Experiments in Immersive, One-to-One Performance: Understanding Audience Experience through Sensory Engagement

This book investigates audience experience through the lens of sensory engagement in immersive, one-to-one performance.

It presents a distinct, practice-based research (PBR) framework – a performance research ‘laboratory’ – designed to evaluate the effects on diverse audience experiences of two ‘sense-specific manipulations’: eye masks and touch. Through a qualitative analysis of responses from seventy-four individual audience participants, this book offers insight into how these popular ‘i...