What we already knew about the invisible gorilla
From the inception of this project about Theatre of the Real, it has been clear to me that audience perception/experience is central to this phenomenon. Of course, the perception by […]
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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 […]
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 