Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk's Theatrical Worlds

<p><i>Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk's Theatrical Worlds</i> is a detailed account of the company's award-winning productions and their historical context. Examining Punchdrunk's role as pioneers of immersive theatre in the UK through a range of their productions including <i>Sleep No More</i> and <i>The Drowned Man</i> besides theatrical works such as <i>Faust</i> <i>The Duchess of Malfi </i>and <i>Kabeiroi</i> and cross-platform productions like<i> The Moon Slave</i> <i>The Borough</i> and<i> The Oracles</i> the book presents an original framework for understanding immersion in theatrical and mixed reality experiences. <p/>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.</p>