How is verbatim theatre like a live rock concert?
In his book Liveness, Philip Auslander cites Lawrence Grossberg who writes: the importance of live performance lies precisely in the fact that it is only here that one can see […]
Tag Archives: authenticity
The Impossibility of Aura
That we “first-worlders” of the twenty-first century have an insatiable desire for ‘authenticity’ seems to be a given (or at least an argument for another blog post). But what exactly […]
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 […]
The Polonius Test
To evaluate the authenticity of your business offering, James Gilmore and B. Joseph Pine, authors of Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want (mentioned in the previous post), suggest taking the Polonius […]
Upsurges of the Real: a performance research blog 