Benefit - A play by Sarah Woods

6.3 Interactivity: functions and risks

By Alice O’Grady (pp. 165-173)

 

  • In a performance setting, there exists the potential for a number of different channels of interaction. Interaction may occur
    between artists
    between artists and audience
    between the artist/ audience member and a computer system
  • Steve Dixon (2007:563) offers four categories of interaction:

Steve Dixon

  • In interactive theatre, performances are usually planned or structured in a very tight manner, but with great gaps to allow for interaction to take place.
    The work cannot progress without audience involvement.

 

Pitches, J., and Popat, S. (ed.) (2011) Performance Perspectives: A Critical Introduction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan

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