Acting the Part
Acting the Part offers a paradigm for understanding how audiences participate in immersive theater, from physical spaces like the Globe in London to digital spaces like social virtual reality. Reading across twenty-first century productions of ancient Greek tragedies and William Shakespeare’s plays,...
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| description | Acting the Part offers a paradigm for understanding how audiences participate in immersive theater, from physical spaces like the Globe in London to digital spaces like social virtual reality. Reading across twenty-first century productions of ancient Greek tragedies and William Shakespeare’s plays, E. B. Hunter proposes the concept of “enactivity” to describe the positionality audiences inhabit when their participation is critical to the narrative but cannot alter its intended course. This positionality is that of the archetype, the enactment of which is shaped by four production conditions: a historically resonant site, a canonical source, an immersive space, and a production-specific economy that incentivizes some behaviors and discourages others. At the heart of Acting the Part is a framework for identifying how a production’s management of these conditions gives rise to a range of archetypes, such as worshiper, sleuth, cinematographer, and others. Against the backdrop of an ever-increasing push for audience participation, Acting the Part sheds new light on the many ways in which productions shape that participation in real time. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1671262025-10-16T12:37:58Z Acting the Part Hunter, E.B. Hunter, Elizabeth immersive theater, audience participation, Shakespeare, ancient Greek drama, tragedy, Globe, London, New York City, twenty-first century, convergence culture, enactive, enactivity, performance, theater, open-world, Sleep No More, Punchdrunk, Macbeth, film noir, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, mask, McKittrick Hotel, Lady Macbeth, sleuth, worshiper, patron, protagonist, Tempest, Pandora, Finding Pandora X, Tender Claws, Double Eye Studios, Shakespeare's Globe, Emursive, Felix Barrett, Maxine Doyle, Kiira Benzing, Samantha Gorman, Fabulab, Bitter Wind, Marianne Weems, Builders Association, Elements of Oz, Northwestern, Microsoft, HoloLens, Facebook, Meta, metaverse, Quest, virtual reality, augmented reality, extended reality, mixed reality, meta quest, garage at northwestern, washington university in st. louis, washu, spectatorship, audience thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies Acting the Part offers a paradigm for understanding how audiences participate in immersive theater, from physical spaces like the Globe in London to digital spaces like social virtual reality. Reading across twenty-first century productions of ancient Greek tragedies and William Shakespeare’s plays, E. B. Hunter proposes the concept of “enactivity” to describe the positionality audiences inhabit when their participation is critical to the narrative but cannot alter its intended course. This positionality is that of the archetype, the enactment of which is shaped by four production conditions: a historically resonant site, a canonical source, an immersive space, and a production-specific economy that incentivizes some behaviors and discourages others. At the heart of Acting the Part is a framework for identifying how a production’s management of these conditions gives rise to a range of archetypes, such as worshiper, sleuth, cinematographer, and others. Against the backdrop of an ever-increasing push for audience participation, Acting the Part sheds new light on the many ways in which productions shape that participation in real time. 2025-10-16T12:37:57Z 2025-10-16T12:37:57Z 2025-10-14T08:39:01Z 2025 book ONIX_20251014T103025_9780472905300_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106478 9780472905300 9780472077717 9780472057719 https://admin.directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/167126 eng Theater: Theory/Text/Performance open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106478/1/9780472905300.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.14431455 10.3998/mpub.14431455 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472905300 9780472077717 9780472057719 266 open access |
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