A new era of theatre is borrowing conventions from video games, making invigorating performances in which the viewer becomes a player…It’s a technique familiar to anyone who’s been to see a piece of immersive performance. Liberated from the plush balcony chair, you are thrust into a world where you can go where you please, but you need to go different ways to see what happens next, down an alley, into a room. Making a good immersive show is difficult and, like games, much of the trick teeters on the balance between scripted-events and audience-freedom, between getting people to go down the corridors and making them want to go down the corridors all of their own accord. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/20/how-theatre-is-taking-its-cue-from-video-games
Inside The Drowned Man with Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett – audio slideshow
The audience wear masks and stitch together a narrative from scenes unfolding in a former sorting office. The plot relocates Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck to Los Angeles. The cast grant individuals one-on-one experiences. And Spider-Man has been known to make an appearance… Felix Barrett, the maestro of immersive theatre specialists Punchdrunk, explains how they dreamed up The Drowned Man http://www.theguardian.com/stage/audioslideshow/2014/apr/15/the-drowned-man-punchdrunk-felix-barrett-temple-studios-audio-slideshow
