Acting the Part: Audience Participation in Performance

by E.B. Hunter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472057715
• ISBN13: 9780472057719
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.