Dramaturgies of Immersion

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?

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.

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 SIGNA's Det Åbne Hjerte Chapter 8. Immersive Research Methodologies: Analysing dramaturgies of immersion and their poetics