The Theatrical Affect of Haunted Houses
In the past several months, I have done two immersive theatre performances. Not ‘done’ as a performer-creator-producer, mind you. And yet saying I ‘went’ to the performance or I ‘saw’ […]
Tag Archives: audiences
Why We Are Here… To Sing
For adults, participating in sports, is for the most part an elite activity. We have divided the sports world into participants and spectators. Those of us who are not professional/Olympic/national […]
Acting and Non-Acting part 2
Continuing to think about Michael Kirby’s model describing a spectrum of acting through not-acting. At the non-acting end, (as discussed in my previous post) Kirby suggests that performers who appear […]
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 […]
Upsurges of the Real: a performance research blog 