Audience Participation in Theatre Evolutions of the Invitation

This new textbook edition of Audience Participation in Theatre: Evolutions of the Invitation situates the text in evolving theory, emerging practice, and changing contexts, re-establishing itself as the key reference point in its field.  An updated review of the literature and a new chapter develops its original argument with respect to historical change in how audiences and their expectations are constituted, and changes to how participation is invited, mediated and valued.

Introduction. -Chapter1.- Process and Procedure. -Chapter2.- Risk and Rational Action. - Chapter3.-Irrational Interactions. -chapter 4.-Accepting the Invitation. -Chapter 5.-Evolutions of the invitation. -Conclusion. -Bibliography.

Gareth White is Reader in Theatre and Performance at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK. His publications include Applied Theatre: Aesthetics, exploring the idea of the aesthetic in performance practice with social aims, and Meaning in the Midst of Performance: Contradictions of Participation, examining how performance that situates the audience participant within difficult or impossible dilemmas creates complex embodied meaning.