Immersive Theatre

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What Is Immersive theatre?

 Productions that tend to operate in dynamically fluid settings, allowing the audience a more active, voyeuristic, and central role. The actors and audience members interact.

Where? 

 It can happen anywhere, examples include:

  • Old train stations 
  • Abandoned areas (houses/cinemas)
  • Shopping malls
  • Parks 
  • Whole towns 
Why? 

  • To deal with tough issues (taboo subjects)
  • To inform 
  • To promote (punchdrunk used a performance to promote a PS3 game)
  • To entertain 
  • To teach (The Salon Project in Glasgow to teach the audience about how people thought about topics in the 19th century such as technology and the arts and to create a discussion. Members are dressed up.)   

PunchDrunk
The crash of Elysium
Based on a DR Who episode and created for families.   

   
The Firebird ball
A mix of Romeo and Juliet and the myth of the firebird. Performed in a disused factory. 






It felt like a kiss 
Performed in an empty city center office block. 


The Drowned man
Inspired by Buchner's fractured masterpiece Woyzeck, this theatrical journey follows its protagonists along the precipice between illusion and reality.

Over four floors there are gloomy corridors, bedsits, shops, bars, trees, caravans, chapels, even a working cinema
Audience members - who must wear masks - are free to explore the film sets and the world beyond the studio gates.

A tragic love story - inspired by Georg Buchner's unfinished play Woyzeck - is played out by a large cast of actors and dancers. Some scenes take place in tiny spaces, where only one or two people are watching.

The Drowned Man's 1960s film studio setting,

"We're trying to remove the audience from their comfort zone and lose them in a parallel universe."

How can we use immersive theatre?
  • Not being in the typical pros arch 
  • Making the audience the character 
  • No specific Script 
  • No talking between audience members 
  • Actors talking to audience members one on one
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