"This Element investigates how playwrights can employ text-based strategies to facilitate audience participation in performance. It looks to contemporary discourse in the field of applied theatre to suggest principles the creator of a participatory work may employ to support the creation of a performance text which invites, and is responsive to, contributions from the audience. This Element offers analysis of works by playwrights Tim Crouch, Nassim Soleimanpour, Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe, all of whom experiment with text-based modalities to position the audience as co-creators in performance. It offers the insights gained from the author through their own experience of writing and staging a participatory performance. This Element draws upon ideas on care, relationality and affect to propose a care-centred model of playwriting which fosters an inclusive and accessible experience of co-creation in performance"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Participation and applied theatre practices

Playwrights relating to the audience

Playwriting and care

Participatory proposals

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed June 2, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Shutt, Helen E. Playwriting and the craft of audience participation

ISBN:

9781009590563

1009590561

9781009590617

1009590618

OCLC:

1579814689

Publisher Number:

CIPO000381743

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license