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(2013) Audience participation in theatre, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The media of theatre include, in every case, the bodily presence and active responses of audience members as individuals and as groups; but when an invitation to join the action of a performance is made and accepted, the audience participant becomes material of a different kind, more carefully shaped and manipulated, more productive of signs and affects, more complex as a site of perception and action. To unpack some of this complexity (and inevitably only some of it) I have examined the invitation itself, and described it as an authored procedure. From this proposition I have asked what aspects of the participant become manipulable material and how this happens, what kinds of resistance and embodied engagement are likely to be at stake, and what involvement in the action may feel like.
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White, G. (2013). Conclusion, in Audience participation in theatre, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-206.
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