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Carina E. I. Westling: Immersion and Participation in Punchrunk's Theatrical Worlds (UK)

Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk’s Theatrical Worlds is a detailed account of the work of a theatre company of international renown and an interrogation of immersion as an aesthetic, and how it is produced. Punchdrunk’s work is approached as interactive systems or theatre machines, where audiences are key ‘moving parts’ within, even between, productions. This situates their work within a historical arc that spans creative critiques and crises of representation in performance and art, and scenographic experimentation with new technologies from the late 19th century to the present. Examining Punchdrunk's role as pioneers of immersive theatre in the UK through a range of their award-winning productions including Sleep No More and The Drowned Man besides theatrical works such as Faust, The Duchess of Malfi and Kabeiroi, and cross-platform productions like The Moon Slave, The Borough and The Oracles, the book presents an original framework for understanding immersion in theatrical and mixed reality experiences. It introduces thinking audiences in scenography, event, and experience design as a living material, whether in embodied or projected form, from physical installations to virtual environments, within an aesthetic that draws on play with boundaries and frames. Central to the book is a study of how immersive experience is produced in interaction with physical and digital scenography for participatory audiences. Through ethnographies of the company, their designers, actors, producers and audiences, the book interrogates the relationship between the aesthetics of interaction and the experience of immersion in Punchdrunk’s work. The theoretical framework that the book introduces affords analyses of material cultures and the influence of technology on interaction design in theatre and beyond, and offers a blueprint for next-generation immersive design and scenography for interactive multimedia environments. CITATION: Carina E. I. Westling. Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk’s Theatrical Worlds. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2020. This publication was a part of the Best Publication Award section at the 15th Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2023.