Applying Cognitive Science to Performance Part 2
One concept that is central to our understanding of human cognition that seems very applicable to thinking about how audiences engage with theatre in general and with “the real” specifically […]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Applying Cognitive Science to Performance Part 1
One phenomenon that this research project is trying to understand is why audiences respond the way they do to the real on stage. My impressionistic sense of this – thinking […]
Is theatre real?
I finally got my hands on a copy of Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life by David Boyle from Robarts Library through interlibrary loan. (Thank you […]
Witness as Seeker
In Derek Paget’s essay which concludes Forsyth and Megson’s collection Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present, he argues that the act of witnessing constitutes the core political motivation for […]
Upsurges of the Real: a performance research blog 