Chapter 1 Reframing Immersive Theatre: The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance

Chapter 2 On Being Immersed: The Pleasure of Being: Washing, Feeding, Holding

Chapter 3 In the Body of the Beholder: Insider Dynamics and Extended Audiencing Transform Dance Spectatorship in Sleep No More

Chapter 4 Troubling Bodies in Follow the North Star

Chapter 5 Experiencing Michael Mayhew’s Away in a Manger: Spectatorial Immersion in Durational Performance

Chapter 6 Integrating Realities Through Immersive Gaming

Chapter 7 Negotiating the Possible Worlds of Uninvited Guests’ Make Better Please: A Hypertextual Experience

Chapter 8 Outdoors: A Rimini Protokoll Theatre-Maze

Chapter 9 Immersed in Sound: Kursk and the Phenomenology of Aural Experience

Chapter 10 Reflections on Immersion and Interaction

Chapter 11 Caravania!: Intimacy and Immersion for Family Audiences

Chapter 12 A Dramaturgy of Participation: Participatory Rituals, Immersive Environments, and Interactive Gameplay in Hotel Medea

Chapter 13 She Wants You to Kiss Her: Negotiating Risk in the Immersive Theatre Contract

Chapter 14 The Fourth Wall and Other Ruins: Immersive Theatre as a Brand

Chapter 15 Immersive Performance and the Marketplace: The Hit

Chapter 16 Spectral Illusions: Ghostly Presence in Phantasmagoria Shows

Chapter 17 Playing a Punchdrunk Game: Immersive Theatre and Videogaming

Chapter 18 Proximity to Violence: War, Games, Glitch

Chapter 19 The Promise of Experience: Immersive Theatre in the Experience Economy

Chapter 20 Differences in Degree or Kind? Ockham’s Razor’s Not Until We Are Lost and Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable

Chapter 21 Coriolan/us and the Limits of ‘Immersive’